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Free press., 1907-12-28

George Zeigler and John Mcmahon
Of the Zeigler's store force have both
been a little under the weather this
week.
Clyde Bice was selling apples in Vic
toria Tuesday for Mr.. Squires who was
in town with carload of Michigan
apples.
The Lutheran Sunday School gave an
unusually good Christmas entertain
ment last Friday evening. The church
was crowded and the cantatas by the
little folks were greatly enjoyed.
Frank Loreditsch arrived home Mon
day evening from Webb City. His
older brother George also came up on
Wednesday evening Both are employ
ed in the mines at Webb City, Mo.
Until January 7th you can secure a
new subscription to this paper for Csc
the regular price is $1.00. If you
already are a subscriber your friend or
relative would be pleased to receive a
year SuDScflpIlOn as new ear
remembrance.
The McCracken Enterprise and the
Elglewood Tribune are the only two
exchanges we noticed this week COM
ing out in holiday attire The Enter
prise (and the name is strikingly suit
able) came out printed in red ink with
beautiful Christmas cover and much
home advertising.
Free press., 1907-12-28
coburn's Souvenir.
Read ad in this issue.

Every year Secretary F. D. Coburn
of the State Board of Agriculture gets
out State Christmas card telling of
the glories of Kansas. This year he
takes the scene on Paradise flats north
of here and has issued his Christmas
card, showing summary of the agri-
cultural and livestock products of the
state for 1907.
On one side of the card is picture
of beautiful Kansas maiden, and a
fac-simile of the following letter:
''Dear Marguerite:
'"This years fourth cutting of our
alfalfa was so heavy and brought such
good price that pa says I must have
a new auto, Steinway Grand piano
or take trip around the world.
Which would you take?
''Gladys.
'"The Zephyrs,
Paradise, Kansas, 11-30-07."
Free press., 1907-12-28
VOL. XVI.
Our $1,000 Prize Contest.

This coming week will see the be-
ginning of the new year 1908. We
wish our readers, one and all, very
Happy New Yeari
We want to make this coming week
a ''Starter Week" in vigorous cam
paign to DOUBLE OUR SUBSCRIPTION
LIST in 1908. In order to start things
we have opened $40 contest among
the boys and girls in securing new sub
scibers to THE FREE PRESS. To make
the work easier for the contestants to
make a large showing we have also
REDUCED THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TO
Csc to new subscribers whose name
is handed to one of the boys or girls
before Tuesday evening, January 7th.
This contest is open to all boys and
girls under SO yrs. of age, irrespective of
of color, race or size. Residents in
the country and boys and girls in the
smaller towns of the county are invited
especially to participate in the contest.
The prizes are a first award of $40
in gold to the one receiving the largest
number of subscriptions and a second
award of one years subscription to
''The American Boy" to the second in
rank.
Read ad in this issue.
Free press., 1907-12-28
Normal Notes

The students all enjoyed skating and
coasting on the creek after chapel last
Friday morning. The pupils of the
Model District School joined in the
sports.
Nearly all of the faculty attended
the State Teachers Association at To-
peka this week and some of them will
spend the remainder of vacation at
their homes.
The landlords of the Hotel-de-Hobo
and the Hotel-de-Hog gave reception
for the football players in the annex of
the Hotel-de-Hobo before the football
season expired. A royal time was en-
joyed by all.
Misses Anna and Gertrude Ryan and
Miss Magrane visited Chapel Friday
morning. Miss Miller of the Saline
was also welcome visitor.
We trust that our president is making
us proud of him at the State Teac hers
Association this week. We are sure
that the new gavel will lend charm
to the meeting.
Last Friday night several boys met
at one of the bachelors quarters before
taking the evening train for home, a
whistle sounded and the boys went
''pell mell'' for the station; on arriving
there all breathless and frustrated,
they discovered that it was a freight
and not the passenger train. Compos-
ing themselves they began to put on
their overcoats when one fastidious
young man discovered that he had car
ried, hung over his arm in very ele-
CANT manner, not his overcoat, but his
IS" pants"
Free press., 1907-12-28

