The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
TO USE OLD IRRIGATION DITCH
SouIe Project Near Dodge City
Will Be Repaired.

The Arkansas Valley Irrigation com
pany ditch has been sold to DR.. H. z.
Ltndas of Great Bend, president of the
| Arkansas Valley Irrigation company.
The price is $4,000, and the company
| which Dr.. Lindas will head will start
work at once to repair the ditch.
The ditch starts five miles above
| Ingalls,, in Gray county, being supplied
| with water from the Arkansas river
| It runs fifty miles through Gray and
Ford counties, ending near Spear
vile. 1t was built in 1885 by A T.
Soule, Rochester, n. Y, millionaire,
at a cost of $SOO,OOO 1t is the third
| OF the Soule projects which were start
ed thirty years too soon, as the coun-
| try lay dormant for a quarter of a
century. More than one-fourth mil
lion dollars has been expended in the
last twenty years in repairing the
ditch.
Welfare Officer for Lawrence.-The
Rev. E. A Edwards, an EpiscopaIian
minister of Lawrence, has been ap-
pointed welfare officer by the city
commissioners. He will take up his
duties at once.
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Movie" Censor Dead.-WiIliam E.
Reeves, so years old, humane officer
and censor for the moving picture
shows in Wichita, is dead at his home
there of heart disease.
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Club Woman Dead-Mrs. Florence
NJ Hopkins, aged 81 years, died at
Gushing hospital in Leavenworth re-
Gently Mrs Hopkins helped found the |
hospital and for many years was |
prominent in club and social circles. |
She was one of the best known women |
in Kansas.
Fire Stopped conVention.-Fire al |
most put an end to the threshermen's /
convention, which five thousand /
threshermen and their wives are at
tending. A blaze started in the office 1
if the Wichita Supply Company's
buildings on South Wichita street and /
most of the frame buildings were
threatened with destruction The fire,
however, was confined to one struc-
ture, and the loss is $4,000. One man
was burned severely.
Preacher Develops SmaIlpoX-The
Rev. J, z. Boomershine, pastor of the
Memorial Reformed church of Wichi-
ia and secretary of the Wichita Minis
terial Association. developed SMALLPOX
while occupying an lola pulpit recent
~. He was taken to a hospital. where
ne is under quarantine
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Every Nemaha Town LIGHTED
When the electric lights were turned
on at GoT recently, every fncorporat-
ed town in Nemaha county had been
supplied with electric lights. Two of
the towns, Con- and Corning, get their
24-hOur service over transmission lines
from the Centralia municipal electric
light plant
SsIina Railroad Man Dead-PbiIin
P Stimmel, 81 years old, is dead AT
the home Of his nephew, G. s. Gregg
in Salina- For thirty-fiTe years he
had been a conductor on the Rio
Grande railroad, retiring six months
ago because OF poor health.
Dress Up Weeks-6eIgeates to the
annual meeting OF the Kansas Retail
Clothiers at Salina were advocating a
dress up week" They point to the
fact that the state has a @claen I'D
week" as an argument for holding
such an event
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Mole Causes Desth.-Joe c. RatcIff.
% years old. banker OF Cunningham
IS dead at = hospital IN Wichita as
the result Of malignant growth on
his back A suspender rubbed q mole
and caused Inflammation Infection
developed Two operations were per
formed.
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Public Sale Paid $500 public
sale on the farm OF John Hill. near
Wakeeney, drew 500 people, the sales
mounting To s. 3no- All ~ ,y1,f..,, - !