Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-11-25
AID The K. U. GIRLS
Y. w. C. Il. Workers Are sBjg
Sisters" to New Women
Students.
DRIVE AWAY HOMEsIcknEss
Each Big Sister Has Three Little
Sisters" Under Her Care Through
out the Year.

out the Year.
s'Everyone's Lonesome Inside"
That is the motto of the Big Sisters,
Y. w. C. A. organization at the Uni
versity of Kansas, whose duty is to
look after new women students in the
university. Each year the Big Sisters
are organized under ten Big Sister
captains. They meet trains, find
suitable rooms and roommates, start
the freshmen in their university work
and try to prevent them from becom-
ing homesick- Throughout the year
each Big Sister keeps track of the
Little Sisters" assigned to her-there
are three Little Sisters to each Big
Sister.
The big Sister captains this year
are Agnes Hertzler. Kansas City,
chairman; Mabel Mclaughlin, Ton
ganoxie, assistant chairman; Alice
Bowlby, Natoma, secretary; Frederick
Johnson. Blue Rapids; Iva Scott, Sol
ONION; Abigail Bixby, Mcpherson;
Agnes Hackerott, Osborne; Marie
Buchanan, Lawrence; Harriet Steven
son, Lawrence; Frances Hitchcock,
Augusta; Ruth Stevenson, Paola.
These captains also have charge of
the correspondence from prospective
women students.
The Big Sister movement started at
K. U. in 1914 and became permanent
largely through the efforts of Miss
Evelyn Strong, daughter of Chancel-
lor Strong and president of the Y.
VIC A.
Library Associations Meet.-Mrs. A.
Banney of Arkansas City was elected
president of the Kansas Library AS
sociation for the ensuing year at the
annual meeting of the Oklahoma Ii
brary Association here To-Day. The
other officers chosen for the Kansas
association were Mrs. Hattie Osborn
of Baldwin, first vice president; Mrs.
T. G. Randolph of Pittsburg, second
vice president; Mrs. Garnette Heaton
of Junction City, third vice president;
Miss Mildred Berrier of Emporia,
member-atlarge; Julius Lucht of
Wichita, secretary, and Truman R.
Temple of Leavenworth, treasurer
The Kansas Librarians will meet at
Emporia next year and the Oklahoma
librarians will meet at Tulsa or
Shawnee.
sus Hernandez, a Mexican, is dead,
one Mexican wounded and Lee Edge.
policeman, is suffering from a
slight wound in the shoulder as the
result of a fight between Edge and
two brother officers with seven Mex
lean highwaymen recently, south
west of town The Mexicans, includ-
ing the wounded man, got away. They
robbed oil men.
Has One Negro Citizen.-One-haf
of the negro population of Decatur
County. died recently. Uncle Tom"
Wells and his wife for years have
been the only negroes in the county,
and the death of uncle Tom from
heart disease leaves Mrs. Wells as
the only negro citizen of the county.
Fathers Death Caused Suicide
John Logan committed suicide at Her
ington by shooting. He wss so years
old and an employee of the Rock
Island. He left a widow and two chill
dren. Dependency over the death of
his father was the cause of the sui
eide.
Sheriff Shot insane Man.-Abra-
ham Thelander. who had barricaded
himself in his farm home thirteen
miles southwest of Salina apd threat
ened to kill ally of the sheriffs posse
| who approached the house, was shot
and wounded later BY Sheriff Ander-
son.
Thelander blew up his house at
midnight and made his escape in the
excitement that followed the explo
sion. The insane man yelled out of
window to the posse: Don't come
near, the old house is going, and al
most instantly the whole top of the
building was blown into the air and
Thelander was seen to leave through
| the front door. The house, fourteen
rooms. and thoroughly modern, was
completely destroyed by the fire that
followed At o'clock in the morning
the sheriff saw Thelander making for
his fathers home and shot him. His
wounds are not dangerous Thelan-
| der was injured several years ago