The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-29
Faculty and Students at K. U.
Work to Relieve Suffering
in Europe.
RELIEF COMMITTEE ORGANIZED
Chancellor Frank Strong as Chair
man Has Named Various Subcon-
mittees to Garry on the Work.

lief committee has been organized on
the Hill, composed of faculty members |
and students and the town is being |
canvassed for old clothes, sheets, pill |
low slips and any old linen that is |
not disable in the household. Twice |
a week women from the university |
spend the afternoon with the house
wives of the town in preparing band |
ages, patching old clothes and mend |
ing wornout blankets to be sent to
New York and thence across the wa
ter.
Chancellor Frank Strong is chair |
man of the committee and seven
students have been appointed to col
lect clothing throughout the univer-
sity community. Students are respond
ing nObly to the appeal and giving all
they can to the humanitarian move
ment.
Presidents of all the student or
CARNATIONS are working with the sec
retaries of the Y. NJ. c. a. and Y. W.
G. A. in preparing a program of worth
while Importance which will be given
the first week after the mid-term
finals and the entire proceeds will be
sent direct to national headquarters
at New York.
More than $3.50 was raised in two
days in December for the relief of
the Belgians and the students in Eu-
rope, when 1000 students at the uni
versity gave small amount and wore
white tags.
An Ambitious Hen-With the Their
mometer at IA degrees below zero,
the Kansas hen has scored again. The
other morning Mrs. NJ W. OFT, who
lives two miles south of Olathe, heard
a hen clucking in the hay NOW of the
barn. Investigation showed eight
downy Buff Orpington chicks. just
! Matched. The hen had stolen her nest
and established a new record for early
| fryers.
Lawrence Lawyer Dead-B. J. Hor
| ton, "a years of age, an old time law
yer of Lawrence, died there recently
! after an illness of two weeks. He had
practiced law in Lawrence thirty
year and at one time was probate
! judge.
| Brown, a Civil war veteran, "A years
old. died in the federal building at
Arkansas City the other day.
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Aids Cigarette Fieht-John T. Ed
wards, a wealthy stockman at Eure-
ka, has posted a fund of $50 with the
boys clubs of Kansas for the organ
ization making the best fight against
| the cigarette evil. The decision will
rest with the child welfare department
of the state university. Mr.. Edwards
formerly was member of the legisla-
ture from Greenwood county and is
the author of the present anti-cigar-
cite law.
Dropped Dead on Car-Swan Eskel-
son, 80 years old, a pioneer farmer
of Reno county dropped dead al
Hutchinson as he was about to board
an interurban trolley car. He was
born in Sweden. He settled in that
county in 1871.
Muscotah School Burned-Fire de
stroyed the public school at Musco
tab. a village in the western part OF
|
to have caught from the furnace. The
school was insured for $500, which
nearly covers loss on the building.
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Students to Teach Music-MuisC
lessons Eat cost" are to be given tt
children in Lawrence by the school o
fine arts at the University of Kansa:
following the adoption of the practice
teaching system in use at Eastern con
servatoTies.
To Improve Water Works-Con
tracts were let by Oswego recent.
for $4,000 improvement of the wa
ter works system there.
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, Stops Gas Rate Increase-Judg
, Flannelly has granted to independents
and Coffeyville restraining orders eI
] joining the receivers of the Kansa
{ | Natural Gas Company from putin
] into effect the increased rate of 2
] cents per 1000 feet for natural ga
7 recently ordered by the state utilize
= commission.
, Veteran Odd Fellow Dead-John 4
, Shoemaker, 81 years old. for forty
seven years foreman Of the Grea
4 Western Manufacturing Company c
\ Leavenworth and believed to be tn
: oldest Odd Fellow in Kansas. is deaC
He was a member of the Odd Fellows
: lodge more than sixty years.
o Woman Dead at 75-Mrs. Louis
: Dever. wife of Thomas Dever, ex-ma!
. or of Junction City, is dead of pnel
9 monia after a weeks illness. She wa
70 years old and a resident there &c
. more than forty years.
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a Receiver for Land-Fearing that til
1850 acres of Brown county Ian
which constitute the assets of Do
= P Dickinson, who failed recently wit
liabilities of $150.0O0. might not brin
more than $50 an acre if sold at she
. ifs sale to satisfy judgments an
mortgages. Judge William L Stual
:. has granted the motion brought /
2. creditors for a receiver of the prcpe