The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-04


Engraved and embossed business
stationery at the Free Press Office.
Miss June Cook from Manchester,
is here visiting the Vermont Girls
The County Commissioners meet
next Monday in regular monthly ses-
sion.
Attorney Henry McVey was over at
Hill City, last Saturday on legal bust
ness.
Attorney Holmquist was looking af-
ter law business in Ellis, on Wednes-
day last.
The Hays Campfire girls attended
a grand council meeting at Ellis, last
Thursday night.
Jack Howie and wife were pleas
ant callers at the Free Press Office
Tuesday afternoon.
Gold Medal Shingles are Best.
Citizens Lumber & Supply Co.
Lost on the streets of Hays, Sunday
nghti, a gray coat. Reward. Notify
the Advertiser, Bunkerhill, Kansas
Mrs Frank Leggy is here from Chi
cago, on a visit to her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Earlenbaugh-
c. W. Miller has seed wheat to put
out to actual farmers for one-fifth of
1918 crop. Delivered free in Hays
DIR. Jordan was up from Kansas
City, the first of the week, looking
after his interest in the Hays Pure lee
Plant.
Miss Birdie Wood came over from
Lacrosse, last Wednesday, to visit
friends and attend the Campfire
meeting at Ellis.
John Miller and Geo. Miles went to
Fort Riley, Tuesday They viii work
as carpenters on the new cantonment
east of Junction City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Truan and fam
ily motored- to Larned, Tuesday
morning, for few days visit with
friends.
Several Union Pacific officers were
! in Hays last week They gave out the
word that the building Of the new
depot was off for the present.
On account of the shortage of
grass and bad prospects for winter
feed, several cars of cattle were shIpp-
ed from the Hays yards last Satur-
day and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam BAIL and Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Simminger motored
] to Lawrence and Decature Counties
on Sunday morning, returning on
Tuesday morning.
Fred .Arnho1d who has been cashier
of the Walker bank for the past two
years has resigned his position and
! has taken q like position nth the
Farmers State Bank Of this city
I
The Ellis Headlight announced last
| Saturday that R. A. Nicholson, Pres
ton EppleT, G. V. Ford and two young
men from south OF that town, all of
whom were in the drafted list, have
since enlisted and gone to Fort Lo-
gan, Colo, reducing the county num-
Der to be drafted.
Harry Felten has taken the con-
tract from Ehe Pure Ice Company TO
deliver the output of the plant to the
customers. Harry says ne viii put
on help enough to deliver ice to all
customers at an early hour each day.
In fact he will give the customers the
very best possible service
Out of the forty-four men exam
med Thursday, for the selective draft,
only seven or eight failed to pass the
physical test. We did not learn the
number of exemptions claimed. How
ever, it is thought but few men viii
be exempted for other than physical
defects.
A H. Schmokel, the gentleman who
will take charge of the Schermerhorn
store soon to be opened in the new
c. W Reeder building, arrived this
. week, and as soon as the work pro
crosses on the building sufficiently
which will be about August 18th, he
, will commence installing the goods.
The Methodist Sunday Schoo
: promised to give Hazel Miller and he
= class oS girls a banquet as soon =:
the membership of the class reached
twenty. The banquet is now won
s These girls range in ages from thir
q teen to fifteen years and as pearl,
2 everyone of them sings, it Is a valu
Z able force in the Sunday School O.
l that church.
r The State Tax Commissioners hav
e completed their assessmen valuation
V of property in the State of Kansas fo
e 1917, as taken from the Assessor
: valuations on March 1st, last.
i shows an increase valuation owe
1915 of $50, $685. 900, with total va
uation of over three billion dollars
Ellis county shows a valuation o
$11, ,667,34O and must turn in 81
? AS, 20 the State as its share towar
. State expenses
;. The Felten business block, con
e prising FIVE elegant business room:
G is nearing completion. The first tw
e rooms on the east, which are being e:
$ pecially fitted up will be occupied b
r P. V. Gottschalk's Furniture EstaI
lishment Pete, since his metamol
phosis from a Court House habitaT
le to one of the foremost business me
p of the city has prospered and whe
i1 ], he gets into his new quarters he wi
II shine.
Is The Saecajawea Campfire girls VII
le havs enjoyed a weeks outing IN tt
g woods on the creek on Logan rancl
ot viii break camp tomorrow and r
l /; turn TO town. The girls are, Miss,
IS Mary Weber Mary Chittenden, No
Id lie Madden, Daisy Beebe, lone Goe
TX ehius. Frances Robinson, Annie Fe
lg ton, Jessie Robinson, Ruth Miles, Bi
V die Wood and Alice Truan. Miss Ma