The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10

Mike Horan was here from Ellis,
Tuesday.
Mrs. K Disney of Ellis, was here
this week, visiting friends.
The foundation of the new King
Brothers drug store is being laid.
Mrs. Mary Blender from north of
/ town was shopping In Hays, Wednes-
day.
Mrs. George Stock of Hoisington,
is visiting relatives and friends in
Hays.
H. H. Winters and family and the
w. w. Paul family motored to Great
Bend, Sunday.
W. A. Smith is having his residence
on East Normal Avenue given its an
nual coat of paint.
Mrs. Bessie Bryant is here from
Junction City, visiting her daughter,
Mrs. A. H. Schmoekel.
!. B. O'Grady, president of the
Farmers State Bank of this city, was
over from Oberlin, Tuesday.
M ]. Garry was here from Hutch
inson, Tuesday. He was a guest at
the New Windsor while in the city.
Roy Miller is back home from Kan
sas City, where he has been employed
in drug store for several months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Philip, ST., re-
turned home Sunday, from a three
weeks visit with friends in Kansas
City.
Mrs. Harry Stock of Bunkerhill,
has been a guest at the Stock home
for several days. Harry will be here
for the weekend.
Roger Miller, who works at Camp
Funston, spent several days of last
week with his family here, returning
on Saturday night.
Mr. Glassman from Victoria has
located his shoe repairing shop in
| Hays. He has rooms in the basement
of the Windsor Hotel.
E. D. Lauer of U. S. A Recruiting
Station at Wichita, was in Hays, sew
| eral days this week on business for
the War Department.
County Superintendent Louis
Christensen left Wednesday noon,
on the "plug" for Topeka, to attend
the State Teachers meeting.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Lu-
| theran Church will meet on Thursday
November 18th, at the home of Mrs
| Frank McLain, Jr. Come early.
! The Ladies of the Lutheran Church
/ will hold their annual bazaar and
Food Sale in the lecture room of the
| church on Saturday, December 1st.
We have new Ford cars on hand
and full shop equipment for repair
ing old ones. Bring them in now.
John O'Loughlin.
The street paving men report the
! brick yards having many car loads of
brick on hand ready to ship to Hays
| but impossible to get the cars to ship
them.
Raymond Kissing was operated on
at the hospital in this city Tuesday
afternoon for appendicitis. The
! operation was said to have been a
l success.
Mrs. Fulton and daughter from
| Norton County and Miss Alice Freese
| from Graham County, came home to
spend Sunday with relatives and
I friends.
| Alois Pfannenstiel arrived here
Monday, from Boston, Mass, on a
short visit with friends. He is in Un
| Gle Sans service and has a furlough
of fourteen days
Mrs. C. D. Baughman has left Ex-
celsior Springs much improved in
| health, and will spend the winter
with friends in Kansas City and other
points east of here.
| Frank Monroe of Lincoln, sent q
rare specimen of wood duck to G.. w
Miller the first of the week, which
will be mounted and placed in the
Fort Hays Normal Museum.
Mrs. H. B. Kohl returned on Mon
day, from an extended visit in Kan
sas City. She was accompanied home
by her little grandson, Frank Geher,
who will spend the winter here.
Fr. Clalk accompanied Mrs. Klee
and children from near McCracken
to Fort Funston, Tuesday, for a short
training for service in France.
Widows of old soldiers of the Re-
bellion felt good this week when
| their pension checks arrived, showing
all widows pension had been increas-
ed to $500 a month hereafter.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Meyer and little
daughters accompanied by Mr.. anC
Mrs. A. A. Meyer, motored over tt
Bison, on Sunday, and spent the day
with Miss Anna Meyer, who is teach
ing near Bison.
: Miss Carolina Wasinger a trained
nursed employed by DR.. Hemm OF
this city, returned last week from
three weeks stay at Angeles, whert
; she has been nursing one Of the Doc
tors patients.
Last Saturday the city was full o.
farmers trading at our stores, bu
most of them were very conservativ,
. in their buying, even if they do ge
thirty-eight cents a dozen for egg
and forty cents for butter.
Some men when they acquire a fev
dollars more than their neighbors
seem to think they weigh ton to tn
square inch. However, if they couf
view themselves through their neigh
bor's periscope they would look ex