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WAKE UP AND DESTROY THE FLY—NOW. When the little pests begin to swarm •bout our doors so thick that no amount of shooing will drive them away, when a good dinner is spoiled for us by the sight of a fly in the gravy, then we will begin to buy fly traps and paper and poison and spend hours of each day swatting them and scolding the children for leaving the door open, and werIl keep right on in the same old way until frost comes. We have dime it for years, and we can go on doing it for years to come, and a thousand years from now there will be just as many flies to swat as there are now unless we change our meth ods. When we were children we were taught that the fly was a harmless lit tle creature, “nature's scavenger," and therefore a friend to man. Even then we looked upon him with aversion when we found him swimming in our milk. Rut now that we know his scavenging consists in collecting filth and disease germs in our outhouses and depositing them on our food ev ery man's hand Is against him. Sci ence has pronounced the death sen tence upon him. and the only reasoni that his execution Is delayed is be cause there are so many of him. This new way is the way of pre vention. Stables and refuse piles, out houses and garbage cans are points of attack in the fly campaigns. By mak ing the breeding places Inhospitably clean and snnltary more can be ac complished in a day than In a season of swatting the fly after it has once come into existence. i THE 8UMMER SCOURGE. ■»»»<> I & M Vo* FLIE8 are di..... carrier* and originate In filth. They are born in filth; they thrive in filth; they prefer filth a* an environ ment. With filth laden feet they drag their way through the butter; with filth covered wings they flounder in the milk; with filthy bodies they succumb in the sirup. From sewer and alleyway, manure pile and dead cat, they gather disease. This, too, they bring into the butter, the milk and the airup. And thus human beings die, victims of the noi some, dirty, disgusting little in sect—the worst nuisance of the summer. One female fly lays about 120 perfect eggs. These eggs hatch in ten days. It may be assum ed that they result in sixty per fect females. These females lay 120 eggs each. The eggs hatch in ten days and result in 3,600 perfect females. The 3,600 lay 120 eggs each, which hatch in ten days and result in 210,000 fe males, and so on. If therefore one energetic fly becomes pro ductive on April 15, how many energetic flies will one manure pile give forth by Oct. 31? Kill the early fly. i^<5Ksx-!kS> WHY THE FLY IS DAN GEROUS. For each female fly batclied in April there will be. if none of her progeny are killed, 7,000.000,000 In September of the same year. Every fly is n possible carrier of dls ease on his hairy little feet. He delights in cesspools, decaying animal and vegetable matter, barn yards, offal heaps, garbage barrels, etc., places where disease germs abide and multiply. But he likes to vary his diet—fresh meat, sugar, bread—anything that humans cat the fly also likes. He dearly loves to frequent the kitchen and dining room of his human friends at their meal time, and he lunches on all kinds of filth between those meals. Every time he leaves the swill bar rel or the cesspool for the kitchen or the dining room he carries with him on his feet some of the filth on which he has just been walking. Swat, therefore, the voracious fly, or, better stlli, swat all you see, but keep from seeing many by starving them to death by keeping all their] food supply in the stnble. cesspool swill barrel, kitchen and dining room safely and securely covered up. Look Into the Future While swatting the fly do not nog leet to swat the breeding place of the fly, the home where he rears his nu merons progeny. By overlooking the breeding place you make it possible for the fly that you do not swat to increase and multiply faster than you can pos sibly kill off the coming generations SIMPLE ADDITION. Filth and stagnant water breed flies and mosquitoes. Flies and mosquitoes breed death and dis ease. See the point? THE UNIVERSAL MENACE. The housefly causes 100,000 deaths a year and does a prop erty damage of $12,000,000. The fly travels only 1,500 feet and delights in a liquid diet. When he finds something that he likes better than his latest meal he disgorges. One pair of flies beginning in May will breed 143,675 bushels by September. The time will come when it will be considered more disprace'ul to have flies in our homeo than it is now to have bedbugs. If flies were as large as cows we would not have one in the land. Unfortunately our indif ference to their disease breeding activities is as large as the pests themselves are small. The extermination of the fly will follow the observing of the old rule that CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS. FACTS ABOUT FLIES Flies make milk impure. Flies do nothing but harm. Files are wholesale murderers. Flies bring summer complaint Flies cause epidemics of disease. Flies do not belong In this town. Files find nothing too filthy to eat. Flies spread the hookworm disease. Flies kill 100.000 people in this conn jry every year. Flies carry death about on their hairy legs and wings Flies cost the United States $500. 