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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07
DRINKING WATER FOR THE
GENERAL PUBLIC ON TRAINS
Interesting Paper lead BY Cr. A. J. MCDANIEL
5efore Memoers Of the FortnightIy Club.

bacteria and many other deleterious
INSTANCES, or he can buy distilled
CT, other waters, of known parity. But
the passenger on the train is entirely
1T the r Grey of the railway company.
He must take what water is in the
coach or go dry. And usually, on
ccount Of heat and Dust Of travel,
he will make many trip to the water
cooler, even when he has grave doubts
f the purity of it's contents. Hav-
'rg thu2 the health and comfort OF
The passengers entirely at their mer.
cy, it is the duty of the railway com
TO supply an absolutely pure drink
ing water
That railway companies are making
IN honest attempt, and accomplishing
much along this line, you will agree
with me when I have given You the
results of my study Of this sub
iect. That much yet remains to 'c
done you will also agree, although
YOU may not all reach the same con
''l1sion have reached in the matter.
While collecting material for this
Taper I correspondent with every state
health officer in the United States
ard also with the division superin-
tendents Of Eve Of the large railway
ey tens, the 500. Northern Pacific
Milwaukee, Rock Island, and the Bal
'imore and Ohio, and I want to ex--
rrcss my sincere appreciation of the
;,inr'ress Wit which my requests
FOR information were received.
To the division superintendent
addressed the following list Of que
tons:
I. What is the source Of supply for
drinking water for the trains on your
division? Surface wells? Artesian
Wells. nlFcIS: b0kc: opl
2. Is the water filtered? Has it
ever been analysed? Is It examined
regularly for impurities?
3. What is the source Of the ice
used? Lake or river? 1s it known to
be free from impurities? Is ice put
directly into the drinking water?
4. How often are the water cool
ers cleaned out? Are they scaldet
at such times?
5. Does the railway company fur
nish pubIl> drinking cups on TIN
trains?
The great majority responded
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

have forbidden the use of the public
drinking cup. These states are
Idaho Kansas Louisiana, Ntissts+ pDi,
Oklahoma, Or, gon, Vermont and Wis
ronsin; while the boards Of health in
eleven states, North Dakota, Tenne
see, Iowa, California, Michigan, Penn
sylvania, Maine, Alabama, North
Carolina, Connecticut, and Utah. have
all taken a stand against his nufs-
an,e, and havI been educating their
people 10 its dangers, although they
have not as yet issued any order pro-
hibiting its use. There are also
cities throughout the United States
who's boards of health have abolish
ed this nuisance.
This leaves tWenty~four states or
fifty per cent whose legislatures and
boards of health have as yet given
the subject no attention.
We have become so accustomed TO
the idea that whatever is customary
IS safe, that very little thought has
been given to this convenient little
article as a menace to health, and
those '"ho have given the subject
any study have been amazed at the
results obtained. In St. Paul and
several other cities the boards OF
health have given this matter care
ful study and their results have been
given wide publicity, so I will not
take the time to repeat any of their
findings, but will simply give you
here the results Of some experiments
which 7 made. with the assistance
of Leon V. Parker, A. p, of the Pub
lie Health laboratory Of North Da-
kota who gave a great deal Of his
time to the working out of these
experiments
The cups we examined were in use
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-07

verse in our drinking water?
The state and city boards of health
are doing a noble work in the proven.
tioa Of disease, by purifying and pro
teSttnE our water supplies, and the
railway companies owe it to their pa
trons to be we'll to the front In this
line OF preventive medicine.
When one Is at home he is, in \
sense, Independent of the local con-
ditions. If the water supply is impure,
he can boil it, anu 80 get rid Of all
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-05
CITY NEWS.
Educator waters at 1mmegart's.

