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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19
REV. FRED STEvER
Former Spring Valley Boy, Doing
Great Work AT Burlington

Everybody in Spring Valley remcni
hers Fred Stever yet with affection
AID respect, and also Mrs. Stevec,
who formerly taught here He has
moved from NJ .chigan to Burlington,
Wis, city of 400 people, with. =
CONGREGATIONAL church numbering $50
members, and the Times-Call of that
city has the following to say of him:
I'm Rev. Fred A. Stever, who has
accepted tie call to the pulpit of the
Burlington Plymouth Congregational
church Racine county acquires not
only preacher of repute and fine
speaker but an experienced organizer
and community worker. He expect )
to take up the work at Burlington
about Jan. Is.
"Rev. Steyer was born at Ogdens-
burg. He graduated from the Sprin (
Valley High School and Fargo college,
n. D.. and took up summer work at
the University of Chicago. He was
pastor Of the HARDWOOD, n. d.. Con-
gregationai church while studying at
Fargo college. and was ordained in
1912. A year after he became pastor
of the Plymouth church. Fargo. N. d..
ale organized and managed COM
mun;ty farm club while carrying on
associated church work in North Da-
kota. The Fargo church increased
$500, in membership under his guild
ance.
"Stever became pastor of the Nor
ris. Mimi. First Congregational
church in 1914. At this city, he was
active in organization work. srccess-
fully launching a county campaign
rnder the county option law, and
financing and equipping boys club.
He was secretary of the Morris Com
nlercial club and the Stevens county
liberty loan organization, chairman OF
the war work campaign, and active IN
other similar organizations. The Nor
ris church increased 50Gt in member
shin while be Was there.
SIN 1918, Stever was registrar in
charge of education in West Central
School of Agriculture, branch II
Michigan university, and increased
the enrolment nearly S0ft, as well as
reorganizing the system Of gradin-
and recording. He was with the Min
nesota Y. NJ G.. a. in its reeonstrGc
ton program in 1919. After success
fully declining calls to churches a
Mankato, Mimi, and Wahpeton, \.
D., and refusing the financial secra-
taryShip of Congregational work in
Minnesota, Stever became pastor of
the First Congregational :hurch at
Darlington, in 1920. Since that tin 9
the Sunday school there has doubled
its membership and c. E. society ms
been organized" Spring Valley Sui
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19
STILL BIND FEET
Chinese Have Not Given Up
Practice of Centuries.
Wearing Of Queues and Footbindino
Are institutions Of High import.
ance In the "FloWery' Land.

Through the writings and reports
Of foreign observers most Of US have
recently been induced to believe that
all Chinese men have cut off their
queues and that little girls and women
are no longer subjected to the tortures
of footbinding. But neither of these
things is true.
1t Is true that there are not many
queues left in The cities in which there
Is q strong foreign influence, nor are
there many high-class Chinese any
where who continue to cling to this
one time so highly valued adornment;
but IL you would know something
about the uncompromislng attitude Of
the people as a whole you must get to-
gether, as l did, little cart caravan
and strike out into the raiirOadless
and newspaperless Interior.
On many days journey across
country, through villages and towns
and considerable cities, you would not
see single shorn head, and all your
ideas about the awakening and the re-
juvenation of China would find them
selves hopeiessly at variance with an
inescapable conclusion that anything
in the nature Of an actual change In
this amazing land win probably take
place in too gradual way to be eur
rently observable.
As for the cruel practice of binding
the feet of little girls, need only say
that on a journey In the spring OF this
year covered large part of Shan
tung and Southern Chlh-li. and except
In Christian mission schools did not
see one single little girl over 8 years
Of age with unbound feet. And little
girl with newly bound feet is a most
pitiable creature. As she grows older
either she begins to get used to the
agony or her developing vanity helps
her to bear 1t. But when she Is little
girl, Just emerged from footfree child
hood, the thing she is compelled to
live through is not to be described.
She will sit for days on end and do
nothing but cry-unto herself, as it
were-softiy, helplessiy, hopelcssly.
And when she staggers out to play she
stumps around on her heels, holding
her little bound toes up, and one Is
likely to observe her at any moment
giving way to a spasm Of unbearable
pain. 1t probably Is the most dreadful!
thing in the world. But, strange as 1t
may seem, 4-inch foot Is still an as
set to Chinese woman.
To be sure, the modern cities are
filed with modern women with big
feet-Nos. 2 or at most, ordinarily,
because the feet OF Chinese women
are naturally small-and such women
even become proficient In modern
dancing and may be seen in cabarets
and fashionable restaurants fOxtr0t-
ting, twosteppiDg and even toddling to
American jazz music with smart
young men from the universities. but
the mass OF the people has not ceased
even In China to make up the bulk
of the population, and the bulk of the
Chinese population Is still stepped III
the traditions of millenniums past
Eleanor Franklin Egan in the Satur-
day Evening Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19

