Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1915 — Young Fly Killers in St. Louis Were Too Busy [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Young Fly Killers in St. Louis Were Too Busy

ST. LOUlS.—Buying flies at ten cents the hundred early in the year is attended with great danger of financial disaster, as several women, members of the Consumers’ league, discovered the other day. The day’s returns

totaled more than 60,000, which meant that more than S6O had to be paid out. The women soon found their available cash exhausted- in the face of this unexpected demand, and had to issue certificates of indebtedness to many school children. The league, which has always fought for purity of food supplies, decided to start in early this year with a swat-the-fly campaign. It offered the ten cents a hundred prize to school children, and the school children im-

mediately became industrious. It was announced that committe.es would visit the public schools on Fridays and Saturdays and redeem with cash the swatted flies. , , „ , .. . Things went along smoothly enough until a delegation of women visited the Baden school, Halls Ferry road and Newby street, Friday. They were dumfounded when the boys and girls of the institution exhibited all that was mortal of 24,000 flies. That meant bounties of $24. That so many flies could have been killed in/ that time so early in the season appeared incredible to the women. They consulted Dr. G. A. Jordan, assistant health commissioner, who sent a man to investigate. The investigator reported that there were breeding places of flies in that neighborhood which could readily account for the number.