The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-28
'TT PAYS TO LIVE IN HAYS"
Slogans Selected By Chamber of Com
merce In Which 80 States We'd
for Honor of BoOsEinR Hays

for Honor of BoOssing Hays
cit Pays to Live in Hays" was the
slogan chosen by the slogan commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce and
officially adopted by the organization
at meeting Friday evening, Aug
ust 22nd.
Homer Talbot of Princeton, n. J.,
won the contest for the $25 prize Of
fered by the Chamber OF Commerce
last May for the best slogan for the
city of Hays The committee which
passed on the slogans and made re-
concentrations to the Chamber Of
Commerce included: J. S. Bird, chair
man, H. F. Addison, J. C. Manning,
DR.. o. A. Hennerich and P. Caspar
Harvey.
The job Of making a selection was
anything but an easy one as it was
necessary to consider 353 slogans
coming from 33 states, Canada and
Hays. Fifteen persons in Hays sub
mitted slogans. Six persons in Kan
sas outside of Hays submitted them.
New York was next with seventeen
contestants. The other states in or
der were as follows: Missouri, IL; III
inOis, z; California, 6; New Jersey, 5;
Pennsylvania, 5; Nebraska, 5 Wis
consin, 4 !; Minnesota, 4 Ohio, 4; Tex
as, 3; Iowa, 8; Indiana, 3; Florida, 8;
Colorado, 8; Michigan, 2; Tennessee,
2; Oregon, 2; Connecticut, 2; Virgin
ia, 2; Georgia, 2; Canada, 2; with
Maine, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mon
tana, South Dakota and North Dakota
Massachusetts, West Virginia and
Delaware each having one contestant
In all 126 persons submitted 353
slogans.
Before making the final selection
the committee had chosen nine slo-
gans for final consideration. Miss
Fliesbach had so arranged the slogans
that the committee was given each
slogan signed with a number and at
no time knew who submitted any slo-
gan until a unanimous vote of the
committee had selected the winner
The nine under final consideration
with the names of the contestants
were:
1: ''The Twelve Cylinder Town
with the One Cylinder Name"-
Russell E. Smith, 10 z. 4th ST.,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
2. ''Hoist Hays High''-Mary Null
roy, Hays, Kans.
3. "Get the Hays Hustle''-Mrs.
Blanche Grier Conrad, CIarlz,s
Summit, Pa, R. D. No. 1.
4. ''It Pays to Live in Hays"-Ho-
mer Talbot, Princeton, N. J.
5. 'Let Hays be a City of 10000
at the Close of 1925"-Willie Jen-
nings, Calico Rock, Ark, Box II.
6. "Watch Hays Hustle Eleanor
Drew Burton, Dundurn, Sask., Can
ada.
z. "Help Hays Hustle"-W. A.
Lewis, Hays, Kans.
8. "Help Hays Hustle"-C. A.
Shively, Hays, Kans.
9. "Say Hays Patrick F. Hack
ett, As John ST., n. Y.
Among the slogans submitted by
citizens of Hays were the following:
'Hays Hits High" Glitch your Wa
gon to Hays City," 'Hays the Hub"
''Hays is a Good Town." "HeIl, Hays
Heaven" !" ''Hays is THE Good Town."
''Hays at Your Service "Keen and
Never Slow" Forging to the Fore;
Hays forevermore," $4,000 Boosters
for Bigger Hays"
Another Hays contestant submitted
this one:
''How Hays Hikes.
See Hays do it.
Hays Can-yOu see!
How Hays Does do.
Hays Does Know how"
Some of the contestants did not
content themselves by submitting slo-
gans but submitted songs, poetry, and
"potry." Many of them had spent
hours in ingenious attempts to make
use of the letters in the word "Hays."
One of these was:
''Hammering on with youthful
strength,
Hoping for beauty, breadth and
length,
ANSWERING ever AOHOH DlSSSSO pea
Always as fearless as q swelling
sea,
Yielding to naught the right of way,
Yet giving to HAYS our best watch
day,
Sure that reward our aim will bless
Sure of the rapture of great sue
cess"
White porcelain Combinets sec at
Oshants' Variety Store.
Miss Maurine Speer is clerking in
the Schermerhorn store.
Miss Mary Hollenbeck had,her ton
sils removed, Saturday.
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