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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-09-23
Rats Cost State
Millions Yearly
Board of Health, at Governor
Stuart's Instance, Sug-
sests Methods of
Combating De-
structive Ro-
dents.

Richmond, Va, September
is AT the instance of Cover
nor Stuart, who is deeply inter
ested in the subject from it's eff
iect on agriculture, the State
Board of Health has Just issued
for public distribution Il bulletin
suggesting methods for Kidding
Virginia of the pest of rodents.
In recent conference with
health officers, Governor Stuart
explained that rats in South
west Virginia had become Il
very serious economic problem.
Large field rats, he stated, had
settled IN various sections of
the Southwest and were de-
stroying grain, feed and fowls
to the value of many thousand
dollars
Az the Governors suggestion,
the Board secured the ser. .ces
of an investigator from the
Biological Survey to study con
ditions in Southwest Virginia.
In addition the Board prepared
the new bulletin on the best
methods of eradicating rats and
of the economic loss to the
country every year from ro-
dents. Accepting the usual es
innate of at least one rat for
every human being and the fur
ther estimate of the destruction
of one half cents Of food by
every rat daily, the Board com
puted the cost to Virginia of
rats at something more than
W., 100000 annually, or more
than half the entire revenue of
the State from taxation. This
estimate is considered low by
those who are familiar with
such conditions as Governor
Stuart has found in Southwest
Virginia.
In the Judgment of health
authorities, one of the most inn.
portant steps in combating
rats is To remove all available
food from their reach. Ii is
pointed out that rats will not
be tempted by traps as long ms
other food is more accessible.
Where anti-rat campaigns are
undertaken, the first essential
liz to remove all food from the
reach of rats or to- protect it by
rat-prooing Methods to this
end are suggested in the Board 5
new bulletin.
For lighting the field rats, 10
whose destructive work Gov.
Stuart called attention, fumiga
ton of the burrows is recon-
mended by the Board as most
effective. Where the burrows
are found, a very simple pro-
cess is to soak cotton or waste
with carbon bisulphide, to place
il within the burrows and then
to close the holes with earth.
This generally kills all the rats
in the burrows.
In urging active steps against
rats, the Board points out that
in addition to being serious
economic drain, rats are also
a menace to health in view of
the westward move of bubonic
plague during recent years.
The Board declares, in the
course of its bulletin, that if
plague threatens the Atlantic
seabord, the State will be com
PEELED to exterminate rats at
heavy expense. Every step
that reduces the number of no
dents lessons the danger of the
spread of plague
Copies Of the bulletin are be-
ing sent to all those on the
mailing list of the board and
will be supplied free of cost to
all persons who request them.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-09-23
GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION

Bristol. Tenn. Va. September is.
The sixth annual contention OF ,he South
crn Appalachian Good Roads Association
will be held in this city from October
TO . inclusive This promises to be one
of the most important road conventions
in the history of the south IL is of vital
Importance to all the people of the Appa-
laohian region because II aims At the
greater prosperity and the greater COM
fort Of the masses through system oil
roads that viii bring the town and coun
try folk closer together aud 10 better
understanding of the important fact that
each one is mutually dependent upon the
other in all things that aim at the accom-
piishmcnt Of bei,or living.
This convention viii be OF vital i'm
po'tAncc to all people Interested in such
great through highways of the Bris,ol.to
Memphis highway. the Bristol-to-wash-
ing,on highway the Crcst.of-,hc Blue
Ridge highway, the Bristol Blueheld-to-
Pittsburgh highway, the Bristol.to- Nor
folk highway. the Bristol to Charlotte
highway, the Bristol 10 Lexington high
way and numwous other highways of
special Importance to the masses OF many
counties as = means of bringing them Ia
TO easy connection with the through high
ways mentioned in the foregoing
Within the last eight years over So
900 ,OOOO0 has been appropriated aud
partly spent in the construction Of pike
roads in counties Of upper 'rennessee and
Southwest Virginia In spite of this
great showing, there are gaps to be clos
ed M in almost every county before
the Appalachian highways will be all
that they should be fo the people who
dwell within the bounds of this promis-
ing empire OF agriculture and industry
this Switzerland of America
Every patriotic advocate of good roads
il urged to talk and work for the success
of this great road convention because OF
the fact that 1t means new and more gen-
orally distributed prosperity among ths
masses, a wider comfort aud a new ell
joymcnt OF life The best can only be
accomplished by the cooperation of ali
the people, aud with this thought kept
uppcrmost in every community. the
states interested Ia this road association
should be represented in bristol by sew
crAl thousand delegates Every citizen
is expected to consider himself a delegate
to this convention
Notable speakers are being arranged
for, and the program viii bc announced
later boards OF Trade and other COM
nercial organizations, governors OF states
aud mayors of towns and cities are being
asked to name delegates who have a gen
niine interest in good roads aud who will
come and lend their influence TO the sue
cess of the coming convention, to thc end
that great things may DC accomplished
along the line Of road promotion in every
portion OF this Appalachian region
II IS expected that cities aud towns a.
Tar South As Memphis will send automo-
bile scout parties to the convention
while other parties are expected FROM
towns and cities As far cast AS Washing
ton and Norfolk
Road subjects, such As financing, To-
cation, character OF construction, etc,
are to be discussed by experts
| Ministers Urged to Preach
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-09-23
WAR NEWS

