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The Benson signal., 1917-01-13
WESTERN

Three masked highwaymen held up
an express messenger at Tarentum,
near Pittsburg, Pa, and robbed him of
$4,000, the pay roll of a glass COM
pany.
Governor Major as one of the last
acts of his administration pardoned
ninety two young prisoners from the
state penitentiary at Jefferson City,
Mo.
While the city of Vireton, Okla,
mourned at the burial of it's dead chill
dren, additional reports from the tor
nado increased the death toll from fiji
teen to seventeen.
Col. w. F. Cody was taken to Den
yer from Glenwood Springs Sunday in
a critical condition. If his condition
will permit, he will be taken to his
home at Cody, Wye. His wife and
daughter are in Denver with him.
Henry Torborg died at Chicago
leaving fortune of $5O0,00O, most OF
it accumulated during the last forty
years while conductor on a street car
of the Blue Island avenue line He was
73 years old and died while at work.
A mission bell supposed to be more
than 300 years old, a relic of mesa
mission now long gone, has been pre-
sented to the city Of Yuma, Ariz, by
Chester Dewey. The bell apparently
is made of gold, silver, copper and
iron. 1t weighs $50 pounds. 1t was
found hidden in an orange grove.
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Wyoming.

Reports received in Cheyenne from
reliable sources in Wyoming are to
the effect that contracts have been
made for the drilling of 200 oil wells.
Development of the Pilot Butte oil
field by the Hall Oil Company COM
posed of Wyoming and North Dakota
capitalists, which has already sunk
ten shallow wells, all of which are pro
ducing, is to be carried on with re-
uewed vigor next spring.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13
Wheat Hits So and Corn 81 Mark.

Chicago, Jan. S.-For the first time
war prices on wheat here touched
Jan. 8 a long predicted goal, So a
bushel. No. 2. red winter wheat for
immediate delivery was sold at that
price, an advance of about sc since
Saturday. Pressing demand for ship
ment to Europe and for domestic mill
ing needs were generally accepted rea.
sons for the rise. Simultaneous with
the ascent of wheat, other grain went
soaring. The corn market jumped to
above 81 bushel and barley touched
81.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13
TEuToNs CAPTURE FoksHANI.
Take 1000 Prisoners and Some Can
non and Machine Guns.

Take 1000 Prisoners and Some Can
non and Machine Guns.
Berlin, Jan. 9.-Another of Ru-
mania's fortresses has fallen into the
hands of the Teutonic allies. Keeping
up their intensive forward movement
along the railroad line northward into
Moldavia, Field Marshal Won Macken-
sens troops have taken Fokshani and
with it nearly 1000 prisoners and
some cannon and machine guns.
In the region of Riga the Russians
have taken trenches from the Ger
mans near the village of Kalnzem and
in addition captured prisoners, ma
chine guns, trench mortarS and one
heavy battery.
In Volhynia, near Novo Selki, and
in Galicia north of Zborow, the Ger.
mans have attempted advances
against the Russians, but were re
pulsed, according to Petrograd.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13
IN MESSAGE TO MEMBERS OF
TWENTY-FIRsT COLORADO
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
PROTECT SCHOOL LANDS
RETIRING GOVERNOR DEFENDED
OPERATION AND PURPOSES OF
INDUSTRIAL LAW.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver.-The enactment of laws to
safeguard the interests of the school
children of Colorado through the
proper administration of the state
school lands, representing value of
$175, 100000, and to make more eff
fective the present statutes on brib-
cry, libel and corrupt practices, were
urged upon the Twenty-first General
Assembly by Gov Carlson in his out
going message, delivered Jan. 8 be-
fore joint session of both branches
of the Assembly in the House cham
ber.
A vigorous prosecution of the cam
paign for equitable freight rates and
transportation rates for Colorado,
started by the Colorado Fair Freight
Rates Association and now being
pushed by the association in co-opera-
tion with the State Public Utilities
Commission, was urged by Gov. Carl
son at the outset of his message. An
appropriation of $4,000, he said,
should be made for use by the State
Public Utilities Commission in prose-
cutting the suit to successful con-
cluSiOn.
Among his recommendation was
suggestion that the General Assembly
appoint a committee to conduct an ex-
haustive inquiry into state printing
costs.
The defense of Colorado waters, ini-
tiative and referendum, proposed
changes of laws governing the financ-
ing of irrigation districts, the state
tax commission, care of the insane, a
state budget, the work of the state
survey committee, federal aid for good
roads, workmen's compensation law,
state industrial commission, and pro-
hibition enforcement, were among the
subjects discussed in the governors
message.
He strongly defended the operation
of the state industrial law and the
purposes for which it was enacted and
declared himself unalterably opposed
to a repeal of the law or the restrict
| ing of any of the powers now vested
in the state industrial commission.
A pure seed law, such as is to be
asked by the farmers grange organic
ations of the state, and an adequate
appropriation to defray the cost Of
litigation involving the protection of
Colorado water rights were recon-
mended
The Legislature also was urged to
keep all appropriations within the es-
timated state revenue for the period
for which such appropriations are
made.
AS his conclusion Gov. Carlson said
to the members of the Senate and
House: "My parting word is that you
cooperate with your incoming gov
ernor; give him your fullest conf
dence, your loyalty, support and best
efforts, and determine firmly to rem
der here even more beneficient and
far-reaching service to your state
than has been rendered by any pre-
ceding assembly,
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

