The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26

The Ladies Aid Society meet
Thursday afternoon at the Manse.
Red River Early Ohio seed pota-
toes per bushel $500. ]. NJ. Boyd
Mr.. and Mrs. Brenner entertained
a number of friends at dinner Tues
day.
Mr.. Sedore has found employment
in Hays, and viii continue to reside
here.
Among the visitors to our city on
Wednesday was Mrs. V A Gaylord
of Ellis.
Little eight year old Willis Camp
bell is in the hospital to be treated for
rupture.
Miss Franie Hafmier is home
from an extended visit with friends
IN Denver.
Contractor Olmstead who has been
seriously i'll with pneumonia is slow
ly recovering.
The Lutheran Aid Society will
meet with Mrs. J. H. Middlekauff on
Thursday, January 31st.
Peter Johnson, Jr., recently pur-
chased a standards Polled Durham
bull, weight 1,75O pounds.
Mrs. Dorothy Block of Chicago,
| is here visiting her relatives the Peter
Johnson family, south of town
Mrs. A. S. Hale was made happy
/ this week by the receipt of a hand
some lorgnette from CINCINNATI
friends.
Wolf Binder returned last Satur-
| day from Excelsior Springs, where
he had been taking treatment for
rheumatism.
! Mrs. K. E. Weber received tele-
gram this Friday morning, stating
that her son, John, had arrived safe
ly in England.
Attorney W S. McClintock of Kan
sas City, and David Rchee of Salina,
were here on the Smith-Oshant case,
in court this week.
R. J. Robinson and family who
have been living in the house recently
vacated by Mr.. Morrison, have moved
into rooms two block farther south.
Miss Georgia Forkner, a former
popular student of the Normal is now
a resident of Hoxie, Kansas. She
will graduate this year from OttOwa
| University.
At meeting held by the BARRIERS
| of the City Friday, they agreed to
close their shops at Z 80 p. m, each
day except Saturday.
DIR. Vermillion has sold his resi-
| dence property to Mr.. Luce, and will
move his family to Eldorado, where
he is now located some time the COM
ing month.
n w RTiIIo, boe , c.ood o;rL,4
room frame dwelling house for rent,
two lots, garden spot-barn, hen
house, well and windmill and tank
on Main Street. Get a choice home
cheap.
When the Frank Reed family took
Grandpa Stocks remains to Nc
Cracker for 'interment last Friday,
they found sister of Mr.. Reeds very
i'll at that place. The sister died on
Tuesday morning from dropsy.
E. M. McClain arrived home Fri
day, leaving on 103 to spend few
days with his family, before going
to Wamego, to construct a light
Company, located at Abilene, Kansas.
The Fort Hays Experiment Station
won fourth prize on a carload of
calves in well filed class with very
strong competition at the Western
Live Stock Show at Denver. These
calves vii be sold at auction Thurs
day or Friday.
The congregation rejoices with Mr..
and Mrs. Noble in the restoration of
their son Norman, who has been
treated for lock jaw in the University
Hospital at Kansas City, Mo. He has
I hnnT7 Of Iorcro1-
Mrs. Noble is expected home son.
Mrs. T. NJ. Wood entertained thir-
ty-f1ve members of her Sunday School
class at her home on Monday even
ing. Arrangements were all made for
making the layettes for French ba-
bies. The D. W. G.. class of younger
matrons of the Methodist church will
assist in this work.
The Schwaller Bros. are making
arrangements to move the red build
ing that has been used as a storage
room for cement, and probably the
coal houses. These buildings have
] long been a menace to the public as
train coming from the east cannot
be seen and there have been num-
erous near accidents, especially in re-
cent years. It is being done es-
pecially as a precautionary measure.
Jonathan apples S1.2O per box at
J. M. Boyd's.
The following relatives and friends
! of John Brown and family, who at
tended the funeral last Saturday
have returned to their homes: Messrs
NJ L. Brown, W. W. Brown and S.
S. Brown of Eaton, Colo; Mr., and
Mrs. Craven Clark of Moreland; Mrs
P Callison and daughters, May and
Cornelia, Mr.. Albert Brown and
daughter, Edna, Mr.. and Mrs Will
Brown and Mr.. Oscar Gustafeson of
Palco.
B. c.. Arnold states that on the
night of January 1, 1884, the ther-
mometer registered thirty below zero
in Hays, and we believe it. DR.. Sny-
der tells US that on the night of Jan
uary 1, 1880, the thermometer regis
tered thirty below zero at Victoria,
He made a professional call to that
village that night, and was surprised
to find at day light next morning the
mercury standing at thirty below
Fortunately there was not breath OF
wind blowing that night and one
could not realize the "cold facts"