Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1915 — Warning to All Flies: Keep Away From St. Louis [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Warning to All Flies: Keep Away From St. Louis

ST LOUIS.—The SL Louis Klll-the-Fly association Is preparing to inaugurate a campaign this spring that will, if It receives the aid of the public, make SL Louis a flyless city. Tentative plans provide for the paying of a

cash price for every fly delivered, and in addition the awarding of thousands of. prises contributed by merchants and citizens. The grand prize, to the boy or girl presenting the greatest number of flies during the scisnon, will be an automobile, according to the tentative plans. "It was last season's campaign that showed the people what could be done,” says Dr. G. A. Jordan, assistant health commissioner. "There

were fewer flies in St. Louis last year than ever, and It was the destruction of the early flies that showed what concerted action could accomplish. "What the association will accomplish this year depends entirely on how generously the public responds to our appeal for aid. Circular letters are now being sent out explaining the need for contributions. “If we should get a fund of 115,000 I feel that we can practically eliminate the fly in one season. If we get a smaller sum we will make it go just as far as it will and do just as much good as we can. “We want to get prizes, thousands of them, so that every boy or girl who enters the campaign will receive not only his pay in cash for the flies he destroys, but will receive a prise in addition that will be an incentive to put forth his best exertions.”