The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-29

WaKeeney, Tuesday.
E. C. Waldo one of the directors
of the Golden Belt Fair Association.
came over from Ellis, Tuesday.
Bunny Gross stationed at Fort
Bliss, Texas, has not yet been COM
missioned but is acting as Sergeant
Alex Philip and family have
town. They arrived on Tuesdays
train.
Mr. Parrish. state agent for the
Buick automobile company was in
Hays, this week, attending the Gold
en- Belt Fair.
Miss Doris Bauer, who mas been
visiting the family of George Grass
for some time will leave Friday for
her home in Pennsylvania.
Louis A. Schaefer former assistant
cashier of the Farmers State Bank
of Hays, was here Tuesday, enroute
to visit friends at st. Joe, Mo.
H. A. Cowan left Thursday of last
week, for Dansville, n. Y, on visit
to relatives and friends. He will also
visit Illinois and Michigan before re-
turning.
Casper Midd1ekauff, who is visit
ing home friends at present is await
ing orders from the war department
to report for duty. He may be called
most any day.
There is a dance every Sunday
night in a disrnantled building at Yo-
cemento, which seems to attract a
number of young men from Hays,
and also from Ellis.
Paul Dinges has purchased the
stock of the Fruit store recently
moved to Second Street. The stock
has been moved to the fair grounds
and will be close out.
DR.. Moye, the northside veterinarian
has just received his commission as
Second Lieutenant in the Veterinary
department of the New United States
Army and expects to be called most
any day.
Maurice Craig, recently book
keeper at the Treat & Shaffer Lum-
Der yard but now soldier in Uncle
Sans New Army has received a COM
mission as Sergeant and is stationed
at Fort Douglas, Utah, near Salt
Lake, City.
o. P. Byers, president of the An
thony & Northern railroad is in Hays
today looking after the proposed ex-
tension Of the road to this city. The
company have until sometime in 1918
to get the road into Hays, to secure
the bonds. They will have to get
busy.
Banners fastened to each side of
train carrying men to Fort Riley,
the past week, had the following done
in large letters:
"Our cause is just,
Berlin or bust.
The fighting Sixty-third.
A city ordinance already passed or
about to be passed allows each family
during the period of the war to
keep one or two pigs. There is gen
orally, enough in most families that
goes TO waste to keep one or more
pigs growing nicely and the purchase.
of a few bushels of corn will finish
them.
Next week the old G. A. R. build
| ing that has been standing on the
corner of Fort and Second Street for
so many years will be moved onto
lots on South Chestnut Street where
it will be used as a lodge building.
The city will soon commence the
erection of a $23, 900 city hall on the
site thus vacated.
What has become of the home
guard organized in Hays at the out
! set of the war? We hear nothing of
| late. Has it died in its infancy >
| Home guards in nearly every county
| in the state are being organized and
why not Ellis County? Are the people
of this county less patriotic? We
think not. Let US get in line with
| other counties in the state.
Mary Haffamier, for several years
the popular well liked assistant post
master at the Hays postoffice is now
| clerking at the Schermerhorn ladies
department store. Mary knows nearly
| every man, woman and child in this
community and hundreds of people
in the surrounding country in and
| out of Ellis county and viii no doubt
be a valuable assistant.
Since the paving of the two Main
Streets and the installation of the
guttering and surface sewer we no
tice that the water from North
and South Main Street and South
Chestnut is all enptied on Chestnu:
Street south of H. J. Penney's barn
making the street from there to Big
Greek bridge almost impesSa bic. The
street should be paved at least as
far as the bridge or the surface sewer
!extended to the creek. Paving would
be much the better.