The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-29

H. L. Pestana attended court at Ellis
worth two days this week.
The boys in the mechanical drawing
class made their own drawing boards.
Mrs. Peter Mermis of Walker, was
taken to st. Anthony's Hospital this
week and is improving nicely.
Harold Gill left Saturday night for
his semi-yearly pilgrimage to Kansas
City and ST. Joseph, Missouri.
A man was brought down from Grin
nell on train 102, Tuesday night, with a
broken leg, and taken to St. Anthony's
hospital.
Mayor Oshant has received word that
the Utilities Commission had refused
to increase the price of tolls asked for
by the Hays Telephone Company.
Ralph Nicholson and party of six
motored down from Ellis, Sunday and
were guests at the Windsor for dinner
and the concert in the evening.
1t is rumored that a man living in
Manhattan will soon locate a large
wholesale grocery here in Hays He is
coming to stay and means business.
Charles and Raymond Kissing, Thurs
day night, received q thoroughbred fox
hound from dog fancier in Illinois.
Wise coons will make themselves scarce
in the future.
Engineer John Orth at the Normal
had the big Case steam engine on Jun
iata and Chestnut Streets this week,
pulling plow made by blacksmith
Wood, for ripping up frozen ground on
the White Way. 1t sure does the work.
The wives of the Essex Club mem
bers have organized Ladies Auxiliary
to the club. We understand the club
rooms are to be repapered and fitted up
more attractive and the ladies given
full management of the club for six
months. Watch the enterprising Essex.
The musical talent in the Ida Weston
Rea Theatrical company entertained
the many guests at the Windsor Hotel,
Sunday, with vocal and instrumental
music. The company carried two of
the best piano players with them that
has struck this town for some time.
Charles Befort, who for the past six
or seven years has been the very eff
cient and accommodating grocery clerk
at A. A. Wiesner & Sons department
store, has purchased the Candy Kitchen
! on North Chestnut Street and viii take
charge February 1st. Charles has been
one of the most popular employees of
the Weisnsr store, and we believe viii
make good in his new undertaking.
Commencing with the first issue in
next month the Free Press win include
/ In rs regular edition story magazine.
It viii be issued seni-monthly,
twice month. 1t will contain from
twelve to twenty pages each issue.
We hope you will like it. Tell your
friends and ask them to come IN and
subscribe. The Free Press is 81 so per
year. The magazine cests yoG nothing.
Why not some gold fish in the window
these gloomy days? We have some
beauties yet.
Hays City Drug Store.
A man by the name Of Littlechilds,
who has a large ranch stocked with
Hereford cattle south of WaKeeney,
sold two cars of cattle on the Kansas
City Market the first of week, that
netted him ss9 head. He finished his
cattle on oil cake. Another man who
was on the market the same day sold
his cattle for s85 per head. He didn't
feed oil cake. It would seem that the
preponderance of evidence is in favor
of the oil cake.
All mortgages are written in our
Office at Hays, Kansas. We pay
Out a soon as papers are signed.
Plente money on hand for this pur-
pose. vNo delay. j. NJ. SchaefeF.
Graft the serial that is now run
ming at tbs Crystal theatre, is chapter
from the underworld, which proves be-
yond question that the 'twages OF sin is
death" Every young man especially.
should see at least two or three episodes
of the manner in which men OF the
aundeFWerld' wiring riches from theil
victims. They despoil the Fich anc
poor, the young and old, alike, ane
they stop at no crime by which they
may gain their nefarious end. The
next episode viii be put on the screer
next Monday, either at the New Opera
House or the Crystal. You should
make it point to attend.
There is considerable agitation II
Hays regarding a north and south rail
road. Unless a road is built from the
Gulf OF Mexico to the Great Lakes it
in our opinion, would not pay the pro
moter,s interest On the money invested
However, we do believe that q trolley
line from Stockton on the Rock Island
via PlainvilIe, Hays, Lacrosse and tt
some point on the Santa Fe, would be
all that is necessary at present: Be
sides the passenger traffic, with th'
proper equipment, light freight coulc
be carried over the line. The roas
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