New Richmond Record, Volume 5, Number 31, New Richmond, Montgomery County, 7 February 1901 — Page 4

NEW RICHMOND RECORD.

whom the parcel or package is being sent and the name of the sender. Any other writing such as pictures, or words, such as “books” or “third class matter” will necessitate the classification as first class matter and charges accordingly. Many people who send third class matter write on the wrapper other words than is necessary and this has been the cause of the trouble.

when the disease was one of the scourges of Europe such a fact naturally attracted attention. Physicians in the cities did not regard the country notion as worthy of notice. When an epidemic threatened they inoculated healthy people with small-pox virus to give them the disease. Then it was treated from the start under favorable conditions. The chief effort of the method was to make the inoculated person certain he was to be seriously ill, while them inoculated might possibly escape. Jonathan Edwards was one of the famous victims of inoculation.

It was left for an obscure country physician, Dr. Jenner, to recognize the scientific importance of the farm tradition about the immunity of milkers. By his experiments in 1796 he proved that inoculation with cowpox virus carried protection against small-pox. He wrote a pamphlet on his experiments and sent it to the Royal College of Physicians in London. The manuscript was returned with a contemptuous reply. The discovery was of too great importance not to make an impression and during the fifth year after his first vaccination Jenner and other doctors vaccinated 10,000 persons in England.

In spite of success of the progress there wore many in the early part of the century who doubted its efficacy. The experience of the last thirty years has demonstrated the value of vaccination beyond the possibility of doubt. In Chemnitz, Germany, a city of 64,000 inhabitants, there was a smallpox epidemic in 1870-’71. About 54,000 of the inhabitants had been vaccinated. Only 1-18 per cent of them contracted the disease. Of the unvaccinated more than 46 per cent, were ill. Among the vaccinated less than 1 per cent, of the cases resulted fatally. Among the unprotected the percentage was above 9. Statistics of the armies in the Franco-Prussian war show the same general results. The German soldiers were carefully vaccinated, while the French were not. During a widespread epidemic of small-pox the Germans lost only 450 men from the disease, while the French lost 23,400. In general it has been shown that the great, and the mortality sixty-eight times as great in the unvaccinated as in the vaccinated.

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band and four or five stores and about 300 people. Still Columbus Which is only five miles away from the Marr farm, is best entitled to be spoken of as the town at the center of population, as no diagram is necessary then to go with the statement as to where the center of population is located.

Columbus is one of the most thriving cities of Indiana and is rightfully entitled to claim the distinction of being located at the center of population of the United States. Columbus is the county seat of Bartholomew county, in which the center of population has been located for ten years and where it will remain for ten more. The center located ten years ago was near the junction of Bartholomew, Jennings and Decatur counties, and while Decatur claimed the distinction the spot was actually as much in Bartholomew county as it was in Decatur.

The new location of the center to which it has been ten years in moving is two and three-fifth miles south and fourteen miles and 1,747 feet west of the point where it rested in 1890. If it moves the same rate westward in the next ten years it will still remain within the confines of Bartholomew county, but if it goes further it will find its location in old Brown county, noted for its lack of railroads, steam-boats telegraph wires, electric lights, trolley cars, bunco steerers and other adjuncts of modern civilization. The center of population of the United States, if located in Brown county, would be as hard to discover as the North Pole, and besides, as the inhabitants of Brown are so much opposed to railroads and electricity and other modern inventions, they might refuse to have the center of population in their midst. But there is no crossing a bridge until it has been reached, and in ten years Brown county may have railroads and modern inventions and everything that goes with them.

The Census Bureau last week gave out the latitude and longitude of the new center of population but no one in the vicinity of Wiggs or “Liz Town” thought of looking longitude 85 degrees 48 minutes, 54 seconds west and latitude 39 degrees 9 minutes 36 seconds north in Hen Marr’s clover field. Surveyors in Columbus, however, figured out that the exact center of population of which the latitude and longitude were given by the Census Bureau would be found in Bartholomew county at a point twenty-four feet and eight inches west and 192 feet north of the southwestern corner of Columbus township. As a large part of Columbus township belongs to the Marr family it was pretty safe to figure that the new center of population would be found on the Marr farm.

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Thursday, Feb. 7, 1901.

THE EXACT CENTER OF POPULATION. When Henry Marr, of Bartholomew county, this State, goes out into his clover field, which is in the “east forty” on his farm, and stands at a spot near the southwestern corner, he has 18,650,000 citizens of the United States to the east ot him, 18,650,000 to the northward. 18,650,000 to the southward, and 18,650,000 citizens to the

I. O. O. F. BOX SUPPER.

The local lodge of Odd Fellows will hold a public social and supper at their lodge room in the Perkins block on Saturday night, Feb. 9. It will be in the nature of a “box supper,” and an invitation is extended to everybody to attend, the young ladies of the vicinity are especially invited to be present and to bring their boxes with them.

westward. When Farmer Marr returns to his house there is an exactly even number of the people on each side of the spot where he had stood but a few moments before in the “east forty.” The spot in Farmer Marr’s clover field is the exact center of the population of the United States, according to the last census. It is in latitude 39 degrees, 9 minuts, 36 seconds north, and longitude 85 degrees, 48 minutes, 54 seconds west. Persons who might have trouble in finding the place from

Before the supper on that evening there will be a short program of select declamations and readings, and a thirty minutes talk on Odd Fellowship by Rev. H. C. Weston.

PUBLIC SALE.

I will offer for sale at my residence 2 miles north of Elmdale, near Center school house, on what is known ns the Foster Fletcher farm, on TUESDAY, FEB. 12, 1901

these simple and accurate measurementscan go down to Columbus and ask the man at the livery stable to drive them to "Hen Marr’s place.” After you get to Hen Marr’s you go around the corner and past the barn. Then you keep straight on until you come to a white mule and a black mule eating straw out of a stack. Take a turn to the windward and bear off

The following property, to-wit: Cattle —3 milch cows, 2 giving a good flow of milk, 1 fresh March 1st; 1 2-yr.-old heifer; 4 calves. Sheep—6 ewes due to lamb by March 1st.

sharply on a tack, the white mule has a reputation for kicking that would make a hardened old army mule ashamed of himself. Pass the black dog to starborrd and the pigsty to larboard. After getting out of the long lane come about and stand across the “east forty” south by southeast.

Hogs—3 brood sows due to pig March 1st.

1,000 bushels corn in crib; 400 bushels oats in bin; rick oats straw; some fodder. Farming Implements consisting of 1 cultivator, 1 harrow, 1 pair bob sleds.

Is better than ever to execute your job work in short order and first-class style and workmanship. Our aim is to please all customers and to meet all honest and fair competition. We have lately added more new type, and we ask that when you have anything, and whatever it is get our prices. Best and neatest work is our first offer alwas.

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TERMS—All sums of $5 and under, cash in hand. On all sums over $5 a credit of 9 months will be given, purchasers giving note will approved freehold security, notes to bear 8 per cent, interest from date if not paid at maturity. No property to be removed till terms of sale are complied with. 6 per cent. per annum off for cash where entitled to credit J. P. FAUST. Col. A. W. Perkins, Auct. A. S. Clements, Clerk.

JOB

Away over in the far corner there is a single, melancholy fence rail sticking up in the ground. Approach this rail with uncovered head and in respectful silence, because it marks the center of population of the United States. Mr. Marr's farm around which the population of the country revolves, is four miles east and two miles south of Columbus. Some of the papers of the country which have had their local astronomers and surveyors apply the findings of the Census department to maps have announced with a great flourish of trumpets, that the town which is to be famous during the next ten years as tbe center of 75,000,000 people is the city of Wiggs, Ind. On the map Wiggs appears as the town nearest the intersection of latitude 39 degrees, 9 minutes, 36 seconds north, and longitude 85 degrees, 48 minutes, 54 seconds, west. And the celebrated spot of Hen Marr’s “east forty” is not far from Wiggs, only a mile and a half, in fact

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Vaccination is compulsory throughout most of Europe. In France the law is loosely enforced and the London Daily Mail is authority for the statement that 14,000 Frenchmen die annually from the disease, while it carries off only 110 Germans a year. The parent of every child born in England must, within six months after the child’s birth, have it vaccinated by a registered medical practitioner or by the public vaccinator. In case a parent believes vaccination will be harmful to his child he can secure exemption by taking oath before two justices of the peace before tbe child is four months old. By such stringent methods as these England and other countries have prevented the recurence of these epidemics which were so disastrous a century ago. The case is one where the ounce of preventation is worth several pounds of cure.

PNEUMONIA CAN BE PREVENTED.

This disease always results from a cold or an attack of the grip aud may be prevented by timely use of Cluynberlain's Cough Remedy. This remedy was extensively used during the epidemics of La Grippe for the past few years, and not a single case has ever been reported that did not recover or that resulted in pneumonia, which shows it to be a certain preventive of that dangerous disease. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy has gained a world wide reputation for its cures of colds and grip. For sale by J. W. Hollin & Co., druggists.

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An old ruling on the postoffice matter which has been somewhat neglected will now be rigidly enforced as the result of a recent decision of the department at Washington. The postmasters throughout the country have been notified that on all third class mail matter there shall be no writing except the address of the party to

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But Wiggs, besides having a most plebian and unpoetical name for such a dignity ns has been thrust upon it, is much bigger on the map than it is in Bartholomew county. The glory of Wiggs is gone. Wiggs is know in Bartholomew county only as a place where trains used to stop. All there is of Wiggs now is a signboard marked “Wiggs” and an old shed on which the farmers, used to stand when they flagged the train. Wiggs would not be a good place for a dog fight, let alone the center of population of the United States. The first question that would be asked all over the country, if Wiggs were to be dubbed the centre of the populatisn, would be:— “Wiggs! Where is Wiggs?” Besides Wiggs is not entitled to the distinction. Standing on the exact geographical center of population in Henry Marr's field and grasping the rail which marks the place, and facing due soutli and east, the church spire of Elizabeth Town, only a mile and a half away, can be plainly seen. Elizabeth Town, or “E Town,” or “Liz Town,” as the farmers around there call it, has some rights to distinction. “Liz Town” has a

ORIGIN OF VACCINATION.

During the eighteenth century it was common talk among the country people of England and Scotland that milkers of cows never had the smallpox. At a time

Nothing adds more to vigor of body and cheerfulness of mind, or aids so well in chasing away the lines ofworry and care from the weary brow, as good, sound, refreshing sleep. But when the gray matter of the brain has been robbed of its vitality and constructive strength by weak, wornout and exhausted nerves, sleep gives way to restless tossing and long hours of feverish distress. Do you want a good sleep? You can get ibi if you go about it right.

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Relaxes the strain on the excited nerves and gives the repair shops of the brain a chance to make good the damage of the waking hours. It is a great brain-food and nerve-builder. Sod by all druggists on a guarantee. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ini,

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