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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Miss Vallle Utterback is spending
the week in New London.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

See the new hats at Hanly &
Greens.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

An eleven pound son has arrived
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs Howard
Spalding.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

James Martin and wife are spend
ing the week in Hannibal with her
sister, Mrs. Ryan.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Mrs. Mike Ma dden spent part of
the week in Quincy with her broth
er, Isadore Thomas and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

q Many successful real
estate dealers have
taken their first lesson
in buying, selling,
value and market,
from the Classified
page.
q The owner dver-
tised property is
usually sold, worth
the money" and no
agents commission
to pay.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Balmacaans for boys and men at
Hanly & Green's.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Mrs P. Seers, of St. Louis arrived
Monday to visit Miss Della Ryan.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

L. D. Cort and wife, of Palmyra
spent Sunday with her parents Jos
Smith and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Miss Anna Finks, of Quincy visit
ed her parents, j. H. Finks and wife
from Saturday until Monday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

10 a. IN. DeVOtl0nal kew. Fr. FOX
Song Indian Creek School
Address of Welcome
j. T. Spnlding.
CD Duties Of school boards
to their school and teach
er" Jno. F. Pike, Miss
Vivian Clark.
(2) why and how should
teachers improve pro-
fessionally?" C. c. Bibb,
General discussion.
90 Should school work be
discussed by patrons and
children at home? If so
to what extent and how?
l.. B. Hickman, Miss Dol.
lie Hickman.
(Q Requirements for an ap-
proved rural school and
what it means to the dis.
trict." Mrs. Zanna Cough.
80 Some ways our country
children can have the
same or better advant-
AGES than our town chill
dren." Miss Ruby Um-
stattd
(6) Summary of the above
topics" County Supt. of
Schools.
Noon.
IS p. m. Songs and recitations
from the other schools of
the Townships.
CD The value of the news
paper in our teaching
work" Miss Elma Elam..
General discussion.
90 Some improvements this
school needs. Miss Effie
L. Beals, Mrs. Dial Spald
ing, Jas. Lawrence. Cen
eral discussion.
(0 The social side of an ed.
ucation." Supt. j. L. Car
ter.
QO The organization of read
ing or social clubs. Leo
BOarman, Fred Hardesty.
QD Comparison of the coun-
try school with the coun-
try home, has the school
kept pace with the home?
Miss Myrtle Threlkeld,
Miss Ruth Mitchell.
Q2) Some subjects that might
be placed in the common
school course and some
that might be left out"
Miss Zilpha Lasley.
13) Query Box" Conduct
ed Supt. of Schools.
VIM. Leo Boarman, President.
Effie L. .Beals, Secretary.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Mesdames Robert and Roy B.
Meriwether were Quincy visitors
Monday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Mrs. Frank Abbott spent yester-
day with relatives in Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Hanly & Green's the young mems
store.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Come in early and look at Hanly
& Green's overcoats. y
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

B.F. Carrico went to Hannibal
Tuesday,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Miss Goldie Stewart returned to
Mt. Zion yesterday after spending a
week in C. T. Griffith's home.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Mrs. j. R. Green of Sturgeon and
daughter Mrs. Guy Motley of Mexi-
co have been guests of friends in
this city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

j. R. Leake and wife spent Sun
day in Hunnewell.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Miss Lucille Hord spent Monday
in Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

Miss Carrie Hampton was a Han
nibal visitor Friday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

UHudy WIFI reIdtIVeS IN Clarence.
Mr.. and Mrs Virgil Sherman
and son, Abbott, of Hannibal spent
Sunday in this city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

o. E Maddox is here from Seattle
Wash, visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. S. Maddox. He is much
pleased with the west.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08

i Mrs. Frank Thomas and Mrs
Adams returned Monday from a
two weeks visit in Ottawa, Ill.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-10-08
Broken Bones.

