The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-02
TO BEGIN A SURVEY AT ONCE
The State Engineering Department
Prepared to Start Work on Topeka
Kansas City Highway.

Enthusiasm reached its height at
the annual convention of the Kansas
| Good Roads Association in Lawrence,
| when it was announced that survey
between Topeka and Kansas City
| would start at once. This survey will
be conducted by the state engineering
department. Complete plans for a
hard-surfaced road, including an esti-
mate of cost, will be made.
The survey will be conducted on the
south side of the river and the most
practicable route determined. Just
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,
| 900 of government money for con-
struction of roads will be used on this
route. It is hoped that actual con-
struction will commence in the spring.
At a short business session of the
association Fort Scott was decided
upon as 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, ]. Frank
Smith, Of Pleasanton; vice president,
W. T. Hughes, Plainvillea secretary,
Frank A. Davis. Herington: treasurer,
E. Otis Perkins, Lawrence.
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Heads New Oil company.-The Com
mercial Refining Company, with cap
ital of 1 million dollars, headed by
Mason D. Sampson of Salina, formerly
2 banker and now an oil man, is a
new enterprise for which a charter
has been applied. The headquarters
of the company viii be in Wichita,
and it will be an independent concern.
The refinery will be located at Au-
gusta.
Elected Socialist by DefauIt.-For
the first time in the history of Reno
county a Socialist candidate has been
elected to county office. The official
count today showed that George Bow
ser, farmer, Socialist candidate for
county high school trustee, was elect
ed. It was by default, however, as the
other candidates failed to file in time
to get on the ballot.
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Failed Bank to Pays. G. Pottle,
receiver OF the Citizens State Bank
of Chautauqua, of which F. E. Turner
"the boy cashier" was in charge when
it was closed more than a year ago by
n. A. Thompson, special bank exam
| iraer of Kansas, announced that De.
I cember 18 he will pay 25 per cent
, dividend to the depositors and credit
J, ors of the bank Another small divi
dend may be paid later; Pottle stated
t A half dozen legal suits against the
bank are now on the court dockets al
Sedan or Pawhuska.
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t Train Killed a Farmer.-H. J. Holt
81 years old, retired farmer, walked
= in front of Santa Fe passenger traiI
l at Hutchinson the other day and was
: killed.
Second Typhoid Death at K. u
The second death from the recen
e typhoid epidemic at the University o.
/ Kansas occurred this afternoon, whe1
3 Axtel Sharpe, a freshman, died aftel
a a six weeks illness Sharpe was thu
a first student to contract typhoid, an(
e was taken to the university hospita
q October g He was q years old las
Monday.
Z Girl Dies From lnJurTes.-The s
S year-old daughter of Mrs. Charles Ra
e rick of Glen Elder is dead as the re
It suit of injuries sustained when sh,
e was hit on the head by a fragmen
n of stone blown from a cistern by
e blast
Boy Killed by Piaymate.-Jacl
Walker, II years old, adopted son o
FL t. NJ. Walker, banker OF Atchisor
n was accidentally shot and killed by
# playmate The weapon wasa 22-caI
it Der revolver. with which the boys wer
playing
IS College Appoints Editor-o. "
e. Weaver, editor of tht Sedgwick Pam
l. agraph. has been appointed TO pc
e sition IN the college of agriculture {
,e the University of Florida. He wa
IS one of several applicants for tn
a, place Weaver is a graduate of til
le Kansas State Agricultural College g
Manhattan.
y Atchison Globe Man Dies.-Joh
st ~. Coleman, business manager OF tn
is Atchison Globe. is dead following q
81 Illness Of two days from spinal mel