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FRIDAY, JVtY 3, 1810. PAGH KM ITT We're still giving sale prices and Iess on our entire The Dellinger stock is still being sold at half price. Our store is brim M elsewhere. Don't you think that a regular stock of goods bought at 40 cents on the dollar is vay beyond the reach of competition? We dunk so and can prove it. Hundreds of other people KNOW IT and are profiting by it. Why not you? TUB GA8TOX1A OAZKTTB iviyKKua dku i nickw oepco -score ...- rTS. ths about tions, lie exactness with which we fallow 1 .3 directions, and the pure, fresh quality of the drucs we use. But our medicines are not more satisfactory than our prices. It b this combination cf Iiih quality and low prices that has built up our business We sell many very good, rcsdy-prepared remedies lor different ailments. Are you troubled with corns? We can give you a positive remedy for their painless removal and cure REXALL CORN CURE. It relieves and cures the most stubborn and painful corns and bunions. It is absolutely painless and sure in results. Sold with the Rexall guarantee. Abernethy - Shields Drug Co. Phone 130 The Rexall The Gastonia Gazette. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1910. CHILDREN IN PERIL From the Good Housekeeping Mag zine for February, 1909, by per mission. The fire peril in our public schools Is trifling beside the constant spread of disease through common drink ing cups, nasty towels and other me diums of infection. Diphtheria, pneumonia and other diseases are found, by analysis, on drinking cups. A cup used by ten boys carried 75,000 germs. Special investigations by repre sentatives of this magazine, many of them parents, reveal appalling con ditions In 90 per cent, of the schools visited in many sections of the Unit ed States. How long will intelligent parents and teachers let alone boards of heaUh permit this wholesale poi- Boning to continue? The remedies are easily available, and described herewith. AN APPALLING SITUATION. The public scboolhouses, a major ity of them, are reasonably safe from a repetition of the Collinwood fire horror; this was fairly demonstrated by the investigation reported in our January number. Fire traps there are. but relatively not many. Less can be said, unfortunately, of the efforts to safeguard the health of the boys and girls; In fact, a de plorable state of affairs is revealed. Many of the communities the most alert In providing fire-proof build fags and In guarding against panic neglect to adopt the simplest hy gienic precautions to ward off dis ease. The majority of them. Indeed, deliberately invite the spread of In fectious germs by means of the com mon drinking cup. More than ninety per cent, of our investigators report the common drinking cup in daily use In the schools which they visited. A few, only a few, report hygienic drinking fountains, and in a very few places the pupils are using Individual cups. THE DEADLY DRINKING CUP. Every common drinking cup, from the tin dipper of the boy who passes the drinking water in the country school to the granite-ware cup chained beside the faucet In the lobby of. the city school, is a, poison cap. These, are not Imaginary dan gers, but living, malignant germs awsMig the first opportunity to en t Depend On Us For Your Medicines Your doctor will never have slightest cause for complaint ths way r:s fill his prescrip will cr3c the fidelity and Store 217 Realty Building ter the human tystem Who shall sav to what extent these school rlrinking cups have bveu responsible for the mortality among our children of school age! oftener than suspected, epidemics of tonsolitis, severe colds, sore throats and diphtheria could be traced di rectly to this medium. In the August issue of this maga zine, 1908, in en article entitled "The Cup That Kills," was the story of a three-year-old girl who Is curs ed for life with one of the most loathsome diseases, contracted from a single use of a railroad drinking glass. The human mouth is a natural lurking place for bacteria, both harmless and dangerous. The warmth and moisture are conducive to their welfare, and not infrequent ly decayed teeth afford natural breeding places. Bacteriologists have conclusively shown that a considerable number of people in good health harbor In their mouths virulent germs. It has been estimated that nearly