text: 6 HK m 1919 7 11 June /4J^JyJ^wwT? ~ffl3 > Uw**. 4^/3 . jsS* <v/ros J esxo/o'JV2V sw/ar gjmf w LIKE BETSY BOSS Girl of 1919 May Easily Construct Her Own Starry Flag. THE American flag is one of the easiest in the world to make, since all of its parts are in straight lines. Any schoolgirl who is able to sew can make a flag for about one-half of what It will cost her at a store, and still have a stronger and more durable one when she has it finished. There are two principal ways of proceeding in the making of an American flag. The one used by most persons is to determine first the width of the stripes, so that if the flag is to be made of silk, ribbon may be purchased of a standard width. From this the size of the flag may be determined. The second method is to decide either the width or the length of the flag and then compute the amount of material from the size decided upon. Let us assume that we wish to make a flag from two-inch silk rib bons, since two-inch ribbon is a standard size and may be purchased at any dry goods store. Since the stripes will be two inches wide, the width of the canton, or the blue field, will be seven times two inches, or 14 inches, and its length will be the same, since the canton of the American flag is square. The canton is also one-third of the length of the flag. Then the flag will be three times 14 inches, which equals 42 inches. and the width being 13 times two inches, or 26 inches. Thus, to use two-inch ribbon, one will have a flag three and a half feet long and a little more than two feet wide. Material Needed. The next thing is to determine just how much two-inch ribbon must be purchased, so that the stripes may be made with little or no waste. There are three full white stripes in the complete length of the flag, which equals 126 inches, and added to that will be the three short stripes, two thirds the length of the flag, or 84 inches, making a total of 210 inches, or about six yards. For the red stripes, it is necessary to add one extra short red stripe of 14 inches, which is about half of a yard. Thus, for a flag made with two-inch ribbon, it will be necessary for the maker to purchase six yards of white and six and a half yards of red ribbon. The canton will be seven inches square and the stars may be made from smaller widths of ribbon. There must be 48 stars arranged in six rows of eight stars each. By using a ruler, the exact position of the stars may be determined and they can be easily cut if a paper pattern is made beforehand. By the second method, one determines the length of flag—for example, make the flag 21 inches long. By applying the same process of computation backwards, the size of the canton will be seven inches square and the width of stripes one inch. The amount of material may be determined by the same calculations used in the first method. The official origin of the flag with the 13 alternate red and white stripes, representing the United Colonies, in a blue canton, which was raised on Prospect Hill, Cambridge, on the first day of January, 1776, has never been satisfactorily determined. It is commonly thought that the continental congress appointed George Washington, George Ross, and Robert Morris, a committee, authorized to design a suitable flag for the nation and that they called upon Mrs. Ross, who was conducting an upholstery business on Arch Street in Philadelphia. The confirmation of this report is not to be found in the Journal of Congress. There seems to be little doubt that the American flag is a growth rather than a creation. Few of the writers have declared that both the stars and the stripes were derived from the coat of arms of Washington’s family, which contains both devices, but beyond that coincident no other evidence has been produced to prove this. Made Official Emblem. On June 14, 1777, the American congress in session at Philadelphia adopted the following resolution; “Resolved, That the flag of the 18 United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” The credit of making the first flag is given to Betsy Ross, William J. Canby, a grandson of Mrs. Ross, declared that Betsy Ross was shown a rough drawing of the flag, which was explained by General Washington. She objected to the six-pointed stars, and suggested that they be five-pointed. General Washington is supposed to have drawn the sketch, changing the stars to five points. At first, Washington declared that five-pointed stars would be hard to make, but Mrs. Ross demonstrated that by one clip of her scissors she was able to make a perfect five-point star. In 1912, the United States congress admitted Arizona and New Mexico into the Union and the stars then numbered 48. The law did not provide how the stars were to be arranged, and for a long time a considerable diversity existed in this respect. However, on October 29 of that year, the proportion was definitely fixed and the manner in which the stars were to be placed was determined. Since that time the same rule has held good, that of six rows of eight stars each. WOULD