The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-23

requested to attend. The Head Con-
sui of the state viii talk.
Frank Staab went to Wilson. Mon
day.
Ask your groceryman for DIR. Pru-
tits chick feed
Ex-Commissiner Eli Cole was in
Hays, Wednesday.
Jean Cave is home, her school at
Paradise, closing last week.
Postmaster Dreiling took in the
picnic at Victria on Monday.
Mr.. T. NJ. Wood went to Salina,
Wednesday morning, on a business
trip
Mrs. Geo. Bear enjoyed visit last
week from three sisters and one bro
ther.
About a hundred people from
Hays attended the picnic at Victoria,
Monday.
Bicycle deliveries made forenoons,
5 and 10 cents. Oscar Snyder.
Phone 299-
Maxwell touring car run but 5000
miles. VIII sell for half PRICE,.
B. Matthew.
Mrs. Sarah Bartholomew spent a
few days last week at the home of
Mrs. Ed Blender.
Miss Virginia Oldham went to Sa-
lima, on the plug Tuesday, returning
on 103 the same evening
Carl Stecklein is the proud owner
of a brand new Buick six automobile
purchased of the Alex Schueler
agency
Mrs Edna Fulton, Misses Alice
Freese and Esther Shively have COM
pleted their terms of school and are
home again.
George Spencer went out to Quin-
ter on Monday to install a furnace IN
one of the new residences being
built in that city.
Miss Maud Carter will teach Do
mestic Science at Eskridge, this year.
One of her sisters has been teaching
there the past year.
Farmer Zurnham of Southeast
Freedom township was in town this
week and reports wheat fields looking
good in that section of the county
Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Brown viii
leave in the near future for Colorado
Springs, Colo, where they will spend
the summer.-Hill City Republican.
The trees in the public park on the
southside of town are looking splen-
did Autoists should take q drive
through the park from Chestnut to
Allen Avenue.
The D. W. C. class of the NJ E.
church met at the home OF Mrs. Snapp
on Thursday OF last week, for their
monthly social meeting and sewed for
the Red Cross.
The summer term of the state Nor
NAL commences next Tuesday here
and a large attendance of teachers
is expected, from the correspondence
so far received. It viii last until Au-
gust End being nine weeks.
The Larned paper announces 'sThe
Business Mems Association" of that
city had met and decided to buy the
uniforms for their company of state
guards, as 1t was for the protection
of the whole community that the
guard was formed. Good idea foI
Hays to follow.
In the list of boys going in the
next draft is Frank Carman, the
coach of the Hays High School, while
the grocery of Reed & Sons lose Al
bert H. Reed who goes to the front
; Also there is Herman J. Oldham and
the whole gang will miss OLE
The W. C. T. U. met on Wednesday
afternoon at Mrs. G. w. Meyers The
,, baby judging contest at the High
School on Saturday under the aus
pices of the W. G. 7. u was well at
tended on Saturday afternoon The
program for better babies is being
carried out all over Kansas
l The lowest place IN the United
States is about eighty miles from the
highest. The United States GeogTa-
phical Survey shows that Death Val
) ley, Calf, Is the lowest point, being
276 feet below sea level Mount
Whitney, about eighty miles distant
: is Il, 4,501 feet above sea level.
: At the State Normal commence
, ment, in the address of Mr.. Layton
. of Osborne, he said and receive
with loud applause:
"Did your city have a bunch OF
recruits go to the war under drafi
.. last week, and were you at the depot
to bid them God speed and safe re
, turn? I doubt If dom of you were
: there. Shame. Do you realize thai
those boys are going to the war II
ksave you and your country? That
they are called and eheefully 60 with
, shouts, that you may remain at home
and enjoy the pleasure OF your busi
ness, your home and your family
:, freside Now think Of this and donA
! let it occur again When the mex
! bunch and every bunch goes let the
! band, the whole town be there to give
, them a good send-off. Close your bust
ness places for an hour, ladies put OF
your best clothes and show thes'
boys going to the trenches IN for
: eign land that your home may bs
5 safe from destruction ike Belgium
t and Russia, that you are proud Of
] your boys and send them OF with 3
| rousing cheer. Now don't forget It
Don't say you did not know what da!
: or hour they were going, but find on
| and be there with your flags OF greet
: ing. Show the father and mother OF
: these boys that you appreciate then
sacrifice and cheer them after the
train leaves with that precious DO.