Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-29
COMES BACK FROM SERVIA
Typhus Fever compels Franklin
County Girl to Give Up Her Red
Cross Work.

Miss Clara Tulloss, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. S. Tulloss, living near
Ottawa, reached home recently, after
serving five months in a Red Cross
camp at Geivgilli, Servia. She be-
came Ill in February with typhus
fever. Two doctors of the unit to
which she belonged, died from the
disease.
81 feel quite we'll now" said Miss
Tulloss upon her arrival. 1--WE had no
trouble in getting out although the
Grecian government is very strict on
inspection. Traffic Is demoralized,
our boat to Pyreus and Brindisi was
a dirty craft.
in the little Servian village of
Geivgilli our Red Cross party was
stationed. This was many miles back
from the actual fighting, but 1900 SOL
diers, many with terrible wounds,
were there for treatment. Conditions
were bad among the soldiers and dis
ease was prevalent. The Servian bar
racks are at Geivgilli which is three
hours ride from Saloniki, Greece, and
ten minutes walk from the Grecian
border. Many soldiers had frozen feet
and amputation was Necessary. In
tramping through the mountain snow
the soldiers suffered greatly.
I'VE knew less of the actual pro-
gress of fighting than in the states.
Most of our news came by letters and
papers sent from the United States"
DR.. Ernest Magruder, who died in
Servia from typhus, was the chief OF
the Red Cross unit to which Miss Tul-
loss belonged When she left Saloniki
with another nurse and doctor, Ma
gruder accompanied them to the boat
and expressed great regret that he,
too, could not return. He sent mes
images by them to his family in
Washington.
Bank for Conway.-The business
men of the Conway community have
organized and secured enough shares
to insure the establishment of bank
at Conway. 1t is to be capitalized at
$4,000 and has the support of the
farmers in a wheat community.
Atchison Champion Reorganized.-
A stock company composed Of Shelf
field ingalls,, Wilbur c. Hawk, o. A.
Simmons and A. S. and E. P. Ande-
rock has been organized to succeed
Anderock Brothers as owners and
publishers of the Atchison Daily
Champion.
kansan Shoots Himself. Andrew
Bowman, SO years old, went into a
pawnship at Independence, purchased
a revolver and handed the shop keep
er check. When the shopkeeper
turned to get the change, Bowman
shot himself, dying at once. 1t is not
known whether the shooting was acct
dental. Mr. Bowman was contractor
and is survived by his wife.
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Kansas Lard to Europe.-Three
trainloads of lard have been shipped
to the European war zone by the Cud-
ahy Packing Company of Wichita the
last month They went by way OF
New Orleans. The three trains car.
ried about sixty cars and each car was
loaded with thirty thousand pounds OF
lard, making a total of 100000
pounds.
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concordia Newspaper change-Linr
w. Bloom has sold his interest in the
Daily Blade and Weekly Empire to his
partner, Ray Green. Mr.. Bloom ex
poets to remain in Concordia, where
he has other interests He came t.
Concordia from Topeka newspaper
in 1909.
Woman Dies at 102.-Mary Kane
1O2 years old, is dead at Parsons, fol
lowing an illness of two months
Prior to that it had been her boas
that she was never i'll q day in he
life.