The Bixby Bulletin (Bixby, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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HE BIXBY BULLETIN
I PRICTICll EXAMPLE OF
QUARANTINE IS TO BE EXTENDED
HOOF AND MOUTH DISEASE DIS-
COVERED IN NEW PLACES.
Eradication Cost May Reach Two Mil-
lion; Poultry Prices Advance
When Chicago Yards Close.
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The upper view shows the State Highway Department concrete expert, W. R. Golt, explaining how to prop
erly mix concrete to Seminole High School Boys.
The middle view is that of the girls of the school planting trees alpng the finished road.
Bottom View: Concrete expert showing boys how to get proper contour for bottom of culvert. The man on t e
extreme riqht is H. W. Hoffman, editor of the Seminole News, an ardent Good Roads booster.
Top: Commissioner of Highways, Sidney Suggs, originator of the Educational Mile of Road Movement.
Bottom: State Superintendent of Instruction, R. H. Wilson, who is giving hearty co-operation to the movement
Seminole.—The first Educational I structure which was removed intact,
Mile of Road, under the movement so it could be used elsewhere. The
Inaugurated by Commissioner of High- J boys elected their foreman and with
ways Sidney Suggs was successfully the exception of the engineer in
built under the direction of the state charge, who occasionally showed the
highway department by the young , boys how to do, the boys did every par-
men of the Seminole school recently.! tide of the work and today a concrete
It constituted the culmination of what culvert stands to their credit and will
has been termed “Sidney Suggs’ probably be standing a thousand years
Dream” and incidentally inaugurated hence,
a movement which has already spread
In many counties of the state and
Planting the Trees.
After the dismissal of school the
attracted the attention of other states j glrlg aasembled along the work now
.In the Union. _ ^ ^ I almost complete and planted trees at
How It Was Done.
The Seminole high school followed
the plan of the highway commissioner
to the letter, first organizing them-
selves into a “Good Road and Civic
Association," the girls of the schools
composing the civic end of it. The j
hoys then solicited necessary funds
to employ Stato Highway Engineers
A. H. Collins and W. R. Golt, who di-
rected the surveying and concrete
work respectively.
State Engineer Collins came to
Seminole three days before the day
set for the demonstration and showed
the boys how to handle the rod and
transit. Tlio mile of road was sur-
veyed and the grade stakes set.
Getting Assistance.
The assistance of the citizens of
the town and community was then
solicited and cheerfully given and on
the night prior to the building of the
road everything was in readiness for
actual work. On Friday morning at
seven o’clock about one hundred men,
forty teams, one traction engine and
as many graders and slips as were
necessary were assembled and work
began promptly. Not a moment was
lost and long before dinner time the
team work along the entire stretch
was thoroughly organized and work-
ing to perfection.
Building Culverts.
Every vestige of information pos-
sible was given the hoys during the
day. They were shown the correct
manner of handling the scrapers, grad-
ers and the traction engine. There
were four culverts in the mile, two to
rebuild—because of improper instal-
lation and two to build. Drainage and
its value was explained by Engineer
Goit who directed this end of the
work and seven of the young men
were selected to build a four-foot con-
crete culvert to replace a wooden
regular distances apart and "were in
structed in the proper manner of go
doing together with the future culti-
vation Commissioner Suggs himself,
after the planting of the trees, im-
pressed the girls with the necessity
of seeing to it that the trees were pro-
tected until their future life and de-
velopment was assured.
State Superintendent Interested.
State Superintendent of Instruction
Wilson is keenly interested in the
work and co-operating with the high-
way department in evei*y possilde
manner. In fact, it was when Sidney
Suggs explained his scheme to Mr.
Wilson that the state department of
education immediately began to push
the movement. Superintendent Wil-
son wrote every county superinten-
dent in the state suggesting that teach-
become interested in the better
ers
road idea. He urged them to get into
communication with the highway de-
partment.
“It’s the life of the consolidated
schools,” said Superintendent Wilson,
“to have good roads. I hope every
school in the state will do its best
to impress the importance of good
roads on the scholars. We cannot be-
gin too young. I am heartily in favor
of every movement for the betterment
of the rural districts and I fail to see
where anything can be of more prac-
tical value than a knowledge of good
road building from a practical stand-
point."
Commissioner Suggs’ View.
Commissioner of Highways Sidney
Suggs was enthusiastic when the
work was done. “I believe every boy
and girl who participated today is a
good roads booster for life,” he said.
“They know now something about
what it takes to make a good road.
They have something to point with
pride to as long as they live. They
have made history. I am n6ver going
to quit until I have carried the gospel
of good roads into every school in the
state. I want them and everybody to
understand that only by proper meth-
od., can roads be built. We must first
have the highway engineer, who does
for road building what the architect
does for a residence building. Then a
comprehensive knowledge of drainage
area and drainage must be gotten and
then intelligent direction of the forces
which do the actual work."
