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Would Seem to Be His Ri,b+

a suggestion has been made that If
the British flag is 10 be again unfurIed
above HelGoland, Henry Hedger,
verger OF the parish ut Herne Bay,
Kent, Eng, be engaged 10 raise the
emblem. He il was who hauled down
the Union Jack August .. 1890. when
the island passed into the control Of
the German empire. He was then q
coast guardsman. and is now a Wig
orous man OF between 60 and 40 years.
Mrs. Hedger recalls her four years
on the island chiefly by the birth of
their youngest son. who grew up to
be one Of the contemptibIes, who
helped to hinder Prussia's march
through France. but fell in the at
tempt The family left the island the
day it was taken out OF British con-
troll. and while the pier was decorated
with flags and bunting prior TO the
visit Of the kaiser All the British
official population left at the same
time.
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HAD THE COURAGE OF HIS CON.
VICTIONS

For eight years George Benton was
travelling salesman for the W. o. An
derson Wholesale Produce House OF
Topeka. George who always had his
eyes open for business in his line had,
for several years, regarded Hays as
an excellent point to start a branch
house of the W. o. Anderson & Co.,
so in 1915 he opened up business in
one of Mrs. Ryan's rooms on North
Main Street
The business was a success from
the start and in less than a year had
assumed such proportions that more
room for the expanding business must
be secured.
In the latter part of 1916 lots were
bought near the U. P. right-of-way
east of Chestnut Street and in a very
short time building 75x10O feet
with basement the size of the build
ing, was in process of construction.
In May 1917 he moved in and the
business has been advancing by leaps
and bounds ever since.
The business the first year was
handled by the city dray line but now
MIR. Benton has several trucks of his
own to handle the business. In 1919
he handled 416 cars of produce and
the total amount of the business done
exceeded $25O,O0O. As the capacity
of the building is now taxed to its ut
most, it is predicted that in the near
future additions to the present build
ing will become a necessity.
There are hundreds of young men
who have visions of success but lack
courage and energy to back them I'D.
but George is not in that class.
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AZ TO the Number AFortv =

Forty may not be magic number"
Ike three, or seven. and it has not the
extraordinary properties which mathe-
maticians have discovered in the num-
Der nine, about which a whole volume
might be written without exhausting
the subject. But the manner In which
it figures in both fact and fiction is
certainly calculated to pique curiosity.
1t is impossible to discern any mathe-
NAUTICAL reason for such use OF it,
wherefore the natural assumption is
that It had its origin in some striking
incident.
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Red Gross Chapters Ready for Epi-
demic

demic
Washington, February 9, 192O.-A
recurrence of influenza on anything
ike the epidemic scale of 1918-1919
would find the American Red Cross
chapters in all parts of the country
organized and ready to combat its
spread, it was stated at the Red
Cross National Headquarters recent
iy. Preparedness measures were tax
en- last summer with the result that
the Red Cross is ready to render serv-
ice wherever the disease acquires suf-
ficient Roadway to make it needed
1t is recognized that primary re-
sponsibility for the direction of the
fight against the disease rests with
public health authorities, but chapter
organizations have been notified to
hold themselves in readiness to re-
spond upon first indication of need
for their assistance. Committees from
some chapters have been delegated
to represent the Red Cross in their
territory and surveys of local re-
sources available beds in established
hospitals, emergency hospital facil-
tiles, hospital supplies, drugs, nursing,
social service, motor, canteen and
other resources-have been made and
results indexed.
Chapter funds, unappropriated for
other purposes, may be used for in
fiuenza emergency work and the
Home Service Sections are authorized
to use funds and personnel in helping
families who may require relief as a
consequence of influenza.
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

