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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1901

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Two families have settled at Rolyat, Tex., and we have already twelve or thirteen children for a church school. It would be a good place for any one wanting to get to a church school. Good land can be bought on time, one-fourth to one-third down, at from three dollars to five dollars an acre. Lumber can be bought at from $6.50 to $12.50 per thousand. C. P. BODWELL.

In harmony with the recommendations of the late General Conference that I should change my field of labor from Georgia to Michigan, and in harmony with the advice of the president of the Michigan Conference, I have located in the upper peninsula, in Menominee, at 606 Baker Ave., only a few steps west of the Northwestern passenger depot. Any of our brethren passing through who can stop off, will have a cordial welcome, as Adventists are scarce in this part of the State. M. W. LEWIS.

For the benefit of missionaries and others settling in a new country, I wish to give the result of some years of experience. Where the dwelling is near land first plowed or a swamp or marsh, a vapor of malaria arises, supposed to be carbonic oxide, a slow poison, which vitiates the blood and produces fevers. If sunflower seeds are planted in a belt around the dwelling, or a tree called Eucalyptus, both plants being gross feeders on carbonic oxide, the air will be left more pure for use; and in this way the dwellers, both old and young, will be protected. J. E. RANKIN.

Elk Rapids, Mich.