The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-17

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who is purely Hays, Kansas, product,
graduated last Saturday, Oct. II, from
the United States School of Military
| Areonautics at the University of Iili-
nois.
John is through with the ground ave
alton course and is now here on a few
days furlough before taking the air."
He looks fit and every inch a soldier,
and when he gets his commission as
flyer" we feel certain that he will do
his share in helping the allies strait
the Hun to a finish.
There are hundreds of Ellis county
boys at the front in France, and wher-
ever you find them they are making
good.
The voting place in the Second Ward
of the City of Hays will be held in the
MuIroy building east of the Windsor
Hotel facing Crawford Avenue.
The war department has issued an
order that State Guards shall be distin-
gushed from men in the regular service
| by scarlet stars worn on each sleeve Of
the uniform.
Miss Leona Jantzen, candidate for
Register of Deeds, who has been sick
for several weeks past is now entirely
recovered and expects soon to begin
canvassing the county in the interest
of her candidacy.
The family of Rev n. A Smith of
| Ho--,,,o,-1rv of no M
E. Church of Hays has been having
a serious time with typhoid fever.
Fears are entertained lest the daugh-
ter may not recover. Mr.. Smith is Y.
NJ. C. A. Secretary in France.
Mrs. Geo. BeIlman received word
| that Miss Elsie May Smith who was
teaching in the state of New York
passed away Sunday night Her body
would be sent to Moreland, Kansas
to rest beside her mother. Miss
/ Smith was a former Normal Student.
| Last week Mrs Snapp received
word that her father, Mr.. Parrill who
was living with his son Allen near
Bridgeport had been knocked down
by a young bull. Monday she receiv-
ed word that he was passing away,
Mrs. Snapp left Monday night to be
with him.
Owing to the schools of the state
being closed many of our young la
dies are home for the week. Among
them we note, Esther Goetchius,
Geneveve and Cecilia Dorney, Gladys
holland, Gladys Morrison, Alice Bee
by, Anna Meyer, and Gertrude Pal
mer.
Mrs Maude Sill of Leavenworth,
and Frank H. Kerns of Atchison,
arrived Tuesday evening to care for
their father, Mr.. T. F. Kerns, who
has been quite i'll at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Alois Bissing, but is i'm
proving at this writing. Mr.. Kerns
came from Pittsburg, Kansas the
first of the month as bookkeeper at
the Normal for the S. A. T. C.
A letter from Lieutenant Clinton
H. Morgan to his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. H. Morgan, 2O2 East Juniata
Street, states that he was having a
rest after strenuous work for three
months on and in the vicinity Of the
Juvigny Plateau. Lieutenant Morgan
belongs to the 10th field artillery of
the 32nd division. He said that he had
had uncomfortable times in part but
he felt that it was worth It.
The WaKeeney World says of the
late Golden Belt Fair: Ray Shaw,
Ralph Pierson, Joe Poffenberger and
81. S. Givler took in the Ellis county
fair last Friday. The fair was sue
cess from start to finish as the Hays
bunch are a good lot of boosters, and
kept the fair q moving. There was
trotting, pacing, running and pony
races, besides amateur auto races, mo-
torcycle races, and wound up with 9
prof auto race IN which TregC
county took nearly all the coin. =