Meade County news., 1915-10-07
A GIRL MISSIONARY MISSING
Myrtle Shane of Lawrence, Who Went
To Armenia in 1918, May Have
Been Killed.

| Myrtle Shane of Lawrence, who
went to Turkey as a missionary in
1913, is believed to have been killed
in massacres which have been occur
ring in Asiatic Turkey recently. Word
reached a sister, Mrs. Herbert Thomp-
son of Lawrence recently, saying that
Miss Shane was among the missing.
Miss Shane was head of Congrega-
, tional mission at Bitlis in Armenia.
The report came from Washington
and Miss Shane's friends in Lawrence
fear that she was included in the
massacres reported recently from
London.
Miss Shane's home was in Lawrence.
She was graduated from the Univer-
school in Abilene, Kas., and Water
town, S. D. In September, 1913, she
sailed for Turkey to enter the Con-
gregational mission at Bitlis. The last
letter received in Lawrence from Miss
Shane came in July, as other mission
aries were leaving. At that time she
said she had been placed in charge
of the mission and intended to stay.
Beside Mrs. Thompson, Miss Shane
has another sister in Lawrence, Mrs.
A. E. Newly. A brother, Elmo Shane,
is employed at the Long-Bell Lumber
Company in Kansas City. Two other
brothers are living in Texas. Her
parents are dead.
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Great Stacks of AIfaIfa.-Farm-
ers in Chase County have more
alfalfa hay on hands than ever before.
The wet summer, which made heavy
yields, also greatly interfered with
the cutting and proper curing of the
hay so that only small per cent of
this years crop is fit to market For
this reason most of it will be fed out
at home. In a drive west of Strong
City sixty large stacks were counted
within less than a mile.
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Kansas Retailers Meet.-The Kan
sas Retailers Association held its
seventh annual state convention in
Wellington recently. There were
about 100 registered delegates present
and many business men from towns
which have no affiliated local organi-
cations.
Laid Two Cornerstones.-The cor
ner stones for the new $4,000 Y. NJ
c. A. building and for the $4,000 addi-
tion to the Masonic Temple were laid
at Emporia with joint ceremonies the
other day. Governor Arthur Capper
and Grand Master William L. Burdick
of the Masons spoke.
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Grade Crossing Claims Two.-Mrs.
Clyde Bunton, wife of a wealthy
Sedgwick County farmer, was killed
and her husband fatally injured when
Santa Fe passenger train struck the
motor car in which they were riding
near Wichita.
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Keep Students From Public Dances.
Students at the University of Kan
sas are forbidden to attend public
dances in Lawrence by Mrs. Eustace
H. Brown, adviser of women at the
university.
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Rent Rooms by Contract.-Students
must sign contracts for rooms at the
University of Kansas this year. The
rooming house keepers have a lease
contract form which students are re-
quired to sign before engaging a room.
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Fall Fatal to SaIna Workman
Charles H. Biggert, a workman, fell
10 feet from the top of the tower at
the roller mills in Salina and died
three hours later. He is survived by
his wife, his mother and father and |
two sisters. who live in Lincoln, Neb.
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Civil War Veteran Dies.-Marcus l.. |
Vermillion, 20, pioneer of that Sec
tion, is dead at Atchison. He was a |
veteran of the Civil War, having en-.
listed at the age of 16 in Missouri |
repimant and served fhrou1hout tho J