Educator waters at Immegart's.
Big amateur contest tonight at
the Airdome.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. George voss
on the Johnson street road. last Sat
|urday, an eight pound boy.
See Coburn and Pearson, those
funny folks, now at the Airdome.
How to build city is shown In
the ad of Keokuk's three big laundries.
Read 1t on page of this issue It's
ia good thing to remember.
Regular meeting OF Puckechetuck
lodge No. 43, tonight at /. o. o. F.
hail Installation o, officers. A full
attendance desired. Roy Pemberton,
N. G.. Geo. Immegart, P. S.
See our swell line OF fly nets
Sherwood, 703 Main.
Mrs. Susan Ford, former resi-
dent Of this city, and who will be re-
membered by the older citizens. was
buried last Thursday at her home in
Boonton, New Jersey. Mrs. Ford
leaves a number of relatives here.
Ferndell salad dressing. Imme-
CARTS.
Keokuk was host to several thous-
and people yesterday, brought here by
excursions. The dam was, OF course,
the great object of interest, but many
of the visitors took In the ball games
and Rand park. The latter place was
thronged with people looking for a
breathing spot and hundreds took a
lunch and spent the day there.
oh! Have choice roast OF
spring lamb, beef. or veal for Sunday
dinner from JOS Haubert's market,
709 Main. Both phones.
Have you seen Cora, now at the
Airdome?
Its an elegant line Of fly nets
Sherwood is showing.
Miss Eva Williams. Of this city,
sailed last Saturday for Lyons. France,
where she goes to visit her brother,
Paul Williams, a Keokuk man. now in
charge of an American company's
business in Lyons. Miss Williams
has been in. charge OF history at the
Mt Pleasant high school, and was
the valedictorian of the class OF '73,
Keokuk high school.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-05
ATTENTION KNIGHTS TEMPLAR!
JOINT MASONIC MEETING.

All Damascus Commandery mem
bers are urgently requested to be
present this evening at joint meeting
of all Masonic bodies to consider
building matter.
H. C. BROWN, E. C.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-08

ZEN of I'VE should
 A othng this only affair wrecked Phoenix greater
 yonp beginning Saturday you'll face to face with the so.
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

The man who knows
good shoe when he sees
appreciates these ne,
Selz shoes we are show
ing for this season.
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31
MI-O-NA
STSMACH TABLETS
Danish Dyspepsia And Keep Stomach
In Good Condition.

No matter how long you have suf-
fered from a miserable upset stomach,
Indigestion or gastritis, MONA will
end your troubles or The Owl Drug
store will refund your money.
This same offer applies to distress
after eating, gas, food fermentation,
heaviness, sourness, sea or car sick
ness and vomiting of pregnancy.
No matter what ails your stomach,
put your faith in MONA Stomach
Tablets, a prescription that succeeds
after all others fail. Large box so
cents America over Free trial treat.
ment from Booths MI-O-NA, Buffalo,
N. Y. A postal request will do. Cad
vertisement.)
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31
Let Us Nor Desb1se
the H0meAesS Child

they too, became pals" as the boy
told it and after having completed his
school work in the town in which they
lived he worked his way through Yale
ana when he finished his college
course he did not stop working, He
became Presbyterian preacher and
missionary in the northwest and
wound up by working himself into
the chair of the state as governor of
Alaska.
Another boy in the same crowd.
was Andy Burke. He too. was a hust-
ler' Nature compensated him for
what she had denied him in mother
ly care He presevered until he. too.
became a governor of North Dakota.
Thomas w. Waller. formerly gov.
ernor OF the state of Connecticut. was
left an orphan at the age of o When
a boy on the streets selling news.pap-
ers he was picked up by Mr.. Waller.
who adopted him and allowed him to
assume the family name.
The best Interpreter of the Bible
today is Kitto, or most men regard
him so at least, and he was reared in
a workhouse.
FIFTY years ago a baby girl was
picked up on the streets of Mont
real She became the adopted child
in the home of a prominent family
named Stephens, whose pity she had
excited. She became Alice Stephens
and when Lord Mount Stephens went
TO England, having served as presi-
dent of the Canadian Pacific rail
road, Alice went with him. BY this
time people had almost forgot the
/ mystery connected with the desertion
OF the child by her own parents. In
London Stephens was elevated to the
peerage. He lived in a magnificent
mansion, II Carlton Terrace, in Mil
| lionaire Road.
Alice Stephens was the belle of the
season. She was so fair of face
spirituelle and ethereally beautiful
that the people called her "Our Lady
OF the Shows" never dreaming that
the fanciful title was a fitting one foI
the little babe who had been aban
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31
BANKRUPT NOTICE.

