Free press., 1907-11-09
LOCAL NEWS.

Fred Solomon and Will Palmer visit
ed Yocemento last Sunday.
C. M. Holmquist made business
trip to Wakeeney on Monday,
Mrs. Watson Beach of Ottawa is
here on a visit to her sister Mrs. E.
S. Beach.
Henry Tholen and E. G. Phillis of
Victoria was in Hays on business last
Saturday.
Mrs. A. D. Goetchius is again up and
around, after very serious attack of
gall-stones.
John Westbrook made his Fall de-
livery of trees last week from the
Lawrence Nursery.
Sickness in his family called J. w
CASTOR and family to their old home
in Missouri this week.
George Philip, Jr. has been in Kan
sas City most of this week receiving.
medical treatment on his eyes.
Lincoln Ward gave dance in the
Hall Thursday evening for the Russell
football team and their friends.
C. A. Munson moved his family to
Wilson yesterday. Mr.. Munson is en-
gineer in Yost's Mill at Wilson
Charlie Binder has secured the SER
vices of his brother-in-law, M. Masch-
ka to assist him in his pump shop.
Mrs. John Johanson of the Saline
Valley left Monday evening for
visit with friends at Felix, Arizona.
Carl Leiker's cottage in the south
part of town was sold this week and
Mr.. Leiker expects to move in short
time.
Mr.. G. A. Lester, of the Yost Milling
Co., and family are moving into the
George Greenough house this week.
Wilson Echo.
M. N. Harvey, nephew of Miss
Josephine Andreas, was down from
Quinter the fore part of the week on
a business and pleasure trip.
Henry Tholen, Jr., son of Henry
Tholen of Victoria, went to Campus
Tuesday on his new motorcycle to
visit his brothers John and Anton
Mrs. Frank Fields and Retta Freese
returned Monday morning from Wa
keeney where they attended a Hallow-
cen party at the home of l. T.
Toothaker.
Misses Esther and Alice Mitsch of
Woodbine, Kansas, came down Tues
day morning after q weeks visit with
their uncle D. C. Gdgler living north
of Ellis. They have been the guests
of their aunt Mrs. Frank Fields.
A beautiful picture of the altar of
the Catholic Church of this city will
be put on the market in the form of
a souvenir postal next week. The
picture was taken by H. H Gill and
the printing is being done at the FREE
PRESS office.
Mrs. Geo. IKell, j. A. Kell and Miss
Eva Kell arrived last Saturday from
Dighton, Kans., and are residing with
Mrs. Kell's daugher Mrs. Lee R. Light.
Mrs. Lights brother, J. A. Kell, will
enrol at the Normal next week and
Miss Eva is a student at the High
School
Mr.. Cap. Brown has sold his thor
oughbred driving horse to the Regents
of the Experiment Station at Ellis for
the use of Supt McClelland, and S. R.
Tucker sold the same people splendid
saddle horse. Rocks County has sent
some good stock to the big farm, sure
-Plainville Gazette.
G. NJ. Cox & Son will soon have in
operation 25 Dbl. flour mill which is
now on the road from Cincinnati.
They will make speciality of Graham,
Rye and Brown Bread Flour and Corn
Meal. Tom Cox, an old time miller
and brother of G. NJ, will come down
from Grinnell and have charge of the
mill.
]. c. Ruppenthal, of Russell, Judge !
of the 23rd judicial district, is a sub
scriber to every paper printed in his dis
trict, 19 in all, distributed as follows: 4
in Ellis County, in Cove, Gin Logan,
s in Russell, in Wallace and 2 in Ire
go County. One of these journals is Ger
man, and the judge takes it for good
measure. -Ex.
Thos. Edison, the wizard of the age,
announced couple weeks ago that he
had new device by which complete /
house could be erected in day or so.
but he has rival in Hays. j. M. |
Craig, who had the contract for build |