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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
1
Walt Mason recalls a joyful garden plan in the Emporia Gazette blending playful verse with memories of a wandering cow and poultry, while imagining a bountiful harvest and garden chores. The narrator envisions planting tomato bushes squash onions corn and tending the soil, amid nostalgic pain for lost years.
The deputy assessor cites the law requiring sworn answers to questions about personal property. Refusal to be sworn or to answer may result in a fine between ten and five hundred dollars and possible county jail up to six months. J M Scuarrer, County Assessor.
The following letters remain uncalled for at the post office at Hays Kansas on Tuesday March 3. When calling for any please say Advertised. Names listed include C. E. Wharton Peter Boland Lewis Hiatt and H. J. Penney Postmaster.
The Norton News reports Kansas county clerks may withhold pay from county assessors who fail to file complete birth, marriage, and death records for each district. The state board of health blanks were previously ignored, prompting an AG opinion allowing clerks to delay payments until returns are made.
Farmers urged to sharpen their farming discs now with GoopALLs Supp as the best sharpener for field tools. Claims it saves time and improves cutting efficiency for tillage work.
I M Yost announces no visitors inside the cement mill at Yocemento due to dangerousness and importance of ongoing work. Cement production is hoped to begin in sixty days.
An exchange letter laments hitching posts on Chestnut and Main streets cluttering main streets with mud holes and odorous conditions. It argues for moving posts to side streets or unoccupied areas to keep business districts neat and functional and urges towns to regulate hitching posts.
Oscar Ostrum born at his father s homestead near Russell and Fay. He advanced through Russell schools, topped county classes, then studied shorthand at Lindsborg college and became a leading stenographer. Judge Ruppenthal notes in Luray Herald.
A poetic appeal by John J Ingalls and Walter Malone urges readers to seize fate and wake each day with renewed vigor. It frames opportunity as a universal force that conquers fear and doubt, promising renewal and guidance toward moral action and personal ascent.
A meeting of the original stockholders of the farmers elevator is held today, Saturday March 7, to determine if enough stock can be raised to purchase the elevator. All interested parties are invited to attend per stockholder request.
The U S Supreme Court granted a permanent injunction against Sears Roebuck Co of Chicago prohibiting manufacture sale or use of the Economy New Model and Improved cream separators linked to the Anderson patent Only two separator firms hold rights including The U S Separator Co The ruling will disrupt many buyers who must stop using or risk contempt arrests The piece also notes local Republican county convention in Hays selecting delegates to state and congressional conventions with Roosevelt endorsed at the national level
A notice stating a few pounds of choice Blue Grass seed from Northern New York remain available at the office. Warranted the best for customers seeking premium seed.
The Free Press secured the printing contract for Western State Normal’s new semi monthly paper The Normal Searchlight. Editor-in-chief Miss Mabel Rowlison, business manager Benjamin Crocker, staff Ida Solomon and Bronsow Hopper, with ten pages and a cover.
A Western Publisher quote contrasts pessimists and optimists with vivid, humorous lines. It likens a pessimist to a worm-hunting bell-flower apple and a pessimistic habit to rheumatism, while praising an optimist as a joyous favorite, unafraid of hardship and admired in early social circles.
At the State Republican convention this week the old machine carried every vote 725 to 222 for the Stubbs Square Deals faction. Selected as the big 4 delegates to the National Convention were Senator Long Senator Curtis Grant Hornaday of Ft. Scott and R A Mc Gonigle of Colby.
Dr. M. Jay Brown a specialist from Salins will be at the Brunswick Hotel Monday March 26 to treat eye ear nose and throat diseases and to properly fit glasses.
Printing services offered at Fras Press office with available options for customers. Contact details and turnaround times provided for quick ordering and pickup.
The directors of the cement works at Yocemento Kansas announce no visitors will be allowed until mill completion due to accidents and danger. They thank the public for support and hope for cooperation in the future. The note closes with a sign off by LM Yost president of the Alt U.S. Portland Cement Co.
The notice lists Sunday schedule for Lutheran Church with Pastor C F Wrest including Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and public worship at 11:00 a.m. with sermons on The Peacemaker and The Second Mile plus catechetical topics and prayer meetings, and Baptist Church with Pastor A E GoopMan showing morning service at 11:00 a.m., evening service at 6:30 p.m., and prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Both invite all to attend.
Sunday services at the Presbyterian Church led by Pastor W B Brown include morning 11 00 and evening 7 30 with Sunday school at 10 00 junior Epworth and C E groups at 3 00 and 6 30. Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30 invites all. The sermon topics are Why I Believe the Book and Types of Fools. The Saturday Afternoon Club of Hays hosts a program at Mrs Lillie H Rea on March 14 including Quo Vadis Roll Call minutes and book talk. J H Spratt offers a tablet sale this month. Walker March 13 and Hays March 14 dates noted.
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