The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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Consolidated With Pearsall Leader March 1, I9I3
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Pearsall, Texas, Friday, flarch 20,1914
Number 49
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H THE PEARSALL NATIONAL BANK
’!TAL AND SURPLUS. S1SO.OOO.OO.
UP DAY
Their Regular
Anticipation and Realization
If you will visit our yard
you will realize how near-
ly we have anticipated
your wants in lumber,sash
doors and lime and cement
and all kinds of building
materials.
W. F. & J. F. Banes Lumber Co.
ir that instinct to
yes, the very life
; the happiness of
- Ly*Vo her direct
at brought'about
mods, then the ver-
o not know dirt,”
. .nation to get rid
of dirt that menace
beyond, its imme-
vom beyond her
pn. Do you imagine
od Bill] _ ,
at bap- “P- J Every day of every year
Fed-1found her fi2htm£ dirt from the
i - time the early cave woman threw
• , the left-over bones of a meal out of
I her cave then swept it with the limb
r McNab, ... . , ,
, of a tree, till the present day when
of the L , , , ..
I her sister burns the accumulating
\ J ' I dirt of a developing civilization
ons Mrs. . , . . , * .
and buries the ashes to prevent
Atform . ... ,.
{contagion from possible sneaking
roved to a, ,
germs. She ought to have de-
sat the! . , . . .. , .
, jveloped into a specialist along the
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#! clean-up line in all these centuries,
r^6 T ° |and she bas. How should a man
ffi, | know that the use of iron spoons
. m a kitchen is not as cleanly as the
the tele- 0 rT
. use of wooden ones? He prompt-
f >D ly advocated the use of the latter
1 in hotel kitchens in Salt Lake City
when Mrs. Cook of that place
™ j showed it to be better. The mer-
]chant in a small town I know sym-
’* * pathized fully with his customer
,an who returned the cabbage head to
iat to ciean . . , ,
his store because it had been ex-
»ement he , , t
posed on a low stand on a side-
busmess; , , , ,
. w walk where dogs passed frequent-
lood to , tT . , . . , r?
, ly. He immediately built his
0 pantry and , ...
, , I stands higher.
e. In fact
3 - Two years ago the hospitals m
7 tend from . . . .
one of our towns were receiving
-./Ci HilFbV1"] j • | . 1 • 1 * fni
daily typhoid fever cases. The
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, . , situation was becoming alarming.
: that he L-, . . *
... I he water supply was inspected
as readily , <v, . , , . , t ^ .7
; all these !“d.pr.0'^d t0 be‘lnK.ht; dnally
the infection was traced to fly m-
i necessary.s. . , , .. , . . .
tested fruit exposed in unprotect-
over have , . .. . . , ,, f x
ed fruit stands along the streets.
::fer’ ,we We do not usually consider the
laws of a L A,
T * fly as a distributor of scarlet fever.
,or a suffra- rK1V® y°“ th® followlDf? story
I as it was told me recently. A fly
Kve made her allKhted on the he»d of » Physician
and hat to ,n °De °f T'f*84 “wns; driven
himself to aw»y he all*hted a«am “d
endants with more ‘V aDDOyl“« “aDDf fl‘es have-
u 1 valent) for f*? repeatad °r‘ the physlc,a°
So A»r. rnaIly caus:hfc tfae tormenter and
- . . was about to kill it when he de-
nt ms pursuit, . j j . . t. , .
., cided to inspect it under the micro-
to consider tT K,. . , . .
-ravelled to P^‘ He discovered on the hairs
.4 .S ™ k “* f ■ »'#“ w j-*-.
me objects them- l*SCar'6t feV6r eerfmf
■red were sanitary. ^ne"9fDOCase,of thatd,sease 10
his own town he began an mvesti-
o there were so .• u. , ,
gation. By means of cards and
old globe, na- * ,, , . ,
letters he eventually located a case
• iy clean withoutL#
of scarlet fever ninety miles away.
woman first __n. • .
