The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-14
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A school of divinity will be estab-
lished as an adjunct of Kansas Uni
versity next fall. 1t will be supported
by the members of the Christian
churches in Kansas. This announce
ment was made at Lawrence by Reg
istrar George o. Foster on his return
from Independence, Kan, following
the close of the annual convention of
the Christian churches there.
The bakeries of Mcpherson an
nounced recently they have raised the
price of a loaf of bread from five to
six cents, and. that of buns to twelve
cents a dozen.
Alexander H. Brown, rs years old,
one of the earliest settlers of Allen
county, is dead at his home in lola.
He came to Southeast Kansas in 1855
with an OK team.
George Since of Wakeeney was
elected president of the K. U. seniors.
Theodore Richter is the new junior
president; Justin A. Blount, of Larned
is sophomore president and Mark
Adams, president of the freshmen.
G. M. Lorg and wife Of Nardin, Ok,
were victims of an overturned motor
car,near South Haven the other night.
Mr.. Lorg has a crushed skull and is
fatally hurt. His wife was bruised
severely.
James B. Funston, a brother of
Gen. Fred Funston, was married at
Olathe the other morning to Mrs. Nit
tie Harvey. The couple will live at
Carlisle.
Leo Peterson, 81 years old, a far
mer near Homewood, died recently
from injuries received when he fell
from a load of hay and his body was
impaled on a fork handle.
August II, the wife Of Fred NJ. Gil
mer died at their home, in the
eastern port of Finney county and
four days later he married again. II
is said that he gave a dance in honor
of the event. Now Gilmer and his
second wife, Delta Gilmer, are in jail
pending an investigation of the death
of the first wife, Hannah Gilmer.
.
While hurrying to the bedside Of
sick sister near Andale the other even
ing Nicholas Phillips of Wichita over
turned his car in a ditch near Goddard
and was killed.
Adam Stultz, 70 years old, a pioneer
at Wellington and a veteran of thc
Civil War, was found dead in bed ear
ly the other day.
John Bolig was killed and Georg,
Wurth severely injured when the ca,
in which they were riding became
unmanageable and overturned at Eli
the other night. Both the men liveC
in Ellis.
Taylor Riddle, former Kansas liv'
stock sanitary officer and the inspeC
tor for the Wichita Live Stock CON
pany, is dead at his home in Marion
He was about 60 years old.
At a mass meeting held at La Cross
it was decided to call an election t
vote on a new water works plant an,
24-hour electric light service.
The ~2-year-old son of August Dieler
brook in the eastern part of Salin
county has ~infantile paralysis, as ar
nounced by physicians recently.
Ronald Goode, II years old, son o
Mayor Goode of Marion, was kille
at Florence when he fell underneat.
a moving train. He was a member Q
the Marion High school football team
James Davenport, who shot an
wounded his wife last Easter when sh
returned from town with a new ha
has pleaded guilty in the distriC
court to a charge of assault with il
tent to do bodily harm and will b
sentenced to from one to five years i
the state prison.
Rainfall records for September 70
the last fifty-eight years were broke
last month, according to the Septen
Der report of the weather station Il
Gated at the Kansas City Agriculture
College. The total precipitation for tn
month var S.12 inches.
Ora E. Cooper, 25 years old,
brakeman on the Salina Northern raj
way, was killed recently, les Lincoln
when an oil car on which he was riC
ing ran off the track. This is tn
first fatal accident on the new raj
way.
The Morning Chronicle, a Demt
cratic free daily paper, made its frs
appearance the other morning. 1t
Manhattan's third daily. Fred l
Lamb is the publisher.
Out of a gathering of four hundre
: high school and grade pupils at Bell
PLANE only seven were found who ha
\ seen q saloon and hardly mora tha