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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-15

Inc new method was dppllcdDle
not only to whole milk and cream
but also to all by-products. 1t was
so simple anyone could use it after
two or three lessons and, after a few
days experience, could get as ac-
curate results as a trained chemist
A complete test could be made in ten
or fifteen minutes and a score in an
hour. The Wisconsin experiment sta
ton issued a bulletin in July, 1890
announcing and explaining the Bah
cock milk test. Such was the demand
that $4,000 copies of bulletins and re-
ports on the test were sent out from
this station alone, while every dairy
state took up the matter quickly and
gave wide publicity to the method.
For several years, DR.. Babcock's time
was occupied wholly in giving infor-
nation to those seeking to know more
of the test.
Wisconsin conferred bronze medal
on DR.. Babcock in 1899. France gave
him the grand prize and a medal at
the Paris exposition in 1900 and the
United States did the same in 1904
at the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
Until Senator Arthur Capper recently
awarded the aging scientist $4,000
along with the Capper medal, Dr.
Babcock never had received a cent
from the milk test or any other dis
covery. Although, in view of the
great demand for such test, he could
have become a millionaire by taking
royalties, he set a precedent by say
ing that his invention had been devei-
oped while he was a paid employee
of the state and therefore belonged to
the people.
The Babcock test has become the
"eyes" of the dairy industry. 1t has
enabled farmers to Gull Improbable
cows from their herds and enabled
creamerieS to keep separators and
churns operating at maximum effici-
ency. Creamery operators whose ex-
perience dates back to the years be-
fore the test assert that the Babcock
test by driving out poor separtors and
enabling the careful operator to use
good separators in the best possible
manner, has saved at least per cent
of the total fat in the milk which
would otherwise be wasted. The man.
ager of syndicate of 100 creameries
made the statement that the Babcock
test saved the creameries of Wiscon-
sin at least s1,2OO,OOO annually, and
that his own company profited by the
test to the extent of $15O,OOO annually.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-15
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A man who might we'll have been
a millionaire still works daily in his
laboratory in the agriculture chemi-
stry building of the University of Wis
consin at Madison. He is DR.. Stephen
Moulton BabcOck, inventor of the Bah
cock milk test. quick, simple and
accurate method of determining the
fat in whole milk, skim milk. cream,
buttermilk, whey and cheese.
At 81, with his eyesight failing and
his hearing slightly defective, DR..
Babcock still retains the keen mind,
the enthusiasm and the persistence
which enabled him forty years ago to
give the world the test which other
scientists had been trying in vain to
devise.
DR.. Babcock was born in 1S43 at
Bridgewater. N. Y. He was gradu-
ated from the Clinton Liberal in
stitute in 1862 and from Tufts col
lege, Massachusetts, in 1866, with
B. A. degree. He studied chemistry
at Cornell university from 1872 to
1875 and later began advanced chem
istry work at Goettingen, Germany,
where he took his Phi. D. degree in
1879. He was instructor in chemistry
at Cornell from 1875 until he went
to Germany and again in 1881 and
1882. He became chemist of the New
York state agricultural experiment
station at Geneva in 1882 and re-
manned until 1888, when he accepted
a similar post at the University of
Wisconsin college of agriculture. He
was made assistant director of the
Wisconsin agricultural experiment
station in June, 1900. He was pro-
fessor of agricultural chemistry at the
University of Wisconsin and assistant
director of the station until 1913,
when he became professor emeritus.
DR.. Babcock manifested an inven-
tive mind long before he came to Wis
cOnsin. and the milk test, while the
most important, was only one of his
noteworthy contributions to the dairy
industry. One of his early inventions
was a viScometer, an instrument to
measures the viscosity of liquids. This
invention is still widely used COM
mercially to determine the viscosity of
oils, particularly with reference to
adulterations.
While at Cornell in 1875, he con-
Quoted the first scientific investiga-
tons on the ripening of cheese. In
1888, at Geneva, he devised gavi-
metric method of analyZing milk
which has been adopted as the STAN
dard method by United States govern
ment chemists. He announced in 1885
simple, and as yet the only success
full, method for determining the size
and number of fat globules in milk.
The famous milk test was his first
important discovery after he came to
the Wisconsin station. He followed
1t in 1895 with method by which
casein can be separated mechanically
from the other constituents of milk
In the same year he devised a mathe-
NAUTICAL formula by which the yield OF
cheese from any given lot of milk
can be computed from the data OBJ
tanned by simple ANALYSIS. Next he
began to work with DR.. H. L. Rus
sell, bacteriologist of the experiment
station, and in 1896 they announced
the discovery of the cause of the les
sened consistency of pasteurized
cream, which they followed soon after
with a method for restoration of con-
sistency.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-15