On the Battle Front, Sept.
9-Overpowering fatigue and
privitations resulting from five
days of unre!em,ing struggle
brought about last night u tenn
porary luIl in the combat of the
powerful armies that are face
to face along the rivers Disc.
Aisne and Wocvre. The roar
of cannon, machine guns, and
rifles died down early last even
ing and the presence of two
armies composed probably al
together of 100000 or more
men within touch of an uneven
line and ready TO spring TO a
fatal grip, scarcely could be
conceived so intense was the
stiffness, broken only by an oc
casional vagrant report.
The soldiers of the allies and
the Germans alike were snatch
ing a little rest huddled mp in
strong entertainments. In some
places the trenches were half
filled with water, as equinoc-
tial storms continue.
The French and British, like
the Germans, have cntrenched
and settled down for the stern
fight which threatens to be
even longer and more sanguin-
airy than the battle of the
Marine. Progress is being made
at some points by the allies
but very slowly, and the devel-
opments of the past "a hours
are not important except that
it is officially confirmed that
the Germans have received re-
Inducements from Lorraine.
There were few isolated en-
counters today, but both sides
appear to have abandoned the
rash movements across the
open which marked the early
stages of the war. obviously
the deadly machine guns have
tupuhf Z, lagen,
one of the incidents of yea
terday, when fierce fighting
was awful in its sacrifices, was
widely recounted today.
y British infantry regiment
receiving an order to advance
and take Il German pOsition,
knelt for moment in prayer.
Then the men, knowing their
charge was to be terrible in
cost, sprang to their feet and
with fixed bayonets, clambcred
out of the shelter of the trench.
In short and rapid PUSHES they
advanced in wide open order,
alternately lying down and
then milking another dash of
fifteen yards. From the Ger
man position came the thick
hail of the machine guns. The
attacking soldiers hurrahed and
sang as they pressed forward.
Many fell with cries of deter
mination on their lips. Finally
those who remained of the regi.
Inent reached and took the
German position after a des-
perate hand-to. hand encounter.
This was only one among
many similar acts of courage
and discipline on the part of
the French, British and Ger
mans alike at various points
along the line.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-09-23

If the kings and emperors
would just consent to do the
lighting themselves and leave
their armies out of it, the world
would join hands and yell ego
to itp' o.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-09-23

"Crowns of autumn hats are
high and pert looking is the
word from fashion head
quarters No mention is made
OF the wearers.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-09-23

When Europe threw the mon.
key wrench into the machinery
OF international business it be.
came a second rate continent.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-09-23

FOR SALE Chalmers Au.
tomobile, 1912 model. For par
ticnlara apply to j. b. Eberlian,
London, Ky.-adv. 37-39.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
RELIEF FROM DYSPEPSIA

