Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-17

business iaSC saturday.
i Mr.. and Mrs. George Mauer are ar
ranging to move to ST. Louis soon.
Miss Beulah Bell is learning the art
Observation-Disclosures at this office.
The western part of the state was visit
ed with a severe hail storm Tuesday
night
Miss Pearl Joslin has been engaged
to teach the Philips school for another
year.
Miss Helsert and brother Joe Helsert
of Hoisington are visiting Mrs. Frank
Gehrer.
Mrs. Lou Bell and baby spent the
fore part of the week visiting her par
ents in Ellis.
1t is rumored that Sam Bussard will
move with his family to Seattle, Wash
| ington III the near future.
Ash street from the railroad track
north to the public school is being grad
ed this week by the street commissioner.
The report comes that the Ellis ball
club has a game scheduled with the
Haskell Indians the latter part of the
month
Mrs. Millard Kirkman and children
returned Tuesday evening from st. JOS
eph, Mo-, where she has been visiting
relatives the past couple weeks.
Prof. Lee R. Light and wife went
to Manhattan Wednesday morning to
visit relatives and enjoy couple weeks
vacation prior to the opening of the Fall
term of school.
Mrs. Lochiel Scott and son Philip re-
turned to their home at Kansas City
last Saturday night. Miss Annie Nc
Donald who had been visiting Mrs Scott
returned with her.
The shetland ponies which E. R. Cole
recently sold to one of the Travis Bros.
of Plainville got away last week and
ran several miles in this direction be-
fore they were captured.
Harry Jeffries was in the city the
first part of the week Jeff" has
secured a new and more profitable
position as clerk in the railway office
at Green River, Wyoming.
E. e. Ritter, a graduate of the
Western State Normal and now Co.
Superintendent of Sheridan county
was in the city this week attending
the Epworth League convention
John Pfannestiel moved his family
here from Russell this week. They
located in the house formerly occupied
by Alex Meier. Mr.. Pfannestiel is
harness max er for j. A Blender.
Miss Myra Morgan returned Saturday
morning to her home at Excelsior
Springs, Mo-, after a few days visit
with old Hays friends. She will stop off
enroute at Russell and Clay Center.
H. L. Pestana was down from Hays,
Monday and Tuesday in the matter of
securing aninjunction against Glib Chris
man, of Paradise, to restrain him from
maintaining liquor nuisance.
Russell item in Wilson Echo.
| Matchmaker Hickman has leased and
moved into the Stehley-Sam Bussard
Cottage on East Juniata Street. Mr..
Bussard and family are arranging to
move to Portland, Oregon, where his
brothers are engaged in business
Mrs. Fred Miller left last week for a
visit with relatives in Salina and Abb
lene. AS soon as Fred has finished up
his business here, he will join his wife
and they will then return to their home
in Chicasha, l. T.
Advertising is no good, . said the
man in old clothes. ''It never helped
me none. The millionire merchant
smiled, '"Fhat is because you tried it,
John, as the Indian tried the feather
bed. An Indian took feather, placed
it on plank and slept on it all night.
In the morning he growled: pale
face say feathers heap soft. Paleface
heap fool, ugh!''
| j. c. Ruppenthal, Judge of this dis
! trict, has sent out circular letter to
all members of the bar of the district,
advising more effectual notice" or
service" by publication. Judge Rup-
penthal believes that defendants in all
cases, and especially in matters per
tanning to land titles and martial re-
lations in divorce cases, shall be noti-
fed reasonable time in advance.
The Gazette office had an electric fan
put in Monday and will soon have a
system of signal bells in so the front
part of the shop can communicate with
the working force further south. Our
big shop is pretty fine until we have TO
travel the eighty feet and back the
usual number of times during the day,
consulting with the rest of the people.
The Plainville Gazette must be pros
erous from the sound of the above.
Electric fans and bells are luxuries not
enjoyed by many print skopsin western
ior even eastern Kansas.