Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-05

month.
Plenty of water at home always
makes it easier to float Kansas bonds
in the east
Irving's merchants have put up for
band concerts which will be held every
Saturday night
Flush is the name of new postof-
fee which has been established in Pot
tawatomie county.
Commissioners of Nemaha county
have decreed that prisoners in the
county jail must work.
It is reported that there will be
big shortage of school teachers in
Sumner county this fall
Sheriff Croco shut out prize fight
that was to have been pulled on in
Norton county last week.
The Santa Fe is feeling good and
painting things red. The last thing
touched up with this color are the
cars.
During the month of June the Jen-
sen Creamery company of Beloit made
10000 pounds of butter and 10000
pounds of cheese.
In Shawnee county a peddler was
bitten by a vicious dog, which seemed
to take it for granted that the man
had come for dinner.
A tardy application of the principle
that every disease brings its remedy is
the intention by Kansas man of
device for killing flies
It is seldom you see Kansas farmer
blowing his field but that he has
large umbrella over his head to pro-
tect him from the hot sun.
The ways of an assessor is beyond
the ken of man. In Doniphan county
mules are valued at S1s.27, while in
Cove county they value them at 3.79.
It will be the proper thing in the fu-
ture for wedding party to prance up
the isle of the church in cakewalk
style, while the organ grinds out some
ragtime air.
A Pratt county cattle man had to
pump water for his stock recently
with traction engine because for two
weeks there was not enough wind
stirring to move his mills.
Kansas six per cent mortgages sell
like hot-tamales in the east now. A few
years ago man could have had 81, OOo,-
900 worth of such securities in his
pocket and starved to death in New
York.
Some ignorant person, says a Kan
sas exchange, had the nerve to assert
that Noble Ffestis is no longer Kan
san because he resides in Kansas City,
Mo. Prentis is a typical Kansan and
would be just as much a Kansan If he
! lived in the wilds of Africa.
| Not story has appeared this year
! of horses being lost in corn fields and
starving to death because the ears OF
corn were so high they could not reach
them, and the stalks so large and firm
that the animals teeth could not make
an impression.
A gentleman attending the Ottawa
| Chautauqua went swimming a few
nights ago and got caught on hook
attached to trot line The water
was shallow, but he had to stand out
in the river with the hook sunk in
one of his arms until fisherman came
along and liberated him.
Adiutant General Fox has received
from Washington official notification
that ordinance supplies sufficient tc
fully equip the Kansas national guard
which is now reorganizing have beer
shipped to Topeka. Difficulty has beer
experienced in bringing about thi:
settlement, as deficiencies in the sup
plies had arisen owing to poor book
keeping and bad records kept by com
pany commanders before the ordinance
was turned over to the government a
the outbreak of the war with Spain.
Recruits are joining the Thirty-sec
ond at Leavenworth at the rate O
Fort 4S4 men and IS officers for thi!
regiment
) A Saline county young man. aftel
: trying various schemes to overcom'
obesity, finally concluded to work of
mis- flesh in the harvest field. He haC
no difficulty in getting job; worked
hard, ate good, wholesome countr.
grub-and at the end of the third da.
} found he had gained three pounds
He quit the job.
) The Chautauqua at Ottawa ought t.
be made a movable event, to be callet
whenever there is danger of drouth il
Kansas
If war comes with Canada, the nortl
, line of Kansas, which at present i
) lost is immense corn-felds and sun
: flower patches, will have to be chalke,
off and guarded.
= Governor Stanley says If Presiden
E Mckinley should order another regi
r ment from Kansas he will guarante
: to have it mustered in within ten day
after receiving the order.
: The free thinkers of Kansas have a.
ways adored Bob IngersolL But the
:, should be careful about expressin