cramps in my mus
cles, pressure or
sharp pain on the
top Of my head,
and nervous dizzy
spells. I had 9th
er symptoms show
ing my kidneys
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

were at fault, so took Dodd's Kidney
Pills. They were the means Of saving
my life. write to say that your
medicine restored me to perfect
health" Be sure and get "DoDD'S,"
the name with the three DIS. for dis
eased, disordered, deranged kidneys; {;
just as Rev. Warner did, no similarly
named article will do.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

Government Aids Turkish Farmers.
The Turkish government has made
a special appropriation of $780, 900 to
be used for the purchase Of seed
grains for needy Turkish farmers in
the Turkish dominions.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13
Signal Corps Under Quarantine.

Ell Paso, Textile Colorado signal
Stewart as preventive measure
against the possibility of typhus fever
developing
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

Red Cross Bag Blue makes the laundress
happy, makes clothes whittier than snow.
All good grocers. Adv
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13
A MINISTER'S CONFESSION

Rev. w. 81. Warner Myersville, Nd,
writes: "My trouble was sciatica. My
back was affected and took the form
Of lumbago. I also had neuralgia,
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

10000 Bushels of Wheat Burned.
Sterling Twenty thousand bush
els of wheat were destroyed when the
farmers elevator at Fleming was
burned.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

China will teach paper making in a
government school.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

Balsam wood is the lightest of all
lumber.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 6-7-Annual Show Bisbee Poultry
and Pet Stock Association at Bisbee
Jan. 19 9-21-Convention of Arizona Fed.
Grafton Of Women's Clubs at Globe
March 5-7-Annual Convention Ari.
xona Cattle Growers Association a.
Globe
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Prices for Metals.
Silver, New York-75%c.
Lead, per 100 lbs.-$7.5O
Copper, per 100 lbs.-$29.37k.
Spelter, st. Louis, per 100 lbs.
1915.
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates, 60
per cent, SIS per unit; crude ores, go
per cent, SIS; 25 per cent, $9.40 to $12;
10 per cent, $8.7O to $40 per unit.
The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

OF the $4,000 persons employed in
the Swiss hotels, it seems strange that
only 10000 are Swiss.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01
Bond Ruvers

Take notice, that subject to the
State School Fund Commission, sep
arate sealed bids will be received by
the undersigned for City Hall bonds
in the sum of $23,O0O.O0, authorized
under Chapter III Laws of 1917, up
to $50 o'clock D. m., on the 10th
day of September, 1917. The matur-
ity of said bonds will not be more
than twenty years from date with in
terest payable semi-annually not to
exceed five per centum per annum.
Each bid must be accompanied with
a certified check in the sum of $1,000
payable to the undersigned Bidders
should state definitely how much they
offer for the bonds at the following
rates of interest, four, four and one
half, four and three quarter, and five
per centum per annum The City
Council reserves the right to reject
any or all bids
Done at Hays, Kansas, August 25,
1917
Peter Holzmeister,
CitV Clerk
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List of Books bv Grades

