The Fort Dodge Messenger: March 17, 1906

A Deadly Disease at Brushy

Anthrax Breaks Out Among Animals on Pratt Farm.

Is Contagious Disease Deadly to both Animals and Man – Place is Quarantined.

On being called to the farm of Charles Pratt at Brushy, Thursday afternoon by the news that a strange disease had broken out among the animals on the farm, Dr. Baughman of this city found the malady to be anthrax, a deadly contagious disease which attacks both animals and human beings. Already a number of animals have died from its effects.

Dr. Baughman, who is assistant state veterinarian took the case in hand at once and has imposed a strict quarantine n the place. All stock on the farm will be confined to it until it is certain that the disease has been stamped out. The sheds, pens, etc., will be torn down either placed in a strong antiseptic solution or burned and the dead animals will be burned in lime to prevent the disease germs from again coming to the surface.

The malady appeared on the same place some fifteen or sixteen years ago, and it is supposed that it reappeared through being brought to the surface by earth worms. It attacks those who are taken with it in the form of a malignant ulcer which spreads rapidly and soon brings death. There are practically no symptoms to give warning of the approach of the disease. The first that the farmer knows of it when he finds the dead animals which have succumbed to it.

The Fort Dodge Messenger: March 2, 1907

Market Gossip

Good news for the housewife. Eggs have declined in price. They are now retailing around twenty-two cents per dozen as against twenty-seven and twenty-eight cents at this time last week. The hens have again gone to work and the strike has been ended. The breaking of the Chicago market price also has had an effect upon the local market. More eggs are being brought in now so that the farmers will feel the decline as much as if the output of eggs remained the same as under the old price. Farmers are getting twenty cents per dozen now as against twenty-five cents last week. One grocer said that the price would probably decline to fifteen cents per dozen if warm weather continues.

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“The pure food law has not made a particle of difference with me,” remarked a Central Avenue grocer this morning between spells of work. “Before the beginning of the year I don’t think I had over twenty dollars worth of impure good in the store. But the fellow that it has hit hard is the Chicago mail order houses. I see that Sears Roebuck has gone out of the grocery business and that the other mail order concerns are thinking of doing the same. You see they cannot sell pure food at the prices they advertise. There is no question about that. I should think they would have to close down in their drug departments, too, from the same cause.

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A dealer in butter was kicking about the way some women of this city complain about the keeping qualities of the butter sent them and laid the blame upon the housewife’s shoulders. Said he: “Just a few minutes ago, a woman telephoned to me and asked that some more butter be sent up to the house in exchange for some I sent her three or four days ago. She said that the first butter was already very rancid. I asked her where she kept it and she told me in the cellar. Further questioning brought out the fact that the cellar is very warm because of a furnace heating plant. Instead of keeping her butter out of doors where it would keep sweet and nice for weeks, that woman keeps it in a warm cellar where any butter no matter how fresh, would not keep for more than three or four days. Tell ’em to keep their butter where it is cool and then it will keep fresh.”

The Fort Dodge Messenger: March 2, 1904

Farmer Traps a Gray Wolf

F.H. Fallon Captures Animal Tuesday Night

Had Been Prowling in Vicinity of His Home, Two Miles Southwest of the City.

To hear of large grey wolves in Webster County is rather a surprising incident but nevertheless such is the case in proof of which W.H. Fallon, living about two miles southwest of the city, has a fine specimen which he captured in a trap Tuesday night.

For some time Mr. Fallon had noticed the marauder in the vicinity of his home and planned to capture him if possible, fearing a raid on his small stock. Tuesday night he was successful and today he has Mr. Wolf safely tied and expects to bring him to this city and place him on exhibition.

The trap used was one of Mr. Fallon’s own invention, being made with a large box and baited for the victim, so that he is wholly unharmed and as full of life as ever.