The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-13
Upton, the Capper man. Why?

ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. C.
Arnold, the past week, left for her
! home in Denver, Tuesday night.
Miss Sadie Hall, formerly of this
, city but now living in Los Angeles,
was married to Mr.. Ernest K. Hart
man of Los Angeles, December .24th.
Don't forget that the Basket Ball
game at the Normal tonight between
the Normal Tigers and Bethany, will
be free.
Keep up with what the world is
doing. Capper's Weekly. Upton,
the Capper man.
G. NJ. Cox who has been doing bust
ness at the corner of South Chestnut
and South Main street, will move in
to his building on East Juniata street,
February 1st, and Lee Mckinney will
occupy Mr.. Cox's present location
with a restaurant That corner is
one of the best locations in Hays for
a restaurant or any other business,
and Mckinney will surely make good.
The Methodist ministers were here
this week, still working on the new
Community Church being built by
them.
For SaIe.-Alfalfa Hay, loose or
baled; pink kafir fodder or pink kafr
stover. Call at the Fort Hays Ex-
pertinent Station or telephone 123.
Hays is already coming into the
lime-light of the railroad work. Dur
ing the past week and few days bid
ders have been in Hays, who want to
sell the talked of new Railroad 5000
tons of rails, 10000 ties, 10000
! fence posts, 800 miles of barbed wire,
! and to figure on the bridges across
| the Big Greek and Smoky Hill river,
/ for the elevators and the depots. 1t
is already bringing lots of strangers
to our city. On Saturday a gentle
man was here from Fort Worth,
| Texas, where the new wheat ship
ments to the Gulf would branch off
over their road to New Orleans, while
the railroads would like that their
roads be selected to haul the iron
from Colorado and the timber from
Minnesota, through Chicago.
The Mail & Breeze is a good in
vestment Upton, the Capper man.
The engagement played by the
Grandi Bros Stock Company here
last week, pleased three large aud
fences. Thursday "a Bachelors Ro-
nance" was given and they played
their parts well; Friday believe Ne,
Xantippe" was well put on; Saturday
est. Elmo" from the book by Augusta
Evans, was played, and they closed
their engagement Saturday night
with that four-act rural comedy
drama, ''Way Down East" The
Orchestra and specialties were also
very good. This was the company's
closing engagement for this season.
They left here Sunday morning for
their respective homes to spend their
vacation, after which they will open
for next season with a new line of
plays. They expect to play Hays
again the coming season.
! Herbert Vine was over from the
Saline, Tuesday.
Mrs. Hudson Harlan and little
daughter went to Hays, Thursday
! morning, where the little girl was
operated upon for appendicitis--Wa-
Keeney Tregonian.
! Representative John OLoughlin
left Monday morning for Topeka,
where he will attend the next session
of the Kansas legislature.
The Galveston News of January
9th, 1921, publishes the annual report
of H A Wickstrom, chief Grain In
spector of the Galveston Board of
Trade which shows that in 1920 there
were exported from tat port 1926
484 bushels of wheat to foreign coun-
tries. Over six million went TO
Gibraltar and Italian ports, over five
million to LIVERPOOL
1917 exported 14,O6O,OOO; 1918
exported IA 4sOOOs 1919 SApO1ISU
16,7O7, 900; 1920 exported 44,726,-
600.
The largest cargo of wheat was a
British ship with 297, 500 bushels. The
paper says they propose to make 1921
and 1922 still larger and are prepar-
ing to open up new fields that should
ship millions of bushels TO that port
(Can they mean Ellis, Rush and Bar
tton counties?) If they want to put
up twelve wheat elevators in these
counties and pay US the cash for our
grain, shall we encourage them? B.
F. Replogle tells that when he was
running the Farmers Union Elevator
at Ellis, they paid him 5 cents more
bushel to ship to Hutchinson and
south than they did to Kansas City.
Would the farmers of Ellis County
like to have cents more a bushel
for their wheat? And they can well
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