The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
co. Grass Sundayed with friends

Dr Haas mother OF Kansas City,
is visiting him.
| Supt. Chas Weeks visited Russell
County, the first of the week.
| Nick Arnhold has returned from a
business trip to Kansas City.
Treasurer F. n. Dreiling made a
business trip to Victoria, Monday
E. A. -Rea has returned from a
professional trip to Kansas City
c. NJ Wann has returned from 2
short visit with relatives in Indiana
Robert Maxwell and family left
this Friday morning for an outing in
Colorado.
Rev. A. S. Hale will fill the pulpit
of the first NJ. E church at Salina,
next Sunday
Joseph Feitz has recently purchas-
| ed a $50 acres of wheat land. Joe
| evidently believes in Western Kansas.
c. W. Miller, Jr., and wife will
leave next Sunday, via the Golden
Belt Auto route for Colorado, for
two weeks vacation.
Being too familiar with grasswid-
ows causes hay fever, so reasons
culiar doings' of a relative.
A. E. Brummett, agent for the Ma
tonal Refining Company of Kansas
City, has been transferred to WichitaS
He expects soon to move his family
there.
Geo. Starr, the Hays City boss bak-
er, says he has a pet frog, six years
old, that took a swim Tuesday even
ing, for the first time. 1t must be so.
as Geoge's reputation for truth and
veracity cannot be questioned.
A J. Highley, an oldtime friend of
the writer formerly of Hutchinson,
but now residing on ranch IN south
Logan County, with his family, passed
through Hays, Tuesday, enroute
from Kansas City. He was a pleas
ant caller at the Free Press Office.
Prof. Shively returned Sunday.
from a ten days trip to Warrensburg.
and Kansas City, Mo. He viii spend
the remainder of his vacation" su-
perintending the work at the new
high school building and doing the
various other jobs necessary to th4
opening of school in September.
Regardless of the long drouth. the
var and many other discouraging
conditions, the Ellis County (The
Golden Belt) Fair will be held Just
the same The dates are September
%, 26, 27 and %. The fair book
or list Of premiums is now in the
hands of the printer. A large attend
ance is expected.
Just after supper on the Tuesday
evening when we had our afternoon
bail storm, twister swept over the
farm of John Chittepder. one and ? /
hall miles northeast of Hays-Iifted |
off the top of his barn and tore out a |
porch column of his residence The
little bungalow almost in the same
ward was untouched. No lives were |
lost but Stanley was hurt somewhat |
by flying timbers, though not serious
ly.
Herman Tholen, Jr., was q pleas
ant caller at the Free Press Office, |
Tuesday morning. He states that |
Herman Tholen & Son will discon-
tinue their store at Victoria, and |
move into their new building here !
about August 18th. A large new
stock will be purchased which viii |
comprise everything in the jewelry /
line Hays already has one complete
Jewelry store, but as competition
IS the life of trade" the people will /
heartily welcome Herman Tholen & /
Son.
Harry Gross is carrying his right I
arm in a sling as q result of being I
overtaken by a Kansas cyclone and I
hail storm combined. Harry is driver 1
and salesman for the Standard Oil I
truck and was about two miles north /
of Hays, when the storm struck and /
while it lasted he had the time of his I
life The wind lifted him off his feet |
and tossed him round like feather |
and the hail, which was quite large. |
pelted him numerically. However, /
he came out victorious with the ex- |
ception of a bumped head and bruis- /
ed shoulder and arm.
In certain household not a thous- |
and miles from the Free Press Office
the following incident took place: 4 |
friendly difference of opinion arose
as to the mum Der of cups of flour to use
to make the bread for the next meal. It |
was settled by advancing the argu-
ment that the extra bread could be
fed to the dog. With President Wilson
asking for a wheatless meal every day
from every American family the in
cldeT3t is more than regretable Such
action on the part. of only half of the
households in Hays would hinder the /
OF dIlled soldiers enough to I
cause the death of one of the quota
Ellis County must send. It cannot too
often be pointed out that cup of -four
saved may save q life. 1t matters not
that people have enough money to
buy the extra cup of f1our.it's mott
money but flour that saves the lives
these days To feel no more personal
responsibility than that shown above is
evidence not only of obtuseness, but
treason and murder
Some time ago big force of rail
road graders were here putting in a
new switch track on the east side of ]
town near the stock yards. From here
they were taken to Ellis, and are
grading out the new switch yards
east of the roundhouse, for the more .
extended division point of the rairoad
there. We are informed that as soon
as that work is done, which will be
shortly, the whole gang of men, pIows,
and teams viii come back to !
Hays and grade up the new switch
tracks on the east side of town, on