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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17

Kerosene oil has been used success
fully to extinguish fire in baled cot
ton. A cotton bale is subjected to a
very heavy pressure. Water win pene-
trate it but an inch or SO, whereas
kerosene will go clear to the center. A
fire in a cotton bale does not blaze,
but simply smolders and eats its way
into the bale. Az the comparatively
low temperature at which cotton burns,
and where there is no fame, Kerosene
does not ignite, but smothers or extin-
cuisines the slow, creeping IRE After
the fire is extinguished the bands are
removed from the bale and burned
portions of tho cotton stripped of. It
is said that the use of kerosene has
practically no detrimental effect on the
cotton, and after it has been spread
out and aired FOR few days MI odcr
OF the oil disappears.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
CARDINAL MERCER
SEES PONTIFF ON
SECRET MISSION

Rome. Jap. I7--cardina1 MERCER.
the Belgian primate. maintains the
strictest reserve regarding the big
bundle of papers which he took with
him today when the Pope received
hinl IN private audience and which he
left with His Holiness.
Merely ecclesiastical matters was
all the Cardinal would say in reply to
questions regarding these papers. One
report was that the documents con-.
tanned a village to-vil1age survey of
present conditions in Belgium and of
the alleged continued German bar
barities.
Cardinal MERCER spent just one
hour with the Pope and then spent
a second hour with Cardinal Gaspar-
ri, secretary of state of the Vatican.
He returnedI to the Belgian colleges
where he was shut in all afternoon at
a conference with other Belgian
churchmen.
Callers were told that he could not
see them today or tomorrow. Among
the hundreds who signed the callers
book were a number of American
residents and many Italians.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
MORGAN MADE TRUSTEE.

Attorney f. e. Morgan was an
apninted trustee Of the stouder- Gleason
estate OF Referee John w Banks in
kt1le bankruptcy court this morning.
Bonds for the trustee. were fixed at
~, 600 The appraisers appointed
were Howard W. Curtis, r. A. Smith
5and BENJAMIN Bernstein. The bank
srupt company conducted the meat and
scanned goods department In a Main
street department storeA
The petition of Sanfrfed jacobson
for discharge from bankruptcy was
allowed. AS jacobson had no assets
nobody appeared at the hearing this
incoming to oppose the discharge.
jacobson was local builder
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
Accused AS "squealer, -
City Emp1oye Fights

In city court today the charge of
mutual, assault held against John Fo-
ley of 1438 Main street and Joseph
Gasso of 1870 Stratford avenue, was
noIled by Judge Frank L. Wilder up
on payment of costs. The assault took
place at Main street and Fairfield
avenue about 8 o'clock, Saturday eve
ming. oSasso is employed as draw
tender on Congress street bridge and
Foley is a former employee of the
Bridge Department. The fight took
place when Foley accused Gasso of
being 'ssquealer'' in the Public
Works Department.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
To Assign Hearings on
Twelve Remonstrances

Within a few days the county com
rnissioners intend to hold meeting
for the purpose of assigning dates
for hearings on renonstranees against
applications for club liquor licenses.
Fifteen renonstrances were filed
agai11t local organizations and al
ready hearings have been held in
three cases. In all of these the coma
rnissioners denied the applications.
The organization were the Elm Coun-
try club of fWestport, the Golden Inn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
and the Royal Social club 81 this

and theI Royal Social club Of this
city
Among the most prominent of the
IL remaining applications are those of
the Oxford club. the Acorn A. c. club,
the Liberty A. c., the Musical union
and the Machinists' union. As soon as
Commissioner John Bropf1yi returns
to his desk the hearings will be held.
He has been confined to- his home in
Ridgefie1d by a severe cold.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
STRATFORD REALTY
SOLD TO RAILROAD
FOR FREIGHT YARD
Especial to The Farmer)

stratford, Jan. 1.-THE recording of
documents indicating sales of proper
ty along the New Haven road proper
ty. opposite ST. MichaePs cemetery
confirmed the statement recently
made in the Farmer that the railroad
contemplates charging the freight
yard facilities in the east cad, Bridge
port.
Property extending several hundred
feet from Bruce avenue near to, Surf
avenue is included. The prices paid
are not included in the papers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17

blood that courses through them, and
they naturally possess very great elias
ITCHY. However much the blood pres
sure is increased by rapid heart ac-
lion, a perfectly healthy artery does
not give way, but stretches as the
blood is forced through, and then re
gains its proper size AS old age APP
proaehes the arteries begin to lose elias,
ITCHY and grow more rigid
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
On saennd Thou nE,+.

