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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08

Girls! Young WomenI Attention!
By order of Surgeon General Cor
gas the WOman's Committee of the
Council of National Defense Is asked
to recruit $4,000 students for nurses
training schools. Of this number the
quota for Kansas is 10.
Candidates desiring to be consid-
cred for admission to the Army
School of Nursing should make pro-
ner application through the County
Chairman, Mrs. W. A. Lewis.
EnrOllmcnts means that the candi-
date viii hold herself in readiness It'll
April 1, 1919, to take training If she
is offered an assignment in train
ing school, unless she has taken up
other government war service n the
meantime.
No tuition fee is required. The
students will be provided with board,
lodging, laundry and required text
Dboks. A prerequisite of at least a
Ugh School education is required for
entry into this work
There is an opportunity here for
girls desiring to be sent overseas.
For further information and for
blanks apply at the Hays
Public Library or write Mrs. W. A.
Lewis, in care of the Hays Pubic Ii
brary, HAYS, Kansas.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
Experiment Station Notes


Maximum temperatures of 105 to
108 degrees have been recorded for
several days since the period of hot
winds started about August I. Corn
is suffering considerably more than
the sorghum crops at this time.
Flowing for wheat is being pushed
in spite of hot weather
Threshing of barley has been com
pleteG the average yield being 20
bushels per acre
". NJ. Jardine, president of IN Kan
sas State Agricultural College, Wis
tied the Station Saturday and Sun
day. He and Mrs. Jardine, accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. Weeks, left
Hays, Sunday evening by automobile
for short vacation trip in Colorado.
A. L. Halstead and F. A. Kiene
spent Tuesday, August 9th, at Quin-
ter, arranging for seedbed prapara-
ton tests with wheat in cooperation
with the Quinter High School.
R. W Schafer, county agent of
Washington County, visited the Sta
tion August 3rd, looking up Kanred
wheat for farmers of his county. The
Station has already received more or
dedrs than can be filled for this
wheat.
Miss Agnes Case of Little River, Is
making a visit of two weeks or so
with her sister, Alice.
H. H. Sherrard left the Station
August 1st to enter the army.
Mr.. Yeoman, a former K. S. A. c.
man, now in aviation training at Dal-
las, Texas, visited Mr. Gibbons a few
days this week.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08

The pavement dance next Wednes-
day night is for the benft of the
Hays Home Guards. Buy a ticket and
sdow your patriotism for your home
soldiers.
Last Tuesday evening Miss Anjoe
McLain had the bad luck to fall down
the cellar stairs at the home of her
sister, Mrs. F. r. Bussard, and the
good luck not to sustain any broken
bones. She was badly shaken up,
and considerably bruised about the
chest and back. 1t will require sew
eraI days for her to fully recover her
usual good health but centuries could
not eliminate from memory the
citing experience.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
FROM ONE COWARD TO AN
OTHER

THE RULE OR RUIN PATRIOT.
TALK ABOUT ONE MAN TRY
ING TO RULE THE TOWN. GUESS
THAI FITS YOU. GUESS YOU
FOUND OUT HOW POPULAR YOU
WAS BY THE HOME GUARDS.
ALWAYS TRYING TO ARREST
SOME ONE FOR SPEEDING.
BRAVE MAN IF HOT AIR WAS
BRAVERY YOU WOULD BE
ABOVE EVERYBODY. THE ARMY
IS FULL OF PHILIPS &?
THE ARMY OF HOT AIR.
The above anonymous letter was
recently received by Mayor Geo.
Philip, Jr.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
No Government Order Issued on
Hours for Gasoline Sales

No Government Order Issued on
Hours for Gasoline Sales
The Fuel Administration issues the
following:
The attention of the War Indus
tries Board and of the United States
Fuel Administration has been called
to the wide prevalence throughout
the United States of mistaken i'm
preston that some order or recon-
mendation has been issued from
Washington with respect to the sale
of oil and gasoline. In some places,
local automobile dealers, associations
have been issued circulars laying
down the rule that dealers in oil and
gasoline must make no sale of these
products on Sundays and holidays or
after six p. M, on other days, and
stating cit is now an order from
Washington"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
High Production of Arms and Muni-
tiouS

