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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
All Summer
Dress goods and
Ladies waists at
cost at Zeigler's.

And two moro threshlng ma
chimes came in this week
Roy Rice, now of Wichita, Is
visiting here.
Pete Smith is building a barn
on his residence lot.
Young Doc Mlddlekauffi is wo, K
ing IN the depot instead of the
post Office.
w A Smith and family have
moved up to the residence in our
town on east Jones street.
Another big washout on this rail
road near Brookville aud trains
are late again.
Mrs Cynthia Winters Walker
of Oregon is here on a visit to her
folks.
Lawrence TAYLOR, who is now
working for the U. p. railway was
visiting here this weee.
Mrs Close writes she is having
a fine time visiting in Ohio, will
be back by school time, and wants
TO be remembered to her friends,
Frank King believes in expansion
and according has bought the bak-
cry In Ellis and taken possession.
He is a good baker and will fur
nish the Ellis ties excellent pastries.
Farmer w. E. King, just over
the line in Trego, has raised 100
acres of Macaroni wheat this sea-
son. 1t is spring wheat and heads
out like barley most people pro-
nounclDg 1t such on sight.
The friends of druggist Farley
want it distinctly understood that
be is positively living up to his
Liquor permit. has not and will
not sell to the harvest hands as a
beverage as his receipts at the de-
pot and his very few affidavit
blanks obtained from the county
this month thro' harvest, show.
A son of our old friend OF Ellis
County, Senator Pr1tchard of Gra-
ham county, has located here with
his family and is one of the millers
in Yost's mill. Yost is now pre-
pairing to run his mill to It's full
capacity both day and night, so as
to make a home market for our
splendid wheat.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
IN AWFUL PICTURE.

Our citizens crowded nightly
G A r hall and well remember
the temperance pictures shown by
Dir. Wilcox, the temperance lee
ture, and especially that series on
Who killed Joe's Baby
especially that picture of the sa
loon man and gambler inviting the
two school boys to walk into his
net, and many a heart throbbed
that night. Who would ever
thought Hays city, the would be
school town, with its prohibition
City administration; with a repub-
lIcan prohibition District Judge
and County attorney, with a big
stone State Normal school build
ing looming up before our eyes.
would furnish a blasting cartoon,
yet last week a kodac caught such
a picture, the artist stood just
south of the depot looking north,
Looming up was the depot plat
form Just before tram time east.
On a truck was over 2 dozen
empty beer cases and close by Z
beer kegs, another truck contain
ing pop cases; the back ground the
two drug stores, around one stands
4 little boys waiting for some drln
ker to come out with a bottle of
beer and to loan HIM a corkscrew.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08

Miss Jessie Wolfe IL here on a
visit to her mother.
DR.. Kohl and daughter visited
K. G.. this week.
The famous old colored lady OF
Ellis, SaIlie Penny, Is dead.
Our carpenter contractor, Butler,
figured on the addition that will be
made to the Public School building
IN Ellis.
With nearly II inches of rain
last week blowing is now good and
farmers are hard at work for an
other crop.
Bird Moore has gone home to
BrookviIIe for a few days until
threshlng begin when he will return
here.
Jim Banner and son secured
the painting contract of the new
Catholic church here and have com
menced work on the steeple.
Work will commence next Mon
day and hauling rock to and exca
vatlon for the new State Normal
School building on west side of
the town.
Our old timer of Hamilton town
ship, II. n. Warren, now living
IN Indiana, is here looking after
the harvest and his crop. Looks
well as ever.
End Gate Found. A good end
gate to wagon. Owner can have
by proving property and paying 25
cents for this notice.
The Holiness Camp meeting near
Ogallah commenced last Sunday
and was well attended. The taber-
nacle put up by Barnes is great
success.
c. g. Broslus received word that
a brother in Ohio had fallen from
load of wheat and was badly in
juled and he and his wife left for
there Sunday night.
Ellis County, in the seed famine
year, got $4,000 worth of seed for
her farmers. All have paid up but
some frauds who either used the
seed TO buy bread or liquor and
left the county $5O8.18 IN the hole
which was paid to the state by the
county last week.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
OLD SETTLERS PICNIC.