Sunday evening Master Edgar
Guilford, six year old son of DR.. and
Mrs. Guiford fell off a horse and
broke both bones of the right fore
arm.
While see saving at school Mon
day, Victor, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Lesson fell and broke his arm
in the elbow.
Both little fellows are getting
along nicely.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

Second, the adoption OF war resolutions by
the Senate, in session assembled on the morn.
Ing OF April %, at 1921 O'clock Washington
d. CO time. And add to these the Important
fact that the Mexicans fired the first shot.
We have not forgotten that old axiom, "Who.
ever fires the first shot loses the battle" So
far IN the wars Of history, this axiom has held
good. And it will hold good in the present
crisis also. The United States Will win, but it
WIN not take them three years, nor even two
years, to accomplish It,
Many dangers that are feared in connection
with the campaign in Mexico, especially those
relating to sickness. yellow fever, ETC., are
denied by the stars.
Now, let us see just what the positions of the
planets upon the invasion OF Vera Cruz foretell.
from an astrological viewpoint
Mercury and the Sun in the ninth division
are very significant in more than one respect.
viz:
J. Mercury shows desire on the part ~of
the President to be too generous and lenient IN
dealing with the common enemy, and also n
tendency to unnecessary reasoning. The Sun
shows him TO be too ambitious but never able
TO realize the full extent of his most Cherished
deSires-without great risk to his own welfare
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14
What the Stars Predict for

NNE of the most difficult problems that has
I ever been presented to the citizens of
the United States to solve is the present
crisis In Mexico. No man, from the shrewdest
expert on tactics and methods down to
the humblest citizen, can say for certainty
just how and when this affair of honor" will
end.
There are numberless opinions which at pres
ent can only be regarded in the light OF plausi-
BILE theories, any one Of which may be accurate
No doubt the main cause Of the differences OF
opinion lies in the fact that the tendency to.
ward indecision and inconsistency seems to be-
and is, very marked in the conduct and man.
agement OF the trouble by some Of the officials
at the Capitol in Washington. d. c.
Talk about a three years bloody siege" Is
not borne out by the testimony of the stars, and
the ifs and why's" and Il told you So" etc,
ETC., can have no place or consideration in the
premises.
As basis for planetary deductions we have
Two very remarkable and important events
VIA; First. the invasion of Vera Cruz, on the
2ist of April at 30 O'Clock, noon Mexico
time). by sailors and marines from the United
States battleshps.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

known as the bacillus pyocyaneus.
the source OF dangerous and intract-
able surgical infections.
The diseases In which the fly is i'm
plicated as dissemination make O con-
siderable list:-Summer complaint,
typhoid fever. cholera. surgical infec.
lions. tuberculosis, plague, anthrax,
hookworm and yaws nm epidemic dis
ease which produces a staggering,
drunken gait.
The hospital superintendent and
housewife should be provided with
more scientific assistance in their
fight against this minute, active and
numberless foe, and 1t Is possible that
science has at last handed them an
effective weapon. Flies are subject
to fungus disease; when infected
the threads of the fungus grow
through and through their bodies and
they soon die. This disease usually
attacks fow files late in the Fall,
when II Is not uncommon TO see a
dead fly furred with a whitish down,
adherinC TO the wall or window glass.
with halo Of the fungus growth ray
In" our from the body of the glass.
Two English physicians. DR.. Edgar
Hesse. of Brunswick Park, and Dr..
Monckton-Copcman, of the London
Local Government Board, have been
investigating this fungus, which is so
fatal to flies that II one fly is inocu-
lated and set free an epidemic is
spread among the flies and they die
by the thousands. They have discov-
cred how to grow the fungus on gela.
tine. and inoculate the flies by
scratching them lightly with q needle
which has been dipped In a culture
OF the mold. Then the flies are liber-
ated. An epidemic results which
amounts to total humiliation. The
mold Is harmless to man and verte-
brate animals.
The fIy-killing fungus appears
spontaneously during the damp. cold
days Of Autumn, and Is the solution
OF the old question,
Where do all the
flies go?" These
English investigat. ,<
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

and prestige-as his power f,
Giles and difficulties of polite,
Danger of mourning the ang,
most intimate friends is also
2. Saturn, In the eleventh
square to the moon, suggest
very feeble in presence OF rea
covetous and changeable In
IN zeal. 1t also indicates mr.
for peace.
3. Uranus. in the seventh ,
tain indication Of war. JuDite
modify somewhat the chnncs
conflict. But, then, Jupiter Il
domain Of Uranus, hence his
VIII not last. His Square asr
notes scandal, disgrace, loss
fdence to the extent that h
forced to a head DESPITE n
power OF peace advocates. !
about startling developments,
a. Cauda, "The Dragons Ia,
division, is an irrefutable ind
OF funds-or, In other words.
graft.
s. Mars and Neptune In co,
twelfth division (house of i'm,
Nifty imprisonment TO Cara
both; while the moon, IN the ..
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