transactions do, to the question Of the
good faith and ability of the man HIM
self, and these qualities, which would
De unknown to q distant bank or Gov
eminent Bureau, are perfectly well
xnown to the mans own neighbors.
II is on this foundation that sys-
.em of Productive Credit should be
established, adm needless to say, the
sooner the better. In the whole field
Of credit for farm purposes, it is now
the only section where no progress is
being made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19
A Parrots Feat

After being in captivity for twenty
three years parrot at Shrewsbury
has performed the feat Of laying an
egg.
Capt. II. G. ElweIi of Granville
street, Copthrone, Shrewsbury, Eng
land, brought home parrot from
west Africa twenty-three years ago
and it is now in the keeping Of
his brother-in-law, S. Lawrence Cor
bett, assistant clerk to Shrewsbury
borough education committee.
Parrots lay up to the age of thirty.
They are longliyed birds. The death
of one at the age OF one hundred and
nineteen took place recently in Aus
tralia. Brooklyn Eagle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19
w0oDMEN INSTALL OFFICERS

The following officers were installed
for the ensuing year in Cascade Camp
No. 921 NJ. w. A.:
VIM. Chinook, Counsel
A. w. Stiles, Past Counsel
C. r. Hooking, Worthy Advisor
II. n. Wiger, Clerk
o. A. Sheldrew, Banker
C. Spillcke, Escort
A. f. Hanson, Waterman
Will Jaekman, Sentry
DR.. G. D. Gallup, Physician
+. V. Williams, Auditor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19
Not in tho Ritual, but Effective.

General Pershing tells the story of
a volunteer battalion of rough back
woodsmen that once joined General
Grant. He admired their fine physique,
but distirsted the capacity Of their I'M
cOuth commander TO handle troops
promptly and efficiently in the field, so
he said:
Colonel, / want to see your men
at work call them TO attention and
order them to march with. shouldered
arms in close column to the left flank"
Without a moments hesitation the
colonel yelled to his fellow rufEians !:
sBoys look wild thar! Make ready
to thicken and go left end-waysl Tote
yer gunsi Gitr'
The maneuver proved brilliant sue
cess and the self-elected colonel was
forthwith officially commissioned
Boys Own Paper.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19
roc Late.

Reports that Santa Claus died In the
World war are absolutely false, said
Postmaster E. A. Purdy in response TO
Mortified inquiry from Minneapolis
child He also is preparing a state
ment promising to fix matters up for
the tot who wrote:
aPlease do not bring mouse for our
cat; because the eat died."-Min-
neapoiis Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19
Unrest.