Those men for whom you failed to
get government positions were rather
indignant
"OnIy for little while, = replied Sem
ator Sorghum. ''Since they found how
much more they can make in private
employment they're honestly grateful .
Washington Star.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
Mamie Henap.

The fiber of manila hemp varies in
length from six~to twelve feet and oc-
casionally attains a length of eighteen
feet It is said to possess greater ten
sile strength than any other fiber
known.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
VERONA a. CHIEFLY
WANTS SEPARATION

Papers were filed in the superior
court this morning IN divorce pro-
reedings brought by Verona A Chiefly
Of Norwa1k against John CheIy Of
Norwa1h xnto1erabIe cruelty is the
ground. Mrs CheIyss maiden name
was VERSUS Marion She married the
deTendAnt July 1910.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17

of a river subjected to doodss IN deep
gorge whose sides were SO steep that
it was impossible to establish work
shops upon them. London Mail.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
AsBURY PARK HAS BIG FIRE.

New York. Jan. 174-Loss estimated
at 500, 600 resulted from fire today
which destroyed the buildings of the
Asbury Park Trust Co. and the AS
bury Park Press at Asbury Park,
N. j. One fireman was seriously i'm
jured. The FIRE burned for three
hours. The origin OF the IRE is un-
known.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17

Wants, To Rent, For Sale,
&C., l cent a word in Farmer
Want Column.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
our Elastic Arteries,

Our arteries are constructed to with
stand enormous pressure from the
The Coconino sun., 1916-11-10
PAPER MAKERS HAVE
BEEN ROBBING PEOPLE

Washington, Nov. 3.-The Federal
trade commission in a statement an
nouncing the virtual completion of its
investigation of news-print paper
prices, declared the first half of this
year, when prices were already soar
ing to unprecedented figures, the
average cost of production in the do
mestic mills was less than S1.6O for
500 pounds or below the average cost
for the past three years. 1t announc-
ed it would give manufacturers, pub
fishers and others interested, an op-
portunity to appear at public hear
ing before the commissions report is
issued. 1t made public certain facts
the inquiry developed, one of them
being that because publishers con-
tracts were about to expire, the con-
tract prices rose this year from less
than So hundred to So and $3.50 a
hundred and that publishers paid 81
or more on current purchases for
paper bought the same way prior to
January, for 81 and So.
The Coconino sun., 1916-11-10
Speaking of Appetites

A huge eating competition had
been held by some brawny sons of toll
in a country town in Yorkshire, and
one of the competitors had succeeded
in disposing of a leg of mutton, a
plentiful supply of vegetables, and a
lum-pudding, the whole washed down
with copious draughts of ale.
He was unanimously declared the
winner and was being triumphantly
escorted home when he turned to his
admirers and said:
"Ah, say lads, don't thee say nowt
O. this to my ole woman, or she won't
gle me no dinner"
The Coconino sun., 1916-11-10
Wearied of Life

Mrs. Ruth Jones, colored woman,
living on east Third street, committed
suicide at her home Thursday morn
ing by shooting herself through the
heart. Deceased had only resided
here a few weeks, coming here from
Las Vegas with her husband, and the
only known reason for the rash act
was grief over the estrangement of
her parents because of her marriage.
She was bride Of only few
months.-WinsIow Mail.
The Coconino sun., 1916-11-10
FARM LOANS FROM .. S.
AND HOW TO OBTAIN THEM