Mrs. Mabel Runyon and children
came down from Ellis Christmas morn
ing to spend the day with her mother
Mrs. S. Crocker but found on arriving
that the home was quarantined with
scarlet fever. Benjamin Crocker had
just recovered from this sickness about
a week ago and his sister is now tax
en- sick. Mrs. Runyon spent Wednes-
day and Thursday at the Jos. Runyon
home, returning to Ellis Thursday even
ing. Benjamin Crocker is now staying
at the home of Murray Wallace.
Free press., 1907-12-28
Presbyterian Church.
w. B. BROWN, Pastor.

w. d. DROWN, EdSGOrs
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Preaching at IL a. m. Subject: ''0ur
Bank Account. -
Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. M;
Preaching at 7:30 Subject: ''Power. "
Miss Sophia Dickinson, Mr.. McLel-
and, and Homer Myers took the places
of the absent members of the choir
last Sunday and they gave good salts
faction.
The Sunday School Xmas exercises
were held Friday evening and were
very interesting and well attended
After the exercises at the church they
adjourned to the Brunswick Annex
where the gifts were distributed and
jolly good time was had all around.
Free press., 1907-12-28
Lutheran Church.

u T. w lESIs IdSIOf
1000 a. m. Sunday School.
HOO a. m. Public Worship. Subject:
Education. The annual offering for the
Board of Education will be taken on
Sunday morning.
300 p. m. Catechetical Class.
6:30p. m. C. E. Society Prayer Meet
ing. Topic: Foreign Missions. The COM
ing triumph of the Cross, how. may we
hasten it?
7:30 p. m. Public Worship. Subject:
Certainties and Uncertainties-Som
New Years Thoughts.
A Happy New Year to All.
We cordially invite you to these SER
vices.
Free press., 1907-12-28
A Rabbit, Hunt.

Harry Bellman and half dozen of
his friends surrounded Bellmans' tim
ber clasm last Monday and proceeded
to clean out all the jack rabbits in the
timber. When they met at the center
over $50 rabbits had been killed and
the guns of some of the hunters were
so hot that they had to plunge them in
the snow.
Free press., 1907-12-28
He Wasn't a Rose

A Topeka teacher noticed that pu-
pill named Willie smelled badly. After
standing the Odor for a week or two,
she sent a polite note to Willie's mo-
ther to that effect, intimating that
Willie needed a bath. The mother
sent back the following reply when
he came to school the next day: ''Willie
amt no rose. Don't smell him; learn
him. "-Plainville Gazette.
Free press., 1907-12-28
Baptist Church.

There will be an important business
meeting at the Baptist church next
Wednesday evening January 1st, to
consider the calling of pastor. Every
member is urged to be present.
Free press., 1907-12-28
Herberf,s Ma6azine.

The publisher of this paper has pur-
chased 20 yearly subscriptions to Her
bert's Magazine and will give them as
a premium to paid-in-advance subscrib-
ers who would like to join the Ewing
Herbert cult. The Magazine is differ
ent from all others. Call and get a
sample copy. THE FREE PRESS.
Free press., 1907-12-28

IF all the ships have at sea
Should come a-saing home to me,
All, well! the harbor could not hold
So many ships as there would be
If all my ships came in from sea-
'If half my ships came home from sea,
And brought their precious freight to me,
Ah well! should have wealth as great
AS any king who sits in state
So rich the treasures that would be
In half my ships now out at sea.
eff just one ship have at sea
Should come a-sailing home to me,
Ah well! the storm-clouds then might frown:
For if the others all went down
Still rich and proud and glad I'd be-
If that one ship came back to me.
''If that ship went down at sea,
And all the others came to me,
Weighed down with gems and wealth untold,
With glory, honor, riches, gold,
The poorest soul on earth I'd be
If that ship came not to me.
go skies be calm! o winds blow free
Blow all my ships safe home to me.
But if thou sendest some a-wrack
To never more come sailing back,
Send any-all, that skim the sea,
But bring my love-ship home to me.
ELLA WHEELER WILC
Free press., 1907-12-28
Society Notes

