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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
4
A collage of village happenings from Hays and surrounding areas. Miss Mulroy helps post office duties while farmers shop low priced stationery. Local residents travel to Topeka, Wichita, and Oklahoma. Easter and Lent dates noted. Seed and lawn themes appear with Rice’s seeds and blue grass sowing. Community events include dances, concerts, and a State convention in Kansas.
In Three Pines a divorce ends with Lessie returning to Ted Bingle for the sake of their baby. After years of hardship, cold, hunger, and work, she leaves him then relents. Ted promises steadier work, and Lessie moves back to the two of them, facing a town verdict of disapproval.
A bachelor recounts failed courtships across many years and women he approached or declined. He notes mothers, widows, and a traveling parade of suitors, with humor about each encounter and his resolve to marry only when the right woman appears. He remains hopeful yet wary, awaiting a suitable match.
Dr. George Alexander, pastor of the University Place Presbyterian Church in New York, acting president of Union College, declined the permanent presidency claiming he is too far along in life to meet the demands of a younger, more active leader.
In April a postoffice change in Hays will retire Mrs. JF Jordan assistant postmistress after two years in that role and one year as clerk. Swan Compton will become first assistant to postmaster Penney and Miss Mayme Mulroy will take Compton’s clerk position.
A fragmented poem hints at a Sioux man who died after eating spoiled rye and straying near a cliff. The verses mourn his loss and offer a grim pun on Siouxhide, with readers left to interpret the somber scene and the humor amid tragedy.
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