The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-21
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anu SdlOOH SmdSueIt Will We ClCStSN
on Capitol Square in Topeka. At the
annual convention of the Kansas Wo-
mans Christian Teperance Union at
Hutchinson the delegates voted to
erect the memorial. 1t will consist of
a large drinking fountain, including
a trough from which horses can drink.
Part of the money to pay for the
memorial will be raised by the sale
of Mrs. Nations autobiography.
The annual art exhibition of the
Mcpherson city schools, marked by
the showing of paintings by many well
known American artists, opened there
recently. The exhibitions held at Nc
Pherson every year are beginning to
attract attention all over Kansas.
.
There are only fourteen private
water plants in Kansas and more than
one-half of all the electric light plants
in the state are owned by the cities
according to a report given before the
convention of the League of Kansas
Municipalities at Independence re
Gently by w. B. Hess, city attorney Of
Pratt, chairman OF the committee OF
Municipal ownership.
Wild bees in western Kansas havt
stored thousands of pounds of hone!
this fall and bee hunters are making
good returns collecting it. Nea.
Minneapolis one hunter has collected
more than 800 pounds of honey from
hollow trees.
Shooting Jack rabbits by automc
ern Kansas. Hunters drive their car
along country roads at night. When
rabbit is caught in the light he wi
run straight ahead in the path of tn
car and is easily shot.
War on the boarding houses ha
been declared by students at tn
Kansas Normal at EmpoTia. Due to
recent increase in prices, a large nun
Der of students led by Raymond Gre
mer, a sophomore from Kansas Cit!
has withdrawn from the boarding club
of the town and organized cooper;
tive clubs. BY joining in groups
twenty, renting a house and a coo
board can be reduced to So OF SIS
. week, says Cremer. That is 50 les
than the most recent boarding hous
prices.
The public school building at Clyd
was destroyed by fire the other da,
A fire had been started in the flu
mace the first time this fall and it
supposed the blaze started from
defective flue. The whole buildin
was ablaze about ten minutes afte
the fire was discovered, but all tn
children were saved, although the
wraps and books were lost.
Hyland Clark, Is years old, was a
cidentalfy shot by his younger brotl
er at Atchison and probably fatal
wounded. They were returning fro
a hunting trip when the accident o
Cured.
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The state convention of II
Women's Christian Temperance U,
ion at Hutchinson reelected Mr.
Lillian Mitchner for the seventh YET
as president. An effort was mat
to unseat her.
John Gredeo, of Whitewater, W;
killed recently when the motor CT
in which he was riding with a par
of friends overturned into a ditC
east of Newton.
Michael Killilay, a bricklayer, WI
found dead in a creek in the sout
west part of Leavenworth recent
The indications were that he fell ov
an embankment into the water.
Edward Sheppard, a pioneer
Southeastern Kansas, is at the poi
of death at his home in Pittsburg,
the result of a timothy seed lodgil
in his eye five weeks ago. The OPT
nerve was directly affected and
turn his entire nervous system W
wrecked.
State health authorities are
charge of an investigation to Diet,
mine the mysterious source
typhoid fever cases which have {
veloped at a Kansas university stl
ent boarding house. In addition
three cases in the hospital, it has be
announced that four students ha
! gone to their homes threatened wi
the disease and two more are und
the observation of physicians.
A formal verdict that Bert Dudl
came to his death at the hands OF
mob, persons to this jury unknown
was returned by the c%oroner's jury
Olathe recently.
Ninety thousand dollars worth
bonds for a new high school buildi
were voted at a special election h
at Abilene recently.
Because, it is said, she was jealc
of another woman, Mrs. Grover Plu
. mer dashed a bottle of carbolic a.
in the face of Rogers Evans, a mot
: man Of Atchison. Evans sustain
I painful burns about the face and ne
None of the acid got into his eyes,