The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-04
KANSAS GREETS BELGIANs
is Enthusiastically Welcomed At
Topeka-Visitors Pleased.

Topeka-The Belgian commission
ers were given a cordial welcome by
the people of Kansas recently and
they seemed to enjoy it. For five
hours they were the guests of the
state and the programme mapped out
for their entertainment was carried
out without hitch. They arrived on
the Santa Fe from the west at 8
o'clock in the afternoon and were es-
corted by the Kansas military and a
big delegation of prominent Kansas
people, headed by Governor Capper to
the auditorium where the principal
meeting was held. The party was es-
corted up Kansas avenue and around
the state house square. Four units
of the national guard and two bands,
led the procession.
The big auditorium was filled with
people to greet the visitors. Charles
II. Sessions, chairman of the general
committee having arrangements in
charge, called the meeting to order
and after invocation by Father Nc
Inery, Governor Capper was presented
as the chairman. The first thing on
the programme was the Belgium ma
tiOna1 hymn, sung by Miss Rowe of
Topeka She sang the hymn so well
that all Of the Belgians shook her
hand and thanked her most cordially.
Short addresses Of welcome were
made by the governor, Mayor J. E
House, former Governor w. R. Stubs
and former Governor E. w. Hoch.
Baron MOncheur and General Mat
hieu LeclerQue responded for the
guests. They were given close atten-
ton as they told of atrocities CT the
Germans and their story OF the part
Belgium was playing in the great war
brought forth tremendous applause.
At the conclusion of the meeting the
distinguished party was given a din
ner at the chamber of commerce,
where the baron and the general
again made brief talks. DR.. E. J. Kulp
of Topeka, head OF the local Red
Cross team, spoke for Kansas.
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Film winning With Wheat"
A motion picture film of about two
thousand feet, made under actual
Kansas conditions, with actual Kan
sas farmers as principals, with a Kan
sas girl to fill out the love plot, has
been completed this week for the Kan
sas Council of Defense for use in its
wheat drive and will be shown in the
movie theaters of the state. 'eWin-
ming With Wheat is the title of the
film, and the prologue shows the cut
ms: Some seed fell on unprepared
ground and "Other fell on good
ground and sprang up and bore an
hundred fold
NJ. NJ. Sherman, a big farmer of
Ellsworth county, is just finishing har.
Vesting $500 acres of wheat. He says
the yield is about seven bushels an
acre and is not enough to pay the cost
OF production, but that it is worth saw.
ing in these days Of food conserya.
ton.
Santa Fe Training Women.
Women are to be trained by the
Santa Fe Railroad Company to take
the place Of men telegraph operators.
it was announced here by F. d. Peck.
superintendent of training school here. |
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Captain for Topeka Company.
Brig. Gen. Charles L Martin of the
Kansas National Guard, has appointed
Maj. Arthur Mills Of Topeka as can
tain Of the new Topeka headquarters
company Of the field artillery reEt ,
ment.
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Forty Kansas Nurses Called.
Orders from the United States War
Department have been received by
approximately forty nurses in Kansas
to be prepared to leave at short no
tee for service under the Red Cross
in army camps or at the front