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

Boots Gross won in the boxing bout
at Fort Riley.
Mary Haffamier is assistant at the
Russell pOstoffice.
Chas. Reidel has recently sold his
property II south Hays
Miss Johns at the hospital is re-
covering from q very serious attack
Mrs. Henry Schwaller entertained
several OF her lady frineds Wednes-
day afternoon.
Miss Hazel Moore and Prudy Shaw
returned this Friday morning, from
Of appendicitis, and with her aunts,
The MISSES Glover, will be able to re-
turn home in few days
zIr. and Mrs. Ward Sullivan went
e Gokc-sFs<5; this week IN their car,
for an outing IN the mountains
Mrs. A. H. Kearns is home from
Excelsior Springs. Auntie Shaw and
Miss Hazel Moore wifi be able to re
turn home next week.
Mss Keller wishing to expedite the
Red Cross knitting for the soldiers,
pair Of socks in one hour.
Engraved wedding invitations and
| announcements at the Free Press Of
fee.
Hon. James Rinker of Trego Coun-
| ty came ~ from his ranch this week,
and was transacting business in this
city.
| Mrs. Geo. Mixer of Ellis, was in
Hays, this Friday morning and was a
pleasant caller at the Free Press Of
fee.
Mrs. H B. Neiswanger is in Kan
| sas City, with her sister, Miss Helen
Pestana, who has undergone a ser
| iOds operation.
Paul Wasinger, who has been Ill
for the past three years died Sunday
| night. He was forty-seven years of
age. Funeral services were held
Tuesday.
Mrs. Milton Luce, Mrs. Oscar Strai-
ley and Robert Bullock, children OF
c. r. Bullock, a former resident OF
Hays. received telegram Tuesday
that their father had died that morn
ing. Mrs. Srailey left for Fostoria
Ohio. where her parent has been liv-
q ing for several years. Mr. Bullock
was one Of the early residents here
and VIII be remembered by all the
old timers II Hays.
, The srattler'; has arrived and thi
Friday morning is doing business will
John DreiIing as chief engineer. Th'
''moduS operandi' is as follows: Tel
brick are placed in the ''rattler" anC
the engine IS started. After the bricl
have been IN the ''rattler" for an hou
/ they are taken out and if they hav
lost -Sver twenty-five per cent. the,
tare condemned, otherwise they ar
accepted and viii be used. Twenty
: one and half per cent. is the high
5 est loss up to noon this Friday
The rooms under the First Nation
a Bank recently occupied by the E
lis County News, are being cleaned u
. ! and viii be occupied by the Eli
! County distract Company, the person
:, mel Of which is Fred n. Dreiilng, {
J. LoTeditsch and P. A. Basgali. Tn
boys are all clean, energetic youn
d business men of the city. The Ere
: Press wishes them the greatest mea:
|, ure of success in their new under
It taking
= Steve JOY, Thursday, showed tn
i writer two old fashioned daguer'
+ types Of him and his bother taken
r 1851, at the beginning of the civ
: war. The boys were aged sixtee
Is and eighteen respectively. Steve VIZ
the younger. In fifty-six years tt
whirligig of time makes great chang
> es in men and nations. Steve is NJ
d as young as he was IN the days of IS
n rhe IS getting bald and gray, and h
n avordupoise Is something fierce, aI
Is some time during the next fifty-s
n years Steve will probably be maxim
e footprints OF the shores OF time. FIT,
,e six years IS 3 stretch of time TO
y >, conjured with. During that periC
le several important events haN
n traaspired, notably, Harry Free
s. launched the Free Press on :
re unsuspecting public, President W
et son sskept US out OF the war" Wi
III Germany, and B. NJ Dreiling becan
postmaster at Hays.