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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

DR.. III. A. Kinnan and Mr. f. L. Kin
nan arrived home Thursday from a
brief visit with their mother, at Oneida.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11
The City in Brief
George J. Alien. optical specialist
DR.. Burkart. osteopath. II w.

Knabe-World's best. Eadie Music
Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

We have received a car of Red River
Early Ohio potatoes that you will save
money by buying. Isdo & Darling,
'phOne 800
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

DIR. Wood. eye, ear. nose. throat
Glasses fitted. Opposite Pilgrim Hotel
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

For right work. prices and material
call on Diffenbacher & Ranzhat,
| plumbing and heating. Is North First
street 'phOne 40
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

DR.. Grove w. Harris. Office over
Whitehead & Weisman. Phone $50
house 1910.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

Milk at our station cents per quart.
Gem City Dairy. 400 South Fourth
street
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

An hour of recreation at the Elite
theater will do you world Of good.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

There are twenty-five musical gems
in the score of Madame Sherry" which
comes to the Odeon Sunday evening.
Prices so, Is, 81 and $3.50. Seats now
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11
Letter to
Dr.. kilmer & Co.,
Ringhamton, N. \.

Prove What Swamp Root Will DO for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

Mrs. Bert Price and her two sons
Lee and Virgil, went to Gearing Friday
evening TO. visit over Sunday with Nj
Price, who has a carpenter contract
there, and also with Mrs. Prices's sis
tiers, Mrs. 3. A. Armstrong and Mrs
c. H. Coffelt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

Save steps for wife or mother. Make
the coming years brighter and easier
by giving the housewife the use of q
Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet. We sell
these on easy payments.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11
Is Forgotten

Our suggestions for appropriate holiday
gifts with old-fashioned goodness featured
as never before are unique and in great
variety. They will please you exceed
ingy. 1t is not too early to look at them
within the week.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11
Fine Rugs for Gifts

11D you ever realize how
- much the housewife en-.
joys anew rug? Many pat
terms, many prices ready for
your inspection, and we guar
antee to suit the one the gift
is for, Look around home and
see where a new rug should go.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11

There will be a meeting OF Our
Club" members and others interested
in dancing club at office OF Board
man & Lawrence Monday evening at s
o'clock. Committee
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
NEW DIRT TRACK RECORD.
Harry Knight Drives 200 Miles in
Three Hours and Forty Minutes.

AHIeS Hours anu tOEby AIAuetS.
Columbus, O., Sept. A driver and
a mechanician slightly injured, two
cars wrecked and a worlds record for
by Harry Knight of Indianapolis, driv
ing a Westcott machine, tell the story
of the 200 mile automobile sweep
stakes race Sunday. The races took
place at the driving park under the
sanction of the American Automobile
association. Knights time was three
hours and forty minutes.
The injured were Lee Prayer, driver
of the Red Wing F'irestone-Columbu
car, and Ben Lawwell of Columbus,
sub-mechanician on a Buick, driven
by John Ramey of Cincinnati. Both
men are in hospitals but will recover.
Knight, winner of the race, was the
only driver completing the 200 miles
who remained in his machine through
out the long and gruel1ing contest.
As Prayer was entering his eighty
sixth mile, speeding little short of
mile minute, the right tire on his
machine blew up. His machine skid
6ed rs feet and was hurled into a row
of fence posts. The machine turned
two mersaults sideways and landed
right side up.
same spot. Ramey relieved Frank
Lawwell and was entering his one hun
dred and ninety-second lap in second
place after Westcott had finished the
race. Pressed hard by Jackson car
No. 2, driven by Max Borst. Columbus.
Ramey took the turn at the south end
of the course at full speed. The right
front tire exploded and the machine
skidded into the embankment. The
force of the impact landed Mechan-
fcian Lawwell among broken fence
posts
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
moo nrUCH .oFFICIAL'' Rule?
A Hint That Under Officers Could
Fconomize More Effectively.

