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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
SOME CHICK DISEASES
HEAD LICE IN PARTICULAR ARE
SOURCE OF MUCH TROUBLE.
Dust Hen With Insect Powder, Spray
Coops With D~isinfectant and Rub
> Ointment on chicks Head
and Under Wings.

Lice, head lice IN particular, while
hot a disease in themselves, are a fer
tile source of trouble and disease.
They are generally found where the
chicks are Matched by hens, the little
fellows appearing droopy, pale and
with some diarrhea, due to weakness.
Dust the hen with a good lice killer,
spray the coops with d~isinfectant and
rub a little lice ointment ON the
chicks head, under the wings and
around the vent.
While not so prevalent as some
times supposed, white diarrhea" is
q real menace, and here prevention is
the best remedy. Breed from strong,
healthy parent stock and avoid the
long, scrawny, crow headed hen, for
disease is transmitted through the egg.
Keep the incubator dark, feed good
nourishing food, separate suspected
chicks at once and d~isinfect thorough
ly. If trouble is expected use a white
diarrhea remedy in the drinking water
for the first ten days. 1t will save
many chicks, but will not cure the dis
ease or save badly infected ones.
Bowel trouble, due to improper feed
ing, is often mistaken for white diar-
Thea. Don't feed chicks until 48
hours old, but give fine grit and fresh
water from the start. Let the first
feed be finely crumbled boiled egg,
breadcrumbs or a prepared baby chick
food, given dry, or mOistened with
sweet or sour milk. Do not overfeed,
but feed often. Later give a little bit
of fine grains, such as pinhead oats,
cracked wheat or chick size cracked
corn, scattered in the litter to induce
exercise. Beef scrap should not be
given until chicks are at least a week
old. Scald the drinking vessels fire.
quently, give plenty of greens after
the first five days and keep the chicks
exercising and there will ever be any
bowel trouble among the birds.
Leg weakness frequently comes
from lack Of exercise. Chicks appear
healthy, have good appetites, are
bright, but have no use Of their legs.
Give them every opportunity to exer
else, but do not allow them to be-
come chilled. Bottom heat In a
brOoder will cause this trouble. The
heat should always descend on q
chicks back, never upward. Lack Of
bone forming materials in the food,
such as bone or shell meal, also causes
leg weakness, and every properly COM
pounded chick food contains these in
gradients, so, if it doesn't, either add
them or get one that does.
To sum all up, If vigorous, quick
growing chicks are wanted breed from
only the strongest and best Of stock,
disinfect freely, clean up regularly,
feed the best of food, give lots of good
fresh water and use common. sense.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
VALUE OF PlOW AND HARROW
In Purchasing implements for the
Farm Their Construction Should
Be Carefully Studied.
By r. G. WEATHERsTONE)


The value of a pillow or other faI
implement consists Of its doing the
thing we want it to do. The pillow
with a light draft simply turns and
cuts the furTOw with the least resist
ance, resulting in very smooth work
to look upon, but it's effect upon the
soil is not nearly so valuable as that of
the pillow that runs harder and gives
more resistance to the soil and breaks
it up finer. The pillow hat has a
harder draft goes through the soil and
not only breaks it up and turns a fur
row, but in the process it grinds and
pulverizes it into smaller particles.
The more thoroughly the soil Is
broken up, the more the plant food is
made available and plant food is what
we are after. In purchasing plows
we want to study their construction
with this in mind.
The same applies to the selection Of
the harrow. The harrow that has an
easy draft cannot do as good work as
n that moves more soil and ms
deeper. A harrow should do smooth
work and incorporate the vegetable
matter and fertilizers with the soil Ia
a uniform manner
The fuEction Of the harrow is to
still further reduce and refine soil par
ticles, because in every process of re-
finement we are getting at the plant
food which is still 80 abundant in our
soil.
On the average farm where there
are various types of soil, a disk har-
row, a spring tooth harrow and a
smoothing harrow are practical neces-
stiles. 1t is worse than folly for farm
ers to spend for commercial fertilizers
or chemical plant foods until they
have first made use of that which is so
plentiful in their own soil at the pres
ent time.
l am a firm friend OF fertilizers but
l do not believe in buying them until
we have made use Of every method Of
getting at the plant food already con.
tanned in our soils.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04