DO you know that the Hays High
School has started a winning streak
in basket ball and you will miss some
fine games if you do not attend them?
Dictation was given for the first
time this year in the Shorthand class
Thursday. The letters were trans
cribed on the typewriters the next
day.
Changes in classes were made this
week. The physics class which was
formerly held the first period in the
morning was changed to the last per-
iod of the afternoon. Civics is now
given first period in the morning.
Alfred Hardness entertained the
Flying Eagle" patrol at a six o'clock
dinner at his home Tuesday evening.
All scouts were present including Mr.
MARBLE, John Shively and Ashba
Hedges as invited guests. Thomas
Chittenden is Patrol Leader of the
Flying Eagle"
Scout meeting Wednesday was
opened by a cracker eating contest
which was won by the Buffalo" pa
troll Mr.. MARBLE read a story by
O'Henry which was prescribed by the
National Headquarters, after which
the boys drilled and played a few
scout games.
Miss McMindes held an examina-
ton Saturday, February z, for the
mathematics students who missed the
semester examinations on account of
sickness.
The basket ball game with Plain
vile scheduled for Friday was can
celled on account of Plainville school
being closed with the flu. Another
date for the game has not yet been
decided upon.
The girls basket ball team is plan
ming on giving nine sweaters this sea-
son. One to each regular player and
to the three subs.
The domestic science class will take
lessons in baking bread this week.
Miss Morgan will select the person
who will bake bread for exhibit at
the Golden Belt.
The High School teams defeated
the BunkerhiH teams Friday, by a
score of: boys, ii to %; girls, IA to
49, The basket ball girls entertained
both teams and the students at the
Woman's Building after the game.
The president of the senior class,
Adelbert Cowan, is finding out how
many announcements and cards the
members viii need. The order will
soon be sent to Kansas City.
A piano tuner will be here soon and
viii be engaged to tune the high
school piano In addition to tuning,
the piano also needs repairing.
A new screen and a new full-length
mirror have been supplied for the
domestic art room.
A week ago a town team was or
ganized to defeat the Hays High
School but was defeated by a close
score. Thursday, February 5, they
returned in hope of getting revenge
but were smothered by score Of 70
to 26.
The basket ball boys started on a
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-02-12
Somewhat Hard to Explain.

The Indians of Venezuela have frc
time immemOriai had 4 yearly fastin
season of forty days and so have tn
Aztecs of Mexico. So. also. it Shouts
be remembered, had the ancient Per
SLAMS. We cannot attribute their adOp
ton OF the number OF forty to any re
Ietionship with Christianity, and Their,
is no evidence that il had any cOnnec
ton with Judaism. Why, then, forty
Exchange.
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MILK TOAST
Vincent Wehrley,
Bishop of Bismarck

Let's put aside to-mOrrow's roast
And eat meal of hot milk toast
Wen make the toast OF crusts you
know,
And use more milk to make 1t go.
No waste to toast; we'll eat it all.
IT'S good for people, great and small,
Such simple food makes child ~,
grow,
And keeps the cost of living low
Then let US dine on hot milk toast,
In every State, from coast to coast.
No one shall hunger, faint or fast,
So long as good milk toast shall last.
When we want more we'll promptly
say,
''Please pass the hot milk toast this
way"
PRICES
Pasteurized Coffee Cream, 25c per pit.
Pasteurized Whipping Cream, 4Oc pit.
Whole milk, by ticket, u cents cash
in advance
Skim milk or Butter milk, 25c gallon.
Cottage Cheese, zoe per pound.
1--WE Deliver The Goods"
GOLDEN BELT CREAMERY & ICE
COMPANY
Phone 484
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Pure Neetsfoot Oil for oiling har-
ness, at Younger's Harness Shop.
AMERICAN LEGION BULLETIN

Washington's Birthday, February
%, will be fittingly celebrated under
the auspices of the Casper j. Middle
kauff Post of the American Legion.
The program committee has arranged
a good program to be given Sunday
afternoon at the Strand Theatre All
Ellis County citizens are cordially in
vited to be present at these exercises
Come to Hays Sunday afternoon and
hear good program. French Mem
orial Diplomas will be given to the
nearest kin of every soldier who died
during the war..All ex-soldiers should
make special effort to be present
and participate in commemorating
the lives of their comrades who made
the supreme sacrifice during the war.
The United States Government has
honored the American Legion by
placing into their hands this memorial
work. Local posts of the American
Legion all over the country have
charge of the program on February
22.
At the next meeting, Wednesday,
February 18th, the Bylaws will
come up for adoption. This will be
an important meeting. Come and
take part in the discussions.
Be a member of the Legion on OF
before February p.
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A Tribute from France to Americas
Dead.