An energetic station agent or ward
master. if given a free hand, could
often economic labor or material 10
better effect than could the superin-
tendent. says the Railway Age Gazette;
and likewise the superintendent II not
held down so rigidly to estimates made
months previously, by his superiors'
could manage his division moro
economically than is possible under
REGULATIONS that must be rightly
uniform throughout a dozen divisions
# is true that if the officers were to
give the station agent suitable au-
thority they could see his ambition set
him to thinking. to the benefit of the
company in any cases. At the same
time we are bound to offer an excuse
mot a defense) for the management
The management is fearful, and with
good reason, that too many of these
gubordinates will prove to be small-size
mem He would find that to get results
promised by our correspondent he
ouxht to have begun five years back.
with educational processes. The agents.
foremen and others must learn to do
by doing, and that is costly. Still, that
is the way in which all of us have to
learn most of the useful arts of life
However well the general office does its
work, there will always be room for
the exercise Of judgment and executive
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
KAWS DROP TWO
Double Defeat on Sunday Opens
Denver Series.
Clark and Hickman Are Given
Severe Drubbing.
SCHREIBER DID WELL
Bear Pitcher Invincible in First
Contest.
Kaws Make a Poor Showing in
Field.

Denver. Sept. 4-The Kaws dropped
both ends of the Sunday double header,
IL to 8 and to 3. They hit Olmstead
hard in the first game and evened the
slugging of Clark by the Bruins but
played a lax game in the field. Schrei-
ber was never in danger in the second
contest while Hickman was driven all
over the lot.
Rain soaked the diamond just before
the first game and made it slow. Den
yer went through both games without
an error, however, while the Kaws
piled up seven misplays. The worst in
ming OF the afternoon was the third of
the first game when four singles and
a walk Of Pepper Clark coupled with
an error and a sacrifice fly gave the
Bears five runs.
The scores:
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
ECONOMY IN THE CONTRACT.
Gould Lines Management Warns
Against Free Use of Wires.

ST. Louis. Mo-. Sept 4.-First Viva
President f. J. Pearson of the Missouri
Pacific-Iron Mountain yesterday an
nounced that under the new contract
with the Wester Union Telegraph COM
pany effective at once each company
win pay the other for all services rem
dered. The telegraph companys franks
issued to officers and representatives
will permit the sending Of either Of the
four classes of telegrams and all the
kilograms filed Hereunder will be
charged against the railway
To secure efficient service at the
minimum expense, only such teegrams
or letters as are Of anu rgent nature
and in the interest of the railway
should be offered for transmission, and
advantage taken of the economy IN
rates Of the individual classes Of SER
vice Communications filed after 4:3O
D. m. destined to points that may be
reached by mail as early as s o'clock
the following morning. or relating t.
matters not requiring prompt response,
should not be offered for transmission
by wire.
In reagard to railway telegraph SER
vice Vice President Peason says:
1.-THE economical operation OF rail-
way wires is essential, and all officers
and employees win lend their aid to
the elimination Of unnecessary tele-
graphic reports or communications that
may be handled by mail. Heads of de-
parments and others receiving tele-
grphic forms or other reports are re-
quested to give their personal atten-
tion to the matter Of reducing such use
of the wires to a minimum. Officers
and employees will use the telegraph
only when the business Of the company
actually demands II. and when train
mail will not serve the purpose. All
must be worded as briefly as
possible. Communications received by
telegraph shall be answered by mail
when IL may be done without detriment
to the company's business"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

