The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-01
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Nick Schlyer and wife are taking
in the tractor show at Salina, this
week.
Little Helen Hockensmith has been
very sick the past week but is improv-
| ing at this time.
DR.. Jameson's aunt, Miss McNam-
ara, from st. Louis, is expected on
next Sunday to visit him.
It IS reported that Walter 'Pete"
Ward expects to soon enter the u S.
service in the Quartermaster's De-
partment.
Roasting ears are selling on the
Hays market at thirty cents per doz-
en-. War prices have even hit the
cornhelds.
Don't forget to purchase your free
delivery boxes and put them up, also
number your house if you want free
mail delivery.
Announcements have been received
of the marriage of Mr.. Chas. Claude
Elsey and Miss Neva Mae Bell on Sat
urday, July 6, in Los Angeles.
Miss Georgina Wooton went to Chi
cago, to do some advance work in art
On the same same train Miss Marion
Flanders went to her home N the
east.
Cora Jepson left Wednesday morn
ing for Washington, where she will
enter government service. She will
meet Ellen Rrummitt in Kansas City,
and they will go on together.
Mrs. Harry Grass and her daugh-
ter, Alma, came to Hays. on Thurs
day, to accompany Miss Dora Grass
home on Friday. On account of the
rain they remained until Saturday.
Mrs. J. T. Morrison and son, Clifford
and daughter, Dorothy, are visiting
friends and relatives at Ottawa and
other southeastern cities in Kansas
J. C. Feyerabend of Ellis, was in
Hays, Wednesday. Mr.. Feyerabend is
the Democratic candidate for District
Clerk of the Courts.
Mrs. J. w. Lennon of New Or
leans, arrived Monday evening, to
visit Mrs. H. L. Felten. Mrs Lennon
is on her way to join Captain Lennon
ct Newport News, Va.
Old timers will remember o. B.
Sheppard, who had q meat market
here in Hays many years ago. They
we're glad TO greet MIN this week on
his visit to our city, and regretted his
eye sight is failing so he could not
see the new Hays, risen" up since
his day.
Tony Kinderknecht, Former resi-
4 e
Northwestern Candada, just this side
Of the North Pole, we should judge.
However. Tony says he likes the coun-
Try and climate if the winters are
long and cold. He has been there
about five years
Peterson of GrinneIl. was here on
Wednesday, before the District Draft
nation borad, trying to get in
to the army service, his local board
refusing to give min: a clear working
certificate to admit him.
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The friends of Miss Tina Philip will
glad to learn she has been COM
mandede TO go to Buckingham Pal
ave to have the Royal Red Cross
decoration pinned on to her by King
George. Miss Philip has been matron
of a hospital for wounded soldiers in
the north of Scotland since the begin
ming of the war.
Harry Felten and family, last Sun
day, g week, took an outing trip.
They started from Hays about 500 in
the morning, passing through La
Crosse, Pawnee Rock, Great Bend,
HOisington, coming home by the way
Of Russell, arriving home z 80 in the
evening, tired but well satisfied with
their days outing.
On Sunday, the two noon trains are
TO be taken of, so govern your travel
accordingly. Hereafter only the
morning train at 1909 and night at
1918 go east, while the west bound
will be at 1925 in The evening and
2:43 at night 1t will cut big diff
ference in the receipt of the war news
in the middle of the day.
A fire at Zurich, last Sunday, prac-
tically destroyed the business part of
the town, causing loss of perhaps
$4,000. The building of the Zurich
State Bank, which belongs to C. G.
Cochran's string of banks was COM
pletely destroyed, the loss being
about $500, practically covered by
insurance. The contents of the safe
was found intact. Monday morning,
I HdS ISnICO anu Tie DuSl-
ness was resumed as if nothing had
happened. We presume arrange
ments will soon be made to put up
new building.
The architect of the new bank
uilding of the Farmers State Bank
on South Chestnut Street was here,
and the Board of Directors have de-
cided to put up a new bank building,
p foot front, running back to their
present building, IS feet. the same
size as the old-time Wilson bank
building that stood on the Weisner
corner, same size as the Forst Nation
al and Citizens State Bank. It will be
two story, = corner entrance like the
cid Wilson bank, and entrance to the
second floor. to be from a stairway
lust east of their present building ad-
joining Dr. Hennerich's property. The
plan and specifications will soon be
ready and contracts awarded to be
finished this fall The Bank is to be
congratulated on its growing sue
cess and the county IN the coming
new improvement.
The kaiser was Queen Victoria's
first grandchild, and the good queen
nearly went wild with joy when she
received the news OF its birth. If Vic