The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-30
GERMS ON THE TELEPHONES
Eight Different Kinds ,of Bacteria
Found on Public instruments in
Lawrence and LeaVenworth.

Eight different kinds of germs, two
Of them very dangerous, were found
on telephone receivers in Leaven-
worth, Kan, and Lawrence in an in
vestigation made by Miss Minnie E.
Moody in class work she is doing as
student in the University of Kansas.
Miss Moody SWabbed out the receiver
of a telephone in Leavenworth drug
store and dropped the cotton swab
into a glass tube containing several
teaspoons of beef broth. She did the
same thing with a telephone in a Law
renee drug store and with a public
telephone in one of the main build
ings of the University. The cotton
swabs, broth and tuber used were
sterile, so all the germs developed are
known to have come from the tele-
phone receivers.
From each tube a drop of broth was
taken. These were incubated twenty
four hours. At the end of that time
240 germs were counted in the drop
injected from the University teIe-
phone, and 430 from the Leavenworth
telephone.
Among five practically harmless
types of bacteria on the University
telephone receiver tuberculosis and
catarrhal germs were definitely de-
fined, while on the Leavenworth drug
store telephone receiver diphtheria
was found. Neither tuberculosis nor
diphtheria germs were found on the
Lawrence drug store telephone. The
drug store telephones carried more
germs because they were exposed,
| while the University telephone was in
a booth.
To a Magazine Staff.-Nelson Craw-
| ford, professor of industrial journal
ism at the Kansas State Agriculture
College, has been appointed associate
| editor of the Midland Magazine, es-
tablished three years ago for the pur-
pose Of presenting the literary ideals
| of the Middle West
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The negro who turned white has be-
come a great object Of curiosity, espe-
cially to visitors in Olathe, and he
has had offers to appear in sideshows
He has steadfastly refused all such Of
fers, however, and prefers to remain
in his little Olathe barber shop.
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Would Solve Gas ProbIem.-OIathe
wants to manage its own gas prob
lem. At meeting of the Commercial
Club held last night it was voted to
hire a special car to take the club to
Topeka for a conference with the util-
tiles commission.
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|
The summer season of the University
Of Kansas opened at Lawrence with
the largest first day enrolment ever
recorded, a total Of 425.
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Arrested for Desecrstine FIag-Ac-
cused of tearing an American flag
from the wall of a bank at Mount
Hope, and throwing it on the floor,
after which he is alleged to have spit
on it, Herbert Williams. young farm
er. was arrested by county authorities.
4Tim" Casey of Hutchinson Dead
T. R (Tim) Casey, for years mana
ger of the Midland hotel, Hutchinson.
is dead following an operation. He
was well known for long, but vain,
fight he made against the Prohibitory
law.
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Have New Oil WeII.-The "Har.
riett e. the thirteenth well drilled in
on the Summerson lease, one mile
north OF Cherryvale. the property Of
the Women's Federal Oil Company. is
making 192 barrels by actual count.
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/, Blew Check us MiIes.-Leo Hecht
! of AndaIe has received from a man
in Manhattan a letter containing a
check he had given to Louis Gorges
about the time OF the tornado, May 26
, in payment for grain The Manhat,
. tan man found the check in his yard
The wind carried the check rs miles.