But to return to my story:
This agency wanted to start
a newspaper campaign in Chi
Icago. It could afford to use
only four newspapers.
The representatives of these
four newspapers were summon
ed to consult with the agency
about the campaign.
THE REPRESENTATIVE
OF EACH NEWSPAPER AS
SURED THE AGENCY THAT
HIS PAPER WAS THE REAL
THING-THAT HIS PAPER
WAS ALL THAT THE ADVER-
TISER NEED USE.
That was NOT what the
Agency was after; what it
wanted more particularly were
FACTS about the Chicago situa-
tion. 1t expected each represen-
tative to furnish those facts
to tell the truth about the value
of ALL newspapers as well as
his own.
Instead of that, each repre-
sentative said it would be fool
ish to use the other three news
papers.
s'Now," said the agency man
to me, "what do you think of
such a condition? Is it not alb
surd? Why don't men keep in
formed about all the newspa-
pers in their respective commu-
mites, and be big and broad
minded enough to give a
straightforward statement about
each one? Such methods would
win for them the RESPECT, the
CONFIDENCE and the BUSI-|
NESS of most advertisers"
This agency has struck the
keynote as to why newspapers
do not make greater progress in
developing general advertising.
(To be continued.)
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

Chicago, Sept. 4.-Chicago and st.
Louis divided honors in double
header. A large crowd was present
and ground rules were necessary.
Scores: First game R H E
Chicago O0OOOO2 O. 5 2
st. Louis 100 2 90 0 OIL O-3 s 1
Ratteries-Cole, Smith and Need
ham; Steele and Bliss.
Second game: r H E
Chicago 1OO O1O 2 O st 9 3
St Louis ..O 1 0 0 % 5 1
Batteries-Richie and Needham;
Laudermilk and Bliss.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
Detroit s; Sc. Louis 3.
DECIDING GAME TODAY.
Santa Fe office and Apprentice Team:
Each Win One.

Santa Fe Office and Apprentice Teams
Each Win One
In the second series of games be
tween the Santa Ee General Office
team and the Apprentices in the shops
which began Saturday, each team has
won one game and the third will be
decided today. The Apprentices took
the first game 5 to 3. The Sunday
game went to the Offices 3 to 6. The
games are played on the shop dia-
mond.
Scores and summaries, Saturday:
Apprentices ---.4 IS
General Offices 20 2 0 0 0-3
Batteries: Thomas and kistner;
Wright and Sawyer.
Summary: Two-base hits-Weilert,
Trout, Peterson, Prather, McIntire.
Struck out-By Thomas, 5; Wright, 5.
Sunday, Score by innings:
Apprentices ...O 0 Q 0 L 1-6
General Offices 90 I 3 0-9
Batteries: Curry, Thomas and Cope
land Fink and Sawyer
Summary: TWO base hits-Prather.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
Chicago Loves Pigs Feet.

Chicagoans eat about 10000, 900
pigs feet annually. packers and retail
butchers estimate. Here again this
city leads the country. This is the pigs
feet season, so far as Anerican-born
citizens are concerned, but German
and Scandinavian gourmets, the larg-
est consumers of pigs feet, pickle
them for themselves and eat them the
year around--Chicago dispatch to
New York World
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Cleveland as: Chicago ?.

Cleveland 7,3; Chicago 2, 1.
Chicago, Sept. 4.-Cleveland made it
four straight from Chicago when
steady pitching and timely batting
gave the visitors the game. The first
went 1 , innings. In the second game
Kaler was invincible. Score:
Chicago 1000 100000 90 81
Cleveland % O1OO1 0 0 0 50 Is
Batteries-Scott, Walsh and Block,
Sullivan; Mitchell, Blanding and
Easterly.
Second game Ri E
Chicago .1oooOoOoo-i 2
Cleveland 20 0 ? 0 0 1 O-3 o
Batteries-Benz. Baker and Sulli-
van, Block; Kaler and Easterly.
Detroit s; st. Louis 3.
St Louis, Sept. 4.-Detroit hit the
local pitchers hard and won. Moser
made his debut with the home team
and was driven from the mound.
Score: R II E
Detroit 1o4ooOO s-s1s 0
st. Louis 80 O01 2 o o 0 0-3
Batteries-Willett, Summers and
Stanage; Moser, Mitchell and Krichell.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
St. Joe Defeats Omaha.

