Meade County news., 1917-05-31
Or. Billings of X. U. Advises
Typhoid Vaccination For
All Kansans.
GERMS IN MILK AND ICE CREAM
No Fear of the Disease If You Follow
Uncle Sans Treatment Of
His Soldiers.

Consider carefully the ice cream you
eat and the milk you drink. Follow
Uncle Sans example and be vacci-
mated against typhoid fever. Then you
won't be health Stacker this sum-
mer.
Those suggestions come from DR..
F. H. Billings, professor of bacteri-
ology in the University Of Kansas.
Doctor Billings points them particular
Iy at persons who may travel this
summer. His own family follows this
procedure and whenever they happen
to leave Lawrence they quit eating ice
cream or drinking milk until they are
sure as to the purity of the product.
But you need not fear typhoid If
you will do just as Uncle Sam has
his recruits and the boys in training
camps do; be vaccinated against ty-
phoid. Vaccinating consists Of inject
ing anti-typhoid vaccine three times,
at intervals of about ten days. There
usually is little or no inconvenience
from the injections and only slight
soreness at the point Of injecting.
The family doctor can do the work in
O. few minutes. The cost is slight
Doctor Billings believes all adults
under 40 should be vaccinated against
typhoid. Practically all typhoid cases
are among persons between Is and 40
years old. No matter how careful
person may be, however, typhoid is
tricky In its attacks because of certain
persons being carriers of the disease.
AS an example, Doctor Billings cites
a country picnic last May among twen-
ty-nine persons from California
ranches. Twenty-three of them ate
chocolate ice cream and twenty-three
had typhoid.
Investigation showed the source Of
the milk supply was good, but the wo-
man who made the Ice cream was a
typhoid carrier. She had had typhoid
fever seventeen years previously in
Kansas and probably had been car
rier ever since Investigation showed
further that four of six school teach
ers who had boarded at her home in
several years previously had contract
ed typhoid. q.
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Bitten by RattIer.-Austin Green, a
rural mail carrier living at Madison,
twenty miles south of Emporia, is re-
covering from the bite of a rattle
snake. For two days he was given
little hope of recovery. Green was
bitten when he attempted to strike
the snake with club.
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Died From Eating Steak.-Mrs.
Julia f. Gordon, 6S years old, Of Dal-
las, Tex, died of ptomaine poisoning
from eating beefsteak at the home of
her sister in Arkansas City. Her sis
ter and her nephew became quite i'll
from eating the meat, but will re-
cover.
Died in Sunday School-Mrs. Knight
Brown, an active worker in the Metho-
dist church and the wife of a retired
farmer, died of heart disease at Pratt
while she was teaching her Sunday
school class. She had enjoyed her
usual health and reached the church
early feeling well.
X X X
New Atchison Oil Company
cation has been made for charter for
the Globe Oil and Gas Company to
drill in Atchison county. Several
thousand acres have been leased.
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Former Senator Dead.-Alexander
Caldwell, ex-United States senator
from Kansas and for years president
of the First National Bank of Leaven-
worth, died recently in Kansas City
where he was taken for treatment.
About year and half ago Mr.. Cald-
well suffered a stroke of apoplexy.
He had never recovered from that.
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Beer From Soda Fountain-The sale
Of near beer is to be stopped at
Hutchinson because soda fountain men
slip in the real stuff to good custo-
mers. City officials enacted an or
dinance prohibiting the sale of near
beers in less than gallon lots.
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Mailed Bomb to Physlcian.-Dr. A.
H. Dykes, secretary of the state board
of medical registration and examina-
tion, was severely injured and the
building in which his office is located
at Lebanon was shaken by the ex-
plosion Of a bomb he recently re-
ceived in the mail. His face, hands
and body were injured. The papeR
in which the bomb was wrapped was
marked: "From the P. A. p. Manu-
featuring Company"
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Grated Leg Bone Into Arm.-Harry
Harris, young electrician of Arkan-
sas City, believed permanently injured
four weeks ago when his motor car
turned over, smashing his arm, has
fully recovered. A portion Of bone
from his leg was grated into his shat
tered arm by local physician.
On One Farm "a 3ears.-charles
Lange, So years old, farmer of
Atchison county who had lived forty.
&c.,. ....-x -. A.