tIouS
The attention of owners of Liberty
Bonds and War Savings Stamps is
called to the following. They are
financing the work:
On one day in June last approx
mately 27,0OO,000 cartridges of var
ioUs descriptions were produced In
he United States manufacture ne
plants for the Unitedd States Govern
ment.
The daily average production of
United States Army rifles was broken
n the week ending June %, an aver
age of 10,412 rifles a day a modified
Enfield and Springfield type being
maintained In addition spare parts
equivalent to several thousand Rus
sian rifles were manufactured
The Ordnance Department has pro-
duced 2,014, ,S15.5S4 cartridges, l.
SS6,769 rifles and $3.50 machine
guns since the United States has en-
tered the war. The daily output of
cartridges IS now 15,OOO.O0O.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
Soldier. in France Need More Book


The Hays Public Library has re-
ceived today a request from the
American Library Associations Head
quarters in Washington for more
books from this community for the
men overseas.
The appeal from Washington states
that new novels and good Western
stories, whether new or old, are most
needed. Books by Zane Grey, Rex
Peach, Jack London, Ralph Connor,
Owen Wister and O Henry are very
popular. The Public Library an
ounces that it will receive and for
ward all suitable books that are turn
ed in It urges the friends of the sol
diers and sailors, many of whom have
already responded most generously,
to give more books.
The communication received by the
library from the Washington Head
quarters states that over 100000
books have been sent overseas. The
supply is nearly exhausted and sew
eral hundred thousand more will be
needed soon by the six dispatch offices
which are now shipping books tc
France. The books are packed at
these dispatch Offices in strong cases
so butt that they serve as a bookcase
They go on the decks Of transports
, n cargo vessels and IN naval vessels
/ Those that go on the decks of trans
are open so that the men may
/ have reading matter for use on the
| voyage All these books rae gathere,
together again. however, replaced in
the cases and delivered to the proper
| officials N France
In France, the books are distribut
/ ed by an experienced Librarian, rep
resenting the American Library As
sociation. Most of them 90 to Y NJ
! G. a, Red Cross and Salvation Army
huts. hospitals and canteens Other
go directly TO chaplains and officers
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
No Governmental Order

No such order or recommendation
has been issud. by any governmental
authority or with any governmental
approval The Fuel Administration
has urged that wasteful practices in
the use of oil and gasoline shall be
stopped and all reasonable and proper
measures of conservation shall be OBJ
served. No limitations, however,
have been placed upon the sale of
~9za products
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
No interference Intended

It is not intended to interfere in
any way with the activities of auto
mobile dealers associations or others,
who, after consideration of the local
conditions, may seek to bring about
some imitation upon the hours dur
ing which oil and gasoline shall be
sold to the public; but no orders
or recommendation have been issued
by any governmental authority upon
this Official Bulletin, Wash
ington, D. G.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
Mary HOllenbeek left wednesda

Mary Hollenbeck left Wednesday
for her home at Payette, Idaho.I
Staab & Schueler are making i'm
Drovements on their South side gar
age
Reports of several cases of typhoid
fever in town has stirred the health
officials to renewed action IN an en-
davor to speedily abate all disease
breeding nuisances-
President and Mrs. Lewis left We'd
nesday via automobile for Colorado,
and the invigorating breezes Of the
Rocky Mountains They viii be alb
sent about two weeks
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
Important Notice

Notice is hereby given to all pro-
perty owners that all privy vaults
now existing within the corporate
limits Of the City of Hays, must be
ing and filling vault with earth
No privy vault permits viii be is
sued IN the future. A persons desir-
-iring toilets on their premises must
make sewer connection.
By order of Board of Health.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
PUBLIC LIBRARY HOURS
WEEK DAVIS
One until five and seven until te

One until five and seven until ten
p m
SUNDAYS
The library will be open hereafter
from two until five p. m. on Sunday
afternoon. No books will be checked
or received at the desk on Sunday but
the books, newspaper and magazines
may be freely used In the reading
room All books returned and left on
the desk to be checked In on Sunday
will be subject to an extra fine Of
five cents
Everybody is welcome.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
LAST CALL

For sale:-Two quart freezer, two
folding tables, oak dining room set,
oak rocking chair, oak writing desk,
chicken wire, coal oil can, home cob
blers outfit and tools.
L. D. WOOSTER.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
A KICK THAT FAILED