St Joseph. Sept 4.-Crutcher held
Omaha to three hits and famed nine
men. After the second inning not an
Omaha player reached first base.
Scare RH q
Omaha ....0 0 90
St. Joseph ...1OO2 2012O IS 0
Batteries=Robinson and Arbogast;
Crutcher and Crittenden. Umpires-
Morgan and Knapp
SOOs Defeat Des NIoines.
Sioux City, Sept. 4.-Sioux City won
from Des Moines. Steiger, of the 10
Gals, pitched 2 splendid game.
Score R H E
Des Moines 10000 0ooO-O 2
Sioux City ..40S0 S0O14O "-1214 0
Batteries-Yates. Owens and White;
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
TOPEKA EASY FOR PUEBLO.
Indians Make q Clean Up of the
kaXVa.

Pueblo, Sept 4.-The game Saturday
went but six innings. being stopped by
rain with the score 8 to l in favor OF
Pueblo
The locals punched hits in the fourth,
two triples and two singles with Man
ning's error being responsible for the
four runs. Topeka could not hit with
men on bases.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
BASEBALL DOPE AND GOSSIP.

Where They Play Tomorrow.
Pueblo at Topeka
Denver at Lincoln.
st. Joseph at Des Moines.
Sioux City at Omaha.
The Kaws are not winning very
large per cent of their games. In fact
their winnings look like 900.
Des NIoines has now gotten inside the
20 point mark in their chase of the To-
pekaboos. One never can tell. Might
as well be last as seventh anyway.
There is little difference in the merit
column.
Three of the Kaws are hitting over
300. however. They are Emory with .331
Rickert 323, and King 1902. The class
Of 300 hitters in the Western has
dwindled down to % now. It follows:
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN AssoCIATION
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Cincinnati 3; Pittsburg /.

Cincinnati, Sept. 4-Cincinnati
found Adams for five hits and three
runs in the fourth inning and with
Fromme's steady pitching defeated
Pittsburg. The visitors secured their
one run in the final inning on a double
by Byrne and Clark's single.
Score: r H E
Cincinnati ..O0O3 0OOO ~-313 2
Pittsburg ..0 0 0 0 0 II s O
Batteries-Fromme and Mclean
Adams and Gibson.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

Summary Stolen baSeS-eI1imOre, cas-
sidy, Kenworthy. Coffey, Manning, Dali,
Crisp. TWO base hits-Spahr, Emory
Three base hits-Edmiston, Coffey, Gill
more. Sacrifice hits-King, Chapman. Ed
miston, Crisp, Coffey. Sacrifice flies
Lloyd, Spahr. Kenworthy. Struck out
BY Olmstead 5. by Clark 3. Bases on
balls-Off Olmstead 3, off Clark 5. Double
pIay-King to Crisp. Left on bases-Den-
yer s, Topeka 9. Time-2:00.
SECOND GAME.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

ability in the station, the yard and the
small shop; and, given the right men
men who have been trained TO think
since 1906-an efficiency scheme OF 1911
not only need have no antagonism TO
this idea of local initiative, but IL car
join hands with and make use OF Il.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
American Leagne.
American Association.

At Kansas City-Kansas City 4,
Milwaukee, 2.
At st. Paul-St. Paul, 6 Minneapo-
lis, 4.
At umbus-Columbu s; Indian
apolis. g.
At ToIedo-Toledo 4; Louisville 2.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
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During the annoyed with
while others suffer
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from humorS and acids the
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membranous flesh which lies just beneath
This acd matter causes inflammation and discharge which
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and for this purpose nothing equals S. removes every pa
mpu, encheS the blood and in this
skin diseases Diseases any medical advice f
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The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

Summary: Stolen baSe-BeaIl. Two
base hits-LIoyd, Dali. Three base hits
Frambes Chapman. Sacrifice hits-Gil-
more Coffey, Bean, Quillen, Frambes.
Struck out-By Sehreiber s. Bases on
balIs-Off Schneider 1, off Hickman 1.
Left on bases-Denver 5, Topeka 4 Time
Il: Attendance-6,O0O. Umpires-Shoe-
maker and Haskell
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

