The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-19
THIS MAN LIKES FRESH AIR
L. II. Gorreli of Allen County, 90 Years
of Age, Will Spend Winter
In Woods.

While many of his younger associ-
ates are spending zero weather in
doors around a roaring red stove, L. H.
Gorren, go years old, will live in a
/ tent on the bank of Grand River in
Northern Iowa and spend the winter
hunting and trapping. He returned
from his camp on the river recently,
bringing with him furs valued at 125,
accumulated within the past three
weeks. He will return to Iowa at once.
Mr.. GOrrell is as active and as healthy
as a man half his age
Il keep young living outdoors and
exercising" he said. Plenty of pure
air, freedom from worry and temper
ate habits maintain a physical poise
| impossible under other conditions. l
take my ak into the woods and chop
my own frewood, prepare my own
breakfast and enjoy it. My traps fire.
quently lead me over twenty-five miles
of rough country, but that does not
exhaust me.
Mr.. GorreH has lived in Allen
| County nearly fifty years. He came to
lola in prairie schooner and pitched
| his tent on the spot where the court
house now stands in the center of the
public square.
K x K
| Motor Injuries Farmer. Donald
Shore, a wealthy farmer living near
| Dalton, was struck by a motor car
while walking home from Wellington
and severely injured. He carried a
sachel filed with several thousand dol
| lars worth of securities when the ma
chine hit him and his papers were
scattered. They all were found and
returned to him.
Dies From Burns. Mrs. Mary
Mulch, wife Of a farmer living near
Pittsburg, is dead of burns received
in an explosion at the Mulch home.
Kansas Girl Left Lens Afoot.-Miss
Clara Willemetz of Pittsburg walked
eighty-five miles through the war
stricken territory from Lens to point
near Calais, France, to board a ship
| bound for America a few weeks ago.
Miss Willemetz, a milliner, who had
gone to Europe last summer, has just
arrived home.
|
Police Judge Dies.-Henry q. Pratt,
police judge of Junction City for many
years, died recently after. an illness of
six months. He was 70 years old and
| lived there since 1879.
| x x X
Married Fifty Years-Mr. and Mrs.
R. NJ. Redpath, four miles southeast of
Olathe, celebrated recently their gold
en- wedding anniversary. They were
married December 1, 1854, in Illinois,
and came to Johnson County on their
wedding trip.
Gets 10-Year Sentence.-Cren Simp-
son, once a prominent real estate man
of Fort Scott, found guilty of forging
notes to the amount of $500 in the
district court, was sentenced by Judge
Hulett to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
Woman Struck by Train. = Mrs.
Frank Norton, wife of farmer living
four miles west of Council Grove, was
struck by Missouri Pacific train and
injured severely. Mrs. Norton was re-
turning from a neighbours in a rig
1 Wien ISo1A OSOdH1S 1T1SHISn6Q at
the engines headlight and ran in front
of the train.
x x x
lola People LiberaI-A check for
81, 457, Allen County's contribution to
the Belgian relief fund, has been for
warded to relief headquarters at To
peka-
x x x
q Deaf Woman Killed by Train.-Mrs.
Charles Kreiger, widow, was killed
at Wamego by Union Pacific passen-
ger train. Mrs. Kreiger, who was
deaf, was crossing the track near the
station. A workman shouted a warn
ing, which she evidently did not hear.
: Gives Beieians 5000 check for
$500 has been sent by the Woodson
County Belgian relief committee to the
state relief committee. This amount
was raised in the county as a result
of weeks effort. Yates Center con
tributed 1910 and Toronto Sis.