one per cent, of well persons carry in their mouths true diphtheria germs. The germs of tonsilltis, pneumonia, bronchitis and the dreaded tuber culosis are harbored In the same way. What does this mean? Simply that the systems of these persons, being in a state of perfect health, are proof against attack, but if these germs gain entrance to the system of a person whose body tis sues are weakened and susceptible serious, even fatal, illness may re sult. To prove this. Dr. Alvin Davison, professor of biology in Lafayette College, requested ten boys to apply the upper Hp to pieces of flat, clean glass in the same way as the would touch a cup In drinking. These glass slips were then given a thor ough microscopic examination, and they showed an average of about one hundred human cells or minute bits of skin, and seventy-five thous and bacteria, to each slip. This from one application to the Hp. Going a step further, Prof. Da vison took a thin drinking glass, which for nine days has been In common use in a school. By count ing the cells present on fifty differ ent areas .n the glass ha estimated that the cap contained over 10.000 cells or bits of dead skla. Few of these showed lesa than ten germs clinging to them, and many aa high as 150, while between the cells were thousands of g erma left by the smears of saliva deposited by the drinkers. a cup which had been used' in a high school fqr several months without being washed was lined in side with a thin brownish deposit. Under the microscope this proved to be composed of particles of mud. thousands of bits of dead skin and millions of bacteria, among which were scores of germs corresponding in all details to those of tuberculo sis. Some of this sediment was in jected under the skin of a healthy guinea pig, and in forty hours the animal died. A post-mortem exam ination revealed that death was due to the presence of a sufficient num ber of pneumonia germs to cause . blood poisoning. A second guinea pig inoculated with the cup sediment developed tu berculosls. Careful inquiry proved that several pupils in the school from which the cup was taken were then sufferers from this dread diS' ease. An outbreak of diphtheria among twenty-four persons in Rochester, New York, was traced unmistakably to a common drinking cup which all the sick had used. Dr. Davison's investigations show that tonsilltis and sore throat affect a larger num ber of pupils In schools where the common drinking cup Is used than in schools in which the sanitary drirking fountain has been install el, or where the individual drinking cup !s required The common drinking cup should be banished from every, school and either the sanitary drinking fountain installed or the pupils provided with Individual cups; preferably the for mer plan should be adopted, as it is next to impossible to prevent an ex'''anRe of cups between children These precautions are economy in the truest sense. It is the short sighted politician and the narrow minded taxpayer who cannot see the immense saving in dollars and cents hich the conservation of the pub lie health means. It is not enough t-i warn the child not to drink after another: he must be prevented from so doing. In some places in Ger many paper cups are provided, to be 'lestrovtd when once used. They find It pays over there. It always pays to protect the public health, and it doubly pays in the case of the child not yet sufficiently developed to reason these things out and pro tect itself The drinking cup must go. It is the individual duty of the fathers and mothers who read this maga zine to see that it does go, and that right soon, in their home cities and towns. TWO GAMES OF BASEBALL. Correspondence of The Gazette. BELL'S PARK, July 19. Bell's Park crossed bats last Saturday af ternoon with McAdenvllle on the lat ters diamond, the score being 15 to 0 in favor of McAdenville. Bell's Park's second team and the Ozark team played a game Saturday after noon at Bell's Park, the score being 11 to 10 in favor of Ozark. Farrar. Bell's Park's pitcher, weakened in the ninth, allowing the visitors to win the game. He pitched fine ball up to the eighth inning, fanning eight men. The feafire of the game was the batting of Kendrick for Bell's Park. He got two 2-bag-gers out of four times up. Cox also hit a two bagger with the bases full. Batteries: Ozark Moore and Saun