All conditions ofdepressed vitality tend
TO disturb the processes of digestion.
There is not disturbed condition of life
that may not affect digestion.
Few causes of indigestion are so com.
mon as thin, weak blood. 1t affects di-
rectly and at once the great processes of
nutrition. Not only is the action of the
gastric and intestinal glands diminished
but the muscular action of the stomach
is weakened. Nothing will more prompt
ly restore the digestive efficiency than
good red blood. Without it the normal
activity of the stomach is impossible.
Thin, pale people who complain of in
digestion must improve the condition of
their blood to find relief. The most
active blood builder in such cases is DR..
Williams Pink Pills. They make rich,
red blood which quickly restores the di-
gestive organs to their proper activity and
the first result is hunger. The dyspeptic
who has hated the sight and smell of
food now looks forward tomeal time with
pleasurable anticipation. Care now in
the selection and quantity of food will
put the patient we'll Oh the road to
health. A diet book, "What to Eat and
How to Eat" will be sent free on request
by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Schen-
ectady, N. Y All druggists sell DR.. Will
iams' Pink Pills.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
Hints For Farmers

Don't feed spoiled food to the poul-
try. 1t is poor economy, as they may
become poisoned or contract disease.
Burn all rotted food Immediately.
If you are thinking of putting in an
orchard and don't know how to do
it hire good man to do it for you. A
good orchard IS both profitable and
pleasurable, but a lot of scrub fruit
trees are worse than useless.
Don't forget that all animals need
salt in large quantities. A cake of
rock salt should be kept where all the
animals on the farm can easily reach
it. Or, better still, mix a few spoon
fuls of fine table salt in the feed each
day.
The productive life of the average
hen is only two years. Some hens are
good layers at three and four years,
but these are exceptions to the rule.
AS general thing it will not pay to
keep hen after she is three years
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
Sky Lines

In going from here to Chicago one
passes through hundred and eleven
horizons or sky lines for at but very
few if any Of the places on the road can
you see more than mile ahead. And
so the end of every mile is a skyline CT
the edge of the horizon. If you are
going to see Chicago you must ascend
to very high, uncomfortable and I'M
liveable altitude in the air. So most of
US have to live where our skyline en-
closes very limited physical svision.
But we can help it some by the use of
our imagination. With most people,
busy with the hard, Ypractical fact of
securing living, the imagination is
about the weakest, least used thing
about them. And yet we notice that
in the commonest things Of life it is the
men of imagination who succeed best.
All of the best inventions down to so
common thing as mouse trap or fly
catcher had to come from men who
could see farther and deeper than the
crowd about them into the little things
and their uses they were inventing.
The trouble with the common duties of
life is that we do not use our minds,
our thought, our imaginations in doing
them. Fort Atkinson Union.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
WiSconSin'S .Army
Hunters.

Wisconsin, last season had 100000
licensed game hunters, ranking third
in the country. At this rate our wild
animals and birds will soon be extinct
unless stringent measures are taken
said E. A. Cleasby in an address on
'"The Value of the Mclean Law in
Protecting migrating Birds" at the
Milwaukee Museum recently. Mr..
Cleasby is well versed on the subject
of game protection and spoke interest
ingly to the members of the Sank
County Historical socie ty at their an
NAL summer outing a few weeks ago.
According to the Outdoor World Mag
azine Wisconsin is taking it's working
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
Bunk
ment.

A Hermit their was, and he lived in a
grotto;
Both learning and wisdom had he;
And every one wondered what could be
the motto
That guided existence care-free.
Just why he was wise or learned OF
clever
Because he kept house in a grot
The world never knew. Though it
questioned him ever,
The boar hermit answered them not.
And because this old world is accus-
toned to getting
Whatever it wants for the price,
A hundred-a thousand rich tourists
came fretting
And bribing with chicken and rice.
AS they kowtowed and begged the gray
beard to have pity,
He grabbed up his staff with roar
And sent them all scrampering back to
the city
But they left all their gifts at his
door!
The hermit, obese, for digestion abus-
ed him
Confided at last at deaths door:
'I've lived without labor! Man wants
what's refused him.
Rebuffs make him pay for it more!"
July Lippincott's.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
Thursday