For over thirty years Harry Freese
of Hays, has been making out U S
and pension and never
complaint from either department
Since the present war activities,
he has made out most of the depend
ent wife or parent pension papers for
the soldiers boys of Ellis County, who
have been drafted or enlisted, getting
them their government allowance with
never 2 complaint from the depart
ment, and all done without charge,
save the legal notary fee.
Lately some Haysites, evidently
seeking notoriety or Jealous, secretly
wrote the department at Washington
that Freese was making out such pa
pers and might eomplicate the records
and discommOde the soldiers and their
relatives
The Treasury Department having
charge Of that department, wrote ask
ing what reference and experience
Mr. Freese had The information was
granted the next day; the records Of
the soldiers war risk for Ellis County,
Kansas, was examined IN Washington,
and Wednesday, Mr. Freese received
the following complimentary letter of
which he can be proud:
Treasury Department., Bureau of War
Risk Insurance
Washington, D. c.. Augusta 1913
Mr. Harry Freese, Hays, Kansas,
Dear Sir:
beg TO acknowledge receipt OF
your letter of July 18th, IN reply TO
a communication sent you from this
Office July 10Th
In reply I beg to advise you that
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
has absolutely no complaint to make
against any of the activities In which
you hvae engaged
wish to say that we appreciate
very much any services which you
have rendered TO the dependent rela-
tives of soldiers which has resulted
in enabling them TO adjust the receipt
Of any monies due them from the
government more promtly.
If at any time the Bureau can be Of
assistance to you IN this work, please
communicate with US
Very truly yours,
c. T. NESBTT,
Commissioner.
Mr.. Freese has his Office and seal
at the Brunswick hotel, glad to serve
the soldier boys or their relatives TO
aid IN winning this war, as his part
OF the needed activities Maybe his
complainant can show as good a rec
ord
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
From Joseph Pratt.

Somewhere in France.
July 1, 1913.
Dear Bill:
Arrived in France some time ago
Am fine and dandy. This sure is
lovely country and the climate is
great, the finest l ever saw. The days
are nice and warm, not too hot, and
The nights are cool. We sure can sleep
fine, the only trouble is we can't
sleep late enough. I was in England
q while Its a beautiful country too,
] don't think it has anything on
France. The people are good many
years behind the times overehere-
get that. usedto say cover there but
now I say cover here" ha, ha. How
is everybody in Hays? How is my
friend Walt and Gay? Tell them
am going to answer there letters some
of these days. Where is Addison and
how is he? Don't forget to tell him
10 write me for l sure would like to
hear from him. I got letter from
home the other day The first word
! received since I left the states. So
don't forget to write me real soon
and tell me everything for letters
from Hays sure are appreciated, be-
lieve me- So don't forget to write
often. Give my best regards to Mr..
Behan. Tell Bill Wright to send me
The news, so I can get the dope on
the women.
I'll close now. VIII write more
next time Tell everyone hello and
answer soon.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08
REhdIS

will sell you a front tire for your
Ford for $1,000: rear $500.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08

For Sale--Bicyele IN good condi-
tion. Inquire at Free Press Office.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08

Nice four room dwelling house for
sale at a bargain. Electric lights,
city water, bath room.-See J. M.
Schaefer
Don't forget the pavement dance
next Wednesday night.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08

Pvt. Joseph A Pratt,
NJ. G. Co., 353rd Inf Amer. E. F
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08

Mr.. James Behan left Monday
night for Colorado.
Miss Alta Garret is confined to her
home with sickness.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08

Matt Truan and family visited rela-
tives in Russell County, Sunday.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-08

Miss Velma Meserve of Ellis, spent
a few days last week with Mrs. John
NJ. Miller.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27

Ing look around the neat, clean little
sitting room. II say, Robert, had a
bid today on some of your property
here"
That's good" responded Robert,
pricking up his ears, ever keen for
business.
''The towns growing and getting
crowded, and client is thinking of
buying some street frontage and build
ing a half dozen bungalows as a
speculation. l wondered if your va
cant corner beyond here mightn't suit
him. What are you asking for it an
acre?'
"An acre!" fairly shouted Robert.
"Humph! that's COOL Why, the land
is fully a quarter of mile nearer
town than the new subdivision of Jem
Lane. He charges lot prices, and so
shall l."
The brother-in-law hunched his
shoulders and looked dubious. "See
here, Robert" he said. ''Pm going to
be plain with you. I've brought half a
dozen customers here who want to
build, and lost all of them. The loca-
ton isn't so bad; it's direct street
and the widest in town, but the minute
they see those rickety sheds facing the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27