Mrs. j. H. Ward entertained at
Christmas dinner Wednesday: Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex Philip, Mr. and Mrs. w. D.
Philip, Rev. and Mrs. C. F. West,
Miss Foster and N. A. Voss.
Mrs. C. F. West and the Misses
Pestana, Ward and Alice FreeseTIwill
entertain at the Brunswick Annex next
Wednesday evening complimentary to
the Misses Monroe of Topeka.
Misses Abbie and Olive Westbrook
will entertain at tea this Friday even
ing.
Miss Retta Freese entertained at
dinner Thursday evening: Mr.. and Mrs.
L. F. Scott, Kansas City; Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Hubbard, st. Louis; Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Fields, City.
Miss Bessie Leahy will entertain at
cards Tuesday evening in honor of the
Misses Lenore and Daisy Monroe of
Topeka.
Mrs. George Philip is entertaining
at cards this Friday evening the fol-
lowing brides and grOoms:
NA
Free press., 1907-12-28
THURSDAY. JANUARY 9th. 1908

viii be big day in Hays. Be there
on that date, and tell your neighbors
that RAND IS COMING to buy their
horses and mules and wants to meet
you then. He viii be in Victoria on
Wednesday the 9Th. TIT
Free press., 1907-12-28
State Teachers. Association.

A large number of the teachers of
Hays are attending the State Associa-
ton at Topeka this week. We hope to
have report from its president w. S.
Picken next week.
Free press., 1907-12-28

The Misses Lenore and Daisy Monroe
of Topeka are expected guests of Miss
Alice Freese this Sunday evening.
- - -
Mrs. Alex Philip will entertain the
young matrons of Hays on Monday
evening.
ID"
A number of Hays young people at
tended dance at Ellis Christmas eve.
Among them were Ellen Behan, Maggie
Free press., 1907-12-28

Masters Hugo Kohl and John Miller
went to Victoria Thursday morning to
spend the week end at the Behan
ranch.
Free press., 1907-12-28

Miss Carrie Darkes, principal of the
Brownell schools, spent Saturday and
Sunday with the home folks. Miss
Darkes is teaching very successful
term of school. Enter
prise.
Miss Darkes is a graduate of the
Hays Normal snd the above item shows
that she is meeting with merited sue
cess in her vocation.
Free press., 1907-12-28

The Christmas tree entertainment at
the Buckeye-Hopewell school house
on Tuesday evening was well attended
and good time was enjoyed by all
present.
Free press., 1907-12-28

A family reunion took place at the
farm home of Fred Solomon, Sr. on
Christmas day. Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon
have large family and it is not often
they get together. Among those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. King
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank King, Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Palmer, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Gerken of Ellis. VIM. and Elmer
Solomon were not present.
Free press., 1907-12-28

You can get a years subscripti on to
this paper next week for 65c.
Free press., 1907-12-28
Church Notes
sessessesossses.
Methodist, Church.

M. ]. MUMFoRD, Pastor.
Quarterly meeting at the Methodist
church this coming Sunday and Mon
day. The Presiding Elder Rev. u. S.
Brown will be present.
Free press., 1907-12-28
Bar6ains!

