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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1923
Page
6
G Barnett reports from Burke County Georgia on Hill's Mixture calcium arsenate molasses and water used to spray cotton. Farmers and bankers test results show good yields and plans to expand use this season. Bartlett urges delegation to decide on advocacy in the section.
Feb 9 The Fire Underwriters Laboratories Ltd of Chicago reports that mice and rats have long been blamed for fires unjustly. In tests on over 100 rodents the laboratories’ experts found no evidence that rats will eat match heads, challenging common stigma.
National president RS Oliver Harriman prepares to greet 150,000 new Camp Fire Girls with a nationwide birthday party the Grand Council Fire in every community. Each girl brings a new member, promotes the threefold focus work health love, and honors earned. Camp Fire has spread to seventeen countries and 2,082,572 honors were won last year in the U S.
In tests with over 50 rats and as many mice trapped for three days without food or water, cages were prepared with straw and 150 matches each. Over observation periods from one to five days neither the mice nor rats nibbled at the match heads.
Mrs. Robert Sills and Mrs. F. L. Fanconer of Greensboro sent yesterday in the city visiting Mrs. C. B. Overman.
In Suva Fiji on February 9 female diners at the pretentious hotel leap onto chairs and scream as giant crabs scuttle across the dining room floor. A Tindu servant employed for this purpose drives them away with a walking stick sending crabs fleeing like golf balls.
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