The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-15


Lieutenat H. B. Neiswanger went
week.
To "Hell Nit Der Kaiser" is the
title of play that will soon be put
on at the Hays Opera House.
Miss Macintosh is now featuring
the well known label 'Elzee" hat
from Lewis and Zukoski, st. Louis
T. J. White of Manning, Kansas. is
going to locate in Hays so that his
children may attend our schools here
The union service will. be held in
the Lutheran church this Sunday
evening at 8:15. Everybody is well
come
Albert Reed of Camp Funston
spent Sunday with the home folks.
He was accompanied by Sergeant
Reed of Funston.
Miss Macintosh returned from st.
Louis, last Saturday morning, where
she has been for the past three weeks
buying her fall goods.
Come in any time now and inspect
the new fashions in fall millinery. I
shall be pleased to show you my new
modes.-Elsie Macintosh.
Walter Ward left Tuesday night
for st. Louis, where he enters the ar
my service at Washington University
in the automobile department.
Mrs. P ]. Deane and baby re-
turned on Tuesday from their east
ern visit and P. J. is now ready to go
to work on the County Fair matter,
of which he is secretary.
AS an experiment and in accord
ance with customs elsewhere, Miss
Macintosh will dispense with the US
ual Opening day" Customers are
welcome to come in at any time.
Mrs. Al Slaughter of Yocemento,
died Sunday night at the Hays hos
,ital from typhoid fever. She leaves
a husband and three children. She
was the daughter of James Griffin al
so Of Yocemento.
J. F. Beveridge, Frank Jack, Mrs.
Arch L. Taylor, Miss Maud Mollinger
were the Russell people who took the
civil service examination Wednesday,
with hopes of being appointed post
master of Russell.
W. H Carrick and family arrived
Wednesday night from Tulsa, Okla
homa, on a visit to his uncle, Thos.
Carrick and family It has been
about five years since Mr.. Carrick
has been in Hays.
DIR. Daniels has a soldier brother
visiting him from Camp Lewis, state
of Washington. He is here on four
i
his brother drove to Luray, Saturday
friends.
C. w. Miller is sending a safety
razor to his son, John at Champaign,
H., for grading eighty-sevn in a re
cent airplane examination. The ex-
was on the large airplains
that are used for dropping bombs on
the Huns. For the short time John
has been in the service eighty-seven
is going some.
Chester Tuttle of Rock Island, Ill,
IS here visiting his brother, Judge B.
G. Arnold. The boys have not met
before in twenty-five years In
quarter of a century many things
may happen, but time seems to have
dealt gently with both of them, as
they seem as hale, hearty and full of
life and the joy of living as they were
many years ago.
D. P. Sims of Hill City, the Stand
ard Oil Company man is moving TO
Hays for the excellent school advan-
tages Hays has to offer. Mr.. Sims is a
professional band man and we look
forward to him organizing a band in
the near future. They will reside for
the present in the Virginia Mauer
cottage on West Normal Avenue. We
re glad to welcome Mr.. Sims and
his family.
Rev. A. S. Hale, former pastor of
the Methodist church at this place,
was here from Lincoln, Kansas. this
week, where he has charge of 1a-~~
and fourishing church. He arrived
Saturday evening and delivered one
of his vigorous and characteristic ser
mons at the church Sunday evening.
to his old congregation at the Meth
Odist church. His many friends in
Hays including the Free Press force,
were glad to see him.
A Mcpherson county man was here
this week with Mr.. Holmquist, try
to find any buy broom-corn, as
- had been told Ellis county was
good brcom-corn raising county. He
found none. Years ago many farm
ers in Ellis county successfully raised
broom-corn, showing our soil was well
adapted to it, but there was no way
to gather or prepare the crop for
market without great expense so it
was discontinued.
Bryant Hale's song ''I'm Glad I
Live in Dixie has now been fairly
launched. and knowing the merit of
the words and their fitness for the
times, to say nothing of the lasting
of the Dixie air, we can
safely bespeak success for the song.
The first edition of $50 copies will
be largely sod in Lincon, the hundred
teachers now in institute session and
residents of Lincoln, having spoken
for nearly half of the number. Twen-
ty-five copies have been placed on sale
at Markwell's. This is all that will
he sold in Hays from this edition, so
those wishing copy would better not
ait. The fact that the young au-
thor wrote the song while he was a
resident here, adds to the interest.
DR.. Clover is in Kansas City tax
ing special work in the Hay Fever
clinic. Osteopathy has made long
strides toward fhQ o1Iro Of &Iic T-oTx-