"Do you have much trouble with
constituents who want jobs under the
gorc.Eraent?"
"Not as much as l used to-" re.
piled Senator Sorghum. "Most of the
pathetic appeals now come from peo-
pie VINO have been working for the
government and who want me to get
them o chance at the kind of salaries
paid In private employment"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06
U~ndergarxnentS of
Silk Jersey and Crepe
Give her these useful, wearable gifts;
she wH enjoy them
Crepe de Chine
Chenlise $3.50

Dainty init m a t e
models made of that
fine quality of crepe
de chine and satin, in
flesh color.
Highly tr i m m e d
with dainty laces and
appliqued motifs,
slipon.
These cha m
silken garments will
delight "her' beyond
expression. 1ndividu-,
ally boxed.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06
Jersey Silk eSilk Jersey Pet
Boomers 1895 1ticoats $5.25 Up

What more could
one give that is more
desirable than a box
of these Italian silk
Jersey boomers.
They come in the
medium weight with
shirred knee and adj
Unstable waist band.
Shown in flesh col
ors, ind
boxed for sending.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06
New Skating Sweaters

IFtW OnNIIES OWcWtoFo
Fashioned of that fluffy wooIly material called ) $50
brushed wool" They are a bit newer and a lot ~
smarter than any that have come forward yet.
There are the tuxedo fronts with scarf-lke reveres, the high
collar sip-overs and the side button styles. Warm winter col
orings.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06

facility known to modern merchandising for prompt
and efficient handling of the Christmas trade is in vogue at
this busy store.
Plenty of salespeople, imbued with the spirit of helpfulness.
Why, it seems that they are as interested in your gift prob
lem as if it were their own.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06

Prompt and accurate wrapping clerks who are keyed up to
the Importance of these hurried times. Special Christmas
mail order service for those who cannot visit the store.
Convenient displays every where one turns, wrapping and
mailing desk where all parcels purchased at The Paris except
TOYS are wrapped and mailed free to all out of town points.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06

New Chr i $ t m a $
shipments of all the
dashing gay colors
and the rich, dark suit
shades.
accor d lion
plated %flounces, some
in contrast color
schemes.
These gar m e S
have the adjustable
waist band and are
fashioned to the new
est dress mode.
Waist Section.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06
Union Suits $3.49

-Carter's union suits for women, Clos
ing out of some discontinued lines. Fin
est quality wool with silk crocheted fin
ish. Others finished With the much
wanted plain band style. Come in any
style, long sleeves included. $685. and
$3.50 values.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06
Union Suits $500

Excellent quality, medium weight.
mercerized Isle. No sleeve or half
sleeve. ankle length. Former prices
1896 to S4.95.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06

What a wonderful blouse OPP
portunity is offered here to
those who will give blouses for
gifts.
No finer collection at such a
low price has ever been pre-
scented.
Beaded crepes, georgette and
cantons are wrought in varied
designs. The c%olors, too, offer
all that is to be desired in
blouses. Come in and see them.
Values up to $3.50.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06
W0men's Underwear
At Genuine Savings

Presenting the best known
makes in Carriers and Munsing.
Fashioned true to the present
dress mode.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06
Sale! Beaded Bl0uses
Ouerblouses ST so Q Fine Blouses ST IT'S
Special at IL Special at Il

These blouses are enriched by
foreign figures; they fairly ra-
date "Frenchy-ness."
They are the overblouse,
beautifully beaded in every inn
aginable design.
On some the beading is of the
same color and others in blend
ing tones.
If you contemplate giving q
blouse now or in the near future
see this grand display.
A blouse for every purpose.
Values up to $3.50.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06

-Women's union suits in Carter make.
A beautiful quality OF finest grade wool
with q small percentage of cotton. No
sleeves or half sleeves.
Extra sizes S3.i5.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