"A tribute from France to America
Dead.
France pays homage to America
dead in the late war, on Washington's
Birthday, Sunday, February p. On
that day a French memoriam certifi-
cate of honor and esteem will be pre-
scented to the next of kin of each of
Americas sons who died in the serv-
ice between the dates of April 6,
1917, and November II, 1913. By
arrangement with the French Gov
eminent and the War and Navy De-
partments, the presentations, with ap-
propriate services, will be made by
local posts of The American Legion
so far as is practicable. To those
next of kin living in outlying sections
not convenient to an American Lee
gion post the Certificates will be mail
ed by the War and Navy Departments.
To the next of kin of 3O8 of our dead
living in foreign countries, the pre-
sentation will be made through Dip
lomatic attaches.
These certificates will be present
ed to the next of kin of approximate
ly 118,4O9 soldiers, sailors and mar
ines, who died under the colors in
France, the United States, our colon
ial possessions and elsewhere. The
honor roll is comprised of LOT, 1852
soldiers, $500 sailors and 1861 mar
ines. The Marine Corps received its
allotment of testimonials at too late
a date to address and sent them to
district recruiting offices for delivery
to local posts for presentation, as the
army and navy have done. All Mar
inc Corps testimonials will be sent to
the next of kin by mail
The certificate shows a group fig
ure placed on a cenotaph on which is
engraved in French the signature of
the President of the French Republic,
Raymond Poincare, "To the memory
of -.-------------- of the limited States
of America who died for liberty dur
ing the great war, the homage of
France. The inscription at the top
of the certificate is from a poem by
Victor Hugo and freely translated
reads: 'tThe people should come to
pray at the graves of those who died
for their country"
The American Legion Weekly.
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Social Etiquette in Chin.

The Chinese send three invitations
to guests. The first is dispatched two
days before the feast; the second on
the day itself, to remind those they
expect OF their engagement; and the
third just before the hour has struck,
so as to show how impatient they are
to see their friends.
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Under the Golden Rule

When the Golden Rule becomes IA.
law of human life all this Industrial
dissension) will be changed. The en-
ployer Will ask how much he can pay
the worker. not how little. The work
man will ask how much he can do.
not how little-Benjamin Harrison.
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at the Manse. Devotional meeting at
$50 p. m, to which all the members
of the church are invited.
7:3O p. m. Union service at the NJ.
E. church. President W. A. Lewis
vii give an address which will be in
teresting and instructive. Come and
hear him.
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Perfume.

Perfume received its first real devei
opment In Persia, and later the priests
of Egypt, who were the only men 81
learning in those ancient days, de
voted much time TO the manufacture
OF perfume and aromatic oils.
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DAIRY SUPPLIES? We have what
you want, when you want it. Golden
Belt Creamery Co., Phone 484.
THE CHURCHES
Trinity Lutheran Church
c.. F. West, Pastor.

Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Morning worship at II a. m. Spe-
cial Boy Scout service. Everybody
is urged to attend.
Luther League at $50 p. m. Lem
weber's famous paintings of Old and
New Testament scenes have been
thrown upon the screen at the last
two meetings of the Society. These
120 pictures in fine color reproduc-
ton are beautiful and were much en-
joyed by those present. More pic
lures on Bible scenes Tin colors) will
be shown this Sunday evening. This
meeting will be preceded by a lunch
in the church at $50. Young people
will be heartily welcomed.
There will be no preaching in the
Lutheran church in the evening. Our
people are invited to the Methodist
church for union service. DR.. W.
A. Lewis will give the address. Let
everybody attend.
Everybody is invited to the Bible
lectures on Christian Fundamentals.
This class meets in the City Hall on
Tuesday evening at 8 sharp. The
Sixth Commandment is our next
topic.
Everybody is cordially invited to
all of these services.
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Threshers Attention.

