Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-12-20
Training Camps Provide Good
Food and Healthy Surround
ings for the Soldiers.
DOCTOR TELLS OF INSPECTION
Dr.. Bailey of X. U. Visited Funston
and Denton-How They
Swat the Flies

american boys making their homes
this winter in army and navy training
camps and environments are better fed
and healthier than if they were in the
homes of their families, according %
DR.. E. H. S. Bailey, head of the de-
partment of chemistry at the Univer-
sity of Kansas. Doctor Bailey told
of inspecting two great army canton
ments, Camp Funston in Kansas and
Camp Denton at Aver, Mass, in a
talk to the Kansas City section of the
American Chemical Society which met
recently at the University.
Everything possible to guard and
to further the health of the men is
done at the army camps" said Doctor
Bailey. AT Camp Denton last sum-
mer 1 noticed they had even abolished
the fly. There was no litter for flies
to breed in and no waste for them to
feed on, consequently there were
neither flies nor rats. All garbage,
cans and bottles were sold at Denton
and thereby the government is saw
ing s1,700,000 a year at it's army
camps. To show the extreme care the
government is taking, the 5000 work
men who were building the canton
ment when 1 was at Ayre had been
whereabouts of each man carefully
checked up to prevent men from any
community where there is an cpl
demic from coming into the camp.
AT Funston there is sanitary
zone that extends miles beyond the
camp itself and that is carefully look
ed after by sanitary inspectors of the
state board of health. Not only must
the food, water and premises of the
camp be absolutely clean and whole
some, but even the neighborhood of
the camp must harbor no insanitary
condition
Doctor Bailey has a national reputa-
ton among chemists a food expert.
Prairie Grove Survivors Meet
Fifteen survivors of the battle of
Prairie Grove met at the Douglas
county court house recently for their
fifty fifth annual reunion. Among the
survivors who attended is Alex Conner
of Kansas City, Kan, who enlisted in
Company B, Thirteenth Kansas infan-
try, and was in Lawrence two weeks
before Quantrelrs raid in 1868.
Representative Dies.-J. T. Sellards,
representative from Dickinson county,
died recently following an operation
He served his first term in the 1egis-
lature last session and was a large
landowner at Solomon and vice-presi-
dent of the State Bank at that place
He leaves a. widow and family.
Farmer Ended Life-Willia m
Wright, So years old, bachelor farm
er near Kingman, committed suicide
recently by shooting himself with a
shotgun while he stood in the road
near his home.
HunneweiI Pioneer Dead.-P L.
Hawks, who lived in Hunnewel1 since
1870, is dead at the age of IS. He
bought land near the Chickasha river
when he came to Sumner county
from Illinois.
New High School for MuIvane-The
Mulvane school board has let the con-
tract to Winfield firm for a $4,000
high school building.
Find Dynamite Under Bridqe.-Fed-
eral authorities at Atchison are MAX
ing an investigation following the dis
covery of 100 pounds of dynamite I'M
der small bridge just west of the
city limits. The find wars made by a
woman and her small son while they
were gathering kindling. The exp1o-
sive was in a gunny sack, and was
well hidden from view.
New Enlistment Record.-The rec
ord for enlistments in the army and
navy was broken at Salina when six
ty-tvo young men of draft age enlist
ed and left at once for various train
ing camps.
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Big Gifts to coIiege.-The campaign
to raise s125,0OO for Paramount Col
lege went to $4,000 when the Rev.
H. L. Marsh, C. Q. Chandler, banker.
and A A Hyde, a manufacturer, each
gave $1,000.
State Job for AIkire.-Charles L. &
Alkire of Atchison has been offered
an appointment on the state laundry
board by Arthur Capper, governor of
Kansas. He probably will accept
Prohibits Gas Pumps-An ordinance
to prohibit the use of gas pumps has
been passed by the city council at
Atchison. Atchison has established a
precedent, as several other cities have