Free press., 1907-09-28
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
LOCAL NEWS.

C. M. Holmquist was in Ellis We'd
nesday on business.
A. D. Colliver made business trip
to Salina Wednesday.
H. w. Oshant expects to return from
Topeka today in his new auto.
School children should buy their books
at c. A. Hardness Drug Store.
Mrs. Vose of Ellis was visiting with
Mrs. Frank Fields on Wednesday.
The Miss Markeys will make special
prices on hats Circus Day." 45-2t
Our idea of real fancy work IS the
scroll design on top of a cherry pie
Lindsborg Record.
James Behan, Jr. went to Ellsworth
Sunday where he has accepted good
position with the Ellsworth Milling Co.
l. M Yost bought the Jno. Brown
pump shop on South Main ST., and has
moved it over on the old site and will
fit it up for an Office.
A number of eastern sportsmen have
been here this week hunting prairie
chicken The birds are being rapidly
thinned out in this neighborhood.
Books of which our supply was ex-
hausted last week were received this
week. Call and get them. Aft
C. A. HARNESS.
Two subjects of widely different
nature are giving Kansas trouble right
now, the 1.-TWO Cents Per" and the
1.-TWO Per Cent. - Sedgwick Panta-
graph.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Reidel drove over
from Bison Monday night and are
visiting this week with Wits parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Reidel. He is
now clerking for large drug store at
Hutchinson, Kansas.
Isaac Zeigler received his alfalfa ba-
ler this week and he is now baling up
most all of his alfalfa for shipment to
Kansas City market. He gets $13 a
ton for it delivered in K c., whereas
the loose hay only brings 81 a ton.
The street sprinkler was taken out
by Chas. Kirkman on Monday in re-
sponse to the request in last weeks
FREE Press In consequence our
streets have been free from dust this
week and everyone has appreciated
the fact.
Mrs w. B. Brown was taken to
Kansas City Thursday night to Beth
any Hospital, where she will receive
treatment and may be operated on
for gall stones with indications of
appendicitis. She was accompanied
by her husband, Rev. Brown.
VIM. Ryan suffered . severe attack
of paralysis Wednesday afternoon and
he is in a very critical condition. His
speech and one of his arms are entirely
paralyzed. He has been subject to
these attacks before but this is the
most serious one he has ever had.
Miss Nellie Reeder left Sunday morn
ing to enter Wellesley, one of the most
noted girls colleges in the United States.
1t is located only short distance south
west of Boston. Miss Nellie graduated
last Spring from Bradford Academy,
preparatory school in Massachusetts.
On another page we give an excel
lent picture of H. H. Hartman, presi-
dent of the Union Pacific Railroads.
Mr.. Hartman has just announced that
his company will soon start work on a
double track road on this line. The
double tracking will cost approximately
$40, 600, 600.
|. M. Yost and S. p Kramer have
purchased the big mills at Abilene and
will soon be making flour again. Every
body said when Yost's Mill burned the
last time that he would never go into
the fiour-making business again but it
seems that he has a great deal more
backbone than the average individual
Hitching posts were put in this week
along the south side of the block north
of this office and the farmers will be
to tie their teams there when
they come to town instead of tying
on the business streets where their
wagons will obstruct traffic An ordi-
nance is also in effect making fine of
$500 for any person who leaves horse
or team united.
The cry for more houses to rent in
Hays is becoming more and more noti-
cable every day. Many new persons
with families are moving to Hays from
different parts of the county, most of
them to secure the benefit of our sup
erior school advantages, aud the house !
question has become a serious one. 1t /
would profit some citizen to build a |
number of houses in HaYs lust for |