The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-11-24
TO BEGIN A SURVEY
State Engineering Department
10 Start Work on Topeka.
Kansas City Highway.
ROAOW|LL Be SOUTH OF RIVER
Estimates and Plans to Be Laid Before
Next Session of Legislature
This Winter.

Enthusiasm reached its height a
, the annual convention Of the Kansas
Good Roads Association in Lawrence
when ii was announced that survey
between Topeka and Kansas City
would start at once. This survey viii
be conducted by The state engineering
department. Complete plans for a
hard-surfaced road, including an est
mate of cost, will be made.
The survey will be conducted on the
south side of the river and the most
practicable route determined jus;
what towns will be touched by the
route was not made public.
The estimates and plans will be
brought before the state Legislature at
It's next session. Probably the $143,-
00G of government money for con
struction of roads will be used on this
route. II is hoped that actual con-
s,ruction will commence in the spring.
AT a short business session of the
association Fort Scott was decided
upon az the next meeting place. Ten
| different towns in Kansas had invited
the association for its next fall meet
ing.
The officers elected for the coming
year were: President, j. Frank
Smith, of Pleasanton; vice president,
W. T. Hughes, Plainville; secretary,
Frank A. Davis, Harrington; treasurer,
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The Kansas University wireless
station in charge of l.. L. White
more, instructor of physics at the uni
yersity. and son of l.. d. Whittemore
O.. Topeka, has reached such stage
of effectiveness that he intercepts
messages from stations in Florida,
Virginia, Texas and from ships in the
Gulf of Mexico.
College Appoints Editor-O. w.
Weaver edito" OF tht Sedgwick Pant
agraph, has been appointed to po-
sitiOn in the college OF agriculture of
the University of Florida. He was
one of several applicants for the
place. Weaver is a graduate of the
Kansas State Agricultural College at
| Manhattan.
A. n. 7. to Meet at Galena.--
AT least 1000 delegates are ex-
pected at Galena on November
20 at the four state conference
of the Anti-Horse Thief Association.
They will come from Kansas, Okla
| bona, Arkansas and Missouri. The
the four states and consider legisla-
| ton needed.
| The oldest voter in Cottonwood
Falls was George W. Jackson, 100
years old. He went to the polls early
! in the morning and voted the straight
Republican ticket. 1t was the sev-
erty,eighth year from the time he
cast his first ballot in 1S41, when he
voted for William Henry Harrison for
President.
Has One Negro, citizen.-One-half
Of th2 negro population of Decatur
Coan1y died recenly Uncle Tom
Wells and his wife for years have
been the only negroes in the county,
and the death of "Uncle Tom" from
heart disease leaves Mrs. Wells as
the only negro citizen of the county.
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Library Associations Meet.-Mrs. A.
Banney of Arkansas City was elected
I president of the Kansas Library AS.
ISOLATION for the ensuing year at the
annual meeting OF the Oklahoma Iii
brary Association here toLay. The
other officers chosen for the Kansas
association were Mrs. Hattie Osborn
of Baldwin first vice president; Mrs.
7. G. Randolph of Pittsburg, second
vice president; Mrs. Garnette Heaton
of Junction City, third vice president;
Miss Mildred Berrier of Emporia,
member-at-large; julius Lucht of
Wichita, secretary, and Truman r.
Temple of Leavenworth. treasurer.
The Kansas librarians will. meet at
Emporia next year and the Oklahoma
librarians will meet at Tulsa or
Shawnee.
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Charles Hames, one of the twenty
Eanses University students attacked
hS typhoid fever a month ago, was the
first 10 be discharged from the Uni
yersity hospital. Others are expected
to be released within few days.
Haines, whose home is at Marshville,
Ore, was one of the best players on
the freshman football eleven before
his sickness.
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Money in Oil Lease.-W. q. Linn