One fine new piano $500. 90
Cotton top Mattresses s-...-2. 90
&c Sc and bottom Mattresses 2. so
Wall Paper at Great bargain prices till
after New Years.
Il. F. Jordan.
Free press., 1907-12-28

Edith Brown, society editor of the
Salina Journa and daughter of May
Belleville Brown, state president of
Women's Clubs, is responsible for this
item:
In one family where there are two
daughters, the father will get a new
divan in his stocking Christmas morn
ing, end the mother will get new
chafng dish table.
Now you don't suppose this is any re-
Election on the size of the parents hos
iery, do you?
Free press., 1907-12-28

Cave, Winnie Cox, Florence Almond.
Lincoln Ward and Roscoe Baumer.
The Saturday Afternoon Club of
Hays will meet with Miss Annette Fos-
ter Saturday Jan. 4th. Program will
be rendered as follows:-
Leader, Mrs. Emma D. Snyder
Collect
Roll Call
Reading of Minutes
King Lear, Act V
Miscellaneous Business
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
A Trolley Hospital.

Milwaukee has novelty in trolley
cars. It is a hospital car which has
recently been put in service. The in
terror of the car is fitted with
three leather upholstered permanent
stretchers. Hooks are placed in the
sides near the ceiling, from which a
fourth stretcher may be suspended.
At each end of the car are stationed
cabinets supplied with complete sur
gical outfits, consisting of all neces-
sary instruments as well as dressings
that might be called for in emergency
cases. The car is electrically heat
ed, and water in a two gallon tank
fed from larger receptacle may be
heated in the same manner. The car
is not designed for city work, but in
outlaying districts first aid will be
directed on the ground, instead of
taking the sufferer to the city.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
INTENDING TABLE LINEN.

Here is a good idea for mendlng
table linen that is quicker and more
satisfactory than darning by hand.
Thread your sewing machine Win
100 cotton; slip pair of embroidery
hoops under the foot; arrange the
cloth where worn between the hoops'
so that the flat side comes next to the
bed of the machine.
Do not lower the foot. Take hold
of the hoops, and as you run the ma
chine work them back and forth with
the thread of the cloth, then turn
and work the other way.
You will be surprised when the
cloth is nicely Numbered, at the
smoothness and neatness of the Jo0,
and have the satisfaction of knowing
that your linen has taken on a new
lease of life. Breaks in napkins and
tears in under-clothing may be sat
isfactorily treated in the same way
Farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
Treated For Pain In The Back.

The district attorneys Office has
offered to issue a warrant for the
arrest of H. Storey, who styles him
self physician of the chiropractice
school, and who is accused by tes-
timony given at a coroner's inquest
yesterday of having been responsible
for the death of Domenick Permus,
a San Bernardino farmer, one of his
patients.
According to the testimony of
Mrs. Premus. her husband was treat
ed for pains in his back. She affirm
ed that Storey laid her husband face
downward across two benches, and
placing wooden spike against his
vertebra, pounded it with a wooden
mallett. After this, Mrs. Premus
swore, the physician raised himself
from the ground while his hands
rested on the patients back. After
FIVE such treatments Premus died.
The inquest developed that death
was due to a hemorrhage of the
lungs.-Los Angeles Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
sHARPs ISLAND SOLD.
viii Probably Disappear In A Few
Years.

Easton Especially .-Sharps Island
was sold for taxes, and was purchas-
ed by Jerry Valiant. of Oxford; Will
liam H. Valiant, of Bellevue, and T.
Hughlett Henry, of Easton, for $163.
This island, which is situated at
the mouth of the Choptank River and
the Chesapeake Bay, has quite an in
teresting history. 1t originally con-
tanned about 700 acres, but it has
washed away in the last hundred
years, until today it contains only
about SO acres and is gradually dis
appearing year by year. In the
course of few years there will prob
ably be nothing left of it.
The island was granted by letters
patent from the lord proprietary of
Maryland to John Bateman on Feb
ruary 2, 1859, and was described in
a deed dated October 6, 1861, from
Frederick A. Starringt, John Evans
d'Oyley and Margaret d'Oyley, of
Paris, France. 1t was once convey
ed to the Avalon Beach Company, of
Baltimore, which company built a
large hotel upon it for the purpose
of making summer resort and en-
gaging in the oyster-planting bust
ness, but the project fell through,
and the hotel, now stripped of every
thing movable, stands on the island
and is occupied as sleeping quarters
for fishing clubs and parties who go
there for a few days to enjoy the
sport.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
NEWS Mar yland;
FOR THE FARM BOYS.
Number OF Industrial Scholarships
Increased.