ders; Bell's Park Farrar and Price. DOTS FROM DALLAS R. P. D. 1. Correspondence of The Gazette. DALLAS. R. F. D. 1, July 21 OIHe Katheryn, the little 3-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Pasour, died Tuesday afternoon. The remains were laid tenderly to rest In Antloch cemeterv W4nM. day. The faneral services were con- auctea oy Rev. C. K."BeIl. of Kings Mountain, the oaitor. Rr P n Rlslnger. being sway on visit to v - us parents. Tba bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community Mr. and Mrs. Miller Rhyne and children, of Spencer .Mountain, vis ited relatives In this section Satur day and Sunday. Mrs. Llllle John son was called to Gastonia Sunday to be with her sister, who Is very ill. Messrs. Z. N. and Crown Ratch ford went to Catawba county Sun day to visit their brother, Mr. J. J. Ratchford. They returned home Tuesday. Mrs. John Friday, of the Hoyle's Creek neighborhood, is spending a few days with her daugh ter, Mrs. L. C. Pasour. Dallas Dots. Correspondence of The Gazette. DALLAS. July 21. The military company is expected home this af ternoon. Mrs. C. E. McAllister and daughter, Miss Ida, are visiting friends in Charlotte. Mrs. Mattle Moore, of Gastonia, visited Mrs. R J Durham yesterday. Mr. and Mrs Li. C. Cornwell, of Old Fort, are vis lung Mr. C. C. Cornwell. Mrs. Osie Hutchinson and children, of Del Rio Texas, are visiting her father, Mr C. C. Cornwell. Dr. Bessie Pruett who has been practicing in Philadel phia for the past year, is at home again. We welcome this young lady physician to our town and hope she will decide to locate here. Miss Es sie) Wilson is visiting friends at Due West and Anderson, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Williams and children and Miss Minnie Williams, of Kershaw S. C, are the guests of their sister, Mrs. Laura Sasser. Mr. J. L. Webb of McAdenville, visited his son, Mr I O. Webb, yesterday. The Monarch Cotton Mill started up work Monday morning. They expect to run regularly in day time. Sheriff T. E. Shuford, Messrs. F. II. and W. D. Robinson, G. W. Bal lard, Joe Taylor and P. A. Summey went on the excursion to Richmond Tuesday night. Miss Lois Durham has been visiting Miss Margeret Ru- d'eill this week. Misses Ellen and Oran Hicks, of Gastonia, were the guests of Miss Mary Mason Sunday. Mrs. Clark and Miss Louise Ma son, of Belmont, visited Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Mason this week. Miss Katherlne Mason is visiting Mrs. R E. Carpenter at Shelby. The Shelby district conference of the M. E. Church, South, meets here Thursday and lasts through Sunday. About one hundred and twenty-five delegates and ministers are expect ed, besides visitors. Miss Marie Smith is greatly lm proved. She has been suffering from an attack of typhoid fever. A farmer of Connectlcutt while dredging a pond Tuesday lost his footing and fell into quick sand, see- ug something he thought was a rock he climbed on top of it and n-ached safety, but upon investiga tion found that it was a snapping tnrtie. NOTICE. North Carolina, Oaston County. In the Superior Court. Mamie I. Wright, Plaintiff, vs. D. J. Wright, Defendant, The defendant above mentioned will take notice that an action enti tled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Oaston county, to obtain an absolute divorce from the bonds of matrimony unit ing plaintiff and defendant, and the said defendant will further take no tice that he is required to appear at the term of Superior Court to b. held n the 1st Monday after the .,1st Monday in September. 1910, whloh Is the 12th day of September. 1910. at th. Court House in said county. In Dallas. North Carolina, and an swer or demur tov the comolaint In said action, or the 'plaintiff will ap ply to the conrt for the relief de manded In said action. . This the 21st day of July, 1J10. C. C. CORNWELL, Clerk of the Superior CinrL A 12 o 4 w. mi WHAT Whatever it is There is One Sure Way to Get It. What is the Way? LISTEN! A WANT Ail in The Gazette's Penny Column will turn the trick. Never tried one? Do it today. 0 They cost They're worth much. ONE CENT A Cash with less you carry a re ar us. 111 with Use the phoneSO. G c 236 W. MauvAye., ft'V3'. i A X :.' v.! 3o V DO YOU - i a little. WORD. order un account infills 3. I -' Gastonia, N. C . ... v V " i it. s-kitf
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