First Grade: The Kansas Primer.
The Kansas First Reader.
Second Grade: Kansas Second
Reader, Pearson's Kansas Speller.
Wooster's Arithmetic, Book II. Hau-
sans Practical Course in Writing,
Book / and II.
Third Grade :>Kansas Third RAIDER.
Kansas Speller. Morey's Elementary
Arithmetic. Hausam's Practical Writ
ing Course, Book III. Pens and ink,
pencil andtablet.
Fourth Grade: Kansas Fourth
Reader. Miller-Kinkaid English Les
sons, Book /. Kansas Speller. Morey's
Elementary Arithmetic. Kings Pri-
mary Geography. Hausam's Practical
Writing Course, Book " Pen and
ing, pencil and tablet.
Fifth Grade: Kansas Fourth Read
er. Miller-Kinkaid English Lessons,
Book l. Kansas Speller. Morey's Ele-
mentary Arithmetic. Kings Primary
Geography, Mayberry's Primary Ply
siology, Hausam's Practical Writing
Course, Book ". Pen and ink, pen
ell and tablet
Sixth Grade: Kansas Classic Ser
les, 9th grade. Miller-Kinkaid Eng
lish Lessons, Book II. Kansas Spell
ler. Morey's Advanced Arithmetic,
Tarr and McMurray's World Geog-
raphy. Gordy's Elementary History.
Hausam's Practical Writing Course,
Book ". Pen and ink, pencil and tab
let.
Seventh Grade: Kansas Classic 7th
grade. Miller and Kinkaid English
Lessons, Book II. Kansas Speller.
Morey's Advanced Arithmetic. Tarr
and McMurray's World Geography.
Krohn and Crumbine Physiology. Fos-
ter's History of the United States,
Hausam's Practical Writing Course,
Book ". Pen and ink, pencil and tab
let.
Eighth Grade: Kansas Cassics, Ser
les, 9Th grade. Miller-Kinkaid Eng
lish Lessons, Book II. Kansas Speller.
Morey's Advanced Arithmetic Fos-
ter's History of the United States.
Dryers High School Geography, Hau-
sam Practical Writing Course, Book
". Pen and ink, pencil and tablet.
The children of all grades should
bring such music books and drawing
material as they have on hand The
supervisors in these subjects direct
later what is needed.
C. A. Shively
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Elementary Schools Open September
1Ofh

10Th. =
The Hays Elementary. or Grade
Schools will open Monday, Septem-
ber 10th. All children belonging to
the grades should enroll the first day,
and be provided with the necessary
books. A list of text books needed is
printed below. 1t is important also
that children be in the best possible
physical condition upon entering
school. Especial care should be given
the childrens' teeth. Every child
should visit the dentist and submit
to a thorough examination of the
mouth between now and the opening
of school. This is especially import
ant since we shall probably not be
able to have a dental examination
conducted at the chool as we have
for the three years past.
The following texts have been
changed: Speller, writing books,
arithmetic, language and elementary
physiology. Also, new additions must
be used of Arnold's Civics and Citi-
zenship, and Searson and Martins
fourth and Fifth Readers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01
HAYS HISTORY
ze YEARS AcI
September 1, 1888.

Charlie Reeder has bought of Rev.
Best, the Yost cottage on West Sec
ont Street, and viii move there.
Another residence is going up on
Oak Street, near the Peter Stasb's
residence.
The Bussard Bros. are printing the
Court docket for the term Of Court
commencing Monday, and win be a
handsome book.
The town social at Mrs. Ned
Beaeh's last evening, was q grand
success. Many attended.
Another week and the brick and
stone work Of the Lebold block win
be finished 1t grows handsomer every
day
Candidate Downing wants a two
thousand dollar Office and chips IN the
liberal sum Of S1.5O for the b'hoys to
walk the streets, carry q torch and
yell themselves hoarse for his cleo
ton. Don't smile.
Court commences on Monday,
with over seventy cases on the dock
ct
A curiosity came 10 our postofsce
this week being a perforated letter
from Rev. Best IN Florida 70 Charlie
Reeder- It has gone through q course
OF fumigation from Yellow Fever
danger and was wen marked.
Street Commissioner Matthews.
has his men busy grading West Juni-
alta Street, which will be q big i'm
prOvement-
The creamery is now receiving
about $500 pounds of milk daily,
making it into butter.
Mrs Magrane received the gald
tidings on Monday that a little girl
had come to the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs Ryan, (Sadie Magrane.) in
Leavenworth, and left on the next
train TO visit the happy couple
Brother Fuller says in his last
Walker Journal: eff we were running
a slaughter house we would solicit
H joys trade; he is so fond OF pork"
This IS unfair. Hi Joy throwed his
solid Sites vote to Brother Fuller and
Brother Fuller failed to respond as
agreed and vote his delegation solid
for Sites. Joy is entitled TO better
treatment
Mr. Joy is a strong Republican, a
good political worker and a forcible
speaker and viii be heard in more
than one locality during the cam
paign-
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Ohifuarz.

