The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-05-05
GOLDEN BELT
RAILROAD NOTES

As promised, Dory Gosser last SAT
urday, filed the Bond petition for
Buckeye township, with more than
enough signatures, and remarked that
not a voter refused to sign. This
assures the Gosser depot, side track
and elevator for that township if the
road is built.
Director Stremel of Rush county,
reports that every voter in the two
townships of Illinois and Pleasant
dale, in that county, signed the Bond
petitions, and he enclosed a special
affidavit to help convince the Inter
state Commission they NEEDED the
road built.
Here in Hays every man and wo-
man voter asked signed the petitions
and the number is now over 800, but
the Boosters want to make it 800 or
nearly unanimous before notifying
the Interstate. Sign and mail US
your petition as we pay the postage.
The Officers and Directors and en-
ployees of both the First National
Bank and the Farmers State Bank
signed the petitions. They want the
farmers to have the road, sell the
wheat every year right at home, and
come in town and deposit in their
banks.
Weisners', Zeiglers', and Leikers',
as GrOcers and general stores, Wolf
Bros as Hardware, Gottschalk as
Furniture, are boosting it so they
may get that new money in here and
they get the trade. Schlyer & Arm
hold are after the Flour trade when
those Golden Belt Dollars begin to
circulate
Mayor Oshant told bunch of the
evening, that the Hays merchants
hardly dared not to sign the Railroad
Bond petitions. They should let the
farmers of Buckeye, Big Greek,
Wheatland, Catharine and Freedom
see that they are willing to help them
get the new road they were asking
and petitiOning for. IF the applica-
ton should happen to be rejected by
the Interstate because Hays had not
acted, it might cause an adverse feel
ing against Hays by these farmers.
There might not be anything in the
road, nothing behind it, but as there
was nothing in sight coming there
was no harm in giving the named
Directors a chance to make good.
That the Anthony & Northern no
longer talked in eastern public papers
of Hays or Ellis county,
The City Commissioners, Oshant,
Hardness and Paul, last week gave
the Golden Belt R. R. the necessary
certificate that assured it passage
across the streets and alleys of the
city from the Union Pacific R. R. to
the Golden Belt tracks east of Pine
street, and the word was sent at once
TO the Interstate, thus removing that
complaint.
The Petition to the Interstate Com
merce Commission for a RE-HEAR-
ING was duly filed under date of
White received notice of the filing,
and which says: THE Petition is
being given consideration and when
action is taken we will advise you
and the petitioners" Signed by their
Official Director of the Bureau. So
all the Directors here can do is to
wait, and meantime go on with all
of their arrangements to be ready if
the good news comes.
Captain Maurice Zeigler turned in
his bunch of petitions Saturday with
fifty-two signatures.
Quite a number handed their sign
ed petitions to Director Replogle to
turn in to show him they were willing
to let him try and bring the road to
Hays.
Carpenters Wilson, Wolf, Enfield,
Drake and Kissing, Binder Bros, the
pump shop men, with masons Wise
and Gross and painter Jansen turned
in their petitions and want the road
to come and bring more work and
people.
c. NJ. Wann wants his people in
Freedom to get the road, and offers a
free right-of-way across two miles
of his farm in that township if they
happen to go that way, and will glad
ly give $3.50 to see the road built
from Great Bend to Hays. He thinks
that we must have that North and
Kansas; no risking another Normal
School in Western Kansas.
The Free Press crowd turned in