KEEP FLAG FLOATING Suggestion Made by Gen. Horace Porter Worth Considering in This Year of Unrest. Gen. Horace Porter once suggested with great wisdom that the flag should be hoisted on every court building, every public place, every prominent memorial—kept there day and night through calm and storm and never hauls down. "It is particularly necessary in a land like this where there are so many who have been reared under foreign flags and who cannot be too familiar with the flag." THE DEMOCRAT, MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN. TO PEDECRATE OF YELLOW FEVER Gen. W. C. Gorg es to Promote Improvement of General Sanitation. DIFFICULTIES TO OVERCOME Rockefeller Foundation Is Backing the Work—Ecuadorian Government—Is Much Interested in Undertaking. Christobal, Canal Zone. —Gen. William C. Gorgas and his staff passed through Panama recently on their way to Guayaquil, Ecuador, on his mission for the Rockefeller foundation of stimulating the elimination of yellow fever from that port and of promoting the improvement of general sanitation there. The Ecuadorian government has become very much interested in the matter, in view of the hopes of commercial and industrial activity after the war. General Gorgas received the correspondent of the New York World very cordially, and from him and Colonel Wrightson much interesting information about the work was obtained. The world-wide campaign now being carried on by the Rockefeller foundation against such universal plagues as yellow fever, hookworm, malaria, bubonic plague, and tuberculosis has already begun to revolutionize conditions in some of the countries in which the work is being carried on. Vitality is increased. For example, the reduction of the incidence of the hookworm in Porto Rico and Panama has resulted in an increase of the vitality of the population and stimulated industrial activity to a degree that has been clearly reflected in increased business activity. The foundation has employed the most eminent experts in the world for its work. General Gorgas is perhaps the most prominent of them all, having eradicated yellow fever from Cuba, made sanitation for Panama a model for the world, and carried the medical and surgical work of the United States army to a degree of efficiency never known in any army of the world before, during the war. The west coast of South America has been severely handicapped in its shipping and commercial business by the existence of centers of yellow fever infection in a number of places, especially at Buenaventura, the Pacific port of Colombia, and Guayaquil, the commercial metropolis and port of Ecuador. A rigid quarantine has had to be maintained at Panama against all these ports of western South America, resulting in much delay to passengers who have to be held in quarantine at Panama until known to be free from infection; while cargoes have frequently had to be fumigated against mosquitoes and rats, with much loss of time and money and occasional damage to the cargo. Two Difficulties Overcome. Two difficulties have been in the way of eradicating these diseases from these ports. One has been the financial expenses, which would be a heavy charge upon the governments of the countries involved, and the relative failure of the people at large to appreciate the necessity of improved sanitation. The Rockefeller foundation is helping to solve the first of these difficulties, and is indirectly also promoting the spread of information among the people so as to reduce the indifference on the subject. The healthfulness of the Isthmus of Panama has been a good advertisement for sanitation to South American travelers, and the influence of the example has been slowly penetrating through the masses of the common people. One of the main difficulties in arousing public sentiment to demand the thoroughgoing elimination of endemic diseases has been the fact that the population of the ports involved have become more or less immune through the operation of the natural method of immunization produced by the disease. But the constant arrival at these ports of nonimmune persons from the interior or from other countries keeps the infection alive as long as the mosquitoes which convey the disease are in these ports. There is nearly always a sufficient number of cases of yellow fever in existence to infect these mosquitoes, and when new arrivals are bitten they are likely to develop the fever, and so to keep the epidemic going from one new arrival to another. The only safe way to get rid of the fever, therefore, is to get rid of the mosquitoes. Can Kick If She Wants To. New York. —No matter how high a woman’s skirt is, she can kick a man if she wants to. Magistrate Douras so ruled and he put under bond to keep the peace Miss Jennie Berger, 33, Miss Berger denied that she had kicked Joseph Goldmutz and told the judge it could not be done without splitting the skirt she was wearing. Had a Bad Night. Kansas City, Mo. —Mr. Day had a bad night. He was driver of a livery motor car with three “fares.” Upon