Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-12-30
PLAGUE VICTIMS NEED HELP
ton is Inadequate to Care for All
Afflicted in State.

There are more than two hundred
men and women dying of tuberculosis
in Kansas because the state has not
the funds to care for them and the
state would be pleased if some men
or women or organizations would give
$175 to 5000 to make it possible to
take care of two additional patients.
Four years ago Kansas began ti-
berculosis sanitarium at Norton. Pol
itics entered into its location and
building and after spending $4,000
there is room for only forty patients
| at the sanitarium. But the hospital
has sufficient maintenance account
and power plant and is able to hire
enough nurses and attendants to take
care Of two hundred patients. but
there is no place to put them.
DR.. c. S. Kenny, superintendent OK
the sanitarium, last summer built
what is known as Tent Colony No. ].
This consists of four tents, each
walled up three feet high, with good
roof, entirely screened in, solid
| floor and curtains. In each of these
there is a small dressing room with &
stove. Each tent is eighteen feet
square and will accommodate two
persons! The actual cost of building
one of these tents is about 500 and
the equipment costs from SIS to $1O0.
I'VE have more than two hundred
men and women begging us to let
] 44 he hAo al for. fP0Qf-
ment," said Doctor Kenney. I'VE
haven't room for one. We have the
money to supply the tents with all the
necessary linen and bed clothing and
to supply the food for the patients,
but these funds cannot be used for inn
provements."
Diplomas for Aggies.-Forty-one stu
! dents received degrees at the annual
winter graduation exercises OF the
Kansas State Agricultural college re-
| Gently Two-thirds of the graduates
were women. A diploma was sent to
the parents of w. H. Wilson, student
who was drowned near there shortly
after the beginning Of this term.
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3e1 Rabbits in One Day-Three hun
dred and ninety-one cottontails were
the result of roundup at Goddard re-
Gently by two crews of thirty men
each. The losers in the rabbit hunt,
who only bagged one hundred and fifty,
served the winners and their wives
with an oyster supper.
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Baby Dies in Blaze.--The residence
OF Jack Campbell, teamster of Cot
tonwood Falls, was burned the other
day together with all its contents.
Their only child, son, years old,
was burned to death. Mrs. Campbell
had gone to a neighbours home on an
ecrand and left the child in the house.
Boxcar Victim Dies. Hersnel
knight, the Kansas City boy who was
shot and robbed in boScar near Bon
ner Springs. died in hospital at Law
renee. The three men arrested after
the attack on knight still are in jail.
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Leaves 100000 for shriners.-By
the terms of will left by the late
John N. Hodges OF Pittsburg the Mir
"a Shriners are given property worth
probably 100000 for a temple.
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Two Burned by OLA pool OF oil
near the boiler at the Western States
Cement Mill at Independence explOd-
ed when fires were lighted. A. W..
Kellar, an engineer. and C. r. Just. a
workman, were burned badly and for
time it was feared they would not
recover.
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olathe's First Pipe organ.--Profes-
sor Edward Kreisler of Kansas City
opened the $2,4OO pipe organ just in
stalled at the First Presbyterian