- VERY day brings some new
= proof of the infinite harm done
TO human health and happiness
by tiny insect carriers of disease.
People were still wondering ut the
surprising discovery that the mos
quito was the sole cause of malaria
when science proved that the COM
mon house fly. which swarms around
us every Summer. was far more dead
~ even than the mosquito. 1t was
shown that the common house fly
was the usual carrier OF typhoid and
other contagious intestinal diseases
and of the puS bacillus that makes
wounds dangerous. Now 1t has been
proved that the house fly is one Of
the commouest. possibly the chief,
carrier Of the deadly germs Of tuber-
culosiS. Still other crimes are likely
to be proved against the house fly.
At the present moment experiments
are going on which indicate that the
house fly is the agent that spreads
hook worm, the disease that wrecks
SO many lives in the South.
swat that nyi" is perhaps the
greatest civic duty that imposes itself
WI every NOW 10 luC ltuic
to remember it, 1t is necessary TO
save the lives of your children, your
wife. your neighbors and yourself.
There Is no danger that threatens
the health OF everybody rs terribly
Us the house fly If 1t were not for
dirt and house flies, contagious and
infectious diseases would almost
cease to exist In the northern United
States. The dirt furnishes the bTeed-
ing place for the germs and the flies
convey them to human beings. The
house ny does not, like the mosquito
and some other insects, make spe-
cialty of transmitting the germ OF
one disease. but 1t Is ever ready with
its filthy. sticky feet to carry the
germs o. every disease.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

mer complaint, but recent research
warrants the assertion that none Of
those diseases could possibly have
claimed the death-toll they did hut
for the activity OF the ordinary house
fly.
IL all the windows are tightly
screened and garbage cans kept clean
the fly nuisance can be largely guard
ed against. But the most important
protective measure Is to kill the early
flies before they have a chance to
multiply. The first flies Of the Spring
are those which have ABBREVIATED dur
ing the Winter In warm dark cracks
and crevices The female fly energies
from her Winter hiding place ready
to lay 100 eggs in the first sufficiently
filthy repository she cnn find. Twenty
generations or more may be the off.
season. IL all the eggs Matched and
all the flies lived the possible result
would be literally octillions Of flies.
But even such conservative scient-
list as DR.. Howard calculates the
actual annual average progeny OF
single pair OF flies at about $1,000 900.
Every fly killed before the first OF
June Is worth thousands slaughtered
In July and millions in September.
Although the mosquito has been
more attacked than the house-fly, It
is still necessary to keep up the war
on this pest. The mosquito Is n walk
Ing arsenal and among its chest Of
tools 1t keeps n poisoned stiletto. The
beak OF the mosquito opens to view
two little lances. two little saws,
hypodermic needle which may be
charged with poi
son, and suction :;
pump for abstract.
ing your blood. or
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

Other recent discoveries prove that
the bed-bug is one Of the most active
agents III carrying deadly diseases.
This has been shown to be one OF
the agents that convey bubonic
plague. leprosy and tuberculosis. Ex-
periments now going on indicate that
this filthy pest has at least a share In
transmitting that dreadful disease
infantile paralysis, which medical
science has had no success In con.
qucring.
Twelve kinds OF insects have been
positively identified as active car
riers. guilty Of transmitting the
germs OF diseases to their human
host while supping on his blood.
They have been caught In the act Of
injecting man and caught with the
goods on them" In the shane OF
colonies of disease germs. breeding in
their stomachs or saliyary glands.
The list Of them is given in the &C.
comDnnying table.
The insects which suck blood and
deliver these slabs in the dark are
known as the active cerriers OF dis
ease. The mosquito which trans
mits malaria and the variety which
carries yellow fever are good exam
piles Of active carriers, ms the germs
multiply and remain in their bodies.
There are insects which do not prey
on man. but mechanically transmit
disease germs by breeding or feeding
on filth and then frequenting the
pantry. dairy or mess room where
food supplies are exposed. The house
fly Is tine most noted member Of this
passive class OF carriers, though cock
reaches or nny small domestic YER
min may act In that capacity.
The common housefly is n passive
and possibly on active carrier Of dis
case. 1t was long supposed to convey
the germs only by accident and was
convicted Of this net during the
typhoid endemic of the Spanish
American War. for flies whitened by
lime from the latrines were seen on
the food In the mess tents. The IN
vostigators Of the London Local
Government Board. however have re-
Gently found that flies fed on In
fected sDutum or other disease pro-
ducng matter regurgitate germs
from their crop when endeavorlng to
soften hard foods. snch as sugar, on
Which they propose dining.
The fly was found to be not only
grave. danger in medicine but a
menace In surgery. The writer In
1902 conducted a series Of expert.
ments which proved
that iiies having &C.
cess to surgical
dressings in hosni-
tai transmitted the ~
bacillus OF green -
pus. 9th erwiso
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