000,000 annually Flies are responsible for the majority of deaths among children. FLY PREVENTION RULES. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” This ie the time to use all means for the prevention of the spread of fliee. Begin early and then keep everlastingly at it. The vigilant fly will use every opportunity that he gete—remember that. Here are several “don’t#” that will aid in fighting the fly: Don’t dine at a hotel or res taurant where flies are tolerated. Don’t allow flies in your house. Don’t permit them near your food, especially milk. Don’t buy food where flies are permitted. Don't allow them in a sick room. ' Don’t allow them to crawl over the baby or the nipple of its nursing bottle. Screen every window and door in your house and keep it up until you start your furnace. Have separate screen covers over all exposed food. Let cleanliness and cleanliness and yet more cleanliness be your motto all summer long. NO FILTH—NO FLIES. • <v» »V*>J Every form of rubbish should be re moved by the householder. C ontainers with tight covers should be provided. Not only gar bage, but tin cans, rags, lawn clip pings and house hold rubbish, should go into such containers. Much of this rubbish can be burned. An old garbage can with a defective bottom will make an excellent furnace. Such a can may be inverted and raised six or eight inches from the ground. Numerous holes may then be punched into the upper end. This end will there after serve as a screen and pre vent bits of burning paper or ash from menacing the neigh borhood. When the back alley way and cellar are scrupulously clean screen the house. Screen every window and every doorway. See that the screens fit and that they are free from holes. There is little use in screening most win dows and most doors if some windows and some doors are not protected. Also flies can enter through very small holes, and thus only perfect screens should be used. Fight the “Typhoid Fly.” The common housefly, now known :t> the “typhoid tty," is an important fac tor in the spreading of typhoid fever. Therefore screening the food, also the doors and windows, establishing sani tary dry earth chisels and removing i' screening all refuse, such us manure garbage and decaying vegetables and fruits, will aid greatly in the restrie tion and prevention of typhoid fever — Lexington (N. c.) Dispatcli. Kill Flies—NOW. Today is the time to kill flies. Right now, before the weather becomes warmer, is the time to clean tip. thus destroying the eggs and eliminating the flies before they are hatched. Ti('e first lazy flies of spring are be ginning to crawl into the sunny cor ners.l One fly now play mean 10.000, 'JOO lifer on. \ JOHN T. PULLEN DEAD. Mr. John T. Pullen, president of the Raleigh Savings Bank and Trust Company died this morning at 2:05 o’clock at the residence of Mr. John W. Harden on Hillsboro street. Mr. Pullen's death came with shocking suddenness, he having been ill only since Monday and the fact of his illness being known only to a comparative few. Mr. Pullen j ! was sixty years old in last December. , 1 He was generally known as Raleigh's ' I best loved citizen and he had given ! aid to every charitable object in this i city. -News and Observer, May 2. ! THANKSGIVING SCHOOL CLOSES. : Friday April 25th, will always be a day remembered by tlie people of the Thanksgiving community and for several miles around. On this day was brought to close another suc cessful six months term of Thanks giving Graded school. It was a beautiful spring day and very early in the day a large crowd of people gathered on the grounds. Judge W. S. Stevens, of Smithfield, was the first speaker to claim the attention of the people, and being a well know and well beloved citizen of Johnston (County, a very large crowd gathered .to hear his speech which was indeed grand and inspiring. His subject be ing "Man” and a great lead be made of this subject too. We are sure it did everybody much good. At the close of his splendid talk, he in troduced the Hon. L. H. Allred, of Smithfield. Of course every body was anxious to hear him, and they who j were in the house heard one of the grandest speeches ever delivered in I Johnston County, after the close of his talk admidst a burst of applause, it was announced that every body would spread dinner together in picnic style, and more good things to eat were put down there than is 1 usually seen at picnics, the differ 'ent kinds were too numerous to men |tion after dinner and some rest, the people gathered back in the house and to their great pleasure heard some very good dialogues, recitations, declamations, instrumental solos, etc. AH were dismissed for something like three hours then near eight o’clock exercises began again which consisted of plays, declamations, re citations music and ever so many more things. One of the most pleas ant events of the evening was the presentation of a medal by Mr. Pat Parker (Mail carrier on route No. 1) to the best reciter. There were sev eral competitors for this beautiful medal but the judges which were Pro! B. I*. Hassell, Mrs. Temple and Mrs. ! Coley, of Selma, decided that Miss I Lizzie Lynch was the winner, and everybody seemed to think with the 'judges Then with one of the best ' plays ever presented at Thanks giving, the exercises closed. Every body gives the excellent teachers, Misses Jones and Johnson much cred it for their hard work. E. A. G. SEEING NEW YORK. Farmer John: “This is the New York Stock Exchange, my dear. All those men running about on the floor are brokers.’’ Mrs. John: “My! I should think they would get tired. Don’t they ever sit down?” Farmer John: “I guess not. Seats here cost about $70,000 apiece.—New York Press. WANTED NO AMATEURS. Edith and Flora were spending their summer vacation in the country. “Do you know,” said Edith, “that young farmer tried to kiss me. He told me that he had never kissed any girl before.” “What did you tell him?” asked Flora. ) “Why,” replied Edith, “I told him I was no agricultural experiment sta tion.”—Harper’s Bazar. FRANK MORRISON. Secretary of the Ameri can Federation of Labor. | Photo by American Press Associa Davis Stores The High’Art Clothing Store For Men, Young Men and Youths. If you want to be among the throng of “Better Dressed” men, come to Davis Stores SmithAeld, N. C. POMONA SCHOOL CLOSES MAY 9 10 A. M. The Junior Order of Smithfield will present this school with flag and Bible. Bible presented by Jas. H. Wood all, of Smithfield. Accepted by Rev. J. M. Daniels of Selma. Flag presented by, J. W. Setzer, of Smithfield. Accepted by W. A. Edg erton, of Selma. 12 o’clock dinner. 1:30 P. M. Baseball game between the school and Sand Hill. 3:30 P. M. recitations and declama tions by little folks. 8 P. M. dialogues, drills and negro sermons by larger pupils, C. S. UPCHURCH, ALICE SANDERS, Teachers. Two Boys in a Country Church. There is a Baptist Church in the country near Murfreesboro, Term., where a number of years ago a rural shepherd met his appointtments one Saturday and Sunday each month. . It was not an eventful pastorate as the world reckons, though the flock grew under his ministry and there were several additions in the special meetings that were held from time to time. But among those who joined under his preaching and were by him j led into the baptismal waters were | two boys who are now honored pro fessors in the Southern Baptist Theo logical Seminary—Drs. W, O. Carver and B. H. DeMent. The faithful pas tor of the little Church in the coun try—Rev. J. T. Oakley—did his work and went elsewhere to minister, not knowing at the time how far reach ing was his influence. And so it is with many another pastor in town and country.—The Biblical Recorder. SITS UP IN COFFIN AND GRAND MOTHER DIES. Butte, Cal., April 25.—While mem bers of the family and relatives were grouped about the open coffin of Mrs. J. R. Burney’s 3-year-old son, listen ing to the funeral service, the child sat up and gazed about the room. His eyes caught those of his grand mother, Mrs. L. P. Smith, 81 years old, who stared at the child as if hypnotized, and sank into a chair dead. As she fell, the child dropped back into its coffin, from which it was quickly snatched by the mother. A physician said there was no hope.^for the boy, and death came a f$;v "hours' later. Today there were t\$fc COffins in th Burney home. Doykic services were held, and the child and its grand mother wcje buried side b.v side. GIVE A LITTLE. 'to, don't be too serious. Did you aver read Douglas Malloch’s splendid little verse? Here is the way: Give a little, live a little, try a little mirth; Sing a little, bring a little happiness to earth; Smile a little, while a little idleness away; Care a little, share a little of your holiday. Play a little, pray a little, be a lit tle glad; Rest a little, jest a little if a heart is sad; Spend a little, send a little to an othrfe’s door— Give a little, live a little, love a lit tle more—ix. N. B. Grantham Known as the best merchant on account of the best lines. Here are a few of our leading lines: Schloss Bros. Clothes Style-Plus Clothes Cohen Goldman Pants Dutchess Pants Sweet Orr Over-alls Cluette Peabody Co. Shirts Ferguson McKinnie Shirts B. V. D. Underwear Peter Hill’s Underwear Interwoven Sox Buster Brown Hose for Boys Altman’s Ties Slidewell Ties Updegraffs Gloves Pioneer Suspenders Pioneer Belts John B. Stetson Hats Maxim Hats Cabinet Hats Crosset Shoes Beacon Shoes Endicott Johnson Shoes Bion Shoes Hagerstown Sandals The above lines are sold on their merits. N. B. Grantham Smithfield, North Carolina +4* jTURNAGE | The GROCER trading | Under the guarantee of v ?Vr>. ❖ Kjght goods and prices or ? No SALE. | Anything I Good to Eat ^ S.C. TURN AGE * Smithfield, N. C. No. 666 This is a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS * FEVER. Five or six doses will break any casa' an<; if taken then as a tonic the Ffver wl1* J101 return. It acts on the liver wetter than Calomel and does not gripe or icken. <toc ;; Engine, Boiler and Machinery For Sale. I have for sale r 25 tc.ise powVS£ boiler. 1 20 horse boiler. 1 Automatic lathe. 2 Hand laths. 1 Seven inch Moulder. 1 Plainer. 1 Jointer. 1 Combination cut off saw 1 double head shapes'. 1 Band saw and other machinery will sell for cash or part cash and time on balence. J. T. HOLT Wilson’s Mills, North Carolina RUB-MY-TISM Will cure your Rheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects Etc. 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