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A •v^.: I I I I $ *4 I I, GOOD BANKING .3% Paid ori Monthly Balances 5% Paid on Savings Accounts 6% Paid on Time Certificates Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent We Buy and Sell Liberty Bonds Money For Farm and City Loans Insurance Of All Kinds Written First Mortgages For Sale To Net 7% We have Funds For Live Stock Paper We Handle Farms and City Properties Come In And See U» THE fIRST FARMERS BANK OFJINOT OFFICERS G. S. YOUMANS, President ANTHONY WALTON, 1st Vice President C. O. CARLSON, Vice President 'i D. E. ASPLUND, Cashier G. S. YOUMANS C. O. CARLSON DUANE SUYDAM, Assistant Cashier G. W. DAHLQUIST, Assistant Cashier LEON DUROCHER, Assistant Cashier DIRECTORS S. 0. RIDGWAY Deposits Guaranteed Under The State Depositors Guaranty Fund VALLEY MEAT MARKET Freth and Salt MeaU Fiah in Swon Highest Prices Paid for VEAL, PORK, BEEF and POULTRY HANNAFORD & YRI, Proprietors PHONE 65-920 Buick Battery Service With fifteen years prac tical experience in battery work we are in a position to give you Superior Service. Have your batteries cleaned and repaired. We have re pairs for all makes of bat teries. All work guaran teed for One Year. Let us store your batteries for the winter. W a a Phone »15 RADIATOR WORK AND ACETYLENE WELDING Prompt Service Buick Battery Service Pkone 795-796 Shop at Pence Auto Co. Garage Is it a milk house t6 keep your milk clean and low in bacteria count? The best kind has concrete foundations, floors, walls and cooling tank, with plenty of windows to let in sunlight. Such a house will never rot or harbor vermin. Perhaps it is a hog house you need first. Warm, bright, easily cleaned. Sunny quarters are necessary if your hogs are to keep in good health and weigh most on the scales. We can show you how to build a modern house with concrete floor and walls—just the thing to cut down the work of cleaning and prevent loss from cholera. g| How is your inschinery? Is it well housed fn a modern implement shed with a repair shop at one end? If not, to-day is a good time to see us about plans and material." Machinery going to the junk pile wastes more of your money than the house will cost. ,, Cox- Emmerson Lumber Co. $ ll4" 11 ft S I Opposite Minot Flour Mill 4 ANTHONY WALTON D. E. ASPLUND & Control of Focal Infections C. H. MAYO, M. D. Rochester, Minn. If one considers the countless numbers of unicellular organizms, irtany so small as to require the highest power of the microscope to be seen, and many of whose existence we know and yet have failed to identify, it will be seen that, of thsee, few in proportion to the total are destroying agents. The greater part of the 'disease germs are under the control of man's intelligence, if he has the pt*ver to enforce the preventive measures known to the world today. It is through such measures, applied in earlier life, that diuring the last thirty years the life of man has been lengthened a number of years. The microbes causing disease in mton eventually bring about a stage of his life in which sudden death occurs from affections of the heart, brain, and kidneys, between the ages of fifty-two and sixty-two years, as we have in no way changed middle age or advanced many more into old age. Death which is not accidental is due to the effects of the action of microbes—a result that may be acute and sudden, or chronic and slow in its termination. The contagious character of various dis eases has been appreciated for untold ages and it has been known that certain of them developed some change in the individual which ren dered him immune to a second attack of the disease. The first disease for which a vadeine was developed was that of small-pox, and while Used in China and India long ago, it was first used in Europe in Belgrade, and was brought to the English-speaking people by the dia doveries of Jenner. A study of the blood in disease, as.varying from its condition in healtih, and the action cf its cells in developing anti-bodies, has been of wonderful value to mankind. Through this study, acute diseases that create an immunity are reduced in morbidity by increasing the resistance of the patient, as in tetany, typhoid, paratyphoid, typhus, yellow fever, etc. The innumerable diseases that formerly determin ed mankind have been almost driven from the earth. We find then, that there is developed in the blood stream, in acute diseases and fever, an imlmurizing agent. On the other hand, with certain dis eases, there is at some place in the body, a small focus of bacteria continually maintained developing not an immunity but anaphylactic reaction of the constant supply of microbes of microbe toxin instead of elevating the resistance of the patient against the germ. Such persons are subject to recurring solds on the slightest provocation, re curring neuralgias, recurring miyosities, musuclar