The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-11
Asa Jewell is home on a furlough

Mrs Odgen visited day or so with
Lena Brown last week
Chas. Garry Of -Pawnee Rock is Wis
ting IN Hays this week.
Ethel Taylor has been i'll this weel.
ct the home of Harry Bartel.
Household goods, garden tools,
etc, for sale---L- D. Wooster.
Mrs. Chris Wise and daughter have
returned from their vacation trip.
The HeIianthus Club met with Mrs.
!. D. Wooster on Tuesday afterno N.
Mrs. Malmberg and children left
this week for the east on their vaca-
Ton
Grace Coover visited at home in
Wilson, from Wednesday to Sunday
night
Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. Wooster were
entertained at dinner on Sunday at
the Bird home
Anna Feitz accompanied Lorena
Welty to her home In Hill City for q
little visit last week
Mrs. Malone OF St. Louis came in
Sunday evening. He is visiting the
family Of Geo Starr
Mrs. Roy Lenoch entertained Miss
Grace Coover and Miss Ethel Todd
n dinner Tuesday night.
Mrs. Weber and the girls received
: nice box from John last week with
souveniers of France in it.
Alex Bissing gave orders this week
for the best line of hats and caps he
mas ever inspected and ordered
Hrs. Ure has purchased the Cope
/ land property on Normal Avenue and
viii move into it early in August
The ". F. II S. of the ". E. church
met at the Fome of Mrs. G. W Meyer
yesterday. Mrs W A Lewis was leader
c. J. Moore of Wichita, represent
ing the parties buying the city OF
Hays bonds, was Z Hays visitor last
Monday.
Mrs. Lenoch returned from VII
| son, Sunday night, where she had
been called by the death of her grand
mother
| Mr.. and hrs. J. K. Mckee and son
Of Salina, spent Saturday and Sunday
With Mrs. Lou Bell. Mrs. Mckee Is =
sis OF Mrs. Bell.
Ernestine Fields returned on Sat
! l-iey evening from her years musi-
cal studies at the University Of Chi
cago.
Mrs. james Reeder viii accompany
| Mr.. Rea TO Colorado, next week. He
viii drive through and spend some
sine with hi5 family.
Earl GrcT. afterz#- couple weeks
lra4T
| working II harvest, returned TO his
| Kansas City duties on Saturday even
ing.
Rev. Meredith of Phiilipsburg. a.
! livered a sermon at the Methods 81
church on "Jesus and the World Wa"
| Isst Sunday night Mr. Meredith = IS
two sons IN the service.
Alex Philip Of the Big Greek Cat
5ie Ranch, did his bit by working
| through the harvest on the State Ex-
pertinent Station and turning his
wage over to the Red Cross
Mrs. Andy Spradley and son of
| Washington, stopped over for q day
/ last week with Mrs Lou Bell on their
way home from Kansas City. Mr..
! Spradley formerly was operator for
/ the U P at-this place
Attorney Holnquist returned to
| town or Monday from his thirteen
| days harvest work out at Chris Peder-
son farm south Of the reservation
! he says he enjoyed every day of his
service for his country.
Mrs. Lavon Lanyon and daughter,
/ Alice. and Mrs. Geo. Kidder and
daughter, Elizabeth of Pittsburg
! Kansas, calle don Mrs. T. N. Wood
! IIonday morning They were enroute
to Colorado driving through.
Leo and Milo Stock went to Salina
and enlisted in the Marines They
/ leave for Paris Island, S. Carolina, on
| Wednesday This makes all of Mr.
|! and Mrs Stocks sons who have gone
at their cOuntry's call Earl IS already
in France.
Rfr Baldwin and a party of gentle
men were here Monday inspecting the
working of the Standing Grain and
Harvester and Thresher at work on
! the H H Pierce and Louis Kraus
farms and pronounced 1t perfectly
satisfactory. Over a dozen visitors
were in the party and all seemed
pleased and satisfied with its work
ings.
Harvest in Ellis County is over an6
was by far the best IN many ways
ever had in this county. Not a single
/ W ". agitator appeared, not {
fight. or any drunkenness in the cOun-
ty, so no arrests. Few came but &C
cepted the wages The price was
about the same for wages as in pas
years, yet the cost of living wa:
much higher. The farmer this year /:
assured from S1.70 to $500 for hi:
wheat according to quality. and in ;
few days threshing machines will bs
running all over the county.
The military camp comences at the
Fort Hays State Normal next week
and the Topeka papers announce th'
the draft board of that county have
sent here Riley Law of ia Lane st.
Victor @. Nelson of 500 East Sixtl
Street. Kert E. Hemrick of 120 Nortl
Lake Street, Franklin Edward Moyel
Wakarusa. Richard Edward Lane
Willard. Ralph Leonard, Richland
Omar N Dodge, TecUmseh. Over
! hundred young men will arrive her
the last of this week to report fo.
!. duty in Sheridan Coliseum next Non
. day morning. It VIII be a regula
military camp, under strict discipline
and during their work IN the studie
they viii wear the famous one piec