The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-03-03


street, for Fresh Doughnuts and
Homemade Candies this Saturday.
The Ladies of the Lutheran Aid So
ciety will hold an Easter Bazaar and
Food Sale, Saturday, March 10, 1921
The senior department of the NJ. E.
Sunday School will hold candy sale
in the front of BasgalPs store, Satur-
day, March 5th
Sidney Scheureman who is attend
ing the Fort Hays Kansas Normal
School here was very pleasantly sur
prised last Friday evening, when a
party of eleven young people from
his home neighborhood north of Otis,
gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs
Vernon Clark and entertained in
honor of his eighteenth birthday.
Go to the Busy Bee Bazaar in Eel
tens Transfer Office on West Second
street, for Fresh Doughnuts and
Homemade Candies this Saturday.
The Ladies of the Lutheran Aid So
ciety will meet in the Sunday School
room of the church, Thursday, March
10, 1921.
Mrs. Annie Shade who has been i'll
in the Hays hospital the past ten days,
is much better at this writing.
H. W. Grass was over from La
Crosse, Wednesday.
Mrs Frank Fields entertained the
Club at the Hotel Brunswick Thurs
day afteroon.
The Galveston News announces
that last week the largest cargo of
wheat ever taken out of that port was
taken by the Italian ship, Attualita,
carrying $4,000 bushels of wheat to
the Italian government, purchased by
them, and goes to Gibraltar on the
Mediterranean ocean and will be div
ided among the Italian ports. Think
of one vessel carrying all the wheat
raised last year in any township in
Ellis, Rush or Barton counties, repre-
senting over 300 cars of wheat.
The Great Bend Tribune an
nounces that at their city election in
April the people will vote on the pro
position of the city buying the cOun-
ty fair grounds adjoining the city,
and use it for a public park, for the
! sum of $4,000, the Fair folks to
have the use of it one week each year
for their County Fair. 1t will be
within three blocks of the location
selected for the depot Fof the new
Golden Belt railroad, and on the
same street.
c. W. Miller has three extra good
I Jacks for sale. Prices reasonable
Peter Johnson, Jr., has returned
from his winters outing in CalifOr-
MIA. He is full of stories about that
wonderful country toward the set
ting sun. He met E. S. Beach, Will
/ Reeder, and others who were former
residents of Ellis county. He says it
takes money to live in that country
/ that the ''rent hog shears the tourist
lamb to a finish. A small five or SIX
room dwelling put up cheaply, rents
for S125 per month, and a man and
! wife can get a small room-about
1Ox14, for the small amount of $50
! per week-and that is considered
reasonable; they may pay as high as
S75 per week. He also says that take
away the tourist trade from that
over-advertised country, and the resi-
dents would be starving by the end
of wear. The real estate men there
are devoid of conscience and the way
they fleece the unwary tourist is out
rageous-it is simply robbery. Peter
thinks Sunny Kansas is good enough
! for him. There are at least few
honest men in Kansas. Peter john
son. Sr., and daughter, will remain
about two weeks longer IN California
and will return by the way of Port
land, Oregon.
There was a man here few days
ago looking for proper location for
a cement plant. There is tract of
land west of town-plenty of lime
stone and shale-that would be an
ideal location. The Commercial Club
should look this matter up and get
busy. The usefulness of a CONNER
| cial Club is not alone for the purpose
of giving dinners to its members and
delightful after-dinner speeches 1t
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was organized and is kept by the busl-
ness men of the city for business
! reasons-for the promotion of just
such things as a cement plant, new
railroads, broom factories or any
other business proposition that is
looking toward Hays for location
Let the ladies of the city look after
pink teas and such minor affairs.
The Hays High School Girls
Basket Ball team went to Wilson,
last Friday morning, to play the Viii
| son High School team. The girls say
that Wilson showed them a royal
time. They gave the Hays bunch q