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VOLUME XXVI. - HAYS, ELLIS COUNTY, KANSAS, AUGUST 1, 1908. NUMBER 3S.
Next Tuesday evening one-half of the candidates will be praising the new primary law, the other half will be condemning it.
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Primary Election Tuesday.
Remember that next Tuesday, Aug
ust 4th is the Primary election all over
the state to place in nomination candi
dates to be voted for in the Novemlcr
election. Polls open from 8 a. m. to G
p. m. at the usual voting places. You
vote only for the men on your own
party ticket. If you vote otherwise
your vote is not counted.
Mays Band
There
May be Re-organized.
Send for Murphy, He Knows.
Lae Mercantile Co. to the Front.
s Borne talk of re-oreranizing ! a v9re hn tht TvMJ The - newspapers over the countrv
the old Hays City Military Band, i wns rrmir intn rrrpaf rnnlarifv . t.bpre I have many times said kind thinp-s about
?at in the front office of a favorite make, 1 th H. D. Lee Mercantile Co., of Sa-
Austin's Pla i a Good One.
"You can fay that I am for W. C.
Austin for state printer," said County
Clerk John E. Martin today.
The platform upon which Mr. Austin
is seeking the job 13 for the enlargement
of the state printing plant so that it
will be able to print blank books for the
different counties in Kansas. Mr. Aus
tin thinks this will be a big saving to
the state and counties.
John Martin, who has purchased all
of the blank books used by Lyon county
in the past year, says that Mr. Austin
is right. He said further that the work
done for this county last year could be
done for considerably less money and
at a profit, too. W-hen asked the a
mount expended by Lyon county last
year for blank Looks and other print
ing which cannot be done at home.
Mr. Martin said it totaled $938. If
each of the hundred counties in the
state gets that amount of work done
annually, it is a big thing. Emporia
Gazette.
New Business Opened in Hays.
A piano and music store which pro
mises to be permanent was opened in
the Ryan store building thi3 week.
Mat J. Heyl of Walker, well-known to
this community, is the proprietor of
the new store and we are glad to wel
come him to Hays business circles. He
expects to handle pianos, organs strin
ged instruments and a full line of stan
dard and popular music. A piano and
music store in Hays snould . prove a
paying proposition and as Mr. Heyl is
a keen business man he will no doubt
make a success of the business.
Many of the former players are anxious j
to have the band started Again and the
Hays people are enthusiasticly in favor
of it. The band-stand is still in good
condition and will need but little repair
ing. It would be a great treat to the
people of Hays to have a free band
concert one evening in each week.
The question of a competent leader has
been the stumbling block ever since Dr.
Patterson left, but this question has
been solved if Carl W. Hawkinson, who
is here with the Salina Music Co., can
be induced to remain. Mr. Hawkinson
has been playing first cornet in the fa
mous Bethany Band at Lindsborg, Kan
sas, and he is an expert musician and
will make a good band leader. The ed
itor of The Free Press was intimate
ly associated with Mr. Hawkinson while
in Lindsborg last summer and we can
heartily recommend him to the people
of Hays.
Mr. Hawkinson is in the employ of
the Salina Music Co. but he probably
could be induced to remain here tha
rest of the summer and the fall if the
necessary amount can be raised among
the music lovers of Hays. The band
boys should take hold of this at once
and get out and organize. . With a few
weeks' practice the boys could again
be in their old time form. Without
doubt the business men will contribute
liberally to the maintainence of a local
band. v
Jacobs Herman.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Jacobs of this
city have announced the marriage of
their daughter Katharine to Mr. Peter
Herman. The cermony will take place
Tuesday morning, August 11, at St.
Joseph's Catholic Church.
If you haven't money enough to go
away on a vacation this summer there
is nothing to hinder your pretending to
like the climate here. Sedgwick Pant-agraph.
the officers of the company discussing
the best way to improve their wheel
and at the same time make it lighter.
Wheels were then being made to weigh
thirty pounds and this company propos
ed to put a wheel on the market weigh
ing twenty-two pounds that would
stand as much wear and tear, and with
loss exertion to the rider, as the heavier
wheel. The officers had the theory
all right, but they had failed to agree
on a mode of procedure. Finally the
president said: "Send for Murphy; he
knows."
Who wa3 Mnrphy? The man with the
practical experience, the capable fore
man. The voters are looking for the man
who knows." The primary election gives
every voter his choice. If in the opin
ion of the voter the man for the place
is not on the ticket, the ticket is pro
vided with blank lines to write in the
names and place the cross marks in the
squares to the right. Every voter is
vested with the right to nominate the
person, in his opinion, most capable to
fill the position from one end of the
ticket to the othert and it is hardly to
be expected that a majority of the
voters will nominate men who are not
capable. When farmers are looking
for harvest hands they do not choose
men unused to the sun and outdoor
work, and in choosing men for the
places on the ticket jthe same degree
of care must be exercised as that used
in filling responsible positions in the
everyday walks of life. Everybody
is looking to "the man who knows" in
the world to-day and it i3 the only safe
rule to guide our deliberations at the
po!l3 don't forget that. The bicycle
manufacturers called for the man who
knew every term of office completes a
part of our community history and the
finished product will be on exhibition
for the rest of time and is worthy of
our best effort. Marion Record.