The biting mosquito injccts small
amount of Its saliva into the wound
II makes for the supposed purpose
of protecting its own life by prevent.
ing the blood from CLOTHING and clog
Sing up the hollow tube through
which it drinks. The hypodcrmic
needle leads from the salivary glands
and through this II pourS the saIivarv
secretion, together with number OF
infectious germs into the wound.
Malaria was the curse of the from.
tierSmen in the development of this
country. The disease was most prey.
alcnt along the rich flood valleys
of the rivers and caused high NOR
tally. An Indiana physician told the
writer that when he secured an
autopsy on tho body of one Of the
victims OF that very malignant form
OF the disease he invariably found
that the spleen was r,iptured from VIC
lent congestion. but he found nothing
which told him of the real cause Of
the disease. Tho disease was sun.
posed to be occasioned by miasm
which Travelled on the air OF night
Quinine WAS the only antidOte. It was
Soid by the ounce in the country
stores, taken In doses of one teaspoon
Iul, and sometimes kept on the table
like Il condimcnt.
Then came the recent discovery
That the cause of malaria was
parasite, composed Of little more than
an uniformed mass of protoplasm.
which WAS transmitted from man to
man by the bite of mosquito. Tho
maiarial mosquito usually flies nj
night, When feeding on an infected
human being, it would suck up and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

ordered test tubes or the fungus Tor
trial on the house flies of America.
there Is some hope that the present
year will prove an unlucky one for
flies.
In the past ten years over 10000
persons in New York City alone have
died from diseases which 1t has been
concluSively proven may be trans
mitted by flies. This is one-fifth OF
the total mortality in the city during
that period.
In the records Of the Health De-
partment, the cause OF death In those
10000 cases was variously given as
tuberculosis. typhoid fever and Sum.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14


DR.. Ross, an Engilshman, after five
years work. was able to demonstrate
that fertilization of the malarlal
germs took place In the stomach OF
the mosquito, with the formation OF
an enormous number of daughter
germs When conjugation OF the male
and female element Of the plasmodlum
took place. n cyst formed, from which
later as many as 10000 OF the daugh-
ter germs were released, to pour down
the ducts Of the salivary glands OF
the mosquito. and be injected into
the blood Of the next man bitten.
Just lately II has been found by
Italian investigators that the insec-
t'vorous bat IS also carrier OF the
malaria germ. an unpleasant sequel
OF ita favorite diet. the mosquito.
One stage Of the life cycle OF the
germ Is said to take place in the bat
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-14

CHOW I e Y g +,
which Ia transmit
ted from man to
man. by the agen-
cy OF n mosquito. ia
an epidemic disease
OF loT i GA stall
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-12
PERSONNEL OF fEDER-
AL LEAGUE CLUB AT
P|TTSBURCANNOUNCED