AASACSAoS0s
College Park Especially. - The
board of trustees of the Maryland
Agricultural College met at the col
lege. DR.. Gordon T. Atkinson, state
comptroller, presided, with DR.. JOS
eph r. Owens, registrar of the col
lege, secretary. The trustees pres
emit were Messrs. Atkinson, Carvflle
D. Benson, p Carroll Goldsborough,
James M. Monroe, E. G.. Merryman,
c. H. Evans, David Seibert, G. A.
Councilman, Harold Walsh and DR..
r. S. Hill.
The board determined not to es-
tablish a department of pedagogy for
normal school instruction. A de-
partment of electrical engineering
will be added and will be under
the direction of DR.. T. H. Taliaferro.
professor of civil engineering and
physics at the college. The work
will be commenced this fall and a
regular chair will be established
later.
The contract for furnishing coal to
the college for the year ending June
80, 1908, was awarded to the Mid
land Mining Company, of Cumber-
land, and the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal and Iron Company, of
Philadelphia.
A committee composed of Messrs.
Benson, Seibert and Hill, inspected
the rooms of the cadets and reported
that they were in fine condition, SO
far as cleanliness and sanitary ar
rangements were concerned.
The commandant of cadets sub
mitted the report of the United
States Army inspector who was here
last June to witness the drilling of
the cadets The report gives the
school an excellent standing with the
War Department.
The board declined to dispose of
the bed on the Paint Branch, run
ming through the college property,
as asked for by Edward A. Newman,
of Washington, representing the
Lakeland Fisheries Company. This
section of the stream is desired in
order to straighten it, so that it
will serve the purpose of a feeder
to the lakes.
Director A. L. Amos, of the De-
VI II al 4AoI4tuISoy pc
titioned the board for authority to
rent private car for the accommo-
dation of the speakers for the in
stitute meetings to be held this win
ter. The request was referred to a
committee. @
The board decide to increase the
number of industrial scholarships to
rs for the purpose of affording pupils
of moderate means an opportunity to
secure an education. These students
will partially pay their board at the
institution by working in the various
laboratories as janitors and as help
ers in the domestic departments of
the college.
President R. w. Sylvester report
ed the largest enrolment of students
in the history of the college, 1874
having registered to date.
The next meeting of the board will
be held Friday, December 2.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
EASY FOOD
Ready For Instant Use Without Cook
ing.

Almost everyone likes cereal food
of some kind at breakfast and supper,
but the ordinary way of cooking
cereals results in pasty mass that is
hard to digest, and If not properly
digested, the raw mass goes down
into the intestinal tract where gas is
generated and trouble follows.
Everyone knows that good food
properly digested keeps the body
we'll, while poor food, or even food of
good quality that is poorly prepared
and not digested, is sure to bring on
some kind of disease.
The easiest food to digest in this
line is Grape-Nuts, made from wheat
and barley, and cooked thoroughly at
the factory, some IL to 16 hours be-
ing consumed in the different pro-
cesses of preparation. The food,
therefore, is ready for instant SER
vice and the starch has been changed
to form of Sugar, so that 1t is pre-
digested and ready for almost imme-
diate absorption.
A Chicago young lady writes that
She Sumered 1or years from lndlgeS-
tion and dyspepsia from the use Of
food that was not suitable to her
powers of digestion. She says:
II began using Grape-Nuts, and l
confess to having had prejudice at
first, and was repeatedly urged before
/ finally decided to try the food, but l
have not known what indigestion is
since using it, and have never been
stronger or in better health. I have
increased in weight from 1913 to 1874
pounds"
People can be well, practically
without cost, if they will adopt scien-
tific food and leave off the indigesti-
BILE sort. "There's a Reason"
Grape-Nuts Food is crisp and de-
licious to the taste. 1t should be
served exactly as it comes from the
package, without cooking, except in
cases where 1t is made up into pud-
dings and other desserts. of
delicious recipes, and "The Road to
MELVILLE. in pkgs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
RECIPES.


