Meade County news., 1916-12-28
WATERS PROTESTS
Recommendation of Efficiency
Board Draws the Fire of
r K. S. A. C. President.
WOULD HURT THE Big SCHOOL
Elimination of the Two Important De-
partments Would Seriously Cripple
Work of the College.

Work of the College.
That the elimination of the School
of Agriculture would take from the
Kansas State Agricultural college one
of its best means of securing imme-
diate results was the statement made
by President H. j. Waters in discuss
ing the recommendation of the state
economy and efficiency commission,
whose report recently handed to Gov
ernor Arthur Capper included Q.
recommendation that the School of
Agriculture and the department Of
journalism of the college be abolished.
"Our most successful work is done
in the short courses for the men and
women of, the state, who are already
engaged in agricultural pursuits" !"
said President Waters.
Next in Importance to the short
courses comes the work done in the
School of Agriculture" he continued.
This is attended by men and women
above high school age, men and wo.
men who have no standard high
school course available and who come
to the School of Agriculture for two
or three years and go Immediately back
to their farms, taking with them the
practical knowledge pertaining to the
fran, home and shop.
The elimination of the school of in
dustrial journalism would hamper the
Kansas State Agricultural college in
more than one way. Possibly the
greatest harm would come from the
fact that it would cut off the almost
daily bulletins that are sent out to
the farmer by the publicity bureau
containing the results of the latest in
vestigations into all departments of
farm life. This bureau is operated
by the department of industrial jour
nalism.
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A Blaze in Postoffice.-Fire origi-
mating in a chimney threatened to de-
stroy the postoffice building at Lea
venworth recently. When general
alarm was turned in, hundreds gath
cred, expecting to see Christmas pres
ents that they had posted go up in
the smoke. The flames were extin-
guished before any headway had been
made, however.
Lawrence Pioneer Dies.-Paul R..
Brooks, pioneer resident Of Law
renee, died there recently at the age
of so years. He moved to Lawrence
in 1854, establishing the first store
in the first building On the townsite Of
Lawrence.
Gets 1R Tons of Honey.-With the
production of a ton and a half of
honey on his farm in the summer of
1916 r. c. Murray, living five miles
west of Lawrence, has completed
twenty-five years Of successful bee
culture.
Mine Explosion inquest-At the
close of the Stone City mine explosion
inquest the coroner's jury brought in
verdict that The twenty miners had
been killed by one explosion, the
cause of which is not known.
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Veteran Dead at 72.-Frederick
Eberle, 70 years old, sometimes said
to be the last survivor of the Fifteenth
Missouri Infantry in the Civil War, is
dead at the family home in Salina. He
had lived in Kansas twenty-six years.
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Hung From FIagpole.-For more
than three hours, F. H. jewell a
steeplejack, dangled from the top Of
a 75-fOot flagpole in the courthouse
yard at Leavenworth before he was
rescued by the use of an aerial truck
from the fire department.
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Drill More WelIs.-The Jayhawk
Producing Company of Concordia has
been getting oil and gas leases on a
large tract near Wayne and Agenda
This company. 1t is understood, lately
closed a deal with the International
Oil and Refining Company of Wich-
ita to put down test holes on several
OF the leases near Wayne. Drilling is
expected to begin in sixty days. The
tests will be put down $500 feet.
Fifty-two leases have alreody been OBJ
tanned and filed with the register OF
deeds of Republic county.
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Falling Tree Killed kansan.-Ches-
ter A. Robertson of Galva was killed
when he was telling a tree recently.
The tree turned in such a manner
that limb struck him in the back of
the neck. He leaves a wife and three
children.
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Explosion Injuries one.-An explo-
sion Of a gas tank in the cellar of the
Gus Aaron home at Kickapoo wrecked
the house and injured severely Gus
Aaron, Jr., 10 years old Young Aaron
lighted a match after feeding carbide
in the generator OF an acetyllne light
ing system.