The Worthington advance. [volume], May 10, 1907, Image 1

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VOL. XXXVI.
MORE SCHOOL
ROOM NEEDED
Board of Education Considering
Plans to Provide for Grow­
ing School Population.
At
Present Nearly Every Room
is Crowded to the .Limit. Nat­
ural Increase Makes
More Room Im­
perative.
Plans for Five Rooms in Base­
ment are Being Formulated,
Contingent on Municip­
al Heating Plant.
The school room problem, which is
ever alive question in a growing city
like Worthington, is agaiu worrying
the Board of Education. There has
been a Bteady increase in the school
enrollment for several year?, and this
last year it is 25. Several of the rooms
have been badly crowded for many
terms and it was thought last year
that the limit was reached, but by
still further crowding it has been pos­
sible to get through the year. The
point has at last been reached where
something must be done to relieve
the pressure.
The two alternatives are to either
finish up additional rooms in the
basement, or ereot a new building,
thegreat objection to basement rooms
is ventilation and lighting, The sit­
uation is such that in most of the
proposed rooms fairly good light can
be obtained, but satisfactory ventil­
ation can only be secured by artifi­
cial means. The Board of Education
is .waiting
.tosee what the city will do
in regard to the proposed centra
heating plant. If this is put in heat
will be available the whole school
year for operating a ventilating sys­
tem, a
ad the plan seems to be, in
ihat event, to finish up five basement
loums for school purposes. This it is
calculated would provide for the
school population for several years to
come, and it i9 probably the cheap­
est way out of the dilema, but wheth­
er it would prove satisfactory is very
problematic, with the weight of ex­
pert opinion decidedly againet the
use of basement rooms.
The erection of anew building will
involve anew loan, and this requires
a vote of the district The demand
for additional room has reached the
point where it must be
lookB as if the question
be put up to the voters
trict for settlement.
met, and it
would soon
of the dis-
The Board of Education is anxious
that the patrons of the schools
should familiarize themselves with
the situation, and contemplate the
calling of amass meeting in the near
future to ascertain the public senti­
ment in regard to the question.
First Sawmill in Nobles Co.
The Smith Implement Co. this
week set up a portable sawmill for
Ed. Ferdon on one of Dan Shell's
farms west of town. Mi. Ferdon has
a cut over 100,000 feet of cottonwood
logs which he will saw into lumber.
Had the early settlers of Southern
Minnesota given more attention to
timber culture in the pioneer days
they could now laugh at the lumber
trust. There is still time to do some­
thing to retrieve the failures of the
past. Lumber will be higher with
every passing year, and those who
plant trees that will make a "sudden
sawlog" will realize handsomely on
their investment in fifteen to twenty
years.
Liberal Contributions.
J. E. Robinson, of Northfield, finan­
cial agent for the American Sunday
School Union, has been in our city
for a few days this week, soliciting
funds to carry on the work of this
district, now efficiently conducted by
Missionary G. M. Bailey. He reports
a most satisfactory
canvasB, and
Btates that Worthington is this year
giving fully twice as much for this as
ever before. W. W. Loveless is Vioe
president of the Union and all pledg­
es are left at his place of business.
HIGH SCHOOL FIELD MEET
For Southwestern Minnesota Will
Be Held at Windom Sat­
urday, May II.
The annual field meet of the South
western Minnesota Athletic Associ­
ation will be held at Windom tomor­
row, and will be attended by teams
from the several High Schools in this
section of the state.
Worthington will be represented by
Ca ptain Chas. Haggard and a strong
team, including I. Pettit Aug. Strand,
Paul Ventioner, Joe Hildyard, Ed
Voak, and Ed Gillis. The boys have
been practicing hard and feel confi­
dent of carrying home their full share
of trophies.
Delicate Operation.
Dr. P. T. Geyerman on Sunday
performed an operation on Edna, a
daughter of H. T. Wasmund, of
Rushmore, for abcess of the brain.