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The Washington times., 1931-01-16
100000 STRIKE
IN BOMBAY

LONDON, Jan. 16 UN.SO.
Despite an official warning to
Indian Nationalists at Bombay
that efforts to call a hartal
(strike) as a protest to the hang.
ing of four Ghandhists at Schol-
apur would be summarily dealt
with, disorders broke loose
throughout Bombay today.
Troops Guard City
Exchange Telegraph and Cen.
trail News dispatches from there
indicated that tenSeness prevailed
throughout the city, with troops
guarding all strategic points. AS
the result Of baton charges in
first attempts by Nationalists to
enforce a day of mourning, 40
of the CongreSSionaliSts were hurt,
Despite preventive measures by
authorities, aggressive crowds pa
trolled the city, picketing courts
and business houses. Women
volunteers were the most active,
100000 Men Strike
Advices to the evening news.
papers estimated that 100000
Bombay workmen obeyed the har.
tai call. The entire police force
of 5000 men was posted through
the city in units of 40 men each
reinforced by troops.
The four men hanged were
convicted Of inciting riots which
resulted in fatalities.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Liquor Charge
JniLS D. G.. M1n

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Jan. 10.
Pursued by Prince Georges county
officers on the Washington pike
near here yesterday, Clates E
Hutton, Of 612 Sixth st. N. w,
Washington, was overtaken and
arrested after a search of his car
is alleged to have revealed SO
half-gallons of whisky.
A charge of unreasonable speed
and having no registration card
was placed against him, besides
those Of transportation and pos
session.
In default Of $1,000 bond, Hut
ton was lodged in the BladepS
burg Jail. He will appear ir
police court in Hyattsville next
Wednesday.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Woman Wins Suit
AGAINST Railroad

A $4,000 damage verdict yester-
day was awarded by a District
Supreme Court jury to Isabella
D. johnson, Mendoza Apartments,
in her suit against the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company for in
juries suffered at Union Station
December IS, 1927.
She was boarding a train for
Baltimore when a covering of the
step fell and injured her. The
Washington Terminal Company,
which was also made defendant,
was held not liable. Attorneys
Lambert, Yeatman and Horning
appeared for the plaintiff.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
2 Jailed in Robbery
Of Ann1DOLiS Club

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 49,
Adjudged guilty of robbery,
Francis Aguilar, and Mariana
Rosetti, young Filipinos, were
sentenced to terms of two and a
half years in the Maryland Pen
itentiary by Judge Robert Moss,
in Anne Arundel county circuit
court.
Aguilar and Rosetti stole 5000
from the Filipino Friendly
Society, a club organization with
which they formerly were associ-
ated. A Baltimore detective
found the money hidden in a
coal pile at the clubs quarters.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
$900,0OO,O0 Ready
For Building Drive

More than $9OO,OO0,000 will be
spent Immediately on public i'm
provements by cities, townships
and counties throughout tn
country, Col. Arthur Woods, chair
man of the Presidents emergency
committee for employment, an,
nounced last night.
Approximately $7OO,OOO,oOO of
this is available now and the
other $2O0,O0O,O00 will be ready
as soon as bonds, voted last No
Vember, are sold.
This huge amount does not in
clude any of the money that is
being raised by the States and
the Federal Government for pub
lie works and to give employment
to thousands of men.
Tell your friends about the ease Of
locating apartment vacancies through
the classified rental columns,
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
RED CROSS CAVE
AID To 405,000,' =
PAYNE SHOWS
Chairman DiSCIoSes, However,
That Need for Ten Million
Relief Fund Grows Acute