Bran new threshing outfit for sale,
cash or reasonable terms. Consists
of 28-inch separator and oil engine.
Both new. See or write C. G.
Cochran & Sens, Hays, Kansas.
1910
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Free Kodak Finishing

Send me one Roll and 25 cents.
will develop and finish one print from
each and tell you how to get your Ko-
dak Finishing Free.
Graves, The Picture Man,
433 W. 4th Street,
Junction City, Kansas.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-02-12

Air experts say the next war will
be fought on 1.-The ceiling of the
EARTH" and in the saying they give
US 4 new expression. They fix the
limit of altitude at $4,000 feet, there
by establishing the height of the cell
ing above the ground.
There is no reason to doubt the
statement of the aviators. Indeed,
military men generally express the
belief that the next war will be fought
largely in the air The nation that
dominates the air in the beginning of
the struggle will be the victor, they
say, just as it used to be the case that
the nation which dominated the sea
was the victor
But, this ceiling of tie earth!
What a picturesque expression
These airmen crawling over the cell
ing of the earth as flies used to crawl
upon the ceiling of the home before
the advent of the screens. That is
exactly what they are ike-tiny in
seets far above their abode on the
earth, twisting and turning in the air,
swooping through and sweeping above
the clouds.
Up there, out of sight from below,
where all is eternal blue, there is
where the next war viii be fought.
But let US believe that the generation
now anchored to the ground will have
passed away, and its immediate sue
cessors succumbed to old age, before
the ceiling of the earth is spattered
up with human wreckage.-Mc-
Cracker Enterprise.
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For Sale

Corn and Prairie Hay, Barred and
Buff Rocks, Buff Leghorns, cockerels
and pullets.-Geo. E. Palmer, Hays,
Phone 164. 1874
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Hav for Sale

John F. Younger has between thir-
ty and forty tons of No. 1 hay for
sale. Inquire at Younger's Harness
Shop.
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trip today and are playing Wilson to-
night and will play Ellsworth tomor-
row night Bunkerhill cancelled the
game at that place.
Instead of having chapel Monday
morning the pupils went to the re-
spective rooms and had a spelling
match picking the best two out of
each room. Next Friday the differ
ent twos from each room will spell
against each other. The best two out
of the school will spell az the Golden
Belt.
The music period which came at
1920 to II on Monday and Thurs
day, has been changed from. IL 80
to 200. The gym classes will be re-
sumed after Miss Ellis has finished
the operetta, "The Maid and the Mid
dy."
One of the best pep meetings ever
held was that of Friday afternoon
preceding the games with Russell
Miss Creighton, Mary Chittenden and
Ed Madden gave pep speeches. After
the speeches a snappy yell practice
was held and few new yells were
made up.
The program given in chapel Fri
day consisted of two violin solos by
Mr.. Tilley, a short reading by Char
lotte Blender, a vocal solo by Eva
Wood, and the Pepper Box by
ROwena Snyder and Halle Overhol-
ser The numbers were highly appre-
ciated.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-02-12
Varied Gifts

Some women are remarkable fol-
their poise; others for their avoirdu-
pois.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-02-12

Buff Leghorn and Rhode Island
Red eggs for sale. Place your order
now. Fred Oshant.
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To Rent

I have three housekeeping room:
to rent. Phone $40.
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Christian Science Society
Hays, Kansas

Sunday, February Is, 1920.
Subject: "SouI."
Golden Text: Job 1922.
Responsive Reading: Deut. 1912,
1921; 1y:1, 10, 21.
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For Sale

Registered Hereford Bulls, two
year old and yearlings. Young Perch
eron horses and mares. Geo. E. Pal
mer, Hays, Phone 1874 j29t4
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First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church
II. Mac D. Thompson, Pastor.
Sunday School at 9 :45.
Morning worship at II o'clock
The pastor will be in Ellis, Sunday
morning and is glad to announce that
Prof. P. Caspar Harvey will speak at
the morning preaching hour.
Junior Union at $50.
B. Y. P. U. at $50.
Evening worship will be dismissed
TO unite in the Lincoln Day service.
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Presbyterian Church Notes