The operation, which was entirely
successful, was a particularly delicate
one. Had it been delayed another
day the abcess would have caused
the death of the young lady.
The people of Nobles county are
beginning to re&lize that Worthing­
ton has a hospital fully equipped in
in every respect, and as skillful sur­
geons as are to be found anywhere in
the state, and that it is not necessary
to make long journeys to seek high
priced specialists to get relief from
the ailments that require an opera­
tion.
SUMMER SCHOOL
Four Weeks' Term in July To Be
Conducted By Prof. Marshall
of St. Charles.
Worthington is to havea*
state sum
mer school for teachers the coming
summer, to be conducted by Prof. J.
O. Marshall, of St Charfes, Minn.
The term will be for four weeks, be­
ginning July 1st, and will bring a
large number of teachers here during
that time. The instructors assigned
are as/olio»vs: H. S. Kirk, Heron
Lake Alma D. Wagan, Amboy Kath
lyn J. Libby, Glencoe.
Worthington has been fortunate in
being designated as the place for a
summer school.
The Lutheran Church.
The class consisting of the follow­
ing numbers, Carl R. St 1 berg, Carl
Anderson, George Strand, Theo Ho
gan, Emma Gustafson, Minnie Gus
tafeoo, Esther Larson, Lydia Nelson,
will be confirmed cu Pentecost Sun­
day. Services will begin at 10 o'clock.
Next Sunday, May 12th, at 3:30 p. m.
Rev. Swan will hold meeting in Wass'
Schoolhouse.
The Ladies' Aid Society will hold
their regular meeting Thursday, May
16th, at the home of Mrs. Ola Swan
son.
The building committee elected to
select plans for the new parsonage
have finally adopted one, which is
now open for bids. The same will be
laid before the congregation at an
extra meeting to be held May 23rd.
NEW SWINDLING GAME
Farmers Are Warned Against the
Fake Being Worked.
Farmers are being taken in by a
new species of fakirs and complaints
have been received here from all di­
rections concerning a set of fence
swindlers who are plying their trade
very successfully in Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
The new fence game is unique. The
fence men offer to install a new eight
strand wire fence with iron posts for
only eight cents per foot. No money
is asked for on taking the order, but
a promissory note is given that the
fence will bs paid for after it is set
up.
When the fence is set up and col­
lection is made on the contract the
note turns out to be for eight cents
per foot, per wire, or 64 cents a foot.
Many farmers have been caught by
the new graft, and warnings are be­
ing issued in surrounding towns.—
Mankato Free Press.
WORTHINQTON ADVANCE.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Opening of Club Rooms Will
An Important Social
Function.
Be
The Commercial Club will open its
new home this evening with a recep­
tion that promises to be one of the
most important social events of the
year.
The Club has leased the second
floor of the Loveless block, which has
been handsomely decorated and fur
nished for a club home, and will
prove a convenient and pleasant
gathering place for business and pro­
fessional men of Worthington.
The function this evening prom
ises to be a largely attended and very
enjoyable affair, and an event of the
utmost importance in its influence on
the future of the city.
The following brief program will
be presented:
The Commercial Club Its Aim and
Object—Pres. A. R. Albertus.
Its Present and Future—Col. J. A.
Town.
Our Co-Laborers at Home—Dr. C.
P. Dolan.
Response—Mis. A. H. Clark.
Why We Should Have a Hundred
Members—A. E. Hart.
Baritone Solo—C. P. Loveless.
Music.
Refreshments.
or
The Germ Theory of Disease,
the Tuberculosis Question.
Much about the germs, microbes or
bacteria of disease is still not well un­
derstood even by experts, and the
whole subject is of rather recent date.
While we make no claim of any ex­
tensive knowledge of the subject, we
believe that there are many things
about diaeasegerms that aUnoafcltnyM *,T
understand, and SW****
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one can understand, and the mor®
general this knowledge of the subject
is, the better for the health and hap
piness of both mankind and animals.
