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Meade County news., 1918-01-24
LESS KANSAS POULTRY NOW
George C. Bowman Says Kansas Pro-
duced only so Per Cent of Usual
Amount Last Year.

Every farmer in Kansas ought to
have from three to four hundred hens
and the suburban residents of the
cities a prQportionate number, accord
ing to George c. Bowman, president
of the Seymour Packing Company Of
Topeka, the largest poultry packing
establishment in the state. Mr.. Bow
man spoke recently before the Kansas
Agricultural Conference.
"The question of food today is fore
most in the minds of the public and
the meat supply can be increased in a
shorter period through a larger pro-
duction of poultry than is possible
with beef, pork and all other classes
of red meats" said Mr.. Bowman
Startling facts are the statistics Of
poultry production in Kansas for 1917.
The receipts of the Seymour Packing
Company in Kansas in the last six
months of 1917 were only 46S per cent
of the quantity received in the same
period a year ago. The same per-
centage applies throughout the coun-
try. Our figures tend to show less
than so per cent as much poultry
raised in Kansas in 1917 as in the
previous year. The reason for this
shortage may lie in the fact that the
high prices paid for eggs last spring
caused the farmers to sell their eggs
rather than put them under the hen
or into an incubator.
During the period of hard times in
Kansas thirty years ago it was the
Kansas hen which kept starvation
from the farmers door. If survey
is made today showing the ratio Of
the present cost of feed with refer
ence to the price now and during these
hard times it behooves every producer
to hold fast to all the hens that are
now in his possession and sacrifice
along some other line rather than di-
minish his flock.
Just now poultry is being consumed
faster than it is being produced. I'm
less immediate steps are taken to en-
courage an increased production the
future is anything but favorable"
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

Just as we came to the conclusion
that there would be no new departure
in styles for the midwinter coat, the
trench coat" breezed in and made an
instantaneous success with the young
er set. Its name bespoke an interest
in 1t and the coat repays this interest.
1t is only in details of finishing that
It differs from many other of the win
ter's successful models. 1t is the sort
of comfortable, practical affair that
commends itself for general wear, to
the active young woman who goes
everywhere. But it has a style Of its
own with snappy military flavor.
Even though 1t reaches to the shoe
tops, the trench coat contrives to be
trim looking with its wide fiat box
plat down the front. The belt, of the
material, slips through upturned flaps
at each side, which are fastened down
with big bone buttons. The deep cuffs,
that are of uneven width, overlap at
the edges and an important button
stands guard on each of these. The
collar is of the smuggling variety that
has won the devotion of the fashion
able. 1t is immensely becoming and
comfortable. This garment may be de-
veloped in any of the plain, soft coat
ings that have made this most sue
cessful coat season.
Content to bear comparison with the
trench coat, another popular model
presents itself in the picture. 1t also
has several interesting points to be
considered with yoke and sleeves cut
In one, double collar and huge but
tons. The collar of cloth amounts to n
small cape and the collar of fur is
planned so that 1t may be brought up
Meade County news., 1918-01-24
GsAy Rzz7aA
A Unique Camisole.

White or light-colOred Italian silk
stockings, worn at the heels or toes,
may be used for dainty camisole"
by removing the feet and cutting the
upper parts along the back seam. Use
lace three inches wide for the top Of
the camisole, also to join the two
pieces of silk together in the back.
Ribbon for shoulder straps, adds to
make it very attractive.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

about the throat and chin in the ap
proved manner when its wearer de-
cides to cuddle down into 1t. The deep
cuffs and belt are Of cloth like the
coat, the latter fastened with two Of
the large buttons, making assurance
doubly sure. These two very sensible
models probably finish the story Of
coats for this winter-in season Of
excellent styles they play creditable
part.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24
STORING THE NATURAL ICE
Kansas Manufacturing Concerns Put
ting it Up to Prevent a Famine
Next Summer.

