The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-28

% The beam IN ones own eye, not the
mote in the other fellow eye, eclipses
our faith.
Reed & Sons have recently install
| ed Universal Electric meat and
sausage grinder.
Why are some folks content with
] the husks of things when they may
have ripened well formed kernel?
The s'Piano for Sale' advertised in
| this paper quickly found a customer
one of our subscribers getting a
bargain.
Wednesday evening Miss Ernestine
Fields gave a lawn party to eighteen
of her young lady friends, followed
by line party at the theatre.
Conservation by guarding is the
| crying need of the hour in more ways
than one. And it applies to ones
spiritual needs as well as the material.
What a young man earns in the
day time goes into his pocket, what
he spends in the night goes. into his
character; and we may say, how he
spends it.
Ross Hoffman, the genial meat cut
ter at Reed & Sons Stote, is in Colo
rado on q vacation. Gus Klug is look
ing after the meat customers during
his absence
Margaret Meade enjoyed her ninth
Der of her little girl friends. Every
one present had an ENJOYABLE time
and Margaret received a number of
lovely gifts
On Thursday the State Board of
Public Utilities decided against allow
ing the railroads of Kasnas to increase
their passenger rates from two cents
to three cents a mile declaring ''that
the railroads are now the most pros
porous N the history of American
transportation"
Before B. C. Arnold, justice of the
peace Willard Neal, a colored man
was arrested last Tuesday by Sheriff
Weltz on a charge of assault upon a
cOlOred girl aged sixteen years, the
girls mother being the complaining
witness. As a compromise wedding
resulted.
Warren Baker was up from Hays,
this week, with his big house moving
outfit and moved the building used by
Viii Dresser as a harness shop to
the back part of the lot. This is about
the tenth time this building has been
moved, but Warren moved it with less
trouble than any of the other fel-
lows. He certainly has a dandy outfit
Ellis Review Headlight.
This week Harry F1eese received
his re-appointment for another year
as Associated Press Correspondent
for Ellis County. Harry has held this
position many years The Associated
Press showed its wonderful ability
last week in the Draft Numbers
Everybody being interested, the As
socIatlon had their men at the desk
at the drawing anG IS fast as the
mum bers drawn were announced it
was flashed to every part of the United
States and millions of people saw the
numbers q few moments after they
were drawn from the box.
Capt. ". J. Kendrick, accompan-
led by DR.. L. Mark Beach, both of the
U. S. Army were here on Thursday
and examined about fifty young men
from a dozen of the surrounding coun-
ties, who have applied for officers
commissions in the new army and had
successfully done their work at Fort
Riley drill. The following are the
counties: Phillips, Graham, Rocks,
Osborne, TregO, Russell, Ellis, Rush,
Barton, Ellsworth and Rice counties
There were nine from Ellsworth
County. ". R. Holt, linotype opera
tor of the Ellsworth Messenger; Ray
Thorpe, c. NJ. Wilson, A H. Bascop-
sky, H. E. Erickson, H. B. Hutchin-
son, Roy Work and John Aldin.