These germs are very small,- of great
variety, vary much both in shape and
size they are supposed to belong to
plant life, mostly. Speaking gener­
ally, they are as much smaller than a
common house fly as an elephant is
larger. It would require from ten to
twenty thousand of them side by side
to extend an inch, and from fifteen
hundred upwards taken lengthways.
Their purpose seems to be to decom­
pose the dead and waste matter of
animal and plant life and prepare it
again for nature's food. They are
everywhere—in air, soil and impure
water—in yeast, ferments, sour cream,
abcesses, wounds and bruises, unless
sterilized and kept out. They do not
penetrate the skin unless scratched,
pricked or cut. They may be dry or
dormant in the dust of the air, espec­
ially of closed rooms where the sun
does not enter. They are special agent
of all infectious diseases as fevers,
diphtheria, consumption, lockjaw,
etc.. and probably,also,of contagious
diseases as 6mall-pox, mumps and
measles.
We are told that a single one can
develope millions between one sunrise
and the next. In what we call a cold
they make the trouble in nose and
throat. If they get into the lungs it
is pneumonia. If they obtain a per
permanent footing in the lungs the
result is consumption, known as tub­
erculosis in animals.
They can injure the body' only
where the blood is weak, or breathing
dust, or some injury has made a lodg­
ment for them.
PREVENTION.
Man uses three means or antisep­
tics to destroy disease germs. First,
soap and water Secondly, a boiling
heat of fifteen minutes Thirdly, a va­
riety of chemical substances are pois­
onous to germs of which carbolic acid
is perhaps the best known.
The body also has three very effi­
cient means of defense. The white
blood cells—the plasma of blood and
lymph—and the serum of the blood,
each have special power to resist the
entrance of germs. Serum can pro­
duce an antitoxin to poison and expel
them. Hence the important thing to
know and do is to keep up the power
of the blood by giving it plenty of
oxygen at all times from pure air.
Weak blood may lack the elements to
resist and expel germs, then the body
sickens and dies. Strong blood is
the product of good air all the time,
good food, water, sunshine"and exer
cise part of the time along with clean
skin, rooms," beds and a cheerful
mind. Ventilation is the thing we
are moat careless about. Many quite
intelligent people seem to give it no
thought. Nature attends to most of
it for us in sending the strong winds
of the north temperate zone (where
buildings are closed and heated),to
fprce a.change of air. In future ages
\fhftre the question of ventilation is
understood the need of our high
winds will oease and who can say
that the winds also may not be less
fierce? On# question we leave for
some expert to answer: If germs are
everywhere jready to take hold if con­
ditions admit,—if they are in our
milk and cream from the air, if the
germs of ripe cream (or some of
them) are the same as those which
cause tuberculosis, (and who can
s&y that they aie not) and they may
always ente* the cream from the air
and are necessary to its souring, then
What particular danger of contagion
from the lung or other tissue of the
cow more than from the vatious other
sources? W. DEALAND.
The Egg Contest.
With only another week in which to
enter the Egg Contest at Torrance's
Gash Store, the leaders in the race
for the prizes are kept on the anxious
iieat by new entries and the sudden
upward jumps of several of the lead­
ing contestants. Those who were in
the lead the first week are striving to
lieep their positions, and change
Jowever,
laces every day or two. This week,
the leaders are in just about
same positions as they were the
rst week.
The 12 highest on the list on Wed-
1—Walter Paine, 2881.
2—Peter Hawkihson, 2534.
3—Henry Uden, 2293.
4—D. M. Holland, 2043.
5—John Loehmer, 1596.
6—C. F. Martin, 1404.
7—J. Fitzgerald, 1243.
8—John Miller, 1231.
9—Chas. F. Anderson, 983.
10—J. Sogers, 936.
11—J. Sliver, 864.
12—H. Leistico, 855.
The last day of the Egg Contest is
Saturday, May 18th, and the prizes
will be awarded on Monday, May 20,
at Which time the winners may re­
ceive them. Only the eggs brought
in up to and including Saturday, May
18th, will be counted in the contest.
