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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-11

Two fire alarms were turned in this
forenoon. At 365 Bellevue street a
small patch was burned in the side of
the house and at 500 North 2lst street
a hole was burned in the roof but in
both instances the damage was slight
and the fire easily exunguished.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-11

The total expenses Of the offices Of
the city physician for 1915, during the
year the office was held by DR.. G. II.
Cashatt amounted to $S43.74. OF this
amount, $500 was the regular city ply.
sician's salary, and $343.74 for Incl.
dentals. These incdentals all passed
through the city recorders office and
were for the help of the poor and needy
in the city. The office collected during
l9l5. SIPS for milk licenses.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-11

DR.. stones drug store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-11

The annual meeting of the Women S
alliance of the Unitarian church will be
held with Mrs. w. L. Anderson, l49l
Court street, Friday afternoon at 2;3O
O'Clock. The election Of Officers and
other important business will come be.
fore the meeting All friends and mem.
bers are invited to attend.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
FEAR DRUG FAMINE
WITHIN IL MONTHS

In bulletin issued by the Penn
sylvania Pharmaceutical association
it is stated that if the war in Eu-
rope continues for another year the
present high prices of drugs will look
like bargain counter rates for many
drugs and chemicals will not be OBJ
tainable by that time and substitutes
will have to be found, says The Pub
lie Ledger. Many chemical and tex
tile industries, it was stated, are al
most crippled by the high prices and
scarcity of materials.
All of the vegetable and animal
oils have risen in price enormously il
was stated, because glycerine can be
made from them and then be con.
verted into explosives. This is espe-
cially true Of cod liver oil, which is
taken by Germany from Norwegian
sources of supply. Castor oil comes
from a seed principally grown in In.
dia, and Great Britain which con.
trolls the trade, has placed an embar.
60 on the product, it is said, because
it is one of the few oils suitable fol
lubricating aeroplanes.
The compounds of mercury are al.
80 scarce, because it is used in max.
ing illuminate, which are indispensa-
BILE for the caps used for exploding
cartridges and shells. Potash salts
are high and scarce because the
worlds largest available supply is in
Germany. Coal tar dyestuffs are ra.
pidly becoming unobtainable, be.
cause of the blockade which England
has enforced since March 1915, pre-.
venting their importation from Ger
many.
Many of the vegetable drugs, con.
tinues the report, come from Italy,
Serbia, Turkey and Bulgaria. Quin-
inc is expensive on account of the
high figures obtained at the recent
auction sale of cinchens bark, held at
Amsterdam, Holland the worlds Gen.
ter for this drug. Paris green and
other insecticides cost much more be-
cause of the scarcity of the crude
products from which they are made.
The prices of licorice root and stick
licorice have risen to hitherto un-
heard of figures, and are still going
up, as the Spanish and Italian sourc-
es Of supply are exhausted and the
Russian product is not available, ow-
ing to the closing of the Dardenelles.
The report further states that the
members of the Pharmaceutical AS
sociation will work at their coming
meeting in Reading, Pa, for re-
vision Of the patent laws and the
tariff pertaining to medicines and
chemical industries to become estab-
lished without competition from
abroad when the war ends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
THE SOUTH AWAKENED.
(From The Washington Po!

(From The Washington Post.)
References to the south as the
great cotton n-producing area of the
nation, have been made so frequently
and for so long a time that the rest
of the country has gained the impress
sion that cotton is the basis for all
southern activity. AS a matter of
fact, however, the south, according
to recent figures collected by The
Manufacturers Record, produced
S3,6O0,OOO,O00 of all agricultural
products last year, and of this only
about $750,000,000 was represented
by cotton. Cotton, therefore, COM
prised but little more than one-fifth
of the total agricultural products.
The south has awakened. 1t is
alive industrially and agriculturally.
It is not merely keeping pace with
the rest of the country, but is begin
ming to set the pace. In 1915 the
gain in the value of all farm crops
in the United States over 1914 was
$526,07O,OOO. Of this gain, $317,-
100000, or little more than 6 per
cent, was in the south, an amazing
illustration of the increase in the di-
versifcation of southern agriculture.
The gain in the entire country out
side of the south was S208,861 900,
or $108,400,000 less than the gain
in the south.
To make the matter plain, the per-
centage of increase in the south in
1915 over 1914 was 1885 per cent,
while the percentage of increase in
the rest of the country in 1915 over
1914 was only 5.25 per cent.
The south is growing more corn.
It is growing more live stock than
ever before in its history. 1t is ad-
vancing industrially. Not only is its
own future assured, but the south is
adding to the prosperity of the whole
nation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
SMITHS NITRATE BILL
is FAVORABLY REPORTED
South Carolina Senator Believes it
Will Insure Fairer Prices for
Fertilizers.

