Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-07

Norto-I's telephone exchange Us now
in operation
Secretary Coburn's Christmas card''
got a hurrah greeting from the press
of the state.
A Beloit man recently fell heir to
$4,000. And the best part of it is that
he got the money.
| It has been found necessary to in
crease the capacity of the electric
| light plant at Beloit-
A booze fighter who got too gay in
| Bsloit hotel was thrown out by the
fifteen year old daughter of the land
lady.
| The saloons have been abolished in
some of the western Kansas towns and
yet they are not as dry as they might
| be.
Judge Nelson Cases handsome gift
to the Baldwin University was one of
the brightest features of the Christmas
season.
The Sentinel boasts that Glen Elder
is one of the few towns that has no
citizen who is badgering Stanley for a
position.
The management of mask ball
which is to be held at Hoxie announce
that committee of inspection has
been appointed and the members will
see that no riff-raff gets into the hall.
Many improvements are being made
just at the present. Good substantial
sheds and shelters are being put up to
protect the stock from the coming win
ter. Generally, the stock is looking
| we'll
An organizer got forty-eight charter
members for new fraternal order at
| Lyndon. When it comes to rounding
up humanity to finish the procession
al lodge organizer doesn't take back
seat for anyone.
The railroad that was heading fol
the new town of Collinsville has missed
| that place by about seven miles, and a
new town called McFall is being built
up, from which place good many peo-
pie from Collinsville are going.
One couldn't pick up western Kan
sas paper last week that didn't tell
about two or three carloads of dressed
turkeys being shipped out. 1t is not
our fault if there were not happy
Christmas dinners in the eastern cit
les
Recently man and woman, inmates
of the Osborne county poor house
eloped. The manager found them in
Mitchell county, where they passed
| themselves off as man and wife and
brought them back to the poor farm.
The man in the case, so the Farmer
says, twas very glad to return, but
the woman came with reluctance.
Something must be wrong in the all
in Mitchell county. The present sher-
if has served but half his time, and
has already brought more patients to
| the insane asylum at Topeka than his
predecessor did in his whole term; and
aside from those placed in the asylum,
three were shipped out of the county
to other points, where they should
| have been attended to.
Six months ago twenty-seven ladies
belonging to the Presbyterian Aid So
ciety of Cawker received twenty-five
cents apiece which they were to invest
and return with the increase to the
treasurer of the society. Last week
the money was called in, and the or
iginal Sc. rs has grown to nearly $40. 90.
The lady who made the best showing
realized So from her investment Of a
quarter.
The fame of the Santa Fe eating
houses and dining car service has been
heralded all over the country and
those who travel say that no such
meals can be had as are served by the
Santa Fe. Mr.. Fred Harvey is mana
ger of the eating houses and the dining
cars and to him and his liberal ideas
belongs the credit of the meals that
cause even a New York diner out OF a
Boston epicure to pronounce them par
excellence.
At Fort Scott there is pending be-
fore the city council an ordinance pro-
hibiting the doing of any sort of work
on Sunday for pay, and including even
preachers Fort Scott must be greatly
different from most places or it would
be very difficult to prove that preach
er got pay for preaching on Sunday.
As a rule they don't get pay sufficient
to cover more than a small part OF
their week day work, to say nothing
of Sunday.
Custom varies with location. The
man who goes to Atchison and opens q
good Joint is welcomed. In Topeka he
is arrested and his place closed until
til he finally gets tired and quits the
game. In Miltonvale shotgun plays
are made and the jointist's place Is
wrecked. At Woodbine dynamite ID
used and the joint is blown from the
earth. The energy and perseverance
displayed by some men in running a
Kansas joint under adverse conditions
would bring them wealth if directed
in a legitimate channel
There ought to be a big attendance