The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Frank Miller was over from Ellis

Frank Miller was over from Ellis,
Tuesday.
Scenes filmed in widest recesses
of Sierras. See "The Fighting Trail"
Bessie Leahy returned Monday
from visit with friends in Topeka
w. T. Edwards has returned from
a visit with his daugter at Kansas
City.
Thrills of vast nature is felt in
every scene. See "The Fighting
| Trail"
John Miller returned Wednesday
| evening, from protracted sojourn in
Kansas City.
Sierra Mountains form the setting
for the big photoplay. See 'The
Fighting Trail"
! Girl is rescued from death as her
horse falls over a precipice. See ''The
Fighting Trail"
Mrs. Elizabeth Leahy is home from
two weeks visit with friends in
Topeka and Kansas City.
If you are a lover of beautiful
! mountain scenes don't fail to see
''The Fighting Trail"
Alice Penney entertained a num-
Der OF her friends at the home of her
parents Tuesday evening.
The Sierra Nevada Mountains and
| the Mojave Desert furnish the set
ing for "The Fighting Trail
The Methodist ladies had a social
gathering and luncheon In their par
lors on Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Jacob Feitz is visiting her
daughter, Mrs Albert Copeland,
southwest of Hays, this week
Lieutenant MiIlard Crane went
through Hays on Sunday, with COM
pany of soldiers, enroute to the coast.
H A Cowan returned Thursday
morning, from an extended visit with
relatives in New York and other
| eastern states.
The Brumitt Bros. have moved their
auto tire and automobile repair shop
into the Mulroy building just east of
the Wiusor hotel on East Third
Street.
Mrs. Ransom and daughter Beulah,
will leave for Colorado Springs, to
spend the winter with her son as
soon as she can secure tenants for
her house here.
Mrs. F. B. Lee and Miss Schoenhals
entertained the teachers of the train
ing department of our schools on
| Tuesday evening. About twenty-four
were in attendance.
EN- Speer and family of the First
National Bank drove to Hoxie Tues
| day, to attend the funeral of Carl
/ Custom, who died at Fort Funston,
from spinal meningitis.
| Mrs Ida Kirkland brought home
with her frmo Idaho, where she has
been visiting the Hollenbecks at Pay
cite, some of the most beautiful speci-
mems Of fruit ever seen in Hays.
Miss Mabel Truan left Friday
evening, spending Saturday in Man
haitian, from there she will go to
Kansas City and Moberly, Mo-, for
/ an extended visit with relatives and
friends.
Mrs. J. G. Brenner recently at
tended the Chicago. Dry Goods Con-
vention at Hotel Savoy in Kansas
City. The convention was held by
merchants of Chicago for the benefit
| of Western merchants.
Promises of provisions for the box
that Mrs. Hale is soliciting for about
fifty soldier boys at Funston, are
pouring in. Such things as fruit
cakes, fruit cookies, stuffed dates.
and preserves may be brought in any
time, and as soon as the right parties
are found to receive and deliver the
contents of the box to the soldiers for
whom it has been prepared (viz: boys
who get no packages or letters from
friends,) then notice will be given to
prepare the various good things prom
ised. In the meantime more dona-
tions can be listed. Phone 100 if
you want to help.
At the last meeting of the Hays
Retail Merchant Association, it was
voted to guarantee $4,000 to the
State Teachers Association of the
fourth District of Kansas to bring its
annual meeting to Hays.
If the bushes men success in land
ing this meeting for Hays, every
other year it will mean the bringing
into our town 8 1000 or 1000 teach
ers for two or three days stay every
two years.
. Bringing so many people to town
from all over Northwestern Kansas
will be a great advertisement for
Hays and its institutions and Incl
IDENTIFY it viii mean more business foI
1 HauS I1yT7ifa tho visitors aro boro