The Food Administration for Kansas
has been informed that several ice
manufacturing concerns are putting up
natural ice for next summer because
of the threatened ammonia shortage.
There will be an ice famine next sum-
mer unless large quantities of natural
ice are stored or unless something un-
forseen occurs to counteract the am
monia famine
Farmers living in that part Of Kan
sas where there are ponds and
streams have had opportunity to fill
their ice houses this winter because
of the cold weather In parts of Kan
sas there is not enough natural ice to
make any difference. Ammonia is
needed in the manufacture of explos-
ives and the war is reducing the avail
able supply.
According to DR.. S. ]. Crumbine,
secretary of the state board of health,
natural ice is perfectly safe for do
mestic use under the right conditions.
Freezing and crystalization destroy
much of the organic matter in natural
ice. If ice is stored for at least six
weeks, Doctor Crumbine says, it will
become practically sterile. If ice is
to be reasonably pure, Doctor Crum-
bine says: First, avoid flooding;
second, pack in clean and uncontamii
mated straw; third, handle in sani-
tary way"
Thousands of tons of ice might be
put up from Kansas streams and
ponds this year, and be perfectly safe
and wholesome, if the foregoing pre-
cautions are observed" said Doctor
Crumbine. THAT would effect great
saving in fuel and ammonia and result
in cheaper ice"
X X X
Skeleton In Old shaft.-Miners
cleaning out an old shaft at Galena
discovered skeleton which has been
identified as that of Ivan E. Faring-
ton, mine operator, who disappeared
the night of December 1, 1899. Iden-
tification was made possible through
the finding Of key ring with Faring-
tons name engraved on it.
X X X
Boy Killed In Indian PIay.-Ralph
Hubbard, 16 years old, was accident
ally killed at Hutchinson by Harold
Bolt, age Is years. The boys were
playing Indian, when revolver, sup
posed to be unloaded, was discharged.
X X X
A Kick for Cannes.-Dogs of Kan
sas eat enough food to provide for
$1,000 Belgian orphans, according to
the ratio cost of keep compiled by
Ohio statisticians and applied to the
Kansas canine population.
x X
Injured by Exploding Tank.-Ed Nc
Kinsey suffered a fractured skull ana
his wife was severely burned at En-.
poria when a hot-water tank in their
home exploded. McKinsey was at.
tempting to thaw out water pipes.
X X X
Saline Boy "Gassed."-C. v. Ander-
son of Brookville, Kan, mentioned as
"gassed" in the Canadian casualties
in the world war, is Saline County
boy, who joined the Canadian army a
year ago. A. G. Anderson, brother,
lives at Brookville.
X X X
Corn Unfit for MIling.-That sur.
prisingly large amount of the corn
raised in Chase county last year is
too soft to grade and is almost entire
ly unfit for milling is reported by To-
cal grain men, who are finding it no
easy task to supply their wants.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24
ChanueabIe Velvet,

Lovely handbags are now made of
dark chNngeable velvet-purple and
black, blue and green and other COM
binations of dark shades. The velvet
is mounted on silver frames.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24
scarfs Pinned to colffures.

Evening scarfs of printed net are
also spangled with tiny dots and worn
as are the plain maline scarfs, pinned
to the coiffure.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

Accepted Leavenworth calI.-The
Rev. Ernest Seibenthal, pastor of the
Christian Church at Cummings sew
eral years, has accepted call as pas
tor Of the Christian Church at Leav-
enworth.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

Drop German In Wichita.-The
Wichita Board of Education has adopt
ed a resolution abolishing German
from the high schools there. The rule
will not go into effect until next term.
Students have shown a tendency to
drop German and the board decided
to aid them.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

Corn Unfit for Mlline.-That a sur.
prisingly large amount of the corn
raised in Chase county last year is
too soft to grade and is almost entire
ly unfit for milling is reported by To-
cal grain men, who are finding it no
easy task to supply their wants.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

Saline Boy "Gassed."-C. v. Ander
son of Brookville, Kan, mentioned as
"gassed" in the Canadian casualties
in the world war, is Saline County
boy, who joined the Canadian army 6
year ago. A. G. Anderson, brother
lives at Brookville.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

Gets Military Home Job.-Frank G..
Kibbey of Olathe was appointed ad-
jutant of the National Military Home
at Leavenworth to succeed Captain NJ
e. Drew. Captain Drew succeeded
George C. Vogelsong as quartermaster
of the home.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

Used Gasoline on Fire.-To heat
water for a sick husband, Mrs. j. H..
Branham of Wichita used what she
believed was kerosene to replenish the
fire. 1t was gasoline and exploded in
her hands She cannot live.
Meade County news., 1918-01-24