Mrs. G. D. Beech and daughter, Miss
Ruth, have returned from Adams.
Mrs. Paul Harris of Winona
is here for an indefinite time.
Miss Ella andre is a guest at the
home of Miss Rena Parsons in Keiths
burg, Ill.
Harry Hampton is taking short
vacation from his duties at the post
Office,
G. Evenson of GAINESVILLE has come to
visit his son, Charles Evenson, for sew
eral weeks.
The Misses Elizabeth and Mary Fen
berg of Watertown are guests of rela-
tives here.
Mrs. Thomas Polglase and Mrs. Fan
ny Trelaor of North Freedom spent
Tuesday in Baraboo.
Mrs, L. Butler and son of Excelsior
spent short time in Baraboo and re-
turned tuesday afternoon.
L. j. Nc Feeters left Tuesday after
noon for Paulina, Iowa, where he will
spend several weeks.
Miss Anna FRANKIE of Ableman is a
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Gustin, Third avenue and Birch
street
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Smalley ard
children returned Tuesday afternoon to
their home in Adams after visit in
Baraboo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lumsden and son re-
turned Tuesday afternoon to Kendall
after visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Grin S.
Butterfeld.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Rodems of Chi
cago visited short time at the home
of the formers brother. A. M. Rodems,
of the Fruit store, and went to Devils
Lake Tuesday to spend few days. Upon
their return they will reside in Baraboo.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Baum
garth, daughter, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Gall of Ableman
spent Tuesday here with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Erickson and daugh-
ter, Clara, returned Tuesdsy from a
visit in Winona.
Mrs. Merton Hall and children of
Centerville, Iowa, are guests at the
Nc Arthur homes.
F. c. Peck is in Faulkton, South
Dakota, in the interest of land in that
section.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

Christ Anderson has returned to his
home in Hetland, South Dakota, after a
visit of a week or more with Baraboo
friends @
C. J. lizard, President Of the Erie
r. R. and wife of Chicago, returned to
their home after spending their
vacation at the F. N. Gaskell
home.
Miss Pauline Anderson left Tuesday
afternoon for Eau Claire.
caMrs. J. 81. Owen and son have re-
turned from visit IN Madison.
The Misses Eva and Ruth Tinkham
are in Belvidere for few days visit
with Mrs. Douglas.
Miss Lois Mcmahon, who visited her
aunt, Mrs. Ira Bishop, in Belvidere,
has returned.
Mrs. Mary Ableman went to st. Paul
this morning to visit her daughter, Mrs
Letitia Goetties.
Mrs. M. E. Lewis of Beaver Dam is
in the city for few days. She will
also visit her daughter, Mrs. E. A.
Markee, in LaValle before returning.
Mrs. HI. B. Van Wrinkle and her sis
ter, Mrs. F. R. Rice and daughter of
Huron, South Dakota, are guests of
their aunt, Miss Anna Glennan.
Thomas Finn is spending week with
his mother on Ninth avenue. Mr..
Finn is employed as stenographer in a
railway Office in Chicago.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
Sailing Your Soil

If you knew that it takes nature
10000 years to form foot of soil,
maybe you would have higher
opinion of Mother Earth and be more
careful how you drain your garden or
your field.
If you saw granary full of rat
holes you'd suspect careless farmer.
But field left to wash away by the
unchecked rush of surface water after
downpour is fully as wasteful. The
only difference is that here waste is of
plant food before it gets into the grain.
If your garden or field is on a slope,
terrace it; if on level, plant it, not
in straight rows but in circles. And in
both cases tile-drain it.
For the stuff that washes away is
precisely the stuff that your crops most
need in order to astonish the natives by
their thriftiness.
And, once gone. it is expensive to re-
place.
When you stop to think that every
thing depends on the soil, clearly the
soil is worth saving. Madison Journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

part in the struggle for game conserve
ton and many thousand acres throughout
the state have been donated for the
purpose of affording refugees for the
unprotected and harried game.
Perhaps the most difficult features
to handle in Wisconsin as in many
other states, are the indiscrim1nate
killing of birds by Italian alien labor
ers along the railroads and the influence
of politics in the game warden depart
ment.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
Annual School Board Meet