Washington, March 29.-Special
By an almost unanimous vote the Sen
ate committee on agriculture to-day
favorably reported to the Senate the
important bill recently introduced by
Senator Smith, of South Corolina,
ooking to the establishment of nitrate
plants by the Government to furnih
materials for munitions of war and
for fertilizers. 81 believe the passage
this bill, which now seems assured
said Senator Smith, " will guarantee
the farmers fertilizers at fair and
just price. When the Government
Shall have established it's plants it
will be in a position to determine
the cost price of nitrate and potash
and will then, though it may never
produce a pound of munitions of wal
or fertilizer ingredients, the factories
established for it will be the means
of holding private corporations to
fair prices"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS

Washington, D. c., April Re-
ports from the agents of the Agrl-
Cultural Division of Southern Rail-
way Company for the calendar year
1915 bear out the government sta
e -istics as to agricultural progress IN
; The South and show the accomplish
ment of substantial results in the
work being carried on by the rail-
road.
By personal visits to farmers and
oy talks at farmers meetings the
agents of the Company gave advice
as to farm methods to approximately
10000 farmers. AS in former
years demonstration work was done
on a large number of farms all along
the Company's lines, the greater
part of it with cotton and corn. The
reports of production on these farms
show an average yield OF Lily
pounds of cotton per acre, compared
with averages ranging from 59l to
TAI pounds on similar lands in the
same localities where the improved
methods advised by the agents of the
Company were not adopted. Re
ports on corn show an average pro-
duction of 46.7 bushels per acre on
farms where the methods advised
were adopted as compared with an
leverage yield of less than 22 bushels
on similar lands in the same local.
lies.
Advice was given as to crops OF
all kinds and especially to the grow.
ing of legumes and the planting OF
winter cover crops. Seed selection
was encouraged and many farmers
were assisted in breeding improved
seeds. The Importance of drainage
was emphasized and assistance was
given in tile drainage, ditching, and
>terracing.
With the rapid progress being
made in the eradication of the cat
tie tick and the control of hog chol-
: era in the South, farmers in all the
States are turning their attention to
more and better live stock. The
: agricultural agents report the loca-
: lion along the lines of the Company
during the year of 2,743 pure-bred1
beef cattle, $3.50 dairy cattle and
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
Much Wood Flour Used By Dynamite
and Linoleum Makers.

Washington, March 29.-More
than twenty thousand tons of wood
flour, valued at 100000, are used
annually in the United States in two
widely different industries, the man.
ufacture of dynamite and the manu-
facture of inlaid Linoleum.
Wood flour is also used in making
composition flooring, oatmeal paper,
and in several other industries. 1t
forms one of the means by which
the huge waste product of our lum-
Der mills is beginning to find some
better means of disposal than the
burner. Since a total of 36,00O,-
900 cords of such waste is produced
each year at sawmills in the United
States, of which about one-half goes
into the furnaces as fuel while the
rest is burned as refuse to get rid OF
it. there is no lack of raw material
for industries which can develop
ways of turning this waste to ac-
count.
All wood flour-using industries re-
ouire a white or very light cream
colored flour having good absorptlve
powers. The wood species that may
be used are confined to the light, con-
resinous conifers, and the white
broadleaved woods like poplar, spruce
white pine and poplar are the sspe-
cies most used. Mill waste, free
from bark, furnishes much of the
raw material for making wood flour.
For use in dynamite, the trade de-
mands are said to require whlte
wood -four. since the freshmenss OF
dvnamite stock is indicated by a
Iieht color. Dynamite flour must
also be very absorptive,, so there VIII
be no leakage of nitroglycerlne from
the finished product. Wheat Hour
mill refuse and infusorial earth
have also been used in dynamite max
inc, but wood -four has practically
replaced them in this country.
In the manufacture of llnoleum,
either wood or cork -four is used.
The flour is mixed with a cementlng
material, spread out on burlap ana
rolled or pressed to uniform thick
ness. The cement is the expensive
constituent. Cork linoleum is the
cheaper because less cement IS nee,
essary. The patterns are printed
on. leaving a dark base. For lnlald
or straightline linoleum, WOOD hour
is used exclusively. Cork hnoleum
is always dark, and slightly more
elastic than that produced from wood
flour. The wearing qualities are
about the same.
Two methods of producing wood
flour are practiced; one using mill
stones, the other steel burr rollers
to pulverize the wood. The latter
requires only one-fourth as much
power to operate as the former and
was developed on the Pacific Coast
to handle sawdust as a raw material.
The mills of Norway which produce
much of the European wood flour
are of the stone type.
Wood flour mills are scattered
over the country from Maine to
California wherever the proper COM
bination of wood and water power
is available, and the domestic wood
flour completes with the Norwegian
product which, before the European
war, was delivered at Atlantic
ports for $3.50 to SIS per ton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05

