The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-28
December Victor Records on sale,
Monday at Markwell's.

Monday at Markwells.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Kingsley were
shopping in Hays, Thursday
The December release of Victor
Records comprise an interesting as
sortment, on sale Monday at Mark
wells.
Word comes that Chas ". Reeder,
Jr., and Frank Carmen will start for
home Wednesday morning, November
27th
Miss Ruth Fliesbach, stenographer
for the Chamber Of Commerce spent
Thanksgiving with her sister at Rus
sell.
Christmas only four weeks off.
Time to think of what your gift viii
be. Here in variety at moderate
prices.-Oshant's Toy Shop, Hays.
Seventeen of the Camp Funston
soldiers came Wednesday night to
play in the football game Thanks
giving day with the Fort Hays boys.
F. NJ. Clark returned Wednesday
evening from visit to his old home
at Rolla, Missouri. His relative, Isaac
NJ. Hance, returned with him and ex-
poets to make his home in Hays.
Mr.. C. A. Beeby secretary of the
Chamber of Commerse is in Topeka
this week attending a conference of
the county chairmen of the counties of
the state to formulate plans for con-
Quoting the Christmas drive for Red
Cross membership. The work in this
county will be in charge of the Hays
Chamber of Commerse as was the wa
activities campaign.
Mrs. Winifred Brown, wife of DR..
Brown of Hutchinson, and who as Miss
Winifred Condor of Wilson, was for
merly student of Fort Hays K. S. n.
died of influenza last Saturday at her
home in Hutchinson. Mrs. Brown
leaves two children. A brother and his
wife both died of the same disease the
day before her death.
The body of Mrs. Cal Bramlet of
Newton, who was Miss Maude Samuels,
formerly q student at the Fort Hays
K. S. N, and later a teacher in Ellis,
was brought to Ellis last week for bur
rial. She leaves u husband who is
very i'll with influenza and two small
children. Mrs. Laura Kyner, a girl
hood friend in Ellis, but now residing
at Beloit, attended the funeral of Mrs.
Bramlet and now Mrs. Kyner is i'll with
the disease.
Mrs. Desantos of this city has re-
ceived a handsome certificate from
the State Historical Society of To-
peka, showing that her son, John De
santos, who enlisted in the Canadian
troops and was killed in France last
year, had been enrolled on the rec
ords of the State in the honor roll of !
those from Kansas who died in defen- !
sc of the honor of the state and |
world in the late terrible world war |
1t is surely prize piece of paper for i
the mother
1t is not often that a reception to
IS speed ones going" is changed to
fspeed ones staying" but such was
the experience of Miss Dora Grass, |
teacher of English in the Fort Hays
K. S. n. Miss Grass had received a |
message to report in New York, Dec. |
4, ready to go overseas as nurses |
aid. She had made all arrangements |
to leave for New York. Friday even |
ing Mayor Geo. Philip and Mrs. Philip |!
gave a reception in honor of Miss |
Grass to a number of her lady friends. |
Just proceeding by an hour or two this |
social function, Miss Grass received a |
message countermanding the former
one. While this must be disappoint- |
ment to her and her many friends who |
rejoiced with her that she might be
permitted to serve cover there these
friends, the Fort Hays K. S. N, her
church and the community, are pleased |
that they are not losing so estimable /
a lady as Miss Dora Grass.
Mrs. Desantos, with her brother /
John Gillian and wife, returned on
Sunday night from Kansas City,
Kansas, where they have been to at
niece living there who had died /
within an hour of each other from
the Flu. Mrs. Mary C. Saunders, the
sister, was sick at her home and the /
18 year old daughter at the hospital /
and died within an hour of each /
other and were buried at the same
time Mrs. Saunders formerly lived |
in Trego county where her father :
had a homestead back IN the 7O's,
and married and moved to Kansas
City. This is the third loss of Mrs
Desantos within a year, one of her
sons dying IN the army in France
last fall, her other son dying in a |
southern camp last month of the ]
Flu, and now comes the third be-
reavement.
Public School Notes.