The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

Military wrist watches, all grades,
prices right at Tholen's Jewelry store.
Tony Jacobs says the new City Hall
will be ready-for occupation in a very
few days
Misses Ethel Todd and Grace Coo
yer enjoyed Monday evening at the
| Bird home.
Miss Rachel White spent the week
| end at Salina, returning tc Hays,
Sunday on 103-
| Bracelet watches-lots of them
latest designs, unbeatable prices at
/ Tholen's Jewelry Store.
A cablegram received from Prof.
Roberts states that he had arrived
safely overseas.
Mrs. Nina Cress and Marie Weber
returned Sunday evening from the
| Chautauqua trip TO Burdick.
Ethel Shuts viii entertain ten or
Twelve of her Normal friends at her
| country home next Saturday evening.
Dou you like 'eNancy Lee" and
"Dixie?" Mr.. Malloy will sing them
| with other old songs at the Commun-
| ity Chorus concert,
Henry Allen White has finished his
business with the Red Cross and is
now with the Y. NJ C. A.
Eileen Logan is a new little daugh-
ter that arrived at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Dave Lorenz of Salina, on
July 10th
Miss Dora Grass visited her par
ents at Lacrosse, from Friday to
Tuesday afternoon
Barley bread--three is OF. loaves
for 25 cts. at STAIRS.
Grace Hubbard left Sunday night
accompanied by her mother, Mrs
GoodaII, for a visit with friends at
Minneapolis, MINI.
Mr.. Edgerton, superintendent of
schools at Manhattan, was if Hays
the first of the week loking after his
Ellis county real estate.
Gus. Klug worked through the har-
vest this year, receiving as his stipend
$3.50 per day. Gus is some worker
when he happens to think about it.
Barley bread--three 1e OF. loaves
for 25 cts. at Starr's-
Miss Ernestine Fields who has Just
graduated from the American Con-
servatory of Music in Chicago, will
make her Hays debut at the Commun-
ity Chorus concert next Monday
night.
Mrs. Mary O. Wooster will read at
the Community chorus concert. As Mr..
and Mrs. Wooster are to leave soon
it may be long time before you will
again hear Mrs Wooster's delightful
interpretations.
Last week Alb Skies threshed DR..
MiddlekauH wheat which averaged
fifteen bushels per acre. VIII Madden
paid the doctor $1.95 bushel
for the wheat crop.
Monday morning, C. W. Miller, Jr.
accompanied by Rev. c. F. West
and c. E. Malmberg left for Colorado
| Springs, on a two weeks outing. They
are making the trip in Charles fly
ing machine (Buick six.)
Mrs. R. L. Parker received a letter
from Miss Schoenhals last week. She
is in New York attending Columbia
| University. On her way there she
visited Mrs. Gallon at St. Joseph, III.
Mrs. Gallons many friends will be
glad to know she is well and doing
well IN her work.
Freda Knoche, who has been en-
| gagged to teach the fourth grade of
| the public school will atatend a sum-
mer session Of the Colorado State
Teachers College at Greeley, in spe-
| cial preparation for her work She has
| been attending the summer term of
the Fort Hays Normal.
The Golden Belt Fair will be held
October 1, 2, and 4th, this year,
one week later than last year. Save
your best pumpkin, squashes, the best
| 1ars of corn, the best peck of wheat
bring in your prize pig, calf and
chickens and help make the fair of
| 1918 the best ever held in the county.
Lieutenant DIR. Charles C. Hatfield
| of Kingston, Ohio, who is to have the
+ medical charge of the soldiers to be
/ located at Fort Hays State Normal,
He found every one of the soldier
boys sent here physically fit for the
work, and the bunch of 100 boys be-
gan work Tuesday morning, Lieut..
J Riley routing them out at 5 $50 ready
= for breakfast and work at seven.
Lieut.. Hatfield will have his wife
come here soon. They have rented and
vii live in the Freese cottage on East
Normal Avenue, near the NJ. z.
| church.
A joke on the Y. NJ. C. A: An
American soldier in France was
broke, and mailed letter to the Lord
asking for loan of 500. The post
master sent the letter to the Y. NJ. C.
A. headquarters, where $50 was
raised and mailed to the soldier. Soon
after the American soldier addressed
this letter TO the Lord: tfAfter this,
dear Lord, send the money In care
of the Knights of Columbus and not
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