5.03S hogs. When the agricultural
work of Southern Railway began
siios were almost unknown in many
parts of the South. They are now
to be found in almost every neighbor-
hood and approximately 900 were
built along the lines of the Company
during the year.
In all parts of the territory the
efficiency of the work being done has
been due in large measure to the
close cooperation between the
agents of the railroad and those OF
the State and Federal governments.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
THE RIVERS OF
SOUTH CAROLINA

The following verses from an old
book once popular in the South have
been resurrected from the Clemson
library by Professor Morrison, and
published in the "Tiger." Professor
Morrison belongs to Winthrop, as ne
has been for years a member OF tne
faculty of the summer term:
By the rice fields and the sand
hills, run the rivers small and
great,
From the mountains to the oceans IN
the grand "Palmetto State"
From Savannah on the westward to
the east-most Waccamaw;
Bv Catawba, where the red man
once untroubled kept his squaW;
Bubbling, hurrying, foaming, splash
ing, gently, smoothly, then they
flow.
Once thew find her sunny borders
ne'er across them do they 60.
Pacolet, Saluda, Pee Dee, Tiger,
Broad, Bush, Enoree,
To Savannah, Chauga Little, Seneca,
and Tugaloo,
Keowee, and Toxaway, and the rat
tling Rocky 60
To the ocean Coosew-hatchie, lazy
Lynch and dark Cheehaw,
Ashley, Cooper, these, in Indian,
Etowan and Washmasaw.
Eastward flowing is the Coosaw, by
the lands of Edisto;
By the Salke-Hatchie, and the Poca-
taligo.
By the countless fields of cotton,
spread the small and great Pee
Dee;
Here the sea-waves kissing, Sampel,
Broad, May Wrights and Chic
kasee.
Here are Taulee, Bull and Rarbon,
and the wayward Wadmelow,
Morgan, and the small Kiawah,
Sleepy Stone and a New,
Combahee and Sluggish Wando and
the narrow Ashepoo.
From Savannah west and southwark,
From the east-most Waccamaw;
To Catawba, where the Indian still
is living with his squaw;
From the rich hills to the barrens,
busy rivers, small and great;
Run by factory and plantation in
the grand palmetto State"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
TO CHECK RISE IN GASOLINE
Two Measures Are Offered in Nation
al House.

Washington, March 29.-Two mea-
sures looking to put check on the
rise in the price of gasoline were Of
fered in Congress to-day.
Amendment to the Federal trade
commission law was proposed by Rep
resentative Steenerson, of Minnesota.
His bill would require certain dealers
in petroleum, gasoline, kerosene and
fuel oil to post prices, file them with
the commission, require them to be
Just and reasonable and empower the
commission to prescribe just and
maximum prices.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05

Patron-I say, waitah, is this
peach or apple pie?
Garcon-Can't you tell by the
taste?
No.
Then what difference does it
make?-Judge.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-05
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SCHEDULE

Arrival and departure on trains
effective January %, 1916. Sched-
7lle figures published only as infor-
nation. Not Guaranteed.
ABBEVILLE, S. G..
No. Arrive From:
400 Charleston -Greenville 11:20 m
113 Charleston-Co Columbia $40 p m
115 DISQUALIFICATION 8:02 p m
No. Depart For:
=. a08 Charleston-Greenville 9:55 m
112 Belton-Greenville 3:45 p m
ia Columbia Charleston 6:35 p m
Trains 100 and ia !, connect at
Hodges with Pullman sleeping car
ia co" and from Columbia and
Charleston.
=, .,lete information call on
Ticket Agent or address:
w. R. TABER, TPA.,
Greenville, S. G.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-19
Drink up Engines Water

