The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-10
HAIL HURTS WHEAT
The Loss in Barton and Rush
Counties May Amount to
ST 900, 600.
MANY HOUSES WERE DAMAGED
Hundreds of Art Glass Church Win.
dows Destroyed-HaiI Insurance
Men Were Hard Hit.

dows Destroyed-HaiI Insurance
Men Were Hard Hit.
The hailstorm which visited Barton |
and Rush counties the other night did |
damage estimated at more than $780, |
600 in Barton county, and probably
was worse in Rush county. A mes
sage from La Crosse states that the |
central part of the county was badly
hailed out, and at Bison there is a
big loss practically to every wheat
grower.
In Barton county there seemed to
be two storms at about the same time. |
Each covered a territory about four
miles wide and about twenty miles
long. Not all the wheat in the path
of the storm was hit, but large part
of it was. In Great Bend few houses
escaped damage. Two thousand dol
lars worth of art windows in two of
the churches were broken. The dam
age at the Great Bend greenhouse
was very heavy, practically all of
the glass being broken.
The most of the wheat taken was
ance men have had the busiest day
they have ever known.
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Want Merle Thorpe-Prof. Merle
Thorpe. head of the department of
journalism at the University of Kan
sas, has returned from Washington.
D. c.. where he received an offer of
ha Of Of No g
Business, the official publication of
the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit
ed States Professor Thorpe said he
would confer with Chancellor Frank
Strong and the Kansas board of adj
ministration regarding a years leave
of absence Professor Thorpe came
to the University of Kansas from
Washington university in 1911.
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Last ReveiIIe Called Him-A uni
form of Union blue lies on the bed
at the home In Hutchinson of Joseph
Crouch, Company E, Eighty-third I'LL
nois, veterans of the Civil war. He
placed it there ready to march with
his comrade of Joe Hooker post, but
reveilIe sounded for Comrade Crouch.
Shortly before the parade he was
found in his bedroom dead, clasping
one corner OF his uniform.
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Judgment for $1,000 to Widow.
A jury in the district court at En-
poria awarded Mrs. Owen Thomas
$1,000 daI ages against the Santa Fe
railway recently. Mrs! Thomas sued
for $4,000 under federal statute for
the death of her husband, who was a
Santa Fe conductor.
Florence Boy Drowned-Alpha Jack
son, 11-year-old son of Albert Jack
son, was drowned five miles south OF
Florence recently while swimming in
Spring creek.
War Medal AFTER So Years.-George
L. Banks of independence, has just
received from the War Department a
medal of honor certificate" issued I'M
der the provisions of a recently. adopt
ed measure. 1t followed the presen-
tation to him of a medal of honor and
signalizes valiant service at the battle
of Missionary Ridge, Tenn, Novem-
Der IS, 1868, when as color bearer for
the Fifteenth Indiana infantry, he
planted the first Union flag on the en-
e,Ly's parapet, although twice severe
y wounded.
Two Dead in Motor Smash-Miss
Alma Nichols. 10 years old, and Mel
| win Johnson, years old, were killed
recently when a motor car driven by
Perry Johnson, wealthy farmer near
GIasco, ran off a culvert and turned
over.
Wellington Has New Library.-The
public library board of Wellington has
accepted the new Carnegie library
building. The structure is of gray
tapestry brick, with trimmings of
Bedford and Carthage limestone and
red Spanish tile Beside the main Ii
brary room, the building contains a
large room for public meetings and
entertainments and smaller commit
tee rooms and Office rooms. Andrew
Carnegie donated $4,000 toward its
construction.
Hiawatha Families SnaII.-This
year the deputy assessor found $50
families and only 1888 people in Hia-
watha- This makes an average OF but
3.3 persons to family. 1t was found
that 225 families are made up of only
two people each, and that eighty-fiYe
heads of families are living alone.
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An Atchison Grocer pead.-Warren
Carey of Atchison, 20 years old, a
grocer, father of W. D. Carey, a dele
gate to the Republican national con-
vention, died from a bullet wound
that he apparently had inflicted him
self. He had been in poor health.
Fell from Table to Death.-The body
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