The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
Draft at $50 this Friday morn

Draft at $50 this Friday morn
ing. Johnny get your gun"
George Miles has homesteaded $40
acres near Billings, Montana.
Mrs. and Mrs. B. R. Replogle and
Mr. Morgan have all been Ill this
week.
Henry McVey and family have
gone to Colorado for a short vaca-
ton.
Mrs Kirkman and her sister, Celia
Deane, returned last Saturday, from
ten days trip to Oklahoma.
This is terribly hot, sultry weather
and the weather sharks promise the
sweltring public no immediate relief.
Mrs. E. E. Colyer has been enjoy
mig a visit from her sister, Mrs.
Wright and two children of COncor-
dia.
The boys of the city are having a
great time using bicycles along Chest
unit Street over the smooth concrete
walk.
Chas. Baird was here from Kansas
City, this week, looking after the in
terests of the Farmers' State Bank
of Hays.
Emery Foltz and wife were here
from Twin Falls, Idaho, Monday.
They were guests of Joe Weigel dur
ing their stay in Hays.
Freda Knoche left Thursday morn
ing, to visit her aunt Lizzie Schwaller
in Northern Michigan. She will be
absent about six weeks.
This year the "hobo crop" is very
short in Central Kansas, owing to the
short wheat crop. They are conspic-
uous by their absence.
Misses Susan Chittenden and Ruth
Miles pleasantly entertained a party
of young friends at the home of the
latter on Friday evening
The Wolf Brothers have recently
purchased the building on South Main
Street, they have been doing bust
ness in for several years past.
At a special election last Monday,
the bonds for a twenty-three thous-
and dollar city hall were carried by a
vote of 1O6 to 166.
The Start family including James,
left Wednesday morning, for SYRIA
nual family reunion of the Starts
On account of the extreme dry
weather the potato and forage crops
will be very short. Some of the farm
ers are selling the most of their stock,
especially their cattle.
Byrd Moore is slowly recovering
from q sewers illness. For a while
paralysis was feared, but hopes are
now entertained for his complete re-
covery.
Joe and Anton Witt, Mrs. Furth-
meyer and Mrs. Lena Wautby of
Gorham, and Mrs. Jake Orth of Hays,
are visiting their mother, who is i'll
at the Hays hospital.
The Steiner building has been va
Gated, the Kissing stock of goods
having been moved to Park. The Hays
City Drug store will occupy the rooms
as soon as they can be properly fix
ed up.
The courtplaster fend was here one
day last week. He called on c. W.
of his plasters, but G. w. turned him
down. Don't buy court plaster of
travelling salesman.
When your flag becomes so soiled
or torn Or faded that it is unfit for
further use, do not put it into the rag
bag or throw it carelessly aside. In
in the army and the navy the custom
in such cases IS to salute the flag and
then to destroy it with proper respect.
The Youths Companion.
The biggest passenger ship afloat
is the Vaterland. 1t is German-ship
and was interned in New York Navy
Yard during the early part of the war
and since our entrance into the war
we have taken it over and have fitted
it up at an expense of four hundred
thousand dollars and will use it until
peace is declared. We had the oppor-
tunity to visit this ship recently and
we are almost afraid to tell our read
ers about it for fear they viii doubt
the statement. However, the ship is
nine hundred and forty feet long and
from the bottom to the upper deck is
something like a hundred feet. It's
masts are so high that the boat can
not go under the Brooklyn bridge or
the other bridges over east river. It
VIII carry six thousand passengers.
If the boat was stood on end it would
be two hundred feet higher than the
Woolworth building in New York, and
would be four hundred feet higher
than the Washington Monument. It
is propelled by monster engines with
steam furnished by twenty-seven
great boilers. 1t has a speed of
twenty-three miles an hour. There are
several other almost as startling state
ments that could be made about the
boat, but these are perhaps enough
for one time.-Colby Free Press.
Summer FalIowed