The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
A BIG KANSAS ROAD PROJECT
Reno County Plans to Build 1874 Miles
of Hard-Surfaced Highways-
To Issue Bonds.

Reno county has started the big
gest good roads movement ever at
tempted in Kansas
At a meeting in Hutchinson begin
ming at noon and continuing almost all
the afternoon, plans were formulated
and petitions prepared for construct
ing 154 miles of hard surface roads, a
complete county system.
The estimated cost of the entire
| system is 8 million dollars, and the
plan is to issue 20-year bonds for the
amount. The plan contemplates a
| road connecting every city and town
in the county. 1t provides a road to
Arlington and Pretty Prairie and HUI
ron in the south and southwest parts
| of the county, and a line to Haven in
| the southeast. one to Butler in the
northwest, and one to Nickerson in
the northeast part of the county.
The roads are to be of monolithic
brick, laid in foundation of concrete,
the roadways to be sixteen feet wide.
The plans have been approved by
the state highway commissioner and
by the federal highway department.
That part of the road covering the
new Santa Fe Trail is to be built I'M
der the supervision of the federal gov
eminent and it was decided to ask for
federal supervision of every mile OF
| the system.
Friend of Harriscn's Dead. P
Mcknight, captain of Company G, One
Hundred and Seventy-ninth Illinois In
fantry, in the Civil War, and personal
| friend and companion of Gen. Benja-
min Harrison, is dead at his home in
| Hiawatha.
A Big Salt Find.-A 3OO-foot vein of
rock salt has been struck at Lyons at
depth of 748 feet by the American
Salt and Coal Company, a Kansas City
concern. Company officials say the
new plant, which will be in operation
the first of the year, will have a capa-
city Of 1000 barrels a day and will
be probably the largest salt shaft in
the world.
Killed When Car Upset--Mrs. Hen
ry Heikens of Holyrood, in the south
western part of Ellsworth County, was
killed when the motor car she was rid
ing in skidded while going down a hill
and turned over three times.
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Grew Potatoes for church-The
Christian church at Hartford has a
novelty in its Gentleman's Aid society
that planted potatoes this year and
netted the church fund S175, beating
the Women's Aid society.
Preacher Becomes Editor-The Rev.
E. A. Taylor, pastor of the Christian
church in Potter. and Samuel Parker,
manager of the Lambert Company at
that place, are owners of the Potter
Kansan. They nave purchased the
paper from J. E. Remburg, and it will
be published hereafter under the edi-
torial direction of Mr.. Taylor
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Lineman EIectrocuted-Dean Drake,
a lineman for the Bell Telephone Com
pany, was instantly killed at Hutchin-
son when he grasped a supposedly
dead" wire. and 1920 volts passed
through his body.
x x x
Woman Dead at e5.-Mrs Angelina
!
the oldest person in Sumner County, is
| dead at the home of her daughter,
| Mrs. A NJ. McConkey, in Wellington.
One CT her sons, H R. Haskell, lives
in Clinton. Ill.
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Closes Paper to Go to War.-CIyde
/ Walters, editor of the Nashville Jour
nal. having been unable to find buyer
for his plant, now announces that he
/ will discontinue his paper and offer
himself for war service. The office
will be closed until the war is over
X x x
Mine Brings $3.50, GOETHE Sequeah
mine, three miles southwest of Baxter
} Springs, was sold to the Haines Min
i, ing Company OF Commerce, Ok, re
Gently. The consideration was $3.50,
{ coo for the first lease and the mine
outright, with Is per cent OF the orig
inal royalty.
i Bankers wife oead.-Mrs. R. C.
} Wilson is dead at her home In Wa,
i keeney after being i'll several months
She is the wife Of the president OF ths
; wakeeney State Bank and had lived