Do we need a Clean-up Day in
" JT, rr* Pearsalli We liave in our midst
e««s she didn’t have Ltthi8timCi LaGrippe> me>s,
„By tha tuberculosis, smallpox-isn’t that
a Boston City «d enough to mention? Are there
tp dp f°r any municipal conditions tha*ur-
people, he didn’t Dish tt harbor for these diseases!
use one thousand j don>( know. It were a rQOre
man’s Clubs demanded a woman
of Pearsrll few suggestions as to
the manner of conducting*! clean-
up day but why didn’t we score
•9 instead of 89 as a result of last
years efforts in the state clean-up
contest ? A re there any conditions
TELEPHONE CONTRACTS WAIT
So far the material for Stbe re-
building of the telephone ex-
change at Pearsall has not arrived,
although it has been expected for
among us that ought to b*investi- *“••**“*; The suburb, of our
gated and improved? The women
of# Boston and of New York are
facing some of our same problems
on a stupendous scale and with
more opposition than we meet.
In conclusion let mev say, the
necessary elements in home-mak-
ing are an abiding love of home,
la loyalty to town and a patrotism
(which is home-love spelled large)
that leads one to work for those
things which make for progress
and improvement all along the
line. The real interest in our
town have'grown so in the past
year that the demand for tele-
>hones is increasing. Manager
iobinson says he has about ‘twen-
ty naw contracts for telephones
thacamiot be placed until the
new work is started. Ample
switchboard room has been pro-
vided, but the outside is still full.
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Food Inspector, who should in- -homes that makes for a love of
-
of rotten eggs daily for
delicacies was a repre-
aet; didn’t they come
Who could tell the diff-
yway in cooked food?
biis method served to in-
i'fits and thereby furnish
Baker and the Misses Baker
! gathers, furs and the like
had progressed beyond
i ov and levied on the ani-
d %o supply her demands
hr clothing.
man was developing in
sinner, woman was cleaning
pertinent question to ask, “will a
thorough clean-up of our town
tend to alleviate, possibly to elimi-
nate these conditions. ?” It seems
to me the only possible answer is
to inaugurate a clean-up campaign
and that speedily. We face here
the same problem that daily con-
fronts us in our own home—it
won’t stay cleaned up. It may
help us to reach the solution of
this problem to know what other
Women’s Clubs are doing along
this line.
At Portland, Oregon, the Wo-
spect and supervise stores, shops,
and bakeries She was appointed
and one result of her work was the
drafting of a set of resolutions
which have been either adopted or
adapted in other places all over
the United States Our own State
sanitary rulings are practically
parallel to them. At Tacoma,
Washington, the wotpen presented
the Portland plan to the City
council and that city too was given
a woman food inspector, who not
only inspects the shops monthly,
but gives each one its rating on a
score card prepared for that pur-
pose, and which the dealer hangs
in a conspicuous place in his shop.
The police on a certain; beat ;n
that* city tell of one shop whose
proprietor was visited by the In-
spector and was informed of
several points in which his place
fell short of being sanitary. The
neighboring dealers on that street
spent the whole of the succeeding
night night cleaning up before the
inspector should reach them.
Grand Forks, North Dakota, a
town of 14,00© peoplp, is so thor-
oughly 9upervised by Mrs. R. A.
Spratfue, Food Inspector, that it
has become the spotless town of
America. So marked has the
effect of its cleanliness become on
the health of the town, that the
nurse in charge at the city hospi-
tal complained that she was npt
making a living wage. She had
been paid through a percentage
of the receipts from the patients.
The city had to guarantee her 160
per month salary to keep her in
waiting at the hospital. The lio
tels of the town also reap a benefit
from its reputation for cleanliness.
It is said that drummers bend
every effort to reach Grand Forks
for the Sunday stop in order to
enjoy the comfort and cleanliness
made possibly by a woman.
Many cities and. most states
have fairly good sanitary regular
tions, but only in those where there
is some form of supervision, official
or unoffilial, are the regulations
enforced and is every day a clean-
up day. Right here I wish to say
the Texas State Board of Health
publishes a monthly bulletin to be
had for the asking, replete with
good suggestions and reports
along the line 6f civic cleanliness
and health improvement.
Were our standard so absolute-
ly selfish that we would dodge the
issue and say, “I’ve enough to do
to keep up with my own clean-up
day$, let the town take care of it-
self,” I have attempted to show
that the home is influenced materi-
ally by conditions in our own town
and in towns beyond, that our
cleaning up and plans for home
making are often frustrated by
the manner in which our city
housekeeping is done. Your for-
mer record in clean-up campaigns
proves that I can give the women
ones neighbor, that meaql a clean-
up day all the year round, which
writ larger reads, a healthy town,
happier homes, a more vigorous
citizenship. May we have the
wisdom to know the right tiling tp
do and the courage to go forward
in the doing of it.
