The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-04
PIainvilIe items.

interest to Free Press readers.
MIR. and Mrs. Hans Nygaard and little
daughter, Naoma spent Thanksgiving
In Hays with Mrs. Nygaaros brother
Chester Fritts, vino is attending school
IN Hays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde BIce were up
from Waldo and went over TO hays
Monday with the latters parents Mr..
and Mrs. J. V. Burroughs, TO attend
the Governors Day exercises.
Mrs. Morgan, Miss Prue Morgan's
mother from Hays spent Thanksgiving
with her daughter in Plainvile.
Roy Wise, U. S. CIR en-, Jake Taylor,
Rex Allison C. g. Patterson, Curt
Burlin and Ira Wilson went over to
Hays Monday afternoon to see the Luz
ray-Hays High Scoool football game.
While coming home from the per-
formance of Faust at Hays Monday J.
V. Burroughs found a man lying be-
side the road at the edge of town I'M
conscious. They drove back to the
garage to get help to take him to town
but when they returned nothing could
be found of him. John Lamb still has
the fellows searchlight.
The Rocks County Farmers institute
meets in the Woodman Hall at Stock
ton, December 10th. An excellent
program has been prepared. 1t arrived
too late for publication this week. G..
X Helde. OF Hays will talk on ''Work
of Kansas Fort Hays Farm" illustrat-
ed by stereopticion views
The PlainvlIle twp. authorities have
had three miles OF road graded on the
Piainville-Hays road from the county
line north Frank Cronin was running
the grader and Albert Gardner's trac-
tor was used to pull it. The road got
to freezing so of evenings they had to
quit Tuesday night Slip work is now
being doIe 4C the bridge south of town.
Quite a number from Plainville and
vicinity attended Governors day exer-
cises at Hays Normal Monday Among
them were c. q. Cochran, Mr.. and Mrs
J. V. Burroughs, Mr. and hrs. r. r.
Yeagy, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Hill, John
Lamb, Miss Ada Fellows, Warner
Parkhurst, Charles Yeagy. In the
evening a number went over to hear
the performance of Faust" Among
them were Mrs. Anna FOltz, Miss Edith
Myers, Marion Brown, Dwight Brown,
Miss Vermillon, Lloyd and Lyle Bart
lett
If you want a frst-class, servicable
automobile, purchase the Oakland Six.
1t is the best car on the market.-Adv
Mrs. Hofschnider who lives near
Gorham, was a pleasant caller at the
Free Press Office Thursday afternoon.
/ She made the printer man happy by
renewing her subscription to the paper.
Hays is coming to the front. We
are cityfied, satisfied and digniied. We
caa now boast of a trash boxes, and q
street cleaner, in the person of Fritz
Koener, who is very jealous in his
work and keeps all papers and
other trash, al far a. possible, cleaned
of the streets.
At the New Opera House Thursday
nigh the Daugherty Stock Co. played
to large and exceedingly well salts.
fed audience. Friday night they were
again greeted with a full house whC
came with the expectation of being
pleased and they were not disap
pointed. Saturday afternoon they viii
give a matinee and In the evening an
other excellent play.
The box social at the SIlverdale school
house was a tremendous success, the
crOwning events of the evenings pro
gram which was furnished by the schoo
was the opening speech by four small
boys, duet and bass solo by the teacher
Charley Brewer, and the comic enter
tainments carried on by the auctioneel
Bert Miller; while selling the boxes
Outside of seven boxes of the little
ones OF the first and second grade
which were sold separate to the littl,
boys of the same grades, the boxe