The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-06-06
Mrs. E. B. Mathew is at the bed
side of her sick sister in Kansas City

Mrs. E. B. Mathew is at the bed
side of her sick sister in Kansas City.
Cyrus Monroe, son of Lee Monroe
of Topeka, is here attending court
this week.
Bicycle deliveries made forenoons,
5 and 10 cents. Oscar Snyder.
Phone 299.
There win be a public dance at
Jake Unrein's this Saturday night.
All are invited.
Rev. E. o. Rogers and family drove
to Kansas City, Kansas, last week to
attend commencement.
Secretary Bollinger was transact
ing business IN Ellis; on Tuesday, com
ing home on the midnight train.
Miss Prue Morgan left Monday for
Manhattan, where she will attend the
summer term of the college
VIM. Geist a prosperous merchant
of Victoria, was in Hays, Monday. He
will read the Free Press for the next
year.
J. H. Downing and wife leave this
weeks, for a protracted visit with
friends in Iowa and other eastern
states
The class at the NJ. E. church
taught by Miss Hughes had eighty
eight young women in attendance last
Sunday.
Leo Stock is home after being in
Nebraska, for some time, where he
has been working at his trade, that of
carpenters
Halle Low, Maude Gibson and
Edith Morris of Palco, are staying at
w. A Beeby's and attending the Nor
NAL school.
The "Lord furnish the water but
we must freeze our own ice. That is
the predicament that we poor mortals
are IN just at present.
Miss Sewer left the first of the
week for Lawrence, for a short visit
from which place she will go to Bar
berville, KY, for the summer.
Miss Paddock left Friday for
Wichita From there she will go to
her home in Springfield, Ill. She ex-
poets to spend the summer at Winona
Lake.
A trip around town shows lots of
new buildings going up and improve
ments made to present homes. No
matter how hard the times Hays is up
and doing.
c. W. Reeder, Jr., received orders
last week to proceed at once to Camp
Dix at Dallas, Texas, where he will
be inducted into the mysteries of the
flying machine. He left Sunday night.
The Hays Chapter of the Eastern
Star will have initiation at their next
regular meeting on Saturday, June 8.
All members are urged to be present.
Dora E. Grass,
Secretary.
If in need Of first class secondhand
furniture, don't forget that ]. L. Til
lotson's store on East South Main
Street, east of Henry Winters store
is the place to buy it. Prices right
Also buys second hand furniture
E. B. Matthew left Tuesday after
noon for his new home in Arkansas
He will meet Mrs. Matthew and Har-
riet Elizabeth in Kansas City, where
they have been visiting Mrs. Mat
thew's sister, and they will go on with
him.
The friends of William. Roenfeldt
winters visit in Texas. Already men
are at work getting the elevator ready
for the coming wheat harvest, which
means competition in our city among
the buyers.
Ethel Taylor spent a few days at
her home in Ness County before the
summer term of the Normal began.
Her cousins Dorothy and Alice Bartel,
ToI
Harry Bartel went over Decoration
Day and brought them home.
County Engineer Loreditsch, this
week, graded East Juniata Street
from Chestnut Street to the bridge
across the draw. 1t was high time, as
this particular section of the Golden
Belt highway has been almost i'm
passable for a long time-one of the
worst pieces of road in the state of
Kansas
T. NJ. Wood received a card Tues
day, from Lieut. Crane, saying cen
route to Berlin" Soon we'll have
many of our boys on the same route.
The 342 Artillery Band left Camp
Funston Monday night. This is the
band which contains so many of our
boys.
A large crowd was present at the
N. E. church to see Mr.. CoIyer's pic
lures of the war Sunday night. A
song service led by Miss Ethel Robin
son was held while the congregation
was waiting for "dark' to come. DIR.
Snapp presented the matter of sup
port of ehaplains in the army. His
call was generously responded to.
Were 1t not for the war American