Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1916 — KEEP CISTERN WATER PURE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KEEP CISTERN WATER PURE

FHter That May Be Easily and Cheaply Constructed Will Answer for the Purpose. The water In the cistern may be rendered clean and free from impurities at a very small cost by putting in a filter made as follows: Sink a joint of common tiling into the ground near the wall of the house.

Fill the tiling within a couple of inches of the top with charcoal, place a lid on it to prevent the mice, rats, bugs and dirt, and all other foreign substances from entering the cistern by that route. If a piece of heavy wire screen is placed over the charcoal, so much the better. Have the filter jrest on a foundaticfn of clean stones or cement from three to four inches deep, into which a twoinch pipe should be arranged for carrying the water to the cistern. A piece of heavy screening should be placed over that end of the pipe piotruding into the'filter, and another piece of fine screen wire should be fastened across the opening into the cistern; both of which are for the purpose of allowing nothing of any size to get into the water supply.

A Filter for SI.OO. A, Spouting; B, Tiling; C, Charcoal; D, Cement Foundation; E, Pipe, Leading From Filter to Cistern; F, Cistern.