The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-04
FOR SCHOOL FAIRS
Dean Johnson of Agricultural
College FaV0rs the Local
Exhibitions.
ARE OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE
.NeishborIiness and Community Pride
Are Promoted by These Town
ship Gatherings for the People.


house fairs and every school an an
nua1 exhibit of farm, school and home
products, in the opinion of E. G. John
son, dean Of the division of extension
in the Kansas State Agricultural Col
1ege.
kansas counties have already made
a splendid beginning with school
fairs" said Dean Johnson. In one
county this year e. out of IS schools
made exhibits at the county school
fair and in another county last year
every school in the county was rep
resented by an exhibit, its teacher,
and members of the school board.
These fairs are not mere exhibits
of crops, live stock, and school and
home work, but a combination of all
of these with many additional features.
They are educational first OF all and
help even in the teaching of the three
rs in a much less informal way than
usual
at is better to have varieties of corn
rather than exhibits of unusual varie-
ties that should not be grown in the
community; better to have good
draft horse than racer which is of
little practical.use; better to have an
exhibit of darned stockings than en-
broidery- although embroidery should
not be overlooked; and better to have
good bread than fancy cake.
"In addition to their educational
value these fairs promote neighbOrli-
ness and community pride and instill
a spirit of cooperation in children and
parents
Dead From Emporia Accident.-Mrs.
Aaron Hammer, who was injured at
Emporia in the accident in which her
daughter, Mrs. Ernest Tomlinson, was
killed when a street car struck the
buggy in which they were riding, is
dead. Mrs Hammer was born in
North Carolina in 1860, and had lived
in Kansas since 1869.
x X x
Oil Field Near WinfieId.-A new oil
field was opened with the bringing in
of a well by the Empire Company,
three miles southeast of Winfield.
When the drill entered the sand, the
well filled up several hundred feet
with oil.
Killed by Own Wagon.-Louis Craw-
ford, so years old, farmer living near
Sedgwick, fell in front of his farm
wagon the other day and the team
pulled the front wheel over Crawford's
skull, crushing it and causing death.
x x x
Masons Met In PrIson.-One of the
largest gatherings of Masons ever
held in Leavenworth county attended
the fiftieth anniversary of Nine Mile
Lodge, No. 40, of Lansing. The ceIe-
bration was unique in that it was held
in the Kansas State Penitentiary
Frank Gable, one of the seven original
members of the lodge, founded half a
century ago, was present. To accom-
modate the crowd it was necessary
to use prison chapel and dining room.
x X x
School Superintendent Meet-At the
closing session of the twelfth annual
conference of the Kansas school super
intendents at Emporia these officers
were elected: President, NJ E. Moore.
Leavenworth; vice-president, J. w
Gowans. Winfield; secretary treasurer,
c. A. Wagner. Junction City.
x x
Saved by Lunqmotor.-A 1ungmotor
was used to resuscitate Alden Logan,
who was rendered unconscious by a
shock from an electric light wire in
Lawrence recently.
x x X
Woman Motor Wctim.-In a mo-
tor car accident near Baldwin Miss
Mary Taylor of Dwight was danger
ously injured. With her brother, C..
II. Taylor of Oklahoma City, she was
going to Gardner. The car overturned
at Black Jack, four miles east of Bald
win, when the steering gear broke,
pinning Miss Taylor under the car.
She is fatally injured, it is believed.
Taylor escaped with minor bruises.
Dictagrsph in Mayors office.-A
dictagraph arrangement was taken
from Mayor Bentley's office at Wich-
its recently. City firemen saw two
fine copper wires extending across
the street from the city hall to hotel
and informed the mayor Investiga-
ton developed that the wires led
from the mayors office to a room in
a hotel nearby. No instrument was
found attached to the end of the
wires.
X X x
Lutheran Synod at Wichita. = The
English Luthern synod of Kansas,
which closed at Lawrence recently,
voted to hold its next convention at
Wichita. Salina invited the synod to
meet there next year, but Wichita was
chosen by two votes.
x X
Editors Meet in Chanute.-Republi-
can editors in the Third Kansas Dis
trict held the fall meeting of their as
sociation at Chanute recently. A bus
mess session was followed by a din
ner Thirty attended. The spring ses-
sion will be held in Pittsburg.
* x x
Married Fifty Xears--Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Ziesenis celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary with a family
dinner at Eudora. They were mar
ried in Plymouth, Wis, and have lived
In Eudora twenty-five years Nine