The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-29
Dave LOrenz was in Kansas City,

Tuesday afternoon
The Hays Mill people were paying
s1.O5 for wheat Monday.
Miss Mary Virmond spent most of
this week visiting friends In WaKeeney.
Frank McIvor, the Maxwell automo-
bile agent, was over from Hoxie, We'd
nesday.
Miss Philip, DR.. Jordan's assistant at
the northside Dental Parlors, is Ill at
the hospital.
Treasurer Fred Dreiling was looking
after business. matters in Victoria,
Wednesday.
G. NJ. Cox and wife spent Sunday
with their son VIII and family at Voda,
Trego county.
Attorney Holmquist attended meet
ing of the Kansas Bar Association at
Topeka, this week.
Doris Nickles who is attending the
Fort Hays Normal School, spent Sun
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D..
w. Nickles, in Abilene.
City Marshal John Roth was up from
Victoria, Wednesday. He was accom-
panied by the village physician.
A small fire occurred at the residence
of John Pfannensteil, Wednesday,
caused, it is reported, by defective
fiue.
Bernie Fitzpatrick and wife of Utica,
Kansas, have been here visiting his
mother, Mrs Goetchius, and the Burn
ham family, this week.
Mr. Ed Madden of the First National
Bank, who has been suffering from a
severe attack of the prevailing malady,
lagrippe, is now convalescing.
Mrs. Della Murphy is here from her
home in Guthrie, Oklahoma, on account
of the dangerous illness of her father,
D. H. Early.
Mr.. Coolbaugh of Stockton, local in
spector for the Fidelity Trust Co. of
Kansas City, was doing business in
Hays, Monday of this week.
Sheriff Robinson and wife went to
Parson, Saturday night with Sophia
Walter, of Catherine, where she was
placed IN sanitarium for medical treat
| ment.
G. W. Miller, attended the Kansas
Day meeting at Topeka this week, also
meeting of the Republican State Cen
trail Committee and the State Congress
cioy,ot Cor,y,,;E+oo
Dick Wolf, a.former HAYS -bOy.aho
now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, is
the father of a bouncing baby girl
which arrived in this troublesome old
world last Sunday.
1t is understood that the Presby-
terian people intend building parson-
age the coming spring, just west of
their church, on the corner Of Chestnut
Street and Normal Avenue.
Ex-Mayor Chittenden who has been
confined to his bed for the past two
weeks is again able to be at his desk in
the Robinson & Chittenden real estate
Office over the postoffice,
A pair of bIoodhounds were taken
through Hays Monday morning, from
Bellville, bound for Ness City. in an
wer to phone message from the last
named city that the services Of the
dogs were needed (t is presumed) in
tracking down criminal Of some sort.
Moving picture machines of high
gr"de have been purchased by the
State for use in Ft. Hays Normal and
other state schools. A circuit will be
established by the six schools and views
used to assist in educational effort in
several lines.
Alex PAilip while attending the Stock
Show in Denver last week, purchased a
pedigreed Hereford yearling bull for
which he paid s4OO. He also states
that herd of seventy Hereford cattle
on exhibition there sold for an average
of 1915, one bull IN the herd brought
Sc, 600, and another g. 600.
Friday and Saturday of last week,
County Superintendent Christensen,
Profs. Bird and Shively and Miss Sutton
attended the Educational Council ar
Topeka. Mr.. Christensen and Mr..
Bird, stopped at Manhattan on their re-
turn trip to visit Prof. Kent and wife
over Sunday, returning home Monday
morning.
There was a sheet and pillow-ease
dance at the Essex Hall last night (Fri-
day) which is said to have been a sue
cess in the way of attendance and the
amusement enjoyed by those present.
The writer can't imagine what a sheet
and pillow-case dance could be, but as
Miss Frame Haffamier told US about it,
we know 1t must have been O. K.
It viii afford much pleasure to many
OF our show going people to learn that
Barney Wolf and Fred Stein who were
with Jack Benjamin and Madge HalleT
last season, are coming back into the
fold and viii be with the BENJAMIN
show the balance of the season. Fred
joining here next Monday and Barney
joining q week latez.-Hin City Repub-