The annual school board meeting was
held Monday evening and the following
officers elected for the coming year:
President-E. P. McFetridge.
Secretary of the board and clerk of
the high school,. S. Workman.
superintendent. C. Kingsford.
Secretary of superintendent-Mis
Josephine Hollenbeck.
The terms of school were fixed
follows; Fall term, 16 weeks, Monday
August 81, to December Is, 1914. Two
weeks vacation.
Winter term, IL weeks, Jan. 4, to
March 26, 1915. One week vacation.
Spring term, 10 weeks, April 5, to
J11une 1915.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

old
The remedy for sour land is lime and
proper drainage. First drain off all
moisture and allow the soil to become
dry. Then spread ground limestone
rock and as this works down into the
soil you will find all trace of sourness
disappears.
Take care of your plow. When you
are through with your days work
cover the metal parts instead of allow
ing them to remain exposed to the
damp night air and rust until next
morning. When you store your pillow
in the shed rub a little grease of anv
kind over the moldboard, share and
Landslide. This will effectively prevent
rust, and the grease will be rubbed off
as soon as you put the plow in the
ground again.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
HAPPY MOTHERHOOD

Thehappinessofmo motherhood istoooften
checked because the mother s strength is
not equal to her cares, while her unselfsh
devotion neglects her own health.
1t is duty of husband or friend to see
that she gets the pure medicinal nourish
ment in SCOTS Emulsion, which is not
drug or stimu1ant but natures con-
centrated i1-food tonic to enrich and en-
1iven the blood, strengthen the nerves and
aid the appetite. Physicians everywhere
prescribe Scott's Emulsion for over
worked, nervous, tired women; it builds
up and holds up their strength.
Get SCOTS at your nearest drug store.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
caught fire and the boys burned to

caught fire and the boys burned to
death.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grucnman and their
other children were busy about the
house entertai ming the relatives from
Wautoma when the little fellows left
the house. Their absence was not no
ted until the barn was seen to be on
fire and their shrieks called attention to
their situation. AS they had locked
themselves in they could not be res
cued.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16
Boys Cremated in Barn

Sneaking away from the other small
members of their family and visitors,
Arnold Gruchman, 7 year old son of
Gustav Gruchmau, Princeton, this state,
and an 8year old cousin from Wau-
tona, locked themselves into an old
barn Tuesday morning to shoots their
ft4crackers. The loaded hayloft
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

King Georges leniency toward
George Pike, the Buckingham palace in
vader, may have been because he was
also George, or again, merely piker.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

Ex-PresiGent Taft continues to put
his faith in the courts, insisting that
the square deal is not promoted by
trying to cnerce the umpire.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

A head bellboy in Detroit has been
mulcted 81, 600 for breach of promise
Perhaps he'll take a tip to be more
circumspect hereafter.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

Perhaps it will make the tired bust
ness man still more tired to have to
study psychology.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

Huerta drank grape juice for few
days and ever since he has been tryin g
to make up for lost time.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

The Mexican crisis has been bad
thing in many ways, and especially on
the Chautauqua season.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

Perhaps the sorrows of Huerta are
due largely to the fact that he has no
vice-president. Fancy the condition of
this country without Tommy Marshal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

.COD 5 6arsapa. 81 tne meal
, 3 cine Tor impure blood, eruptions,
weakness and go9eral debility - Il
Dositively anG >.oso:uUe'v CURES.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

The farmer in politics exercises great
influence on the nations prospects, but
not so much as the farmer in the wheat
field.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

Some of the Investigations held in the
past have not had even the effect of
satisfying idle curiosity.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

There are two classes of men. One
imposes upon the women, and the
other is imposed upon by women.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

After the coIonel's lecture in London
it will be the British empires own
fault if it goes wrong.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

If some of these new bathing suits
should shrink, but let's change the
subject.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-16

Carranza has not displayed the dis
erection expected of him in nursing some
very promising prospects of popular
itv