Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1908 — INDIANA'S NEW PURE FOOD LAW [ARTICLE]

INDIANA'S NEW PURE FOOD LAW

Substitutes for Sugar Are Prohibited. ALL MILK MUST BE COOLED Regulations Affect Confectioners, Cancers, Dairymen, Packers, Butchers and Other Dealers In Articles of Subsistence—Bread and All Staples Exposed for Sale Must Be Protected Prom Insects, Dust and Any Other Thing Liable to Cause Pollution— Cooked Provender for Hogs. Indianapolis, Dec. 1. The state board of health has made public its new rules affecting confectioners, dairymen, canners, packers, butchers and other dealers in food products. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, says they have the same effect as laws and failure to observe them will subject the offender to prosecution. »

Sugar Substitutes Barred. Bakers, grocers and confectioners are touched by the rule which reads: “So manufacturer, dealer, vendor or other person shall expose for sale or sell bread, pastry, confectionery, shelled nuts, tapioca or other foods so prepared that they are ready for consumption, unless such foods are securely protected from Insects, vermin, dust, dirt and all pollution.” The use In canned food products of sugar substitutes known as saccharine, dulcin, sucrol, garantose, hayden sugar crystals, glucin of any coal-tar sweetness is prohibited. The use of any preservative except salt, saltpeter, sucrose, vinegar and spices is prohibited. It is permitted, however, for the season of 1909 that one-tenth of 1 per cent of sodium benzoate may be used for preserving tomato catsup and bulk sweet pickles. % Milk Must Be Strained. It is required that all milk shall be strained through wire cloth strainers and cooled to 50 degrees Fahrenheit within thirty minutes after it is drawn from the cow.

It is made unlawful to feed hogs any uncooked slaughter house waste or the uncooked flesh of dead animals. Hogs so fed. it is pointed out, frequently acquire tuberculosis. GARY SITES IN DEMAND Steel Men Predict a City of 500,000 Within Five Years. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 1. —That Gary is not going to be a one-industry city is shown by the fact that one hundred factory sites are sought by companies all over the world. The United States Steel Corporation owns 5,000 acres of land which it will sell for sites to those using its products first. The United States Steel Corporation predicts that in five years Gary, Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor will be one city with a population of 500,000 people.

ALERT GIRLS REWARDED Jewelry for ’Phone Operators Who Frightened Off Burglars. South Bend. Ind., Dec. I.—The two hello girls who twice kept a big jewelry store from being looted were invited to regard themselves by selecting anything they liked from the showcases in the establishment. The girls work in a ’phone exchange next to the jewelry house and frightened away the thieves by frantically calling on their wires for the police. BUYS TERRE HAUTE CLUB Park To Be Improved by Owner of the Team. Terre Haute. Ind., Dec. 1. —Louis D. Smith announced that he had purchased all the stock in the Terre Haute Central League Baseball club. He said the park would be Improved and the team strengthened for next season. Mr. Smith has been president of the club. Roads Must Interchange Traffic. Indianapolis, Dec. 1. —A decision rendered by the Indiana Railroad commission makes it incumbent upon a steam road to enter into an inter change of cai*iad traffic with an interurban company, regardless of whether two or more steam roads have entered into an agreement not to exchange their car traffic. To Study High Pressure System. Indianapolis, Dec. I.—Mayor Bookwaiter has announced that he will go to New York city and Philadelphia following the National Rivers and Harbors Congress to be held in Washington on Dec. 9. to investigate the high-pressure systems used in those cities for fire protection. Appoints Judge Samuel Artman. Indianapolis, Dec. 1. Governor Hanly has made Judge Samuel R. Artman a special judge of the Lawrence circuit court. Crusade Against Slot Machines. Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 1. —A crusade against slot machines has been started by the police department. Boys Killed By Pit Cave-In. Walkerton, Ind., Dec. I.—Vernon Cripe, and Walter Evans were killed •n a cave-in of a nit.