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Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
TrachOma Treatment
In Smith County

SSince the beginning of better wealth
er tRe people of Smith County are
ccmingA in greatly increased numbers
to the Tree eye hospital established
in Carthag for the treatment of ira
choma
] DR.. ]. A. Eldridge, surgeon-in-
charge, has been compelled to appeal
to the public health service for an adj
dltlonaI nurse, for his present facili-
ties are being taxed to the utmost, and
the staff has realized that it will be
impossible to deal with the demand
for service that now seems certain.
According to DR.. E. l.. Bishop. di-
rector of the division of rural santa
ton Of the state board of health, the
Smith County hospital is handling
from SO to 65 patients per day, in
spite of the fact that it has only a
twleve-bed capacity. Of course many
patients do not stay over night in the
hospital, but are treated as out-pa-
TENTS, and We're it not for this fact
the present volume of work would be
impossible.
The value of the work being done,
even from a financial standpoint, can
not be even estimated. One man, a
blacksmith, in splendid physical health
otherwise was so nearly blind from
trachOma that he worked only a few
months in each year. He had been re-
stored to the ranks of the producers.
A whole family that formerly were
charity charges are now helping them
selves and are serving the community
instead of being served by the com
munity.
1t will be remembered that the hos
r0T4 Il LIZ
through the efforts of the state board
of health after the division of rural
sanitation had discovered the extent
to which the. disease has deveIoned.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
CARTHAGE HAS
NEW POSTOFFICE

The building which was formerly
occupied by the old First National
Bank has been thoroughly renovated,
the walls newly painted and decorated
and Postmaster F. p. McGinness states
that likely the Office will be moved
into the building Saturday. The new
Office is equipped with new lock boxes
and lot of other postoffice equip
nent has been installed to make the
Office modern in every respect. The
building is well arranged for post
Office and when the office is estab-
lished in the new place, no town in
Tennessee will have a more attractive
postoffice than does Carthage.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
Mr.. Business Man

Look over your supply of Office sta
tlonery, letterheads, billheads, envel-
opes, statements, noteheads. and, in
fact, everything in the way of PRINT
ING.
If you are about out, order at once
from the job office of the Carthage
Courier Both material and work
manshlp first class. Give us a trial.
We will convince you.
CARTHAGE COURIER.
Cumb phone 1912 Home phone n
IT, Carthage, Tennessee.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
Laneaster School Notes


This will be the closing week of our
school and most all the go for the
week has been examinations and all
seemingly are showing a good grade.
There are very few failures or few
that will not receive promotion.
We have had very successful term
ard splendid attendance until the last
few weeks as most all the larger BOYS
dropped out to help with the crops.
The people of the community and
school had an old-fashioned spelling
match Tuesday night and very much
interest was manifested The meet
ing was both instructive and enter.
tanning. Sides were chosen by Miss
Beasley and Mrs. Margaret Nixon.
Miss Beas]ey's side wen by score Of
6 to 8. Then all the ladies spelled
against the men and the men were the
victors.
,ESsgeral from school attended the
Entertainment last Friday night at
tbeN Temperance Hall High School.
Misses Duke and Beasley, the assist
ant teachers, are preparing to leave
Monday. We hate to give them rlp for
they have made friends with the PEG
pie of Lancaster.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
The Baldwin Piano Co.

Baldwin. GRIND, Upright and Play
er.
Ellington. HaVilton and Medello.
Howard and NOharch
Dulcitone and Dathe Talking Ma
chimes. *
We guaranteed uk pianos.
j do piano h1eeha nical work and
guarantee sap14f
Have one Richmond piano in good
shane that has been Used some.
Have two square pianos.
Both phones.
S. S. KEMP,
GEO. H.. HALEY. Sub Agent.
3-31-12t Gordonsville, Tenn.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31

