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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
poubIoons Now Merely Bullion

Should one find a pirates buried
treasure he would have to dispose of
his Spanish gold at its bullion value,
for, since August 1, 1908, when the
common crier made proclamation from
the steps of the Royal exchange of
London that after that date the doub-
loon would cease to be legal tender
in the West Indies, including British
Guiana, the doub1OOn has not been
the precious thing it was
In 1870, and for century after, it
was worth So, more or less. It has
ceased 10 be coined in its native cOun-
try, Spain, and since 1908 it has been
unpopular in the West Indies, where
for a long time it figured in & mixed
circulation embracing British, United
States and Spanish coins. In the in
terest of romance, however, the name
must survive 1t signifies nothing
more than that the coin was double
the value of a pistOle, but the dOub-
loon was never such a mouth-fiiIing
a0ckery as pieces of eight. which sug
gests great riches. but means only
Spanish silver dollars, pieces equiva-
lent to eight reals.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
OBJECT LESSON ON TRAFFIC
accident Added Weight to New York
Traffic PoIiceman's Order to
Pedestrians.

On a road on Long Island there is
a dangerous spot where five main
roads come together. It is said that
there on Sunday. A stOcky-built lit
tie policeman, known TO nearly all New
York motorists, stands there all
day long regulating traffic. His arms
are continually going like semaphores,
but he always manages to say some
thing pleasant-Or cauStic-tO paSserS-
by. This little policeman is very proud
of his responsibility. and is imperi-
GUS of gesture.
At busy moment on a Sunday aft
ernoon not long ago a pedestrian
started to cross the road-among the
turning cars. Out of the corner of
his eye the little policeman had just
noted the approach of woman driv-
ing d fiivver
stand back thereI" he called to
the pedestrian Don't you dare to
step off that curb =" This with an i'm
perious wave of his white-gloyed hand.
'.Stop!" he again ordered as the man
started again. There's a woman driv-
ing q car-never can tell what they'll
dol"
AT that very moment, while the po-
liceman's back was turned, the woman
driver became confused, and with a
dull PUNK her car hit the officer
squarely in the back, knocking him
down and skinning his arms and face.
Luckily. he was not run over. His
dignity, though, was terribly upset.
Painfully rising, he brushed himself
off, but said not a word to the woman.
Now he called out, shaking his fist
at the pedestrian on the sidewalk.
now, 1 reck'n you'll stand back when
1 tell you Saturday Evening Post.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30

Of said defendants and each of them, in and
ments situated in the County of Ellis and
State of Kansas. te-wit.
The west half OF the southeast quarter of
Section Thirty-six 1861, IN Township four
teen (14). IN Range sixteen (I6l west of
the Sixth Principal Meridian, in the County
and State aforesaid
viii on January 22nd, A D. 1921 at the
hour OF two o'clock D m. OF said day at the
south main front entrance door of the court
house OF said county, in the City of Hays
Kansas, oHer for sale and sell at public auc-
ton to the highest ana best bidder for cash,
ali OF defendants rights. title, interest and
life estate IN and TO the above described
real estate. with all of the appurtenances
thereunto belonging that said property viii
ne sold to satisfy q certain judgment in at
tachment rendered against said defendants
IN the above entitled cause IN the above
named court, On the day of October,
A. D. 1920. the balance Of which amounts
to the sum of S521-20 with interest at the
rate OF per cent per annum from the 7th
day of December, A D. 1920, together with
all costs ,accruing interest and taxes, and
that the proceeds of said sale viii be first
applied to the payment of taxes and costs
Of this action, and IN payment of said judg-
ment. and the residue, If any, deposited
with the Clerk of said Court for the use and
benefit of the said defendants.
Dated at Hays, Kansas, this 23rd day of
December, A D. 1920.
Alex Welt,
Sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas
DriscoH and Taylor,
Attorneys for plaintiff
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
PROFIT GOES TO UNCLE SAM
All Paper Money That Goes From the
Treasury and Fails to Return
Is "VeIVet"