had no appetite. Since l have taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound the aches and pains are all gone
and / feel like a new woman / cannot
praise your medicine too highly. Mrs.
AUGUSTUS LYON, Terre Hill, Pa
1t is true that nature and a woman's
work has produced the grandest remedy
for woman's ills that the world has
ever known. From the roots and
herbs of the field, Lydia E. Pinkham,
forty years ago, gave to ~womankind
a remedy for their peculiar ills which
has proved more eficacious than any
other combination of drugs ever COM
pounded, and today Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is recognized
from coast to coast as the standard
remedy for woman's ills.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, are files containing hundreds Of
thousands of letters from wom seek
ing health = many Of them openly state
over their own signatures that they have
regained their health by taking Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound;
and in some cases that it has saved them
from surgical operations.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
REMEDY FOR THE WOODCHUCK
Among other Methods Of Extermina-
ton Suggested Is That of a Man
With a Good Rifle.
CBy NJ. W. WILLIAMS, Minnesota.)

By NJ. W. WILLIAMS, Minnesota.)
The woodchuck, or ground hog" Is
80 destructive to gardens in some
counties in this section, that a few
remedial measures may be of interest.
White muslin strips may be tied to
the pea vine supports about a foot
above the ground, at intervals Of about
a foot in the row, to keep the animal
away. Cotton or oakum may be
wrapped arouad a stone soaked in car
bon bi-sulphid, and the mass rolled
into the hole as far as possible. In
order that the fumes may have the
fullest possible effect, close the hole
as tightly as possible. A good marks
man with q rife, stationed where he
can C III q good view Of the infested
Geld, may prove effective. Blasting
powder and along fuse are sometimes
used and 30 u the steel tran.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
SUCCEEDS IN CANADA

An interesting and successful Amert-
can farmer, Lew Palmer, of Staveley,
Alta, passed through the city today.
Mr.. Palmer came from Duluth, MINI,
Just ten years ago. and brought with
him four cows and three horses-and
that was his all. He homesteaded IN
the Staveley district, and today has
$50 acres of land, $4,000 worth Of i'm
plements, "a Percheron horses, made
$1,000 out Of hogs last year, raised
1000 bushels of wheat, 5000 bushels
Of oats, II acres OF potatoes, and Is
tons Of onions. His farm and stock is
worth 100000, and he made 1t all IN
ken
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
ATTACHMENT ON FARM GATE
Discarded Pillow Wheel and Wooden
Axle With Narrow Strip Of Board
Makes Handy Arrangement.

There are a great many different
kinds of gates used on farms through.
out the country, some simple and 9TH
ers complicated. The Farm and Home
describes and illustrates one as ar
ranged by Leslie Beattie Of New York
as follows:
l take an old pillow wheel, fit a wood
Ell axle to it, and bolt it to the bottom
corner Of the gate. Then l take a mar
row strip of board six inches longer
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
Easy Gate to Open.

than height Of gate, and to the bottom
end bolt a short piece which makes it
T-shape. This is bolted to the gate as
shown in the illustration, and serves
as a lock, for the short piece goes be-
tween the spokes in the wheel and
holds the gate either open or closed.
A child can easily open a heavy gate
that has this attachment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
MAKE USE or OLD BICYCLE
Power for an Emery Stone May Be OBJ
tanned by Using Discarded Parts
of VeIocipede.

An old bicycle may be used to fur
nish power for an emery stone. 1t
"a be rugged up on the frame Of an
old grindstone, CT something SINH
lar. The large sprocket and pedals
are placed between the two l by As
Of the grindstone frame, as in the
drawing, the hub, on either side, fitting
into large holes bored into these cross.
pieces, writes Floyd c. Miller of Inola,
Okla, in Farmers Mail and Breeze.
The counter shaft is placed below the
top OF the frame. The mandrel Is
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
Power for Emery Wheel.

raised about 3 inches so the stone will
not rub against the counter shaft. II
there are no bookings handy, good mes
may be made from maple, or other
close grained wood, and babbitted. A
is the emery stone, B the counter
shaft, c small sprocket on the stone
shaft, d large bicycle s~procket, d
sprocket chain, and f the bicycle sad
die.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
Feed Calves In stanchIons.

