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KEEPING WELL 



By Dr. John E. Boland 



DO many people ever have a yearly 

 physical examination at their own 

 expense, just to see if everything is all 

 right? No, They have their cars 

 overhauled, but the numerous physical 

 faults in their own bodies that might 

 be taken in time and corrected, are 

 scarcely ever attended to. 



"Your little girl is very thin, isn't 

 she?" says a neighbor. "Yes," says 

 mother, "she doesn't 

 seem to do well, but 

 I guess she'll come 

 out all right." Un- 

 derweight has a rea- 

 son behind it. Mal- 

 nutrition, improper 

 assimilation, diseased 

 colon, tuberculosis, 

 diabetes, a hundred 

 things can cause un- 

 derweight. Why not 

 take the child to a 

 good doctor and have a thorough ex- 

 amination made. It may be an infected 

 lung, which, taken in time, could be 

 corrected or arrested. Hundreds never 

 have urine tested until diabetes has be- 

 come chronic. Annual or shorter pe- 

 riod urine tests would avoid serious 

 trouble. 



Dr. J. E. Boland 



Sanitation on farms should have 

 more attention. It is still too common 

 a sight to see farm yards improperly 

 drained, and drinking water used un- 

 tested for years, with seepage from barn 

 yards contaminating it. Surely there 

 are thousands of careful farmers, and 

 sanitary farm houses, but appreciation 

 of health is often lacking. I am con- 

 cerned about the easily corrected 

 wrongs of health that every farm home 

 could take part in overcoming. To be 

 ever watchful of clean bodies, of fresh 

 air and good food is commendable, but 

 this is not sufficient. Check up on 

 physical condition, and let's study the 

 great science of keeping healthy, of 

 raising families, and of living together. 



Thousands of people have never had 



The Will County Farm Supply Com- 

 pany operates oil bulk storage stations 

 at Joliet, Monee, and Plainfield. Since 

 the fiscal year of the company closes 

 January 31 figures are not available 

 concerning the business except that a 

 recent comparison of the gallonage of 

 petroleum products sold the past year 

 far exceeds previous sales. The gain 

 will be close to 20% in gasoline, 40% 

 iii kerosene and distillate, and some- 

 what similar gains in lubricating oil and 

 grease. The 10 trucks operated by 

 this company serve farm trade in Will 

 County and parts of DuPage and Cook 

 counties. 



their blood pressure taken. A blood 

 pressure reading is as simple as taking 

 a thermometer reading. It is a barome- 

 ter of your physical condition. The 

 first inkling of numerous dangerous ills 

 are discovered by blood pressure read- 

 ings. . 



Prompt treatment of goitre prevents 

 serious trouble. The thyroid gland is 

 the governor of your body engine. 

 When it is off, trouble is at hand. Min- 

 eral starvation is a common cause of 

 goitre. Proper diet often regains nor- 

 mal action of this thyroid gland and 

 prevents the need of operation. In any 

 event, this marvelous machine, the hu- 

 man body, must have its governor in 

 good order, and only good advice can 

 help you to keep it so. 



Bad breath is not a matter to gargle 

 about or spray about — it is an indica- 

 tion of a diseased condition. Bad teeth, 

 infected tonsils, congested bowels, con- 

 gested lungs, sinuses that need atten- 

 tion, or a hundred diseased conditions 

 may be indicated by foul breath. Na- 

 ture gives warnings. Headaches are not 

 ills of themselves, but warnings that 

 trouble^ i^ at hand in the human ma- 

 chine. So with bad breath, it is a. 

 warning of trouble that can lead to 

 great danger. 



Oil Companies Return 



Substantial Dividends 



In all I have said, my aim is and has 

 been to prevent trouble. Seek advice 

 early. Seek information regularly, and 



THE fiscal year of the Knox County 

 Oil Company closed on November 

 30. A 10 .per cent patronage dividend 

 has been paid and a special 5 per cent 

 dividend has been declared, payable at 

 a later date. The largest refund check 

 was $108.23 and forty-four farmers re- 

 ceived more than $40 each. The total 

 amount to be returned in the form of 

 patronage refunds for the year will be 

 approximately $18,750. 



The Kane County Service Company 

 of Elburn closed its first fiscal year 

 November 30 after eight months of 

 operation. A 7 per cent patronage re- 

 fund has been paid to Farm Bureau 

 members. 



The La Salle County Farm Supply 

 Company closed its third year on Octo- 

 ber 31. A total of $29,3 50.87 was re- 

 turned to the stockholders of the com- 

 pany in the form of preferred stock 

 dividends and patronage refunds. An 

 8 per cent patronage dividend was paid 

 on the past year's patronage, 9 per cent 

 from the surplus on the 1929 business, 

 and 2.4 per cent from the surplus of 

 the 1928 business. Seventy-three of 

 the 1,243 Farm Bureau members in La 

 Salle county received patronage refund 

 checks. 



The Macon County Supply Company 

 recently declared a 7 per cent patronage 

 refund which will be paid back to Farm 

 Bureau members in good standing. 



After four months of operation the 

 Livingston Service Company paid 7 per 

 cent dividends on preferred stock and 

 a 7 per cent patronage refund after 

 setting aside $6,576.16 to reserve and 

 surplus. 



let it be competent information. Worry 

 doesn't help. Being wary does. Check 

 and double check your body for trou- 

 ble. To be wary is to be wise about 

 your body. Don't laugh at overweight. 

 It is serious. Do something about it. 

 Drinking booze may seem smart to 

 some people. But it's dangerous. 



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