The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-07-10

as the strike is over.
County Treasurer Fred n. DreiL
! ing, c. J. Loreditsch andtFrank Car
man are harvesting near Walker.
Deputy County Clerk Weigel is also
out doing his bit in helping to save
the 1919 bumper wheat crop.
A. B. Gladhart was up from Law
renee the first part of the week.
VIM Blackmun returned home
from the east, Thursday night.
VIM. Sehermerhorn was up from
Wilson, Monday.
Miss Hildur Ma1mberg returned
home from the hospital, Monday
morning.
Walter Conger and Melvan Clark
are visiting the Wilson girls at Ne
Cracken this week.
Fred Miller sports new Buick six
automobile.
The heating plant at the Normal
has just been repaired and put in
readiness for fall and winter
The Girls Business Club enjoyed
the luxury of a swim at the Coliseum
one evening this week.
. FIG. Crow and wife from McAllen,
Texas, were. in Hays Wednesday.
]. B. Cave is the owner of a new
Ford Truck
Rev. Snapp has returned from the
Centenary Celebration at Columbia,
Ohio, and will speak Sunday in the
Methodist church on "What I saw and
heard at the Methodist Centenary"
Ed. Davis, Manual Training pro-
fessor at the Fort Hays Normal, has
commenced excavating for a new re-
sidence on lots in West Hays, near
the school.
Walter Miles, has taken charge of
the Ward bakery and restaurant and
will soon open for business. Walter
is frst-class baker and business man
and will no doubt make a success of
the venture.
Word has been received that Frank
Arlington who has been overseas has
arrived at Fort Riley and will soon
be home
DIR. Unrein, who has been on a trip
East is expected home this Friday
evening. Also Mike J. and Buster
Unrein who have been on a vacation
are expected to arrive on the same
train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kissing and
little daughter, Dorthy, will leave
Sunday, for Colorado, where they
will spend the remainder of the sum-
mer.
Joe Bissing spent Sunday in Ellis.
The boys who served with the
American Expeditionary Forces over
seas each received letter of COM
mendation from General Pershing
this week.
On the City Marshal's desk at the |
City Hall, can be seen a relic of the |
early days of Hays. 1t is a six gun
38 calibre revolver, rust eaten, all |
gone but the hammer, the cylinder, |
and a small portion of the frame. The
cylinder contains five loaded cart !
ridges. It is quite a curiosity-a 81
lent witness Of the time when every |
man was shaw unto himself" and a |
dead man for breakfast was no un- |
common occuFrance. The gun was
found while grading the streets in the |
north part of the city.
Andrew Dreiling, cashier of the |
Victoria National Bank was doing |
business in Hays Tuesday.
One day the first of the week, John
0'Laughlin was wanting a number of |
men to harvest his wheat. He ap-
preached bunch of men and enquir-
ed how much they wanted, one man
spoke up and said, $1.25 per hour
John says, "all right, will take your
whole crowd. will go into the head
er box with you and if you do as
TO1h 0S IIlG SdIElS -lE4RL4
Of time, you viii earn your money"
That stumped the gang and not one
Of them called Johns bluff.
D. P. Sims was in Wichita the first
Of the week attending Salesmen,s
meeting in the interest Of the stand
ard oil company.
Four, youpg men=frem KaRsass City.
are here working in the harvest feldz
The fact that they are woTliae -
harvest hands and are from the aEiszl
souri, metropolis, is not a very
startling incident. for EtIlere.szaEe
lumeraus othess-stfroTna the same
:ity. - However lssthese boys are
lot in the same class with the seonl-
non herd ofshsrvesters, they brought
! Ford anteEnobiIa with sthezg roon1li
1t the Wdndsor, get their meals at the
-estaaEts, and 50 beck and forth t0
work. n the car. The muniicent
wage pf $40 perxday, which Ellis4
barrons are paying, en-
ables them to indulge IN laxuries