The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
Ter visited friends in Abilene,

john +. Wertz went to Kansas City,
Tuesday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. John ROhr,
Saturday of last week, = son.
Miss Grace Dyer, spent Sunday with
friends at Gorham.
Mrs. H. H. Winters is visiting her
brother at Zurich, this week.
Azel Cochran and family went to
Denver. Colo, Saturday night.
J. H. Hogg, the North Main Street
restaurant man, is reported seriously
ILL.,
On January, 18, passenger fares on
interstate business increased to 212 and
8 cents.
Rev. C. F. West dedicated $50, 900
Lutheran church at Kansas City, last
Sunday.
VIII Truan, former Hays resident
now living at WaKeeney, is reported
quite i'll.
Miss Fern Pitus of Manhattan, Kan
sas, visited with her uncle, Judd Bell
this week.
The Farmers Elevator Company
held their annual stockholders meeting
Wednesday.
Mrs. Shively and Mrs. West enter
tained at the Shively residence, Mon
day of this week.
Mart Stehley of Ellis, is enjoying
visit from his mother. Mrs. Stehley's
home is in Oregon.
H. P. Geibler left Saturday morning,
for Salina where he has a position as
U. P. baggage man.
Doctors Haas and Neiswanger went
to Atwood, Kansas, Saturday night 1on
professional business.
The Wolfe Stock Company gave
another of their excellent plays at the
New Opera House, Wednesday night.
C. E. Williams of the Hays City mill,
now drives a new Chalmers six cylinder
automobile purchased of the Oshant
agency.
The Miss Allen who taught music at
the Normal last year, is soon to be
married to a young man of Ypsilanti,
Michigan.
President Lewis met with the two
other Normal School presidents from
Pittsburg and Emporia, at Pittsburg,
the first of the week.
There are several reasons besides
low rate why it pays to get a
farm loan at the Citizens State
Bank. Hays City. Kansas
Leo Weber of Wilson, district agent
for the Maxwell automobile, was in
Hays, Thursday. as the guest of loca
agents here, Miller & Reidel.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Beach, former
residents of Hays, who have been living
at Long Beach, California, are spend
ing the winter at Phoenix, Arizona.
R. B. Thomas, the ice man, has been
putting up ice this week. He filed
Isaac Zeigler's ice house with ten to
twelve inch ice, besides number of
other ice houses in the city. The far
mers in the vicinity of Munjor and
Catherine have also been putting up
ice.
! We must have q few extra farm
loans this month. Any amount
from $1,000, tor $4,000. Low
rate. j. M. Schaefer
Two mail boxes, one at the west end
of the depot for the mail going west,
and one at the east end for the east
ern mail will soon be installed. The
mail clerks on the trains will col
lect the mail every day. It will
be a great convenience to the public in
this hustling twentieth century times.
| A young man, a stranger, was in
Hays Thursday of this week. He wore
a tail hat, a stovepipe, on which was
painted in large white letters Chimney
Sweep" Hays is surely on the map
now. Chimney sweeps are generally
"habitats' of large cities, where the
tall chinneys of smelters and other
great industries of like nature abound.
Hays has more use for q "street
sweep than chimney sweep.
It is reported by one of the state pa
pers that porcupine was killed near
Colby, last week, and recently in the
vicinity of Ellis a mountain lion is re-
ported to have been seen. The brand
of ''fire water" sent out from Kansas
City, for the consumption of the un-
wary viii make man, see not only
snake, alegators, African lions as well
as porcupine. Colby people better
change their brand of booze.
Last week in spe aking of the opera
ton performed on VIII Palmer's leg
by DR.. Neselroades of Kansas City, the
Free Press stated the time consumed in
performing the operation as lasting from
four in the afternoon until ten o'clock
in the evening. 1t is claimed by the as
sisting doctors that the actual time was
less than an hour and that our statement
was erroneous. It is an old saying that
doctors bury their mistakes, but a
newspaper man s mistakes are evidence
of 9larinp and gross ignorance