Calves should be fed in a stanchion
so constructed as to prevent them
from sucking each others ears after
they have drunk their milk. The feed
ing of grain by placing a little before
them after every meal of milk will
also discourage the desire to suck the
ears of the calf In the next stanchion.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
Glad TO SEQ Them Coz

Patience-I see q London railroad
station has been equipped with pen
ny-in-the-slot machines for the sale Of
tickets to persons who wish to &C
company friends to the train plat
forms.
PARTICIPANTS too cheap. l know
I'd give more than a penny to see
some of my friends leave the town.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
MRS. LYONS
kCHESAND PAINS
Have All Gone Since Taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Terre Hill, Pa--"Kindly permit me
10 give you my testimonial in favor Of
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
Proper Pruntnu.

When pruning, have a reason for
every cut made and cut close to thu
limb or trunk. Leave no stubs.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04

NJSo lie A4AAAAAN -
V egetable Com
pound. When l first
began taking it |
was suffering from
female troubles for
some time and had
almost all kinds of
a~ches-pains in low
er part of back and
in sides, and press
ing down pains. l
could not sleep and
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04
For Real SPEEDING.

Pop" said Inquisitive Ignatz, how
fast can a horse go?"
We'll, replied father, "a mile IN
two minutes and four seconds is con-
sidered good speed. Why do you ask"
"Oh, l was just thinking" replied
Ignatz, what a shame it was that
Paul Revere, Tam O%'Shanter, and John
Gilpin didn't have motorcycles"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04

Alfalfa seed E.a Farms or sale on crop pay
nents- J. Mulhall, 500 City, Ia.-AdV
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-06-04

Natural Consequence.
THE wind is rising"
That's because it Is from the
East"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
.L|FElESS BODY
Of infant FOUND
CROWS ARE BECOMING PLAGUE
TO FARMERS OF FREMONT CO.
BOOSTING FOR AN lNTERURBAN
$500 Stolen From Farmer AS He Is
Having Good Time-Seven-Year-
Old Lad Falls From a Moving
Train and Walks To Town.

Fremont, Jan. 20. - The lfeless
body of an infant girl, weighing sew
en- and a half pounds and supposed
to have been dead since birth, was
found in an old abandoned well, two
miles south of here, by two boys out
hunting. The little form was wrap
ped in a pink pinafore and small
comforter with heavy wrapping ma
terial on the outside. DR.. Krout of
this city expressed the opinion that
the body had been in the pit for a
length of time ranging from two to
four weeks. The boys found the
body and wrappings among mass
of rubbish at the bottom of the well
when they lifted the curbing in
search OF a rabbit that had run I'M
der it. County Coroner L. M. Chees-
man of Oskaloosa was Immediately
notified but he left the matter in the
hands of local officers. Little hope
is entertained of obtaining any clue
to the perpetrators of the deed, as
the wrappings gave no evidence of
the owner and the property on which
the well is located has been uninhab-
tied for some time.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
EDDYv|LLE ACTIONS
MRS. LAURA DIBBLE ENTERTAIN
ED BAPTIST AID SOCIETY AT
THE A. STUBER HOME-ONE
HUNDRED WERE PRESENT.

Eddyville, Jan. 19.-The Aid So.
ciety of the Baptist church was very
pleasantly entertained on Thursday
afternoon by Mrs. Laura Dibble at
the A. Stuber home. One hundred
guests were present which is proof OF
the good will and interest which eX'
lists among the church societies. A
short program was given after which
refreshments were served.
Mrs. Williams, OF Givin, was q
guest Thursday of her neice, Mrs
VIM. Lewis.
Mrs. Dolly Elliot, who has been Wis
iting relatives in Eddyville the past
month, left Thursday for her home
In East st. Louis. She was accom-
panied home by her brother, Ernie
Davis.
l.. Gibson has returned to Kansas
City after an extended visit with rel
atives in Eddyville.
A number from Eddyville attended
the Vanderzyl May sale on Thursday
at the VanderZyl farm west of Eddy
vile.
John Bay. of Aurora, H., is visit
ing this week at theparental S. b.
Bay home in Eddyville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fin Bickford went to
White City Thursday to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Bickfords mother
Mrs. Mary Waters.
Andy Baker, of Oskaloosa, was a
business caller in Eddyville Thursday
]. Cornelius came down from
Pella and transacted business in Ed
dyville Thursday.
Mrs. Kate Strong, of Ottumwa, Is
visiting this week at the home of heI
mother, Mrs. w. A. Nye.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Chitwood and
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Chitwood were call
ed TO Oskaloosa Friday by the death
OF the baby OF Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
Chitwood.
| Mrs. Cristie Conwell who has beer
visiting relatives in Eddyville the pas
week went to Christiansburg Friday
1 for short visit before returning tt
her home in Colorado.
! Mrs. G.. o. Palmer of Abba was In
Eddyville Friday attending the fun
eral of Mr.. o. S. Fry.
Mr.. r. c. Lord was called to Grin
nell Friday by the serious illness o.
his sister.
The Basket Ball team of the Ed
dyville High School went to Eldor
Friday where they played game will
the Eldon team. They were accom-
panied by Superintendent Emma Dye
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
DELTA A BUSY TOWN.
L. GARRETT PURCHASES THE
PHILIP McNABB FARM. DOUBLE
WEDDING AT GRANDPA HICk.
Inns SUNDAY EVENING.

