The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-03-26


Many have.
Chas. D. Wilson of Grinnell visited
with the G. M. Cox family last Sunday.
Miss Lillian Pieken came home Satur-
day from Colorado for a few days visit
with her parents.
Carl Leiker is. setting out trees and
putting city water in his residence pro-
perty on East Normal avenue.
Miss Winnie Cox spent few days this
week with relatives here. She is at
tending the K. S. A. C. at Manhattan.
Apricot trees, are already in beautiful
white bloom and will be in good shape
for the frost to nip the buds as usual.
This week Herbert Cuff of the Saline
country got his homestead papers from
the U. S. Land office on section 6-12-16.
The young mems case at Wakeeney,
that created such sensation last fall,
has been transferred to Russell county
for trial
The Methodist people are taking the
dirt from their church cellar and are
grading up the streets in that neigh
borhood.
Mrs. Sherman Ward from near Plain
vile came over last Saturday to visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Judd Bell and other
relatives.
Schlyer & Arnhold this week had a
new foundation put under their oil and
repair building at their implement
warehouse.
The foundation walls of the Metho-
dist church are now up and the exca-
walton for the basement is now being
pushed to finish.
Theodore Runyon had the misfortune
to get his leg broken last week at his
Trego county farm. He was brought
here for treatment.
Don't forget that next Friday is
April first and don't get fooled by the
bohoys. Don't pick up any pocket
book or kick any hat.
Sylvester Clemments has rented his
Saline valley farm to George Ray and
will move to Hays where he will follow
his trade as gardener.
Miss Minnie Rowlison left Tuesday
night for Grand Island, Nebr., for a
months visit with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Arthur Rowlison.
I. M. Yost was here again this week
on business. He reports the Cement
Plant doing nicely and plenty of work
and orders at fair prices.
Al Gordon, a blacksmith from Iowa,
has moved here with his family and
will follow his trade if it is possible to
rent one of the shops here.
Joe Ryan is arranging to go back for
another term at the State Normal and
Miss Mary Ryan, his sister, will take
his place in the Post-office.
Victor Holm and Misses Beulah Bell
and Alice Freese enjoyed the grand
Messiah concert at Lindsborg last Sun
day. An immense crowd were present.
The ladies of the Saturday Afternoon
Club met last Saturday evening with
Miss Retta Freese and had very en-
joyable time. Light refreshments were
served.
Franz Schneider of the Catharine
neighborhood was in this week and re-
ports the wheat fields in generally as
good condition as usual at this time of
the year.
One of the engines of the railroad
this week scattered sparks way outside
of the 200 feet right-of-way and set
out several prairie fires between Ellis
and Hays.
Roy Dazey, one of our former Nor
NAL students, visited friends here this
week. He had been down to the teach
ers' association and is now going out to
Colorado.
John Maberly is helping lots of peo-
pie fix up their lots in the cemetery
and hauls them some good black dirt
for the enrichment of the ground.
John is handy man around the place.
Simon Denning, formerly of Victoria
and now of Ellsworth county, near
Kanopolis, went through on Tuesday on
the local freight with car load of cat
tie he had bought out in Logan county
to put on his farm.
J. S. McConchie came back from
New Mexico last week and will have q
Public Sale at his place near Emmeram
April 9Th and then move permanently
to New Mexico as the climate there
seems to agree with his wife's health.