The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-04

The County Commissioners VIII meet
IL regular session next Monday.
Mr. and Ms. Dune Montgomery are
the happy parents OF bouncing baby
bo7.
Alexander Qaint of Victoria, was a
pleasant caller at the Free Press Office.
Thursday.
The buffalo for the Fort Hays State
Normal museum arrived from Lea Ven-
wOrth Tuesday.
Albert Copeland won first prize in
Cspper's Weekly Subscription Contest,
the prize being e motorcycle.
Henry Drake of Pleasant Hill town
ship was pleasant caller at the Free
Press Office Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. A. ". Tucker OF Abilene came
Ia on lob Thursd4y evening for visit
with her siltes, M5s. Fred Miller.
P. J. Daena was in from his Saline
ranch the first Of the week. Says he
has 125 acres of wheat in the stick.
The hal, stones Mo7d y night did
co1siderab'e damage 10 several of the
wheat fields in the vi.iniiy Of Hays.
Eigbs moto-cy-lists passed through
aere Thursday, enrou: :e 70 Dodge City,
to be present at the cycIis5 meeting on
July IN.
Wm. Bealer, owner of the West side
garage, was here from Kansas City,
this week He comtemplatss moving
back to Hays to live
Fred Cochran cana up from Kansas
CITY Saturday e7ensrg and went over
to PlsinvllIe TO visit his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. C. G, Cochran.
A letter from Street Cox of Ochel-
tree Texas, says he is doing a big bus
mess with the Midget flour mill and
that he is also installing an electric
light plant at OcbeItree.
At meeting of the Grand Lodge of
the A F. & A. NJ of Dskota, George
Philip, formerly of this city ard close
relative of the Philip FIRMLY here. was
made Grand Master Of Masons.
Rev. A. S. Hale spent Tuesday and
Wednesday at Abilene attending a call
ed meeting By Bishop W. o. Sheperd.
All the District Superintendents and
leading pastors OF the state were there.
Many of the vital questions of onr state
and nation we're considered.
b. H. Winters and famiIF, accom-
panied by Miss Bertha Virmond, motor
ed over to Fairport, the first Of the
week, on a fishing excursion. Henry
didn't report the number and weight
Of the fish caught, nor the number of
chiggers the party acquired during
their outing
The first Of the week one of the Ellie
county farmers, in paying off his har
vest hands, paid ore of them $1,000 too
much. The mistake was not discover
ed until the'next morning after the man
had gone. The farmer rushed to town
to try and recover his money, but Mr..
Harvesthand had flown ard the farmer
is still $1,000 short in his bank balance
A wise man once said: ''There is
nothing neV under the sum- Evident
IL Hays City was not discovered at
that time. Something new is happen
ing here almost every day. The latest
is q new tailor shop just opened in the
Pete Smith building on Est Juniata
street by Tillotson & AEYeson. They
are asking share of your patronage.
See them if you want anything il
their line.
We go to press two days earlier this
week-on Thursday-on account OF
SATURDAY being our national holiday.
The Free Press will ce' citrate, although
snere Is not a celebration within 80
miles of this city. Itwougd seem that
Hays might get up eFerRy enough TO
celebrate The writer has been resi-
dent Of this city for uearly six years
and each year has had to go to Ellis or
some other nearby town to hear the
eagle scream.