Galveston, Tex. Oct. 19-The cir
Gus train was stalled by an empty
water tank of the engine. The engl-
neer and fireman were voclferously
mingling mutual accusations with
profanity.
Then they saw a long, snaky OBJ
iect wriggle over the rear of the
tender and dart down into the emp
ty tank. The object proved to be
an elephants trunk. Following this
very tangible clue, they discovered
that three elephanst, who were oc-
cupying the car in the rear of the
tender, had lifted off the cover of
the tank and utilized the entire con-
tents in elephantine shower-baths.
As a punishment for this infrac-
ton of railroad etiquette the elc-
plants were compelled by a Hindu
nahout named O'Reilly, to push the
locomotive three miles to the near
est source of water supply.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-19
GUSTS SMOKING PARsoN
Net Allowed at Episcopal Conven.
tion With Pipe in Mouth.

st. Louis Oct. ia Socialist
parson, who insisted in smoking a
pipe in the corridors of Moolah Tenn
pie, was placed under the official ban
of the Episcopalian convention Tues
day and was ousted from the temple.
George w. Simmons, chairman Of
he committee on arrangements, no.
.ified the preacher, Rev. R. L.
Byron Curtis, of Newark, n. J that
,,e must not rc-enter the temple.
Rev. Bryon-Curtis had an exhibit
ton of Socialist literature in booth
in the corridor.
Simmons said he saw Rev. Bryon-
Curtis smoking last Thursday and
again last Saturday warning him
each time. When he met the preacher
tuesday again putting the pipe, he
told the Socialist he must stay out
Of the building. Women who passed
in the corridors to End from tea
room were annoyed, Simmons said.
Simmons permitted the exhibit of
Socialist literature to remain and
placed mother person in charge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-19
COFFEE 10 CENTS A CUP
Egg Dishes in Washington Also Fall
Under Ban of High Cost of
FOOdStuffS

Coffee per cup will cost 10 cents
instead of 5 cents hereafter in at
least cne Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, lunch room, which is
one of a nationwide chain of lunch
rooms. Egg sandwiches likewise IN
this same establishment will entail
the payment of double their former
rice. They will sell for 10 cents
stead of cents. And at several
other lunch counters and dairy lunch
rooms the same kind of sandwiches
have. gone up in price from to S
ents. 's9f
Announcement that the high cost
of foodstuffs had at last struck the
coffee cup was made at the Avenue
eating place several days ago. The
management explained to all patrons
who complained about the raise that
coffee had advanced so much along
with the advance in the price of
cream and milk that it was abso-
lutely necessary to demand higher
price for the. beverage per cup.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-19
Notice Gypsy Smith Excursion.

Those desiring tickets for the
Gypsy Smith Excursion to Char
iottesville, on Friday, October 20, car
secure them up to 1G:3O a. m. Fri.
day. at Aliens or Warfield's Drug
Stores or form the undersigned com
cittee.
The train will leave Union Station
promptly at 2 p. M, instead Of
o'clock. as announced on tickets, ar
irving at p. m. Leaving Charlottes'
villo at 10 D. M, arriving home
shortly after midnight.
(signed) Samuel w. Pitts, George
K. Bender, William H. Melchoir
George H. Evans, Frank T. King
Louis C. Barley, Bishop Arnold, Johr
H. Trimyer, Committee. 245-1t.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-19
Bennie Jones, Arrested in Alexan-
dria Monday, Says He Stole
JeweIry in Richmond