arriving at given address he was relieved of $1 and his machine. Lady Phyllis King, daughter of the earl of Lovelace, and one of the most beautiful unmarried princesses in the British empire. Latest. Photograph to reach this country. TAKE LOOT FROM HUN Four Billion Dollars’ Worth Captured by British. Immense Amount of Stolen Property Left Behind in Hurried German Retreat. Namur, France. —Four billion dollars is the most conservative estimate of the value of the war loot captured from the German army by the British because of the haste of the Hun retreat. Eight hundred barge loads, each carrying 800 tons, and 20,000 trucks held a part of the treasure. Some of the loads were coming to supply the German army. Some were cargoes taken from the allies and loaded for shipment to Germany. But the latter was the least part. One barge carried 400 tons of iron bolts. In one small area was seized 80,000 tons of chicory, 100,000 candles, 1,100 tons of soda, 200 dynamos, 1,000 farm implements, 8,000 shovels and pickaxes. In one sale of loot 90,000 stoves have been disposed of, mostly to Belgians and French. A cargo of rags was bid up to $350 a ton before the auctioneer discovered what the bidders already had learned, that the rags covered a store of copper. Here is just a partial list of the articles seized and now being sold by the disposing board: Brooms, buckets, trench mirrors, dried tripe, toilet paper, water bottles, hammers, lamps, pumps, blunderbuses, carbide, beds, spring mattresses, mousetraps, bells, rotary pumps, wheelbarrows, harness, mosquito netting (by the 1,000 yards), churns, oil, paint, shovels, wire cutters, bags, paper string, paper bags, medical stores, huts, field forges, uniforms. Bell, Klaxton horns, gas alarms, sirens. Mexicans Think Rebel Chief Burst His Coffin Chautau, Mexico. —Legends already are beginning to spring up among the superstitious and ignorant regarding Emiliano Zapata, the rebel chief who met death here on April 10. In an attempt to preserve the bandit’s body as long as possible to give the greatest number of his followers a chance to see it, it was packed in ice, in the absence of embalming fluids. The ice burst the sides and top of the flimsy coffin and gave rise to superstitious tales that the “Attila of the South,” as Zapata was called, was not really dead, but had burst his coffin and escaped. MAKES HIM POSE AS GUEST San Francisco Husband Gets Tired of Notions of Artistic Wife. San Francisco. —Because his wife believed she was destined to be a prima donna and made him pose as a guest in his own home, Jacob Flowerman, insurance man, was granted a divorce here. Flowerman said his wife contended a singer to be popular must be single. Therefore, they lived together secretly. When guests came, he said he went out the back way and later was admitted at the front door like any other guest. Finally, he says, he got tired of this deception and sent his wife back East. RENEWED TESTIMONY No one in Mineral Point who suffers backache, headaches, or distressing urinary ills can afford to ignore this Mineral Point man’s twice-told story. It is confirmed testimony that no Mineral Point resident can doubt. P. Whalen State & Front streets. Mineral Point, says: “I suffered from kidney trouble and rheumatic pains for eight or ten years. I had a dull, heavy pain in the small of my back. The kidney secretions were unnatural and sometimes I had a too frequent desire to pass them, having to get up during the night. Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured at Ivey’s Drug Store, gave me great relief.” OVER FIVE YEARS LATER. Mr. Whalen said: “I wouldn’t be where I couldn’t Doan’s Kidney Pills, for love or money. They always benefit me.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy, get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Whalen had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgs., Buffalo, N. Y. MINERAL POINT MARKETS Quotation of Prices for Thursday, June 12, 1919. LIVE STOCK. MARKET. Steers. Good to choice, corn fed 13 00 @ 15 00 Medium to good grassers 10 00 @ 12 00 Common and thin 0 00 @ 13 00 Heifers. Choice fat 1000 @ 14 00 Medium to good 8 00 @ 12 00 Common and thin 7 00 @ 9 00 Cows. Best fat cows 8 00 @ 11 00 Cutters 700 @ 900 Canners 5 00 @ 8 00 Calves. Good fat, 130 to 181 b 11 00 @ 14 00 Light, 130 and under 9 00 @ 10 00 Heavy, 300 lb and up 8 00 @ 10 00 Hogs. Good 175 to 3351 b butchers 17 Heavy, 250 to 4001 b packers 15 00 @ 1700 Pigs, 75 to 1301 b 13 00 @ 15 00 Sheep Lambs, choice fat 1400® 1600 Lambs, medium to good 13 00 @ 14 00 Lambs, thin 10 00 @ 11 00 Ewes 9 00® 10 00 Flour and Grain. Flour—Patant, per cwt $7.50 Corn, per bushel, $2.00 Rye, per bushel $1.65 Oats, per bushel $0.75 Barley, per bushel $1.00 Butter and Cheese. Butter—Roll, per lb $0.45 Good dairy in tubs $0.45 Creamery, per lb in tubs $0.56 Creamery, per lb in prints $0.57 Cheese, per lb $0.38 Farm Produce. Eggs, per dozen $0.32 Potatoes, per bushel $0.75 Onions, per bushel $3.00 Lard, per lb $0.40 Turkeys, per lb $0.25 Chicken—Spring, dressed, per