The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-16

Walter C. Triggs is here, this week,
from Abilene.
Mr.. Logan has just returned from the
Royal Stock Show at Kansas City
viii Hall shipped his automobile,
Monday, to Los Angeles, California.
Jake Kissing is Register of Deeds
pro tenn during the illness of Jake Kip
pes.
Rev L. E. Huckle, of Ottawa, Kan
sas, will preach Sunday at the Baptist
church.
Register of Deeds Jake Kippes was
operated on, Sunday, at the Hays hos
pital, for appendicitis.
DIR. M. L. Ward, of Ottawa Kansas
University, is spending the week end
at the home of W. A Smith in this
city.
w. A. Smith has been attending a
meeting of the Baptist State Board and
convention at Yates Center, Kansas,
this week.
Mr.. Ralph Emery who has been VISIT
ing Mr.. Logan at the Big Creek Farm,
has returned to his home in Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
Ed Reese, who has been employed at
the depot for some time, has accepted
position as bookkeeper for the Hays
City Tranfer Line.
VIM. Irish, one of the prominent
farmers from near Liebenthal, Rush
county, was attending the Golden Belt
Stock and Agricultural fair here this
week.
Mrs. Toothacre, former resident of
Hays, died at Long Beach, California,
October 9Th. Mrs. Tootbacre has many
friends in Hays who will be sorry to
learn of her death.
There will be box social at the
Deane school house, Pleasant Valley
township, the evening of October 2.
All invited to be present. Katie Sar-
gent, Teacher.
N. P. Gassman spent several days
this week at Wilson, where he has es-
tablished shoe and harness repairing
plant Lloyd Ward. of ST. Joseph, Mo-,
has been placed in charge of the bust
ness.
The corner stone of the new ST. An
thony hospital was laid with mpressing
ceremonies last Sunday. A large gath
ering of the people of Hays were pres
ent. Father Maher, of Concordia,
officiated.
A. P. Stiner and wife, of Canton,
Ohio, are here attending the fair this
week and visiting old friends. Mr..
Stiner viii go to Florida for the wint er
He will remain in Hays probably fo1
the next six weeks or until the rigors
of this northern climate drive him
south.
One day last week Mrs. c. H. Nor.
gan showed the reporter of the Free
Press some strawberry vines in hel
| garden that were full of ripe fruit
They are of the everbearing variety
and produce fruit every month during
the summer and would probably beal
the year round if they were grown in {
green house.
Curator C. w. Miller, last week, re
ceived from Texas twenty skins of birds
which, when properly mounted, will b.
added to the already large collection a
the Fort Hays Normal museum. Their
are several rare birds among the lot
The Pink Flamingo, the Man of Wal
bird that is known to go from a thous
and to fifteen hundred miles out to Sc;
in quest of food, and the Gannet O.
Bryan's bird of peace.
Alexander Philips returned Saturda.
from the Royal Stock Show at Kansa
City where he had been for severa
days. He reports the finest lot o
/ thoroughbred stock ever assembled
They were all royal animals and thos
that were sold brought fancy prices
The white-faces, or Herefords, SCENE
to be the favorite breed. A herd @
! forty-nine Herefords brought over 500
each. One bull sold for $1,000 and
heifer for S2400.
: Our townsman, G. w. Spencer. seem
to be getting his share of the plumhin
and heating business this fall. He Re
/ Gently installed the heating plant at tn
new opera house. He also has the COZ
tract for installing heating plant fC
Mrs. H. B. Kohl, and this week he
/ up at WaKeeney where he has foU
/ heating plants to install. Mr.. Spence
/ only recently moved here from nes
] WaKeeney and the people know tn
/ quality of work he is doing is the rea
| on that he is called there. A goo
i workman is alw ays in demand.
II 1t has often been said that if 70
! want to be skinned go to a re
! estate office. That is where you ca
| get your epidermis removed with nea
ness and dispatch. However, the wri
er is inclined to think there are about
many honest men in the real esta
business as there is in any other wa
of life where money transactions a
made. This week we had q small traI