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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER!

Whose property is benefited and a
special assessment about to be
levied therefore by reason of the
construction of lateral sewers in
Sewer District No. Two, in the
City of Hays, Kansas
You and each of you are hereby
notified that an appraisement OF the
real property hereinafter described
has been made by three disinterested,
qualified and resident property own
ers of the said City, who have filed a
report thereof with the City Clerk,
and that on the ninth day of February
1922, at eight o'clock P. Mat the
council chambers in the City Hall, the
Commissioners will meet to hear all
persons and determine and consider
all complaints from property owners
touching appraisements, at which
time any corrections or notifications
in the appraisement or appOrtionment
of costs as should appear just, fair
and equitable viii be made.
The following described property IS
affected by this appraisement:
The East 100 feet of Block No. 1, The
Bird Investment Co. Add. to the
City of Hays, Kansas.
Lots Is, IT, IA, 16 and 18 of Block 2,
i ne DlIu 1INCSILlCIlb w. E1Uu. "
the City of Hays, Kansas.
Lots Is and II of Block 5, The Bird
Investment Co. Add. to the City
of Hays, Kansas.
Lots l, 3 and 3 of Block 4, The Bird
Investment Co. Add. to the City
of Hays, Kansas.
All of Block 3, The Bird Investment
Co. Add. to the City Of Hays,
Kansas.
All of Block 8, Highland Add. to the
City of Hays, Kansas.
All of Block 2, Highland Add. to the
City Of Hays, Kansas.
Blocks 16, II and 42, Lebold Allen &
Co.'S Add. to the City Of Hays,
Kansas.
Witness my hand this eighteenth
day of January, 1922.
II. W. Oshant,
U-S) Mayor
Attest; Emily C. Johnson,
City Clerk.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
THERE IS NO DEATH"
BY J. L. McCreery

BY J. L. McCreery
There is no death The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in heavens jeweled crown
They shine forevermore.
There is no DEATH The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer
To golden grain or meIIOwed fruit
Or rainbOw-tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize,
And feed the hungry moss they bears
The forest leaves drink daily life,
From out the viewless air.
There is no deathl The leaves may fall
And flowers may fade and pass away
They only wait through wintry hours
The coming of the May.
There is no DEATH An angel form
Walks Ger the earth with silent tread.
He bears our best loved things away;
And then We called them dead
He leaves our hearts all desolate,
He piucks our fairest. sweetest flowers
TransPlanted into bliss. they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice. whose joyous tones.
Made glad these scenes of sin and strife
Sings now an everlasting song,
Around the tree of life
Where'er he sees smile too bright.
Or heart too pure for taint and vice
He bears it to that world of light
To dwell in paradise.
Born unto that undying life.
They leave US but to come again;
With Joy we welcome them the same
Except their sin and pain.
And ever near US. though unseen
The dear immortal spirits tread:
For all the boundless universe
Is lhe-THERE ARE NO DEAD.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
THE BIBLE FIRST BOOK PRINTED
Luther Brewer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Republican

KepuD1lCan
The greatest monument of the
printers art is this book, for it was
the first book to be printed from
movable type. John Gutenberg,
the father of printing as we know it
today. chose this book as the first IS
sue from his press. The date of its
issue is a little bit uncertain. 1t was
not printed earlier than 1850, nor
later than 1455. It was an ambitious
undertaking under the circumstances,
and the probabilities are that the
work was begun on the earlier date
and completed on the latter one. The
work was modelled after the manner
of the old manuscripts, initial letters
being left blank in the printing and
supplied by the illuminatOrs. So
closely does the book follow those
produced in the monasteries by the
scribes, that at one time number Of
copies offered in Paris as manu-
scripts found a ready sale, due to
their being offered at about half the
sum demanded for manuscript copies.
When the supply seemed to be con-
slant, curiosity was aroused, and
Faust, who wa sa partner of Guten-
berg in the making of the book, had a
hard time of it keeping out Of prison.
He was accused of sorcery, it being
charged that the red ink used in the
illuminated initials was human blood.
To possess a copy of the Guten-
berg Bible is a distinction to any col
lection of books, and there are but
few collectors who can hope ever to
own one. But few copies are known
to exist-only about fOrty-and these
largely are in collections that never
viii be dispersed.
The Gutenberg Bible is the most
precious book in the world. It's prem
iership will never be challenged. It
is most magnificent example Of
typography, the first edition Of a work
that has had a greater influence on
the world than any other ever writ
ten. The last perfect copy that ap-
peared in the auction room was
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
SERIOUSLY BURNED