Injured by Exploding Tank.-Ed Nc
Kinsey suffered a fractured skull ana
his wife was severely burned at EN-
poria when a hot-water tank in their
home exploded. McKinsey was at.
tempting to thaw out water pipes.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Sentry Shoots Ship Cook
Norwegian Ignored Halt Or
der Entering Brooklyn
Barred Zone

Two Norwegians in Brooklyn yester-
day were suddenly made aware of the
fact that an order to halt when ap-
preaching the waterfront should be i'm
mediatcly obeyed. Kaskan Hagen, a
cook on the steamship Kyne, is in Long
Island College Hospital with a bullet
wound in his abdomen and his brother,
Magnus, is held by the Federal authori-
ties.
The men were going along Inlay
Street when one Of the water
front guards shouted for them to
halt Both ran. The sentry fired at
Kaskan and the bullet dropped him.
His brother then stopped running.
Later the men said they we're on
their way to the Kyne and became
frightened at the sight of the soldier
with rifle. They overlooked the for
mality of getting passports for the
barred zone
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Colonel Roosevelt
Backs Choice of
Chairman Hays
New Head Says National
Committee Should Not
Support Any Presi-
Dental Candidate

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 14-Three
members Of the Republican National
Committee stopped in for few hours
to-day while returning from the con-
vention at St. Louis for a conference
with Will II. Hays, new chairman of
the committee. They were John T..
King, of Connecticut: A. T. Hert, of
Kentucky. and James A. Hemenway, Of
Indiana. Senator Penrose, of Pennsyl-
vania. passed through late this after
noon. and was Joined by Mr.. King.
Chairman Hays to-day received hun
dreds of kilograms of congratulations
from Republican leaders in all parts
Of the country. One was from Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, which read:
"Your election means more to the
country and the Republican party than
anything else at this time could have
meant"
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth also
sent a telegram Of congratulations.
At luncheon to-day attended by
the national committeeman. Governor
Goodrich and other State Republican
leaders Chairman Hays expressed his
gratitude for the help Of his friends at
St. Louis and reiterated his determina-
ton to deal on the same terms with all
representatives of his party. He de-
clared that he did not believe the ma
tional organization should support any
candidate for the Presidential nomina-
tion.
Mr.. King said that the Republican
party has the greatest opportunity in
its history to go before the country
with strong declaration of American
ism and declared that he favored Theo-
dore Roosevelt as the next Republican
candidate for the Presidency.
Chairman Hays will leave Monday
or Tuesday Of next week for Washing
ton and later will go to New York for
conferences with party leaders.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Workless Mondays Over
For State, Says Wiqqii,,

New York City and State are done
with workless Mondays.
Albert H.. Wiggin, state Fuel Ad-
mlnistrator, yesterday gave out
statement saying that the order issued
by national Fuel Administrator Gar
field resembling the Monday closing
rule would stand here, although he was
given power to continue with workless
Monday if conditions here warranted
"Ihe situation as to the supply of
coal is still Serious" Mr.. Wiggin stat
ed. Industries are shut down and
careful conservation of fuel is urged.
The exemptions to Monday closing
were so numerous, where so literally
interpreted and were so inequitable
that it has been impossible to enforce
the order, and the saving effected is
not what it should be. The public re-
CARDS lightless nights as a desirable
economy. The order for six lightless
nights week will be continued. Also
the reductions of light and heat in
January will be enforced" - -
Mr.. Wiggin's criticism s.rnrised
other fuel administration official here.
County Fuel Administrator Reeve
Schley estimated the saving for each
Monday at 10000 tons. He said the
closing order had been success.
Regional Director of Railroads A.
II. Smith received favorable weather
reports from all parts of the Eastern
railway district yesterday, together
with assurances from railroad nresi-
dents that freight movements were
rapidly improving.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Monday Work Ban
Will Be Continued
In New England
New Hampshire Alone May
Suspend Heatless'
Day

