The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-04-27
LIE FoRwARp-LooKINc cITY
By NJ. H. J.

All that Hays has aspired to, she
viii be in possession of at no distant
day-a new depot, set in a small
park; an enlarged Brunswick Hotel
which has the finest site in the
city-Or a new, modern hotel else
where, or both; park system, ex-
tended pavements and an enlarged
water plant. Let US take an inven-
tory Of our assets: the South Side
Primary Public School building,
stands as one man in support of
fronting the Treat Playground, where
the tots can have their freedom for
play without expense to the city for
more than enough ground for the
school building to stand on.
Our city is peculiarly frotunate in
many ways-in securing valuable
municipal advantages at a minimum
outlay; the primary school suggested,
administered by competent head
such as Miss Annabelle Sutton whose
merits are fully recognized through
out the city, for-I can call it
nothing less than a kind of genius
for giving the twig the right inclin-
alton, would give the South Side what
II is entitled to and fully equip the
city for taking care Of the little peo-
pie as they deserve.
claim here what is patent to
everybody, the peculiar qualifications
for the primary department in our
public schools; ideal patience, for
bearance, intelligence, aptitude such
as is not universal among teachers.
None of our young cities in the
plains region has attracted so much
attention as an educational center in
recent years, as The Park City, and
We are just now laying the founda-
tion for notable eminence in that
way.
We have all the subsidiary attrac-
tions as a place of residence pure
water supply; a healthful climate
second to none; economical living
conditions; our schools, high and low,
are supplemented by the Carnegie,
Normal and Catholic libraries; the
St Anthony hospital is second to
none anywhere; we have now and
projected a Park system; our young
city is well lighted and paved, and
our intelligent, progressive commun-
ity win soon have further hospital
facilities and church accommodations
of the first rank; the Catholic Col
lege on an enlarged and extended
scale will be located, we understand,
north of the city on high ground with
splendid views over a wide region,
and the grounds will be so extensive
as to afford a campus worthy of the
seat of learning, which they are to
found.
AS for our general educational
equipment, it is not an idle boast to
say that Kansas does not possess an
abler nor more experienced admins
traitor of a high school of learning
than President Lewis of the Fort
Hays State Normal School, an insti-
tuition, equipped with one of the most
commodious and beautiful audi
forums in the west.
The Free Press covers a wide area
of country and if you live at a dis
tance and wish to change your place
of residence, by all means come and
settle in Hays.
ALL cities that amount to shucks
have a Broadway, and the founders
of Hays did not fall short in that re-
spect; we have a Broadway, which IN
due time will be one of our finest
thorofares, paved, and otherwise
richly improved.
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One might build a tweve-sEory
sky-scraper on the foundations our
Methodist friends have laid for their
Community building; they are build
ing for a thousand years.
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Children's Week has come to a
close; the kids have INDUCED iR- pro-
cessions, games, recitations and all
kinds of fun:
80 were you ne'er achool boy,
And did you never train,
And feel that swelling of the heart
You ne'er shall feel again!'
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Prof. Raricl1 and his bunch of
teachers on Tuesday morning last,
left the city in the Normal car, on
the 1900 mile trip through Western
Kansas and Eastern Colorado to in
spect the Consolidated Schools.
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A word about the late Frances E.