In the District Court of the United
States for the Southern Division of
the Southern District of Mississippi.
In the matter of
r. D. Batson,
In Bankruptcy,
No. 26S.
Notice is hereby given all creditors
of said bankrupt that he has applied
for a discharge from all debts against
him and that hearing be had upon
the same at Biloxi, Miss on
9TH of November, 1912.
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,
and that all creditors and persons in
interest may appear at said time and
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

doned in the SHOWS of a Canadian
winter.
The little girl was to share the
golden apple from the tree of fortune.
She married Lord Iddsleigh, son of
Sir Staffor the Earl of Northcote,
who in short time succeeded to the
title. She was created Lady Of the
Imperial Order of the Crown Of In
dia and today she presides with grace
and dignity over the destinies of the
united colonies of the Australian
commonwealth as the wife of Earl of
Northcote, the governor-general of the
great southland.
Let us not dispise the homeless
child that walks the streets of our
towns and citits of our fair state, for
from the streets and garrets, from the
poorhouse and doorsteps have come
men and women who by nobility of
their lives and by worthy actions have
adorned the brows of humanity with
laurels of real merit which shall keep
green for generations to behold.
Instead of neglecting the poor boys
and girls to vice and starving them
into sin, let us extend the hand of
help, say the kind word and give
them their chance. They may become
men and women of might.
The Mississippi Children's Home
Finding Society has recently been
organized to do just this work of saw.
ing the homeless and the neglected
children of our state to lives of use
fullness and nobility. ;.
Committee on management in Hat
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

PAY LEss-GET BETTER FRUIT.
Martello's Fruit Store, recently
opened on Main street, just below
the Gem Theater, keeps larger
stock of delicious fruits and confec-
tions and charges much less than
others ask. Fresh oysters on the
shell and vegetables too. If you want
the best and want to pay less, call at
Martello's
feb 1 (Advertisement)
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

Here is story of some of the de.
pendent children who have made good
because they We're given their
chance:
A train pulled into Upton, Ind.
with several homeless children on
board attended by good woman in
terested in them, and in the homes
which had been opened to them. Judge
Green met the train, for he had said
that he would take a child and rear
it in his home as his own. He said
81 want the raggedest ugliest and
dirtiest one of the bunch"
Johnny Brady stepped forth and
said, 81 think I will fill the bill" He
did not know his age, who his folks
were or anything about his antece-
dents. A longshoreman, named Brady
had given him his name he said. and
thought he might have been his dad. ="
at any rate they had been pals until
he told him he was old enough to
shuttle for himself.
Judge Green took the youngster
home with him and in a short time.
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

place and show cause, if they have
why the prayer of said petitioner
should not be granted.
Witness the Honorable H. c. Niles,
Judge of said Court, and the seal
thereof, at Biloxi, Miss, this the 25th
day of October, A. D., 1912.
L. B. Mosely, Clerk,
By Roy Chlnn D. G.
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

tiesburg consist of the following gen
tlemen.
Victor M. Scanlin, President,
DIR. J. D. Donald, Vice-President
John Tally,
Judge ]. Morgan Stevens,
Thomas M. Ferguson,
Herman Katz,
Jos. j. Stephens,
]. L. Green, superintendent.
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

If you have young children you have
perhaps noticed that disorders of the
stomach are their most common all
ment. To correct this YOU will find
Chamberlains Stomach and Liver
Tablets excellent. They are easy and
pleasant to take, and mild and gentle
in effect. For sale by all dealers.
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

H-4-.-e has done
l9l my daughter.
"Gotolo taking
Jour medicine sh
was al run dow
suffered from pal
in her side, couldn
walk but a short di
tanoe at O time, an
had severe pains i
head and limbs. Shs
came very near ha--
inc nervous Drr~tre.
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31
Homeless Children.

homeless, friendless, helpless chill
dren,
Needing most a mothers care.
Went you look upon with pity?
Let them in your blessing share?
CAhdless homes and homeless chill.
dren,
bash can others wants supply.
GIVE them homes of loving mothers
Homes of laughter, song and glee.
Give thy mite, give golden treasure
Freely as to child thy own;
Give thine heart in loving measure
Help child to find a home
The Hattiesburg news., 1912-10-31

Or. J. Marshall Phillips
oSTEoPATHiC PHYSICIAN
Both Telephones:
Office, 500; Residence. S12.
50l-503 Carter Building
Hattiesburg. Miss.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-29
Tracy City.

