The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
Students Welcome Evangelist
and Wife With Rock
Chalk" Yell.
COMPLIMENTS FOR EDITORS
Said Newspapers Were Greatest Single
RI Agency for the Advancement Of
the Gospel.

"Billy" Sunday and his party
breezed into Lawrence the other day,
spoke for a few minutes to 1000 stu
dents and Kansas editors who packed
Robinson gymnasium to its utmost
capacity, won their admiration and
then were whisked in motor car back
to Kansas City in order to be at the
scene of the revival work in time for
Billy to preach his afternoon sermon.
BILLY" and ma" and the remainder
of the party. consisting Of Homer Rode
HEAVIER and George A. Brewster,
pleased the students and the students
pleased Billy" who, upon his appear
ance upon the platform, was greeted
with the Kansas yell, Rock Chalk, Jay
Hawk, X. u" And Billy remarked
aside to Ma Sunday: That's some
Jayhawker yell" When he finished
his talk he asked the x. U. students
to give the "Jayhawk yell again"
which they did with as much pep and
enthusiasm as the Rock Chalk has
ever been given on the gridiron with
fourth down and one yard to go.
BILLY" Sunday lauded the tremen-
dous Influence which the press is ex-
erting for good and the betterment and
uplifting of conditions of society, and
he declared the newspaper to be the
greatest single agency for the ad-
vancement of the gospel.
In fact, when the newspapers an
nounced that Billy Sunday was COM
ing to Kansas City to conduct relig-
ious campaign" the evangelist said,
at would have been more accurate to
say that the newspapers were about to
open a religious campaign with Billy
Sunday aiding and abetting. am glad
to see newspapers of such high caliber
that they put religion on the front
page.
BILLY" Sunday especially praised
the early Kansas editors for their glor'
ious victory in their fight for prohi-
bition and declared, if for no other
reason, he would always love Kansas
newspapers for their fight for prohi'
bition. He told how he expected to
carry on his war against the whisky
gang until the undertaken pumped his
body full of embalming fluid and the
choir sang Lead, Kindly Light"
De BoissIere Home Burns-The IA
nous old house on the De B0issiere
estate, in the southwestern part OF
| Franklin county, was totally de-
stroyed by fire the other day. 1t con-
tanned sixty rooms and was the cen
ter of a silk industry colony estab'
! lished by Ernest Valentine De Bots
siere, wealthy Frenchman of FAM
| lily of nobility, in 1868. Later he pro.
vided for an orphans home for the
Odd Fellows of Kansas, deciding the
house and tract of nearly $500 acres
Of land Both the silk industry and
the orphans home plan were discon-
tinued and the estate now belongs to
d. NJ Hudson.
Operation on "Jim" Simpson-"Jim"
Simpson, politician and former reve-
nue. collector at Wichita, will be taken
to Rochester, Mimi, Immediately to
undergo an examination and a posi-
BILE operation. He has been ailing all
winter from lung trouble.
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Gave Shakespeare PIays-A Shake
spearean pageant, one of the commu.
nifty music and drama programs of
the season, was given by pupils of the
high school at Winfield recently.
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Rushing Feeders to kanasas.-Be-
cause of the unrest of the railway en-
ployes the Santa Fe has been notify
ing stock shippers that il they want
to get their stock to market or to the
pastures they should ship at once. The
heaviest cattle shipments in the his
tory of the road have been made the
last ten days. The most of the stock
is going to-the Flint Hills for grazing.
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Former cornoner Dead-Dr. Robert
Lee Tays, Sc years old, practicing
| physician many years, is dead at his
home in Herkimer. His wife, two
daughters and son survive. He was
coroner several years.
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Neodesha Pioneer Dies-J. c. Lu-
kens, 80 years old, a resident of VIII
son county since 1865, is dead at Neo.
desha. Mr.. Lukens had not been out
of Neodesha township in fifty years.
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Hutchinson Grew 1,032-Hutchinso
has population Of 21,027, according
to the figures made public by George
M. Lee, county clerk of Reno county.
This is a gain of 1882 over the CEN
auc Of Loot war;