He immediately took up the matter with the Topeka land office and is now practically the owner of the farm, worth approximately $5,000. The land is in the heart of a rich and fertile valley, noted for raising wheat. Most of the farm is under cultivation.
Kelley will improve the land at once and will erect a house to live in.
GIRLS MUST COVER KNEES.
Girl students at the Randolph-Macon Institute, part of the Southern Methodist institution, Danville, Va., have been told in blunt terms they must wear their stockings as their mothers taught them and not in conformity with fashion's latest edict, which provides for the rolling process and knee lengths.
From sources of unquestioned authority comes word that within the last few days the faculty of teachers were called together and served what was little short of an ultimatum to the student body. Failure to comply will be met with severe reprisals.
It is alleged and not contradicted, that certain young sophomores who cling to college traditions have been "rolling their own" with ruthless disregard to feet and meters. The students have accepted the order with philosophy.
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