The midnight hour, solemn and dyeay-
The bells ring out our good old year.
/ listen to the bldintiUe sound
Vibrating DER the country round.
AldSt my friend has to depart,
Ny good, old year, 1t pains my hearth
He zgGS Nth me mid sunny rays,
lind CLING to me in cIoady days,
n friend in JOY, friend in noe,
Yes, such zUdS he, but, he must go!
No more he shall return to me,
With all his charms and gifts, so free.
And Nh! 1T grieveS me too, the thought.
That TIE not used him, as I ought!
Amd aCheM I think about this year,
Forever noe to disappear,
N0zV also of the years of y0Ys,
Rang out since long, to be no more.
With childhood's sport, aOhen dreams /
dreamed,
When fancy's rays upon me beamed,
U1ith dear old home, and all its charms.
And smiling eyes and loviag arms,
With reckoning hopes of RAINBOW hue,
With hearts sincere, that stronger gYeg0,
The bells say sadly: "GOne for aye,
Time Sweeps your pleasures oil
dsOay!"
Ahl cease to ring thou moayMfNl bell,
I do not Ike thy funeral knel,
Curtain mine eyes, thou blessed sleep,
Ind let me JOY IN dYedmlGnd reap!
The notes are hMSbed-the year Is dead,
And zUJ0t he zcGs and gaze has fed.
But no-omce more hear it ring,
NoaU movisg Nth ste0diey saUing,
Bounding, SzUeet notes, conveying cheer,
The bells ring IN the bright NegO Year.
NesO life, ney hope, mesO peace, nezV
cheer.
FoyeweH the old, weIcome Ne1V YeGyi
Yes, church bells, ring from lofty sbiye
That heavenaUGyd point, with hope to-
insbiyet
The happy song is IN your elGng,
Which one syeet night Gods angels
sang:
GLORY to. God and peace on earth
Good sciU to MAJ" at JesMs' birth.
Rev. S. F. REDERUs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27
CHIPS FROM THE RIME BLOCK.

Well, Angel of the Record Book, turn
over one more leaf, and jot down my
resolutions. I shall try to make them
brief. But, come to think about it,
what will all the angels say when
they see my resolutions, same as every
New Years day? / suspect they'll
say: .'That duffer has dragged out the
same old set, and he'll smash 'em all
by Monday, or by Tuesday night. I'll
bet wish we angels had harp for
each and every time he has made that
resolution to quit writing silly rhyme. =
Poor Angel of the Record Book
You've got a man-sized job, writing
down the resolutions for the New
Years morning mob! would sug-
gest you save your strength and over
head expense, by making up some rub
Der stamps for ten or twenty pence.
Just save the stamps this evening,
and file them all away. You'll need
them in a year from now, another New
Years day!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27

Robert Adams visited carpenter
shop, the town paint store and other
places early the next morning. He
went to the hardware store and ex-
amined the latest in house trimmings.
He spent two hours going over wall
paper stock. He asked each artisan he
consulted one uniform question: Can
you get the work all finished by New
Years eve?''
He amazed the village tailor by or
dering his first suit in five years. He
was a profitable customer for the bar
Der, who not only worked in shave
and hair trim, but shampoo and
half dozen special unguents.
The renovated husband Of Mary Adj
ans dallied long at the mirror ere he
went out and took Dobbin out of the
stable. The train was due at ten
O'Clock, but it was New Years eve,
travel was heavy and all trains de-
layed, and it was well on toward mid
night when he craned his neck from
the sleigh and eagerly watched the
passengers alight.
An utterance Of disappointment
escaped his lips as passenger after
passenger left the platform. Then he
stared fxedly at a feminine form ar
rayed in neat velvet hat and pretty
plush coat. She had turned her face
toward the station light.
"Mary!' he cried, but unbelievingly,
as he viewed her strange attire.
"Oh, Roberto she replied, and has
tened eagerly toward him, but halt
ed with a quick shock. Old Dobbin
looked ten years younger than when
she had last seen him. The sleigh glis-
tened like newly FURNISHED chariot.
And Robert !-she Toasted her eyes on
this apparent subject of the fountain
of youth.
I'll didn't know you" she stam-
mered
''Nor / you" said Robert-..all dolled
up in new togs."
"Oh, Uncle Ephraim made sister and
me famous Christmas present and
insisted on seeing it spent on our own
selves" explained Mary.
'Tve invested a trife in the same
line myself" vaunted Robert, with a
spice of pride. sect in, Mary. Yes,
new robes. Don't think me reckless
did it all for you.''
j Again-"Oh, Robertl" in rapt tones,
as they came in sight of home, loom
ing up like mansion in new robe
of white trimmed with dark green.
"Wait till you see the rooms-new pa
peRed from top to bottom" and Mary
was in daze as she was ushered
into the house. Then she put her arms
around his neck and kissed him.
"What does this wonderful magic
mean?" she f1uttered.
sit means-hark! there go the bells,
Ginning out the old year. 1t means
Happy New Year!'' and he placed his
arm about her waist-'the newest
New Year of our lives, for we are go
ing to begin to enjoy the best the world
can give all over again!"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27
KilIinu Pests With Gas.

