The Weekly Messenger from St Martinsville, Louisiana • Page 2

Th Weekly Messenger, PUVLIRNI.D EVERTY ATURDAY AT ST. MARTINVILLE, LA. ALBERT BIENVENU, Proprietor LAIZAIRE BIENVENU. Publisher Subscription a year in advance SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910. The Town Election.

The town election Tuesday was a quiet affair and we believe proved a surprise to the winners as well as the losers, as from the talk of both sides they were confident of success. The public expressions indicated clearly that the prestint adiiiinistRation was un popular andl the people wanted a change, but the political bosses ordered the insergents to fall line and the command was quietly obeyed even by those who dared to criticized the administration ail openly said( they would vote against. Free beer did the rest. THE VOTE MAYOR M. L.

Broussard .............123 COUNCILMEN E. A. Davis ..............129 L. J. Duchamp 12 Jules Resweber, Jr ..........121 J.

A. Guerin Derueville Olivier ...........109 FOR MAYOR C. M. Olivier 9) COUNCILMEN R. J.

Guirard ...............114 C. G. Gardemal 96 Benette Bienvenu 96 E. A. Maraist 92 V.

A. Fuselier 92 R. J. Guirard on the Olivier ticket being the only successful candidate, defeating Derneville Olivier. R.

J. Guirard will prove a black sheep in the council, and we believe the best thing he can do is to resign, and allow the council to run the town as they please without the least obstruction and let them have the full credit of their administration. At the municipal election in 1908 the administration had a much larger vote than they received this year. The vote was as follows: M. L.

Broussard, L. J. Duchamp, councilman ..154 Jules Reswober Jr, conucilmanl37 J. A. Guerin, D.

Olivier, councilman .....119 Scott Kelso, I he opposition received the following vote: E. N. Reeweber, L. F. Gary, councilman A.

C. Gauthier, councimanu 102 Scott Keleo, Luke Bonio, councilman Jules Francois, councilman 98 MARRIED. Monday the 16th at 8:30 p. at the home of Mr. Louis J.

Gardemal, his pretty anti accomplished daughter, Miss Goldie, was married to Dr. W. D). Rlousseel, a prominent physician of Patterson. The marriage was a quiet one, only the closest relatives and a few of the most intimate friuends were invited.

After the reception the Doctor and his charming wife left in for New Iberia where they took the fast train for New Orleans. From New Orleans they will go to W'ashiogton and other northern cities. The first Communion will take place here on Thursday the 26th and quite a large number of children are preparing for this grand occasion. On the 27 and 28th Friday I and Saturday next, Lafayette will have the meeting of the State Firemen and will also celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute, and the people of that town have made all preparations to make the combined celebrations, a big (lay in Lafayette, and they are piepared to entertain all who will be present. The Necessity for Keeping Clean.

(HEALTH BULLETIN.) The interest in disease bearing insects has, during the past ten years, receivod on the part of the laity tremendous impetus. In 1900 and 1901 the commission sent by the United States to study into the cause and spread of yellow fever scored such signal success that this disease which in former times was accounted among the worst visitations of mankind is now a nm'itter fr coJncern only ill I the imagination of the ignorant. T'le mosquito bearing the name of stegomyia fasciata was positively proven to be the transmitter of yellow fever, and the means applied toward its extermination 3 proved so effective both in Cuba as well as in a subsequent epideSinic in the sonuthern portion of the ts'nited States as to amnount to its I practical elimination from among Ilthe number of dreaded pests. We i have now only to look to the prophylactic measures needed to provent this mosquito's propagation in order to live in perfect security from attack. 4 Although the agency of insects Sin the spread of disease has long been known and that their work 2 extends to the lower animals as 2 well as man, no such interest was shown years ago in the subject and I comparatively little was known with exactness besides what the interest and research of the past ten or twelve years has developed.

It would be of interest to cast a glance in that direction and a source of most profitable reading to the public at large whose growgt ing appreciation and belief in the teachings of science are, after all, the latter's great mainstay. We have just noted that a cerS tain mosquito is the mischief-maker in yellow fever. Now another species of the same insect, the anopheles-maculipennis, has been demonstrated to be the carrier of 4 ordinary malaria. It Is possible 7 from its bite only to contract the ordinary chills and foyver which at one time or another many of us have experienced. The ancient belief that malaria results from the miasma of swamps a has been relegated to the realm of discredited fallacies.