AT their meeting last Saturday
they appointed Downing, Reem :
snyder and Brumett as their Com
mlttee to secure the grounds for
their picnic and they will take a
drive along the creek to hunt q
place where they can hold it.
BrOslus, Joy and Shaffer are on
the committee on Stands and f.
nance.
Smith, Treat and Downing on
committee On Program and Speak
ers. On motion of Hi Joy the
date was set for
THURSDAY. OCT. 1st
so as not TO interfere with plowine
and seeding
This very late date Is q great
disappointment to many, especially
the children. who wanted it this
month before school commenced
Some think Joy. represents the
Melon Syndicate, who want il
late as the Drop this year will be
late in maturing.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Mrs Treat and Mrs Webster are
now in the east visiting friends.

AAAO .AAO0e 1AA4A4 4AAA6 w OOSIO4 0kS
now In the east visiting friends.
DON Palmer has become the pit
cher for the Washburn college ball
nine of Topeka.
Mrs Ed Rea and children have
gone to Hlawatha to visit relatives
until school begins.
Miss BIender Is having the plea
sure of entertaining three of the
Institute students.
AS usual Mrs, Leahy's cottage is
a jolly place during this Institute
month with the student boarders.
The union service for Sunday
evening will be held in the Baptist
church, conducted by Rev. Rush.
Rev. Rush preached a warm ser
mon last Sunday on the evils here
and the way officials wink at the
crime against prohibition.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Road Notice.

State of Kansas, comfy of Ellis, SIS
To whom it may concern: In pursu
ance of an order made by the Board of
county Commissioners in regular ses-
sion on the 27th day of July 1903, no.
tice is hereby given that Jacob Bissing,
householder of said coun
ty, residing in the vacinity where it is
proposed to lay out the road below men
toned, have presented to said Board
their certain petition, praying the estab
fishing of public road, as follows;
Commencing at the north east cor
ner of the south west quarter of sec q
IA S, r 49,; west 9th pm. thence run
ming south on half section line to inter
sect with road No. 1O9.; this road to be
20 feet wide, as per Sec 6O44 Cen.
statutes.
And that E w Decker, Frank Stout
and E. j, Mullen, viewers duly
appointed, will meet at the place of be
ginning of said road on the oath day of
Sept A. d. 1908 & proceed to view said
road and to give all parties hearing.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
county this 9th day of July 1903.
(Lsl M. P. DInges, Co, clerk,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08

Some of our old Soldiers widows
think the Pension Office is too
strict in their questions to see if
they are the only widow. Last Sat
urdav on our 2nd page we publish
ed an article showing another case
where two widows have shown up,
So huat up now and have ready
the information by two witnesses,
whether you or your husband were
ever married before your marriage
to each other The following is
the article:
Loft ZsO0 WGdoaOs-Two wild
ows of Nathan Kelley, an old sol
der who died at Efingham. put in
an appearance. Mrs. LYDIA Kel
ley, of Efinghan, was appointed
administrator OF hIsestate as widow
and now Mrs. jeanette Kelley OF
Kansas City, makes a similar claim,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08

Co. Atty, Ed Rea very sensibly
turned loose the harvest hand John
Doe arrested for spite at same time
as Mrs. Dening, hoping be would
squeel at the sweating given him,
but he knew nothing, simply boar
ding there hunting a job as engi-
neer with thresher.
If the Commissioners would re
ject the cost bills in these John
Doe style of cases, that are contln
.uallY brought to get witness and
officers fees, the taxpayers would
not find their taxes increasing,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Ladies' Exchange.

The Ladies Aid Society of the
Presbyterian society will hold an
Exchange at the Geo. GRASS
store THIS Saturday Aug. 8th
Jake Shntts has come IN from
the harvest field well Drowned up
and commen ,ed his law practice.
His friends tell that he viii be a
candidate for reelection next year
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Farm land for sale.

