The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-04
LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE
Hays, Kansas, April 1, 191'


Bank in Hays promptly at two o'clock
p. m. on Liberty Day Saturday
April 9Th for the purpose of discus
sing matters Of vital Importance in
connection with the Third Liberty
Loan Drive which begins April 8th.
While l realize this a very busy
time for all of us, and especially for
the farmer, We must lay aside our
work for a few days in order to do
our duty.
This means that it is absolutely
necessary to have every chairman en-
gagged in this patriotic work, and his
or her committee with US on that day,
as final arrangements will be made at
this meeting for the opening and
successful prosecution of this most
important war program.
Mr.. G.. G. Cochran, our District
Chairman will be present Please al
low nothing to interfere with YOUR
presence J. M Schafer,
County Chairman Liberty Loan Com.
It's Up to Us Let's Do our Part
In a few days the Liberty Loan
Drive Committees will be at work.
They will call on every citizen In the
county. The least you can do for
the Government will be to treat the
members of these committees cour-
teously. Our beloved country is now
engaged in the most stupendous war
in all history and it IS determined to
carry the same to a victorious end.
In order to accomplish this, it Is the
duty of every citizen, without exceP-
ton, either to go to the front or back
the Government with their money,
through tn purchase of LIBERTY
BONDS. The time has come when
every mothers son of us must stand
shoulder to shoulder and fight to win.
IF it may appear hard for you to make
sacrifices az this time, remember our
boys at the front are spending their
lIfe's blood for US, that We may live
and work in peace in the days to
come.
appeal to you as patriotic citi-
zens, not to permit selfish causes to
influence your actions when the mem
Der of these committees, engaged IN
this patriotic work, call upon you.
These committees are merely doing
what the Government has ordered
thm to do. They are working with
out money and without price-free-
ly giving their time and strength and
making sacrifices to carry this
work of patriotism. Argument with
and discourtesy to the committee
smacks of disloyalty-a dangerous
ground for anyone to stand on now
or hereafter. Nobody will be ''bluffed"
in this drive, it, must be thoroughly
understood that the Government is
soIidly back of every member of the
BUY LIBERTY BONDS and let US
put Ellis County in the front rank to
help win the war.
]. M. SCHAEFER,
County Chairman Liberty Loan Com.
Anyone wanting light weight fat
hogs to butcher see A. J. Walters or
phone 306.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Lu-
theran church will meet with Mrs.
Weist on Thursday, April 4th.
Foreman E. M. McClain arrived
home Thursday evening, to spend the
weekend with his family before go
/ ing to Colorado on business trip.
George Palmer, west of town, is
having two silo pits dug and cement
ed, 25 foot deep and II foot across.
and foot above ground, put in on
his farm ready for this summers
crops.
Many old-timers especially the
key of Wakeeney, who used to be in
the u S. land office. News comes
of his death at his home in Sterling,
Colo.
A. n. Smith, former pastor of the
Methodist church here and also a
prominent member of the Masonic
lodge has recently been appointed sec
retary of the Y. NJ. C.. A. work in
France He was ordered to report in
York, Tuesday, April End. He
will leave soon for France. His pres
ent New York address is BAT Madison
Avenue.
The Plainville Gazette has long
, letter from John E. Mock, son of Phil
Mock of the Saline Valley, who is at
the front over in France. His letter
is interesting. In it he speaks of
some of his comrads and says: "There
are two other Kansas boys in my
company, private Jacob Arnold and
Frank Shuckman, both of Hays and
they are a couple of the best soldiers
in the company"
The Fort Street paving is being
finished. 1t is also understood that
the paving company will pave West
Juniata. Just as soon as the material
can be secured. 1t would be nice
f East Juniata could also be paved
this spring. That would with the
! exception of South Chestnut Street
to the bridge on Big Creek be about
all the paving that Hays would want
for some time to come. South Chest
nut Street is especially needed at
! least it should be improved in some
way; perhaps macadimizing would
do for the p 'esent.
Last Sunday evening, Rev. A. S.
Hale of the Methodist church,
preached his farewell sermon, before
going to conference, which is beir
held at Downs, Kansas, this week. As
! he has been here seven years next to
the longest term of any minister in
the conference, it is expected that
he will be sent to some new location
He came here from Cincinnati in the
summer nearly sewn vars ago, an en-
tire stranger in the district, given
] charge of the Hays church, to fill a
vacancy, and while it is considered
next to the highest church in the
! district, Saljna being first, he proved
so good as q church builder he has
been kept here year after year.
every year doing better and better,
| and the RiShOD will have TO send us an