rheumatism so call ed, lumbago, sore m'uscles of the back and neck, etc., and it has been .enough in the past for the patient to say he is subject to such trouble and for the doctor to make local applications and allow time to com plete the cycle of imiprovement until, from any cause, lowered body resistance again reinstates the liability to an attack—and any part once affected by a microbe becomes more liable to repeated attacks. Although there are but few places in the body in which man quite regularly carries bacteria, they- iare always in the mouth, often in the tonsil® and about the teeth in pyorrheas^ alveolar abscesses, and buried crypts of tonsils. Diseaseed teeth are often local foci of infection, and the X-ray has been of inestimable value in determining the presence of alveolar abscsses, absorbed roots of teeth, or absorbed bone about the roots. The findings are striking, when positive, but many pocktes do not show in an apparently good picture. The dangerous booth is a crowned tooth, and if St is necessary, from the seriousness of chronic, recurring diseases which affect the heart, as a myocarditis, Or the kidneys, or the joints of the nerves, then small tonsils must be removed and teeth most carefully inspected, X-rayed, and when diseased, extracted on the basis of symptoms,,should they be of major importapce. The stomach dloes not destroy all the bacteria taken into it some may pass into the blood by the chyle duck, and probably more com monly enter the blood stream by way of the portal circulation but are destroyed by the liver. The germs in the m'outh are carried into the stomach, and in the great majority of persons there are numerous bacteria living in the gastric juice aftler all food has left the stomach. The dangerous varieties are those of the acid type, while those of alkaline nature are nuisances. FARM MACHINERY WINTERING CUES Y^riter Tells IIo«v All Farmers Can Protect Their Machinery Of secondary importance to the microbe, from a biologic stand point is the chemistry of the fluids of local areas for their environ ment. This is similar to the result from .seeds planted or blown upon different soils. They may be planted to no purpose on the wrong soil, and they may be blown everywhere to take growth to ad vantage in proper environment. Bacteria carried throughout the body by the circulation are able to take local growtih only when,thus carried to a given area. This accounts for the specificity of bacteria in their location causing acute and self-limited diseases, or chronic recurring or relapsing diseases. The acidity, the oxygen tension, and the condition of the general health, or- local injury, may all be factors. Some forms will only grow in a certain place, as poliomylitis in the brain and spinal cord, others in'the sheaths of nerves, the first caus ing acute conditions, self-limited, and the latter, recurring neuritis. ThUS we have rheumatism, appendicitis, gall bladder inflammations and ulcers of the stomach, valvular diseases of the heart in fact, nearly all the local and general diseases of which we have knowledge are thus produced. The factors of safety- are largely within the control of man, in preventing diseases, and in the transference of immunizing resistant 'bodies, such as have been developed for the cure and prevention of diptheria, typhoid fever, smlall-pox, poliomyelitis, and manv other af fections. .. Wintering farm machinery out of doors is a problem that comfronts many North Dakota farmers and especially is this true in the western part of the state. As has been pointed out by a recent writer it is not always possible for the farmer to have suitable sheds, although of course they are to be preferred. Diseases of middle life are increasing. They are microbic, of a chronic recurring character, are carried into the blood stream from a few foci the mouth being the source of the greatest danger. A crowned tooth is not a crown of glory, and may cover a multitude of germs. Modern dentistry is relieving the world of much of its misery by watchful care of foci connected with the teeth, and the trend of m'odern medicine and dentistry is bringing their fields again closely together. Dentistry should .'be a department of medicine, as it is as closely associated with .medicine as are the specialties of the eye, ear, nose and throat, etc. The writer then tells of some of! the ways that farmers devise for the taking care of- their machinery as follows: A man living in the Kickapoo Flats neighborhood is an alfalfa I grower who owns $2,500 worth of modern haying equipment. He says it keeps him so busy building hay sheds and feed lots that he hasn't time to build sheds for his machinery but he side-stepped the ravages of weather by coating the important parts of each machine with linseed oil—at the close of each season. Tongues, doubletrees, singletrees, neckyokes