Free press., 1907-11-23

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Henry Tyler has been confined to
his home the last ten days with sick
ness.
Mrs. Bird Moore of Brookville is
visiting this week with her aunt Mrs.
Shaw.
Ned Franklin who has been employ
ed at lola returned home the first Of
the week.
Isaac Zeigler has baled his alfalfa
hay and is shipping it to Kansas City
by the carload.
Chas Baumer finished painting John
Gatewood's new farm house this week
and they will move in soon.
Mr.. Wheatcroft and his father-in-law
returned to their home in Lane County
the fore part of the week.
Profs. Picken and Kent and Lincoln
Ward attended the football game at
Russell Thursday afternoon.
This vicinity was favored with a
little damp weather on Tuesday. 1t
didn't rain, but it tried pretty hard.
Joe Frank, the genial night man at
the Windsor, returned Wednesday
night from several days visit with
an aunt at Oakley.
C. A. Harkness has added large
new showcase to the equipment of his
drug store. 1t will be used especially
in displaying holiday goods.
The Hays Telephone System now
numbers nearly 400 subscribers on its
exchange This is growth of 100 per-
cent in the last three years.
Miss Stella Farley returned last
Saturday evening from Waverly, Kan
sas, where she has been employed in
a millinery store for the past two sea-
sons.
Dan Mullen. alias ''Speck'', came
down from Denver Tuesday morning
to visit with parents and Hays friends.
He has been employed in the shops at
Denver.
S. w. Wood of Plainville is at work
this week with force of cement work
ers laying a block of cement walk in
front of the Morris Bannister property
on Normal Avenue
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Philip entertained
at informal dinner Monday noon: Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Fields, Mrs. N. ].
Fields, H. c. Freese, Misses Retta
and Alice Freese and John Freese.
Mrs Bird c. Moore, who formerly
lived on the Smokey and later moved to
Brookville, has disposed of her farm
at the latter place and moved back to
Hays to educate her children.
We added a number of new subscrib-
ers to THE FREE PRESS this week and
hope to add as many more next week.
Send us in the names of your friends
and relatives and we'll send them a
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C. F. Riley sold his barber shop
business on Monday to Clarence Lester
who has moved his family up from
Russell and will locate here permanent
ly. He is a brother of G. A. Lester
formerly of Hays now of Wilson, Kans.
The next number of the Normal
lecture course will be a lecture next
Wednesday evening by Marshall Choate
Crouch on ''The Simple Life" The
speaker comes we'll recommended and
no doubt he will deliver an excellent
lecture.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Roennfeldt re-
turned to their home at Ellsworth
Tuesday morning after a pleasant visit
with relatives in this city. Mrs.
Roennfeldt has been quite sicl, and
came out to Hays a couple weeks ago
to recuperate.
The hot-house of Mrs. John Adkins
is resplendant with chrysanthemums
of many varieties now coming into
full bloom. Mrs. Adkins is one of
the best flower growers in this vicin-
ity and she always contrives to have
handsome flowers after all others
have been killed by the frost.
Mrs. H. j. Penney and Miss Mary
A. Ryan will leave Monday evening for
Chicago to attend the wedding Mary's
cousin, Miss Alice Magrane, who will
be married Wednesday, Nov. 9th
Miss Magrane spent about year in
Hays for her health several years ago.
w. A. True of Natoma was in town
Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. True has
recently secured patent on band
cutter and self-feeder attachment for
threshing machines. The invention is
of great commercial value as time
and labor-saving device, and Mr.. True
expects to sell his patent rights to