Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25

plow and get ready for spring plant
ing.
Lightning rod agents caught Dan
Kline of Marion county last week for
$500.
Oakley is making an effort to have
creamery located there in the near fu-
ture.
Furniture is on the market bear
ing the brand: made in CofeyvilIe,
Kansas"
A citizen of Chapman, aged "a. died
died a few days ago; the result of an
attack of measles.
In Troy and its vicinity smallpox
has broken out and all the public
schools are closed
The trial of John Collins SO far has
cost $1,000. An appeal to the supreme
court will cost 5000 more.
Enough business has been transact
ed at the Hiawatha postoffice the past
year to make it an Office of the sec
ond class.
Reports in weekly papers concern
ing the chinch bugs all agree that the
cold weather left these pests in very
dead condition.
Despite the general agitation along
| that line, Kansas editor says the
most popular woman's club in Kansas
remains the broom-stick.
! Ed Howe says that spring does not
really arrive until mothers begin to
appear at the gates evenings and
scream for their children to come in.
| An Atchison girl recently received q
box OF candy by mail, but refused to
eat it. Her steady called around the
next night and identified the box as
one he sent.
Ia recent article General Rice of
| Fort Scott pointed out that the indi-
vidual consumption of wine in this
country was go gal. The type-setter
put it % gallons.
In the recent trial at Fort Scott the
difference between spoos and spirit
came out. A spirit is an invisible
thing which spooks around at night,
and a spook is a visible thing which
at the first outcry is spirited away.
| In great many Kansas towns it is
said that the women are paying but
little attention to registration. How
can the women be expected to bother
about registration when the spring
millinery openings are in full blast in
every town in the land?
Wichita now has Helen Gould
Home. It is designed for friendless
little children; colored children es-
pecially. When the young lady in
whose honor it is named hears of the
project she will no doubt do some
thing to help it along. It is a way
she has.
Two men in the Twentieth Kansas
were appointed to lieutenancies in the
regular army by the president under
the army reorganization bill-Fred
Buchan, son of Billy Buchan of Wyan-
dotte, and Chas- Doeter, son of Chief
Justice Doster. Both are very young,
and if they live and remain in the
army are likely to reach high grade
before coming to the age Of retire
ment.
few days ago appeared an article
in reference to the great favor with
which Kansas -four is considered in
England. Just few days ago a mill
ing firm at Clay Center shipped two
car loads OF. -four to La Guayra, the
most important port of Venezuela,
South America There isn't anyone
on earth too good to feed on Kansas
-four, and it won't be long before it
will be possible to obtain it in any
civilized portion of the globe.
Hiawatha man claims to have in
vented continuance that will increase
the speed of the big war ships at least
four knots an hour.
There are two men running for office
over in Atchlson who can laugh at the
law which says that candidates shall
not distribute cigars for the purpose
of influencing voters. Both of them
have had additions to their families
within the past few days and they can
say that they are setting the cigars up
on the strength of the coming of the
kids
The Ford county farmer should keep
his weather eye peeled. There are
eight lightning rod agents at work in
that county.
A man who has lived in Marshall
county for forty transforming there
when he was but two years old-took
his first ride on the steam cars the
other day.
Many of the negroes of the Twenty
third Kansas claims that Cuba is the
place for them, and say that they will
return as soon as they are mustered
out.
Greenwood county commissioners
have restored the bounty on wolves;
81 for young ones and fifty cents for
pups
Minneapolis will have telephone
line in operation before it becomes toe
warm to walk down town to order
groceries
) a Minneapolis lady has thirteen