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lina. Thev are firm believers in nrJvpr-
tising and spend annually thousands of
dollars with the country newspapers
advertising their goods. The -Lee
Brand is becoming a. household word.
But what we intend to mention just
now is the fact that while the whole
sale houses of Kansas City were abso
lutely powerless to cope with the ele
ments and the reight service from the
Missouri metropolis was demoralized,
the people or Northwestern, South
western and Central Kansas were being
looked after by the Lee people. The
fact of the matter is that Kansas mer
chants are now largely buying of the
big Salina wholesale house. By per
sistent advertising and treating their
customers fairlv, by sellirg "pure food
products," being in a position, owing
to geographical location, to ship their
orders on short notice and from the
fact that Kansas people like to patro
nize Kansas institutions, the H. D. Lee
Mercantile Co. have come to the front
and the eastern houses have found
them competition worthy of their best
efforts. Beloit Times.
Everyday Definitions
The poet Tennyson could take a
worthless piece of paper, and by writ
ing a poem on it make it worth $65,000
that's genius.
Vanderbilt can write a few words on
a sheet of paper and make it worth $5,-000,000-that's
capital.
The United States can take an ounce
and a quarter of gold and stamp upon
it an "eagle bird" and make it worth
$20 that's money.
The mechanic can take material
worth $5 and make it into a watch
worth $100 that's skill.
The merchant can take an article
worth 75 cents and sell it for one dollar
that's business.
A lady can purchase a very comfort
able bonnet for $3.75, but she prefers
one that cost $27 that's foolishness.
The ditch digger works ten hours a
d and shovels three. .or .four tons. of.
earth for $2 that's labor.
The editor of this paper can write b
check for $80,000,000, but it wouldn't
be worth a dime that's rough.
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THE HAYS TAILOR
OPP. 1ST NAT. BANK.
Pianos, Organs, Piano Players and
Player Pianos
at J. F. JORDAN'S Furniture Store, commencing
Wednesday, July 29 and ending Saturday, Aug. 1
4 AYS ONLY
We are in the music business to STAY and in or
der to give the people of Hays and vicinity the benefit
of all the best prices and terms we will hold an
UrhLlNllNLi oAJLtL, on above dates at which time we t r
will give
20 percent Discount
on all goods bought during this sale. This means a
saving of $50 to $80 on pianos and $10 to $25
organs bought during this sale.
Come in and see us.
The Socialists Bugaboo.
The Socialist Bugaboo is abroad in
the land and seeking whom it may de
vour. The surest and quickest way to
achieve press notoriety is to attack so
cialism, whether he who attacks be pol
itician, clergyman, labor leader, or
what not.
Bugaboos have always played an im
portant role in history, although their
own history has never been written.
Since the time when the aboriginal cre
ated an image of dread and horror
wh?ch embodied his own fears of the
unknown, mankind has been haunted
by bugaboos. The human mind has al
ways fashioned from its surroundings a
bugaboo, hewn out of its own conception
of future dangers. Progress has al
ways had to battle with the dread of
the unseen. The bugaboo has been the
ally of reaction of all ages.
Socrates drank the hemlock, Christ
was crucified, Bruno was burned at the
stake, Columbus was ridiculed and per
secuted, James Hargreaves had his rev
olutionary spinning -jenny smashed by
his neighbors in 1767, Lovejoy was mob
bed and killed at Alton. All of these
were sacrificial offerings to the bugaboo
of their respective times.
The Socialist Bugaboo is a thing of
many shapes. Its creators have endow
ed it with every attributed of every
spook that ever frightened mankind in
to blind antagonism to the truth. And
no spook ever terrorized a shivering
small boy into burying hi3 head under
the blankets more effectively than the
socialist spook terrorizes the ordinary
citizen into retiring under the blanket
of age-long conservatism, tnere to in
vite race suffocation and retrogression.
Success Magazine.
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Not Ashamed of Agriculture.
Anent the discussion whioh has been
occassioned by the ; students of the
State Agricultural College in asking
that the word "Agricultural" be omit
ted from the name, the following letter
of explanation from a student at the
eollege has been received by the Kansas
City Star. It explains thoroughly the
reasons of the students and justifies
their position in wishing to change the
name:
In the Star of July 2S is an article,
"Why Against Agricultural," which is
easily answered. In it the assumption
is made that the students of the Kan
sas State Agricultural College desire
to eliminate the "agricultural" from
the title because they are ashamed of
it.
This assumption is misleading for, in
the first place, the students do not de
sire to leave out the word "agricultur
al." They simply desire "Kansas State
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts" substituted for the present name.