BOSTON, Feb. 14-Next Monday
will be continued as heatless day in
all New England, with the possible ex-
ception Of New Hampshire. The Fuel
Administrators of the various states
made this announcement tonight.
Explaining that the whole situation
was a matter of ships, James J. Stor-
row, New England Fuel Administrator,
said the question ofs supplying coal
carrying ships would be put directly
up to President Wilson.
The decision as to whether New
Hampshire shall continue next Monday
as a holiday will be left to former
Governor Charles M. Floyd, Fuel Ad-
ministrator for that state. Mr.. Floyd
was at the conference for short time
to-day, but was obliged to return to
his home in Manchester because of ILL
ness. Before the conference assem-
bled it was understood that he would
permit business to resume next Mon
day regardless of what the other New
England states did, but Mr.. Storrow
said tonight that when Mr.. Flyod re-
tired from the conference he appar-
emily was uncertain what action he
would take.
The conference was called after DR..
Harry A. Garfield, National Fuel Ad-
ministrator, had decided that condi-
tions were such that heatless Mondays
should be discontinued, beginning next
Monday, throughout the East, except
in New England, where he left it to
the decision of the state Fuel Admins
traitors. At the conclusion of the meet
ing tonight, the following statement
was issued:
eve have decided that the situation
in New England is too serious to per
nit of operation Of industries next
Monday. For example, the Arlington
Mills at Lawrence, employing 5000
hands, have only enough coal to run
them until next Saturday. The Wooe
Mills, in the same city, employing
1900 hands, must shut down mex
Wednesday night unless more coal is
received
eve have information that inside oi
the next fortnight very large mum
ber of workers, especially in the tex.
tile cities, will be thrown out of EN-
ployment unless relief is obtained"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Mayor Orders Enforcement
Of Motor Vehicle Lasu

In letter to Police Commissioner
Enrlght yesterday Mayor HXlan re-
quested stricter enforcemen6 of the
motor vehicle law. declaring that "life.
limb and property" are endangered by
the reckless driving of motor trucks.
including mail trucks: He suggested
study of existing ordinances to rem
cdy this menace" and suggested. if
necessary, legislation be requested of
the Board Of Aldermen.
With reference to the mail trucks
the Mayor said:
al wish to call your attention espe-
cially to the mail wagons that are oper-
ated through our streets in most
dsgraceful and dangerous manner.
These mail wagons are not operated by
the Federal government. but are owned
and controlled by private individuals,
and the operators of these vehicles
have no more right to exceed the speed
limit or to drive recklessly through the
city streets than has the ordinary indi-
vidua1 -
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Bronx Tenants Win
I! New Battle Over Heat
Some Landlords Harshly Criti-
cised by Justice Robitzek
for Rent Demands

Another battle in the now famous
hcatless war which is being waged in
The Bronx between tenants Of apart
ment houses that have no coal and
landlords who insist upon charging full
rents for these frlgid dwellings was
fought yesterday before Justice Robit-
EEK in the Municipal Court.
The tide Of battle went in general
against the Bronx squires and in favor
Of their tenantry. Of 638 cases, 100
we're settled in favor of tenants. In
many others either reduction Of rental
or rebate on rent already paid was
ordered In several cases landlords
came in for considerable harsh words
from the justice.
Landlords like you," he told Henry
A. Jackson, "make it hard for we'll
meaning and honest landlords to accord
justice to their tenants and remedy the
conditions which have existed this win
ter. Other landlords expect demands
for rent reductions and are prepared to
meet their tenants half way. But you
demand your pound of flesh and under
the law, I suppose, must give it to
yOu."
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Belgian Girl Tells of Helping
Wounded Prisoners to Escape

,hs suzanne Silvercruys, daughter of
n1e,.; rde Chief Justice of Belgium, who was
psaylng paa with her dogs in her fathers
garden. near Liege, when the 42-centi-
,lre Me're howitzer saluted that city and
os sse world, told the Advertising Club
~ New New York yesterday at lunch at
-, East Twenty Street how she
aslped twenty wounded Belgian prison
81, tn 10 escape a few weeks after Liegc
'etI She was sixteen years old.
,o.I worked in a Louvain hospital as
"Sng as | was allowed" she said,
;oelng in Ware 2 of the Palais de Jus
s"',. I'VE; There were two hundred German
Sdoidiers and twentv Belgians. One
10y al we girls brought mems cloth
Wy wy TO the hospital, and in the night
We ar, assisted the Belgians to escape.
so inc next day there was frightful
~ S.sne. The Germans orderc> -. shut
~ IN a room, and / thought surely
hnat my chance had come to die for
tes.glum. But that night my father OBJ
''ned my release"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Shonts Classifies Cuspidors,
With CrossedLegs as 'Verboten
tie Regrets That Nation No Longer Used to Plug Cut,
Has Lost Accuracy of Aim Thereby Making
Receptaces in Subway and Il" Useless