Spc7aifO Ihe NeToS.
Rain is the order of the day.
Levi and Morgan Landlord returned
today from Whitwell.
Mrs. Ed Nunley is on the sick list.
Hope she will soon recover. -
John ValhOoser and sons have gone
to Whitwell this week.
Burton Brown called to see Miss Do
"a Dent Sunday.
Mr.. Taylor Shadrick died Friday
| morning, and was buried Saturday on
Orange Hill.
Ed Nunley called at H. L. Browns
Sunday evening.
Well, Mrs. Ida Dykes, l suppose
that stove was O. K. 1t had four eyes
and four legs, ana is a very good cook
ing stove
Mrs. Forest Parmley visited Tom
Smith Friday.
Mrs. George Lawrence visited John
Vanhooser this week.
Baxter Meeks went to Orange Hill
to church Sunday.
Lizzie Nunley is staying with her
brother, Ed Nunley. tbis week.
George Coldwell is recovering from
his burns. Hope he will soon be out
again.
Conner Yates has been out from
Hillsboro this week. He spent one
night with his brother in-law, H. l..
Brown.
Frank Kilgore visited John Vanhoos-
or Sunday.
Wonder what has become of Francis
Shadrick, as we have not seen her in
quite a while.
c. H. Dykes was in Coalmont one
day last week.
Miss Mayme Landlord is all smiles.
l guess she received a letter from
Dunlap.
Miss Lille Dykes visited Miss Nora
Dent Sunday.
Tom Smith and wife visited Mrs
Smiths parents from Saturday until
Monday.
Burton Brown has ordered some
salve to sell. Hope he can sell some
salve to Mrs, Brown for one of those
stove eyes for his dog, for the dog has
only n good eye. Red OK.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-29
Hicks Chapel.

NhesIll 20 nis As.
Cold weather seems TO be the order
of the day. ! thought Spring Was
coming, hut il dom look like IL now,
If it stays this way, our gardening
will be late. People will have to eat
white, pink and butter beans All
spring.
The infant of Mr., and Mrs. Dave
Dempsey died Sunday morning and
was buried Monday at the Hudson
cemetery.
Mrs. Ella Bronson will begin a
school here next Monday week, She
would be glad for all the children
around here to attend.
Byron Graham spent Sunday night
at J, H. Hudson's,
Jack Brimer, of Paramount, has
been visiting homefolks.
Harrison Pickett and Warner Brim-
er were seen hunting the home of Jim
Thomas Sunday.
Mr. ami Mrs. Frank Smith and son
went to Whitwell Friday.
Mrs. Tom Ridge went to Whitwell
Fri'iay shopping.
If You want to see Bob Vaudergrih
smile ask him about a certain girl.
Ask George Vandergriff if old pup
has returned home vet
Wonder why Bryson Brimer's mule
is always hitched up at Mr.. Pickett's
Sun lays,
Will Brock, who has been sick for
sometime, is reported some better.
Ester Vandergriff was all smiles
Sunday, Wonder why.
Jess Wooten and son, Ray, went to
Whitwell Friday
Lark Saynes went to Wbitwell Fri
day. l think he must have got a new
hat as when he went back he had one
On.
A. T. Founders is back in u
midst.
Ask Kay Hudson what makes their
phone ring and watch him smile.
Jim Tygart was seen walking the
pike TUESDAY, with a young lady who
seemed to be his best girl,
Mrs. Jim Holloway is on the sick
list; also Mrs.. w. 7. Levan.
Come on, all you writer's. l like to
read your pieces. Spring Bird.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-29

eled rows he picked for seed only the
ears carrying the characteristics he
wanted to reproduce, planting these in
breeding plots and maintaining care.
full selection, so that in nine years
time he had developed a well settled
type.
The Palm champion ear was the
first winner of the W. K Kellogg Ma
tional Corn Trophy, a handsome silver
and enamel cup made by Tiffany of
New York at a cost of 81, 900. Mr..
Kellogg as the originator and manu-
facturer of Toasted Corn Flakes natur-
ally has a deep interest in the develop
ment of the higher grades of corn, for
the company of which he is president,
the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co ,
requires ten thousand bushels of orn
a day for the making of it's product.
The Kellogg trophy was offered to be
awarded in annual competition for the
best single ear of corn until won
twice by the same producer. The
fact that the Kellogg product is made
only from selected white coin, while
the winning ear was of a pronounced
yellow type, was a peculiar feature.
The Kellogg trophy was won in
1910 at Columbus, Ohio, by r. A.
jam s, of Charleston, ILL.,, with a
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-29
Hobbs Hill.