SCHOOL CLOSES.
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The Pearsall schools were closed
Friday on account of the gravity
of the smallpox situation, and wilji
remain so indefinitely. While the
disease was confined to the Mexi-
cans little apprehension was frit,
but when two cases broke out
among the Americans without ap-
parent
to suspend school and avoid public
gatherings of any sort. By com-
mon consent all services in the
different churches were dispense!
.with, and for the first time since
the first church was erected in
Pearsall the Sabbath stillness
unbroken by the ringing of church
bells- An order was issued to al-
low no public gatherings of any
sort among the Mexicans, and in
addition to this no socials or dab
meetings have been held among
the Americans. With only six
weeks more of school, this works
a hardship on both pupils anc
teachers, and it is hoped the work
can be taken up again with • as
little delay as possible.
SPRING CLEAN UP.
The clean-up spirit has taken
hold of our people early this year*
Tbs mayor issued notice for every
body to observe Monday and Tues-
day *8 clean-up days with instruc-
tions to place all unbumable trash
convenirai for tbs Aragon to haul
off. An early campaign against
the weeds will prevent seeding and
make the work eerier later on.
Oiling cisterns and breaking up.
breeding places for flies and mos-
quitos should be given plenty of
attention.
BUILDOG NEW UNE.
Mrs. Ida B. Woodward and
G. A- Bhekaller are having tele-
phone price erected for new tines
to their'
will beii
install a telephone.
LUKMUKi
phoow.j|0|. .
vaahMia •zpafaaMi. W«m-
dentand that J.H. Loxton will
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ed early in the week into the J
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North OakBtroet, to reside until
rid residence.......
which wMpwcfaand hMt*aa«r fc.
the Masonic Order for the
qf erecting e lodge. f - *
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MELON GIN SOLD*
W. W. McKinley arid bis gin
at Mekm this weak toF. G.Smith
and Harrison Burkh, of Peanett.
A carload of new and improved
machinery is now on the roed and
Mr. Burks is now overhauling
the gin and will place it m *
crop.
COCHRAN9S WORK APPROVED.
Dr.' Ralph Steiner, the State
Health Officer, was here last Sat-
urday looking over the smallpox
situation. He was much pleased
with the energetic and efficient class shape to handle the new
way in which Dr. Cochran was
caring for the smallpox patients.
He commended Dr. Cochran for
his vigilance, for the cleanliness
and sanitary condition of the De-
tention Camp, for his persistent
campaign of vaccination and for
his general oversight.
Dr. Steiner insists that vacci-
nation is the only scientific or
effective way of stamping out
smallpox. It is the only safe
plan for the individual and the
only satisfactory measure for
the public.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Judge R. W. Hudson announoet
the engagement and approaching
marriage of his daughter. Mary,to
Mr. Joseph Davis Metcalfe, which
will take place on the morning of
March 31st, 1914, at 10:30 o*clock,
at Trinity Church, Pearsall. No
cards.
ONION GROWERS, ATTENTION.
Onion growers, ftrmen and
business men at a meatiar br
Onion Growers, Banka—,
ness Men and Selling!
ed by the Laredo C
Commerce on March i8th. lt
unanimously resolved to fix uni-
form selling price for onions
f. o. b. shipping print for the
coming season and to call a pub-
lic mass meeting to perfect plans
and provide for maintenance of
such agreement and make all
sales f. a b. shipping print
This public meeting is fixed for
Wednesday, March 25th, at 10
a. m., at the Elks Hall in Laredo.
Onion Growers, Farmers, Mer-
chants and Bankers, are urged
to attend for their mated bene-
fit and protection. It means
more than $250,000 in the farm-
ers’ pocket Do four duty and
attend, if you negfect, the fault
is yours. ^
Laredo Chamber
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SURVEYING.
PAVING.
MONROE CHAPMAN
CIVIL BNQINBBR—^QlWITV SU«VW(0li; ^ |
drainage.
sewerage.
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Hudson, C. H. & Woodward, Roy. The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1914, newspaper, March 20, 1914; Pearsall, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth920761/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .