The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-26
WOULD PREVENT EPIDEMICs

WOULD PREVENT EPIDEMICS
State Board of Administration Urges
Establishment of a Health Sta
ton in Kansas.
State and federal governments
should make appropriations for the
cure and prevention of human all
ments, just as is done for the proven
ton and cure of diseases peculiar to
animals. This is the part of a report
made to Governor George H. Hodges
by the State Board of Administration.
Such a station should have an ap-
preparation from the federal govern
ment such as is now given to the col
lege experimental station" reads the
report. TT should be a center of re-
search and investigation open to all
schools of healing. It should gather
and disseminate information on the
best means of conserving public health
conditions in its territory. Further
more, it should inform people in it's
territory of conditions prevailing else
where.
sum CApC11OCO ny OldIS anu
federal governments on college exper-
mental stations is such a profitable
investment that it is constantly being
increased without a word of comment.
1t is the one governmental expenditure
that every one agrees is more than
worth the money
Form New Corporation.-The Prai-
RE Oil and Gas Company at the an
nual meeting of stockholders at In
dependence voted to form a new cor
poration to take over the producing
and marketing part of the business so
that they may be separated from the
transportation business
Dies Under Motor Truck.-J. H.
Vohringer, a chicken dealer at Hutch
inson, was found dead in the country
west of there. He was lying under
heavy motor truck which he used for
collecting chickens and it is believed
that after his engine had gone dead
he got out to crank the machine and
it ran him down.
Two killed IN ExpIosion.-Eugene
Talley and Alfred Vandyke were
killed when more THAI 5000 pounds
of nitro-glycerin in the separator of
the Hercules Powder Company, three
miles southwest of Carthage, explod-
ed. Fred Kent, another employee, was
injured, but will recover.
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Gives $3o6 to BeIgians.-The Usage
City Commercial Club obtained $3O6.62
and sent draft for that amount to
Scott Hopkins, treasurer of the Kan
sas Belgian relief committee. More
money will be subscribed and sent
later.
Elks Hold MemoriaI-The Winfield
Elks held public memorial services
for their departed brethren recently.
The address was delivered by Judge
A. NJ Jackson. Twenty-one names
were emblazoned on the tablet in the
hall
Baldwin Aids BeIgians.-Citizens of
Baldwin held a mass meeting in the
Methodist church recently and sub
scrfbed for half carload of flour for
Belgian relief. A thorough canvass
of the city for more subscriptions will
be made.
Training for orphans.-A $4,000
appropriation to build a manual train
ing school for the state orphans
home here will be asked in bill to
be introduced by Senator B. P. Wag-
gener, soon after the Kansas legisla-
| ture conVenes.
To Debate Monroe Doctrine. :
Whether the United States should
abandon the Monroe Doctrine or not
will be the subject of the annual Mis-
souri-Kansas debate this year. Kan
sas will take the affirmative side and
Missouri the negative The contest
will be in Columbia, Mo-, March Is.
Gas in Summer County, flow of
five million feet of gas was struck on
| the Robert Hanson farm, six miles
southeast of South Haven, at depth
of $500 feet. The drill had to be
stopped until more casing arrives.
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To Quiz Notwithstanding testi.
mony of a number of Kansas City
WHOLESALERS dS 10 the diAOUAL Oh DuSl-
ness they are doing in the western
part of the state is expected to be a
feature of the distance tariff hearing
before the Kansas public utilities
commission.
Woman Dies in FiFe.-ParmeIia
Fisher, an old woman. was burned to
death when her small residence al
Doniphan was destroyed by fire. The
origin Of the fire is unknown. She
liund olnr., II, the hn,nrn