Bemoctaiic Wada
.
Belletonte, Pa., March 31, 1016.
KEEP PLACE CLEAN
$0 FLIES WONT |
BOTHER YOU |
If you want to be rid of the fly evil
this summer get the habit of keeping
your premises clean. Once you get
the habit it won’t be much trouble to
do so.
Drain your garbage, wrap it in pa
per and put it in a metal bucket with a
fly-proof 1id.
Every day or
two burn or
bury this gar-
bage or have
it hauled
away. |
If you keep a horse, don’t have i
a manure pile or bin. Put the ma- !
nure is a small receptacle—say, a |
tin tub or a barrel which can be kept |
covered from flies. Have this taken |
away and spread on a field oftener |
than once a week. |
If you have an outdoor toilet, see
that the vault is closed up tight where |
the house fits over it. Use sod to make ;
it so if you cannot get cement. Use
plenty of lime on the sewage and keep '
covers on the seat holes.
i - Keep your house screened, keep al
i
swatter handy and keep your eye L.
peeled—for during cold or rainy |
weather a few flies almost surely will |
wander in. Vigilance and action on |
your part will so discourage the flies |
after one or two seasons that they
will keep away from your premises.
Tell this to your neighbors and urge
them to join you in the campaign |!
against the fly pest. Pretty soon oth
ers will see the advantage of sanita:
tion, and if there’s any “git-up-and-git*
in the neighborhood it will not be long
until everybody in your end of the!
town will have the sanitary habit. |
It is not expensive to get rid of |
flies. There are people who may feel |
they cannot afford to buy a garbage |
can or other little necessities of clean
premises. Where there’s a will there's
a way. If you cannot afford today to,
spend any money, set your mind on!
cleaning up the place and do the best!
you can. Use such extra tubs and |
buckets as you have at hand. Above !
all, den’t be lazy. Clean up right! {
School Children |
Should Fight ’Em
‘The schools must help in the cam:
paign against flies. Each of the vari
ous grades should take a particular
part of the work, says a writer in the
International Harvester company bul
letin. Let one grade canvass the town
and ‘enlist the groceries, meat shops,
restaurants and householders in a
movement to clean up alleys and back
yards, provide for proper disposition
of garbage and for sanitary outhouses
Another grade might make fly traps
and sell them to the various grocers
and butchers for use at their ,places of
business and to the city authbrities for
use in public places. That was done
‘successfully in Holland, Mich., las!
year.
Still another grade may collect all
the information which can be secured
ion the subject of flies. All grades
may write compositions on “The Fly,’
“The Fly’s Travels,” “Confessions oi
a Fly,” “Dangers of a Housefly,” and
‘similar subjects. Prizes may be of
fered for the best essay from each
grade.
Fly Talk Is Dirty
When people discuss the fly evil
frankly and seriously they use dirty
talk necessarily. It is a nasty subject
but we are bound to consider it for om
own protection, and to take steps tc
abate the evil.
How does typhoid fever spread!
Generally it is communicated when
the solid and liquid food to be eaten
by healthy persons is contaminated
in some manner with human excre
ment from someone who has the dis
ease.
This is where the house fly gets in
its filthy work. Suppose your next
door neighbor has typhoid fever. The
waste matter cast from his intestinal
tract is emptied into the outside toilel
on his premises. Flies swarm aboui
the toilet vault until dinner time ai
your house. Then some of them at
tend your meal. They alight on the
food and poison it with germs—either |
from their hairy feet or by depositing
a speck which also contains germs.
Do not pooh-pooh this statement
Ask your doctor if it is not the gospel
truth. Then get busy and help kill the |
flies. Thus you may keep death out,
of your own home.
How to Sterilize Milk.
Drs. R. Kraus and B. Barbara of the
city of Buenos Aires assert in the
Muenchener Medizinische Wochen
schrift that water or milk can be ren
dered sterile simply and rapidly by
shaking with animal charcoal and fil
tering. A three per cent addition of
charcoal suffices for milk if it be al
lowed to stand for 16 minutes.
—For high class Job Work come to,
the WATCHMAN Office. ;
A Great Many Babies Die Every Summer From Diarrheal Diseases With Which They Are In-
fected by Food Contaminated by Houseflies. Mothers, Guard Your Little Ones From the Winged
Pestilence. See That the House Is Carefully Screened and the Premises Kept Clean.
Don’t Ignore
Fly Menace
This Season
Many persons do not realize what a
serious menace the fly is to the health
of this community. It is characteristic
of the average man to ignore this kind
of danger until it threatens his own
family. “Oh, the fly may be the means
of carrying a fatal disease to some
puny person,” you reason, perhaps
“but there's no danger of his bringing
it to me—I'm in pretty good shape. 1
eat three square meals a day and sleep
all right.”
That is a characteristic attitude of
soldiers. Rather, it used to be 80.
Doubtless you remember the awful toll
of life taken among the soldiers en
camped at Chickamauga during the
Spanish-American war. If you do not
you can easily look®it up. Those boys
in blue “died like flies.” Flies caused
the death of most of those stricken
with typhoid and dysentery.