On Saturday, August 18th, death
claimed for its victim Amalia, a
daughter of Mrs. Anna NJ. Wiesner,
of this city. She had been suffering
with heart disease for about four
months, and, as it seemed, was i'm
proving rapidly, but heart disease is
too treaeherous. She retired after
eating a hearty supper and died al
most suddenly at 10:45 D. m She
was of a very gentle and kind dispo-
sltion, doing good wherever she went,
hearing all her sufferings with the
greatest patience, and her untimely
and unexpected death was a shock to
her aged mother, sisters and brothers.
She had always been a devoted MEM
Der. OF the Catholic church and was
well prepared to leave this valley of
tears and receive her eternal reward.
Death snatched her away from US,
but we hope to meet In Heaven again.
Interment was made at st. JOS
eph's Catholic cemetery on Monday,
August 10th, at nine o'clock. There
remain to mourn her death, her moth
er, four sisters and six brothers.
Card of Thanks
We wish to thank all our friends
and neighbors who so kindly assisted
US during the recent illness and death
OF our beloved daughter and sister,
Amalia. Also for the beautiful floral
offerings.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Wiesner,
and family
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Attention! Chautauoua Goers.

If you signed Chautauqua Pledge
Cards last year kindly call at the
Citizens State Bank and redeem.
them.
If you are not certain as to wheth-
er you signed or not please inquire
at the Citizens Bank
If you find it more convenient you
may buy your tickest from the First
National Bank, The Farmers State
Bank or your usual trading place and
the pledge cards will be cancelled
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01
RED CROSS WORK

Anyone not already member of
the Hays Chapter, may become a
member out of their war fund sub
scription by phoning the local secre-
tary, Mrs. Neiswanger.
You may be interested to know
that the National Surgical Dressings
Committee has become a National
Auxiliary of the Red Cross.
On July 27th, the Red Cross had
2,547, ,412 members and 2,3OO Chap
ters throughout the United States
with large incraese needed and ex-
pected daily.
The entire contents of the box sent
to Red Cross by the Hays Chapter
was accepted and the word was that
things were beautifully made -
Every woman and girl in Hays who
has helped in this patriotic duty,
should feel well repaid.
If you are done with your current
magazines please send>to the City Ii
brary and they will be assorted and
forwarded to the Red Cross for direct
distribution among the soldiers.
This statement has been forwarded
to Washington. For the Red Cross
War Fund Collected and in the bank
S6,1O8.98- Still uncoIlected $3,O36-
80. This amount was raised in Hays
and includes the subscription and
the 4th July celebration.
New members: Gerald Penney, Alice
Penney, Eileen Penney.
Miss Charlotte Mccall of Chicago,
is spending the weekend with Miss
Bess Leahy. Miss Mccall is teaching
in the Chicago City schools.
Workmen are laying a sidewalk
this week, along the west front of the
Treat place on South Oak Street.
Phillip Mock was in from the Sa-
line Valley last Saturday, and re-
ports the corn and feed crops have
made a wonderful growth since the
rains and there will be no shortage
of feed or late pasture.
Simon Meier of the blackberry
country, south of Grinnell, in Cove
County, was here this week, visiting
old friends.
Next week the town will be full of
strangers, attending the Chautauqua,
while many will come to hunt room
ing places for their children coming
here to the fall term of the State Nor
NAL school which commences Tues
day, September 18th, and a large at
tendance is expected, especially of
young ladies.
Pension Agent, Freese, was in Rus
sell, on Tuesday, looking after pen
sion matters Reports splendid pas
ture, corn and feed crops there since
the rain.
Charlie Riedel has moved out of his
house on East Broadway, near the
Treat playground that he sold to
John Stadter, and Mr.. Stadter and
family moved in on Wednesday, 50
as to send his children to school here
this winter
Mr. Wooster has been giving his
Sunday School class of Presbyterian
boys an outing on the creek near
Palmer's-
Miss Lena Brown leaves tonight
for Ellsworth, where she viii teach
g.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01
SORE SHOULDERS

make a Gall Salve that viii take
the soreness out of horses shOul-
ders and heal the horses shoulders
while you work 1t. You may use all
of the box and If not satisfied return
the empty box and get your money
back. Get box or two. / will send a
fifty cent box to any address prepaid
for fifty cents IN stamps. DR.. A. r.
Pruitt, Hays. Kansas.
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Dr. Pruitt's Gail Salye is guarzn-
teed 10 be best you ever used aHd to
heal the shoulders or your money
back
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01
For EXCHANGE