A hearing of great importance to
the farmers and farm organizations
of Arizona will be held at Phoenix on
November Is by the Federal Farm
Loan Board.
This hearing is for the purpose of
getting information to guide the
Board in determining the boundaries
of the twelve Federal Land Bank dis
tricts into which the country is to be
divided for the administration of the
new rural credits law, known as the
Federal Farm Loan Act. The session
will be held in the federal building at
Phoenix.
The. members of the Federal Farm
Loan Board who will conduct this
hearing are Hon. William G. McAdoo,
Secretary of the Treasury, George w.
Norris, Farm Loan Commissioner,
Herbert Quick, Captain w. s. A.
Smith, and Charles E. Lobdell.
The Board has issued an invitation
to all farmers and farm organiza-
tions of Arizona to attend this hear
ing to get information about the
operation of the Farm Loan Act, and
to furnish the Board with information
about the farm loan needs Of the
state. 1t has also asked interested
cities to present their claims for the
location Of one Of the twelve Federal
Land Banks.
Farmers will be asked to give in
formation regarding the prevailing
rates Of interest on first mortgage
loans; the difficulty Of getting extern
sions; the rate of commissions
charged; the development of farms as
affected by credit; farm tenantry as
affected by the ability of tenants to
borrow; and any other fact that will
give the Board an understanding Of
the farm needs Of the state.
The new Federal Farm Loan Act
provides way for the farmer or pro-
spective farmer to borrow money on
long time mortgages at actual cost.
The government provides the machin-
cry for assembling capital to be loaned
to farm owners or prospective farm
owners. The loans may run up to so
per cent of the value Of the land used
as security and 20 per cent of the
value of the improvements. The loans
will be made at low rate of interest
not yet determined, but it will be less
than 6 per cent. Provision is made
for the borrower to pay off the debt,
interest, and principal through pc
RODS Of from five to forty years, at
his own option.
The legislation is expected to prove
a great boon to those sections of the
country where farm development has
been retarded because of high interest
rates, and it is predicted that it will
tend to make agricultural prosperity
permanent and uniform, stabilize and
equalize interest rates, and greatly
improve the condition Of the farmer.
The Coconino sun., 1916-11-10

The nationwide interest in the pro-
visions of the bill is indicated by the
fact that more than 100000 inquiries
have come to the Treasury Depart
ment for information about it. Secre-
tary McAdoo predicts that the banks
will be established and ready to make
loans early in 1917.
The Coconino sun., 1916-11-10
COPPER
CALF.
GOLD, SILVER,
ARIZONA, NEVADA,

The mining industry in these states
is working on a bigger scale than
ever before. Production, profits and
dividends have shown remarkable
growth.
The Mining Press is an independ-
ent newspaper giving the news Of the
mines operating in the various Min
ing Districts Of those States.
A three months triaf subscription
will be sent to you free upon request.
Write for it today
THE MINING PRESS
557 I. w. Hellman Bldg, Los Angeles
The Coconino sun., 1916-11-10
Abe Martin, he says:

It pays a whole lot better t gi
even with your friends instead o
your enemies. These are great day
for burglars, with mother an fathe
both lined up in political parades.
The Coconino sun., 1916-11-10

557 /. w. Hellman Bldg, Los Angeles
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-19
J.. MACK RHODES.

The Ford company Is noted for the
rapiditv in which it disposes Of cars
and the same thing a be said of the
Rhodes Automobile company of this
city. local agents for>the Ford. A a
load of Fords was received n day
last week and the next day every a
had found an owner. In fact there is
now said to be a waiting list for the
Fords to come.
This company was started by J.
Mack Rhodes, about three years ago.
He found the business growing in
such proportion that he was forced to
seek partners. The firm is now COM
posed of foul of Hendersonville's~l lead
ing business men, Messrs. j. Mack
Rhodes, BrownloW Jackson. F. S. Wet
muir and w. S. Miller.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-19
ONE HUNDRED MILL
HOUSES TO BE BUILT.

Greenville, S. c., Oct. 1S.-Harry r.
Wilkins, who is well known in Hen
Jacksonville. vice president and mana
ger, and J.. s.. Gilmore, superintendent,
of the William Goldsmith Company,
Building Contractors of Greenville
have just returned from Great Falls,
S. c.. where they made a contract with
the Republic Cotton Mills to build at
once one hundred cotton mill tene-
ment houses at Great Falls.
These houses are to be one and two
story, modern cottages, with up-to.
date conveniences of running water,
bath room equipment, sewerage sys-
tenn and electric lights. j. E. Cirrine
of Greenville, is the mill architect and
engineer and this village is to be a.
credit to the modern day mill towns
and in keeping with the high stand
ards set in every way by the Republic
Mills, of Great Falls S. G.. Both
Mr.. Wilkins and Mr.. Gilmore were very
much impressed with the beauty and
attracttveness of the mill town at
Great Falls.
Mr.. Gilmore says that they will pro-
badly use several hundred men on this
job In order to rush the work through
as early as possible.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-19
GOLF A NECESSITY.