and sweeprakes—being made of wood are given several coats of creosote, which is applied with a heavy brush. Sickles are re moved from mowing machines, given a coat of oil and stored in bundles under the roof of some convenient hay sheds. The cutter bars and guards are given a coat, of oil which prevents the formation of rust for at least one year. This man has a power baler, which has been in use for eight seasons and is still giving perfect satisfac tion. The machine nas never been under cover of any kind since it left the factory, and( the repair bill has been exceedingly low. The working parts are given a coat of linseed oil at the end of each season and the entire machine hag been painted twice. Another methot} of protecting ma chinery when sheds are unavailable is by the use of canvas covers. Such covers can be purchased on the market and .their use is a good investment. -Another man* I know has a small machine shed which is not large enough for all his machinery. The largeh v^machines and implements, such as bull-rakes, rickers and load ers, he takes apart each year and stores in the haymow of his barn. One man I know almost overdoes things by hauling his corn-planter to the roof of the barn by means qf a block and tackle and fastening it to :.he rafters until the next spring. Smaller pieces of machinery ran be stored in the corner of buggy sheds, granaries and barns. In such places they take up no apu-*" c.y.ept that which ordinarily goes to waste. Use every nook and cranny. Of course machine sheds are de sirable, but if we haven't the sheds we can do the next best thing. There is no excuse for leaving machinery exposed., for the winter. AN AMERICAN SOLDIER TELLS ABOUT CONDITIONS FOUND IN GERMANY Letter Received at Association of Commerce Throws Light on .How People Live An American soldier, who is sta tioned at Coblenz, Germany, writes an entertaining letter to the Minot Association of Commerse, telling of true conditions there at the present time. He says in part: "The people are awfully poor, worse than in France. There isn't any work. The Germans are afraid of the American soldiers, and they don't speak to the soldiers at all, but when a soldier speaks to them they stop and salute and only answer the ques tions that the soldier asks. All the meat the Germans have is horse meat, which costs 25 to 30 marks a pound, and the highest wages that they get is 16 marks a day.. That is about 65c in American money If some of the working people in the United States would nave to work for 65c a day they think they were slaves, but the peo ple here are glad to get that mu£h. I talked with a German a few days ago and he told me why the Kaiser gave up. He told me that when the war broke out that there were 50,000, 000 men in Germany, well organized, and when peace was declared that there were only 2,000,000 men left that were fit for military duty. The German people are glad that they are free and that they are going to have a president like we have in the United States."SPA r-# T1 FOR SALE BY One ton or carload 400 tons per day capacity Burning Shame Every fire is. and particularly every fire that might have b«en avoided. The careful property owner is at the "nercy of his careless neighbor It is everybody's dutv to use care It is also everybody's privilege to insure to a point where protection equals present value. The Hartford Fire insurance Company offers a service for preventing fiies that y(^u ought to know about. Let us explain it. Minot Insurance Agency GENERAL INSURANCE New Jacobaon Bldg. Minot, N. D. FROM FACTORY TO YOU When you buy a piano the most important point is tone and in the Raudenbush Pianos you get tone. We have a complete line of pianos in stock. Buy now, save money and get the piano you want for Christmas. A A I N S USED PIANOS Mehlin $350 I vers & Pond $325 Bush & Lane Player $750 (larland Player $575 Haines Bros. $175 Hall &• Sons $235 Miracle To save 15% to What ia good for the Auto N oi for rlie Tractor and Stationery gas engine Boedecker & Rode, Motor Cycle Shop. A. E. Bovnton, Central Block Riverside Mercantile, 3d St. and First Ave. N. E. Reliable White Ash" Lignite You will like Lignite Better if you get Better Lignite PIONEER FUEL CO. Telephone 463 Procrastination Sure, you put off making those repairs. You were always waiting for a slack time when you could fix things up properly. Isn't it about time you got 4*usy and did something? We Have the Necessary Supplied Rogers Lumber Co. PHONE 2SS IT* ps Knabe Pianos and Victrolas latest Victor Records and Player Music. We arrange for monthly payments. Old pianos and organs taken as part pay on new pianos. MsSatsii MINOT The Scientific Gasoline Intensifier, Vigorizer and de-carbonizer MOTOR Guaranteed to eliminate and prevent carbon GAS WESLEY Gas Guaranteed not to injure Motor Plenty of Blacksmithing Coal and ,Hay