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SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1901
ADULTERATED COFFEE,
tend Sunday school at Chappel
he was
last Sunday We guess
sick. . V-'-? ’ •
Dr. Miller, the magnetic healer,
is doing a great deal ol good in
this vicinity. He has cured sev
eral and has many patients at this
writing.
The school at this place is flour
ishing. "
We wonder if the girls have car
ried Mr, McMillan’s little boys
back up to the tactory any more.
Tho little boys were up there last
spring and wanted to know which
corner of the house they were going
to put the factory in. They say
they are going up a there and buy
some cloth when the big factory
?OCER WHITE FOUND GUILTY
OF VIOLATING OHIO’S PURE
FOOD LAWS.
Interesting Facts Concerning tne
Roaating of Coffee Bronght Ont hy
Scientific Expert*—Pretence of Bac
teria.
Toledo, O., Aug. 3.—The jury in Judge
Meek’s court in this city has found
James White, a local grocer, guilty of
selling adulterated coffee. The prose
cution was based on a package of Ar
buckles Ariosa coffee.
The State of Ohio, through the Pure
Food Commission, prosecuted White.
The case was on trial for nearly a
month and attracted national atten
tion.
The manufacturers of Ariosa coffee
conducted the defense for ' Grocer
White. The best attorneys in the
country were retained to defend him,
but, after a short consultation, a ver-
I diet of guilty w as returned by the jury.
The State of Ohio considers this a big
victory. Pure Food Commissioner
Blackburn has been waging a warfare
on spurious food articles and the de
partment has been successful.
The complaint of the State of Ohio
was that Ariosa coffee was coated with
) a substance which concealed defects in
the coffee and made it appear better
than it is. The State charged this
coating or glazing was a favorable me
dium for the propagation of bacteria.
Prof. G. A. Kirchmaier, of this city,
a well known chemist, was the princi
pal witness for the State. He had
made scientific examinations of sam
ples of Ariosa purchased from Grocer
White in the open market. He found
that each Ariosa berry contained an
average of 300 bacteria. Mr. Kirch-
| maier further testified that other cof
fees he examined contained few bacte
ria or none at all. He declared that
the glazed coffee was not a wholesome,
food product.
Chemist Schmidt, of Cincinnati, cor
roborated the testimony of Prof. Kirch
maier. The State did not present fur
ther testimony.
The defense through the Arbuckles,
who prepared this glazed coffee, se
cured some of the most eminent chem
ists and scientists in the United States
to give testimony in their behalf. Prof.
H. W. Wiley, of the United States Ag
ricultural Department; Prof. Vaughn of
Ann Arbor University; Profs. Bleile
and Webber, of the Ohio State Univer
sity, were called to defend Ariosa. Dr.
Wiley had made a careful examination
of the method of manufacturing Ario
sa. He told of the 19,000,000 eggs used
by the Arbuckles yearly in the prepara
tion of this glazing. On this point in
I cross examination, the State’s attorney
deftly drew from him the information
j that these eggs might be kept in cold
storage by the Arbuckles for a year or
two at a time.
The experts who beard Dr. Wiley’s
testimony were pleased to be able to
* < eatcb” so famous a chemist. The doc
tor at one point in his testimony ex
plained very clearly how it is that the
egg put Into the coffee pot by the house
wife settles the coffee. He said that
the heat coagulates the egg, and as it
sinks to the bottom of the pot it carries
the fine particles of coffee with it, and
thus clarifies the drink* It is the act of
coagulation in the coffee pot that does
the work. Later on in his cross exam
ination, ho bad to admit that when the
egg was put on Ariosa coffee at the
factory It became coagulated, and as
egg cannot be coagulated but once, that
the coating on coffee was practically no
value, as a “settler” when It reached
the coffee pot.
Prof. Wiley acknowledged that the
glazing might be a favorable medium
for the propagation of bacteria, al
though he would not testify positively
either way because he was not a bac
teriologist.
Prof. Vaughn, of Ann Arbor, also a
witness for the Arbuckles, said he
found bacteria on Ariosa coffee.
Prof. Bleile, another witness for the
defense, found any number of lively
bacteria on Ariosa coffee he examined,
and he agreed that glazed coffee surely
was a more favorable medium for the
propagation of bacteria than unglazed
coffee.
Pure Food Commissioner Blackburn
says; “The State is very much elated
over its victory against this corpora
tion. We are now considering the ad-.
Visibility of informing every grocer in
the State of Ohio that it is an infrac
tion of the laws to sell Ariosa, and at
the same time give warning to con*
sumers that the coffee is an adulterat-
1901
Mayor—Aldermen—Sewerage.
Mr. Editor :—Please permit the
writer to “ruminate” just a line
or two on the subject of this paper
From this date
as above headed
until our election in December
next you will see ju our local
papers each week the “sugges
tions” from “A Voter” or from
“Many Citizens,” or “The People’s
Ticket” or “The Workingmen’s
Ticket,” setting forth the names of
parties that some one or two—
hardly ever as many as three-
people making suggestions of
viiamea, giving his or their names
as suitable candidates for aider-
men or mayor. JKW1?
Now is the time that the people
—in fact—should come together,
■either in mass meeting or by a
.primary in due time, and select
men with judgment, men with
business deliberation, men with
good, cool, thinking heads on
atLem^nay, men with good, tried
fbi siness experiences and qualifi
cations, and let them reveal to the
city in an open letter, over their
own signatures, what their ideas
*&re about public -improvements
and advancement of our city. We
want men who are not elected be
cause they want the office, but
men that can and will fill the office
when elected; we are no longer a
cross-roads town, we are living and
growing every day. We want, and
we shall look back with a pang of
deep regret and sorrow if we fail
>to select, such men as I have i
Medium andi Fine Shoes, and at Prices J<
er than we have ever sold
them before.
14 Main Street
; Pushing Ahead at Pacolet.
Mr. M. G. Stone, the general super
intendent of the Pacolet mill at New
Holland, who is permanently located
here now, with his family, declares
JARDENIERES, POI
Ail are included in our
See t*:
They Will Convince
Call and/See Picture Frame and
Display on Second Floor.
,of cotton were
streets in wagons. This i
takafeJe evidence of the s
nanc-ial condition ot our
The recent rains have u
sib^e the largest cotton 0
produced in. this section ,.
corn is equally g° 0( *‘ .
Mrs. Rose Abernathy 1
ed food article.”
The verdict of the Jury In this case Is
ot national importance because a great
many other States have pure food laws
iike that of Ohio, and it is natural to
suppose that similar action will be
taken by other Pure Food Commis
sioners to prevent the sale of glazed
a move
fully., W. I. H©bbs
dunaqan.
:Mr. B. B. Brock failed to at
Bent Cough Sjs Tastes Good. Use
in time. Sold by druggists.
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Signature