We publish the following excerpt
from a letter to T. G. Reed & Sons
which tells of a former resident of
Hays, now a travelling salesman for
w. A. L. Thompson Hardware Co. of
Topeka. Mr.. Lowell has many friends
in Hays:
"Fenton Lowell lies seriously burn
ed at the farm home of Mrs. Greiner,
five miles southwest of Upton.
But for the presence of mind and
quick action of brave young wo-
man, Mrs. Pickett, there can be no
doubt but that his burns would have
been fatal.
Driving between Upton and Hunt
er, last week, Fenton ran out of gas
oline and stopped at a farm house to
secure a supply. Mrs. Greiner, an
elderly lady, kindly and willing to
help, went with Fenton to the garage,
taking with her lantern which she
cautiously left outside of the garage
door.
Fully sixteen feet from the door,
the tank of gasoline stood. In draw
ing gacoine from this tank, the
faucet being insecurely fastened,
came out, allowing the gsaOline to
rush out and overflow the pail.
Fenton, to stop the flow, placed his
hand over the hole in the cask, caus-
ing the gasoline to spray and squirt
over his head and clothing Mrs.
Greiner stuck her arm into the pail to
get the faucet and her right arm be-
came drenched with gasoline. The
fumes caused from the spraying of
the gasoline were drawn toward the
door of the building where the lighted
lantern stood.
Instantly, the building was aflame.
Fenton, with his clothing drenched
from his effort to staunch the flow of
gasoline, was terribly and dangerous
ly burned. Mrs. Greiner was also
painfully burned on her right arm.
Three young ladies being present,
promptly rescued Mrs. Greiner and
at once attempted to extinguish the
flames encompassing 'Fenton by
throwing him on the ground and roll
ing but he was so thoroughly drench-
ed as to render this ineffective.
Blinded by the flames which were
raging about his head, he had en-
tirely succumbed when Mrs. Pickett,
before mentioned, whipped off her
heavy coat and threw it over his head,
extinguishing the flames and then
pulled his burning clothing clear off
him.
Mrs. Pickett undoubtedly saved his
life but even with the best of care
which is being taken of him by the
kind and sympathetic Greiner family,
competent trained nurse and doc
tor, he cannot be about his territory
for several weeks"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19

DR.. and Mrs. Wright moved Mon
day, from their apartments in the
Parkhurst apartment house which was
recently badly damaged by fire. Their
new home is on the corner of West
Fifth and Fort streets.
Judge Reed of the Parsons Daily
Sun, with H. J. Penny, was a caller
at the Free Press Office this Thursday
afternoon. Both men are in attend
ance at the Golden Belt Railroad
meeting.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
VICTORY HIGHWAY

Topeka, Kansas, January 19.-Geo.
w. Stansfeld, president of The Vic
tory Highway Association, has an
nounced the appointment of J. E.
Zahn of Denver, Colorado, as state
director for the Victroy Highway
Association in that state.
Mr.. Zahn's appointment was recon-
mended by the Traffic and Roads
Committee of the Denver Civic and
Commercial Association, in a letter
from the chairman to Stansfeld.
The new Colorado director is a
leader in good road work in Colorado.
He is secretary and general manager
of the United States Portland Cement
Manufacturers Association, and a
prominent Rotarian of Denver.
Appointment of Mr.. Zahn to the
directorate will be followed by the
appointment of a special ''Victory
Highway Committee" of the Denver
Civic and Commercial Association,
which will cooperate with him in every
way possible.
The Victory Higwhay has been
formally endorsed by both the Civic
and Commercial Association and the
Denver Publicity and Tourist Bureau,
branch of the Chamber of Com
merce of that city.
One of the questions most freq
uently asked of Leslie Rowles, field
secretary of The Victory Highway
Association, in his campaign in West
ern Kansas and Eastern Colorado for
memberships and support, has been
"What do we get out of this high
way?"
Rowles found statistics furnished
by western real estate men Of value
in answering the question. From
Colby, Kansas, to Limon, Colorado,
five national motor highways follow
the same line. Land along the line
Of these five highways is valued at
from 10 to 25 more an acre than
land fifty miles south.
This not withstanding the fact that
fifty miles south is the line of the old
est EIaQS-COnIlllC1lUd4 4eA4A"S~J - 49,
country. Railway transportation con-
ditions are equal, or possibly to the
advantage of the southern route from
Kansas into Colorado, but the motor
tourist has run up the value Of the
northern land along its chosen route.
The soil and climate conditions along
both routes are identical.
In the towns along the route OF
the Victory Highway from Colby to
Limon. the leading business men are
frank to admit that their revenue IS
largely from motor tourists. Hotels
in thise towns are the equal of any
to BE- found in the cities Of the Mid
west. It is all based on tourist
traffic.
The monetary benefit accrulng
from the establishment of good roads
has been quickly recognized in the
extreme western portion of the
United States.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
Naming Of Diamonds.

