Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1917 — Hurty Blames the Rats Of State For H. C. of L. [ARTICLE]

Hurty Blames the Rats Of State For H. C. of L.

Hooeiers may com/bat the high cost of living by killingthe 3,000,000 rats in the state which cost $4,500,000 to feed in a year. According to a report made public bv Dr. Hurty* this L 9 the way the residents of Indiana may practice a little true economy. The report further says: “There is another fact in connection with the rats which might be considered. They carry Ike, fleas, and other insect vermin. _ Typhus fever, which is transmitted through lice, recently haaapneated in HKnois Mid if any of these Sucker rats stray over the line into Indiana and happen to bring some lice infected wath typhus fever germs, then we wil have this awful disease to contend with in the Hoosier state. , “If the people of Indiana are a practical people, if the business men Teally know good business, and if we arbdeaire to practice a big and true economy, we will rise against the rats.”