Delta, Iowa, JAM 19.-The Giddings
Family Entertainment Co. gave theil
Mandolin Orchestra Concert and Mus
zeal Friday eve. in the NJ f.. Church
to the patrons of the Lecture Course
and it was enjoyed by the music
loving patrons
| Liga Garrett of OskalOOsa was down
to Delta Saturday, and to show he
had nothing against us, he purchas
ed the Philip McNabb farm and will
rent it this season. Earl Arnold gets
So acres off of the farm adjoining 20
acres owned by Mrs. V. McNabb
which will make him a farm of 50
acres.
Mrs. S. A. MolyneuX and wife went
to What Cheer, Saturday, Jan. 18th
to attend his father, Tom Molyneuxs'
funeral. He was buried in No. 10
cemetary. with Masonic honors, r.
Orr of Thornburg, officiating.
G. Ed Beman left for GoOdland,
Kansas, on business trip Saturday
night.
w. b. Smothers has moved from
the Ed Whylie property recently
purchased by Mr.. S. Edmoon to the
Mrs. Kinsler land adjoining town and
will engage in stock farming.
Fred COble has moved to his farm
recently purchased of Floyd Adams.
Floyd Adams will build fine house
and barn on his farm recently pur-
chased of J. Coble. Several loads of
lumber have been hauled out. James
Hendricks will do the building.
The Transmission Co. are chang
inO 10 fhrnnOh
poration, and are putting in 35 foot
poles for the high tention.
J. Black and men are putting the
finishing touches on the fine dwelling
house OF Mr.. Veach which has been
built since last November. 1t cost
'agout $4,000.
Many of the farmers are baling
their surplus hay, and getting up their
wood piles for the portable saws.
Mrs. Brokaw will continue the In
surance business for the same COM
panies that her late husband was ag-
ent for.
Delta Circle, Ladies of the G. A. r.
Unstable dtheir officers, President,
Mrs. Ida Cook; Senior Vice, Mrs. Ada
Reed; Junior Vice, Mrs. Rosa Gar
rett; Treasurer, Mrs. Hattie Kendall;
Secretary. America Newkirk
The first sheriffs sale in our vicin-
ity for years is advertised to take
place Jan. "a, taken as property OF
j. V. Dawson to satisfy execution is
sued for James Hamilton, Jr.
J. w. Mccormick has bought the
&C. T. HolcOmb and is holding a
closing out sale of stock and fixtures.
Hasty and Jacobs, not to be out
cone by larger cities, have sale on
and was the busiest store in town
yesterday.
The double wedding held at Grand
pa Hicklins last Sunday evening was
conducted by Pastor A. A. Heath
The contracting parties were Will II
McAdams to Miss Elizabeth Mack and
Mr.. Alvin Phillips to Miss Louisa
McAdams. They are estimable young
people and will settle in this locality
and be plain home folks.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
Deny FOREIGNERS Liquor.

Mason City, Jan. 2O.-The real
fight between the city officials, the
brewers, and the express companies
over the importation of beer and IL
quor for the foreigners employed at
the cement plants, began this morn
ing when the police otncials seized
beer and whiskey brought in by the
Wells-Fargo Express Co., American
Express Co.. Adams and U. S. Ex-
press companies. A dray load OF IL
quor was seized and taken to the po-
lice station and a hard fight in the
courts is expected.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
Crows a PLAQUE to Farmers.

