The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-02

from ADlIene, LnlS week.
AIonzo Brummitt, wife and daugh-
ter, are visiting friends in Wichita,
this week.
H J. Burns of the Farmers Nation
al Bank of Kansas City, was in Hays,
| Wednesday.
James Winchester is bookkeeper
for the U. S. reclamation service IN
New Mexico.
The McCracken Enterprise has ad-
ed new Cranston cylinder press to
its equipment.
We regret to learn of the serious
/ Illness of John Maberly from pneu-
! monia- He is in the hospital.
Senator Whitney and daughter, ar
rived here from Philips county. Sew
eral other young ladies accompanied
A force of men commenced exca-
waiting for the Knoche business house
on Chestnut Street, Thursday morn
ing.
Mrs. Rose L. Gray was here from
Denver, this week She has some
property in north Hays she was look
ing after.
Sargent keenan,, a naval recruit
ing officer was here from Salina, Wed
nesday afternoon, returning Thurs
day morning
The appointments for the new
Board of Control suits all concerned,
especially the re-appointment of Ex-
Governor HOch-
H. A Cowan and family drove
| down to Abilene, in their Buick six
short xvfci+ To fv1on1c oTI fa ho
p1e esent at Decoration Day services.
The School of instruction will
hold a morning session at ten o'clock
IN the I. o. o. F. Hall. All Rebekahs
are urged to be present.
By Order of Noble Grand.
DR.. Jordan has moved his dental
| Office to Kansas City. He shipped his
goods last Saturday. He sold his
residence to Frank Bunker and the
Markey residence to G. M. Holmquist.
The children of the parochial school
are themselves selling the tickets to
the commencement exercises of St.
Joseph's School for June 5 and 9th,
and when any of them approach you
be sure and buy a ticket.
Ray Garvey, County Attorney of
Thomas County, Kansas, was in town
Friday, investigating matters connect
ed with the killing lately in Thomas
County, of Paul Ubert of this county
Who did the killing is still a mystery.
A daughter of John Miller, living
at Hyacinth, was married Wednesday
| morning, at the Catholic church to a
young man by the name of Ross. This
/ is the third daughter of the Miller
family to marry Ross young men.
Memorial services for the I. o. O.
| F. will be held at the Lutheran church
| Sunday, June 3rd, at II o'clock A NJ.
Members of the order will meet at
| the Lodge Hall at 10 o'clock. A good
attendance is desired.
By Order of the Lodge.
A F. Bieker, registrar of the Fort
Hays Normal School, said that the en-
| rollment of the students for the sum-
| mer term in its advance rush was as
great rs 1t had ever been and he look
| ed for as big, If not bigger summer
school than the school has ever had.
w A. Copeland of McCracken, who
some time ago purchased several lots
| of the Geo. Griffith homestead, just
south of the E. A. Rea residence was
in Hays, this week. He says he will
soon commence the erection of a
modern residence, with the intention
Of making Hays his home in the fu-
ture.
| Paul Ubert a former resident of
Ellis County, was shot and killed at
/ his home one mile north of Oakley,
last Saturday morning, about six
o'clock as he stepped from the door
of his home. The coroner's jury re-
turned verdict of murder by an
unknown hand" His body was
brought here for burial.
| Last Friday, about the time that
/ the destructive cyclones destroyed so
| much property and so many lives in
Kansas and six other states east, cy-
clone passed over the county near
Hogback, dropped down and destroy
ed Earl Disney's silo. 1t was large
| silo, built of cedar. The wind made
kindling wood of it. No other dam
age done.
Mrs. A. II. Kearns, sister of Mr..
| Moore, informs US that Hale has re-
sponded to the call made by the fore
es of War to the railway engineers
and fireman and has offered his ser
| vices to France, and Will probably go
| abroad sometime this summer. Hale
| and Leo are the only sons of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Byrd Moore. Leo, at this writ
| ing is on the Mexican border.
Harry NJ Stock, the president of
! the present junior class Of the Fort
Hays Normal School and winner of
the Kansas international oratorical
contest, has quit school to become edi-
tor and owner of the Bunker Hill Ad-
vertiser. He takes charge June l.
Stock is the first students In the
history of the school to win two gold
medals, one for the best writer In the
school and one for oratory. Only
four students have ever had their pic
lures hung IN the trophy case at the
Fort Hays Normal and Stocks Is one
of the four For two years he has
been a member of the staff of the
school paper, The Leader.
Clayton correspondence to the Nor
ton Courier has this to say of our
tOwnSman
On the evening Of May 16, com
mencement. day the people heard the
biggest man that ever spoke in Clay
ton, when they listened to a S. Hale,
L L D. pastor of the n E church
of HaYS as he gave the Class address