To the Editor of the Hustler:
In complying with your request for
an expression of an opinion in sup
mort of the proposed golf course for
Hendersonville, will introduce the story
of the master. who ask of his colored
servant if he had used gasoline in try
ing to remove molasses that the ser
want had placed in the masters chair
that he might become the proud pos
SCISSOR of his masters new suit, replied
that the gasoline would not work. He
was then asked if he had tried ammo
MIA, (EM-ON-U). The dary's reply
was, that he had and was sure they fit.
The people of He~ndersonvi1le represent
the molasses of this new enterprise for
it is now really uponthem; and the gas
oline the failure to build a golf course
for the city; and the fit is the course
completed. Few records can be
found where a we'll constructed golf
course did not fit we'll upon the statue
OF city pride of any town or city where
it had been tried and especially would
this be true of HendersOnVllIe. Every
town and city that depends upon its
tourists for a large part of its revenue
must realize that these same people
that visit this beautiful town, come not
to take away but leave for our support
and comfort a large and goodly sum of
money each season and it is up to the
men and women Of this community
how much or how little will pass on
through. The more numerous and the
more stable and beautiful the attrac-
ton the greater the income will be to
u banks, merchants, doctors, law
yers, hotels. livery, garages, and In
fact to every n in business. One of
its important assets will be, that It
will attract hundreds of people here
in the early spring fall and winter that
will never otherwise come to our city.
every man, woman and child would
point with civic pride to a beautiful
golf course. It will not only be a
place of, Have you seen Laurel Park"
but in addition, have you seen our
beautiful golf course. 1t will advertise
the city far in advance of any other
amusement or sport, is self supporting,
and beneficial to our old and young
alike and is rapidly occupying the at
tention of many once enthusiastic
baseball fans. The ways and means
are simple if the enthusiasm is real
and in earnest and / trust the SER
wants molasses will so entangle the
people of Hendersenville in a net work
of determination to begin at once. that
their only possible avenue of escape
will be through the links Of a beautiful
golf course. BOGY.
HendersonVille, Oct. 18, 1916.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-19
THE SECTIONAL ISSUE.

The sectional issue injected into the
present campaign by northern Repub-
l1cans, led by Candidate Hughes, is
giving the Republican nominee for con-
gress in this district no little concern.
And well he may seek to saddle the re-
sponsibility upon other shoulders. But
his explanations do not satisfy any
body who is not blinded by party pre-
JUDGE.
MIR. Britt was a Hughes delegate to
Chicago and will vote for him in Nov
embeF. Republicans were particularly
hostile to southern men and southern
interests durino the campaign in the
state of Maine last month, emphasizing
objection more than once to the
%South being in the saddle" They
sought to infiame the minds Of civil
war veterans in that section against
the administration of President Wilson
by ~utterances which should not, and
could not. have fallen from the lips of
broadminded American citizens. Hav-
ing no issue with which to combat the
unanswerable claims of Democratic
achievement, Mr.. Hughes and his apol-
ogists have ~resorted to the lowest
species of demagogery in the hope OF
diverting the attention of the people
from the matchless record of Woodrow
Wilson and a Democratic congress;~in
the enactment of measures in the in
terest of the masses of this country.
Feeling that they cannot win with
argument such as they have Republi.
can leaders tOldlY resort to sectional
prejudice in this campaign and Mr..
Britt cannot divorce himself from his
fool friends" And he need not blame
Congressman Tom Hefin for blistering
the Republican party for harboring,
sectional hatred in his Asheville speech
two weeks ago. A vote for Britt will
be a vote for Hughes for they are
Jared with the same stick. 1t turns
out that when Mr.. Hughes injected
sectionalism into his campaign out in
Montana a few weeks ago the Nation
al Committee, with which MI. Britt is
connected, instantly seized upon it as
an issue for use in the campaign north
and west. And, Notwithstanding the
fact that southern Democrats have won
dictinction by long and faithful SER
vice, a slur is cast upon their ability
and integrity by the insinuation that
men like Wilson, Simmons, Kitchin,
Overman, Daniels. Underwood. Hefin.
Clark, Martin, Swanson and scores Of
other sons of Dixie who have become,
men Of mark in national affairs, should
not be trusted because they hail from
the southland. This attempt at kind
ling smouldering embers, thought to
have been buried years ago. may re-
dound to the benefit of the Republican
party in New England and the West.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-19
MANUFACTURERS.