you don't need a scientist to tell
v you that house flles increase rapid
ly in the Summer time.
But Just exactly how rapidly they In
crease has never beon known--until now.
A Cahlegrnm announces that French sci
oniisis have just concluded series OF
experiments which give the exact birth
rate Of files with precise mathematical
accuracy-and what they found out sur
prsed them quito as much as II will sur
prise you.
They were more than surprlsed-they
were appalled, ut tho fly's amazing re-
productive powers. Why? Because the
common house fly, with its universal habit
of spreading infection and disease. is re-
rarded by science to-day as mankind's
deadllest enemy--as an ever-present men,
ace to human life and health.
Professor r. Roubaud, OF Paris, member
OF tho French Academy OF Sciences, Is re-
sponsible for tho "birth rate" experiments.
They were Of nature that left no room
for doubt. Great scientlsts have n way
OF approaching such subjects with the
curious simplicity OF small boys. Remem-
Der Ben Franklin with his hte--and
Calico dropping n croQuet ball and n
cannon ball from the Leaning Tower.
As for Professor Roubaud. he won't 10
the hardware store and bought a quantity
OF wire 1y-screenlng, which he trundled
home, and with which he built big cage
to the considerable annoyance of his
wife who felt that there were already
enough flies in the world without starting
private scientific hatchery In her own
sun parlor.
lie annoyed madame stu further by in-
Yading her pantry Tor number OF cans
Of condensed milk, which he dumped out
into soup plates. And, what was worse,
he lueged home flower box fllod with
Darnyard refuse. Then he caught six com.
mon female house flies, introduced them
into the cage, and prudonty escaped to
his club.
When he felt that tho domestic storm
had sufficiently abated, he returned to
madames sun parlor and sat down placidly
10 study his files and smoke his pipe.
He sat there, In fact, of ana on. for four
months.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

spreading dangerous diseases, rank as the
worst and most dangerous OF all the ene-
niles OF mankind.
More human beings are killed every year
by diseases caught directly or indirectly
from flies than are slain by all the Wild
beasts, poisonous snakes, bandits and gun
men In the world.
Boards OF Health, town, city, state and
national are calling everywhere for the
cooperation of the individual In their
fight against this ever present menace.
The weapons which you can use are
principally four the screen, the trap, to
swatter and fypaper.
The chief efforts of the public health
authorities are directed toward wiping out
or rendering as nearly sanitary as possible
the places In which flies breed.
IL is well to remember that flies are not
merely a nuisance. but constitute real
and dangerous menace to life and health
and that consequently the individual
housewife, the restaurant keeper, the store
keeper owe It to themselves as we'll as to
the general welfare to cooperate In every
possible way with the public health au-
thorities In their campaigns to curb this
toofamiliar disease-breeding pest.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21


female fly. in its free and natural state.
might even exceed this appalling birth
rate and total approximately one million
billion flies.
or course, the experiment OF Professor
koubaud, as it progressed. became a little
more complicated. 1t was necessary to
make sure that there were no eggs in the
refuse to begin with. 1t was necessary
to count the first patches of eggs when
they were laid. And IL was further neces-
sary to isolate the original Elk flies in a
separate compartment of the cage before
the first patches OF new flies had hatched.
But all these things were carefully done,
and the results are accepted by science as
OF approximate mathematical accuracy.
The flies kept under observation in cap
tivity by Professor Roubaud averaged 105
eggs each at a sitting. The general aver
age, however is believed by scientists to
be even larger. American authorities place
II at about 120. And every female fly, IL
she escapes the fypaper swatter and
traps. lives normally to deposit from two to
four such patches of eggs. In other words.
every female house fly which you do not
kill may produce as many as 4S0 eggs
and most OF these eggs, within ten days,
will produce other fullgrown flies, which
will set about laying eggs in their turn.
So the thing goes on during the entire
Spring, Summer and Fall, not in mere
arthmetical. but in geometrlc progression.
And this "geometrical progression" is one
of the most amazing things in the whole
realm of mathematics. You probably re
member the story illustrating IL In your
old fashioned public school arithmetic A
farmer brought his horse to the black
smith to be shod. The two had difficulty
in agreeing about the price. The black
smith said, PAY me l cent for the first
NATL cents for the second, cents for
the third, and so on" The farmer agreed
There were eight nails IN each shoe, max.
ing thlrty-two nails In ALL Before the
blacksmith had reached the fifteenth nail,
the figure was in tho thousands. and at
the end of the thirty.seoond nail he pre-
sented the farmer bill in which the last
nail alone came to more than s2l 900 600.
And that's exactly the way II goes, in
ever progressing upward leaps and bounds,
when Mrs. Common House Fly begins lay
ing her eggs. The eggs are deposited just
below the surface OF decayed material, sew
eral females often choosing the same spot,
so that the investigator finds the eggs In
large clusters. A high degree of heat is
maintained by the fermentation OF the
nest material. The eggs usually hatch, In
warm weather. within less than twenty.
four hours, and in favorable heat and
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

with 10 true OF all
female flies. Nor
was any failing dis
covered in egg lay
ing ability from
one generation TO
another. 1t was only
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