/ have in Kansas City, two well 10
Gated six apartment buildings that /
would like to exchange for a good
farm In your county. These two
buildings have a monthly income OF
$500 per month, or $4,000 per year.
If interested vii be pleased to send
you complete description and photo
graphs of same. Address. John D.
Thompson, At West 58th St, Kan
sss City, Mo.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01

Our second car Of Pennsylvania
nut coal is in transit which is liable to
arrive any day. Better order at once.
c. Schwaller's Sons.
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Pianos for Sale

We have taken the agency for sew
eral Standard Grade of high grade
Pianos at price you can afford. Ask
TO see samples Bissine Bros.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01

Frank (Happy) Sullivan Is back
from his summer vacation IN illinois
Clarence and Harrison KinsgIey
were here from Smoky Hill county,
Thursday afternoon
Ralph Archer is back from Colo
radO, where he has been visiting
friends and viewing t:,e beauties and
grandeur of the Rocky Mountains
H ". Gordon and his Sunday
School class OF Methodist boys spent
few hours hunting and 'iwienie
roasting in the woods on Wednes-
day.
Frank Carman is out of town visit
ing very dear friend at Oswego,
who is cOnvalescing from a fever, but
VIII be IN hOmefn time TO take up his
work in the Hays schools.
Space is becoming So valuable
above ground on Chestnut Street,
that glass sidewalk is being laid In
front of the Knoche building TO make
q place for a barber shop under the
sidewalk.
Friends IN Hays have learned OF
the recent marriage of Miss Bessie
Bailey, but are without particulars
slAAOLACA VI OAL very DCSL
girls giving up the teaching profss-
sion for that of housewife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shepard and daugh-
ter have moved to Hays, from the
northeastern part OF the state, and
are occupying the house where Mr.
Morrison lived in the west part of
town The daughter viii enter the
Normal
Concrete walks are being laid in
front of the Henry Tholen &
Sons new building and the Frank
King Meat Market. Now If a nice
walk was put down in front of the
Meier cellar it would materially help
the looks OF the south side
Get Busy.
In view of the fact that travel ov-
er the Golden Belt Automobile road
is becoming greater each year some
thing should be done to put this very
popular auto highway IN the very
best of shape Each country through
which the road passes should see to
1t that the road is in the best condi-
ton. The road should be paved or
maccadamized-at least the mud
holes and low places should be filed
with crushed stone or gravel A
movement is being made by the San
to Fe Trail south of US, to hard sur
face their road and also the Rock Is
land highway north Of US Should
these roads beat the Golden Belt and
get their roads hard-surfaced, we
shall lose through travel which
would naturally come. through this
county-the Golden Belt being the
most direct route from Kansas City,
west. 1t is up to the people of this
county to get busy, get out petitions
and start work on a hard surfaced
road of some kind It will be worth
much to Ellis County Don't wait for
the other roads to get ahead of US.
Begin at once. Ellis County should
lead for better roads.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01
For SALE

A few barrels Of tractor oil At =
bargain, 10 close them out
Bemis.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01
Ladies' Registration Day

The ladies can register at
Schuelers' Garage On South
Main Street, Wednesday, Sep
tember 5th, from nine o'clock
IN the morning until six In the
evening.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01

Engraved and embossed business
stationery at the Free Press Office.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01
WANTED

Second hand Office desk. Inquire Al
Free Press Office. Phone II.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01

Mr.. Wooster has been giving his
Sunday School class of Presbyterian
boys an outing on the, creek near
Palmer's.
Miss Lena Brown leaves tonight
for Ellsworth, where she viii teach
first primary IN the city schools She
viii I've at the DR. Scott home.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01

Uncle Danny Lewis of Ellis, was
here again this week visiting the Lou
Bell family. He regrets to see the old
G. A. R. building of this city sold and
moved away, as it tends to obliterate
the memory OF the old vets.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01

DR.. G. C. Unrein left = Thursda
morning for ST. Louis, to bring hom
some of his school supplies and wi
also visit his best girl before beinj
called to the colors.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01

The Bussard Bros are printing the
Court docket for the term Of Court
commencing Monday, and viii be
handsome book.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-01

The town social at Mrs. Ned
Beach's last evening, was q grand
success. Many attended