For a person to love and believe in
the section in which he lives is but
natural, and didhe not, the community
would be better off without him. Furth-
ermore, it is ones duty, loving and be-
lieVing in his town as he does, to speak
plainly as to it's needs and of all
things that would lead to it's better
ment. 1t is not our purpose to criti-
cize-and if we would knock our town
we would not be a worthy citizen-but
one thing that impresses us most is the
almost total lack of manufacturing en-
Ierprises here. For the good of local
business and the progress Of the city
We should have more and varied man
ufacturing enterprises. What few
plants we have here are doing well
and there is no reason why five times
that much capital invested here would
lot bring handsome returns. OF
course some will say our summer visi-
tors demand quiet and refinement, and
to bring the mills here would spoil it
all But do the mills of WaynesvilIe
and AsheVille spoil the attractions of
these cities? Not a bit of it, and
furthermore these same manufacture
ing plants furnish an income to their
hundreds of employees the year round,
thereby putting the business of the
place upon a more sound and eeonom-
1cla basis, something unfortunately,
Fnat cannot be said of summer visitors.
Not that we don't want summer visf-
tors. Our ~unrivalled climate and ma
tural attractions make this n of the
most favored spots on the globe and
more and more visitors. are being at
Iracted here each summer, but the
Q of the observation-disclosures
and yisitors-would serve to place our
s's on the road to prosperity with a
speed it has eve known before
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-19
GRAND JURY RECOMMENDS
NEW JAIL FOR COEXT7
CONFINED from Page ~

years on payment of costs.
State VS.. Charlie Mills, abandon
ment; guilty.
State VS.. Hobart Allison. assault:
continued.
State VS.. julie Bryson, larceny; plead
guilty and sentenced to ten months in
jail to be assigned to work on county
roads.
State VS.. Henry Peace, retailing; mol
pros with leave.
State VS.. Sam Hill, retailing; noI
pros with leave.
State VS.. Dan Blair. retailing; mol
pros with leave.
State VS.. Henry Cantrell and G.. H.
Orr, assault with deadly weapon.
These two cases were consolidated.
Orr was fined $50 and half the costs,
and Cantrell taxed with half the costs.
State VS.. Bert Shock. running pool
room without license; tax paid, judg-
ment suspended on payment of costs.
State VS.. Fred Hutchinson, larceny;
not guilty.
State VS.. Arthur Pace, retailing; not
guilty.
State VS.. J. L. Mcdowell, assault;
mol pros with leave.
State VS.. Will Mitchell Drake, Bus
ter Counts and George Dupre. larceny;
Dupre and Counts called and failed.
Case continued.
State VS., J.. o. Jenkins; called and
failed; judgment nisi in sum of $1OO,
capias 10 issue.
State VS.. G. G. Hyder, entering
dwelling with intent to commit a felony
and attempting to commit a felony.
The jury in this case found the defend
ant not guilty Of entering the dwelling
of Mrs. r. A. Child, but found him
guilty Of attempting to enter the dwell
ing house with intent to commit lar
ceny. The judgment Of the court was
that Hyder pay a fine of $500 and costs.
State VS.. Tom Cox, carrying con-
cealed weapon; judgment suspended
on payment of costs. Must show good
behavior for two years.
State VS.. Tom Cox, assault with
deadly weapon; judgment suspended
on payment of costs. Must show good
behavior for two years.
Furman Mcdowell, an orphan boy,
was ordered to be placed in the Jack
son Training school at Concord for
such a period as the trustees of the
institution shall be deemed sufficient.
A number of the citizens of Hender-
sonEille took a great interest in this
case and it was the general opinion
that the training school was the best
place for the boy at present. He is an
exceedingly bright little fellow, but
somehow has a disposition to become
unruly a. times.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-19

Attention of every voter is directed
10 the article on page 2, signed by w.
F. Edwards, chairman of the County
Board of Elections. Every man who
can vote should read this article care
fully. and if you know of some of the
u~nfortunates whom Frank Linney
spoke of here some time ago, take it
upon yourself to read it to him. For
every voter to be well-informed on
the election law is a matter of utmost
Importance on election day and Mr..
Edwards article contains the desired
information.