The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-05-11
c. c. Rutherford of the Giger Paw

ing Construction Company, who did
the brick street paving at Plainville,
last spring, and got little contract
there last week, was a Hays visitor
last week, and talked street paving
to some of our people and got them
to get out and circulate paving petit
tions The Plainville Gazette an
nounces that for thirty foot paving
1t costs each lot about $3.50. 90 for the
twenty-five feet East Juniata street
from Chestnut to the city limits
should be paved with brick as there
is much and heavy travel, but many
on the residence streets seem TO want
an asphalt noiseless pavement put
down, which will last just as long,
will not be much over half the cost
of brick and is perfectly smooth and
noiseless and dustless. Topeka,
Hutchinson, Great Bend, and the
residence streets of Wichita are gen
orally of asphalt and the Commits
sioners there claim it IS a success and
preferable for residence streets for
automobile travel especially. There
is a petition out for East Normal ave
nue.; why wouldn't it be a good plan
to try that out with the asphalt, as II
is one of the pretty residence streets
with little heavy travel of trucks. II
is thought the majority of the resi-
dents on that street would sign up
for an asphalt street paving.
Larned reports its population as
3149 on March LIST, as shown by its
assessor, an increase of $50. Plain
vile reports 1860, with an increase
of 100.
Editor w. A. Hill of the Plain
vile Gazette has entered the race in
Rocks county for the Republican
nomination for Representative; Mr..
A. G. Schneider of Rush township be-
ing his opponent in the primary. A
clear case of a farmer against a
town man.
The Hoisington Dispatch an
nounces the awarding of a brick
street paving contract there last
week, the lowest bid, by a Hutchin-
son firm being a trf1e over $500 a
square yard, for four inch concrete
base, then brick with an asphalt filler,
| the same as our streets. There were
six bidders.
Again Hays showed last Saturday,
that it could entertain any sized
crowd that visits it. For that night
and Sunday everybody found good
accommodations, many private homes
| being thrown open to entertain,
while the restaurants easily cared for
and fed the overflow from the hotels,
and but-for the shower Sunday after
noon, everybody would have gone
home happy; but the-rain outside of
town was harder, many cars got
stuck in the mud, and it is presumed
many forgot it was Sunday and swore
a wee bit; but what is the fun of a
picnic away from home without few
chigger bites and other unexpected
unpleasantnesses
Hays never looked more inviting
than last Saturday and Sunday, to
the crowds. The streets were nicely
cleaned, yards tidy with lilacs and
winter bulb flowers in full bloom,
trees just commencing to leaf out,
while our stores put forth their best
foot To ATTRACT the trade and show
strangers what Hays has. Many visits
ed the new Methodist cuhrch cellar
and pronounced it ifnmense,-and also
asked where the new Catholic College
was to be located. A number of
teachers coming to the Summer
School engaged their rooms while
here Saturday.
The Experiment Station Roundup
and the Normal Musical the past
week, have shown the Importance of
Hays getting a North and South rail-
road, if we are to represent Western
Kansas. The Normal school have felt
the need of it for fifteen years, and
the Catholic College, to represent
Western Kansas, is not apt to locate
in Ellis county with no railroad to
the north and south to accommodate
their expected students. The Bust
ness men and Chamber of Commerce
had better let up awhile on paving,
l new hotel, paved roads, and get their
shoulder to the wheel and try and
get one of the North and South rail
roads built into Hays to help build II
UP to real big city. XXX
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