It came about in this way. Human
excreta carries the bacteria of typhoid
fever, cholera, dysentery, summer com:
plaint, tuberculosis and intestinal dis
eases of other varieties. Flies feed on
human excreta, as you know if you
have kept your eyes open.
The Lesson of 1898.
Not a great deal about the value of
camp sanitation was known in 1898
The American army medical corps was
not organized as it
is now. The mob
ilization place at
Chickamauga was
not clean. Garbage
and sewage were
not destroyed as
they are now. In
that large body of
men it was inevitable that some should
be disease carriers. The waste matter
which they threw off acted as an in:
cubator for the bacteria which it car
ried. Flies and other insects, but es-
pecially flies, swarmed around the filth
sinks and fed. They were a frightful
annoyance at meal time, and they
were the army’s most deadly enemy
for they distributed dangerous germs
among all the men. As a result fever
and bowel diseases became almost an
epidemic. As a nation we were taught
a solemn lesson about the menace of
insects. Our army medical men learned
more in the Philippines, in Cuba, in
Porto Rico and in the Canal Zone
about the relation of flies, mosquitoes
and lice to the spread of disease than
had previously been learned in two or
three thousand years.
Cleaner Than Homes.
Visit any of our army encampments
today. They are kept cleaner than the
average housekeeper keeps her prem:
ises. Special attention is given to the
sanitary disposal of garbage, of sew
age and of other waste matter coming
from the camp hospital. Elaborate
means of protection against flies, mos-
quitoes, lice and bedbugs are taken—
but flies are considered the most filthy
and dangerous from the medical point
of view. .
It is safe to say that if this com:
munity should co-operate and act at
once so as to clean up the town thor
oughly, with special attention given
to the breeding places of flies, the
average of serious illness here would
be reduced 50 per cent for the months
of June, July, August and September.
Such a clean-up campaign is not im
possible. It means the spraying of
manure piles with a simple kerosene
solution every day or so, frequent re:
moval of manure piles, screened
toilets, covered garbage cans and the
use of fly swatters and fly paper by
everyone.
THE M
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FENEH
2 A TSH
PAPAS ASSOCIA IPSS
No Filth—No Flies! |
Flies and filth go together. No filth, |
no flies! About the only good thing
you can say about the fly is that his
presence should stimulate you to hunt |
up the place where he was born and
destroy it so that it may breed no
more of his kind. : !
Fly swatting may be a popular pas: |
time. It has been talked about much. |
So far, it has proved ineffective. The |
well-meaning person, applying the '
Swatter at every opportunity, kills one |
fly at a time. The removal of the con.
tents of a single manure box will swat 1
millions of them at a blow. |
Screens and swatters are a good
thing, but a clean neighborhood is the
best. Get busy!
RDERER
, ers who keep cows to protect them
i from flies this summer. It can be done
| each animal with a mixture composed
NH
Flies Diminish the Milk
Flow By Annoying Cow:
Cows seriously annoyed by flies dc
not give more than 60 per cent as
much milk as they would ordinarily. If
is to the advantage of farmers and oth
quite simply. In the first place, spray
of three parts fish oil and one pari
kerosene. Apply it with a small spray
pump. Secondly, keep the stable and
barnyard as free as possible of man
ure. Remove it frequently and use
some simple disinfectant freely abou
the premises.
The First National Bank.
Shoes. Hats and Caps. Clothing.
IF STYLE,
Value and Service
mean anything to you, you will wear
Fauble Clothes This Spring
TT represent Clothes
Perfection. Not a man
or young man who will try
these suits on but what will
agree that they are much the
Best Clothes
in every way ever shown in
Bellefonte. Convince your-
self. The clothes wil more
than please you. The price
won't scare you.
Always your money back
if not satisfied.
58-4
BELLEFONTE,
——
ANY business
The First National Bank
59-1-1y
The Need of Capital.
lack of sufficient working capital.
Those who carry accounts in
this bank in the proper manner can de-
pend upon our help when in need
failures are due. to
BELLEFONTE. PA.
Young Man,
Scatter Your Dollars!
YOUTH IS PRODIGAL. Frequently the young man DOESN'T
KNOW THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR.
YOUTH IS NOT EVERLASTING. The big men of the country laid
the foundation for their success by opening a bank account when they
were young.
If You Hope to Amount to Anything Don't
Delay Starting a Bank Account.
Start It Today.
THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
BELLEFONTE PA.
56-6
Don’t
Shoes. Shoes.
$3.50 SHOES
Reduced
to $2.25
NOW ON SALE
Ladies $3.00 and $3.50 Shoes
Reduced to $2.25 Per Pair.
ALL NEW GOODS,
Latest Styles, Good Sizes and
Widths. This sale is
FOR CASH ONLY.
Shoes must be fitted in the
store, as they will not be ex-
changed.
H. C. YEAGER,
THE SHOE MAN,
Bush Arcade Bldg, 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.