The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26
STORING THE NATURAL ICE
Kansas Manufacturing Concerns Put
ting it Up to Prevent 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 IN
| 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. J. Crumbine,
secretary of the state board OF health,
natural ice is perfectly safe for do
nestle use under the right conditions.
Freezing and crystaIization 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 uncontami-
mated straw; third, handle in a 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 a great
saving i'll fuel and ammonia and result
| in cheaper ice.''
Skeleton in Old Shaft.-Miners
| cleaning out an old shaft at Galena
discovered a skeleton which has been
| identified as that of Ivan E. Faring-
ton, mine operator, who disappeared
the night of December 1, 1899 Iden.
LITIGATION was made possible through
the finding of a key ring with Faring-
toms name engraved on it.
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! Boy Killed in indian PIay-RaIph
Hubbard, Is years old, was accident
/ ally killed at Hutchinson by Harold
Bolt, age Is years. The boys were
playing Indian, when a revolver, sup
posed to be unloaded, was discharged.
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| A Kick for Canines.-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.
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Injured by Exploding Tank-Ed Nc
| Kinsey suffered a fractured skull and
his wife was severely burned at EN-
| poria when hot-water tank in their
home exploded. McKinsey was at
tempting to thaw out water pipes.
| Saline Boy "Gassed.-C. V. Ander-
| son of Brookville, Kan, mentioned as
"gassed" in the Canadian casualties
in the world war, is a Saline County
boy, who Joined the Canadian army a
year ago. A. G. Anderson, a brother,
lives at BrookviIle.
Corn Unfit for MiIiinu.-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 10
cal grain men, who are finding it no
easy task to supply their wants.
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A Solomon Pioneer Dies-John
Riordan, SO years old, of near Solo
mon is dead after an illness which ex-
tended over ten years. He was one
of the early settlers of Central Kan
sas. having come to the state in 1889.
That year he took up the homestead
where he resided until his death. He
was born in Ireland.
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| Kansas Homesteader Dead.-WU.
liam Armstrong, who pre-empted =
claim near Topeka in 1856. when To
peka was composed mostly of tents
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