Willard, Trout. Three base hits
Shields, Copeland. Struck out-By
Fink Il. by Curry 6. Hits-Off Thorn
as 4. off Curry 6. Stolen bases-Ffnk
2. Mcintyre 2, Shields 2, Willard,
White, Copeland. Double play-Seib
er to Mitchell. Umpire-ButIer.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

In the comparison of team play, To-
peka drags along in all departments as
follows:
Batting Pueblo, 2S3; Denver, .2S1;
Sioux City, .27O; Omaha, 1862; Lincoln,
.261; Topeka, .261; st. Joseph, .249; Des
Moines, .220
Fielding-Denver, 1854; Lincoln, .9Cs;
Sioux City, 1856; St. Joseph, .955;
Pueblo, -951; Des Moines, .946; Omaha.
1886; Topeka. .934
SoIen bases-Omaha, 259; Lincoln, 25S;
St Joseph, 254; Denver, PSI; Sioux City
ls9; Des Moines, 175; Topeka, 1SS;
Pueblo 90.
Sacrifice hits-Denver. PIP; Sioux
City. 2O3; Lincoln, 167; Pueblo, 15S;
Omaha, 157; st. Joseph, 1873; Topeka,
103; Des Moines, 100.
The Journal is in receipt of a letter
from Airport Hager of Kansas City VINO
is seeking a game in Topeka for q
bunch of the Inter-City league players
which he has gotten together for out
side of the Kansas Cities games. Any
Topeka team desiring to arrange a
game can reach him at 226 North
Eighth street. Kansas City, Kan.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
ANIFRTCAN ASSOCIATION

At Kansas City-Kansas City 6.
Milwaukee 2.
At Minneapolis-M Minneapolis s, ST.
Paul 2
At CoIumbus-Co Columbus 16, Indian
apolis 3
At Toledo-Toledo 0, Louisville 3.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

In fielding Hickman has an average
of 1000, Whitney .976, Chapman .974,
Manning .953, Rickert $40. Emory .944,
Durbin $40, Crisp .939 Buchanan .937.
Krepps 1896, Dali 1913, Clark .915 King
.913, Edmiston 1862, Beecher 1888, Fugate
SCI
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

Other Kaws hit: Whitney. 25s,
Beecher .252, Clark .235, Durbin ,234.
Krepps .233. Chapman .23O, Dali .229.
Edmiston 1913, Crisp III, Buchanan Isl,
Fugate .127. Manning .125, Hickman
.067.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

2 Middleton. Two base hit-Koerner-
Three base hits-Koerner, Belden, Whit
new Double plays-Berger to Hughes to
Koerner Hit by pitched ball-By Dur
bin l. Sacrifice hit-Schmid. Struck out
BY Ellis 8, by Durbin 4. Bases on balls
Off Ellis 1, off Durbin 2. Time-1:10 UNI
pires-CIark and Mcdowell.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
St. Joe Defeats Des Nfoines.

st. Joseph, Sept. st Joseph batted
hard in the eighth and defeated Des
Moines Saturday.
Score: RHE.
Des Moines 10000 o2oo-2 /
st. Joseph ......O 0 o 0 0 2-3 8
Batteries-Northru Hueston and
Ulatowski; Giffin and Crittenden.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
ADVERTISING TALKS.
But to- return to nav storv:

Continued from Page one.I
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
sATURDAY REsULTs.

SKI OTlIJLAL oObLos
National Leagne.
St. Louis 8, 1; Pittsburg 4, IL.
Chicago 8; Cincinnati 1.
Brooklyn 4, 1: Boston 1, 8.
Philadelphia 6; New York Z.
American League.
Washington II; New York 1.
ST. Louis Z: Detroit 6.
Boston 7; Philadelphia 4.
Cleveland 5; Chicago 2.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
Omaha Defeats Soos.