Apple Salad-Take red apples, poll
ish; dig out inside and fill with apple.
celery and nuts. Serve on leaf of
lettuce, covering apple over with may.
onnaise dressing.
Plain Caramels-One pound Of
brown sugar, one-quarter of pound
of chocolate, one pint of cream, one
teaspoonful of butter, two tablespoon
fuls of molasses; boil for thirty min
utes. stirring all the time. Test by
dropping in cold water. Flavor with
vanilla. Turn into pan and cut off in
squares.
Poor Mans Cake-To a scant cup of
sugar add one egg, tablespoon, of but
ter, two cups of -four, two teaspoons
of baking powder, half cup of water,
and flavoring. Bake in two layers.
Mocha Filling-To one cup powder
ed sugar add butter size of an egg
Cream. All two teaspoons dry cocoa
and two tablespoons black coffee, one
teaspoon vanilla.
Banana Fritters.-Remove skin
from yellow bananas, cut in halves.
crosswise, then length-wise, in not too
thin slices. Dip in batter made Of
the yolks of eggs. 1 gill milk, little
salt, cup sifted flour. Mix thorough
ly. Fry in hot fat and serve with
sweet sauce.
Peach Pudding-Peel and cut G
large peaches into small pieces. re.
moving the stones, then sprinkle with
sugar. Heat 1 pint of milk in double
boiler to boiling point, and stir in
quickly but carefully well beaten
eggs and tablespoons of sugar.
When it thickens and cools flavor
with vanilla and pour over fruit. Whip
1-2 pint of cream, put on top of pud-
ding, set on ice until cold
Chocolate Pudding-One half cup
sugar, / teaspoon melted butter, egg,
liz cup milk, IL teaspoon cream tar
tar, Ia teaspoon saleratus. cup
-four, / square chocolate, melted
Steam hour in buttered tin. Sauce
One cup powdered sugar. table
spoon butter, / white of egg. beaten
to cream: flavor
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
MISS FOX INJURED.
Jumped FROM A. Moving Train At
Woudsboro.

Frederick Especially Miss Mollie
Fox. over 60 years old, was serious
ly, perhaps fatally, injured by jump
ing from. moving train on the
Northern Central Railway, at Woods
boro, this county. Miss Fox, who
formerly resided at Woodsboro, but
lately has been living in Frederick, in
company with her sister, attended the
fair at York, Pa, and they were re-
turning on a crowded train. They
intended to leave the train at Woods
boro, but the train, which had stop
ped there, had started again before
they realized that their station had
been reached
Rushing to the platform of the car,
they jumped off, Miss Fox landing on
her head. Her sister was not in
jured. Miss Fox was brought to the
Frederick City Hospital, where she
was attended by DR.. Ira J. McCurdy,
who stated tonight that she was suf-
fering from hemorrhage of the braiD
and was in a serious condition.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-18
cola Coins In Marble Head.

NJ. Rodin bought recently in an
old curiosity shop in Paris an an
cient marble head of man, and as
the face was rather knocked about
he sent it to a brother sculptor for
repair. When the work was done
this friend got into cab with the
marble head and drove toward M.
Robins studio. On the way the cab
came into collision with a motor car
and the head rolled out into the road
and was smashed to pieces.
The sculptor picked up the pieces
and found In a cavity of the skull
twenty gold coins of ancient date and
considerable value.