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

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Kansas is ahead in many things and
now It is in producing the most daring
criminal.
This is written Sunday afternoon and
the Spectator has only the Saturday
papers to go on, but he wishes to pre-
dict the early capture of La Trasse-
There's a woman in the case.
The State Educational Council met
in Topeka last week and posed for
picture on the steps of the state house.
C. A. Shively, John S. Bird and Louie
Christensen were all in the front row.
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The Spectator found this statement
in the Lutheran Survey and read 1t to
the wife of one of the Normal profess
sors,-"About a week after a self made
man gets married his wife begins max
ing alterations, After hearing it read
she asked to see the illustration.
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Mr.. Mulroy and Mr. Malioy are at 1t
again. Mulroy was telling Malloy about
the increased prosperity of the country
and pointed to the fact that business
houses were sending out representatives
as never before. Last night, Mul-
ROY said, ''there registered three ladies,
five men, and four musicians. NAL
loy's answer has been deleted by censor.
The Spectator has new theory as to
why the Germans are doing so well IN
the war. When asked what is a male
ouartette the Germans will reply, three
men and tenor.
Please forget what the Spectator
said last week about tenors.
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If all our optimistic expectations
were realized there would be no need
for optimism.
William Allen White says that it IS
the colonel, Hughes, or bust and a
South Caroline paper says that the
third candidate has the lead.
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Little frankie Lee McLain told her
grandpa that the city librarian did not
get the punch used in the library from
Mr.. Dreiling but from Mr.. Shakespeare.
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The Spectator wishes to take this OPP
portunity to thank Mr.. Codding for the
booklet from the Kansas State peniten
tlary containing the rules and regula-
lions for prisoners He will mail it to
Villa.
eyes and Ears who conglomerates
for Buckeye says she lost her religion
and punctured tire between Hays and
Buckeye. From what the Spectator
hears she has also lost something else
which Dan Cupid found and the finder
did not leave it at the Free Press Office
either.
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The Editor of the Free Press besides
his other worries has on his hands the
artistic temperament of Eyes and Ears,
Some Things and Other Things, and
the Spectator.
The new elevator, Chicago, ard
'.Tootsey" are not as unromantic as
Hays might imagine.
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The kind of man who eats the crust
of his pie first generally has his thumb
in the pie of other people.
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Addresses and names cannot be given
in this column, but the membership list
of the ''Gullible Gossips" will be sent
if the inquirer sends a stamped and
addressed envelope.
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If money is the root of all evil most
Of us should be saints.
The White Way has its draw backs.
The girls of the Normal benefit the
most from it perhaps, yet some of them
who room along Normal Avenue and
Juniata Street predict that porches
cannot be used as much as formerly
even when the weather permits.
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What greater pleasure is there than
cutting the pages of a promising book.
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Most tactful persons are born hypo-
critics and can think of a good reason
against anything; Most untactful per-
sons are open-hearted and can think of
a good reason for something.
The Spectator has often wondered
why the Bird children speak with a
German brogue.
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Your first duty is strict obedience
to ali rules and regulations and to any
orders of the officer under whose charge
you may be placed. ''-Penitentiary
Rules.
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The Public Library Of Hays has no
Kansas history or book containing Kan
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