The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
Preparations Nearly Complete
for Farm and Home Week
at Manhattan.
A FINE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED
Experts in Various Lines From All
Parts of Country Are Booked
for Addresses.


crops will be emphasized.
Pasture management" will be dis
cussed by Ralph Kenney, assistant pro-
lessor of crops; Forage Sorghums"
and Sudan Grass" by H. n. Vina1l,
specialist in forage crops from the
United States department of agricul-
ture; Factors Influencing Yield of
Wheat, L. E. Call. professor of agron-
Omy, and More Profitable Crops" and
S'Cultivation to Conserve Moisture" by
w. w. Burr, professor of agronomy in
the Nebraska Agricultural College,
Lincoln, Neb. The presidents address
will be delivered by w G. Shelley of
Mcpherson.
"The Landlord and His Tenant" is
lie title of an address to be given be-
fore the general assembly by DR.. H.
J. Waters, president Of the Kansas
State Agricultural College, who has
made a special study of this subject.
Almost 40 per cent of all Kansas land
is farmed by tenants at the present
time.
Some of the other addresses and the
speakers to appear before the general
meetings, as announced by Edward C.
Johnson, dean of the division of extern
sion, are Local Rural Institutions,
their Responsibility to the Commun-
ity' by DR.. Edwin L. carp, Madison,
N. J.; Essentials of Success in Home
Making" by Mrs. Louise H. Campbell,
Iowa State College, Ames; From
Range to Feedlot," by John Clay, Chi
cago, and the Economics of Rural So
cial Development" by DR.. Warren H.
Wilson. New York.
X x x
MetcaIf Quits School Job. - Wilder
S. Metcalf, president and for twenty
years a member of the Lawrence
board of education, has resigned, prior
to going to Topeka as member of
the state senate. The Rev. E. E.
Stauffer, pastor of Trinity Lutheran
church, has been elected to fill the
vacancy.
Burns to Death in Home-Fritz
Woelitz, an unmarried Austrian, 40
years old, was burned to death at
Ellinwood when his home was de-
stroyed by fire. He owned a shoe
store and farming land.
x K x
Killed by FalI.-James Thompson,
80 years old, was killed at Salina when
he fell forty feet from a tree he was
trimming. The widow and five small
children survive.
Sues Parsons Gas company-The
trustees of ST. Johns Episcopal church
have filed suit through their attor-
neys asking $4,000 damages from the
Parsons Natural Gas Company. The
edifice was demolished by a gas explo-
sion September 16. It is charged the
gas company was negligent in fixing
leak.
Gas Struck Near Baldwin, gas
well of 500,000foot capacity has been
struck six miles due east of Baldwin
on the farm of c. e. Hansen. So far
no attempt has been made to do any
thing about the development or con-
troll of the well.
An Explosion Injuries Kansan.-As
James Mann, so years old, bent over
to light fuse in rock quarry near
lola a spark caused a premature ex-
plosion. Mann's eyes were destroyed
and his throat terribly lacerated
X x x
Woman as Divorce Proctor
County Attorney-elect George F.
Beezley has appointed Mrs. Minnie
True, Pittsburg woman attorney, as
divorce proctor of Crawford county.
X x x
Woman Died From Tetanus.-Mrs.
Charles Youngquist, mother of six
tetanus developing from a wound in
her foot made by a rusty nail last
summer She treated the wound her
self and was apparently recovering.
Her death came after the sudden de-
.velopment of lockjaw.
x x X
Oil Sand Near Emporia-On sand
was struck in test hole on the GIot-
felter farm, three miles southeast of
Emporia. Work was shut down to
prevent caving while waiting for cas-
ing, which was ordered from Okla
homa- The Buffalo Oil Company has
leased the Glotfelter farm.
X X x
Killed Many Rabbits.-One thousand
men surrounded eleven square miles
of territory and closed in to a center
on a big wolf hunt in Saline and
Ottawa counties recently Five wolves
were killed at the roundup. Two
wagon loads of jackrabbits and cot
tontaiIs were killed.
X x X
Kansas Boy a War Hero.-Frank C.
Mitchell, Horton boy. is in the Brit
ish army and has won honors on the
battle field for bravery He was
awarded recently the British disting-
uished conduct medal.
X x x
Wife Dead in Bathtub.-Mrs A. ].
Fowler, A years old, wife OF an oil
man widely known in Kansas and Ok
lahoma, was found dead in the bath
tub in her home at Wichita recently
Towels said by physician to be satu-
rated with ch1oroform covered her
head. The coroner was called by ply
.sicians.
X II
Case of Eggs His Bonds. J. Pan
kratz, farmer, was arrested by the
police OF Hutchinson for Jay driving