One tract of 2s6 acres ] mile
east of Hays city, adjoining the
q p. .Rr. on the forth.
Also one tract OF 800 acres four
miles south of Walker.
For further information, price,
condition of sale write or inquire
at Walker, Ellis county, Kan. OF
j. Z. Bruney,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Just about Bedtime

take a Little Early Riser it Will
cure constipation. biliousness 0nd
liver troubles DeWitf's Little
Early Risers are different from 9th
er pills; they do not grippe and
break down the mucous mem
hranes of the stomach, liver and
bowels, hut cure by gently arons-
ing the secretions & glving siren
9Th to the organs, Sold by drug
gist j. G. farley
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Ladies 29B6BBS. 985B$
New line of la
dies dress ski is.
Just received at
Zeigler's store.

This week Geo. Griffith jr, is
helping MIR. Cox start his elevator
running again.
Mr.. Foster, from New York
state, brother of Mrs. Will Had
dock of the Saline valley is now
here on a visit.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08

appointment as Ew7cuty1r.
Ist published July 25, 1908
State of Kansas. Ellis Co. SIS,
In the Probate court in and for said
county.
In the matter of the Estate of
MGrIn IhOLem
late of Ellis county, kansas, deceased.
Notice of Impeachment.
Notice is hereby given that Letters
of Testamentary have been granted to
the undersigned on the estate of
Maria ThOlen, deceased, late of said
Go, by the Hon.. the Probate court of
Ellis county kansas, dated the 18th day
of June, A. ID, 1908. Now all per-
sons having claims against the said
estate, are hereby notified that they
must present the same to the under
signed for allowance within one year
from the date of said Letters, or they
may be precluded from any benefit of
said estate; aud that if such claims be
not exhibited within 8 years after the
date of said Letters, they shall be for
ever barred.
Hrs, LudmlLtG H0ldfOrtt,
Executrix of the estate of Maria Tholen
deceased,
Dated Walker kan. June 18th, 1903,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
The WaKeeney paper says:

"A crowd of men who had been
harvesting down near Gorham and
Walker stopped in town last Fri
day morning while returning to
their homes In Cove county. One
of them said he had made $105.
another S73, another $65 and so
on according to the length of time
they had worked. Men who wanted
to work have had an opportunity
to make a nice little piece of money
in the Ellis county wheat harvest
this year." Good pay and good
living but hard work.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Your eyes.
DIR. w. A. CRAWFORD

Uh. W. a. OhA W UhU
Optican from Kansas city. will
make his Sd animal visit to Hays
SATURDAY, Aug 18th,
and can be found at the Windsor
Hotel parlors. Are you having
trouble with your eye sight. Do
not fail tn see him In many cases
eye ailments can be relieved and
permanently cured by properly
fitted glasses.
Special attention given to errors
of refraction in children. If con
venlent come early IN the day.
Old patients cordially invited to
call. Do not forget the date.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Insure from Fire

@Ipsure your wheat stacks and the
wheat IN your gFanary from fire &
lightning. Don't risk your crop.
Insure your farm building and
stock. It costs little. Little mo-I
.neY required. C. w. MILLER
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08

All diseases start in the bowels.
Keep them open or you will be
sick. CASCARETS act like ma
ture. Keep liver and bowels active
without a sickcning grIping feeling
Six million people take and re
commend Lascnrets. Try a 10 ct
box. At all Druggists.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08

TO the PATRONS of the
HAYS CITY TELEPHONE Go.
Tie Hays city Telephone Co,
gives notice that on and after Aug
1st, 1903 their CENTRAL Office
will be closed at 1920 p. m. except
to- calls in cases of sickness or fire.
VIM. HALL.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
Oil, gas or salt.

On Saturday two cars arrived
from Wamego with their we'll Dor
ing machinery belonging to Lewis
& Jack and it has been taken TO
the shale fields on the Smokey hill
river belonging to the Farlg mill
company. An immense engine &
Is foot wlndlass, 1000 feet OF iron
pipe of different sizes for tubing,
ropes, wire and the most complete
outfit ever brought here. They
are hired to go down 1860 feet,
the Topeka company having the
money and propose to make We
rY thorough investigation of what
is In the soil under US.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08

we have a 100 acre Wheat
farm, south of the Reservation;
to rent for wheat. Every acle of
the stuble must be plowcd, 1t had
good wheat on this year, Has
no house on the land. FREESE.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
4 white mare

Taken up at my farm miles
south of Victoria. The owner can
have on proving property and
paying expenses.
PHILIP BIDDLE
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-08-08
DR.. JORDAN,
RESIDANT DENTIST.
Office over Ryan's store. Hays,
Phone 81.

