Baxter Springs news., 1917-08-23
GETS A NOVEL GIFT
Highland College VIII Use Q
Sleeping Car as a DOrml'
tory for Students.
GIVEN BY PULLMAN COMPANY
A io.ssstIon Observation Car VIII Do
PlaUsd on the SshoOlS Campus
q Once.

PlaUsd on the Seheol's Campus
at Once.
! A Pullman SlsspinS car will ee usso
at Highland next year to Supplsmsnt
the dormitory Of Highland College IL
Il q dissection observation car, accom-
modaiihG forty persons. II twO'slSsp In
each bed. and has . reading room anu
q veatibul0.
DeaNnE a. they do with students
working their way through college, the
trustees Of the institution were haFu
pressed this spring when It Was an
uounoOd an addition to the dormitory
would be needed next year TO accom-
modatO the Increasing enrolment. the
college had Just finished raising 'SO''
900 endowment fund and more money
for building = dormitory could not Do
had.
Then President w. Gilbert James
learned the Pullman Company had pre-
sentsd q Pullman car to q "self.help
COLLEGE In the East and he made ap'
plicatisn for q sleeping car for High
land. The request was granted ana
the car has been started on Its way
there. A wrecking car crew Will 70
sent 20 move the car 10 the college
campus.
The car u old, OF course. hut II PROM
isss to fill adequately the need FOR
which II 10 intended. II will be placed
on q solid foundation and will become
q permanent part OF the schools equip
msnt.
oIri Killed In Runaway.-HaZel Mod
delmo0. IL years old, was dragged un'
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. MOddOlmog. who re-
Gently moved to Lyon county from
New Mexico.
kilIOd by Motor car.-Robert Armor,
CT years old. WAS killed at Augusta
when O motor car driven by A. L.
Snodgvass 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.
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A Big Grain YIeld.-J. ]. Speck. q
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 ekhty.three
buselS Of oats to the acre.
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AolVorlna 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.
Pionser Woman pead.-Mrs Oliver
Davis, a pioneer Of Nortonville. Is
dead after 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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ReuIstrants MisSinu.-Three men
registered in SalinH for military SER
vice have disappeared and cannot be
located. 1t develops they gave ficti.
In tho fir9f
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 u mile west
Of Manhattan late the other night.
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Old Settler Dies.-Mrs Mary Weis.
born in Germany eighty.seven years
ago. who came to this country I'm 1851
Ia dead at her farm home In Saline
county. Five children, twenty grand
children and six great.gFandchildren
survive. She was one OF the Oldest
settlers in Central Kansas.
A New Plaster caSe.-A package oi
oourtplaster has been turned over to
u physician at Columbus by woman
who says she purchased it few days
ago from woman. a cripple, who
talked in broken English. The pack
age will be sent to experts at LRw'
RANCE for examination
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Tornado at cimarron.-Telephone
and telegraph wires were blown down
and damage was done to farm prop
erty by tornado which struck Gin
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
in dead. She was a descendant OF q
family Of co!onists who settled in Con
necticut In 1880. son. Dr. ]. 8. Man
affey, Of Ottawa, survives.
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Lightning Destroys church.-A new
Catholic church at Homew0Od, ten
miles from Ottawa, was destroyed BY
fire the other night when struck BY