Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-16
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also authorized establishment OI
receipt system for parcel post pack
ages similar to that employed by ex-
press companies. THE new regula-
tion," says a department statement,
provides that on payment Of l cent
the postmaster at the mailing office
may give the sender an ordinary
parcel of fourth class mail receipt.
A postage stamp to cover the charge
for the receipt will be affixed to the
parcel, and the name and address OF
the addressee shall be written on the
receipt by the sender"
Cotton used during June amounted
to 514,S0O running bales, exclusive OF
linters, compared with 446,145 in June
last year, the census bureau announced
last Wednesday. Cotton on hand
June 80, in manufacturing establish
ments was 1,622,499 bales, compared
with 1,156,599 last year, and in inde-
pendent warehouses, 2,0S5,347, compar-
ed with 63,4S7 last year. Imports
were 39,129 equivalent 5OO-pound
bales compared with 49,010 last year.
Exports were 249,391 running bales, IN
Guiding linters, compared with $685.
SIS last year. Cotton spindles actlVe
during June were 31,220,592, compar-
ed with 30,94S,04S last year. Llnters
used during June Were 54,6S3 bales'
against 29,993 last year; held in man
ufacturing establishments 195,149 bales
against SS,SS3 last year; held In lnde-
pendent warehouses, 1O6,O29 bales,
against 35,S0S last year, and exported
1905 bales.
The treasury department hereafter
will construct postoffices and otner
Federal buildings in accordance with
the needs and Importance of places
fn0faad
spending all that congress appropri-
ates. 1t long has been a criticism
that unimportant places often got eX-
pensive Federal buildings out of pro-
portion to their needs. In some In
stances expensive postofices have peen
built in towns where postal receipts
were not sufficient to sustain them.
Postofices, Assistant Secretary New
ton announced, will be considered In
four classes: Those having receipts OF
more than 100000 year; those hav-
having between $4,000 to $4,000, and
those below $4,000. BY following the
same plan on acquiring sites, the de-
partment on 136 purchases, spent
$500,O00 less than congress authorized.
The North Carolina law limiting
the shipments Of alcoholic liquors to
any one person to one quart OF whisky
and five gallons of malt liquors every
Is days was declared to be unconsti-
tutional in so far as it applies to
shipments for personal use, Superior
Court Judge r. B. PEBBLES last We'd
nesday told the Wake county grand
jury in delivering a special charge.
He asserted that the law Is constitu-
tional when made applicable to ship
ments for sale and that the burden Of
81, 70 oh hof
the liquor is for personal use. Judge
PEBBLES said he had reached this con-
clusion after a careful study Of the
recent ruling Of the United States su-
preme court in the Kentucky court
shipment cases and comparison or
the Kentucky statute involved with
the new North Carolina law. The
grand jury was charged with the in
vestigation Of liquor shipments.
Under the new law admitting for
eign built vessels to American registry,
149 ships with gross tonnage or
527,071 tons were transferred to the
United States flag during the fiscal
year ending June 80. Figures announc-
ed this week by the department Of
commerce show that Of this number
SO formerly were in the British mer-
chant marine, thirty in the German
dllu SIX Ill Tic DCiSidu. OiiC 1loiieIiii
three Norwegian and four Cuban ships
also were transferred. OF the German
vessels, 25 were owned by the Deuts-
che-Americanishe Petroleum Gessell-
schaft, the German branch Of the
Standard Oil Co... and were trans
ferred to the American company and
American registery early in the war.
Four others were Hamburg American
line ships, of which one, the Dacia, Oh
her first trip under the Stars and
Stripes was taken into French
prize court with a cargo Of cotton con-
signed to Germany.
Fffty-five hundred school teachers
from England and Wales, according to
a London dispatch, have Joined the
British fighting forces since the be.
ginning of The war. The proportion is
largest in London, where the free pub
lie schools have provided LOO school
master recruits, while $50 more have
obtained permission to join soon. The
educational authorities grant an en-
listing teacher a leave Of absence for
the duration of the war and guarantee
him reinstatement without detriment
to his status, salary-increases, and
professional prospects. Moreover,
while serving in the army, he is allow
ed his full school pay, less army pay
accustomed to command and thorough
ly familiar with the system Of Swedish
gymnastics which forms an important
part Of the training Of the new armies,
are in great demand as drill instruct
ors, and large numbers have promptly
attained non- commissioned rank, or
accepted commissions. Substitute
teachers have mostly been provided
from women who left the profession
upon marriage and have now return
ed to fill what are called war service
vacancies" In hundreds Of cases,
where a woman teacher has married
a man teacher, the wife has returned
to the class room, thus filling the gap
caused by her husbands enlistment.
This has led to thousands of older
boys being taught for the first time by
women.
The tenor of the war news depends
very largely upon it's origin, and the
public finds it impossible to arrive at
correct conclusions as to what is real
ly taking place.
The interest the British govern
ment has recently taken in the threat
ened shortage Of zinc (spelter) marks
the first Of series Of moves which
the new ministry Of munitions plans
to secure steady flow of supplies OF
the so-called war metals. The general
bulk of England's supply Of zinc-used
in cartridge cases-came, before the
war, from Germany and Belgium.
There is no lack Of zinc ore, it is said,
but the smelling works Of England
have not been adequate to cope with
the supply. Meanwhile zinc has been
advancing by leaps and bounds, rising
from a before -the-war price of $110
a ton to the recent quotation Of nearly
S575. Since the intervention Of the
government, the price has fallen back
to about $475. No difficulty is antici-
pated regarding nickel, which is war
time essential in the manufacture Of
steel and for other purposes. The
sources Of supply, New Caledonia and
Canada, are in the hands Of the allies,
and the position is comparatively
simple. Lead comes from the United
States, Spain and Australia, and with
the seas open. it is expected that all
the supplies needed will be forth
coming, although prices have recently
advanced sharply. Antimony, which
is used to harden bullets, was formerly
imported mainly from France, but
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