The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-05
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The Johnson County Merchants and
Farmers Association is back of a
movement to build a community hall
at Olathe. The association has in
mind the erection of a $4,000 or $780,
600 structure that will be suitable for
all community purposes from a poul-
try show to social dances.
Fire which threatened to destroy the
business section of Holton recently
finally was brought under control with
a loss estimated at $4,000. The blaze
started in a candy store owned by
John Georges and spread to adjoin-
ing buildings, destroying the postof-
flee and a seed store.
Col. James Mclean Steele is dead
at his home in Emporia from a shock
caused by a fall. Colonel Steele came
to Kansas in 1858 from Ohio. He en-
listed in the Civil War in August, 1862,
and was captain of Company E.,
Twelfth Kansas Volunteer Infantry.
SCAcANA DNNVlN was d ulltClOI lOI uldlN
years of the Citizens National Bank
and was its cashier from 1904 to 1913.
At Durham there are q, 1000 bushels
of grain alongside the Rock Island
tracks waiting to be shipped, and in
order to prevent theft, there being no
elevators, several arc lights are kept
burning over the two big stacks of
grain at night. A car shortage is the
cause of the wheat being stored on
the ground.
F. NJ. Brady, assistant United States
attorney, has finished the deal for a
site for the new government building
to be crested at Girard. Work on the
structure will begin in a few weeks.
1t is to cost $4,000.
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The Missouri Pacific depot at Shan
non, five miles west of Atchison, was
destroyed by fire the other night.
Henry buckingham, a pioneer Kan
sas newspaper man, is dead at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. w. B.
Brown of Lawrence. MI. Buckingham
came to Kansas in 1859 and engaged
in the newspaper business in Leaven-
worth. At different times he was in
terested in the Leavenworth Conserv-
alive, Times, Bulletin and Call. In
1870 he established the Concordia
Empire.
DR.. A. J. Weaver, 6S years old, is
dead of %apopleXy at Concordia. He
was one the best known physicians in
Kansas. He built a hospital there in
1907. He was a thirty-second degree
Mason.
An attempt is being made to bring
Billy Sunday to the University of Kan
sas for n meeting while he is con-
Quoting the Kansas City campaign
next April.
The Lawrence city commission has
passed a referendum election to de-
eide whether the city shall purchase
the water works system for $175,000.
The election is to be March Z, in con-
nection with the regular primary.
Notwithstanding the gossip concern
ing Henry Ford's peace mission, he
still is a hero in the minds of an Atchi-
son couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Carr.
A son was born to them recently and
he was named Ford Carr.
Everett Leonard, 6 years old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Leonard of
Chetopa, while playing, fell in an
abandoned well and drowned the
other day.
The city commission of Olathe has
set February 23 as the date for the
special election on the proposal to
vote $4,000 in bonds for erecting or
purchasing a municipal electric plant.
William Mayes, 8 years old, is dead
at Emporia following a second ampu.
tation of his right leg, made necessary
by injuries received when he was
shot accidentally while playing with
a gun.
An unseen murderer fired through
the kitchen window of a farmhouse
neal the little town of Shipton, eight
miles northwest of Salina, the other
night, killed John Bush, a well-to-do
farmer, and then vanished.
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Mrs. Minerva A. Hardin, IS years
old, was killed at Ottawa recently by
a Santa Fe freight train while she was
crossing the tracks.
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