The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-28
Conrad Kruger visited in Kansas

U. P. Claim Agent Taylor was in
Hays, this week.
Mrs Mollie Glathart is visiting
friends in Lawrence.
Corporal D. F. Klemm has recently
gone from Funston to France.
Francis Blender marketed a fine
lot Of kafir corn seed this week.
Jake Unrein and wife were pas
sengers for Topeka, Tuesday night.
Mrs. E: C. Waldo of Ellis, was Wis
iting with frinds in Hays, on Monday.
John Miller and bride have been
spending their honeymoon in Kansas
City.
The Experiment Station is shipping
large quantities of fruit and forrest
trees this spring.
Soldier Stecklein left Tuesday
night for Funston, after short visit
with honre friends.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Emery FoItz,
a son, Milan, Monday, March 18th, at
Twin Falls, Idaho.
H. w Grass of Lacrosse, and Sam
Leasure of Russell, were Hays visi-
tors on Wednesday.
Francis Blender has recently pur-
chased the old Westbrook blacksmith
shop on South Fort Street.
Rev. Hale will attend the regular
annual conference of the Methodist
church next week at Downs.
Roy Miller left Tuesday night, for
Fort Riley. He IS now a member of
the u s. medical department.
Miss Birdie Wood of this city and
Mr.. Roy Jack of Leoti, Kansas, were
married at Leoti, Wednesday, March
18th.
Swede Nelson left Tuesday night
for Columbus. Ohio, where he will
join the aviation branch of Uncle
Sans service.
Geo. Abel, who has been quite i'll
for nearly three weeks from pneu-
monia, is improving and hopes soon
to be able to return home.
Ralph Graham and mother are
here from Kansas City. Ralph will
be associated with Ed Rea, one of
the leading lawyers of the city.
The Misses MoIlie PfannenstieI, Ell
la Miller and Catherine Gross grad
uated as trained nurses from the St.
John Hospital at Leavenworth, March
18th.
John Weber writes to his mother
that he never felt so fine in his life,
but would be happier if he could get
into the big fight soon for that is what
he joined the army for.
The cuts on front and back of the
cover of the new Normal summer
school catalogue are unusually at
misunderstanding Normal buildings
and Custer Island monument.
A. H. Kerns, who is one of the avia-
ton instrutors in a school in Texas,
expects to be sent soon to Dayton,
Ohio, at which place his wife looks
forward to visiting him some time in
May.
A large class of Knight TempIars
was admitted at the Hays Lodge on
Wednesday evening, among them
Capt. Henry W. Hensen of Lacrosse,
A big crowd here from Ellis, Russell,
and Lacrosse.
Miss Jean Cave, who teaches at
Paradise, was in town over last Sat
urday and Sunday, looking up ma
ter1aI Tor an Easter program that she
is responsible for in the church at
that place on Sunday morning.
Miss Clara Wolfe, one of the Nor
NAL students, has gone to her home
at Geneseo, Kansas, in response to a
telegram received the first of the
week that her mother had met with
an accident ard was in a serious con-
dition-
Mrs K L. Smith of Hastings. Ne
braska, mother of Miss Leone Smith.
who is III the employ of R. S. Mark
well at his book store, recently pur-
chased one of the HubbeII cottages in
The south part of tn city. She moved
in Monday.
The Methodist Ladies Society is to
hold Easter bazaar food sale and
luncheon at the former Basgan store
room on Saturday. Ready made gar
ments for women and children, fancy
work, food ready for serving and
three kinds of lunch combinations
Call and see what they have to offer.
Mr. and Mrs Matt Truan are the
parents of baby daughter, born at the
hospital on Monday night. The little
stranger is very welcome, nOtwith-
standing that she came when her bro
theirs and sisters ar all too old to play
with her. But invariably these late
arrivals are a double blessing to the
I. homes into which they come.
The D. ". C. class of the Methodist
Sunday School had its monthly social
meeting with Mrs. Hale at the par
sonage on last Thursday afternoon
Between thirty and forty of the fifty
members enrolled were present, and a
happy and busy afternoon was spent
in exchanging tested war recipes and
working on layette garments for the
French babies.
Miss LoRee Cave is a busy young
woman these days In addition to her
duties as assistant teacher of pomes-
tie Art and Science at the Normal,
she gives weekly lectures in towns up
and down the line of the Union Pacific
Her ambition is to go to France as a
specialist In dietetics, but she must
first acquire two more years of life
I and a speaking knowledge of the
French language. She will spend the
six weeks of summer vacation at close
of the summer term IN special work
at Chicago university.
The preliminary examination of Jo-
selp L. Surmeir of Grinnell, for the
| theft of a Ford automobile was heard