Police Justice Crutchfeld of Rich
mond Yesterday held Bennie S.
Jones. negro chauffeur, for the grand
jury on the charge of stealing $l,o4o
worth of jewelry from the home OF
Colonel James R. Branch, 3 west
Franklin street. Jones was sent on
after Detective Sergeant Wiltshire,
who brought MIN back from Washing
ton, said that the negro admitted
taking the jewelry. Jones made no
statement himself during the brief
arraignment. Jones had been arrested
Monday. by Officer William Camp
bell in a pawn shop in Alexandria
while he was endeavoring to obtain
loan on the stolen jewelry. 1t was at
first supposed he was wanted in
Washington, and Jones was subse-
quently turned over to Detective
Horn of that city. 1t was, however,
soon known that the negro had stolen
Lhe rings, pins, watch, ETC., in Rich
mond.
Before he was brought before JUS
tice Crutchfeld he told Patrolman
Jennings through the bars of the
court dock that he committed the
theft Sunday afternoon, when ne en-
tered Mrs. Branch's room and re,
moved the jewels from the draw
er, Of her dresser. At the time, he
said, Mrs. Branch was asleep in an
other room in the house. He had been
employed there for only few weeks.
as butler and chauffeur. Sunday night
about 7:30 o'clock he was shot at by
Patrolman Jennings when he threat
ened the policeman with a pistol.
Early Monday morning Jones took
a northbound train for Alexandria.
Several hours after his arrival in
this city he was apprehended. Jones
insisted that he had never been in
serious trouble before. Though he
cla;n,ect tn be only II q years -p'd hA-
looks to be at least %. He came
from Georgia shortly before getting
the position in the Branch home, IN
Richmond. ALI the Branch jewe!ry
WAS recovered,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-19
NEGRO ADMITS CHARGE SIXTY DAYS SENTENCE
Check Flasher Not Wanted in Mass
achusctts and is Sentenced in
Alexandria

The case of William Carroll, alias
William Davis, arrested on the 9Th
instant by Chief Goods and Ser
geant Wilkinson fer obtaining money
on a worthless check and uttering
two others on which he attempted to
obtain goods and money, came up IN
Police Court this morning. The ac-
cused was arraigned at the time ne
was arrested, but the case was con-
tinued for ten days, it being suppos-
ed Carroll was wanted elsewhere. The
chief communicated with the Brock
ton, Mass, and Boston authorities,
and the answers from those places
was to the effect that the man was
not wanted and it was hoped he had
shook the dust of the bay state from
his feet forever.
At the trial this morning Charles
Wells testified that Carroll had OBJ
tanned five dollars from him on a
check drawn upon bank in Har-
pcr's Ferry. The check had been re-
turned with the statement mo
funds
Carroll when asked if he had any
thing to say replied that he had
been in hard luck, was drunk when
he uttered the checks, that he had
found his wife living with another
man, that he was shoemaker, and
would refund the five dollars he had
received from Wells if given an op-
to return to work, was
bent upon making good by reform
ing his life, etc. His confession was
published in the Gazette ten days
ago.
Wells, who had recovered his FIVE
dollars he received from him, the
note having been found in CAROLS
pocket, said he had no desir> to pro-
secute him. justice Cation, aowet-er,
saiA-.i+-was-a-4ase upon rhich ac-
ton by the court was necessary. re
sentenced him to serve sixty days
in Jail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-19
MAY LOSE UNIFORMS
Governors Twenty AppOintees Cam
not Initiate Uncle Sans
Fighting Men.

Another mobilization faces: Virgin
ians.
Twenty doughty warriors-coloneis
all on the personal staff OF Cover
nor Henry Carter Stuart, must soon
assemble to discuss a weightlcr prob
lem than the capture of the elusive
Villa. They must decide upon suit
able garb in keeping with their
rank and dignity, notice having been
received that, under the new Federal
defense act, they are prohlolted
from wearing uniforms or any IN
SIGMA of rank similar to or IN any
way initiating the uniforms and m
sigma of rank worn by officers of
the regular army, unless the wear
or is in some way connected with the
armed forces of the United States.
Naturally CONSERVATION will reign
in the ranks of those who have M
vested heavily in the habilimenss
with which colonels of the staff were
wont to dazzle the eyes of their less
fortunate brethren upon occasions
when they have been called upon to
accompany the Governor in an Off
cial capacity.
The order concerning the uniforms
-
was sent by the War Department
yesterday to Adjutant-General W.
w. Sale, but has not yet been con
yeved to those it will affect. There
is some question as to whether the
new Federal law will conflict with
that of the State upon the question.
The staff Of the Governor is authorlZ-
ed by State law, the members be-
ing commissioned with the rank OF
colonel of cavalry. They, however,
have no connection with the military
, establishment of the State, the posi-
tions being merely honorary.