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FIRM PRIZES ITS CATS

"They Kill Our Worst Enemy--Rats," Says Flour Dealer

  "The cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house
that Jack built"

  How much is a cat worth?  How much are eight cats worth?  Ask William
C. Adams of Fred Adams and Son company, flour and feed dealers, 619
Monroe-st.
  "Is air or food or water important to life?"  asked Mr. Adams.  'Well'
that's how important cats are to us.
  "We used to have all the rats and mice in the world around this
place.  Traps would check them.  We've tried poison.  They wouldn't
bite.
  "Then we got a cat.  It did good work.  We got more cats.  The mice
were exterminated.  But the rats were still active in the cellar.
  "One day two cats on an upper story got to fighting.  They tumbled
down the elevator shaft to the basement.  There they stayed.  Now there
are no rats or mice in the building.
  "We give the eight cats all the milk they want.  And we know in just
what part of the building every cat is.  Mice and rats are the greatest
enemies of flour dealers.

FIND PELLAGRA IN OHIO

  Columbus, Aug. 18--(Special)--The state board of health has discovered
a well-defined case of pellagra in Ohio.  Tainted corn is said to be the
general means by which it is communicated.
  The victim of the disease is Myron Burd, who was released from the
Ohio penitentiary in March 1907.  He is now living in Defiance county.

FORTUNE FOR A PURSE

By United Press

  Bellevue, Aug. 19--Twenty-five thousand dollars is the price said to
have been offered for the purse that once held the spending money of
George Washington.  Ike Gruver, the owner, is holding out for $26,000.

Close to One Hundred Years

  The Ottawa Sentinel, in speaking of the reunion of the Ridge family in
Ottawa last week, which embraces five generations, in which the star
actor was Mrs. Harriet Ridge says that she is 92 years of age, being the
oldest of the family, and the great-great grandmother of the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Roose.  Mrs. Ridge is remarkably active for one of her
age.



    Riley Center, July 6, 1911.
  Say mister editor, I serpose you het been to Seedar Pint many
o'times.  Wa'al I went thar yesterday the fust time in my life and I'm
goin agin.  I didn't know is wus so much fun and I never knowed afore
how much I'd been missin.  You see 'twas so all-fired hot down here at
Riley Center thet I thought I'd take Maw fer a vacatern and see if she
wouldn't stop talkin about that Fourth of July speech o' mine.
  Wa'al we went, takin the lectric car and the boat at Sandusky.  It wus
the fust time I had ever been on a big boat.  The only one that run by
itsself I wus ever on afore bein the one Dick Sherwood hes.  Wa'al this
boat was as big as a Fremont block and I nearly got lost in it.  I went
down ter see the enjines thet run ther boat.  The enjineer was very
perlite.  He told me all about how it works.  Shucks it's simple.  I
berlieve I can make one myself.  When we got ter the Pint, we went down
a place they called the Midway.