The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-03-28

Fred Reed was over from West Sa-
line, Sunday.
H. ]. Penney Is in Texas, visiting
his soldier son, Elvin.
|, Leonard Bell arrived Sunday morn
ing from Fort Riley, on a five day
furlough.
Mrs. Burgardt, who has been living
in Hays for about a year died sud
denly Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Amerein, who was recently
operated on at the hospital for gall
stones died Tuesday morning.
You don't have to wait long for
your shoe repairing at Gassman's
Shoe Hospital, South Side Railroad
track.
The Knights Templar, in q body,
will attend Easter services at the
Lutheran church, this Sunday morn
ing at 11:45.
The Hays High School basketball
team went to Lacrosse, last Friday
beat the High School at that place.
The score stood 18 TO p in favor of
Hays.
The first contingent of the second
W
Der, have received orders to join
the colors. The following are the
young men chosen Harry Stock, Hen
~ F. Graham, Joe n. Wolfe, Ezra
Woods and Jacob Degenhardt-
n. P. Dinges, Fred Beeby and Miles
Mulroy made a trip southwest as far
as Loreto, last Sunday. They report
wheat looking fine with the exception
of that planted in the corn fields;
that seemed to be a failure and will
be disked and planted to some other
grain
A couple came down from Ellis on
Wednesday on the plug and Probate
Judge McLain married them and they
went back on the west bound plug.
There is only about twenty minutes
between the trains at point. That
was quick trip from single blessed
ness to supposed matriomnial bliss
Have your shoes repaired at Gass-
mans Shoe Hospital, South Railroad
track.
Henry Ford is building another mil
lion dollar plant to turn out subma-
rine chasers. If the war lasts two
or three years, says the HOlton Sig
nal, the sea will be so full of Ford
as much difficulty lodging them as
the pedestrian does the land variety.
Always there is danger that college
education will make its possessor
conceited, will give the student an
exaggerated sense of his own import
ance and thus place him out of SYM
pathy with the average of folks Per
hapS higher education works even
worse in this upon women than upon
men. 1t is likely to make a woman
self centered and to take from her
normal tastes and interests. G.
RuppenthaL
Russia is an example of what un-
checked propaganda viii do. Russia's
disintegratiOn began with a few fel-
lows plotting against the government
and now the whole structure is in
ruin The thing to do it to suppress
foreign propaganda with q firm hand.
This is q matter that should be han
died in a strict military way with a
line party before a stone wall at sun
rise.-Holton Signal.
An American lately returned from
Germany states that among the many
Americans still in that country not
one has been accused of any overt act
against that government. Certainly
sizes and protection of the govern
ment, evn though it be only for a
season, and Americans are not given
to abusing the hospitality of a host.
We wish we could say as much for
many German subjects in this coun-
try.-Valley Falls Vindicator.
Here is a Texas editors account
of The creation: In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth and
the editor; then he created the hber-
al advertiser which was all good. The
next day 1t showed and he created the
man who does not believe in adver-
tising, and another who does not take
the home paper, and then he rested.
And then the devil got into the mold
ing and created the man who takes
the paper for several years and fails
to pay for it after he had completed
that sorry job, and having a few
Jumps left, he created the excuse of
a man who settles his subscription by
informing the postmaster to mark his
paDer fErefUSed -