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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1908
Page
2
The Freese family paper published weekly in Hays Kansas notes Harry Freese owner and editor with John Freese business manager. Established in 1882 the Independent of any politics features second class mail and Saturday morning issues.
Editorial notes mail mixups in rural routes and urges returning misdelivered letters. It reports Union Pacific fast freight Kansas City to Denver reducing travel to 47 hours with few stops and right of way beside passenger trains. Also outlines upcoming township nominating procedures under a new primary law and urges caucus action, and lists baccalaureate and commencement programs at the Normal in western Kansas with names of graduates and speakers.
A reflective lyric piece celebrates the Cedar River as a golden scene of Arcady meadowland. Birds sing, river flows, and rural imagery evoke timeless peace and fond boyhood love by the river, with drifting, harbor rest, and northern light.
W B Ham seeks the Republican nomination for congress in the Sixth District. He notes he cannot state his measures now but plans to discuss them district wide before August 4. Stockton Kansas. John Troth announces candidacy for Register of Deeds in the August 4 primary and asks voters for support in the county.
Eye and Ear Surgeon Dr M Jay Brown from Salina will be at the Brunswick Hotel Monday June 15. Spratt's store advertises sporting goods with quality stock. Hays Laundry offers suit cleaning and pressing with first class work and right prices. Dolly Varden Chocolates at Hark ness. S W Wood will be in Hays around June 1 to arrange cement sidewalk contracts. Custom made shoes offered with samples and right prices. Old papers for sale at this office. Free Press printing services available. Harry Freese seeks Ohio farm trade for Ellis county farm. For sale Ott: three 5 room cottages, two 3 room cottages, one 5-acre lot near town. Terms via JonN C ADKINS.
Customer leaves National Cream separator for sale cheap on easy terms at Continental Station in Hays. Guaranteed one of the best machines made. See HARRY FREESE, 23-tf Operator. Also Spring and Summer clothes cleaning and pressing offered by Hays Laundry with prompt delivery on phone request.
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