The reasons for this change are self
evide"ht. We "are hot ashamed of the
word "agricultural." The majority of
us were born and reared on farms and
are proud of the fact. But this we do
not believe that a great college with
its splendid courses in engineering and
kindred sciences should be designated
by a title which suggests only one of
the scientific courses.
The science of agriculture is and al
ways will be the principal study here,
but there is no reason for not mention
ing the other courses. .
The state college will always be the
farmers' college because it is the only
institution in the state where a farm
boy with only a common school educa
tion can enter for the study of some
technical course.
Sincer the proposed change of name
concerns the students only, their opin
ion should be of more weight than that
of the maty "doctors, lawyers, merch
ants and chiefs." who are protesting
against the change. Even those who
are taking the engineerin courses should
be given diplomas which suggest that
they received their technical education
at school where only agriculture is
taught.
Manhattan, Kas. FrankWeber.
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SALINA, KANS.
LOCAL AGENT.
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Death of Mrs. Haddock.
Mrs. Margaret A. Lyons, formerly
Mrs. W- J. Haddock, died at the home
of her son T. J Haddock in Buckeye
township Tuesday, July 28, age sixty
six years. She was a native of Ireland
and came to Kansas with her husband
and the Brooklyn colony in 1879. All
settled in north Buckeye and lived here
ever since, having ten children, all but
two of whom still living, most of them '
residents of our county. The funeral
was held Wednesday afternoon, burial
in our cemetery. Many old friends
were present to sympathize with the
children.
A Flying Warning.
The
ranks
of life's battle
are open to all, the
lowly as well as the great,
and though in the conflict full
many must fall you may reach to
an honored estate. Pasa up to the
front with a resolute mind, and
struggle with all of your
might, or soon to your
shame and confu
sion you'll find
you are
but the
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Hays Bachelors Turn Benedicts
Dr. W. II. Jordan left Wednesday
evening for Colorado. He will be mar
ried Tuesday, August 4 at Manitou,
Colorado, to Miss Katharine Markey of
this city. The groom's mother Mrs. J.
F. Jordan and his aunt Mrs. H. J. Pen
ney are also in Colorado and will prob-.
ably be at the wedding.
Fred So a waller was married on Tues
day to Miss Adah Turner at her home
in Waverly, Kansas. They will join
Dr. and Mrs.. Jordan in Colorado for a
short honeymoon.
Both " young men have just com
pleted new homes in this city and they
will return and go to housekeeping at
once.
Cold.
Gold comes in many and diverse
forms, from the humble toothpick to
the large calf, which, by the way, al
ways draws a crowd.
Gold exists, in some form, in every
thing we use, except in gold mines.
It i used to crown teeth and heads with.
Gold is very necessary in emergencies.
We use it in panics, and when leaving
our self-respect behind us in parlor
cars. It is generally thought that gold is
always passive, not active. But this is
not so. It moves the crops, elects the
Preside-it eve four years, performs
international marriages, and even en
ters the ministry.
Gold is obtained in many ways
through battle, murder, sudden death,
pneumonia, and bronchitis. It makes
the best substitute for character
known, most people preferring it to the
.original article.
Gold, like every other substance,
has a standard. It is, however, the on
ly standard by which everything else
is measured. By everything we mean
such substances as faith, hope, and
charity.
Gold i3 used for babies' rattles, for
children's lockets, for graduation-pins,
for wedding-rings, for crosses, for an
niversary gifts, and for coffin-handles.
From "Success Magazine."
Captain Jack Crawford.
Knockers Got Theirs.
Do you know what we think is the
best story in the bible, asks the Lamar,
Mo., Democrat. It may surprise you,
but it's about Noah and the flood. We
say this even in the face of educated
folks, who turn up their noses and de
clare this story a fake. You remem
ber, Noah had to work a long time on
that ark. It was uphill business too,
at best, to go on toiling and sweating
day after day in the hot sun, building
a boat away out on dry land while the
local anvil and hammer club sat around
spitting tobacco juice on his lumber,
whittling up his pine boards with their
jackknives and telling him what a fool
he was to expect a big rain in a country
that wa3 too dry to grow alfalfa. But
he kept at it. Finally the flood came,
and every mother's son of the croakers
wa3 drowned. This is the only instance
we know of. either in sacred or profane
history, where a bunch of knockers got
exactly what was coming to them.
This has been a busy week for poli
ticians, but the end is near.
UTe American Girl.
The 3p HP of American girls arc
small, tapering and beautifully shaped
their iiii are as brilliant as the and
they are without J in this or any
other g of the state; their frowns are
like f H and their 1234567890 excite
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even by 1$ Vz. Read this close
ly and do not ? ite reliability.
Souvenir Spoons.
H. C. Schultz L:s just , received a
new line of steriing silver souvenir
spoons: one of these contains a picture
of the new Normal building finely etched
in the bowl, the other is a birth spoon
and contains tho month, flower and
motto. As each month has its birth
stone eo also does it have its flower.
Call and see these spoons at Schultz's.
Prices Reasonable. . 38-tf
"Dolly Varden" Chocolates at Hark
ness - . 22-tf
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