Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-08-23
GETS A NOVEL GIFT
Highland College Will Use a
Sleeping Gar as a Dormi-
tory for Students.
GIVEN BY PULLMAN COMPANY
4 1o-Section Observation Car Will a.
Placed on the Schools Campus
at Once.


Placed on the Schools Campus
at Once.
A Pullman sleeping car will be used
at Highland next year to supplement
the dormitory of Highland College. 1t
is a dissection observation car, accom-
modating forty persons, if two sleep in
each bed, and has reading room and
q vestibule.
Dealing as they do with students
working their way through college, the
trustees of the institution were hard
pressed this spring when it was an
nounced an addition to the dormitory
would be needed next year to accom-
modate the increasing enrolment. The
college had just finished raising $780,
for building a dormitory could not be
had.
Then President W. Gilbert James
learned the Pullman Company had pre-
scented a Pullman car to a "self-help"
college in the East and he made APP
plication for a sleeping car for High
land. The request was granted and
the car has been started on it's way
there. A wrecking car crew will be
sent to move the car to the college
campus.
The car is old, of course, but it prom
Uses to fill adequately the need for
which it is intended. 1t will be placed
on solid foundation and will become
a permanent part of the schools equip
ment.
Girl Killed in Runaway.-Hazel Mod
delmog, IL years old, was dragged I'M
der a sled and killed when the team
hitched to the sled ran away in EN-
poria. She was the daughter of Mr..
end Mrs. A. F. Moddelmog, who re-
Gently moved to Lyon county from
New Mexico.
Killed by Motor Car.-Robert Armor,
81 years old, was killed at Augusta
when a motor car driven by A. l.
Snodgrass ran over him. Armor
stepped in front of the car and Snod-
grass, who was not accustomed to the
car, put his foot on the accelerator in
stead of the brake.
A Big Grain Yieid.@J. J. Speck, a
farmer near Nortonville, threshed more
than five thousand bushels of oats and
three thousand bushels of wheat last
week. He had one field of thirty-seven
acres which averaged eighty-three
busels of oats to the acre.
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Helvering to Train.-Guy T. Helver.
ing, representative in Congress of the
Fifth Kansas District, was one Of the
successful applicants from this state
for the second reserve officers train
ing camp.
Pioneer Woman Dead.-Mrs. Oliver
Davis, a pioneer of Nortonville, is
dead after a long illness. She was
born in Wisconsin in 1874 and was
married there, coming to Kansas with
her husband forty-five years ago.
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Registrars Missine.-Three men
registered in SaIina for military SER
vice have disappeared and cannot be
located 1t develops they gave ficti-
tious addresses. All come in the first
call for examination.
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Twelve Injured in Wreck.-Twelve
persons were injured, none severely,
when two Manhattan city and interur-
ban railway cars collided mile west
of Manhattan late the other night.
Old Settler Dies.-Mrs. Mary Weis,
born in Germany eighty-seven years
ago, who came to this country in 1857,
is dead at her farm home in Saline
Five children, twenty grand
children and six Observation-Disclosures
She was one of the oldest
settlers in Central Kansas
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A New Plaster Casa package of
has been turned over to
a physician at Columbus by woman
who says she purchased it a few days
ago from a woman, a cripple, who |
talked in broken English. The pack |
age will be sent to experts at Law |
renee for examination.
Tornado at Cimarron.-Telephon |
and telegraph wires were blown down |
and damage was done to farm prop |
erty by a tornado which struck Cim- |
arron, Gray county, about twenty miles |
west of Dodge City the other night
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Pioneer Woman Dead.-Mrs. Luce |
liza Manaffey, so years old, of Ottawa, |
is dead. She was a descendant of a |
family of colonists who settled in Con- |
necticut in 1880. A son, DR.. J. S. Man |
affey, of Ottawa, survives.
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Lightning Destroys Church.-A new /