What the 2 swamps anti low bottoms did(l do, 7 however, and still continue doing. is to furnish the stagnant water in. Sdispeisilde to the reproduction of the insects. But, as in yellow fever, the mosquito does not possess at birth the inherent faculty of infecting by his bite. Before he is able to accomplish this hlie must himself become infected by biting a person ill with malarial fever By this means hlie secures the dlose of plasmodium with which to Sspread the infection to other human beings.

Our common housefly is at the boIttom of our typhoid fever trouIles quite often. Bred in the horse manure around stables it is only requisite that tihere be a case Sof typhoid fever in the neighbor1h(ood so that this insect after coming in contact with the excrements e'of the sick may visit nearby kiteckens and (lining rooms and depof sit there the disease-bearing germs The fly's whole anatomy lends itself admirably to this work. The hairiness of its body and limbs and the padlike spongy termination of the latter covering beneath, also with hair of the minute size, and discharging a glue-like matter which enables it to maintain itself perfectly on the smoothest surface, serve incidentally as means for carrying and distributing any form of bacteria. The admonition to "keep clean" finds more reason and weight applied to the safeguarding of health when the desastrons work of the housefly be considered than to any other one source of danger. It is of course of paramount importance to keel, the body in a cleanly state by daily baths.

This has its far-reaching effects in the maintenance of good health, and we cannot but insist upon it under all circumstances, but even then we will meet with experiences little gratifying if the food and water we consume is exposed to contamination by insects -above all other the fly. With this knowledge before us let us then remove the medium which serves as a breeding place of the fly; let us banish from among us the manure pile. The fly, of all insects, is perhaps the most prolific breeder, and the manure pile is his one great breed ing place. This hot-bed, so to speak, of the fly is the most commo of neglected filthy things that greets our eyes wherover we may turn. On the farm no stable is without its dump of manure sometimes attainiug hill-like proportions; and in villages and small towns so frequently visited with typhoid and others fevers scattered about by the fly, nearly every other inhabitant lends his assistance to the fly's chief mission among men by neglecting to remove the manure.

I All this take place in spite of the 3 fact that fertilizer is in so great a demand and so expensive, for nothing enriches thie soil of the Sgarden more than manure. Let us also not neglect the open a outdoor closet. This abominable, 9 pestiferons, stinking institution is the handiwork of hell itself. If the source of the trouble could be traced to its origin which has laid untold thousands in untimely graves, this fiendish monster-the open closet--would tell the tale Let us then have indelibly ime pressed on our brains in the strug. I gle for emancipation from the clutches of preventable disease three things: The manure pile, the open outdoor closet and the FLY, the death-implanting mees, senger.

When we have rid ourt selves of these we may then appreciate "the necessity for keeping clean." Lion Fondles A Child. In Pittsburg a savage lioni fndled the a hand tlihat a childl thlirust into his cage. to a child is eomnetinso great when least regardeld. Often it comes Sthrough Colds, ('roip and Whooping Cough. They slay tho1sanids that Dir.

King's New Iiscovery coult have saved. "A few doses cured our bahly tf a very bad case of Croup." writes Mrs. George B. Davis, of Flat Rock, N. (..

"We al5 ways give it to himiiii whl.l lhe takes cold. Its a wnderful nedlicine for hahies." Beet for c'oughs, C'ilds. LaGrippe. Auth ma, ileimorrhages, Weak Lungs. 50'.

and Trial bhottle ree. Guaranteed by Lablbe's tdruIg-store. SIlIOMOL.f)(GAlION (OF TABLEAU. In the matter if the Ectats of Ozeme Roy. deceased, Probate Docket No.

3369, Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Martin. Stite of Louisiana. SWhereas. Maria Hillier of the Parish of St.

Martin. A'1minittratrix of the aforesaid Succession has filed in the ifSflee of the Clerk Ctourt of the Nineteenth Judicial District of the State of 5 Louisiana, holing seasiou in anid for the Parish of St. Martin, a tinal Tablt.an of ('laesifcation and diitribution of the aforesaid Edtate. Notice is hereby given to the creditors and heirs of said ittate and to all other Swhom it may concern to show cause, if Sany they hate. withinii ten days from this publicationi.

why said Tableau should not be homologated as prayed for. 5 Clerk's oftice this 20th day of May A. D. 1910. IGNAl'E BIENVENU.

5 By. Clerkr of Clerk. St. Martin Parish, La. K.

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