Cash grants for food relief for
drought victims have been given
by the American Red Cross in all
but nine of the seventy.five
counties in Arkansas, John Barton
Payne, chairman, announced yes
terday.
The total cash given as of jan
uary IA, was $619, ,7S1 80, the chair
man said, and 4O5.OOO persons are
now being cared for.
FL States Affected
Reports show that 81 States are
affected, with acute distress in
383 counties. Calls for relief in
Oklahoma and Texas counties
have mounted in the last few
days.
The total expenditure up to
January ID in Red Cross relief, in
cluding all types, seed, clothing,
food, ETC., was 1882, ,837.54, Judge
Payne said, adding:
MANY Red Cross chapters in
these affected countries which
have funds in their treasures
are giving relief from their roll
call funds and local COntribu-
tions, but have notified the ma
tiOnaI organization that they will
soon be at the end of their re-
sources.
"The need for the $10,OOO,-
900 relief fund is very great"
Church Aid Asked
The Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America sent an
urgent appeal to Protestant
churches throughout the country
to cooperate to the limit of their
ability in the campaign to raise
$1O,0O0,O00 for drought relief, and
the Rt. Rev. Michael j. Curley,
archbishop of Baltimore, dis
patched telegram from the hos
pital where he is i'll urging the
Catholic press to make a special
appeal to aid in the campaign.
President Hoover yesterday
wrote a letter to the Association
of Community Chests and coun-
ellis thanking them for co-operat"
ing with the Red Gross in it's
drive.
The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Helmets Are Hats,
Not Ware, Court Says

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 16.
Steel helmets are hats, not hard
ware, Judge Frank Sutton. of the
law and equity court, decided in
settling a suit Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway against Fred
Sternheimer and Nathan Stern
heimer here.
The railway had attempted to
collect $214.78 from the local firm
on shipments of helmets from St.
Joseph. Mo.
The defendant sought to have
the helmets classified as hardware
upon which freight rates are less.
CARDINAL HAYES STILL ILL
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 Q.N.SJ.
Cardinal Hayes still was confined
to his bed today with a severe
cold. His condition was reported
as not serious.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
Alumni and High School CUNTS
to Play Friday

AS the final home game of the sea-
son the Oakland High School basket
ball team will meet the alumni of o.
H. S. at the school auditorium on Fri
day evening at 500 o'clock.
In a game played last Friday even
ing the alumni were barely able to
nose out the school quint, an extra
period being required to gain an 49,
IA victory. This week, however, the
high school five are determined to
give the old grads setback, according
to Foster Speicher, coach, and an in
teresting game is promised.
Admission will be Is and 25 cents.
The alumni will line up with Nc
Comas at center; Nally and Hanst at
the guard positions, and Stanton and
either Pollock or Sanders at the for
ward posts.
The high school will present it's US
ual lineup of Maroney and Glotfelty,
forwards; Sollars, center, and Graves
and Rice, guards.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
STATE BUYS 5000 ACRES
OF GARRETT FOREST LAND
Purchase of Tract In This COun-
ty Brings State Holdings Up
To $4,000 Acres
LAND IN POTOMAC VALLEY

Purchase of a 6,0O0-acre tract of
woodland in Garrett county by the
State Forestry Department, was an
nounced yesterday in the office of the
Department at Baltimore. The area
is nearly a quarter as large as the
present State forest preserves.
The land is situated on Backbone
Mountain and is said to be heavily
timbered. 1t slopes from the noun
tain to the Potomac River, where there
is a wide water frontage. The pur-
chase raises the total area of Mary
lands forest preserves to $4,000 acres,
F. w. Besley, chief forester, said.
Three smaller tracts are now un-
der option, and their purchase would
bring an additional 5000 acres I'M
der state control. Mr.. Besley said that
the State hopes to have 100000 acres
of forest preserves by 1910.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
LEGION TO AID VETERANS
WHO DESIRE BONUS LOANS
Proctor KildOw Post to Cooper
ate With Veterans Bureau

