The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13

Ed Kraus motored to Ness County,
last week on business. He reports
plenty of feed for stock there.
Mrs. Geo. Ficken and Miss Clara
Stullken of Bison, Kansas, visited
Sunday and Monday, with Mrs Ed
Kraus.
If you want to laugh, come and see
Billy West in ''Cupid's Rival" at the
Hays Opera House. Saturday, Octo-
Der 18th
See Billy West in ''Cupid's Rival"
and add year to your life at the
Hays Opera House, Saturday Octo-
Der 18th.
George Drake is putting four inch
iron posts around his residence pro-
perty on the corner of Wilson Ave
nue. and Pine Street.
The heavy frost Sunday night, in
! this county killed off the plants, as
well as the sorghum and cane fields,
much Of which had not yet seeded.
Down at John Schyler's on Wilson
Avenue and all around town people
are having cut out the dead limbs of
their trees, using the cutting for fire
wood.
The whistle you hear so often now
I is that at the Power plant of the Nor
NAL as all classes now meet and are
ended by the whistle blast, instead of
the old time bell.
Probate Judge F. E. McLain, spent
last Friday, attending the Russell
County Fair and reports great exhi-
| bit of stock and horse-racing and
good agricultural display.
The city this week put in iron pipe
culverts at Broadway, in South Chest
nut Street and much improved the
approaches and water outlet in Chest
nut Street, south of the street paw
ing.
| A gang of men are digging trench
es on Wilson Avenue near Chestnut
Street to lay a new Waterman.
About 1000 feet of four inch pipe is
TO be laid in different streets of the
city this fall.
A letter received this week, from
DIR. Snyder, who is visiting friends
| in Eastern states says that he and
Mrs. Snyder are having a very pleas
ant visit and that they exI Iect to soon
return to Hays, being about through
with their visit.
The power of the light plant was
shut off Wednesday, while the old G..
A. R building was being moved
across North Chestnut Street. Tkr
linotype machines in both the News
and Free Press were put out of bust
ness for several hours on account of
it.
H. H. Pierce on his farm northeast
of Hays, a few miles, has drill at
tachment added to his automobile
sits comfortably in his car and Is
seeding thirty acres q day successfully
1t has gotten now that all kinds OF
machinery is being attached to and
run by the machinery of the home
auto.
Mrs. George Palmer of Ellis, the
soldiers widow, whose husband died
there a short time ago, was at the
Probate Court this week to get q
certificate of copy of her marriage
which occurred in 1882, to use in he1
Ipension evidence. Mrs. Goodrich ac-
copanied her in her search for evi-
dence.
In the law suit over the surveyed
lines of County Surveyor Loredistch
Of a residence lot in the Northwest
part of town, both parties agree to
abide by the survey of Engineer
Olnstead of the paving survey gang
His survey showed lines within an
inch of Loreditsch's line and the divi-
sion fence is to be moved.
| Probate Judge F. E. McLain leaves
this Friday, for a trip to Vicksburg
Miss, to attend a grand reunion OF
the veterans of the Blue and the
Gray, who fought In the battles
around that city in the SOS. A great
4 i i IL
whole of that state IS turning out to
welcome the few veterans left He
will be gone about two weeks and
Judg B. c. Arnold will be Deputy
Probate Judge.
We welcome Hon Ed. Mullaney a:
new resident of Hays City. At the
hearing of the Union Pacific railroad
before the State Board of Utilities or
Tuesday last, asking to take of tht
plug or noon trains through Hays anC
Hill City, on both the main line anC
Plainville branch, several cities sem
representatives, the Salina Journal II
publishing the list puts Ed Mullaney
as representative of Hays. But Hay
had no one there, Ed belongs anC
represents Hill City. The railroad au
thorities finally notified the Boar'
they were making the application 81
they could use all their necessary rol
r ling stock to move the troops from
> Camp Funston when called on by tn
Government and then the train
= would be put back, that seemed sat
= isfactory to everybody concerned.
High School Enrolment by Subjectu
r The Hays High School students ar
l distributed among the different sub
< jects of the course as follows: