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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21
Measles are too numerous to men

Measles are too numerous to men
/ ton.
''The Senior at the Normal Audi
torium, Friday, March 22nd-
The Bice family motored to Plain
vile and Waldo, the first of the week.
! The Shakester family now occupy
Mrs. CARROTS home on Esat Normal
Avenue.
Miss Ruth Cerney, living south
west of town was shopping in Hays,
Tuesday.
The sixteen year old son of Mr..
! and Mrs Anton Herl is quite i'll at
the hospital
! Lester Poland who was exempted
from the draft has a job in Mime
apolis, Mimi.
Judd Bell and family moved this
week to the Wagner property near
the school house.
Mrs. VIM. Wood or Ft. Riley, mo-
ther of Mr. T. M. Wood is here for
an extended visit
Bert Tuttle came in on the jitney
Thursday, to be with his father who
is i'll at the hospitla.
Wanted-a woman or a girl to as
sist with housework, Sunday except
ed.-Campus Tea Room.
Mrs. Arlington has returned to her
home in Cove County. Her daughter
will remain in school here.
Ed Kraus was in town on crutches
this week, his first outing since his
accident several weeks ago.
John Cavendar arrived Saturday on
the jitney from Moberly, Mo-, for a
visit with friends and relatives
The Yapp family moved from East
Normal Avenue to West Juniata
Street into one of the Walz cottages.
The beautiful weather has set peo-
pie to gardening and all over town
yards are being plowed up and some
potatoes already planted
Harold Gill is remodeIing into a
modern home the property on East
Juniata Street which he bought two
years ago from Mrs. Ida Bell
The electric and telephone wires
this week were extended east to the
new electric light plant on the east
side of the town north of the U. P.
| Mrs. Browns daughter, Mrs. John
son, returned on Tuesday night to
her home in Washington, after a sew
eral weeks stay with relatives in Kan
sas.
Messrs. Weeks of the Station and
Matthew of the Normal lectured on
farm topics at the first number of Lu-
rays lecture course last Friday
night
The big new boilers of the new
water works building are being placed
in position and it is expected the new
plant will be in operation within thir-
ty days.
The Ladies Aid of the M. E. church
will nave a bazaar of ready-to-we-
garments for women and childre n a
food sale and lunch on Saturday,
March 10Th, in the old BasgalI store
building.
Adam BAIL, who sometime ago pur-
chased ranch in Decatur County,
! this week shipped his farm machin-
cry to the ranch. His wife and chill
dren will live in Hays for the pres
ent at least. His many friend in
Hays wish him all kinds of success.
! Henry McVey has gone to his ranch
| located five miles from Denver Mrs.
| McVey and children will join him
there about the middle of April Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Alhertson will have
charge of their home here during
their absence.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21

The father and mother of the boy
and girl in rural as well as city
schools will be tremendously inter
ested IN the report of a committee
which has been making a study of
school children. Helen T Wooley.
| the physical and mental diagnosis of
director of the vocation bureau of
public schools in Cincinnati, Is the
chairman of this committee which
will report at the National Confer
ence OF Social Work in Kansas City.
May 1922. At present as never be-
fore it is understood how much it
may mean in the life of the child to
have his physical and mental ills cor
rected while IN the formative period
Helen I. Wooley is a wonderfully
trained woman and what will be
brought out in the report and its dis
cussion will be of benefit not only to
! all parents but to all teachers in
Hays.
It would be necessary to travel
many miles and spend many dollars
to obtain the information which will
be in this last up-to-the-minute re-
port which viii be heard in Kansas
City at the Conference. 1t is as much
a civic and patriotic duty to inform
oneself on the newest methods by
which we can improve the bodies and
minds OF our growing citizens as to
do Red Cross Work or buy Liberty
Bonds and is a pleasant task in so
doing.
How many children who do not
study nor even play naturally are un-
consciously held back by defective
; eyesight or hearing. We are Just
coming to realize IN this country the
wrongs we have committed in not
n 10 i
fects with adenoids, diseased tonsils
and sometimes abnormal growths
which press on nerve centers, are the
causes Of many childrens inability to
keep up with their classes at school
and their playmates on the school
/ ground 1t is unlikely that these all
ments of the little folk viii be dis
covered except IN few isolated cases
unless there is some inspection OF
each child IN the school by physicians
who not only discover but can at once
administer the proper treatment Un-
| less the leaders OF a community ini-
/ tiate and maintain a system Of school
| inspection many viii be the little suf-
| ferers who viii be prevented IN later
/ years from taking their rightful plac-
es IN commercial and civic life
| In Kansas City during the week of
May 1922, Miss H Ida Curry, who
/ Is the Superintendent of children's s
agencies Of the New York State Char
tiles and Associations, viii speak at
the National Conference Of Social
Work on Establishment and Main
| tenance Of Standards of Child Vel
fare IN Rural Communities It viii
be Of great value TO this community
to have some of its leading citizens
atten dthis conference and bring back
TO Hays ideas and plans for the bet
terment Of our children.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21

J. NJ. Schaefer has been appointed
chairman of the Liberty Loan for
Ellis County. He viii hold the Office
during the period of the war. We
salute you, Mr.. Chairman!
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21
County Superintendent-th Man foI
the Job.

County Superintendent-th Man for
the Job.
It is understood that Louis Chris
tiansen will again be candidate for
the Office of superintendent of the
schools of Ellis Countq; and why not
It is the one county Office that should
be taken out of polite. When q
county is fortunate enough to secure
the services of man like Louis Chris
tiansen, he should be accorded a long
term. He is thoroughly competent,
affable always approachable and at
tends strictly to the business of the
Office. There is not another man or
woman, for that matter, in the
county that can fill the of
flee as acceptable to the pub
lie as Louie. We don't believe he has
a real enemy in the county 1t
would seem that he was born for the
job He fills long felt want-a
palnstaking conscientious superin-
tendent of public instruction.
The Ellis County Teachers Asso-
citation will meet at the Parohcial
School in Victoria, Kansas, on Sat
urday, aMrch 80, 1913 at 1 80 D. m
Program as follows:
Music Victoria Parochial School
Roll Call
Nature Study II. D. Wooster
Fort Hays Normal School
General Discussion
Miscellaneous Topics and Announce
ments- --Supt. Louis Christensen
FOR RENT
Modern rooms to rent to students
Phone 332.-Mrs. Frank Reed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21

year ----------
Total tax for county, township
and dist. on $50 acre farm S17.5S
Total tax on $50 acre farm in
townships affected -$ $5.74
Total county tax on 160 acres 50. 81
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21

fBoosch" Gross enlisted IN the
coast artillery two weeks ago. There
are now six of the Gross boys IN the
service.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21
SATURDAY AFTERNOON CLUB

Place of Meeting Public Library
Roll Call Kansas News
Lesson, Current History; Text:
Literary Digest March 18th.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21

In these days of Woman's ''suprem-
acy" it is meet and fitting that she
should be a candidate for any Office
within the gift of the people. In
last weeks issue Of the Free Press
was annOuncd the candidacy of Miss
Leona Jantzen for the Office of Regis
ter of Deeds. Miss Jantzen is thor
oUghly competent to fill the Office to
which she aspires; and having been
employed by the Register of Deeds
and also the County Clerk for about
two years, she has acquired the proper
knowledge that makes her absolutely
qualified for the job. She has hosts
of friends all over the county-re-
gardless of politics we have no
hesitancy in saying that we feel con-
fident she will get the nomination,
and nomination this year will mean
election
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21
Experiment Station Notes

Mr.. J. A. Kimball, manager for the
state board of administration, spent
part of Monday at the Fort Hays Ex-
pertinent Station.
R. E. Getty, in charge of the for
age crop experiments, returned Mon
day night from Manhattan.
The tree shipping season opened
Monday. A dozen men are busy dig
ging and packing the trees for which
orders have been booked so far this
spring. The stations nurseryman,
Mr.. I. 7. Bode, has moved his Office
to the nursery packing shed in order
to accommodate the people who come
for trees.
Spring work has started in earnest
on the stations fields with the seed
ing of barley, and the disking of land
to be seeded to later crops. Disking
ground now kills a crop. of weeds,
makes the soil hold moisture better,
and leaves it in better condition to
catch any rains we may get.
The station shipped fifty hogs We'd
nesday. Messrs. Jensen, King and
O'Loughlin sent hogs enuogh to finish
the car.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21
RICHTER OF DEEDS

KEOIIEk OF DEEDS
l hereby announce myself q candi-
date for the Office of Register of
Deeds subject to the decision of the
Republican primaries.
Leona M. Jantzen,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-21

Lou Dyer has a sister here visit
ing him, from the eastern part of TIT
state.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
IMMINENT DEATH
 INQUIRY IS HELD
 BY. THE CORONER

Imminent death inquiry was held today by Coroner J. J. Phelan in the case of Dominick Serena, of 2019 Main street, nine years old, now at St. Vincent's hospital in a serious con- dition due to being struck by an auto mobile at Main and Grand streets last night by an automobile owned and driven by AaFDn Pious of 115 Roose welt street. Decision is reserved await ing the result of the boys injuries.
 Pious told the coroner he was driv- ing slowly through Grand street, not more than 10 miles an hour, and swerved his machine to avoid hitting Camille de Founce, six. of Al Hurd avenue, who darted from the walk in front of the machine. About the same time Dominick ran into the street from the other side after ball he had been playing with.
 The little girl was knocked down, but not seriously hurt. The boy was dangerously hurt, and was taken to the hospital in the ambulance.
 Joseph Lacaromitz. 10 years old, who was playing near by, told the Coroner the automobile was not going faster than an old horse when it passed him just before the accident.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
GAVE DRAFT AS EXCUSE'TO SELL
 STOLEN BICYCLES

John Myma, of New Haven, arrest ed yesterday charged with the theft of two bicycles was today arraigned in court and his case continued until May 4.
 According to information in the possession of the police, MyTna is all leged to have stolen a bicycle belong ing to a John Connors, while the lat ter was in a bank on Wall street. Later while Connors was telling traf- fic officer about the theft, he saw a colored man riding the machine.
 They stopped the cyclist and upon being questioned he described Myma, and told the officer he had bought the machine from him for $5. He did not suspect the bicycle was stolen because the young man told him he was going away in the draft. Shortly after stealing the first bi- cycle, it appears that Myma stole another from Dick Bowden of 271 Broad street, while the latter was 1T Woolworth's store. The second ma i chine he took to the New Idea Tirt Co.,, and told them the same story hC
 told the colored man. He was g1ver
 $5 for the machine. Shortly after ward he was arrested.
 Particulars of the case have beer furnished to Assistant Superintendent
 of Police Charles H. Suckley, and h.
 is Investigating Myma through thu various draft boards in the state
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
PREDICT LIBERTY LOAN TOTAL WILL BE DOUBLE
 ORIGINAL QUOTA GOAL
HAS THUS FAR BEEN NSUBSCRIBED-POLICE AND FIREMEN'S CANVASS IS SUCCESS.

meeting arranged by the Dorsen Dry Goods company, yesterday afternoon. Of this amount $1,950 was in cash bond sales.
 At a meeting of the trustees of the Park Avenue Temple they voted to buy the Sisterhood of the church a Liberty Loan flag for their active work in the present campaign.
 Blenda lodge, II, v. O., at a recent meeting voted to Duy ls20O in the Third Liberty Loan bonds. The Bridgeport Cutter works has been placed in the 100 per cent. efficiency class. Every employe bought a bond for a total of $2,950. The Ready Tool Co. also is 100 per cent, having subscribed $650, each of the 1 3 men having bought a $50 bond. Meigs & Co. ranks in the 90 per cent. class.
 IT. the surrounding cities and towns in this district sales are reported to be large. Shelton, which had a quota of $134,O00, has nearly doubled and Danbury is nearly over the top with it's quota of $683,500. Fairfield which has quota of $S2,900, has been officially reported as fully sub scribed No returns have been re- ceived here from Westport which has an allotment of $101, 800.
 The recent proclamation of Cover nor Holcomb, in behalf of the Third Liberty Loan will be read tomorrow by all of the pastors in the various churches of the city.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27

Complete returns from the Liberty bonds sales yesterday at noon today were not all turned in at the head quarters in Hincks brothers offices in State street, but those in charge of the office estimated that the grand total has nearly reached $6,000,000, the goal set out for week ago. It is predicted that the grand total fo1 the campaign will have been doubled by next Saturday night. The figures for today are $5,7o0,o0.
 The Boy Scouts commenced their campaign for the Third Loan this morning and it is reported they are meeting with great success. The boys are armed with Liberty Loan applica- ton blanks and war savings stamps, and where they cannot sell bonds they are determined to effect sales of the thrift stamps.
 The police canvass is reported as meeting with success but as yet no formal report has been made to head quarters. The firemen are going at an increased pace and this morning reported bond sales which brings their total up to $91,0 The merchants committee now has a grand total of $151, 900.
 The Minute Women under the cap taincy of Mrs. M. J. Blume reported to Mrs. William T. Hincks, chairman of the Women's Liberty Loan com mittee, that $11 900 in bond subscrip- tions had been secured at the outdoor
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
Assistant Police Supt. Suckley Gets Orders
 From Washington. MUST APPEAR AT
 POLICE STATION To Be Governed by Same Restrictions and Laws As Men.

Acting upon orders from Attorney General Gregory, As sistant Superintendent of Po- lice Charles H. Suckley, today began preparations for the reg istering of more than 500 Ger man and enemy alien women in Bridgeport.
 The method which will be adopted by the police in this work will be exactly the same as that employed in registering the males.
 Female enemy aliens will have to abide by the same rules as the males and the laws governing their actions will be just as rigidly enforced.
 According to a statement issued to- day by the police officials the same military squad has been employed on enemy alien and military affairs since the inauguration of the registration will be used.
 It will take about two weeks for the police to compile lists from the data which they already possess and which they will seek regarding the
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
ADD ANOTHER VICTIM
 TO MURDERER'S LIST
DAUGHTER OF ONE OF SCHMIDT'S WIVES TELLS POLICE
 HOW HER MOTHER DISAPPEARED SAID SHE HAD GONE ABROAD

Detroit, April 27-Anita Schmidt, the woman who came to America as the wife of Helmuth Schmidt, and Margaret Darsch, who lived with Schmidt in Lakewood, N. J., were added today to the list of women en- tangled in the mystery surrounding the man, who last Tuesday took his own life in the Highland Park jail after confessing that he had burned the body of Augusta Steinbach after she had swallowed poison at his home. This information developed after questioning by authorities of Mrs. Adele Ulrich-Braun, who mar ried Schmidt, then known as Braun, in Lakewood, in 1914, and Gertrude Schmidt's IT year old daughter.
 According to the girl, there was a love affair between her father and the Darsch woman which developed shortly before her mother disappear ed Schmidt told his daughter that
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
FRED" FARFEL
 PLACED UNDER BOND OF $1O,OOO
Local Soldier, Who Failed to Return to Camp, Now
 Held for Desertion.

Joseph Farfel, known among the lesser fry of the pugilistic fraternity of Bridgeport as Red" Farfel, is again occupying cell at police head quarters where he is being held for the federal authorities in bonds of $10,0OO under charges of desertion from the United States army.
 He came here from his military camp about month ago on 24-hour pass. This pass was issued to him in order that he might bid his relatives and friends goodbye. He apparently paid no attention to the time limit on his pass and hung around various headquarters of the sporting element in this city. In the meantime his company had sailed for France.
 The police were notified by the mil itary authorities to apprehend him, and when he was located he was given chance to go back to his regiment, but again the white lights of Main nnd Fairfield avenue were too allur- ing and he tarried in this city.
 When he finally disappeared for a few days he showed up again with the information that as his company had sailed for the front there was nobody at home in the camp and he was issued another pass. This pass, according to the police was signed with perfectly good signature, but had been filled out by other parties than the military authorities.
 Farfel then stated that he had been i'll and that it was impossible for him to report. The police took little mo- tice of this alibi, and placed him un- der arrest. He was held in bonds of $1,OO0, which were furnished and he again appeared in the bright light districts When he appeared in court | this morning his bonds were placed at $1O,000, so that he will remain in a cell until the military authorities notify the Bridgeport police as tc what they want done with him.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27

her mother, Anita Schmidt, had re- turned to Germany. Soon afterward when Miss Darsch disappeared, Schmidt explained to his daughter that she had married and gone to Denmark"
 So far the police have been un- able to trace Schmidt's first wife, Margaret Darsch, or Irma Pallatinus, the latter having disappeared after becoming Schmidt's housekeeper at his home here.
 Mrs. Ulrich Braun, who came here to claim the body of the dead man, permitted Schmidt's daughter to take charge of he funeral arrangements when told that such action would not jeopardize her widows rights to Schmidt's estate or the $3,500A which she contends he stole from her before and after their marriage. Among Schmidt's effects was found a life insurance policy for $6,000
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
BIC WAR RALLY
 BY SLOvAKS OF
 CITY TOMORROW

The S4ovak residents of Bridgeport are tn enjoy one of the greatest pa- triotic rallies which has yet been held among the foreign language speaking people of Bridgeport, which will be held tomorrow at 7:SO p. m. in Sokol hall Hallett street.
 This rally will be under the aus pices of the Bridgeport War Bureau and some noted orators will be heard. among them being Honorable Clifford B. Wilson, mayor of the city; Rev. John F. Murray, Chancellor Of the Diocese of Hartford Rev. Vincent Piseck of New York
 There will be Liberty chorus comprised of the choirs of four churches, the Russian Orthodox, Slo- yak Lutheran, St. Cyril and Afetho- dious, and St. Johns Slovak Roman Catholic church.
 This will undoubtedly be a great patriotic occasion and the Slovak citi-l zens of Bridgeport will turn out en mass to show their Americanism.
 Father Murray needs no introe-. ton to Bridgeport audiences. and Professor Pupin is man whose nama is known an over the United States.
 The musical feature of this occasion will in itself add distinction to tha rally-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
TWO KILLED BY
 FARM HAND IN
 ROCHESTER, N. Y,

Rochester, N r., April 27-Depu- ty sheriffs are searching the country side around Victor today for Earl Austin, a farm hand, for the murder early today of Mack Mosher, farmer and his daughter, Blanche, IS years old. Both were killed with an axe. Austin, who is 40 years old, formerly worked for Mosher on his farm.
 Neighbors of the Moshers said Aus tin had been discharged by Mosher because of unwelcome attentions to the daughter. 1t is believed that Austin was mentally unbalanced.
 Geneva, N. Y, April 27-Earl Aug tin, who killed Mack Mosher and his daughter in Victor this morning, was caught in Cheshire at noon today by Canandaigua police. He made a full confession, the police say.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
MARCH DENIES
 HOSPITAL SHIPS
 GARRY AvIATORS

Washington, April 27.-Semi- official German statements charging that American aviators were being carried to France on hospital ships, registered as ambulance corps men, were formal ly denied today by Major Gen. March. acting chief of staff, who branded the reports as incredible falsehoods."
 The German statements were con- tained in Wolff bureau telegrams pub lished in Holland, saying that papers captured by the Germans on American aviators shot down behind the German lines proved conclusively that Ameri- can airmen were carried to France on hospital ships. The denial by Gen March supplements denials by British officials.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-27
RUSS LABOR TO
 MAKE PLANES FOR TEUTONS

London, April 27-In urging the British nation to an increased output of aeroplanes, the Daily Mail dwells on Russia's defection as affecting the Supremacy of the air. Russian aeroplanes, it says, had great reputa- tions in Germany, and some of them had been used as models by German makers.
 The collapse of Russia" it adds, "enables Germany to exploit and turn to it's own use all factories and aero dromes in Russia and as many more as Russian labor, now looking around hungrily for a job, can be induced to construct Factories for the manufac- ture of certain types of machines are springing up from Petrograd to Mos COW, not to mention those already in existence which are or soon will be German"