The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-09
Mrs. W. A. Boys has returned from

MIS- w a BOYS mas returned 1IOm
Manhattan.
Hays Chapter No. 228 o. E. s.,
viii hold its regular meeting, Satur-
day evening, February 9Th, at 7:30
o'clock. Initiation ceremonials. A
cordial invitation extended to all
members and visitors.
Mrs. Florence Irwin, W. NJ,
Miss Dora Grass, Sec'y.
Last Saturday Helen Cowan and
| Dorothy Gordan had a doll wedding
at Helen's home. The guests invited
were Bernice Schmoekl, Dorothy Nor
rison, Altha Owings and Elinor Chit
tnden. Miss Olive Runyon played
the wedding march. The dolls went
on a short honeymoon around the
| block and on arriving home the wed
ding supper was served.
We erred last week when we said
that one of our oldest physicians said
| he did not believe there ever was a
case of genuine typhoid fever in
Hays. Every one of the few cases
we had was genuine enough, but with
one or possibly two exceptions, none
of the cases originated in Hays, is
what he said. A vast difference,
don't you know.
Rev. E Wilson, pastor of the Meth
ceived his commission as first lieu
| tenant, and has been ordered to re-
port for service next Monday. He
was passing through our city Thurs
| day from visiting his parents at Nc
| Cracken. He has been appointed
| chaplain of the 31st Regiment of En-
gineers soon to go to France. Until
his order abroad he will be located
at Leavenworth.
An excellent dramatization of
| Longfellows poem, the Courtship of
Miles Standish was presented in the
| High School auditorium last Friday,
afternoon by the seventh grade un-
der the direction of Miss Boomer.
Bernice Lee, as Priscilla, John Shive-
| ly as John Allen; Ira Rhodes as
Captain Standish and the other mem
bers of the class as puritan maidens,
soldiers, Indians, etc, all did well in
their interpretative of this beautiful
story.
R. J. Mulroy of Hays, has been in
Oakley the past few days conferring
without citizens relative to the pay
ment of the income tax. The matter
is very simple when once explained
and the matter of figuring up his year
| ly income is a good thing for every
| man. In many cases it causes him
to adopt new tactics relative to his
| business methods. Mr.. Mulroy is an
expert on the proposition and finds
most people willing to pay any tax
they may owe the government.-Oak-
| ley Graphic.
| Mr.. Christensen, Mr.. Shively, Mr.
Harris, Mr.. Lee and the teachers of
the Hays Public Schools are assisting
| the local Draft Board tabulate infor-
nation from the questionaires re
| turned by the Tegistrants- There are
| forty-seyen items to be Transcribed
onto n card for each registrant. 1t
is some job and the government re
| aiiZing it was too much to ask the
| local boards to do requested the ser
vices of public school teachers. The
Hays group under the direction of
Mr.. Lee as chairman, work after
school hours evening and Saturdays.
Twenty-Five years ago the vast ma
| jority of people in this country would
have thought socialism was about to
reign supreme if anyone had foretold
that the government would be run
ming the railroads befor spring of
1913. Now the whole country gave a
| sight of relief when their control was
handed over to Secretary McAdoo and
in the city of Washington a great
many people are asking that he take
/ over the street railways also. It
looks as if the telephone system OF
the Capital City would be annexed
for the good of the service