Free press., 1907-07-20

Many of the harvest hands are now
going home on the freight trains.
It is feared that the heavy rains
have damaged lots of the wheat
stacks.
Miss Belle Sutton came home Tues
day morning from two weeks visit in
Salina.
Lightning Saturday night killed both
of Dennis Levick's horses at his home
on west side of town.
A Grossenbacher of Ft Dodge,
Iowa is here on a visit to his farm in
northern Rush county.
C. w. Miller Jr took some splendid
views during the flood and much ad-
mired at Woods gallery.
WANTED. At this office, limited
quantity of good, clean old rags.
Three cents per pound.
Lightning knocked off one of the
chimneys on building at the Expert
ment Station Saturday night.
Out at Ed Blenders it was no flood,
no hail, but fine baby boy that came
to rejoice their home this week.
The lost coat we advertised was
found by farmer John Byers of
Buckeye and returned to the owner.
The Brunswick hotel is being nicely
fixed up and Sam Bussard doing some
of his incest papering to help beautify.
Music Lessons.
Miss Mildred Pestana will take
Pupils in PIANO FORTE playing. Phone
181.
Lou Bell don't enjoy floods and as
his cottage was in the midst of it, he
has moved to his old home on East
Juniata street.
The Tennis players have already
commenced to fix up their Court near
the Philip residence and games will
now be played evenings.
The Street Commissioner should get
his men after the weeds in our streets
When he has cut those, the property
owners will feel like cutting theirs.
AS the bridges are out, the Yoce-
mento visitors have had to go around
by the old Ellis road by Bellman's and
Earley's. Quite inconvenient.
This has been a great week in
pumping out the cellars around town.
People should let them air and dry out
we'll to prevent fever and sickness
A very heavy rain, accompanied by
fierce wild came this way last Friday
evening nearly two inches of water
falling. Another heavy one came during
Saturday night.
Contractor Clark has the roof on the
new barn at the Experiment station
about completed. 1t will be very fine
when done, the lower part being of
rock making it cool.
While this section had nice shower
Wednesday, parts of the country had
none, while Freedom township had a
heavy hail storm cutting the corn and
feed crop considerable
| During the high water and mud on
South Chestnut street, the men
Employed on Clark Experiment Station
Barn, had to ride to and from their
work in Felton's hack
Mrs. John Adkins is enjoying life
out in Colorado, she was not worried
by the flood that fioated around their
house and yard. Mrs VIM. Hall is
also out there enjoying the mountain
scenery.
And to think that those people who
live on Boot and Gospel Hill never
even got their feet wet in the recent
high water, while many of the south
side had trouble to keep their pocket
books dry.
j. H. Spratt, our druggist. while il
Topeka this week, happened to droI
into the Continental Creamery and wa.
shown through and reports it the mos
wonderful sight he ever saw. The
largest creamery in the world anC
everything as clean as a pin anc
systematic as clock work.
Court will be held in every county O.
the 23rd district in the next two weeks
beginning as follows: In Trego county
Monday July %, in Cove county, July
%; in Logan county July 25; in Wallace
county July 27; in Russell county
July so and in Ellis county July 81
The session at Hays may last severa
) days.