Meade County news., 1916-10-26
DISCUSS HEALTH PROBLEMS
League Of Municipalities Devotes
Last Session to General Talk
Pure Milk Campaign Popular.

When the school of Kansas munich
palities opened its last session at In.
dependence recently, Instructor w. l..
Porter, president of the Kansas League
of Municipalities, began the meeting
by throwing down the bars for free
discussion of all questions.
1t was crossfire for two hours of
one city with complaint hearing how
similar troubles were handled by fell
low members from other cities. In
these free discussions one city prob
lem stood out above all others-the
cities of Kansas are vitally agitated
over the health question. Sewage and
garbage problems occupied consider.
able time, and practically each city
represented in the interchange of
views was having trouble with an anti
quated method of garbage collection.
All the cities, however, are entering
into the milk supply campaign with
zest. A few present believed the only
sure and safe way to protect the milk
supply was to require pasteurization.
Others wanted raw milk for the table
and were insistent that it was up to
the city officials to force tubercular
tests and rigid requirements on all
dairies and milk dealers as the best
plan to solve the impure milk trou
bles. This plan is being carried out
under the direction of the state dairy
inspection department.
The school this year has grown to
represent 1928 Kansas cities.
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School at Clyde Burns.--The pub.
lie school building at Clyde was de.
stroyed by fire the other day. A fire
had been started in the furnace the
first time this fall and it is supposed
the blaze started from defective flue.
The whole building was ablaze about
ten minutes after the fire was discov.
cred, but all the children were saved,
although their wraps and books were
lost.
A X. U. Parents Week.-A father
and mothers" week early in Decem.
Der in which parents will be invited
to the University of Kansas to see Just
what X. U. is doing for their sons and
daughters, is the latest plan of cele
bration for the semi-centennial year
of the university.
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Meals Cost More in Atchison.-Res.
taurant and hotel men of Atchison |
have decided to increase the price OF
table d hote meals 10 cents and to
make proportionate increases in short
orders. High prices of meat and gro
ceries, the restaurant men say, com.
PEELED them to take this course.
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Mrs. MItchner Heads w. C. T. U.-
The state convention of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union at
reelected Mrs. Lillian
Mitchner for the seventh year as
president
Boy Killed by Silo Cutter.-WilI s.
Brown, II years old, living two miles
north Of Cambridge, was killed the
other afternoon when his arm was
caught in the cogs of a silo cutter.
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War On Boarding Houses.-War on
he boarding houses has been declar.
ID by students at the Kansas Normal
1t Emporia. Due to recent increase
n prices, large number OF students
ed by Raymond Cremer. a sophomore
rom Kansas City, has withdrawn from
he boarding clubs of the town and
organized cooperative clubs. BY join
ng in groups of twenty. renting a
iouse and cook and buying their own
groceries,, board can be reduced to
p or $3.50 week, says Cremer
That is 50 less than the most recent
boarding house prices. J