The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-15
THEY SHOWED THEIR CARS
Pawnee Celebrates as Leading County
in United States in Number of
Motors Per Capita.

1t is estimated that between five
thousand and six thousand persons at
tended the motor and tractor day cele-
bration at Larned recently and nine
hundred cars were there for the event,
which commemorated the fact that
Pawnee county has more motor cars
per capita than any other county in
the United States. The population of
the county is nine thousand. Between
seven hundred and eight hundred
cars were in the race track center
field at the fair grounds when the
moving pictures and stationary photo
graphs were taken at $3.50 o'clock. The
majority Of the cars belonged to farm
ers of Pawnee county, many of whom
formerly lived in sod houses and drove
oxen in this county in the early days.
About one thousand persons attend
ed the tractor demonstration, in which
ten makes of tractors were demon
strated. A field twenty acres in area
was plowed. Among the features of
the parade was a motor truck dis
guised as huge silo. 1t bore plac-
ard fifty carloads of cement were
used in building silos in PaWnee coun-
ty last year" Another big motor
truck contained about fifty children.
1t was p1acarded ''Pawnee county's
best crop. The crop that never fails"
big truck containing one hundred
sacks Of flour was placarded, ''Pawnee
county raised enough wheat in 1914
to feed its entire population for $50
years" Another big truck contained
fifty bushels of ear corn and was Ia
beled, ''Pawnee county farmer mar
keting his corn"
Allen to Address Students.-Henry
J. Allen, editor of the Wichita Beacon,
will give the baccalaureate address to
the graduating class of the University
of Kansas. June 4.
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Kansas Capitalist Dead.-George
Acker, aged 81, retired farmer and
one of the wealthiest men in Geary
county, is dead following a two weeks
illness of pneumonia. He owned sew
eral large farms and much Junction
City real estate. His widow and four
children survive.
Farm Bureaus SaVe.-Since 1912,
when the first farm bureau in Kansas
was organized in LeaVenworth county,
the work has grown so rapidly that
eleven counties now have farm bu-
reaus with agricultural agents at
work, according to reports received
at the extension department Of the
Kansas State Agricultural college. It
is estimated in these reports that
more than 100000 was saved for
Kansas farmers in 1915 through the
efforts of these bureaus in fighting
hog cholera.
Celebrates gath 6irthday.-Mrs. Ro-
setta Rose, a descendant of Peregrine
White, who was born on the Mayfow-
er, while en- route to America. ceIe-
brated her Gath birthday at her home
in Crystal Springs recently. Mrs
Rose was born in Maine in 1922.
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Biggest Kansas Gusher-OiI men
are in a furry at Wichita over the re-
port that the fifth well on the e. G.
Warner lease, five miles southwest of
Augusta, is flowing 1000 barrels a
day with the drill but foot in the
sand A five-inch pipe is not large
enough to carry away the OIL
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Early Settler Dead.-Benjamin R.
Pulliams is dead at Council Grove
after a short illness Mr.. PulIiams
was an early Kansas settler and ceIe-
brated his golden anniversary last
winter.
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Another K. u Professor Quits
Prof. c. A. Johnson OF the department
OF electrical engineering at the Uni
versity of Kansas, has accepted a DO
sition with the Westinghouse com
pany and will leaye his position on
the K. o. faculty at once Professor
Johnson installed the electrical ap-
paratus in the government shops in
the Panama Canal Zone in 1913.
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A Rock Link Ready.-The eight and
one-haif miles of gravel road. between
Columbus and Crestline, has been
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