Sidney, Jan. 20.-The farmers of
Locust Grove township in the eX-
IRENE southeastern corner OF FIRE.
mont county, have petitioned the
county commissioners to offer boun-
ty on dead crows. They say the
flocks of crows are so dense as to
obscure the sun. One man killed a
crow and hung the carcass in a tree;
about 1000 OF the birds alighted in
the tree and held a regular wake
during the entire afternoon
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
True 0raeIousness.

Real graciousness Is a virtue exer-
cised, not virtue assumed. We have
to go back to st. Paul's epistles to be
reminded that charity, which is really
love, unselfishness and which sui
fereth long and is kind" "vaunteth
not itself. is not pulled up" is at the
root OF all courtesy and graciousness.
1t needs constant practice. It has to
be willed often in look. or word. or
sct when the inclination Is against
1t, but II practiced faithfully II HOS
SONS in the life.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
Damaqe Case Settled.

Carroll, Jan .20.-The famous
damage suit of r. NJ. Dudley against
the Northwestern Railway Co., grow
ing out of an accident at the cross
ing near Ralston last June, when his
two daughters lost their lives, was
today dismissed, the railroad compa-
ny having agreed to pay Dudley the
sum of $17,500 and court costs and
also STIMULATING that the railroad
company will install an electric bell
at the crossing.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
The Next Labor Dau-

Centerville, Jan. 2O.-Oskaloosa,
Ottumwa and Abba will hold their
next Labor Day celebration here.
This was decided today and it is ex-
pected that 10000 union men and
women will march in the Labor Day
parade.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
Some One Stole $500,

Manila, Jan. 2O.-Carl Altman is
under arrest here and officers of three
states are searching for half breed
Indian, who is believed to have stolen
a wallet containing $500 from Guy
White, a farmer living near here.
White sold his corn yesterday and
started out to have a good time with
three young men. When it was over
White found his money gone. Ali.
man seems to know little about the
affair.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
Fall From Train Walks to Town.

Stuart, Jan. 20.--Charles Doherty
the year old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Doherty, of Stuart, fell off the
rear platform of a passenger train,
while his mother was engaged in con-
versation with a fellow passenger,
and though bleeding from a wound on
the head, followed the passenger train
afoot a half a mile into Stuart.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
sIIahtIy Mixed.

II was a trained nurse who offered
to minister to fevered patient with
the kindly words: Wouldn't You be
more comfortable II | should cush
| and bronze your hair?"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
Boosting For Interurban.

Mason City, Jan. 20.-Surveyors
are here today running a new line for
the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & North
ern interurban road and it is re-
ported that plans are being revised
and work will start at once. The
new line will run from Waterloo to
Charles City with an extension to
Mason City.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22

Cresco, Jan. 2O.-Over 200 boosters
from Charles City are here today
aiding one hundred more from New
Hampton to promote the Charles
City Western Railroad.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22

store of Pete Peterson at Weston in
which the postoffice was located, ear
ly this morning The building and
stock were a total loss and the mail
in the office was also destroyed
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
Miner Crushed to Death

Centerville, Jan. 20.-Chas. Bah
bits was crushed under a fall of
slate in the Sleepy Hollow coal mine
last night.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22
Store and p. o. Burned.

Council Bluffs, Jan. 20.--Fire OF in
cendiary origin burned the general
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-22

| James NJ. Burke was passenger
Monday afternoon for Eldora, where
he will have charge of new linotype
machine in one of the printing Of
| fees of that place, and during his alb
sence Horace Colman. at the G. L.
Farmhouse Conservatory Building
will have charge of the Burke or
chestra.
S. A. Dalziel, of What Cheer, is in
the city visiting AL Massey, who is
on the Orient vaudeville stage the
first part of this weeks program in
comedy and clarionet stunt of ex
ceptionally fine quality. Mr.. Massey
is the musical director with the Wal
lace Hagenback Shows, which open
their season about April 1, at st. Lou
with Barnum & Bailey Circus.
i Miss Mcdonald, of Dubuque, wht
has been visiting with the Geo. Kal
bach family, left for home this morn
ms.
Grinnell Register: Mr.. and Mrs. G
T.. Lewis OF the Grinnell Motor Ca
J Co., are in Oskaloosa for today ant
!, tomorrow.
Mrs. NJ. J. Roberts left yesterda.
! for Walter. Oklahoma, to visit he
; son, e. G.. Maddy. She will also visi
/ in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Eli Hawkins is confined to his be,
with stomach trouble and has beef
I under the care OF aphysician. III
is improving and expects TO be on
soon.