The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-28

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stationery at the Free Press office.
Geo Grass, Jr., visited friends at
Studley, over Sunday and Monday,
returning Tuesday.
The students have gone, and for a
month our town will miss the throngs
of school young people.
Mrs. Robert Owens returned Tues
day, from Studley, where she had
been visiting the Misses Pratt.
Mrs. C. A. Shively is making her
annual visit to her mothers home at
Edwardsville, near Kansas City.
The w. C. T. U. met with Mrs.
Goetchius on Tuesday afternoon and
made comfort bags for the soldiers.
c. A. Perigo is the new bookkeeper
and manager at the John O'LOughlin
garage. Mr.. Perigo is from Topeka.
Miss Leone Smith is back at her
post in the Markwell bookstore after
q protracted siege with appendicitis.
She has entirely recovered.
Some of the scout boys are taking
the full scout tests this week and be-
gan on Tuesday by making the re-
quired fourteen mile hike.
John Troth and Clarence Clark are
doing their bit at Fort Riley in help
ing as carpenters to build barracks
for the new army of the Republic.
John O'Loughlin is in Arkansas,
looking after a tract of land he owns
there. He is not expected home until
between the first and fifteenth of Au-
gust.
Sunday being her mothers birth
day, Miss Prue Morgan planned a
family dinner party after church.
Mrs. Garrett was the only outside
guest.
George Miles returned Tuesday,
from Montana, where he had been
taking up a claim of $50 acres in the
Fort Peck Indiana reservation. He
came home by the way of st. Paul,
Minnesota. He reports crops looking
fine in most Of the country he passed
through.
Engraved and embossed business
stationery at the Free Press Office.
The Free Press actually saw the
city marshal wheeling dirt on the
streets of Hays one day recently. We
print the above because our state
ment was discredited by Will Madden
and one or two others whom we might
mention. The facts are, our marshal
is a hustler-"Hustie" is his middle
name.
F. B. O'Grady, cashier of the Farm
er's State Bank of this city, has re-
signed his position at the bank and
has accepted q position as Vice
Council of the American Government
to South America. He will leave Hays
about August 5th, and will embark
from Pier Brooklyn, New York, on
Aroust 11th. The passage money
will be $500 and he will be twenty
three days en- route.
Miss Cecilia Dorney, one of the
most graceful of the aesthetic dane
ers of Miss Flanders Normal gymna-
sium class, sustained an injury on
Monday, by falling across one of the
school room desks which rendered her
unconscious for twenty minutes and
prevented her taking part in the pa
geant on that evening. Miss Dorney
has not fully recovered, but we are
glad no permanent injury will result.
Engraved wedding invitations and
announcements at the Free Press of
fee.
An unusual compliment from a
rare source has come to P. CaspaT
Harvey, the busy young professor
writer-orator-Sunday school teacher
at Fort Hays State Normal. Don Mar
quis, editor of the ''Sun Dial' column
IN the New York Evening Sun, de
voted his whole department Tuesday
to paragraphs by Mr.. Harvey, which
paragraphs had previously appeared
IN the Hutchinson News and the Sa-
lima Journal under the heading 'sSun-
flower Petals."-Fronn The Kausas
City Star Of M6uday.