Ready to Organize.
The state highway- depart*" ent will
organize any school districts for this
educational road work. A line to the
department will get immediate par-
ticulars. There is no cost to schools
for this part of the work.
Those Assisting.
Among the adult population present
during the construction of the "Educa-
tional Road” were Commissioner
Suggs; J. J. Miller, principal of the
Seminole high school; A. H. Collins,
who had charge of the surveying of
the road; W. R. Goit, expert In con-
crete mixing; E. A. Duke, representing
the state superintendent of education;
L. L. Sturgeon, county superintendent
of Semjnole county; Rev. William
Du Hamel, rector of the Shawnee Epis-
copal church; Walter S. Gilbert, secre-
tary of the state highway department;
and Mrs. Kate Gilbert of the highway
department, who assisted in the cere-
monial exercises attending the plan-
ing of the trees along the highway.
All of the work of building the road,
from the surveying of the grade, to
the actual construction work was per-
formed by the pupils who took the in
itiative, being assisted only when the
occasion required.
What Stephens Will Do
Duncan, Stephens County, has en-
tered enthusiastically into the Educa
tional Mile of Road movement and the
seventy-five school districts will all
attempt to build a mile of road he
tween now and the close of the
schools in May. County Supt. A. L.
Morton has interested the towns ol
Duncan, Comanche and Marlow to the
extent of raising $300.00, which Is to
be divided into nine prizes, three each
of $5.00, $30.00 and $20.00, which are
to be awarded to the schools making
the best showing. Commissioner ol
Highways, Sidney Suggs, spent the
entire last week in the county organ
lzlng the school districts.
Washington.—Further spread of tl e
livestock foot ami mouth disease
caused the extension of the federal
quarantine to Ithole Island, Massa-
chusetts and Iowa. Reports to the
department of agriculture announce
the discovery of the epidemic at South
Attlebury, Bristol county, Mass, and
at Parnell, Iowa, the first case west
of the Mississippi. Cattle, sheep and
hogs, now cannot be moved out of
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Penn-
sj lvania, Maryland, New York, Massa-
chusetts, Iowa, Rhode Island, Dela-
ware and Wisconsin.
in addition to the states already
quarantined Mississippi is believed to
be threatened with a case at Como
where it is reported a herd has con-
tracted the disease.
Hope was expressed upon the re-
I ceipt of no reports of new cases.in In-
diana and Michigan that the epidemic
| there has been placed under control,
j On the other hand new cases were
found in Lancaster county, Pennsyl-
vania and in three more counties in
Illinois.
The spread of the disease makes
certain an increased cost of putting
down the epidemic. It would not sur-
prise officials if the cost would be
nearer the $2,000,000 expended by the
German government to eradicate the
disease from among its cattle a few
years ago, than the $300,000 spent by
the American government in fighting
the 1908 outbreak of the disease. The
expense of having inspectors trace the
various shipments from infected cen-
ters will be very large. Ten new in-
spectors were rushed to Wisconsin,
Iowa and Massachusetts. Department
officials have suggested to the pro-
moters of the Royal Ctettle show to he
held at Kansas City, Mo., this fall that
the event should be postponed.
Chicago Yard Closed.
Chicago.—A large part of the cattle
receiving and meat packing industry
of the country, long centered in Chi-
cago temporarily was shifted to Kan-
sas City, Omaha, St. Joseph, Mo., and
other western cities and the Chicago
Union Stock Yards, for the first time
since its organization in 1865, was
closed down for nine days in conse-
quence of the prevalence of hoof and
mouth disease among cattle. The
quarantine against the stock yards and
all other cattle pens within the state
went into effect at all plants. The
state’s action supplements the federal
quarantine against Illinois.
No more cattle, sheep or hogs are
to be received in Chicago until No-
vember 16 when business is to be re-
sumed after the wards have been thor-
oughly disinfected and pronounced
fre from the disease.
The effects of the quarantine at the
union stock yards were shown in the
prices of poultry. Anticipating a
stronger demand for poultry by reason
of the epidemic of foot and mouth dis-
ease among cattle, the price of live
fowls has advanced four cents a pound
in the last 48 hours. The price of
dressed meats so far has not been ef-
fected and' assurances' given by tiie
packers are to the effect that it will
not be.
C. Y. Devry, chief animal keeper at
Lincoln Park, among whose speci-
mens are a number, of the cloven hoof
animals, which alone are said to be
subject to the disease, took alarm at
the situation. He said that he would
make certain that the hay given his
bison, sacred oxen, deer and the like,
had not come from an infected district,
and that he would not bring any new
animals into the zoo for six months at
least.
The killing of cattle and swine, ill
of the disease continued at the stock*
yards and disinfectants were scatter-
ed all through the yard.