The names OF precious stones reach
so far back in the depths Of time that
their original meaning cannot be
traced. The word diamond" is thought
to be explained as meaning something
exceedingly hard which may be seen
through" and is said to have been
formed OF the Greek word "dia,' which
stands for extreme hardness. It is
fairly plausible, but 1t is probable that
the word diamond" or something like
Il. may be found in a language older
than Greek.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
1T WAS SIMPLY WONDERFUL

A great campaign and a response
to make the heart glad.
Hays and Ellis County have reason
to be proud of the body of workers
who put across the campaign for Hays
Catholic College. 1t takes a great
people to make a great community,
and no one can now doubt the great
ness of Ellis county.
Money wasn't as easy this, as in the
past several years. Men who usually
had plenty of ready funds for any
worthy cause, found themselves fig
uring mighty closely. Many thought
that 100000 was an impossible sum
to raise in the short time allotted to
the drive
But, the workers-the teams, if
you please-had the vision, the faith
in the project, and the everlasting
optimism and stick-to-it-iveness that
does not recognize any such word as
"Can't." No such word is found in
their vocabulary.
Crop conditions and weather threw
down the gauge. The workers would
not "take a dare" They went in and
proved that it could be done. 1t took
work-hard work, and lots of it, but
Hays Catholic College is assured for
Ellis County. They neglected their
own business; there were moments OF
Encouragement, but their watchwOrd
was work" "Keep going" was
their slogan, and Put it across"
their war cry.
Ellis county may congratulate it
self upon raising the quota for Hays
College, but its pride is in the men
W1no went out and kept everlastingly
at it until the job was finished. The
loyalty of these men, to Northwest
Kansas, and to the county of Ellis is
something fine, but not to be wonder
ed at. Kansas produces just that
kind of men.
The General Chairman, and the ex-
ecutive committee might have select
ed better men, but we don't believe
it. To the workers belongs the
credit.
They are simply great! Xxx
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19

At a British church congress In Lon
don a speaker made reference to
Peter Mackenzie, who was SO noted
and popular an evangelist among the
Wesleyans some years ago. He was
famous for his pulpit humOr, and on
one occasion said Of a man with a very
wide mouth, "I should think a man
with a mouth like that could sing q
duet all by hlmseIf''
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
RihIa Poetry

The King James translation Of the
Bible does not show in any way that
there is poetry of very intricate struc-
ture in the Scriptures. The books of
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Ec-
clesiasticus, Song of Songs, and parts
Of others are composed Of poems, and
are printed in THE Modern Readers
Bible" edited by Prof. r. G. Moul-
ton, in conventional verse form.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
Madeira ThlekIy PopuIated.

No savage loneliness is possible In
Madeira, for the island is exception
ally thickly populated for a territory
without a small town-almOst 500 to
the square mile. There is pOpula-
ton of 142,2 ,263, including many ne
groes, who do all the hard work The
climate is delightful when dust storms
don't blow across the ocean from Mo-
rocco.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
MINOR MENTION
By NJ. H. J.


1t is the part of a good neighbor to
bear patiently with those who resent
independent opinion-who cannot en-
dure adverse comment upon their
political fetch.
10000
One would suppose that Henry
Ford carefully nursed his nickles; but
how long is it since ne put his money
on foreign adventures, and a mob
of pacifists, and rushed across the
water TO get our boys out of the
trenches before Christmas?
10000
The senate has been jockeying over
Ncwberry; and the tender conscience
Of Robert LaFollette, the pompadour
statesman of Wisconsin, who worked
his mouth to aid and comfort the
enemy during the World war, was
much moved for fear he would have
TO keep company with Newberry in a
body from which he himself escaped
custer by sufferance. That precious
patriot should have his conscience
10000
We glory in China's spunk. She
has been the victim of robbers for
generations, and when she corners
her despoilers at the Conference, they
are unable TO make a decent answer.
10000
Washington, the city of Conversa-
tions, will be a little dull when the
interesting foreign figures have dis
appeared.
10000
The North side will object to the
building of public school house on
the South side That statement will
be denied in some quarters, but it is
the truth all tn esame. The objectors
will make high tax issue; taxes are
always a bogey; but the assessment is
comparatively low in Hays. Now
read the following lines taken from
the Kansas City Times of January IL.
This numbering of people at grade
crossings goes on regularly all over
the country Hays had best stand
from under. Read on
Another Daily Grade Crossing
Bulletin
Another of the daily arguments
against the grade crossing, this time
from Van Vert, o., came yesterday:
Four school children were kill
ed and thirty-hve injured near
here early today when school
truck was struck by Pennsyl-
vania freight train.
Who was to blame? Well, the en-
gineer of the train said he didn't see,
the truck, on account of a heavy fog
And of course the driver of the truck
didn't see or perhaps hear the train.
So there you are; maybe nobody was
to blame. But the children were kill
ed and manned, anyway.
The long standing objection to the
removal of grade crossings has been
the cost. But would it not have been
cheaper, so far as that one accident
is concerned, to remove the Ohio
crossing years ago? Four children
dead, thirty-fve injured, some of
these probably to die, others to be
manned for life-is all that worth
about $4,000, the usual cost of elm
mating a grade crossing?
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
ELLIS COUNTY FARM BUREAU

LLLAO OOON 1 AKIN BOKEAO
The boys of Vincent community
met last Saturday, with Mr.. Schoth,
assistant State Club Leader, and
County Agent Howard, at the Vim
cent school. From there they went
to the various homes weighing the
pigs that the boys had purchased for
the pig club work A great deal of
enthusiasm was found among the
boys and they are ready to show that
they can beat their fathers raising
pigs. These boys are required to keep
record of the pigs, the amount of
feed used in feeding them. or any
other expense that may be included
while carrying on this work.
At the home of B. F. Munk, the
first meeting was held. A name of
the club was chosen, which is the
Grunt and Squeal Club. Joe Reichart
was chosen president, Theodore Munk
as vice-president, Louis Berens as
ecretary-treasurer. The following
boys are members of the club: Joseph
Welbrock, Theodore Munk, John B.
Munk, Richard Dreilng, Joseph
Reichart, Louis Berens and Edward
Tholen. These boys will meet reg
ularly once a month for lessons in
feeding, pig Judging, and other
things that belong to the raising of
hogs.
Up to the present We have organ
lied in this county, two pig feeding
clubs, one calf club, six sorghum
clubs, two poultry clubs, seven sew
ing clubs. Within the next week or
so there will be a number more clubs
organized. A few communities have
not sent in their enrolment hence
we can not give you the exact num-
Der of boys in their clubs or club
work. Next week we hope to an
nounce in the columns of the paper
and if possible, the pictures Of the
three boys who will be chosen from
this county to attend the Farm and
Home week, due to their success in
sorghum work. Louis Christensen,
the county superintendent, will ac-
company these boys to Manhattan
Watch the papers next week, for this
announcement.
Last week, pictures of sorghums
were shown in the county. Five
meetings were held, and much inter
est was shown. This week the Coun-
ty Agent is busy showing pictures on
Hog Cholera Control. Next week will
be PICTURES on Dairy. The following
meetings have been scheduled up to
the present. On Thursday, January
10, the pictures on Hog Cholera will
be shown at the Wiles school house on
the Saline river. On Friday, the goth,
at Turkville school house. On Mon
day, the 23rd pictures on Dairy will
be shown at the Pleasant Hill school
house. On Tuesday, the oath, at the
Patterson school house, pictures will
be shown on Dairy. On Wednesday,
the 25th, at Vincent, Dairy pictures
will be shown. These meetings are
open to everyone and we hope that
we shall have a good attendance. All
pictures will be hsown at p. m.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19
At Rail Crossing, Four Killed
Passenger Train Crashes Into MotO
Car Near Ednburg, Ind.