out and started In the proper manner.
The Town Council now has under adj
visement many suggestion offered by
Mr.. Spicer, and when these are carried
out the cemetery will be established
on most modern lines.
Attorney L. A. Lyon is in Nashville
attending to legal business. He will
return Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Baird have re-
turned from Lebanon.
Use Rewoda flour and "a loyal to
home industry. This dR'ar is delicious
and satisfying. It9s an individual
flavor. Milled bYsHceWoda Milling CO.,
Carthage, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. j. M. Kirkland of
Nashville have been visiting Mrs. Rob-
ert Dean.
Clennie Mckinley and Henry Dean
of Buffalo Valley were in Carthage
Wednesday.
Miss Clara Day is spending this
week with friends at Cookevill.
Mrs N. C. Smith and little daugh-
ter, Frances, of Nashville are visiting
Mrs. Smiths mother, Mrs. Fannie
Baugh.
Miss Nellie Baugh, who has been
quite sick for several days, is some
better now.
The Junior League, under the di-
rection of Mrs. S. R. Bratcher, gave
a very interesting program at the Car
thage Methodist church last Sunday
evening.
The severe cold spell which came
first of the week did much damage
to fruit and Vegetation throughout this
section.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
Criminal Court To
Meet Tuesday

Criminal and Circuit Courts will
meet in Carthage next Tuesday, April
5. No cases of particular Importance
to come up
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31

Mach has been written of the ener-
gy displayed by Nine Bernhardt III
continuing to act at the age of rs
years, but even more remarkable Is
the case of Miss Genevieve Ward
who was, faverite with Americas
piaygoers of half century ago, and
who is still appearing on the English
stage, though the senior of the grent
French actress by seven or eight
years.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
Tax.PSfQE$ NoticBR

will be at GordonsvRe ApriI 18th, 18th, 18TH 18th,
18th and 10th for the pposAof collecting taxes Let
every the south de pr of the river that has
not paid meet thergand pay y0Qr This will my
last notice, and might well wa1 you now that your
land will be advertised and sold at bc auction for the
taxes if the samefs unpaid the fist Monday in May
A HEAVY PENALTY AND INHERENT will be added to
all unpaid taxeson May the 1st.
u Youffriend,
R. M. MCDONALD, Deputy Trustee.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31

Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Spicer of Nash
vile spent Wednesday in Carthage.
Mr- Splcer is superintendent CT the
beautiful Mt. Olivet cemetery of Nash
vile and came to look over the new
cemetery here and assist the authori-
ties in getting the new cemetery laid
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31

Attorney L. A. Lyon is in Nashville
attending to legal business. He will
return Friday
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
LOCAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS

DR.. and Mrs. Stone of Difficult were
in Carthage Wednesday returning to
their home from Cookeville where
they visited DR.. Stones parents.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31

ing several weeks with his mother.
Mrs Martha Turner, has returned to
Detroit to resume his position as book
keeper for q large automobile factory.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31

Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Alexander and
DR.. J. L. Alexander and son, Holland,
of Dixon Springs were in Carthage
Wednesday. For the past several
months Holland has been in service on
q large steamship and during this
time visited many points of interest,
especially in South America.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31

DIR. and Mrs. c. A. Womack Of
Cookeville are spending few days ii
Carthage.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

wonderful table. I do know that a
tireless cooker will cook meal and
make mousse simultaneously, and
that no woman keeping house in a
small apartment, especially in the
summer time and with baby, should
be without one.
| have yet to see the appliance
which is not improved by being used
with common sense and some knowl-
edge of its strong and weak points.
You can do almost anything with q
fireless cooker, but there are some
things that it is especially equipped
to do. The cooking Of cereals over
night, making soup, cooking ham and
baked beans, casserole dishes, stews,
ETC., are all long suits with the fire.
less. The foods are always started
first on the stove and then put into
the freless with the preheated
stones, and you get good results If
directions are followed carefully,
even for roasting and baking.
BY the way, be sure to get your
utensils in = nest, the three different
containers that come Of triangular
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Time and Gas Saved, Tough Meats
Made Tender, and the Canning
Done, All by Getting Up Steam

pressure). The use Of the cooker as
a Gamer will be taken up in greater
detail later.
A Useful Kitchen Ornament
Picture the cylindrical cocker
shown in the photograph, s inches
deep, 8 inches in diameter, Of highly
polished aluminium. The cover is
one-half inch thick and bears the
steam gauge with its dial face read
ing from 0 to 80 pounds OF pres
sure, and the corresponding tenn
peratures attained flor convenience
in cooking and canningl. It stands
as inches above the cover.
To the front Of the dial is the
combination safety control valve,
ga inches high. This device screws
up easily and is used both to regu-
late and hold the pressure and to
elbow off" steam, acting as safety
device automatically if pressure gets
above 20 pounds by oversight lis
or 20 is the practical limit for house.
hold work). This control is brought
about by little brass ball that
"sits on the lid'' figuratively and
literally. A plunger project
ing up through the valve cover is
pushed down against the ball by a
spring in the upper part of the
cover. BY screwing the valve cover
down the pressure ON the ball is in
creased and SO a higher pressure in
side must be la,sea before it will
blow off," Thus by screwing and
unscrewing the valve cover you regu-
late pressure and provide safety
release at different pressures.
The petcock has three parts to
play: 1t is opened, to begin with, for
che steam to form; as soon as this
begins to come out the petcock is
closed that the pressure may in
crease; it remains closed until the
cooking is finished. Then it is opened
very slowly that the steam may be
exhausted by degrees before the
cover is unclamped. I'm the mean
time the safety valve is used in
connection with the lowering of the
heat to hold the pressure at the
point desired.)
The Safety Control Valve
We tested out the safety valve
thoroughly by screwing it down
tightly, placing the cooker over a
giant burner on very efficient gas
stove and awaiting developments.
In five minutes there was eight
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Portable Heater Grated Fan Gives New Spring Mode

watts and took $50 when motor and
heater were both in oreration. It
required one minute and twenty
seconds to come to a full glow, with
a room temperature of 70 degrees
F. The attachment weighs only
2.5 pounds and the whole appliance
9.5. There is a wooden handle
riveted to the upper part of the re-
f1ector for convenience in moving
it. With the fan motor used the
heater could not be tilted down
ward, but could be sent up at any
angle desired. A two-way socket
makes it possible to attach the
separate heater and fan motor
cords to the same socket.
Heating Tests----Still and MOVING
In testing the heat given and the
zone of radiation it was found that
when still the temperature five feet
in front Of the heater was raised
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

degrees in five and ten minutes. re-
spectively. The temperature Of the
room throughout the tests was 76
degrees.
On the other hand, when the
heater was allowed to oscillate and
temperatures were taken at the
same distance Of five feet, directly
in front, and at 80, 60 and 80 de-
grees, the following results were
obtained, starting with a room
temperature Of II degrees F.:
Directly in front Of the heater q
temperature of IS degrees was
reached in ten minutes "a rise of
8 degrees, whereas the fixed heater
gave 26 degrees), and this tempera-
ture was maintained during an
hours run. At 80 degrees to the
side the same rise was obtained,
whereas at 20 degrees to the side
with the stationary heater the rise
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

instead of three-quarters, large
flame, tremendous saving is effect
ed. And, further, two or more foods
are cooking over one burner. We
estimate that the boiled dinner cost
half a cent to cook, whereas under
normal conditions it wou,d cost near
ly five cents, using $3.50 gas.
3. For Tough Meats. 1t will make
tough meats and fowl tender quickly
and effectively, even excelling. slow
casserole cooking in this regard.
4. As a Gamer. It is a handy,
quick, safe and sound cameron
small scale. Three quarts can be
done at once, and under factory con-
ditions, insuring unquestionable
sterilization even for meats, chicken,
etc, and the longtime vegetables
such as corn (three hours reduced to
one for quarts at fifteen pounds
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

scalded pork (one-quarter pound),
molasses and seasonings added. The
dish was returned to the cooker. with
cross balls on top to support the can
Of brown bread.
The process was repeated a. 4.
cover screwed down, petcock opened.
safety release valve DOWN. steam
came in few minutes over large
burner, petcock was closed, and If
teen pounds pressure was shown on
dial in five minutes. The cooker was
then placed on simmerer, and by this
reduction Of heat and the slight
opening of the control valve the
pressure was held constant for the
following 1.5 hours.
At this time the heat was turned
off and the petcock opened very
slowly. taking Ave to ten minutes
for the steam to come off. You
never unclamp the top until all the
steam has been allowed to escape
slowly in this way. Any one who
has stood over a boiler doing cam
ming will not need to be told this
twice, and with the pressure, be-
sides the steam, the results in open
ing up the top quickly would be
much more uncomfortable. This also
affects food, especially canned food,
disastrously.
The beans were of excellent text
ure, rich brown color, and perfect
ly cooked. The bread was done and
was good, but a little moist. It was
much better the second day.
The Boiled Dinner Sans Odor
The cheapest cut of ham to be
found was purchased (25 cents
pound for the shoulder piece known.
as cottage ham'O. One pound and
half Of this was cooked with beets
and potatoes and an onion, beets be-
ing selected as the prize time-con-
sumers among the vegetables, re-
quiring as they do anywhere from
forty-fve minutes to four hours, ac-
cording to their age and size.
The whole dinner was cooked in
one hour. The ham was soaked for
an hour, then placed in the cooker
in 1.5 cupfuls Of hot water with two
cupfuls Of water in the bottom Of
the cooker to make steam and pre-
vent its going dry). In a second pan
supported on the cross pieces were
placed the beets in two cupfuls of
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Fluffy Ruffes' Versus Fireless Cooker for Comfort

EAR INSTITUTE: Your pages
have given me such help lately,
] am turning naturally to the Source
for advice.
Would q fireless cooker be an ex-
travagance or help to me? Shall
I buy one? To-day caller thought
it would solve all my problems, but
I remain unconvinced until I ap-
proach the Oracle at whose Shrine
I worship-weekly.
To begin with, / live in a small
apartment and do my own house
work and cooking. The "heir-appar-
ent" is taking most Of my time, and
I fear the result on, my husbands
digestion and other things. If, how
ever, a fireless cooker would solve
just that problem (she wasn't selling
tbenn) I'd be willing to forego per-
fectly gorgeous negligee I've had my
eye on for some time and invest in a
cooker. Would it be worth the sac
rifice?
+ know absolutely nothing Of the
merits Of these things. and since my
weekly interest in the Institute began
there has never been an article ON
fireless cooker; therefore this letter.
My friend claims to prepare her
whole dinner in the morning, put it
in the cooker-her ice cream on one
side and the dinner, including a
roast, on the other and then TO dash
in just before the lord Of the manor
arrives and place the dinner on the
table.
It sounded so beautiful that as she
spoke (she's the wife Of naval Of
ficer and "dashes" everywhere) 1
quite forgot it was a cooker she was
talking about, believing It was q
fairy tale, and was waiting for the
climax Of her story when she brought
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

all soggy, and the hav0rS dld not IN
termingle.
Home Pressure Cooking
We are accustomed to think Of
processing" ii. e., cooking. under
steam pressure) as a factory affair,
as dangerous, as complicated, as not
belonging to. the housekeeper's
sphere at all. Some Of us learned
differently during the war, when we
canned using the pressure cooker.
Now come the small aluminium cook
ers, so simple and so we'll safeguard
ed that any one may use them, and
they have the following points to
recommend them in the home
kitchen:
l. Saving of Time. Meats, instead
Of two or three hours, take thirty
minutes. Time for vegetables is
reduced from half to three-quarters
Of an hour to five or ten minutes:
cereals from overnight to fifteen
minutes. Besides total time saved,
one is not tied to the stove all the
afternoon in order to get dinner
it can be started an hour or less
before dinner time.
2. Saving of Gas. Plainly, if time
of burning is reduced SO greatly as
this and at the same time the gas
used is a half flame on the simmerer
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
oolSer Gives Your Kitchen a Professional Touch

boiling water. Theltop was clamped
aown and the usual procedure fol-
lowed. In S.5 minutes steam came
from the petcock, and in 5.5 minutes
the desired pressure Of fifteen
pounds was registered. The burners
on the Institute stove are very effi-
cient. With smaller burners or on a
kerosene stove longer time would
De necessary, possibly fifteen min
utes.
Potatoes and onions were prepared
and placed IN the cooker after the
ham had been processed (i. l..
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

1GOME Of these capricious May
mornings, when you have gone
- to bed in the spring time and
walked up to snow furry or a cold,
raw rain storm; mixed with leftover
March winds-then is the time when
an electric heater is even more ap-
preciated than in the winter when
the furnace man is on the job.
This particular heater, too, is
hybrid especially adapted to spring,
because it is fastened to an oscillat-
ing fan and distributes it's heat over
a larger area than the usual rigid
heater.
Make no mistake, we are not
claiming that you can get any more
heat out Of a lamp socket device by
spreading it around. Nor will any
Of them heat room. But you can,
over length of time, give pleasant
sense Of warmth to number of per
sons instead Of having the heat con-
centrated (uncomfortably after a
whitley in one spot and on one per-
son. Several at breakfast, or two
or three sitting round lamp read
ing, could get the intermittent heat
Of the oscillsting heater and accumu-
late a comfortable sense Of warmth
in five or ten minutes, and keep it
instead Of getting hotter and hotter!
How 1t Is Made
The heater itself is the usual type
of concave, polished copper reflector,
of one piece with the rectangular
black frame that surrounds it. The
wire guard extends 2.5 inches in
front Of the heater unit and three
small hooks riveted to the base of
the guard fit into holes punched in
the reflector frame. The element
consists Of twelve wraps Of spiraled
wire in hollow grooved insulator,
the core of which is bolted to a
standard screw plug base so that it
can be easily removed for repair.
A small cup which holds the
socket for the heater unit is con-
nected directly to the clamp sup
port, bolted to the back of the re-
fector. It's tonglike clamp of
cast brass will grip firmly the body
Of any standard fan motor. A
bolt with 9 wing nut passes through
the clamp heads and the lug at
tached to the reflector, which is
milled on both sides so that the pro-
jections on the inside faces Of the
clamp heads hold the reflector
rigidly in any desired position. The
oscillating feature Of the fan may
be- used without removing the fan
blades and guard, but this oc-
casions considerable waste OF
energy in the fan motor, and in
the Institute tests these were taken
Oh. It takes only thirty seconds
to attach the heater to motor
body.
The heater was rated at 600
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

cooked under pressure) for twenty
minutes. The pressure wag again
raised to fifteen degrees (this, in
cluding opening and closing cooker,
took about twenty minutes alto
gether) and the whole was done in
ten minutes, total cooking period
OF thirty minutes; total time in
volved, one hour.
Turnips, carrots, cabbage, ETC.,
and potatoes need only five to ten
minutes with fifteen pounds pres
sure, and SO might be cooked to-
gether after the meat and beets were
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

done. The potatoes did not taste Of
the onion even when cooked In the
same pan, except the portion in
actual contact, 50 the cooking Of
foods together need not be feared as
affecting quality.
No odors escape in this cooking
except when the steam is let out at
the end, and this may be done in an
open window. The ham, though of
mediocre quality to start with, was
we'll favored, tender and Of good
texture. The vegetables were sweet,
juicy and tender, the potatoes not at
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

was only degrees, showing the
superior warming effect of the
oscillating device for every. one ex-
cept the individual directly in front
of the heater.
At an angle of go degrees a tenn
perature of 80 was reached in twen-
ty-five minutes, and maintained in
definitely and even at 80 degrees to
the side--a full quarter turn-a tenn
perature of 80 degrees was obtained
in twenty minutes and held through
out the test. AT half this angle (45
degrees) warming up of only and
2 degrees could be obtained in five
and ten minutes with the stationary
model.
During the run the room tenn
perature was raised 2 degrees from
starting point of ~. The room
was IL by IL by 16 feet, with one
large window. Obviously, if you
have limited amount of heat COM
ing from a lamp socket, the sum
total is neither increased nor de-
creased by distributing it. But a
very different effect is produced by
widening the zone of the heat waves,
both in that more people are warmed
and that milder, more constant
heat is obtained, so that it may be
more pleasant over long period for
the lucky person in the center of
the front row, so to speak, as well as
for the one who is seated off side,
and who would ordinarily be "frozen
out" entirely.
Special Test ON Glass
A special test made to determine
the effect on show windows Illus
trated this point well. A stationary
heater directed toward large sheet
of window glass 18 inches away in
ten minutes made 4-inch circle in
the center Of the heats path so hot
that one could not touch it (about
1877 degrees). Even with no prac-
tical difference in temperature inside
and outside there was danger of
breakage. With the 6scillating Plaut,
under the same conditions, the glass
after an hour and forty-five minutes
had the same safe, maximum heat
reached after half an hour, i. e., la
degrees. This illustrates well the dif-
ference in heating effects-rather
than the efficiency--of the two de-
vices, as it is localized effect that one
looks for in these portable heaters.
While the Institute cannot sub
stantiate all of the claims and infer
ences made in the circular material,
we do feel that this Is a very prac-
tical modification and extension of
the scope and usefulness of the rigid
lamp socket heater.
Plaut osciIlatins Heater.
Made by L. Plaut h co., 434 East
Twsaty-third Street, New York
City.