Free press., 1907-12-28
LOCAL NEWS.
sao0e0o0eHeGs0eGs0s0O0e0'


Friday evening.
Mrs. Jacob Orth and children went to
Walker this week to spend Christmas
with her parents.
Mrs. E. 2. Matthew is visiting with
her sister Miss j. E. Compton in Kan
sas City this week.
Lafe Stout and wife drove out and
took Christmas dinner at the home of
his father Elihu Stout.
l. M. Yost's employees made him a
Christmas present of furnished private
office in his Office building.
Jacob Kippes and wife of the West
Smokey Hill county visited friends IN
Topeka during the holidays.
You can secure years subscription
to the FREE PRESS at 65 cents until
January 7th. Read the ad in this issue.
Valentine Orth and family of Kansas
City came out to spend Christmas with
his brother Martin and other relatives
here.
The children and their families of
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Kraus came in
Christmas to eat dinner with their
parents.
John Mccarthy who is working with
a surveying crew in Virginia, returned
the first of the week to spend Christ
mas at home.
The gunners had great time shoot
ing over on the Experiment Station
Christmas morning. Hundreds of rab-
bits were killed.
Regent Griffith spends the latter part
of this week at a meeting of the board
of regents of the Agricultural college
at Manhattan.
Rabbit hunting has been the popular
pastime since the last snow fall. One
party of three made a record of 81
'kills" in one afternoon.
Jesse Gehman came down from Gold
en-, Colo, Monday morning and spent
Christmas with his wife and little
daughter at the home of E. S. Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Roennfeldt have
the pleasure of having their whole fam
lily at Christmas dinner, the boys and
girls having come home to see the old
folks.
Maybe you are not a regular sub
scriber to the paper-if not, you can
get full years subscription for 65
cents if you subscribe before the 7th
of January.
We just can't keep our subscription
list from growing in spite of the hard
times. Among the new names added
this week we are glad to note A. P.
Mcclure, Kanopolis.
About six inches more of fine snow
fell over western Kansas and eastern
Colorado last Saturday evening. The
wheat growers are wearing '|the smile
that won't come off. f."
1. M. Yost, E. D. Yost and family of
this city and Mrs. 1. M. Yost and son
Linderman of Kansas City spent Christ
mas at Wilson at the home of G. A.
Lester where a family re union was
held.
w. A. Smith, formerly resident of
Walker, but now of Hays, was in the
city yesterday renewing old acquain-
tances. He and Mrs. Smith are plan
ming for long vacation to their old
home in New York state in the early
spring. Russell Record.
Mrs. Lee Monroe. wife of Judge
Monroe of Topeka, but formerly of
Wakeeney, has been elected editor of
the Club Member, the official paper of
the state federation of Clubs and is
doing splendid work in that position.
She is one of the most talented women
of the state. .-Plainville Gazette.
The Bank of Commerce has paid off
and cancelled one and half million of
their clearing house certificates others
are paying theirs off and the clearing
house in Kansas City has made Jan. Is
as the time to cancel all outstanding
certificates. So our farmers who have
received them for SO-cent wheat will
soon get government money in ex-
change.
Almost all the ex-Hays people who
are either employed or residing in other
cities are home for the holidays.
Among them are Mr.. and Mrs. L. F.
Scott and son, Kansas City; Clarence
Heyl, Russell; Jas. Behan. Wilson;
Tom Reed and John Roennfeldt, Ellis
worth; Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Mcclure,
Kanopolis; Herman Roennfeldt, K. c..
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbard, st. Louis;
Maggie Cave, Ellis; Bertha Virmond,