Proctor Kildow Post, No. II, Amer
lean Legion, has arranged to cooper
ate with the Veterans Bureau by as
sisting former service men who desire
to borrow money on their adjusted
service certificates. A Legion member
will be at the Legion Hall on Third
street, Oakland, on Saturday, March
7, from 1 until p. M, and on Mon
day, March 9, at Z p. M, to assist
those desiring to convert their certif-
Gates into cash.
The proper form of application
blanks, the same as used formerly,
will be kept there and no charge will
be made by the Legion for assistance
in filling out these applications. Ex-
service men not personally known to
officers of local post are requested to
arrange to have themselves identified
at the time they make application.
They should bring along their dis
charge certificate or similar means of
identifying themselves or their sigma
lures.
Where no loan has previously been
made the adjusted service certificate
itself is required to accompany the APP
plication. If loan has already been
made the veteran should bring along
the receipt slip from the Veterans
Bureau showing the amount already
advanced.
The American Legion calculates
that if veterans borrow up to the full
amount available and do not repay
the loan, the principal and compound
ed interest will about consume the bal
ance of the value of the certificate by
the end of the twenty-year period.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
Noted Musician Coming to
Oakland

The examination for promotion Of
students of the music class taught
by Sister Augustine in the Parochial
School in Oakland will be held during
the third week in March.
Mr.. Otto Ortmann, of the Peabody
Conservatory, formerly came in per-
son for this examination, but now that
he is director of the Conservatory
he has appointed Sister Adelaide Nor
wood, Peabody graduate, to come in
his place. She will examine accord
ing to Peabody standards.
This Sister is in charge of the music
department at Mt. St. Agnes College,
Maryland. She is the daughter of the
well known opera singer, Madame Ad-
elaide Norwood. For her early music
study she was sent to Germany. Later
she continued at Mt. Saint Agnes
under the Sisters of Mercy and her
finishing work was done at Peabody
Conservatory.
While in Oakland, Sr. Adelaide will
give recital in st. Peters Hall. The
music pupils and their parents will be
invited. Her program will be:
F. Chopin. .Scherza in C sharp minor
MozartBachaus ........... Serenade
F. List. ......A u Bord dune Source
F. List. .............L La Campanella
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
FARMERS SLOW IN ASKING
HELP FROM DROUGHTBODY
Five or Six Have Applied for
Assistance from Garrett County

Maryland farmers have responded
slowly to Washington's offer of
drought relief loans, DR.. T. B. SYM
ons, director of the extension service,
University of Maryland, has stated.
DR.. Symons predicted that the res
ponse would grow in volume during
the next few weeks, as the farmers in
drought sections became acquainted
with the Agriculture Department
proposition.
Five or six farmers of Garrett
county have applied for the relief, ac-
cording to John H. Carter, county
agent, but no reply as to their accep-
lance has been received thus far.
Mr.. Carter attributed the farmers
reluctance to being compelled to
answer precise questions in writing
concerning the size of his family,
what crops he planted last year and
their net yield in dollars and cents,
what crops he plans this year, and
what he wants the money for.
All county agents will help the
farmers of the state in filling out the
application blanks. Once approved by
the county committee, the application
is sent to the Department of Agricul-
ture for its approval or disapproval.
If approved, a check for the amount
of the loan is mailed directly from
Washington to the applicant.
The largest sum any one farmer
may borrow, Mr.. Carter stated, is
5000, and money is being loaned only
for productive purposes, such as pur-
chasing fertilizer, seed, fuel and oil
for tractors, and feed for workstock.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
Lesson In Flower Garden Pro.
iectS Is Held

The first lesson of the 1881 Home
Flower Garden Project was held Fri
day, February 81, at 1:30 p. NJ, with
the Home Demonstration Agent. The
first years program was reviewed
followed by demonstration on the
second years work which dealt with
propagation of perennials, biennials,
and bulbs. Specimens of geranium
coleus, chrysanthemum, and bulbs
were distributed among the members
The following leaders from four
districts were present, Mrs. ]. W.
Baker and Mrs. o. S. Ridder, Sunny
side Homemakers club; Mrs. E. o.
Fouch and Mrs. ]. S. Elliott, Mt. Lake
lark; Mrs. T. C. Bittinger and Mrs
Vm. Frazee, of Oakland Homemakers
club; Miss Lucille Glotfelty, Bittin-
ger; Mrs. J. Littman and Mrs.
Shatzer, of Oakland.
The second lesson in the Second
Years Project will be given on We'd
nesday, March II, at 1870 p. M, in the
Court House.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
TO NOMINATE CANDIDATES
FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICES
Citizens Meeting to be Held To-
night at s rehabilitation to
be Held on Monday
TO OPEN POLLS AT EIGHT