t. P. Shonts, president Of the Inter
borough, and Boswell to T. P. Shonts
yesterday made public his thoughts
on the lowly subject of cuspidors in
the subway.
This latest of tho remarkable series
OF letters by Mr.. Shonts that Mr..
Shonts has given to the world is a not
able addition to the works of the
author of "Don't Cross Ybur Legs"
which has had wide circulation on the
of Lenox and Broadway cx-
presses and locals, and that famous
epistle, upholding the Responsibility of
neat fitting boomers"
In this most recent opus the modern
chesterfield received his inspiration
from patron of his subways and ele-
Vated railroads. who wrote and asked
where ne was to spit if Mr.. Shonts did
hor 1urnlsh his cars with cuspidors.
A., While admitting the pertincnce of
Ihe query, the president of the Inter
borough remains firm IN the resolve
that none of his enterprises shall re-
lapse into mid-Victorianism.
While | recognize fully the force of
your argument as to the physical me-
ce1sslty c1my OF expectorating, | am in
cllned to believe that the installation
or numerous cuspidors would have q
tendency to lead to conditions a great
deal deal worse than at present obtain
through their absence"
Regrets Loss of Aim
Thus, the letter opens. In the sue
ceeedlng paragraph the writer deplores
the fact that nation, no longer
framed and accustomed to plug cut,
has lost much of its ancient accuracy
of alma circumstance which. M
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

Many Of the plants affected are en-
gagged upon war contracts of vital i'm
portance. At least $4,000 workers are
out of employment. Dudley Farrand,
ylce-president of the Public Service
Corporation, who went to Washington
yesterday to acquaint the fuel admins
tration with the gravity of the stu
alton, reported to-day that all that
could be promised to the corporation
was eighty cars of coal ain few days" /"
Eighty cars Of coal will run the public
service plants for little less than one
day.
Among the factories engaged in fill
ing government contracts that are COM
pletely shut down are the International
Arms and Fuse Company of Bloomfield,
5000 men; the Splitdorf Electrical
Company, at work on the Liberty
motors at Newark, 1900 men; the
Thomas A. Edison Company OF Orange,
1000 men, and the American Synthetic
Dyes Company, 1,400 men.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
jersey Industrial 1iie-Up Likely
10 Last Week; $4,000 Idle
any OF the Plants Closed by Coal Shortage Are Engaged
in War Work-Aid Washington Promises
to Give Is Feeble

NEWARK, N. j., Feb. 14.-The sew
eral thousand factories north of Tren-
ton, which were obliged to shut down
last Tuesday when the Public Service
Corporation cut off power with only
four hours notice, remained dark and
cold to-day. If conditions continue
as they arc at present it may be a
week or more before they are able to
resume work.
1t is the same old reason. The Pub
lie Service Corporation cannot get coal.
President Thomas N, McCarter said to-
day that the industrial tie-up might
last we'll into next week.
Despite the optimism of Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield and the abolition
of "heatless Mondays" the fuel stu
alton in New Jersey is more serious
than ever and the aid that Washington
seems prepared to give is only feeble.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Genevieve Vix Sued
Her Ex-Secretary Seeks Pay
tor Obtaining Engagement

Genevieve Narischkin, better known
% a. .Genevicve ViX, prirna donna of the
Sa'eago Opera Association, was sued
., "a o, sae Supreme Court yesterday for
si,1oo by Nathan Arlock, of the Hotel
nnavoy, her former secretary, who says
Ha' he is entitled to commission for
obtaining the singers present engage
ment Because Miss Vix is a resident
u: VI Paris, Arlock obtained from Justice
rlnch an attachment against property
she might have here, so that, if he
sets verdict, he will have something
10 levy against.
|. Arlock said that Miss Vix engaged
m.m under a two-year contract to rep
ilesent her and obtain contracts for
n1s. nes IN opera and concerts. He says he
psaced her with the Chicago Opera As
sociatlon. Arlock wants a 10 per cent
tIommission, and alleges that Miss Vix
mas repudiated their agreement.