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

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Mrs J. U. Catudal and children visit
ed her relatives in the west part of the
county last week. : Plainville Gazette
Prof. F. E. Lindley took in the sights
of Niagara Falls last week, enroute tc
the jamestown Exposition. Cove Co.
Gazette.
If you have already reached the
top of your ladder it's a cineh that you
are not very far from the ground.
-Sedgwick Paragraph.
From an agricultural standpoint the
chigger has the flea bested. Of course
the flea can get over more ground but
he merely scratches the surface. The
chigger uses a subsoiler. Mack
Gretchen.
The Yocemento Star has increased
its subscription price to fifty cents a
year. The next move will be to in
crease it to one dollar Even the
capitalists back of it soon become tired
Ellis Review.
w. V. Sage of Victoria arrived here
last week TO act as operator at the u.
P. station. The position belongs to him
by right of service. In railroad circles
whenever position as operator or a.
gent is vacant the man on the division
who hoe coryyod tho o0p,popx, 1o,,o-oe+
in some line has the right of filing the
position if he wishes. -Plainville Times
And now the scholars are jumping
onto Rameses, calling him a fraud and
saying he didn't build any of the pyra-
mids and things he claimed to have
built. They say that they were built
before Rameses was born and that all
he did was to have his name chiseled
on them. In fact, it's a rocky story
they are telling on Rameses.
Homer Hoch.
A. L. King of Turkville has decided
to buy property in Plainville and move
to town. His daughter Miss Louella
will teach in the schools here this win
ter. sfr. King is getting most too old
to farm and has left his farm in good
hands. Few men in this section have
a wider acqua intance and are more
universally respected than Father
King. He expects to move to town
some time the latter part of the Month.
-Plainville Times,
Hays has always something moving
in the political line One of its justices
of peace died a few days agp and there
was d great rush among the ''has beens''
to secure the appointment The race
finally simmered down to Frank McLain
and Jack Downing. McLain had the sup
port of the men who imagine they run
things but Jack had the right pull and
got the appointment. The result is felt in
Hays to be far reaching in it's political
effect, ana will probably influence the
Republican nomination for president
next year. Ellis Review Headlight.
The mail order houses have quit En-
poria and left the trade to local mer-
chants, says the Osborne Farmer.
The decrease in the number of mailor-
der shipments was first noticed by the
railroad men, who were at loss to
explain the cause of it. The local mer-
chant said it was his opinion that the
town merchants had won the fight by
quoting prices. The merchants let the
farmers were the best customers
the catalogue houses had know by
advertising prices that they could get
as good or better goods at home for
the same or less prices, without the
trouble and task of sending away from
home and the extra expense of freight
The merchants showed the farmers
that it would be to their mutual bene-
fit if they would trade at home, and
that was all that was necessary, for
the Kansas farmer is pretty wise in
dividual. -Lindsborg News.