The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
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Are you boosting for the fair?
Anthony Kuhn was up from Victoria,
Monday.
Commissioner VIM. Grabbe went to
Kansas City, Monday night.
Miller Bros. sold 100 acre sarm
near Yocemento, to Geo. Brockelman,
last Saturday.
Mrs Justus Walters, who has been
at the Hays Hospital for some time, has
returned to her home.
Florence and Elizabeth Mcmahon are
here from Manhattan, visiting their
aunt, Mrs. Isaac Zeigler. !
Chas. Kirkman was here from Topeka
this week, visiting his brothers, Harry
and Millard, and other friends.
Mrs. J. R. Canon, of Kansas City, is
here visiting her daughter, Mrs. K. C.
Haas. Doc says he has to be good now.
Mrs. VIM. Gerkin, of Ellis, was here
this week, visiting her sister, Mrs.
Harry King. and attending the Chau-
| tauqua.
The brick work on the new opera
house was completed this week, and
now comes the finishing touches of the
carpenter,
The two year old son of Anton Steck-
lein, living near Munior, fell into a
pond near the house, last Saturday, and
was drowned.
Leroy Judd, a former citizen and
business man of Hays but now of Cali
fornia, is here visiting old-time friends
and neighbors.
Anton Herl went to Texas, the first
of the week, with view of purchasing
land, providing he found something
that suited him.
We were reliably informed that at
least a car load of empty beer kegs,
barrels and cases are shipped from this
point, each week.
At the close of the Normal Institute,
last Saturday, VIM. Grabbe helped
County Superintendent Christensen
with the examinations.
Tom Carter and family, who have
been visiting relatives and friends here,
the past two weeks, left for their home
in Topeka, Wednesday night.
Judge E. F. Coburn arrived here from
! Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday morning,
. for a short visit with his mother, Mrs.
M. J. R. Treat. He left for his home,
! Monday evening.
Miss Stone has been appointed State
! Inspector of Rural Schools. She went
to Topeka. Saturday, to confer with the
/ State Superintendent IN regard to the
! duties of her office.
/ Ellis people are making arrangements
/ to properly celebrate the Fourth of
July. Of course there will be a lot of
people go from Hays because they have
no other place to go.
Fl A complete threshing machine with
| engine, in good running order. VIII
| sell either part separate if desired. Viii
| consider trade for live stock or auto
mobile. Address, Samuel Haddock,
Hays City, or call at Free Press office
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: Miss Elsie Macintosh, who has beer
attending the school of dramatic art al
II the Carnegie Institute of Technology n
! Pittsburgh, Pa, the past year, viii
soon go to the Wisconsin University
! for summer term in pageantry.
1t is said that compound made of 2C
/ gal. of beer, Is gal. of wine and gal
! of whiskey served to limited number
of rabbits, will make the rabbits spit il
the faces of bulldogs. No wonder i
I IogS !,
concoction, see red and want to reduc
each other to pulp.
The mudhole on South Main Stree
and the bog on Chestnut Street near H
J. Penney's barn have been filed wit
crushed rock. 1t is an improvement
that has been a "crying need fo
several years. Chestnut Street shoul
be paved through the town to the bridg
over Big Creek, and the side streets
the business section of the city shoul
also be paved.
Chas. Knott, aged 70 years, an il
mate of the Soldiers Home in Pennsy
vania, while on his way to Denver, die
on the train at Ellis, last Saturda.
- from heart disease. Coroner Haas he
. an inquest over the body and pr
nounced the cause of death as abo1
stated. He had $500 in cash on h
person, and oil stock to the amount
81, ,12O. He was buried by the membe
of the Grand Army at Ellis.
There are now nearly ten miles
sidewalk in Hays, not including tt
crossings on the principal streets, al
more viii be built by January 1, 191
New houses are springing up all ov
the city, like weeds: Yes, Hays
coming to her own, and the prophe
made by President Lewis at the rece
! annual banquet, 'tthat within the ne
| five years Hays will have pOpulati
! of 5OOO,'' looks like a coming realit
All that is needed is the proper amou
! of push, and it's coming. Hays is wa
ing up.
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