WORTHINGTON, WINN., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1907. NO. 31
Complies with the
pure food laws
of every state
IF YOU
HEALTH SrtJSff1
ECONOMY
On Saturday last the High School
ball team shocked the ball fans of
Worthington by a decisive victory
over the Heron Lake team and it was
so effective that they have not yet re­
covered sufficiently to give the boys
the glad hand.
The game was very snappy, agree­
ing precisely with the weather.
"Buster" Brown soon warmed the
rooters by causing the visitors a shut­
out for the first two inning® while the
Worthington boys ran in two scores
and followed up with three more in
the fifth.
"Buster" was retired in the sixth,
an
,Petti| going in the box
Lawton irehincTtlie
The Heron Lake boys ran in four­
scores in the sixth and then "chewing
a little dirt" Happy and Reddy
pulled off sweater No. 4 on the out­
side and from then on everything
went rolling in good marble fashion,
Haggard tagging three out of four
steal attempts at second.
Fellows and "Jolia" Hilldyard
played the fancy field and were there
with several others at the "big stick
sticking."
The boys have asked Bob. Reed to
notify the "knockers" as to when he
will change the weather and some of
them will be looked for at the next
game.
TOUCH
your tongue to
Batteries—Heron Lake, Stumney,
»and look.in the glasc^you will see the effect—
You can't help puckering—it makes you pucker
to think of tasting'it.
By the use o£ so called cheap Baking
Powders you^ake thfs^puckering, injurious Alum
right into your system—you injure digestion,
and ruin your stomachs
AVOID ALVHi
Sap plainfy-
CALUMET
BAKING POWDER
,8,n,1ado
°lmakes
th®
Inffoodjbakingu"*t
5V
WORTHINGTON WINS
Defeated Heron Lake High School
Ball Team Last Saturday in
Swift Game.
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ROYALPOWOCR*•
Ifcya! is made from pure, refined Grape Cream of Tartar—CostsHmore
fthan Alum but you .have the profit of:quality,"the profit of good health.
Subscription
$1.50 Per Year
finest materials pos-
••fcgajn Bible to select, and light, easily digested
®rea£' Biscuits or Pastry therefore, it is recom
mended by leading physicians and chemists*
yo? always assured of
fcwwnww I therefore, there Is no waste of
material or time. Calumet is put up In air-tteht
W will keep longer than any other
Baking Powder on the market and has mora
raising power.
CALUMET
is so carefully and
aclen
hat
of
tiflcaUy prepared that
the neutralization
the ingredients is absolutely perfect.
Therefore, Calumet leaves no Rochellt
Salts or Alum in the food,
chemically correct
It la
*1,000.00
given for any substance in­
jurious to health found in
Calumet
pitcher Eellam, catcher. Worthing­
ton, Brown-Pettit, pitchers Lawton,
catcher.
Score—Worthington 10
Heron Lake 4
Worthington is to be a participant
in the Interstate Field Mett at Win­
dom this coming Saturday. The 2
Cent
fare now enables some of our
fossils to take in these now frequent
luxuries.
Everybody Works But Mother.
Everybody works but mother
She visits around all day,
Goes to woman's meetings,
Takes in the the matinee,
Father toils and worries,
He has a good time,—nit
Everybody works at our house
But Ma—she's quit.
Everybody works at BLDME'S,
We stay home at night
So send us all your washing,
:v IjtfU come back ailrighfc
We lessen all your worries,
And do your clothes to fit.
Send your washing to BLDME'S
If your Ma has quit. 5-17
The annual meeting of the Minne­
sota Valley Baptist Association will
be held June 18th, 19th and 20th, st
Windom. While the proceedings are
of particular interest to Baptists, very
much that is ssid will be of interest to
others and a cordial invitation is ex­
tended to all friends of the church at
Worthington to attend the meeting.
Entertainment will be provided, and
a special party will go from this town
Further notice will be given in the
Weekly Bulletin, published by the
Baptist Church.