If you subscribe to the philosophy
that one mans loss is another mans
gain, TO whom do you suppose, does
the profit accrue when you forget to
take your package from its hiding
place in the parl0r stove before light
ing the fire in the fall? If you drop
a dollar bill and it blows into the
gutter and is never recovered. VINO
profits?
If you fall into the river and drown
and your remains take their place per-
manently in Davy Jones locker, who
is to the good to the extent of the
modest roll in your vest pocket?
The answer to one and all of these
questions is, Uncle Sam. Every piece
of paper money that goes out from
the treasury and fails to return, profits
the government to the extent Of its
face value: If it is gold or silver
certificate the metal which was placed
in the treasury for its redemption is
never called forth.
If it is a federal reserve note or
national bank note, the securities that
have been deposited as a guarantee
at the time of its issue, or their equiv
aIent, remain in the treasury. So is
there sOlace to the patriot who so
loses his wallet that if it is not found
by another its contents are applied
to the expenses of the government.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
Invitations Game. AlI Rlaht.

EIizabeth's second birthday was to
be celebrated, so father got the job of
mailing the invitations. In his hurry
he forgot to do so. and dropped them
in the mail box in Terre Haute. Re
turning late that evening, he told his
wife how he remembered to mail the
invitations, but not until he was out
of town. With whitening glance she
said: You poor boob I guess you
didn't notice they were all marked
City" Time being scarce. she at
once set to work to mail fresh batch
of invitations, which arrived on the
same mail as the first, the Terre Haute
postmaster taking a chance on what
had happened and sending them to
the indianapolis ofice.-Indianapolis
News.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30

There Is more CatarrIl in this section
or the country than all other diseases
put together. and for years it was sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment. pronounced
1t incurable. CataTrh is a local disease
greatly Influenced by constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
nonal treatment. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine. manufactured by. F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is q constitutional
remedy, is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
Of the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward is offered for any case that Halls
CatarTh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
2. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
Cnurch ReIIa

The Angeius bell always rung thrice
a day, takes its name from the first
words of the prayer In Tuscany a
bell is rung an hour before the eve
ming Angelus. or Ave bell, and is in
tended to remind its hearers to say
the creed. The De Profundi bell
sounds one hour after the Ave In
Italy on Friday afternoon at o'clock
thirty-three STROKES are sounded In
many churches and converts in mem
DRY Of Christ's death at the age Of 80.
The custom probably is followed else
where.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
Bells Worn hx Priests.

1nnumerable and interesting are the
traditions surrounding bells. Bells, or
substitutes therefor, have ever played
an important part in religious cere-
monies. In the books OF Exodus and
Ecciesiastes the ornaments of the high
priests ephod include bells, SO that
"their sound might be heard whenever
he goeth in or cometh out of the sane
tuary" Their use in the eastern
church obtains even to this day, bells
being found as they were of old On
the fringe OF pr.estly garments.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
GLYCERINE MIXTURE PRE-
VENTS APPENDICITIS

Simple glycerine, buckthorn bark,
etc, as mixed in Adler-i-ka, removes
all foul, accumulated poisonous mat
ter from BOTH upper and lower
bowel and prevents appendicitis. Re
lieves ANY CASE gas on stomach or
constipation. The INSTANT pleasant
action of Adler-i-ka surprises both
doctor and patients4 A business
man reports great benefit in long
standing case of Indigestion and sour
stomach. c. A. HARNESS, Drug
gist.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
ThimbIe inventor a eenefactor.

HiHhDIe inventor SenCI ACTOR.
At first thimbles wefe rather costly
and only welI-tO-dO people could af-
ford them. but afterward when made
OF lead and other common metals by
machinery they became cheap. Their
use was a great relief to all who had
much sewing to do. and blessings were
invoked on the inventor. The Dutch
hnger-hat (fingerhoOd) became in
England the ''thumb-beIl," from. its
bell-like shape. 1t was originally worn
on the thumb to parry the thrust of
the needle pointing through the ma
terial, and not. as at present. to impel
it,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
Acquired Hauteur.

