The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-07-30

Mrs. Emil Schmidt has gone to Con-
cordia on visit to relatives.
Next week, August 4th, is again
pension voucher day for the old SOL
diers-
Will Wagner came home Wednesday
morning from two months visit in
| Colorado.
Harvey Penney and c. NJ. Wann
have gone to Colorado on a short sum-
mer vacation.
Isaac Zeigler sold fifteen acres of his
land on the east side of town this week
at 5000 an acre.
Mr.. Chas. Keller of Montgomery Co
| is here visiting his sister, Miss Anna
Keller, and mother.
J. H. Spratt is arranging to make a
trip to Oklahoma next week to visit
his children living there
Mr.. Chambers arrived last Saturday
night for a visit with his daughter,
! Mrs. John Carter and two grandsons
left Monday night for Springfield, Mo-
to see her daughter who is very i'll
The terrible hot. dry weather has re-
quired the use of lots of water on the
blue grass lawns the past ten days
Word comes that the father-in-law
of Mrs. Retta Ingram died suddenly in
his orchard out in California last week.
Mrs. C. C. Brosius would like some
permanent roomers in pleasant rooms
at her home in the northeast part of
town.
Miss Ethel Pratt returned Monday
evening from Topeka, where she has
been doing dressmaking for several
months.
This terrible hot weather is cooking
the corn and feed crops not only here
but all over the state and down in
Missouri.
The summer term of the Hays State
Normal closed this week and there will
actually be vacation out there for
about month.
AS expected in each harvest, quite a
number are going around with hand
tied up having been injured by the har-
vest machinery.
On account of the hot weather the
summer term of the State Normal was
cut short a week and the students
have gone home.
So as to keep down the dust the mill
on Tuesday oiled their street leading
from their mill scales to the elevator,
and it was a good job.
The threshing all over the county has
given employment to lots of the men
who came here for work, as there are
many machines now running.
Mother Candas Carter has returned
from her trip to Indiana and is glad to
get back to old Kansas as she was sick
most of the time while away.
Mrs. C. W. Goodwin and daughter
left Tuesday evening for their home
after a pleasant visit here with her
brother, Frank Fields and family.
George Cox has raised the show cur
in his air-dome, and now every seat is
a choice seat, and the pictures show up
well and clear and are entertaining.
Mrs. Thos. Garland and Mrs. Hoff-
man delightfully."- entertained some of
their lady friends Tuesday evening at
lawn party at the home of the for
mer.
With the price of wheat way up,
everybody who can is now threshing
and getting some of their grain to mar
ket, keeping the elevators busy hand
ling the wagons.
Rev. Goodman. the Baptist minister,
preached his farewell sermon last Sun
day and will now look for another 10
cation. The family will remain here in
their home until he finds another place.
This week this Office and the News
have been busy getting out the thous-
ands of Primary ballots so our local
columns are not very newsy. In fact
there is little going on this hot weather.
The Methodist ministers of Ellis and
Lacrosse exchanged pulpits last Sun
day and on Monday both met here as
guests of Rev Smith. They inspected
the new church and were much pleased
with it.
The Presbyterians needed place to
put their coal in the basement of their
church, SO the men folks met there
Tuesday and dug out a suitable place,
and the ladies set out nice supper for
the workers.
A fire from a hot box set fire and
destroyed on Wednesday morning the
Andrew Eickbush grain separator,
while they were threshing out at Ed
Blenders, causing him loss of sew
eraI hundred dollars. He bought the
Jim Burke machine that afternoon and