OAOO OFOA 10y AA . SIOAO' AA0So %
Phone 81.
Everyone who goes into the Geo.
Grass store is delighted with his
manner of displaying his groceries
and can't help buying, they look
so fresh and tempting.
We are sorry to see our city
authorities pay so little attention
to the weeds growing on our streets
many of them higher than your
head. No wonder property own
ers pay no attention to the Mar
shaPs order 10 clean up.
ORGAN FOR SALE.
One of ovr subscribers has an
excellent Organ, good as new, for
sale cheap Be fine for soheol.
See this Office.
The hoar for the Presbyterian
Sunday school IS changed from
noon to 9;45 am. and morning
church service will begin at IL
instead of 1915.
The Bishop of Venice. Sarto.
has been elected as the new Pope
of the Catholic church, and TO be
known IS Pope, Plus x, and has
assumed the duties of his Office.
Strength and vigor come of good
food, duly digested. Force, rea
dy-to- serve wheat and barley food
adds no burden, but sustains, nour
ishes, 1nvlgorates,
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-22

that Of the temple. Everything is in the
minutest order, according to the different
branches of science and knowledge.
1.-The q, 900 books recovered belong to two
different periods, and were stored in eighty
chambers. properly labeled. l reckon that
we recovered the twelfth part Of the buried
book treasures
INTERESTING DOCUMENTS.
aside from the literary finds. we col
lected about 5000 documents on commercial
affairs, and dating from the first to the
third century before Christ, also 1900 doc
uments from the fourth and fifth century
before Christ
1.-The Sultan gave permission to remove
these treasures, and the greater part of
them is now being studied by experts in
the Museum of the University of Penn
sylvania.
THAT same institution gained possession
of a number of granite frontier posts from
the eleventh century before Christ, also of
some most ancient architectural plans and
about fifty pounds of gold and silver orna-
ments, coins, etc. 1 also had the joy of
sending to my native city some royal robes
from the time of Harun AL Rashid
I'VE have not yet been able to unearth
many of the religious and scientific books
promised by the catalogue found, but what
we have is of the utmost Importance to
history, showing the worlds thoughts,
hopes and aspirations five thousand years
before the Christian era, and what is still
more important, showing what the people
of that period knew of the past of the hu-
man race. Likewise, we are introduced
into the schools of the times more ancient
than Paradise. according to Jewish scribes.
We learn how writing. arithmetic, astron-
omy and mathematics are taught to the
young; most direct and easy methods seem
to have been employed.
"At the time of Alexander the Great
Bells temple ceased to be the sanctum sane
torium of the ancient Babylonians and
Greek influence made itself fell. Old gods
were shelved for new ones and after
awhile both old and new lived together in
harmony. Again after awhile, the temple
Is turned into a citadel, connected with
several palaces, a very large edifice and
a smaller one built in the Greek style.
This latter shows beautiful lines in the
walls still standing. The highest part
of the building laid bare is forty-five feet"
The lecturer warned his audience not
to be so excessively proud Of our modern
achievements. Water works, for instance.
existed in a far earlier period than 5000
years before the Christian era," he said.
yet there are 10000 and more communi-
ties in highly civilized Europe to-day that
do not know the necessity to hygienic life.
Some of these prehistoric water works are
even to-day in excellent condition.
THE ARTS NOT UNKNOWN.
Neither were these most ancient of an
cient peoples deficient in the arts. L have
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-22
Lincoln I'm the Black Hawk War.