Miss Grabcoin has returned from
an expensive finishing school"
what do you suppose she learned
there?'
For one thing she learned how to
keep her chin at the correct altitude
for young woman whose father is
worth in the neighborhood of 20 mil
lion dollars '-Birmingham Age-Her-
aid.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30

I. Carrie Meyer, Clerk in and for the City
of Hays, do hereby certify that the within
and foregoing is a true and correct state
ment of Receipts and Disbursements of the
City OF Hays from July 1, 1920 to December
1, 1920. in accordance with the records of
my Office.
In witness whereof. I have hereuntO set
my hand and affixed the seal of the City of
Hays on this 18th day of December, 1920.
Isl Carrie Meyer,
~
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
As She Saw 1t.

She Gas pitcher for the home team
strikes out a MANI don't see any
thing TO cheer about. Why, the man
didn't even hit the ball."-BOston
Transcript.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
WOMEN GIVE OUT

Housework is hard enough when
healthy. Every Hays woman who is
having backache, blue and nervous
spells, dizzy headaches and kidney or
bladder troubles, should be glad to
heed this Hays Woman's experience:
Mrs. Joe G. Jacobs says: ct can
firmly recommend Doan's Kidney
Pills, because I have used them off
and on at different times with great
results. Often I have trouble with
my back, which seems to come from
little over-work around the house.
of my back and my kidneys and feel
There is a dull ache across the loins
tired and drowsy a good bit of the
time. Whenever bend over, twinges
ders and I feel dizzy. My kidneys
of pain shoot up my back and shout
seem to be weak and irregular in ac-
ton, too. When I feel any of this
trouble, I begin to take Doan's Kid
ney Pills from the King Bros Drug
Store and short use entirely rid me
of the agony"
Price Soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Jacobs had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DIS
BURSEMENTS FOR THE CITY OF
HAYS, KANSAS, FROM JULY l.
1920 TO DECEMBER 1, 1920
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
First published in Hays Free Press,
December %, 1920

First published in Hays Free Press,
December %, 1920
Notice of Final Settlement
State of Kansas, Ellis County, SIS.
In the Probate Court of said County
and State.
In the Matter of the Estate of David
H. Early, deceased.
Creditors and all other persons in
terested in the aforesaid estate, are
hereby notified that ON the 18th day
Of January 1921, shall apply to the
Probate Court sitting at the Court
House in the city of Hays, Ellis Coun-
ty, Kansas, for full and final settle
ment of said estate and for an order
of the Court finding and adjudging
who are the heirs of David H. Early,
deceased.
Amanda Jane Early,
Executrix.
(First published in the Hays Free Press,
December %, 1920
SHERIFF'S SALE NOTICE
In the District Court of Ellis County. Kan
]. G. Bremen, Plaintiff,
VS..
VIM. Bennett and Mollie Bennett,
husband and wife. Defendants
CASE NO 67S5
State of Kansas, Ellis County, IS:
Under and by virtue Of an order OF sale
issued in said cause by the Clerk OF said
Court, on the It'll day of December, A D.
1920 directing me to advertise and sell ac-
cording to law the life estate and interests
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30

General Fund
RECEIPTS
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
DISBURSEMENTS

Balance July I, 1920 = S4365.51
Taxes, Co. Treas ----- 174S.94
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-30
), 1920
Light Fund
RECEIPTS

Sale of ELECTRIC Current
. including for pumping
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
MOVING PICTURE SHOWS DETAILS OF
 RUBBER INDUSTRY
Unusual Presentation Made By Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company-Vis-
 ualize EveryaPhase

