The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-31

Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. Wooster left last
night for Colorado They viii spend
/ their summer vacation in the noun
| tains.
L 5 reported that 2 poker game, q
fight and a hold-up, was staged in
Hays, Wednesday night. No. particu-
lars.
The Hays College is beng overhauled.
| Eight sanitary closets, several shower
baths and other sanitary necessities are
being added. A. J. Pischke, the Second
! Street plumber, has been awarded the
plumbing contract.
The Cement Company have recently
shipped a large safe and other Office
| fixtures to Yocemento, and it is sur
missed that the cement plant will soon
| be doing business again
The Misses Lille and Hazel Moore
will start next Thursday for the Pacific
Coast to see the Panama Exposition.
They viii be absent about three weeks
They viii also visit friends and rela-
| tives at different points enroute.
Two men were up before His Honor
C. W. Miller, Saturday afternoon, one
for bootlegging, the other for carrying
concealed weapons The bootlegger
got 500 and thirty days in jail and the
other man s25 and thirty days in jail.
Harry H. Smith, of ST. Joseph, Mo-,
visited his brother, J. C. Smith, of the
Normal, from Tuesday to Friday night.
This was Mr. Smith first visit to Hays
and he was surprised at the bigness of
things in Kansas, and especially of the
Experiment Station.
Lost-A pair of spectacles between
Hays and Geo. Palmer's residence. ".
H. Harris make. Finder will please
leave at Free Press office.
Prof. Van Cleave took shot at some
''guy" that was peeping and prowling
around his residence, Friday night of
last week. The guy, after the bonn
bardment, evidently concluded that the
'absence of body was safer than the
presence of mind and Immediately
hiked.
n. P. Gassman, Mick ofNthe Gass-
man Shoe Hospital, left THURSDAY
morning, for ST. Louis, Mo, where he
viii purchase some new machinery for
his Shoe Hospital. He viii be absent
about week. Johnny Mendero is
looking after the wants of his custom
ers during his absence.
Mrs. Allie Reemsnyder has closed her
boarding house for the summer and she
in company with Joe E. Weigel of the
Hays mill, and her daughters, Fern and
Esther, left Saturday night, for the
Pacific Coast. They will visit the Pan
anna Exposition before returning. Fred
Arnhold and wife will care for the
Reemsnyder home during their absence.
Manager Fredoro7R1 says the new
opera house will be ready for business
about October 1st. It is now all en-
closed and the roof is on and force of
carpenters are busy getting the interior
of the building in proper shape. The
operating booth is being constructed Of
brick tiling. When this building is
completed it will be the ''niftiest'
theatre building in the state.
The crop of sunfowers and weeds on
vacant lots is something wonderful this
year. In some instances the sidewalks
are almost covered. The weeds along
the sidewalk between town and the
Normal cover nearly half the walk. In
fact the walks outside the business
district are all in the same condition.
Some one should get busy. 1t isup to
the marshal to see that the weeds are
cut.
| c. G. Cochran has received charter
for new bank which he is putting II
at Walker a town about the size OF
Zurich east of Hays. It is expected
. that it will be opened and ready for
business by next Monday. 1t will have
capital stock of SIS, 600. Fred Arnold
viii probably be cashier. P. J. Deane,
A. F. Cochran and a number of Walker
citizens are associated with him in the
enterprise. Mr.. Cochran was down II
Kansas City and bought the fixture.
for it last week.-Plainville Times.
Roger Miller came near having ;
d serious accident, Monday. He wa
loading some chop into his wagon from
+ the mill. The chop, in sacks weighing
: 100 pounds or more, was being SEN
4 down chute to the platform and h,
was putting them into his wagon. On
of them struck him and threw hin
against the wagon wheel. He wa
: considerably bruised and it is wonde
that he was not seriously injured as th'
sacks came down the chute with con
l siderable force.