Nomination of candidates for three
councilmen and a treasurer of the
town of Oakland will be made at a
citizens meeting to be held this even-
ing in the City Hall at o'clock, G. C.
Stemple, mayor, has announced.
Election for these offices will be held
on Monday, March 9.
Mayor Stemple is requesting that
a representative group Of citizens be
present and take an interest in the
municipal affairs by nominating res
ponsible men on the ticket. The meet
ing will be called to order by the may
or, after which a chairman will be
named to conduct the business affairs.
No candidates have as yet ap-
peared openly in the field and there is
uncertainty as to whether or not the
retiring councilmen will be candidates
to succeed themselves. 1t is felt that
several will appear at the meeting
tonight. In case of more than six
candidates for councilmen, it was I'M
decided whether or not names would
be placed on the ballot or cut down by
vote of the citizens present at the
meeting. The latter method has been
used during the last several years.
At the election on Monday, March
9, the voters will elect three persons
as members of the Town Council and
one person for the Office of treasurer,
the councilmen to serve terms of two
years, and the treasurer a term Of
one year.
The polls will open at 8 o'clock a.
m. at the council chamber and will
remain open until 6 o'clock p. m.
White Way Uncertain
The question as to whether or not a
person is in favor of the White Way
for Oakland, will not be placed on the
ballot, according to Mayor Stemple.
Upon investigation it was found to be
illegal to place anything on the ballot
except the names of candidates for
the municipal offices.
To place such question on the bal
lot, it would have been necessary to
pass bill through the legislature, it
was stated. Since the motion for a
White Way was tabled some time ago
by the council, the question will not
come up again unless requested by
the new council, or by number Of
citizens.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
REPORT SHOWS FINANCIAL
CONDITION OF CITY GOOD
Net Assets Increased Almost
$4,000 During 193O-Permanent
improvements Are Made
BALANCE OF $4,315.4S

Showing the town of Oakland to be
in sound financial condition, the an
nual financial report was presented
at the regular meeting of the Mayor
and Town Council held Monday night
at the City hall. While receipts as a
whole were smaller, expenditures
were also smaller, leaving balance
in the treasury of $4,315.48, approx
mately $75 more than last year.
The statement shows that the town
now owes nothing except its bonded
indebtedness, the amount of $4,000 as
a balance on the street improvement
loan, and $4,000 due on the fire
trucks.
The assets have increased $4,000
during the past year while the liabili-
ties have decreased approximately
$4,000, making an increase in net as
sets of almost $4,000.
While the ordinary and necessary
expenditures aggregate nearly $1,000
per month, the ones of special inter-
est throughout 1880 included $4,000
as payment on the street improvement
loan, the laying of 1000 feet of new
service lines for the water system, all
copper; the laying of 5000 feet of side
water mains; digging of two new
wells at cost of 1920 to take care of
Oakland's water supply in any future
emergencies; and the remodeling of
the city hall at cost of 1852.
So much permanent improvement
was made in the water lines on ac-
count of the laying of the cement
shoulders along Third street and Oak
street, Mayor Stemple pointed out.
A number of streets were oiled at
a cost of $1,O54.73, and other streets
improved with macadam construction.
i Listed among the assets were I'M
paid taxes for the years 1927, 1928,
1929 and 1880, amounting to approx
mately $4,000, enough to pay the
indebtedness on the street improve
ment loan and the balance due on the
fire trucks.
The report will be found on another
page of The Republican today. The
financial statement was presented by
A. G. Ross, clerk, and was passed by
the council and approved by Mayor
Stemple at the monthly meeting Mon
day night. Monday evenings meet
ing was the final session of the pres
ent council as the annual election for
members of the body will be held on
Monday, March 9. The new council
will organize on April 6.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-05
War Veterans to Hear Talk on
Obtaining Benefits

Mr.. Charles F. Sargent, regional
director of the War Veterans Bureau,
will be in Oakland on Monday, March
16, to discuss the world war veterans
laws and advise them of the benefits
and proper procedure for obtaining
them.
The discussion will be held at the
City hall, beginning at 1880 o'clock
and all world war veterans and men,
bers of the American Legion are
urged to be present.
To Organize Rifle Team
Major George Parker, a prominent
ex-service marine, and holder of a
distinguished service cross, will also
be present at the meeting to assist
the local legion post in forming a
rifle team. All legionaires and other
ex-service men are urged to attend.