Sioux City, Sept 4.-Omaha won
hard fought game Saturday.
score: R.HE.
sious City ...o5oO $1,000 O-6 10 2
Omaha !. . III 1 O1 2 OF 12 1
Batteries-Clark. Sage, Klepfner and
Miller; Hall and Arbogast.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

Steiger and Dawson. Umpires-M
Kee and Weaver.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

@Two out when game was called
Score by innings:
pueblo .............2 0 0 3-9
ss1,rr,r,, a ~. Stolen hases-E-rn orY. Craig
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21

New York, Jan 21.-Andrew Carne-
gle last night confirmed the report that
he had given another s10,O0O,000 to
the Carnegie institution of Washing
ton, thus bringing his donations to this
institution up TO s25.OOO,0OO. The s10,-
100000 is in registered bonds.
Coupled with the formal announce
ment was a declaration by Mr. Carne-
gle that the work of the institution
had cleared from blame the captain of
a British ship who ran his vessel up
on the rocks. by proving that the
British admiralty charts by which the
captain was guided were two or three
degrees astray
10000 NEW WORLDS.
The discovery of $4,000 new worlds
by Professor Hale at the observatory
on Mount Wilson, California, also was
announced. The observation was es-
tablished by the institution, and its
operations and discoveries afford Mr..
Carnegie more delight, perhaps, than
any other workings of the institution.
Mr.. Carnegie also announced that a
far more powerful telescope than man
lidS ever luduS 10 III" uiluSI SOiloLl W
ton for the Mount Wilson observatory.
With 1t he hopes to make possible the
discovery of still more celestial bodies.
WILL HAVE HUGE LENS.
The new telescope will have a lens
100 inches in diameter. Mr.. Carnegie
declares that the whole world is go
ing to listen to the oracle on the top
ne Wilson in
We shall know more about the uni
verse than Galilleo and Copernicus
ever dreamed of. l hope | shall live
long enough TO hear the revelations
that are to come from Professor Hale
on Mount Wilson"
Mr. Carnegie said:
The report is correct. They had
large endowment before and this $10.-
000 900 makes the total of their endow-
ment S25.000,O0G, but the institution
has already scored successes 10 justi-
fy even that sum. | believe that the
in research will repay ten
fold in service to the world.
WORK OF NEW YACHT.
Doubtless you noticed in the tele-
graphic news of yesterday that the
yacht Carnegie had just reached Bue-
nos Ayres. That yacht is the first one
ever built with bronze substituted for
iron: the latter defects the magnetic
needle and bronze does not. The re-
suit is that all former observations
are inaccurate.
MANY other wonderful things that
institution in Washington has in oper-
O g ,.-bF f.
be equally satisfactory Some day it
may need s5O,0OO,O0O We can put no
limit upon its achievements
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-21
is SURPLUS OF COAL;
PRICES ON DECLINE
Quotations on Poor Grades Have Al
ready Been Reduced %
Cents Ton.

AS a result of an overstOck of coal
by local dealers, it is possible that
there may be a reduction of possibly
10 per cent in the price of all grades
of coal this coming week. If such a
reduction should be brought about il
will be rather remarkable, for seldom,
if ever, is a reduction made during Janu-
airy. Local dealers have a surplus. many
loaded cars being on the sidings. The
outlook for the consumer is at the pres
ent time the brightest in two years.
Already there has been reduction in
the price of the poorer grades of %
cents per ton, and it is probable that
the price of the better grades of coal
will drop.
The law of supply and demand of
course is the reason for the situation.
The winter has been mild. and the out
put was heavier than usual, and it is
that that is responsible for the con-
gestion in the retailers bins. Some
think that the strike is responsible
for the situation because of the fact
that when the mines began heavy work
directly following it. the demand on
the output was unusually great. The
smaller dealers and also the smaller
consumers. fearing the reopening of
hostilities, filed their bins to overflow
ing