Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-07-29
MOTHERS WARNED
State Health Board Says that
Children Should be Kept
Away from Crowds.
TRY TO PREVENT PARALYSIS
Monkey From Topeka Zoo to be In
ocuIated With Germs at the Rose
dale Hospital.

Keep your children away from
crowds and strangers during the in
fantile paralysis plague is the advice
given by the Missouri and Kansas
state boards of health. There is dan
ger where children gather in public
places 1t is even limited that the pub
lie Fairgrounds should be deserted un-
til the epidemic is under control in the
East. Every precaution is being taken
by the health boards of the two states
to prevent an epidemic in the Missouri
valley.
Immediate quarantine for all mem
bers of families where infantile paral-
ysis cases develop; Immediate reports
of all cases to state authorities and a
call for general clean-ups were some
of the suggestions in reference to in
fantile paralysis announced recently
by DR.. s. ]. Crumbine, secretary of the
state board of health.
The committee on prevention also
suggested that parents refrain from
doping" their children because there
are no known medicines or serums
that can be administered to prevent
the disease
Charles Darwin. monkey from the
Topeka zoo, will be sent to the Rose
dale hospital by the state board of
health to be inoculated with the germs
of infantile paralysis when the first
case reaches there. Medical experts
believe that the results will reveal
the secret which has thus far baffled
all attempts to find cure for the dis
ease.
His Leg Saved a Life.-John Wava-
do, a packing house employe. saved
the life of John Donovan, fellow
workman, recently. at the probable ex
pense of his own left leg. When an
elevator was descending into a base
ment where he knew Donovan was at
work, Wavado thrust his leg between
the car and the floor. stopping it, but
breaking his leg so badly that it may
have to be amputated.
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Bonner Springs Minister Dies-The
Rev. James Michael, sc years old,
pioneer minister of Wyandotte county,
died recently at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. James Wharton. Mr.. Mich
ael had been a minister in the Chris
tan church more than forty years.
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Spanish Veterans to Kansas City,
Kansas City, Kas., was chosen as the
place for the 1917 encampment of the
Kansas Spanish war veterans, which
closed at Emporia the other night.
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A Harvester at 6o.-Although Au-
gust RenQuist, 60 years old, of Tren-
ton, Mo, owns a 160-acre farm near
Trenton, he is working for 81 a day
in the harvest fields near Salina.
Dead From Pellagra.-Mrs. w. T.
Vest, wife of the postmaster at Pond
Creek, Ok, died of pellagra in a WITCH
tia hospital, twelve hours after being
brought there. She was 40 years old
Goff Man a Suicide-W. E. Cofelt
of the Golf Telephone Company com
mitted suicide recently by drinking an
ounce of carbolic acid.
Child Dies of ParaIysis-Byron
Nichols, the 3-year-old son of Harry
fantile paralysis recently. is dead at
Winfield.
Free Poison for Farmers-Logan
county officials at Oakley have de-
cided to furnish free poison to farmers
to fight the grasshopper plague.
Clouds of grasshoppers are doing
great injury to growing crops.
Accidentally Shoots Mother.-Mrs.
Frank Chambers, who lives southeast
of Winfield, was accidentally shot and
probably fatally wounded by her g.
year-old son recently. The boy took
rifle from a buggy in the yard of the
Chambers home and playfulIy pointed
1t at his mother The gun was dis
charged. the bullet entering Mrs.
Chambers left breast just above the
heart
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$1,000 for Soldier ReIief-Salina's
war relief fund, which will be used
to assist the families of married men
of the local militia company, has
nearly $1,000. Company M
has sixteen married members.
Lightning Kills cattle-One bolt of
lightning killed twenty head of cattle
belonging to Ira Brothers, near Ster-
ling The cattle We're standing near
a wire fence
Lightning kiIIs.-Frank Scantlin of
City was struck and instantly
killed by lightning on the farm of
Bing Lessor, five miles northwest of
the other night Dora T;ar.<,