The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-11-20

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engraved, at Markwell's
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man, on farm either by the month
or year For information call at the
Free Press Office.
Chas. Kirkman came up from To-
peka, Tuesday, for visit with rela-
tives.
Mrs. NJ. G. Kirkman and son Ken
meth, returned home from Kansas
City, Tuesday afternoon.
D. P. Sims made a business trip to
Wichita, last week, returning home
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Jones spent
last Sunday in Russell, the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Strecker.
Mrs. Glenn Tillotson and little
daughter, Dolores, arrived home Mon
day morning, from Payette, Idaho,
where they have been visiting rela-
tives the past two months.
Ernest R. King of the Golden Belt
Creamery Company, left Tuesday
night, for Salina and Manhattan. He
will also attend the convention of
Western Ice men to be held in Kansas
City, November 20, Fl and %.
A few lines from Walter T. Sted-
man who moved to Omaha, Nebraska,
recently, after over twenty years resi-
dence in Hays, says: "We are getting
along fine here and like it real well,
but we miss our old friends
R. E. Baldwin, a relative of G. w.
Meyer and family, came over from
Nekoma, Tuesday. He had learned
of Mondays fire and came over to
look after his daughter who is attend
| ing school here.
Mrs. A. L. Clark who has been Wis
iting her brother at Chanute, Kansas,
and sister at Olsburg, returned home
Monday evening. Her mother, Mrs.
Mary Brown, who has been visiting
at the same places the past five
months, returned home with her.
T. G. Reed & Sons have rented the
Reeder store building next to their
present location A door will be cut
through the partition connecting the
two rooms The Reeder building will
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by them will be used for the meat
business and the room now occupied
market.
The Golden Belt Garage has sold
four new cars recently. A 1920
Buick Six all service top to Jake
BruIl. The Bird Land Co. new Dodge
equipped with an all service top. Jacob
Miller, who lives south of Toulon, a
Dodge touring car, and also to Cor
neil Stecklein new Dodge touring
arc.
The mayor and other city officials
of Abilene, Kansas, were here this
week, to ascertain what Hays was
going to do in regard to moving the
oil plants out of the city. They have
a line up in regard to the Standard
Oil Company, and two others -situat-
ed in the center of the business dis
trict. The Hays horror has awaken
ed them to their danger.
Nick Arnold who was killed Mon
day, in the tank explosion, has been
in the employ of the Golden Belt Gar
age for about two years; was a good
steady workman and was well liked
by his employer. He had been mar
ried about a year. Nick had four
brothers who were overseas and al
returned safely. His life was insured
for $1,000.
Alex Schueler, proprietor of the
Golden Belt Garage, is making some
necessary interior improvements al
the garage. He is having a partition
put in the south side, part of which
viii be used as a sales room for auto
mobile supplies and accessories
| 4nSIS Will dISO OC dll OI1CS IOOu Oh
the south next to the window, and
opposite on the south side a small
room will be used for tire vulcanizing
The large room on the west which has
! been used as supply room, viii be
reserved as storage room for auto.
! mobiles which are being repaired.
The Windsor Hotel people have re
] Gently renamed their popular hostelry
A large electric sign on the front o1
the building reads "Hotel Mulroy.'
The sign is a dandy and fully repre-
] sents the spirit OF progress that per
vades the air in Hays, the gem city OF
I Western Kansas. We are also in
formed that several others of the
business men have ordered similar
j signs and that the city will soon plac,
I a large electric arch across Chestnu
9 street which will tell the world tina
"It Pays to Live in Hays"