Presbyterian Church Notes
Gerrit Snyder, Pastor.
GAS a. M. Sunday School Men
specially invited to join the Mems
class.
100 a. m. Preaching service.
10th anniversary of the Boy Scout
movement. Boy Scouts will usher,
take up the Offering and participate
in the service. The pastor viii preach
on boy Service" Or "Good Turn"
Gifts are solicited next week for the
Boy Scouts.
$50 p. m. Young people meet
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ization the following officers We
elected: Joseph Griese, Temper >.
PRESIDENT; w. A. Logan, Temper y :
Vice President; Peter Johnson. Jr
Temporary Secretary.
The meeting then paused to discu-e
the proposed wheat legislation and if
was moved by Mr.. Joseph Griesa Of
Walker and seconded by Mr.. Meistre1
OF RIverview, that strong protest in
the form of telegram be sent to our
representatives and senators protest
/, ing against the wheat guarantee price
A committee was appointed to draf.
and forward this telegram represan+
ing farmers from each township in the
county. After the temporary ORGAN.
lzatlon was perfected plans were
made Tor securing help to ORGANIZE
the county. The plan contemplated
is to secure men from counties thu.
nave been organized and are workino
successfully, to visit and explain tbei,
experiences to the farmers of Eli,
county. These in every case, viii be
farmers from Kansas counties who
belong to the farm bureau organiza.
ton.
Mr. John Kruger of Freedom town.
ship moved that the annual dues OF
the Ellis County Farm Bureau be
$500 and that the Ellis County Farm
RIIraau hooor,,c :, :.
State Farm Bureau of Kansas. Thi.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-27
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never
Suspect It
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected.

Judging from reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the public, there is one preparation that
has been very successful in overcoming
these conditions. The mild and healing
influence of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root is
soon realized. It stands the highest for
its remarkable record of success.
An examining physician for one Of the
prominent Life Insurance Companies, in
an interview on the subject, made the a..
tonishing statement that one reason why
SO many applicants for insurance are re-
jected is because kidney trouble is 90
common to the American people, and the
large majority of those whose applica-
tions are declined do not even suspect
that they have the disease. It is on sale
at all drug stores in bottles Of two sizes,
medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer d Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-27
lmportan. to saothers
NEW ENGLAND's COLD SPELL
Period of Frosty Weather That VIII
Long Be Remembered by Those
Who Endured II.

Three or four winters ago, when the
whole Of New England was buried In
snow and gripped in ice. Nantucket had
one Of its worst ordeals. The cold was
Intense, ten below zero, in early Febru-
ary. For miles on all sides of the
Island the ice pack stretched, to old
eyes as far as the horizon. Day after
day passed and the Sankaty did not
run. The harbor was choked with Ice,
like that of st. Anthony in Labrador.
The main ship channel from Monomoy
Point light to Nantucket was frozen
over. No mails or supplies were re-
ceived on the island for eight days.
The Cross Rip lightship was forced
from its moorings when the pack broke
and the lonely ship with It's tolling bell
was carried out to sea and lost, ten
men on board. 1t was hard winter
on the mainland. season Of deep
SHOWS and killing cold, and on Nan
tucket 1t is an ugly memory. The
island is often no longer sea-girt, but
lce-locked, and the most Imaginative
summer loiterer could not believe how
dreary the purple isle" Of his summer
dreams can be when the SHOWS blanket
lies deep upon 1t and the gale RACES
from Tuckernuck to Wauwinet
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-27
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How to Open cioVoed NostriIs
and End Head-colds.

You feel fine in a few moments.
Your cold in head or catarrh will be
gone. Your clogged nostrils will open.
The air passages Of your head will
clear and you can breathe freely. No
more dullness, headache; no hawking,
snuffling, mucous discharges or dry
ness; no struggling for breath at
night.
Tell your druggist you want a small
bottle Of Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a
little Of this fragrant, antiseptic
cream in your nostrils, let 1t penetrate
through every air passage Of the head
soothe and heal the swollen, infiamed
mucous membrane, and relief comes
instantly.
1t Is just what every cold and ca
tarrh sufferer needs. Don't stay
stuffed-up and miserable.-Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-27
Crown Balm.

When General Pershing arrived in
Washington after his return from
France he had with him trunk con-
ribbons and the correspondence con-
corning 1t. Attaches of the war de-
partment were detailed to go through
the material. They had not gene far
when they ran across this memoran-
dun which bore the signature of one
Of the generals aids and date sew
eral months old:
~The King Of - was here yester-
day and left n couple Of medals"
In one corner Of the memorandum
over the initials Of the C-in-C, was this
penciled notation:
"Write him something pretty"