The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-13
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Before closing its session at Law.
renee the Kansas Editorial Asoscia-
ton elected w. G. Markham, Baldwin,
president; Herb Cavaness, Chanute,
vice president; o. w. Little, CORE.
spending secretary; J.. Bryon Cain,
Belle PLANE, vice president; Clark
Conklin, Lyons, treasurer. Election
to vice president virtually is equiva-
lent to being elected president next
year, as the vice president annually
is promoted. Mrs. E. d. Aldrich of
the Cawker City Herald Chronicle was
awarded $25 for writing the best story
on IF l Had to DO 1t Over Again,
Would l Marry a Kansas Editor?"
Plans are being made at Mcpherson
to make the third annual AllSchools
May day, May II, one of the biggest
get together meetings that Mcpherson
county has ever held. The big fea-
ture of the day will be the parade led
by the May queen and her attendants,
followed by presentations of the city
schools and colleges Of the county
dAAu AdA hChNo Aolh NhS NO"h oAA
country districts.
The town of Goddard, sixteen miles
west of w chita, is in the throes of a
smallpox scare. At the request of the
mayor, DR.. w. G. Loomis, county ply
stefan, went to Goddard, closed one
store. q%uarantined a dozen houses and
f%umigated the postoffice and every
church in town.
The main building of the Bevis Rock
Salt Company's plant at Lyons was
completely destroyed by fire the other
night. The loss will be about $780,
600. The origin of the fire is not
known.
Col. Tip" Lowry is dead at Greeley.
He was rs years old and had been an
auctioneer there more than fifty years.
A daughter, Mrs. Van Smith, lives in
Kansas City, Kas.
DR.. Robert Lee Tays, &C years old,
a practicing physician many years, is
dead at his home in Herkimer. His
wife, two daughters and a son survive.
He was orone several years.
]. C. Lukens, so years old, a resi-
dent of Wilson county since 1865, is
dead at Neodesha. Mr.. Lukens had
not been out of Neodesha township
in fifty years.
The opera, king Olaf" was put on
recently by the music department of
the College of Emporia al the closing
number of its May music festival. The
Accomplishments we're played by the
Damrosch orchestra of New York City,
which gave a concert at the college
in the afternoon.
About $4S, 900 in bridge and road i'm
provement work has been contracted
for or advertised by the county COM
m%issioners of Atchison county. The
improvements include more than four
miles of m~acadamized roads and sew
eral miles of grading and dirt roads.
n pHohSoPSoASo P"5SNhhb
the community music and drama pro-
grams of the season, was given by pu-
pills of the high school at Winfield re-
Gently.
The body of a man was found at
the Rock Island stock yards at Pratt
recently. He weighed 100 pounds, was
about 26 years old, 5 feet 8 inches
tall and had brown curly hair. a
scrap of paper with the name Lee
Camedy, Guymon, Ok" was found on
the body.
Hutchinson has a population Of 81,
OPT, according to the figures made pub
lie by George NJ. Lee, county clerk
Of Reno county. This is a gain Of
1882 over the census of last year.
The famous old house on the De
Boissiere estate, in the southwestern
part of Franklin county, was totally
destroyed by fire the other day. II
contained sixty rooms and was the
center of a silk industry colony Is
tablished by Ernest Valentine d.
Boissiere, a wealthy Frenchman of 6
family of nobility, in 1858. Later he
provided for an orphans home fol
the Odd Fellows of Kansas, deciding
the house and tract of nearly $500
acres of land. Both the silk indus
try and the orphans home plan were
discontinued and the estate now be
longs to d. NJ. Hudson.
John NJ. Moore, a retired farmer
81 years old, who had lived in tn
central part of the state since 1862
is dead at his farm home ten mile
south of Salina. He served in tn
Mexican war, driving a team most o
the time. He also was a freighte
over the plans in pioneer days.
A spider bite caused the death a
independence of Mrs. Andrew JACK
] son, 78 years old. She was stung Of
the cheek. Her face immediatel
swelled and chills followed.
S Anthony voted $12, 900 bonds recent
e ly for a city hall. The city offices an,