Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — WAR HINTS, HELPS AND DUTIES [ARTICLE]

WAR HINTS, HELPS AND DUTIES

Compiled and Condensed for the Indiana State Council of Defense by George Ade. Dig up and burn the shrub known as the common barberry. It feeds the spore which the wind blows into wheat fields, causing black stem, rust. It need not be near a wheat field to make trouble. The Japanese barberry is harmless. It grows low. The bad kind is a tall, erect shrub. The edges of the leaf are sharply toothed, while the leaves of the Japanese form are smooth at the edge. The twigs of the kind that you must destroy are dim or

gray in color and bear spines, usually in groups of three. Destroy the common barberry at once before it can damage the wheat crop this year. John Siple caught a large prairie wolf in a trap on his farm northwest of Ida Grove, La. The wolf measured sixty-four inches from the tip of its tail to the point of its nose. Mr. Siple has shot and trap ped more than fifty wolves during the last five years, but this was the best fur hide he had taken from a wolf. New England’s labor problem recently became so serious that one of the largest shoe manufacturing concerns in the country advertised for women with babies or small children who are experienced shoe stitchers. The company has install[ed a large nursery and will have a staff of kindergarten teachers on hand to care for the youngsters while their mothers work. A coffin supposed to contain a corpse was seized at Huron, S. D., and when opened was found to contain twenty gallons of whisky. The bootlegger had ordered a grave dug in a ‘■Huron cemetery. The coffin had been shipped to Huron from the east.