Bean and pea weevils which annu-
ally destroy millions of dollars worth
of valuable seed, food and feed in the
form of beans, peas and cowpeas in
storage have not yet discovered the
advantages of gas masks, and those
who expect trouble from weevils can
successfully kill them by a gas attack
Immediately after the crops are har-
vested. Carbon disulphid should be
used. Place the seed in an alright
container, such as a tin can, barrel or
bin, and over the top pour small
amount of the chemical 1.-TWO to four
pounds to over 800 cubic feet of space
to be fumigated). cover the seed and
fumigate from "a to 48 hours Th I
seed should then remain In air-tigEs
containers, and should be inspected
frequently to see that the weevils do
not reappear. In case they do. repeat
he gas treatment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27

street, and the house here, lopsided,
paint all faxed off and the lot Uttered
up with old wagon wheels and other
rubbish, they shake their heads. You're
behind the times-worse than that, you
delight in playing the .don't-care old
hayseed,' who doesn't appeal to an up
to-date neighbor. l should think, with
Mary, the thrifty Mary, always neat
as a pin and living in this old wreck
when she could grace a palace, you
would turn over new leaf. BY the
way, the good time to start it will soon
be here-January 1. Think it over. 1t
means happiness for Mary, who de-
serves it, and profit for you, who have
let the golden chances slip by unheed-
ed all these years."
Robert Adams did not resent the
straightforward talk of his visitor. He
was just in frame of mind where the
suggestions implanted might take root.
He nodded thoughtful adieu to his
relative and sat down alone to cogi-
tate. The postman appeared with a
letter from Mary and a small bundle.
The former expressed the delight her
long-anticipated visit had brought to
her people. The package, opened, re-
vealed Mary's Christmas gift to him
half dozen handkerchiefs and two
neckties. All of them bore initials
or some ornamental needlework, and
his face softened as he realized how
many plodding hours his wife had de-
voted to the task to give him pleasure.
Then he smiled grimly. AS he fixed
his eyes on framed portrait of his
helpmeet his eyes grew tender. Then
they took to their depths a dreamy
tinge. Before his mental vision passed
series of pictures born of the vivid
suggestions Of the day.
"Why, not?" he cried abruptly, com
ing briskly to his feet. January first
is a good time to beginl"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27

hill, German with machine gun
crept up close to our lines and turned
it loose on US. Many we're standing
around out of their holes so it
caused quite commotion / had to
take five men out in front of our line
and remain on guard for five hours.
Yes, it rained and one could scarcely
see his hands before his eyes. The
last night / was in the advance, I
found an old barrel and slept in it.
Certainly beat sleeping on the ground
in the rain when your clothes, feet
and blanket are wet"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27
r8Nyg-
TAKE TIME TO LIVE RIGHT.

The season for good resolutions is
approaching. Thousands are resolv-
ing to begin the New Year by COM
mencing some effort at self-improve-
ment.
Most people suffer from poor health
because they say .'they haven't time
to take care of themselves"
The business man knows he needs
exercise, but denies hilnself because
he hasn't time.
Most people run their Ewes in such
slipshod fashion tlWt they haven't
time to eat properly, 70 think proper
~, and to rest properly.
And the result is tnat they die ahead
Of time because they haven't had time
to live properly.