The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-30

Freda KnOehe is clerking at
Smiths store.
County Clerk George Brown, has
a sister visiting him
Mrs VermiIlion and daughter Lii
liam are home from their trip.
Mrs Joseph Runyon is visiting her
son, Orde, at WaKeeney, this week
Mrs. Ed Rea and daughter, Hazel,
are spending few days at Excelsior
Springs.
Mrs. DeNoon and daughter, Miss
| Cora, are home from a two weeks
visit at Mankato.
Miss Mabel Porter is home from a
visit to her grandparents at. Gorham,
and her friend Stella Novak, also.
Miss Margaret ShoenhaIs, address
sed the County Institutes of Cove
and Sherman counties last week
Miss Jessie Tuttle is office girl at
DR.. Haas rooms this summer, but
still carries her studies at the Normal.
E W. Rees, bookkeeper for the
| Hays Transfer line left Wednesday,
for Manhattan, for visit with
friends-a summer vacation.
Jake Orth of Pleasant Hill, pur-
chased the Reidel quarter at the auc-
ton sale consideration
thirty-three and one-third per acre.
Master John Shively left last week
for Edwardsville, Kansas, where he
will spend the vacation with his
grandparents Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Wal
/ ton.
Frank Bunker and Alfred Have
mann went to Salina, Monday, re-
turning Wednesday, with a large
truck for the Treat & Shaffer Lum-
Der Co.
Mrs. A. F. Kerns took her Sunday
| School class of twelve Methodist
boys and girls for picnic outing on
the creek by the Logan ranch on
Tuesday.
Prof. C. A. Shively spent the lat
ter part of last week in Sheridan and
| Graham Counties where he address
sed the Common school graduating
| classes and the annual school board
conventions.
Office at the Station last year till
about April, and who now holds a
fine position in the State Department
of Agriculture at Topeka, spent the
weekend in Hays.
Mrs. Walter Miles left for Beatrice,
/ Nebr-, on Wednesday morning, for a
/ visit of about ten, days with her moth
! era Dean Miles, who has been in
NToI,, r,
! company his mother home
Mr.. and Mrs Gordon, who came
here from Salina, in the early spring
viii attend the dedication of the new
| First NJ. E. Church on Sunday morn
! ing This is DR.. Benefits church,
and the largest in the conference
The~brick is being un1oaded for
/ the pavement on Chestnut street. The
street is being leveled up and from
| all indications actual paving work
will be commenced not later than
next week.
Mrs. Hale has written a cantata
| for the Methodist belated children s
day-one week from Sunday 1t will
require one and a half hours time to
/ give and will make use of $50 chill
| dren and young people of the Sunday
School.
Miss Alice Freese is to teach in the
High School at Hill City, the coming
| year, under the Superintendency of
Prof. Adam Haas. Miss Margaret,
daughter of Rev. W. B. Brown, for
merly of Hays, and now at Hill City,
is to teach in the lower grades.
The Treat & Shaffer Lumber Com
pany have purchased the grounds and
buildings on Fort street of VIM. .Bieler
in which he has his machine shop. Mr..
! Bieier has purchased lot north of
| the Dorney Garage on which he will
erect building for his machinery.
Among the guests from Cove coun-
| ty here this week on the excursion
was Editor Trimmer and family of
the Cove City Gazette, one of the pio-
neer papers of the Big 9Th district.
From here they took a trip down in
! to Russell county to visit old friends.
P V. Gottschalk has purchased the
! Caldwell stock of furniture now sit
| uated in the New Windsor annex and
| will add it to his already large stock
| of goods. The Caldwell stock is an
excellent line, new and right up-to-
date and will make a splendid addi-
tion to his store.
Word comes that Eric Cummings.
late of the Fort Hays Normal who en-
listed went to Denver, then south and
taken sick, has recovered, and with
his company has been transferred to
the military camp in the mountains
of New York state near Syracuse.
They are drilling hard every day.
Miss Ella Hoxe, a former graduate
of the Fort Hays Kansas Normal
School, for the past two years IN
Bombay, India, has returned to the
United States to care for her father,
whose health has failed There is
some likelihood that Miss Hoxie can
give a lecture on India and her pea
pie to a Hays audience in the near fu-
ture.
Miss Zoe Atchison, the National
Secretary of the W. c. T. U. left fol-
the east on Tuesday night She or
ganized on Monday and Tuesday Z
Y. P. B. Society of fifty-fve mem
bers with as president, Jessie Tuttle
vice president, Britts Harris; Secre-
tary Bena Morse
She also organized an L. T. L So