Edinburg. Ind, Jan. 15.-Four per
sons were killed and one seriously IN
iured when a motor car in which they
were riding was struck by Pennsyl-
vania passenger train at crossing
near here today.
10000
What's the use in going to Cali
fornia? They have freezing temper
atures there as elsewhere. The peo-
pie there wear as heavy clothing as
in Kansas. Stockton California, on
the 18th, had a maximum of "a, the
lowest on record there; the minimum
was %. At Fresno, the minimum was
%; at Sacramento, 81. The weather
here in Kansas, this winter, has been
quite as good as that.
DON'T STOP MY PAPER
Don't stop my paper. brother.
Don't strike my name of yet;
You know the times are stringent
And dollars hard TO get;
But tug a little harder
Is what I mean to do.
And serape the dimes together.
Enough for me and you
] can't afford to drop II
I find IL does not pay
To do without my paper,
However others may
] hate to ask my neighbor
To give me his or loan.
He don't Just say. but means it,
why don't you have your own ?
Then kindly keep it coming.
II pay be somewhat slow.
For cash Is not plenty.
And wants not few you know
But must have my paper,
Cost what it may to me:
Id rather dock my sugar,
Or do without my tea
50. don't you stop Il, brother.
Unless you want my frown.
or here's the years subscription.
Be you put Il on.
Ana send my paper promptly
Yours sincerely.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19

The Union Pacific has just pur-
chased the following new equipment
for delivery during the first half of
1922: 1000 double sheathed forty
foot ffty-ton box cars; 1900 double
sheathed forty-foot fifty-ton auto cars
designed for general service incIud-
ing bulk grain; 1000 all steel fifty
foot ffty-ton auto cars. Total cost
Of order will be between nine and ten
million dollars. This adds tlirty-five
hundred ffty-ton cars to their grain
equipment, thus insuring sufficient
car supply to promptly move grain
produess.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19

bought by H. E. Huntington in 1911
for $4,000, the highest price ever
paid at that time for a single volume,
There are collectors today who gladly
would give twice that sum for the
book, but it is placed for all time in
the Huntington library, in California,
a library that already contains more
book rarities than any other private
library in the world, and one that is
being enriched constantly through
the generosity OF the founder.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19

Four Copies of Magma Charta.
There are four copies of Magma
Charta still in existence. The best
copy is in the possession of Lincoln
cathedral.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-19

1our3 slneereIy-
Imperial Valley press., 1922-11-25
LOS ANGELES LIVESTOCK

Cattle-Beef steers, good grade, 7,50
0lS.00; medium grade, 6.75M7.50; com
mon grade, 5.75M6.75. Beef cows, good
grade 4.75M5.50; med. grade, 4.00@1.75,
common grade, 3.50Mt.00, Gamers and
cutters, 2.00@3.50, Bologna and butch
er bulls, 3.25M4.50.
Calves-150 to 200 pounds, good ana
choice, 7.75MS.50; 200 to 250 pounds,
good and choice, 7.00@S.00; 250 to 800
pounds, good and choice, 6.75@7.25;
over 800 pounds 5,75M6.75.
Hogs-Good ana choice gram fed
Califomians, $50 to 200 pounds, 9.00@
9.25; 200. tte 250 pounds, ,S75a9,25 !;
80 to 800 pounds, s00@ SO; over 800
pounds, 7.75@s,00; smooth sows, $50
Imperial Valley press., 1922-11-25
SUMMONS
No. S1Oo--Dept. 9


IN TIE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, IN AND
FOR THE COUNTY OF IMPERIAL
O. $. NORSWORTHY, Plaintiff, VS..
Il. Il. TONEY, Il. l.. TOOMEY, JOHN
DOE, RICHARD ROE and NELLIE
DOE, Defendants.
S. j. Williams, Esq, Imperial, Calf,
Attorney for Plaintiff
The People of the State of Califor-
mia Send Greeting to r. Il. Toney, r.
+. Toomey, John Doe, Richard Roe
and Nellie Doe. Defendants.
You are Hereby Directed to Appear
and answer the Complaint in an action
entitled as above, brought against you
in the Superior Court of the County of
Imperial, State. of California, within
ten days after the service on you of
this Summons-if served within this
county; or within thirty days if served
elsewhere, ~f
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as above
required, the said Plaintiff will take
Judgment for any money or, damages
demanded in the complaint, as arising
upon contract, or he will apply to the
Court for any other relief demanded
in the Complaint. W% r.
Given under my hand and the seal
of the Superior Court of the County of
Imperial, State of California, this Sth
day of September, 1922.
(Court SeaD
NJ. s. COOK, Clerk.
BY Victor Berry, Deputy Clerk.
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