The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
TALKED ACROSS CONTINENT
K. U. Alumni in New York and Frisco
Connected by Wire With
Lawrence.

A unique college reunion took place
recently when more than seven hun
dred alumni of the University of Kan
sas located in New York City, San
each other and sang college songs
over transcontinenta1 telephone.
Nearly two hundred alumni at New
York City, five hundred at Lawrence,
and thirty-five at San Francisco pick
ed up individual telephone receivers
at o'clock, Lawrence time, and for
an hour held a reunion over the wires.
E. G. Alder in New York, Prof. w. II.
| Carruth, in San Francisco, and Chan
cellor Frank Strong in Lawrence ex-
| changed greetings. The New York
alumni read a resolution which they
| had adopted expressing in vigorous
terms the disapprova1 of the Cheap
John policy of the Kansas Legislature
| in denying the University of Kansas
| needed equipment and instruction and
declaring that the standing Of the uni
versity was suffering from this in the
| East and among European universe
| ties.
The telephone line was open for
about an hour and tied up the trans
continental equipment worth one and
| one-half million dollars in that time.
Workmen had been in Lawrence sew
eral days installing the five hundred
telephones required for the demon
| stratiOn here.
Knights TempIar to Wichita
1 fOT. ioIC
been engaged at hotel Island Park
has been leased for competitive drills
and three bands are employed among
the preparations for the coming of
two thousand Knights Templar to
Wichita May 8.
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Hamilton Holt to Speak at X. u
Hamilton Holt, editor of the New York
Independent, will deliver the COM
mencement address at the University
of Kansas June z.
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Wheat Not Dannaged.-The recent
prairie fires in Western Kansas,
which burned the stubble of of many
wheat fields. have not done the dam
age to growing crops that was at first
feared. The wheat on the burned
antly as before.
Farm Bureau EIects.-At a meeting
of the Montgomery County Farm Blu
reau, E. l. Burton of Coffeyville, was
elected president E. SRea of Coffey-
vile, vice president, and George T.
Guernsey, Jr., of independence, secre-
tary.
Orator to National contest.-At the
Kansas Wesleyan recently the West
ern division of the interstate orator.
cal contest was held, in which Paul
R. Brees of Paramount College, Wich-
tia, the Kansas orator, was easily one
of the three winners. He, with the
: other two, William W. Lands of
Jamestown College of North Dakota,
and F. W. Ingvostad of Simpson Col.
lege, Iowa, will meet in the national
oratorical contest in Fairfield, Ia, MAY
5. The other states represented were
J Minnesota, Nebraska and South Da,
i, kota Each orator had won the state
contest in the state he represented.
: Cigarette Famine at K. U.-Organ
ization of anti-cigarette clubs in Kan
sas University and grade and high
schools has stopped the sale of cigar
cites by Lawrence tobacco dealers.
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A 100000 Oil DeaI.-The Sksel
: Oil & Gas Company of Augusta, has
sold its interests in the Augusta field
to the McMann Oil & Gas Company
: of Tulsa, Ok, for 100000 cash. The
( McMann company agrees to drill three
wells for the Skaer company.
!. To Shorten Smoky Hin River-B,
/. cutting a canal seyenty-five feet IL
: length, farmers living south of juno
ton City propose to shorten the course
: of the Smoky Hill river three miles
I Money is being raised and the worl
win start soon.
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l. Bandits Were Considerate-Whey
s highwaymen held up W H. Temple. ;
machinist at lola, Temple pleaded {.
hold out the $50 he had. His grocer,
{ bill remained to be paid. The hoIdul
u men agreed that the grocer should b.
paid and permitted Temple to go o,
:. payment of 81 each to the three.
IS K. U. Beat Missouri in Debate
e Kansas was given the decision in tn
e annual debate with the University 8
e Missouri by a vote OF to 1. IN
d question was on the abolition OF II
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