What is perhaps one of the most in teresting industrial and educational nov ing pictures ever filmed, showing details of the rubber industry, which has grown to be the greatest in the world, with the exception of steel fabrication, has just heen completed by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
 Starting with a view of crude rubber as it arrives after it's long voyage from the company's own plantation in Suma- tra-having travelled LOGO miles by every form of transportation from sinewy na- tives to modern raiiroads-the story of a Tire" takes the amazed reader step by step through the various intricate manu- featuring processes until the tire is ready to deliver it's thousands of miles for pleasure or business.
 Wonderful machines that clean, mix and roll the rubber, almost human looms for weaving the fabric, the amazing dex- teritv of the tire builders and giant. steaming pits where the castings are cured, are depicted with vividness and fidelity that epitomize modern industry. There is not dull moment in the three reels showing the activities of 8,000 em- ployes turning out the thousands of uneumatic tires that will bring vacation jovs and business convenience to mill lions of motorists throughout the world
 pThe Story of a Tire" visualizes the descriptions given in the booklet of the same name, which was published by the company recently as an educational fea- ture and which more than 5000 schools,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
TEST ON ALL PIERCE
 ENGINES PROVIDED
Modern Devices Used to Make Exhaustive Check of Every Engine Pro-
 duced by Company

"The Pierce Arrow Motor Car Com rany of Buffalo has just completed the installation of perhaps the most effec- tive motor testing plant in the coun- try" said Charles Denegre of the Dene- gre Car and Truck Company local distributors. Added proof of the ierce- Arrow cempai ys determination constantly to enhance its quality standard is found in the fact that every engine, whether truck or pas senger ear. produced by the company, made possible by improved electric dynanometer apparatus.
 Under the improved method of test ing an engine passes through three stages. It first is driven electrically until the moving parts are worn in, whereupon the engine is run for a number of hours under it's own power at various speeds. Throughout this entire period instruments reveal aceu- ratelv the internal friction of the en- zine, it's speed and the horsepower de- veloped by it. The engine then Is dis assembled and the parts inspected by experts. who rebuild it. after making adjustments and corrections.
 Tn the final stage. the engine is coupled with dynanometer in a silent room At this stage of the test is re- corded complete data as to power. gasoline consumption, internal frict.on and other vital facts. Here, too, the tester adjusts ignition, carb action, valve action. etc. so that when the final 0. k. 's given a perfect engine is ready for tt e chassis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
Sad Story of the War

oswald F. Schuette. in Ieslies.
 peace maneuver in France five days after the signing of the armistice cost a young American soldier both eyes and both hands. He had gone unwounded through the fighting on the battlefelds. It is the only injury O this kind that has come before the bu- teau of war risk insurance. In asking Congress to make i special allowance for the terribly wounded soldier, Rep resentative Burton Sweet Of Iowa tol' the story of the tragedy as follows:
 "This soldier of the republic is Henry A. Bitter He is resident of Dubuque, Iowa, and on May P, 1918, he enliseted in Company C. Three Hun dred and Fifty-second United States in fantry When the armistice was signed he was back of the Alsace front Just after the armistice was signed he was then detailed to go to Luneville to a divisional gas school. On the 18th day of November. 1918, five days after the arrnistice was signed. the captain in command ordered q naneuver in honor of ain American brigadier general and some French officers. The participants were to simulate an advance through smoke screen and carried their rifles in one hand and an offense hand gre made in the other. The pin or key in the hand grenade which he carried worked it's way out. and the grenade exploded blowing off both his hands and utterly destroying the sight of both his eyes,
 He was sent to base hospital near Toule, and both arms were immediately anputated just above the wrist joints The surgeon gave him some hope that he might regain the sight in one eye. Some five weeks after he received his injuries he was examined by an eye specialist, and was told that he would never recover his sight and that he would always be totally blind. Since returning to the United States he has consulted eye specialists in New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15