Pittsburgh, Pa, March 11.-William
Mccullough, business manager of the
Pittsburgh Federal League Club, to-
day gave out the names of the play
ers who have been signed to play with
Pittsburgh the coming season. They
will leave for the training camp at
Lynchburg tomorrow. The list fol-
lows:
Catchers-Claude Berry. Portland.
Ore; c. ]. Fullmer. Texas League;
John J. Kerr, Of Baltimore Interna-
tionals, drafted by New York Ameri-
cans; Edward Roberts, last year with
the st. Louis Americans.
Pitchers-Elmer Knetzer, Pitts
burgh; Tom Roberts, Galveston, Tex;
Willie Adams, part Of last season with
ST. Louis Americans: George LeClair,
Montreal; Howard Camnitz. Phila-
delphia Nationals, and Pirates; Cy
Barger, Newark International League;
Harry Hedgepeth, in Virginia State
League last year. drafted by the Wash
ington Americans, Edward Hender-
son, with Lowell, last year, drafted by
Boston Americans; Henry Law, semi
professional of Lloydell; Walter Dick
son, last year with Boston Nationals;
Fred Blanding, last year with Cleve-
land Americans.
Infielders-Hugh Bradley, first base
man. Jersey City International
League; Cy Rheams, of Indiana Nor
NAL; Jack Lewis, Pittsburgh; Allen
Morgan, Montreali Eddie Hooper.
Trf state League; Eddie Lennox,
Montreal: Charles Mcdonald, Boston
Nationals part of last season.
outfielders- Manager -Gessler, for
merly with Washington Americans;
Davy Jones, last year with Detroit and
Toledo; Ralph Maths. Virginia State
League drafted by the st. Louis
Americans; j. H. Savage, New YORK
state League; Rebel Oakes. st. Louis
Nationals; Bill Holden, New YORK
Americans Mike Menosky. Pitts
ht,rqh
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-12
Keen Competition Among JineIers.

Keen Competition Among JingIers.
From my comfortable home ingle / re-
joice to send my jingle,
Where Augusta merchants mingle, Jenny
Wren;
On your page you group such merit tbs
joy to those who share It,
When we miss we grin and bear it, try
again.
Another busy week for Jennie Wren.
And the Journal ventures to say that
next Saturdays back page will compete
very favorably with the front for atten-
ton.
AS the contest progresses it develops
very keen competition and jingles con-
stantly increase in merit. Advertising
points should not be forgotten. Best"
fine and greatest are useful words
but they have altogether too many calls
to service. Select the words that give
the reader the most knowledge and take
from him the least time. Thoroughly
seasoned hickory" conveys more infor-
nation than best material Specific
facts are better than general claims. An
swer to yourself why it is best fine"
and put the reason down instead Don't
feel discouraged il your jingle hasn't
been accepted. Here Is consolation in
this verse:
TO DISAPPOINTED JINGLERS.
S'pose they didn't print your jingles-
wear grin;
Just write another batch-send 'em in.
Don't go mumpin' 'round-try ag'in.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-12
FISHING INDUSTRY
AT NANTUCKET HAS
EXPERIENCED BOOM

Nantucket, Mass, March 11.-Not
since the decline of whaling half a
century ago have Nantucketers OBJ
tanned so muih wealth from the sea as
during the past four months, princ1-
pally from the unusually extensive and
prolific bed of quahogs discovered OIL
the north shore by Sam Jackson.
Great stores of Goldfish have been
caught off Siasconset and scallopins
has been very successful in the harbor
off Wauwinet.
AS the bed is just outside the three
mile limit fishing smacks from New
Bedford, Newport, Noank, Conn, and
even New London, have fiocked to
Nantucket for the harvest, bringing
with them modern dredging appliances
that have revolutionized the industry.
The docking facilities of the harbor
have proved too small for the unload
ing and shipment of the shell fish.
Many of the islanders left for Bos-
ton today to attend an automobile
hearing tomorrow at the State House
when a bill giving local option on gov
erning motor vehicles will be before.
the committee on roads and bridges
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-12
Confer to Build
Egyptian Dam

Washington, March 1.-Hugh l.. Cooper,
the engineer who built the Keokuk power
dam across the Mississippi and who has
been chosen as a consulting engineer for
the Egyptian government in the construc-
ton of a new hydro-electric dam across
the Nile, was selected for the post by Sir
Ralph Wilcox, supervising engineer OF the
nous Assouan dam, when he was recent
ly in the United States and saw Cooper's
work at Keokuk.
Government inspectors who watched
closely the work on the Keokuk dam pro-
nounced it the finest structure of it's kind
in the world. Mr.. Cooper's speciality has
been the direction of long dams of small
heads. and as that Is the problem pre-
sented to the engineers seeking to con-
troll the waters of the Nile, 1t is assumed
that it was this deputation that led to his
selection by the Egyptian government.