The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-16

/ The Penney family are in Kans-
rs City and are expected home the
first OF next week.
Geo. Reidel is building a fine new
modern home on his farm eight miles
southwest Of Hays.
Rev. Carleton, pastor of the Metho-
dist church at Hill City, was a Hays
visitor on Thursday.
The Pratt girls, Hilder and Elsie,
are here from Studley, visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Owen.
Claude Replogle is excavating for
new home on the Replogle Broth
er's farm southeast of town.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthew re-
turned Wednesday from an automo-
bile trip to Las Vagas, N. M.
A telegram received by Elmer
! Shade, states that his sister, Mrs.
Mary Milliss, died Thursday, June
| 4th-
The Baptist people held a social
at their church Thursday night.
Strawberry short-cake was served
at luncheon.
III. 4NO4S " aAASCL anu HllS dCEOHl-
! panied by Miss Janet Philips motored
to Great Bend Saturday of last week,
returning Sunday.
John Hale, aged 13 and several
other boys about his size have en-
gagements at the Experiment Station,
hoeing up weeds in the fields.
Mrs Woodbridge and her Sunday
School class of fifty young ladies en-
joyed picnic campfire and supper
| at the creek on Wednesday evening.
Mr.. Finkbinder, who has been run
ming an engine in the big oil field of
: Tulsa, Oklahoma, is home again The
water at Tulsa made him so Ill he had
to leave.
Miss Gladys Miller and little sis
ter Nellie, left on the morning train,
Thursday for Manhattan, where the ,
will visit relatives and friends for a
couple of weeks.
Jonah Mutton, Mrs. Roger Miller.
Bud and Sis Mutton went to Manhat-
tan IN their car Thursday morning
Jonah and Bud will go to Excelsior
Springs from there for a short time
Harvey Fellers, of the Citizens
Lumber Company, has bought a lot
between Mrs. Ransom's and Henry
McVey's properties and will ere long
begin the erection Of a comfortable
home
A good delegation from Hays at
tended the annual County Sunday
School convention at Ellis on Sun
day. Only one day for the conven-
! ton this year
: Mr.. and Mrs Geo. BeIlman, ac-
cOmpanied by their guests, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Perry, OF Kansas City,
the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs
Robert Hall.
The W. F. NJ. S. ossthe Methodist
church went out In cszfS on Thursday
and spent the afternoon in study and
recreation at the pleasant home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Kraus. Mrs. Kraus
served an appetizing luncheon to the
ladies ere their departure.
Ralph Burns, in a letter of recent
date to friends in Hays, says that his
regiment has been ordered to ship
between daylight and dark at a stated
time, he presumes they will land in
France or England. BY the time this
'squib" reaches our readers, the boys
viii be seeing the sight across the
"big water
Miss Mildred Garrett and Mr..
John Henderson were married at'fbe
home of the brides mother Mrs.
Pearl Garrett at o'clock on Tues
day evening. Only the family and a
few friends were present. The new
y-wedded pair will go to housekeep-
ng in the house formerly occupied
by Mr.. Hill The Free Press extends
best wishes.
Remember the dates of the big
| Temperance Convention, June 21, %,
%, 24-and be ready to enjoy every
session possible. The programs are
out and present a most attractive
i number of programs. Opens We'd
nesday evening and there will be
three services for the three following
/ days. The meetings will be held in
the Methodist church.
Mrs. Mary A. Brown and Mrs.
| Loyal King and daughter, Thelma,
mother, sister and niece of Mrs. A.
| L Clark arrived Thursday evening
| from Marysville, Kansas. Mrs.
Brown will remain in Hays for sever
al months; Mrs. King, after a weeks
visit, will go to Superior, Nebraska.
for weeks visit with her brother
Frank and family.
Ihe Busy Bees OF the N. Z. Sunday
School had weiner roast at the fair
grounds Tuesday afternoon and even
ing. Those present were Hazel
| Gladys and Adah Miller, Mrs Fred
Miller, Viola Meyer, Luella Rhine,
Gladys DeCrow, Fern Stimits, Edna
Brown, Iona Moore, Laura VeIie,
| Hazel Straily, Winifred Bennett and
| Freda Morris Everybody returned
home tired, but reported a good time.
In a recent trial, the testimony
showed how a married man attended
dances and movies with a much
younger girl who was infatuated
With him. By the way, it has not
often come up IN my experience IN
court that suspicious intimacy OF
illicit relations between man and
woman went on under cover of re-
tigious or educational meetings, althc
IN this case the girl made efforts tc
see and meet the man when going tc
Or from church
/ The Busy Bees OF the NJ. E Sun
day School had a surprise party fol-
their teacher, Miss Hazel Miller, Mon.
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