The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-18
The State Agricultural College to
Teach Big Class in Science
of Engineering.
TO TAKE THE PLACES OF MEN
Will Be Able to Do the Work With
Minimum of Energy, Says
Professor Reid.

the engineering division. Because of
the war, men are already lacking for
many engineering positions and the
supply will be smaller before long.
Women are being employed as
power plant operators in the largest
central stations of Europe" says c. E.
Reid, professor of electrical engineer
ing, land are found entirely satisfac
tory None of the machinery in these
stations is operated by hand, but is all
controlled by various forms of cleo
trio motors, set into operation by the
touch of button, by electromagnetic
or air pressure, controlled in the same
manner, so that physical strength is
not at all necessary. Work of this
sort is less firing and less combining
that many forms of work in which
women are now engaged"
In the United States telephone man
nfacturers and other employers of en-
gineers are urging that women take
up this field of activity. Desirable
qualifications for entering upon the
engineering study comprise ability in
mathematics and interest in scientific
study, it is said.
A New Plaster Case.-A package of
courtpIaster has been turned over to
a physician at Columbus by a 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.
Strike Closes r. I. Shops-The Rock
Island railroad shops at Horton are
closed because of a strike of $50 Ia
borers in the power plant, which has
thrown eight hundred men out of
work The laborers asked for an in
crease from seventeen to twenty-seven
cents an hour.
Taft III in Clay Centew.-Former
President William H. Taft was taken
severely i'll early the other morning in
a Clay Center hotel, after making a
Chautauqua address to a large crowd
the night before Intestinal infection
was the diagnosis of the physicians,
who think immediate danger is
passed.
Honor Murdered son.-Coler B. Sim,
a wealthy man of Wichita, has decided
157 acres of land to Wichita, just west
of Riverside Park, for park purposes.
1t is given in memory of his son, Ar
thur B. Sim, who was murdered on
the Intercity Viaduct in Kansas City
last December.
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Lightning Destroys Church.-A new,
Catholic church at Homewood. ten
miles from Ottawa, was destroyed by
fire the other night when struck by
lightning. It cost $4,000. Farm build
ings and stock also were damaged and
killed by lightning in the storm.
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Brother and Sister DroWn.-Frances
and Chester Grow, the 1O-year-old
daughter and 8-year-oId son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Grow, were drowned in
Santa Fe Lake at Edgerton recently.
Pulmotors brought from Olathe and
Ottawa failed to revive the children.
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Saves Fathers Life.-Risking his
life to save his father, whose attempt
to rescue an uncle was unsuccessful,
Arthur Boyles OF Bunker Hill hung at
the end Of rope for thirty-two min
utes the other day in a gas-filled well.
The uncle, Herman Urban, was as
phyxiated. Boyles and his father were
pulled to the surface and saved. Ur-
ban, with the elder Boyles and his
son, was cleaning well near their
home when Urban, who was in the
we'll, was overcome with gas. The ell
der Boyles descended Immediately to
save him. He was also overcome
Arthur Boyles then lowered himself
with rope and supported his fathers
head above the gas line until work
men at the house heard his cries and
rescued the two. The body of Urban
was not recovered for two hours. Ar
thur Boyles is a member of the Kan
sas national guard.
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Pioneer Woman Dead.-Mrs. Luce
liza Manaffey, 80 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.
x x x
Killed by MoWer.-G. c. Shaekel-
ford. so years old. was killed near
Pratt when he fell beneath the wheels
Of a moving machine. A neighbor
noticed the team running away with
the mower. Shackelford was found
dead in the field.
Cattle Under ouarantine.-Four
hundred head of cattle on the Chey-
enne bottoms near Great Bend have
been Quarantined for hemorrhagic
septicemia, a disease which affects
principally the throat of the stock,
BIT also produces fever and chills.
Army's Shortest Man.-Salina fur.
nished the shortest man in the United
States army recently Sidney Fulker
five feet. and one-half inch tall, was
accepted for the infantry, following
the receipt of a special permit from
the adjutant general by local recruit
ing officers.
Younsster Eats Fiypaper-DeatF
lowered over the crib of .2-year-ol6
Bonnie Norton of Scott CITY for fou,