The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08
WERE Welded So YEARS AGO
Gently Celebrated in Emporia-
Five Generations Present.

Two notable anniversaries were OBJ
served at Emporia the other day, the
sixty-third anniversary of the mar
riage of Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Wesner,
and the sixtieth anniversary of the
marriage OF Col. and Mrs. H. C. Whit
ley.
The Nesners were married in Nor
gan county, Indiana, and came to Kan
sas in 1866. They have lived in En-
poria nearly all the time since. Five
generations were represented at their
big family dinner, at which all their
sons and daughters, nine in number,
were present. Mr.. Wesner is 90 years
old and Mrs. Wesner is 78.
The Whitleys were married in East
Cambridge, Mass, and came to Kan
sas in 1857. Colonel Whitley set up
in the restaurant business in Law
renee with two empty sugar barrels,
plank, a few 1oaves Of bread and a
boiled ham. He was in the overland
gold rush to Pixies Peak in 1859, and
River when the Civil War opened. He
raised two companies of volunteers for
army service and was made lieutsn-
ant colonel.
Died of Cattle Disease.-Paul Lloyd,
8-year-old son of Garfield Lloyd, Of
Abilene, machinist, who died of the
hoof-and-mouth disease after two
months illness, was buried recently.
Specialists who diagnosed after the
child had been i'll seven weeks at
tributed it to the anthrax bacilli, con-
tracted by the child in playing with
the family cat.
School Girl DroWned.-While cross
ing a creek on her way to school near
Hiawatha, Elaine, the 9-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mayfield, fell
from a footlog and was drowned. Her
companions found her body when they
missed her at school.
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Postrnzsters to Wichita.-The Kan
sas Association Of Postmasters will
meet at Wichita May 1928 Capt. J.
H. Shields, postmaster in Wichita,
made arrangements for the meeting.
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New School for Cheney.-Cheney, a
.
has voted $4,000 bonds for a new
school. The building will be erected
at once.
Has Eight Perfect SpeIIers.-Eight
perfect grades were made in the writ
ten division OF the johnson County
spelling contest at Olathe the other
day. One hundred and fifty children
Of the county schools contested by
classes in oral and written divisions.
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Gets 5000 Gift-The will of the
late James Haskit, an unmarried far
mer of Saline county, just filed for
probate, gives $1,000 to the Kansas
Wesleyan university and $1,000 toward
the building OF the new Methodist
church. The balance OF the estate,
amounting to more than $50, 900, goes
to nieces and nephews in Saline coun.
ty and Oklahoma.
Republic = mers unite.-The farm
ers Of Republic and adjacent territory
have organized Farmers Shipping as.
ISOLATION to further the interest OF the
cattle shipping industry OF that section.
The officers Of the association are A.
B. Evans, manager; T. A. Charles, sec
rotary.
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School for StaffoFd.-At an election
held recently Stafford school district
voted in bonds $4,000 for new high
school building. The present high
school win be converted into a grade
school.
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oId-Tirne Printer pies-James NJ
Ross, 81 years old, is dead at his home
Il Marysviile. He suffered a stroke OF
paralysis. For A years Ross worked a
q printer, all except q few months OF
that time being spent in Marshall
county. He was foreman in the print
ing office of a MarysviIle newspaper
when stricken with his final illness
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Get Increased Waees.-An advance
in wages from fifteen to fifty cents 2
day for one hundred, employees has
been announced at the W. s. Dickey
Clay Manufacturing pIant In Piftsb,srz