Meade County news., 1917-10-04
TO BAR The WOMEN
Restroom for Visitors at Camp
Funston VIII be Outside
the Limits.
WILL Do THEIR OWN WORK
Everything From Darning Socks to
Operating Telephone Switchboards
Will Be Their Tasks. ..

Will Be Their Tasks.
A city of 10000 men without a wo-
man in it, near it, or around it, That
is what Camp Funston will be when
the construction work is finished and
everything settles down to regulation
military existence.
Women won't be allowed in the
camp even as visitors, according to
the present plans and none will be
allowed to stop there for meals.
Everything will be done by men, from
darning socks to operating telephone
switchboards.
The present plan is TO build a rest
room for the Y. w. c. A. in the north
east section OF the camp just outside
the regulation limits. Here women
visitors can meet their friends, eat or
secure temporary sleeping quarters,
| There will be a street leading from
the cottage to the street car station
where a smaller rest room will be
located, and the women will be al
lowed only to pass between the two
places No other place in camp will
be open to them.
| Whether or not this order will affect
the chorus girls in the vaudeville
shows scheduled there this winter has
not been announced, but word has
come from headquarters that no wom
en- will be allowed on the reservation,
only in the aforementioned zone. The
street, which exists so far only on
blue print, already has been nick
named "Petticoat Lane" because it
will be occupied and used only by
women.
Emporia College Head Quits..-The
resignation of President II. C. Culbert-
son of the College of Emporia was
accepted the other night at a meeting
Of the college trustees. Charles F.
Scott of lola, member of the board,
was chosen temporary president OF
| the school, Mr.. Culbertson offered his
resignation in order he might be free
to devote his entire time to his new
work as chief of the new bureau of
cooperative organization of food ad-
ministration. The resignation will be
effective October Is.
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Measles in Abilene mpany,-Four
cases of measles among men Of Com
pany II, Third Regiment, Kansas Ma
tional Guard, caused the revocation of
orders to entrain recently and the
company is back in camp for an in
definite stay after all preparations
we're made for the start for Camp
Doniphan.
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Henson Denied New Trial-B. w. A
Henson who was found guilty of muir
der in the second degree at Wichita
for the third time on the same charge
in two years, was denied a new trial
in Judge Birds court. Judge Bird SEN
fenced Henson to twenty years in the
state penitentiary.
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Three FIed Atchison Jai.-Digging
through a brick wall with an iron rod
from a bedstead, Willie Russell B.
Spencer and G.. Jackson escaped from
the city Jail at Atchison recently.
Jackson was caught at the home of
his father in Leavenworth
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kansan in Navy KiIled.-Louis V.
Cease, IS years cld, one of the first
Sumner county boys to enlist in the
navy, was killed accidentally at Fort
Sumter, Va, recently. according to
message received by his mother, a
widow Of Conway Springs
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Dynamite Cap Injuries 5oy.-Lloyd
Richardson, the 9-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. j. A. Richardson of Winfield,
suffered the loss of virtually all of
his left hand when a dynamite cap
which he picked up on the Country
Club golf course exploded His face
was also badly burned.
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Little Profit for Robbers.-Thieves
entered the Hallowel postoffice some
time the other night. The office was
thoroughly ransacked. but the amount
of the loot was only fif!y-one cents.
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Sympathy Strike at Wichita.-Wels
Fargo express men, freight handlers
and wagon men went out on strike,
and it was announced that men at the
other express offices likely would not
report for work. The strike is in SYM
pathy with the movement at Kansas
City.
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Killed by Live Wire.-In attempting
to cross the high bridge over the Neo-
sho River at Humboldt, Roy Matticks
lost his balance. fell against a live
wire and was killed.
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