The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-12-18

The program Friday morning, end
ing "Good Speech Week." consisted
of play, almost Every Man" The
play, which was put on by the English
II class, was in the form of mock
trial, to show how Miss English Ian
guage had been murdered by Almost
Every Man.
The scouts met Wednesday after
noon, instead of Wednesday night,
and reorganized. The applications
have been signed and sent in so that
the troop now numbers thirty-two; no
more will be admitted. The officers
are: A. G. MARBLE, Scoutmaster; F.
S. Carman, L. D. Wooster, and John
Taylor, Assistant Scoutmasters; Ash
ba Hedges, first Senior Patrol Leader;
John Sites, second Senior Patrol
Leader; Glen Rumsey, third Senior
Patrol Leader; and Earl Barry,
Assistant
The Junior Red Cross bazaar was
a success. With the exception of
few pieces everything was sold by
three o'clock. The Junior Red Cross
has enough money in the treasury
from the bazaar last year to pay the
membership fees, and the balance will
be used as a library fund.
Verne Blakesley, member of the
Junior class. will leave some time
after the holidays, for Genoa, Nebr,
where he will live in the future.
Faythe Logan and Virginia Lee
Ford are planning to spend the latter
part of their Christmas vacation with
Helen Cass at her home near Collyer.
The Basket Ball team has a three
day trip scheduled forsJanuary 18th,
18th, and 18th. They will play Ellis
worth the 18th, Wilson the 18th, and
Bunkerhill the 18th.
Lantern slides of interest to the
three Latin classes, have been ordered.
They arrived They arrived Tuesday
and were shown Wednesday.
Miss Biee and several of the girls
from the Normal finished cataloguing
and listing the books in the library,
Friday. Over six hundred books are
on the shelves in the school library.
]. NJ. Rhine came home Wednesday
night, from Cove county, but return
ed again Sunday.
Miss Gardner was sick Wednesday
afternoon, and Miss Creighton took
charge of her classes.
The picture show given at the
Strand Theatre last Tuesday, Melted
the boys approximately $4,000. This
addition to the treasury made it pos
sible for Mr.. Carman to order the
sweaters. Fifteen men receive the
"H" this year: Shade, captain; Grass,
Cowan, Kissing, Nickles, Wilson, Mad
den, Taylor, Blakesley Lewis Ruff,
Gregg Felten, Rumsey, and Kirkman.
Most of the men will be back next
year, and Hays High should again
hold its place as one of the undefeated
schools Of the state.
Miss Harrison has been having a
different class clean the typewriters
each day. In this manner, the proper
care of typewriters is taught.
The girls basket ball game with
Bunkerhill scheduled for last Friday,
has bee npostponed on account of the
coal shortage, until. after Christmas.
Caroline Keller, former pupil of
Hays High School, is studying to be a
trained nurse at a hospital in Havre,
Montana.
The first semester ends January
18th, and the examinations will be
given the 18th, 18th and 18th of that
month, instead of on the. 23rd as was
in last weeks items.
Ask your grocer for Golden Belt
Creamery Butter.
Train No. 1O4 from the west was
five hours late Sunday morning.
Everyone is glad to see the noon
trains back on schedule to care for the
local work.