'I recently visited Galena, Ill.," said Mr.
l.. b. White, of Chicago. land an old settler
there gave me lot OF interesting informa-
ham Lincoln's part i'm il. The story had
been told him by his father, who fought
against Black Hawk. Lincoln didn't actual
ly do any fighting in the war, and Galena
was about as far away from home as he
got, but he gave abundnt proof that he was
ready and willing to fight. Lincoln reached
Galena in command of a company of volun-
teer troops, but the enlistment expired and
the company disbanded. Lincoln there
upon re-enlisted as a private i'm another
command, and served until Black Hawk
and his braves, footsore and weary, had
been driven into the north of Michigan as
Wisconsin then called.
Those old volunteers must have been
a funny looking lot of soldiers. No two
of them had uniforms alike. and no more
discipline than flock of geese. When an
officer gave an order they obeyed il if they
felt like doing so; If not, they laughed at
the officer. Once, however, they obeyed
when they didn't want to. Gen. 'Zack''
Taylor, afterward President of the United
States, was in command of body of troops
and ordered them to cross the Mississippi
to do so, insisting that, as they had only
enlisted for the defense of the State, they
could not BE- made to cross its borders
General Taylor didn't waste any words He
pointed TO several regiments of regulars
drawn NJ in the rear. and told his volun-
teers that if they didn't cross of their own
free will the regulars would drive them
across at the point of the bayonet The
volunteers crossed
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-22

unearthed monuments of art under the
third and lowest strata that are worthy
of the best done to-day in that special line
why we found comparatively few ar
ticles made of precious metals is easy
to explain" said the lecturer, 'as we were
sent to ancient Nippur a few years ago,
so the great men of Athens dispatched
exploration parties at the time of Alexander
to the same spot. They dug up and ex-
plored the old pile. thoroughly and me-
thodically and carried away and melted
up for their own use respectively, what
ever seemed worth the effort.
''The Greeks and Babylonians were on
excellent terms, and as the Greeks were
better teachers than the Babylonians, Hell
lenic art triumphed over the older sister,
as exemplified in these vases, pictures and
statues"
The lecturer exhibited a number of pho
tographic representations of articles recov-
cred. Most interesting among them were
some childrens games and playthings,
dolls, etc. The small Babylonians, with their
passion for everything new, seem to have
made especial haste to be on friendly
terms with the new toys introduced by
the Athens Santa Claus.
Professor Hilprecht continued: "A new
art sprung into existence; its elements
Greek-Roman-Oriental motifs but 1t was
shortlived, like the quick and transient
flame of a candle about to die out. We
found two palaces built during that period.
more Greek than Roman, yet full Of Orien-
tai "reminiscences: also a temple with an
altar and large mausoleum.
hrYilf ~ hrir he N hoxy
vaulted ceilings. Some are formed like
urns, others like our modern bathtubs.
For want of room the bodies were buried
with the legs doubled under. Many bodies
are adorned with rich jewels; some car
ried coins with the picture of Emperor
Tiberius in the hollow Of their hand.
by the influence of the Semites. Baby
lonian art and religion underwent another
change" said Professor Hilprecht. "At
what period the Greek period merged with
the Jewish, we have not yet been able
to establish. No more than 1900 years
of Babylonian history have been definitely
settled by our explorations.
''As to the Temple of Bel, it undoubted-
ly ante-dates the Semitic period. The great
tower stood for a religio-universal idea
The upper story represented the abode of
the gods, the priests lived beneath and the
cellars contained the house of the dead.
the Hades of the Greek"
In conclusion DIR. Hilprecht said: 1.-The
Babylonian nation went to sleep, her cities
became graveyards, the power of their gods
was a thing of the past, yet it is strange
ly maintained by some that the Jews got
their idea of God from the Babylonians,"
Professor Hilprecht will start in Septem-
ber from Constantinople for a fifth expedi-
ton to Nippur. WE'RE CAREWE.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-22
working for Childs."
The Argonaut.

The poet, Walt Whitman. was, as is well
known, dependent during most of his life
upon the kindness of friends and admir-
ers for support. making little or nothing
on his writings. A few years before his
death one of these friends called upon him
in his little house in Camden a suburb
town of Philadelphia.
We'll. Walt" he says. how goes Ii this
winter? Any subscription needed for
Christmas?"
No said Whitman. mo. I'm at work
now. I'm I'm the employ of George Childs.
He pays me $50 month"
You at work. May 1 ask your occupa-
tion?'
why, / ride in the street cars / fall
into talk with the drivers and conductors
and find out which OF them have no over
coats, and guess at their size, and notify
Childs, and then he sends the overcoats.
It's not hard work" said the poet. And
then. you know, IL helps Childs along"