The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-30
The Department of Agriculture
Makes Fine Offer to House
wives OF Kansas.
TO TEACH THEM TO SAVE FOOD
Domestic Science Lecturers Will Be
Paid by the Federal Government
for Their Work.

teach Kansas women how to increase
and conserve the food supply.
The offer was. made through Edward
G. Johnson, dean of the extension de-
partment Of the Kansas State Agricu1-
turaI College The Department of
Agriculture at Washington offered to
pay from 5000 to $1,000 a year to
forty-nine teachers of domestic econo-
my, providing the forty-nine commu-
mites would each raise $500 to defray
the incidental expenses of the cam
paign. The teachers are to come from
the agriculture college
The offer has been made to the
citizens of forty counties and nine of
the larger cities, but they have been
slow to accept. Mrs. H. o. Garvey of
Topeka, president Of the Kansas State
Federation of Women's Clubs, and
member of the state council of defense
has been going out through Kansas
trying to arouse some interest and en-
thusiasm in the project. Mrs. Garvey
has been to Hutchinson, Wichita and
Kansas City, Kans., where campaigns
to raise the money for incidentals are
under way. Mrs. Garvey stopped at
Fort Riley the other day to see how
the students at the officers reserve
training camp were getting along and
to visit her son, a student.
The Department of Agriculture
wants to teach the women of Kansas
how to can and preserve fruit Of all
kinds, and how to do it using the least
possible amount of ingredients and
labor; how to dry fruits-which now
is almost a lost art among housewives
and how to make palatable dishes
out of the dried fruit; how to conserve
cloth, what to do with magazines and
newspapers, and, in fact, teach them
how to save more and live on less.
The department realizes what this
country will be up against in two or
three years, should the war continue
that long, and they want to profit by
the mistakes of the Allies.
x x x
Dexter Sapp Dead at caIena.-Dex-
ter Sapp, 25 years old, son of the
ex-judge of the Cherokee County Dis
trict Court and nephew of the late
William F. Sapp, Democratic national
comitteeman from Kansas, died recent
ly in his law office at Galena of heart
disease.
K. U. Loses Engineer Dean.-Kan-
sas University must look for new
dean of its engineering school as the
result of the appointment of Dean
P. F. Walker as a major in the engi-
neering corps of the United States re-
serves.
x x X
A Kansas Home Blown Up.-The
two-room house of G. w. Jones
near Treece, was blown up the other
night OF the five occupants, Willie
Jones, years old, is dead; his brother
Earl, II is probably fatally injured,
and the other members of the family
badly bruised and cut.
X
Gave Red Cross $1,1oo.-In half an
hour $1,100 was subscribed to the
Red Cross in Highland, town of
eight hundred people near Hiawatha.
In Hiawatha citizens have been as
sessed according to wealth and COM
mittees were at work raising $4,000
as Hiawatha's share.
x x x
Sells Hay Thirteen Years Old.-W.
IT Hines, who owns a 700-acre farm
near Potter, sold 13-year-old timothy
hay recently. 1t was placed in a hay
fine condition when he brought it to
town.
Put Towns in Darkness.-A crow
tried to roost on the electric lighting
wire to Wellington the other night and
was electrocized. The body fell across
the alternating wire, completing the
circuit, and Argonia and other towns
fed by the Wellington plant were in
darkness until the sun came up.
x X X
Bible for Every SoIdier.-Plans by
which every Kansas soldier will be
given Bible to take to the front were
made at the annual convention of the
Kansas State Christian Endeavor
Union at Concordia. The union will
raise $1,000 for the purchase of the
thousands of volumes to be needed.
x X
Has Five Sons in Navy.-Mrs NJ
E. Robinson of Yates Center has five
sons in the navy. The fifth son, Lloyd
enlisted recently at Great Falls, Mont
So Day for Farmers
OF Reno county near Pretty Prairie
have adopted a So day wage fol
harvest hands this summer. No 1. w
WIS will be allowed to stop. -Four
hundred men are needed
Urges Refreshing Wheat.-DeeIar
ing that there is enough wheat wasted
annually during the threshing in Kan
sas TO feed the state. j. c. Mohler
secretary of agriculture, has issued {
statement in which he urged farmer:
to rethresh their straw stacks to avoid
loss.
X X *
Boy Drowned at GaIena.-Roy Lang
ley, z years old, was drowned whe1
he fell into Spring river at GaIena re-
Gently. The river was dragged ant
the boys body recovered
Escaped in Superintendent's Suit
Louis Strahammer, trusty actin,
as cook for J. N. Herr. superintendent
of the state reformatory at Hutchin