Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-16
LIKE OUR SCHOOLS
Enrolment at Pittsburg Normal
Shows IFS Coming From
Other States.
MISSOURI, ALONE, HAS NINETY
Sixty Counties of Kansas Are Repre-
scented Among the Students
Total Enrolment Is 22,5e5.

Students from seventeen other states |
are taking advantage of the school IA
cilities of Kansas The enrolment at |
the State Manual Training normal
shows IFS students enrolling from the
other states.
Missouri ranks first in the state
delegations, having ninety students.
Oklahoma is second with thirty-two,
while Texas has twenty-one. The
other states with the number of their
students follow: Alabama, /; Arkan-
sas, 8; Colorado, 3; Iowa, A; Califor-
mia, 1; Indiana, i; Illinois, 2; Ken
lucky, 8; Louisiana, 1 Michigan, /;
Minnesota, 1 Nebraska, 5; Wiscon-
sin, 1.
Sixty counties of Kansas are repre-
scented at the manual school. Craw-
ford county, in which Pittsburg is To-
Gated, has the largest number of stu
dents as have the counties in which
the other state schools are located
the largest number at those schools.
Many students enroll from Pittsburg
and many others have moved to Pitts
burg with their families in order to
go to school.
Cherokee county is second with 245,
while Montgomery county is third
with 173. Labette has fourth place
with LAG. Other well represented
counties are: Alien, Al; Bourbon,
"a; Neosho, So; Reno, 10; Sedgwick,
81; Shawnee, Is and Wyandotte, IA.
The counties whose representatives
are at Pittsburg include several in the
extreme western past of the state. The
total enrolment for the year now has
reached 1886, which breaks all pre-
viouS records.
Dies at Wife's Bier.-While standing
at the bier of his wife in Salina the
Rev. F. E. Saunders, pastor of the
Second M E. church, collapsed and
died before help could reach him. Mrs.
Saunders died the day before and it is
believed that the shock was the cause
of Mr.. Saunders death. The minister
and his wife were buried at the same
time.
Society Girl Gets Job.-Miss Caro-
line Clapp, society leader and daugh-
ter of Wichita millionaire, has gone
to work in her fathers banking house
as an office girl. She says she will
stay with the job until she has earned
SIPS which she proposes to invest in
furniture for a special room in local
hospital and present the furniture to
the hospital.
Chiropractors Elect Officers-The
sixth annual convention of the Chiro-
practors of Kansas met in Emporia re-
Gently. Officers elected are: A. C..
Foy, Topeka, president; E. ]. Bourne,
Parsons, first vice-president; W. F.
Lippardt, Great Bend, second vice
president; ]. n. Gabriel, Topeka, sec
retary-treasurer.
Form Law and Order League. A
law and order league, with a member
ship of about 800 business and profess
sional men and church workers, has
been launched at Wichita as a part
of DR.. E. J. Bulgin's evangelistic CAM
paign. w. c. Coleman, a manufac-
turer, was elected chairman. The ex-
ecutiye committee is made up of a
minister and active church workers
New Station for williamsburg. =
| The new Santa Fe station at Will
| liamsburg was dedicated recently by
| MISS f1dZel AnSldotI, W no DTOk0 d
| bottle of "-cistern champagne across
| a corner OF the building. I'll was the
| biggest day Williamsburg has had in
its fifty years. More than two thou
| sand persons attended
Bandits Raid Gypsum.-Motor ban
dts the. other night robbed two banks
and three lumber yard offices at Gyp
sum, a small town near Salina, and
escaped with 5000 in money; stamps
and other valuables.
Early Settler Dies.-John Brandon
one of the early settlers of Leaven
worth. died at his home there recent
1y. He had been sick for more thar
a year. He was a native of England
and was IS years old.
College Fund Past $500, ooo.-The
records in the office of the fiscal sec
rotary of Southwestern College al
Winfield show that more than u mil
lion dollars of the total endowment
unit of 100000 has been subscribed.
Boys Confess to Robberies.-Ths
mystery surrounding a series of petty
robberies at Independence was partl,
cleared with the confessions of a quar-
tet of boys. from Is to 20 years old
arrested with a motor car stolen from
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