The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-28
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 a crossfire for two hours of
one city with a 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 vitality 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
diaries and milk dealers as the hest
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 128 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 a defective f1ue
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 K u. Parents Week-A father
and mothers week early in Deem
Der in which parents will be invited
to the University of Kansas to see just
what K 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 pToportionate 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
| Hutchinson reelected Mrs. Lillian
Mitchner for the seventh year as
president
Boy Killed By siIo cutter-wfn 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
| the boarding houses has been declar-
| ed by students at the Kansas Normal
! at Emporia. Due to a recent increase
in prices, large number Of students
led by Raymond Cremer, a sophomore
from Kansas City, has withdrawn from
the boarding clubs of the town and
organized cooperative clubs. By join
| ing in groups of twenty, renting a
house and a cook and buying their own
| groceries, board can be reduced to
81 OF $3.50 a week, says Cremer.
| That is 81 less than the most recent
| boarding house prices.
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Hunting Rabbits at Nieht-Shoot-
! ing jack rabbits by automobile lights
| is the latest sport in western Kansas.
Hunters drive their cars along coun-
/ try roads at night. When a rabbit is
caught in the light he will run straight
ahead in the path Of the car and is
easily shot
Killed Under Motor car-John
Gredeo, Of whitewater, was killed re
Gently when the motor car in which
\ he was riding with a party Of friends
overturned into 3 ditch east OF New
ton