lb $0.30 Chickens—Old, dressed per lb $0.30 Roosters—Old, per lb $0.15 Tallow—Rough per lb $0.25 Rendered, per cwt $0.80 Hay, per ton $0.30 Wood—dry, per cord $0.80 Hides. Hides—Green, per lb $0.04 Salt. Salt per lb $0.35 Lead, Zinc and Sulphur Ores Lead ore, per 1,000 lbs $0.25 Drybone, per ton $5.00 Blackjack, per ton $0.45 DARLINGTON John F. Riemer was called to Platteville Monday on business. Miss Helen Collins, student at Sinsinawa, is home for her summer vacation. Miss Marie McGrath is spending the week at the P. J. Daly home near Warren. Mrs. Hugh Deery was in Darlington visiting Tuesday. Miss Caroline Miller of Monroe was the guest of her friend Miss Lona Quinn last week. Miss Mary Kelly was in the city Tuesday visiting her sister. Mrs. Ed. Kummer. Miss Agnes Sullivan of Freeport was the guest of Miss Olive McDermott and Mrs. Harbert Gordon this week. W. B. Vail of Benton was in the city several days recently. Mrs. Patrick Carr of Kenosha is the guest of her daughter Mrs. Paul Morgan. Miss Elizabeth Martin of Kenosha spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martin. Mrs. George Harker of Dodgeville returned to her home Monday, after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Chapman and Mrs. Walter Van Matre, who motored to Milwaukee last Tuesday, returned to Darlington the following day. Thomas Sleep and wife of Mineral Point spent several days in Darlington; the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Sleep. Walter Raas, who attends school at Beaver Dam, is home for the summer vacation. Mrs. Mary Benston went to Madison to visit a few days with her brother, Hon. T. C. Richmond. Mrs. Peter Streiff and her little nephew, Robert of New Glams, are guests at the Leunberger home. Miss Leona Reilly of Rockford is here for a short stay with her mother, Mrs. John Reilly. Mrs. Jennie Richards and daughter, Miss Katharine, went to Janesville to visit Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gurton. The Pure Bred Percheron Stallion will stand at John R. Brown’s barn, Mineral Point, Friday and Saturday of each week during the season of 1919. Terms, $15 for standing colt. E. B. DAVIS. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1919. HELLO VYHASSAT? NERVES CASH REGISTER ain't WORK? NONE OTHER. CARE? NONE OTHER. TRY. PROFESSIONAL. AWYERS. E. C. FIEDLER JOS. J. FIEDLER FIEDLER & FIEDLER, Lawyers. Mineral Point, Wisconsin. THOMAS M. PRIESTLEY, Attorney and Counsellor Mineral Point, Wis. Will practice in all courts. Office over Farmers and Citizens Bank ALLEN D. BROWN, M. D., P’S D. Office, 33.5 High Street, Mineral Point, Wis. Suggestive Therapeutics a specialty. Phone 195 J. P. PARMLEY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office over Correll & Martin’s, Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Hours, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. DENTISTS. W. J. MORGAN, D. D. S., CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH A SPECIALTY Uses Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is safe and absolutely painless. All the latest appliances used in the profession. Office over the N. T. Martin hardware store, Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Hours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. WILLIAM A. SEARS, D. C. Chiropractic Spinal Adjustments Insure Health Office opposite Iowa County Bank. ’Phone 310 Mineral Point, Wisconsin. REAL ESTATE Buy Property in Mineral Point. Property will be listed and advertised for sale in this column free of charge for advertising unless sale is made. If the property is sold either by this agency or by the owner or other parties the usual commission will be charged. The following are some good opportunities offered by the Mineral Point Real Estate Agency at the Democrat office: The McIlhon homestead, corner of Commerce and North streets. This property will be sold at a reasonable price. A good building lot on Iowa street, the property of A. Thomas Lot No. 7 in the Gates Subdivision or the west part of Dodge street. The Joseph Dranger homestead on North Commerce street. A good comfortable dwelling house and two acres of good land. The price on this place has recently been reduced, and it will not stay long if the market. The N. Trisweek property situated north of the Municipal building park. This property includes three dwelling houses and a shop. If you are interested in the whole or any part of it inquire at The Democrat office or of any of the above. A member of the Mineral Point Real Estate Agency. A good corner building lot facing south on Maiden street, and also a barn and lot north of it. These lots will be sold cheap if sold soon. We have some other very good offerings in city and farm property. It will pay intending purchasers to investigate. Crawford Bros. Telephone 74. THE THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION OF THE NEW YORK WORLD IN 1919 and 1920 Practically a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. 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