The farmer today is facing , prob lem of increased production and is logi- cally turning for its solution to the same methods that manufacturing industries have found efficient" says Charles F. Voorhis, vice president and general sales manager of the Nash Motors Company. Time saving machinery rapidly is talk ing it's place on the farm and the impor- tance of this is evident in figures which show that during the past year thousands of motor trucks were installed by farm CTS. This was made possible, of course, through improved highway conditions.
 ''The record of transportation develop ment is the chronicle of mans achieTe- ment; as his means of communication has bettered so has his physical well being improved and his mental growth pro- gressed. But while our railroads have become a model for all other nations, our highways until within very recent years remained but trails.
 with the advent of the automobile
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
Era ofGoodRoads at Hand, '' Says Auto Sales Manager
Nash Motor Company Official Points Out Necessity and Advantages of Good Highways-Farmer Is Facing
 Problem of Increased Production Now

the necessity for good roads became ap- parent The limited radius of the horse drawn buggy became entirely insufficient for the easoline-d-iven vehicle, and there developed a real effort to improve our highways. As a matter of fact, there s no logical or intelligent opposition 10 plans advanced for actual road con- struction; most of us realize the neces' sity for permanent highway construction, hut few of us make it our business to see that he work actually is accomplished.
 'The federal government has placed 800. .c0),G0O at the disposal of the various states for road building purposes during f9f0-192O and i9.l And that the states have realized the;f necessity and grasped their opportunity is ifdica ted in the fact that in 1920 the states themselves nave made an aggregate appropriation of $l,- 266.S0s 300 and this in addition to the amount available from the government The era of good roads seemingly IS at hand. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15

city and Baltimore and they have given him no hope whatever of recovering his eyesight. Before entering the army he was a pharmacist in the employ of the Torbet Drug company, of Dubuque.
 "He had worked his way through school and obtained his position on merit. He is now g years old. His father is 63 years of age and a tailor by trade residing al Dubuque, Iowa. His mother is 60 years of age. There are five children in the family, three of whom are still living at home. His mothers hands are filled with house
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15

hold duties. His fathers home is not fully paid for as yet He has no other trade or profession besides that of pharmacist He has been honorably discharged from the army. When he appeared before our cofnmitte he said:
 I have lost much and have tried to keep from becoming despondent I will try to fight for what there is left in life He has an abiding faith that the gov ernment for which he sacrificed so much will treat him justly. Gentlemen of the House, if you could see this
 young man with both hands gone and both eyes destroyed: if you could see
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
AUTOMOBILE TIRE
 INDUSTRY GROWTH

The growth of the automobile tire industry has been phenomenal in the last few years. Expansion continues, with large additions being made by all companies. Besides extensions to it's main plants in Akron, Ohio, the Good year Tire and Rubber Company has just acquired the big Ford Motor Com pany plant al Long Island City for warehouse W purposes. It is an eight story building containing about 500.- coo square feet of space It has six elevators and siding facilities on the Long island railroad. It became avail able because of a change in distribu- ton poicv of the Ford company Feb ruary ,. 1920
 without inqurng into its cause or func- tion But I have no desire to brand as sackers these who will not enlist in the fight against Puritanism. What | wish to suggest is some modtcum of dcubt as to the complacent assumption that only by absorption in some contetn- porary social problem can the philoso- pher justify his existence. The great philosophers. like the great artists. scientists and religious teachers have all, in large measure. ignored their conten- porary social problems Aristotle Leo rardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Newton, Buddha4, Jesus of Na 71ref h an7 ether who have done so much to heishten the quality of human life, have very little to say about the actual international. economic and politicais establishments which were as pressing in their day as in ours. The great service of Socrates to humanity was surely not in his some what superficial criticism of his day, but rather in developing certain intellectual methods. and suggesting to Plato certain doctrines as to the nature of the soul and ideas-doctrnes which in spite of all their impro eticaity have served for over two thousand years to raise men above the groVeling. ciawng existence ill which so much of our life is sunk.
 Both Houses passed the bill unani- mOusly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
HOW SOME GIRLS
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 ful and New

Don't worry about perfect results. Use Diamond Dyes" guaranteed to give a new, rich, fadeless color to any fabric, whether it be wool, silk, linen, cotton or mixed goods = dresses, blouses stockings, skirts children's coats, feathers, draperies, coverings.
 The Direction Book with each pack age tells so plainly how to diamond dye over any color that you cannot make a mistake.
 To match any material, have drug gist show you Diamond Dye' Color Card.