Special TO the Means.
Rain seems to be the order OF the
ay.
There was a large crowd out to hear
Rev. N. B. Brown preach Sunday.
A crowd of young people met at the
home of Mrs. Rachel Patrick one
night last week, and INDUCED in in
nocent games until a late hour, when
refreshments we're served, after which
they all departed, declaring they had
had a most enjoyable time. Those
present were Misses Clersia, Beulah
and Clara McGovern, Hassie Cleek,
Ethel Gross, Nora and Eva McGoeern,
Viola and Tim Ham, ton, Pauline and
Eda Mae Brown, jamie and Ella Har-
ris and Josie Patrick and Messrs Rob-
ert and John Cleek, John McGovern,
Will Brown, Henry Roberts, Primes
Hampton, Charlie Adams, James Hen
derson, Price and Eek Garden, and
Charlie and Isham Patrick,
Miss Eva Parson called on Mamie
and Helen Mae Tucker Sunday after
noon.
If you want to see Hilda Grace
Nunley smile ask her who did she see
Sunday.
Herbert Brown, of Coalmont, has
been visiting his mother at this place.
Come on. sold Sox," we like to
read your pieces.
Mrs. J. l.. McGovern spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. John Con-
ry, of Monteagle.
Dock Fults and s. G. Crisp spent
Sunday with Rev. N. b. Brown.
Mrs Nancy McGovern and Thursia
Nunley visited Mrs, 1. Fl. Tucker
Monday.
T. A. Womack and son, Eddie, r
in our community this week.
Our quarterly meeting will be held
at the church Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. W. H. Johnston, our presiding
elder, will preach Saturday, and Bro.
Keathly, the pastor of the church in
will preach Sunday,
John Kirk and son, Will, were seen
ON our streets Monday.
Jim Newsom, of Shadrick Hill, pass
ed thru here today, en- route to Tracy.
IS. Charlotte.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-29
Morrison, Tenn.
Special to lite Me7OS.

Special to lite Ne7OS.
The weather still continues unsettled
but warmer and | hope the coolest O.
the winter is over.
Cleve Blackburn and wife visited thu
latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. WesI
Stroud Sunday.
Miss Fam e Wheeler visited Miss
Alice Stroud last Sunday.
Bilbra Parker has bought a team
of mules.
Archie Shong and family are going te
Wisconsin in the near future to make
their home. We wish them success.
Harris Conner has purchased the prop
erGy formerly owned by Claud Rogers,
Mack Stroud has gone to Huntland,
Ala, to visit the family of Tom Stroud.
John Carol has gone near Tulla-
homa to visit his father.
Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Bell and Miss
Cora Conner are in Nashville buying
their spring millinery.
Miss Allie Stroud is on the sick list.
Miss Matte Stroud visited Mrs. En-
ma McAfee n evening last week.
Miss Lillian Northcut of Jones Cross
ing is clerking in Mrs. Anderson's store
during her absence.
sure do enjoy the items from CASA
way. Hope to see something from there
this week.
Mrs. j. w Snipes is said to be much
better.
Charlie Stroud of Crisp, spent the lat
ter part of the week here bird hunting.
Farmers Wife.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-29

weekly average OF S7.3a.
According to social workers who have
made a study Of family budgets, the
minimum requirement in the Tn ted
States for a decent living for 4 family
consisting Of fatIer. mother and three
small children is $3.50 a year / believe
that estimate is much too low, and that
none OF the gentlemen IN this House
would want to live on it. However,
the average wages IN these two highly
~ detected industries are but little more
than half this SUM-.
1t is true that this averages takes in
the wages of children aud Youths. But
on the other hand, 1t also takes in the
wages Of the highly skilled mechanics
and of foremen. Ii is therefore a fair
average; and il shows a wage entirely
inadequate to support a decent standard
of living.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-29

The House being in COMMITTEES Of the Whole
House on the state Of the Union and having
under consideration the bill H. R. ll0l9l To re-
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