The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-06-25

farm machinery this week, mostly
headers.
Last Sunday was scorcher for heat
and about everybody staid in doors un-
til evening.
Mrs. Al Nickles and two children re-
turned Monday night from their trip
to California.
An immense amount of liquor has
been brought in by the farmers to use
during harvest.
Mrs. Morgan left Saturday night for
Winona where she will spend a month
or so visiting.
E. S. Beach and Mr. Richmond went
to Wakeeney Tuesday in the Beach
auto on business.
The Feitz boys are building a cook
shack to go with their harvest crew in
harvesting and threshing.
Elwin Penney returned Saturday
evening from his school work at ST.
Mary's to spend his vacation.
The Hays Music Club were handsome
ly entertained at the home of Mrs. Pat
Mccarthy at Russ ell Tuesday
Mondav another threshing machine
was unloaded here and there are five
]. I. c. machines yet to come.
Mrs. II. B. Kohl went to Russell
Tuosdau rnorpiro o0J aDoo& Tho 5o1
with her daughter, Mrs. Mccarthy.
Several cars of troops passed through
town last Friday and Saturday nights
bound for quarters at San Francisco.
In another week men will be scarce
around town and only farmers wives
or children will come in for supplies.
Schoenthalers are now running a
neat milk delivery wagon that they re-
ceived from the east for that business.
The town has been full of farmers
this week from ali parts of the county
hunting and taking out harvest hands.
Mrs, Freda (Schwaller) Trinkle and
children of LaCygne, Kansas, are here
on visit to her relatives and friends
Two trains of railroad workers have
gone through westward this week,
where the company is doing extra
work.
Will Palmer returned from Mani at
tan last Saturday evening where he
has been attending the Agricultural
College.
This week O'Brien, the engineering
plumber. is out at Yocemento doing
some plumbing work for the Cement
Company.
Some splendid alfalfa is being cut
and hauled to town this week so as to
have it done before harvest begins
next week.
John end Mary Leasure of Russell,
who have been visiting at the Probate
Judge Gross home, lett for their home
Monday morning.
Quite number of farmers are bring
ing in wheat to clean out their granar-
les preparatory to the next crop, which
now seem a certainty.
John Carter has bought the Wagner
property, so by 27O feet, with a new
house on East Broadway and it will
make them nice home.
On onr streets Monday was our old
time farmer Theodore Monke of the
Victoria neighborhood. He surely likes
Kansas far better than old Indiana.
Our old timer, A. M. Brown, of the
Victoria neighborhood. who is now liv-
ing down in Alabama, Is here on visit
and will move back to Ellis county
again this fall
A letter from Joe Ryan tells that he is
getting along nicely IN his naval duties
on board ship at San Francisco and
likes it and last week had his first day
vacation on shore.
Peter Gassman and family returned
to their home at st. Mary's on Tues
day after a pleasant visit to his son
and many friends. He still has great
liking for old Hays.
We regret to note that Miss Agrelius
is to move to Ellis. She has classes
there and in Hays and Russell and the
train service out of Ellis is much bet
ter for her travels.
Over at the Experiment Station they
began to cut and bind their small tracts
of wheat on Monday, which they want
to get out of the way before the big
harvest commences.
Cove county papers announce that
George Wilson, husband of our Queenie
Cox, now of the Grinnell neighborhood.
is candidate for County Treasurer
and sure of an election.
Tuesday Lou johnson brought in one
hog which he sold to the butcher for
SS0.86, a pretty good price for pork
meat. Of course the farmer don't
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