More prize winners at the recent
dairy show were taken sick and were
isolated for observation.
J. Ogden Armour, head of Armour
and company, issued a statement to
the effect that there is no danger of in-
fection from dressed meats and Dr. O
E. Dyson, chief veterinarian of the
state, gave out reassuring word that
there is no danger in milk where the
pracautions ordinarily observed
among the dairy herds and milk houses
are maintained.
Those with a liking for hunting were
granted permission to shoot pigeons
which fly about the yards attracted by
scattered grains.
This must be an awfully tiresome
world for the mar who knows it all.
Made since 1846—Hanford’s Balsam.
Adv.
It is far better for a woman to laugh
than cry—unless she has occasion to
work her husband for a new hat.
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Red Cross Ball Blue makes the laundresr
hanpy, makes clothes whiter than snow.
All good grocers. Adv.
Definition.
“What do you understand by the
term ‘poetic license’?”
“A pull with a magazine editor.”
VOCB OWN DRUGGIST Wil l. TEIX YO0
Try Murine Myo Itemed? for Red, Weak, Watery
Byes and Granulated Hyelids; No timartinff—
lust Bye Comfort. Write for Book of the By®
by mail Fr<
___ ________ Book of the By®
Murine Bye Remedy Co.. Chicago,
Banishing Trouble.
Kind Friend—This is a nice studio
you have. Is the rent high?
Artist—I don’t remember.
Important to Wlothara
Examine carefully every bottla of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature -.11
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Bound to Have Effect.
The lecture had^been long, preachy
and unrelieved by humor, but at its
close a sad-faced, earnest-looking man
strode emphatically to the stage and
grasped the speaker by the hand.
"Doctor Neverend,” he said, heartily,
“I want to assure you your message
tonight will have a marked effect on
the life of every nervous, fretful, im-
patient man who heard you.”
“Indeed!” cried the delighted lec-
turer. “You really believe it will
affect their whole lives?”
“Undoubtedly," declared the sad-
faced man; “It will shorten them.”—
Judge.
Round Trip.
The attorney of a street railroad
company in a Kentucky town was ex-
amining a skinny sixteen-year-old ne-
gro boy who had sued for injuries os-
tesibly incurred in a collision on the
highway, relates the Saturday Evening
Post.
“You say,” he asked, “that when this
street car hit that wagon you were
riding on the front seat of the wagon?”
“Dat’s whut I said,” answered the
little negro.
“And you say the force of the blow
knocked you up in the air?”
“Yes, sub—’way up in de air.”
“Well, how long did you stay up
there?” demanded the lawyer.
“Not no longer dan it tuck me to git
down!” answered the truthful com-
plainant, promptly.
United Only for One Thing.
India is not a nation. It is a geo-
graphical conglomeration of various
peoples and languages, whose early
history was a succession of tribal con-
flicts and warring states, bound to-
gether only by a certain oneness of
religion, and above all, hued and mold-
ed by foreign conquest into an amal-
gamation of unwilling submission and
compulsory allegiance.
At the Beach.
Maude—My long suit is bathing.
Aunt Anne—Humph—J.’d hate to^see
your short one.
A REBELLION
Food Demanded.
Canada Cattle Now Shut Out.
Washington.—All shipments of live
stock from Canada to the United
States will he barred by a quarantine
order prepared at the department of
agriculture. There is no evidence of
foot and mouth disease In the Do-
minion, but infected cars have been
sent over the border and the order
is to prevent their return.
Delaware has been added to the
list of quarantined states.
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The human body will stand a lot of
abuse, but sometime it will surely re-
bel and demand proper food in place
of the pasty, starchy, greasy stuffs on
which it has been made sick.
Then is the time to try Grape-Nuts,
the most scientific and perfect food In
the world.
A lady of Washington says; “Three
years ago I was very ill with catarrh
of the stomach and was given up to
die by one doctor. I laid in bed four
months and my stomach was so weak
that I could not keep down medicine
or hardly any kind of food and was so
weak and emaciated after four months
of this starvation that my daughter
could easily lift me from bed and put
me In my chair. '
“But weak as my stomach was, It
accepted, relished and digested Grape-
Nuts without any difficulty the first
time that wonderful food was tried.
“I am now strong and in better
health than for a great many years
and am gradually growing still
stronger. I rely on Grape-Nuts for
much of the nourishment that I get.
The results have certainly been won-
derful In my case and prove that no
stomach Is so weak It will not digest
Grape-Nuts.
“My baby got fat from feeding on
Grape-Nuts. I was afraid I would
have to stop giving the food to him,
but I guess it is a healthy fat, tot his
health is just perfect." Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look In pkgs. for the famous little
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Brill, H. E. The Bixby Bulletin (Bixby, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1914, newspaper, November 13, 1914; Bixby, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc496376/m1/2/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.