Reproduced Illustration from tho
American Museum Of Natural His.
tory Showing the Enormous Progeny
of One Mother House Fly in Single
Season Averaging Nine Generations.
The Size Of n Cloud of One Million
Billion House Flies, All Originating
from the Egg at Left, May Be Es,i-
mated from the Diagram of the Two
Blocks of City Apartment Houses
II Oxerhanpa.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

rowing out and reaching the air, II crawls
about for little while as its wings ex-
pand and its body hardens. The female
is ready within three or four days to de-
post her own first eggs. And so the end
less progression goes on
The body of the house fly--as the remark
able photographs of enlarged models on
this page show you--is covered thickly
with hairs and bristles OF various lengths.
This is especially true of its legs. When II
crawls over infected material, 1t becomes
readily loaded with disease germs. and
the subsequent visits to foods result In
their contamination. Deadly disease germs
also lurt frequently in the alimentary
canal of the fly, so that when he drops
his speck on food or plate or person,
human illness may result.
Notwithstanding the number OF species
OF noxious flies doing deadly work in their
respective spheres, the house fy comprised
9SS per cent OF all the types captured by
the investigators. The next largest num-
bers refer TO the biting fly, also called
stable fly, or dog ny, one OF the greatest
known torturers and blood suckers OF man
and beast. The house fly cannot bite, only
tickle, so when you get fly bite, 1t Is
the vicious doghy. which sometimes ap.
pears In vast swarms in Autumn.
II Is scientifically true that flies, be-
cause of their incredible breeding power
and their habits OF living In NTH and
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

Photographic Enlargement of Part of n
Complete Setting Of 100 House Fly Eggs,
Deposited in Carton for Hstehins. Unless
Destroyed. the Product Of These Eggs
Would BE Laying Eggs of Their Own
Within Eight or Ten Days.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

, .,.,, 1T.
hoistole "i'nin eisn'
hours. T he issuing
maggots are very small
and transnarent.
-
nese sro" very
rapidly, completing the
larva stage within four
mr. ave davs although
Tho Iarva stage NAV ba
nro,onqed bv low tom.
paratnre bv drvness or
iaoi, 80 food 1Ia,oa
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

after the second month that
the original six females be-
gan to get weary OF the
process"
In other words, the children
and grandchildren Of six ordi-
nary house flies. In six months.
II allowed to breed undis-
turhed, make a family" OF al
most four million billion flies!
Further experiment showed
that tho "familyn Of one sinula
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

Above, a Micro.Photogrsph Of the Foot Pad
and Claw of Common House Fly, MSgni-
fed 1900 Times, Presenting Convincing
Proof of the Charge That House Flies Are
Conveyors of Disease Germs. Note th.
Germs, Identified as Deadly Typhoid Ba-
eilli, on Tip of Claw. At Right, Lower
Joints of Fly's Leg, Msgnihed leo Times,
Showing Pads and Hairs to Which Disease
Germs Adhere.
And then he made his report to the
French Academy of Science.
Here IL Is:
AT the end Of tho week, each OF the
six hies had averaged 105 eggs and by
the end OF the month, the total produc-
tion was 2,692 eggs. At that time, too,
several hundred of the direct de-
scendants were busy egg laying. The
figures show that at the end of four
months. the six females had 1885, &c.,
3S7,7b5.100 descendants. The results
show that reproduction Is nearly mathe-
matlcal. which IL 10 say, that what IA
true of the six females experimented
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21

Side Wow of
Greatly Enlarged
Head of House
Fly Showing Its
Multiple Eyes
and the
Germ-C Carrying
Proboscis.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-21
BY DIR. w. II. BALLOU.

V you don't need a scientist to tell
V you that house flles increase rapid
ly in the Summer time.