The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-16
Kansas Good Roads Association
Will Try for More Favora-
Bile Legislation.
STRONG PLATFORM ADOPTED
Recent Convention at Lawrence Sets
Forth Needs of State IN the
Matter of Highways.


Gently held in Lawrence was the most
Interesting and business like meeting
OF good roads advocates ever held in
Kansas. They all felt that the time
for real effective work was at hand.
Following is a list of the new Iegis-
Iation believed necessary to put Kan
sas highways in good shape:
First-An amendment to constitu-
ton that will permit state to receive
Federal aid for highway improvement
and cooperate with the counties in
building state roads.
Second-The cOdification of all of
the State Highways laws.
Third-The establishment of
State Highway Department.
Fourth-The enactment of laws es-
fabIishing an efficient, economical
system of road management, which
shall require that the earth roads be
properly graded, thoroughly drained
and constantly dragged.
Fifth-An enabling act authorizing
the creation of good road benefit dis
tricts and an equitable distribution
of the expense between the county,
township and the land within the dis
trict.
Sixth-The employment of city,
county and state prisoners on the
public highways.
Seyenth-The enactment of such
laws by Congress as will enable the
federal government to participate in
building and maintaining systems of
improved highways.
Big Crowds at RevivaI.-No church
building at Utica is large enough to
accommodate the crowds at the re-
yivai being conducted by the Rev j.
A. Hutchins. evangelist of Rifle, Col
Overflow meetings are being held in
several churches and gospel teams
are coming nightly by motor car from
Ness City, Ransom and Brownell. q
Kansas Educator Dies-George w.
Kendrick, SO, is dead in Wichita, from
stroke of paralysis. He was prom
inent educator OF Kansas. In 1911
and 1912 he was superintendent of the
Wichita schools. He came to Wich-
tia from Junction City
Safes Withstand Fire. Two big
steel safes in the Luray State Bank
at Luray, a small town near Salina,
withstood fire the other night which
completely destroyed the Kruger
Brothers general store building, caus-
ing $4,000 loss.
Got 100000 for coIIege.-E. R.
Burkholder of MCPHERSON. chairman
of the financial managers of the $780,
0OO endowment campaign for McPher-
son College, stated recently that the
campaign had been successful Mr..
Burkholder himself gave $4,000.
Society Girl Gets Job.-Miss Caro-
line Clapp, society leader and daugh-
ter of Wichita millionaire, has gone
to work III 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 special room in a local
hospital and present the furniture to
the hospital
Ford Sold for SIS, oo0.-A month ago
Deering Marshall and Harry Heimple
traded Ford car for an oil lease
twenty feet wide and mile long, near
Augusta. The lease is on the Purcell
farm, which has 4O0-barrel well on
it. Recently the Van Arsdale-Marsha
Oil and Gas Company paid Marshall
and Heimple $4,000 for the lease.
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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; J. N. Gabriel, Topeka, sec
retary-treasurer.
x x x
Form Law and Order League. A
law and order league. with member
ship of about 300 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-
minister and active church workers.
x x x
Boys Confess to Robberies-The
mystery surrounding a series of petty
robberies at independence was partly
cleared with the confessions of quar-
tet of boys, from Is to 20 years told,
arrested with. motor car stolen from
Doctor Stafford of Walnut in their
possession.
Bandits Raid Gypsum.-Motor ban
dts the other night robbed two banks
and three lumber yard offices at Gyp-
sum. small town near Salina, and
escaped with 5000 in money, stamps
and other valuabIes.
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Champion Gopher cateher-A Chase
county boy is making money this fail
by the rather unusual business of
trapping. Leo Hamilton recently
brought to Cottonwood Falls the
aaog0C IF 900 o,opborC 1zhsaL -