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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-09-21
To Prevent Broken Flower Pots.

Those who have flower pots on piaz-
"a ratings know how easily they are
knocked off, and both pot and flower
broken. All flower pots have a hole
in the bottom. By mailing a small
headed nail about three or four inches
long on the top of the banisters, over
which to slip the pot, all the trouble
is ended. They are secure, and strong
winds will not blow them Otf.-Farm
and FireSide.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-09-21
SCHOOL ON WHEELS.
Children of Railway Employees Are
Being Educated.

Being Educated.
Salt Lake, Utah.-A school on wheels
is operated on the rails Of the Southern
Pacific company.
In an extra section gang under Fore
man Taft, who has crew of fifty men
on superintendent Whalen's Los An
geles division, there are twenty-five Or
more children who are being taught
daily in a box car which has been fit
ted up with benches.
They have a teacher who instructs
them daily in English and Spanish and
in primary work. The results thus far
have not only been satisfactory, but
the class of men in the gang remains
high. AS the gang moves along from
place to place SO does the school car,
and the children never have to miss a
days attendance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-09-21
IT'S A BIG JOB.

No president since Lincoln has had to
handle such complex problems as President
Wilson has been confronted with He has
kept you out of war. He stopped the rail
road strike. Financial, agricultural and
labor legislation of his administration stand
as great monument to work well done:
Do Won want to make change?
LET HIM FINISH IT.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-09-21

ashington.-Agents of the depart
ment of justice are watching efforts
to raise the price Of bread and milk
While they entertain the private opin-
ion that there is some justification for
the rise in the price of milk, they ex-
press doubt that the rise would be JUS
tilted in the case Of bread, despite re
ports from Chicago, Memphis, Biz
mingham and other cities in which the
prices have been raised.
A committee representing milk pro
ducers asked Carl S. Vrooman, acting
secretary of agriculture. to investigate
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-09-21
For Sale---A Good Nine Room House

in the LIST ward. Lot 27OxI2O Good location g.
eject trio lights; hot water furnace; bathroom !;
closets in each bed room; good barn INQUIRE
OF GEORGE WOOLRICH Sr
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-09-21
FOOD PRICES SOAR
Country Wide Investigation Plan
ned by Department of Justice.
BREAD AND MILK ARE HIGHER

Producers Declare That Whole Subject
of Transportation Of Milk Should Be
Brought Before the Interstate Com
merce Commission to Get Report on
Existing Conditions.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-09-21

located the close of business
call by the of Bank
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
SAVES MONEY
MAKING MONEY

The U. S. Mint Service recently
saved nearly half a million dollars in
buying the silver its uses to make
silver money. It seems queer that
money can be saved in buying the
stuff to make money of-but it is
so. It may seem still more queer that
the action of the Mint Service in saw
ing money on its silver made money
for the silver producing interests
but it did.
Silver was selling at low prices last
summer. An unprecedented demand
for subsidiary silver coin, due to the
wave of prosperity which then began
to spread over the country. was fore
seen. So, between August 8 and Sep
TENDER IT, the director of the mint
age price Of $O.48724, or a total cost
of 81, 131, SIS.
IF this silver had been bought at
the market price of silver ON March
"a, of this year, $O.61156, the cost
would have been 50, 675,575, or $543,-
largest purchase of silver in a, similar
period since the repeal of the pur-
chase clause of the Sherman Law in
1897
That is how the government saved
the half million; but this is less than
half the story. The unsteadiness of
the silver market last summer threat
ened a partial paralysis of the silver
mining industry all over the world.
The big purchase by the mint SO
steadied the market that production
of silver continued Without abatement
and the price went, up It also had
the effect of aiding the production of
gold, inasmuch as all silver bullion
carries a certain amount of gold.
The foresight which stocked the
mint with ample silver enabled it to
meet the unprecedented demand in
recent months for all denominations
of gold and silver coins in manner
that has won commendation in all
parts of the country.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
STOCK MARKET

New York, April .-Opening-Th
only execution to the general frmness
Of today's opening on the stock ex-,
change was New Haven. which declin-
ed a point. Most other issues, active
and otherwise. were fractionally high
ed. while Crucib1e steel led the war
group with an advance of Il. United
States Steel opened with a sale of l.
500 shares at a slight gain over yester-
days close. Coppers and metal issues
as a whole seemed disposed to make
favorable response to remarkable
trade conditions, but Marines were rel
atively quiet. Trading became light
and tentative after the initial offerings.
prices showing more irregu1arity.
Noon-New Haven continued to de-
cline, falling 2 rs to. 60iss on active
dealings and unsett1ing prices else
where. The stocks heayiness was ac
ing March earnings. There were re-
cessions of one to three points in
Marines, Goodrich, Petro1eun1s and IN
dustrial Alcohol, common and prefer
red; New Y rk, Chicago & St Louis
second pfd: broke 6 sa ~to-5O. These
were partly counter-baIanced by the
strength of Crucib1es Cuban-Arnerican
Sugar and United States Smelling. the
latter making a new record at 10 IL.
Trading .dwindled later, the market
coming to a standstill at noon. Bonds
were irregular, Canadians displaying
siren 9Th, with further pressure against
AngIo-French f1ves.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
WHY LUMBER
COSTS HIGH

This is a. time offyear when timber
lands in most of the States areas dry
as a bone. They are a perfect tender
box, for the locomotive spark or the
campers fire.
When people build houses they COM
plain bitterly about the high cost of
wood material A principal cause of
this cost is the frequency of forest
fires. The same man who kicks most
strenuously- over the building contrac-
tors bill, may go on some fishing trip
and throw away match into a pile
of dead leaves.
The uncertainty of woodland prop
erty has led to the feeling that it is an
undesirable form of investment. It
costs so much to insure woodlands
that few owners try to cover it. Even
if the tract is located in some very
remote place, there is still risk
which owners hate to take. " They
therefore cut off their trees before
they are ripe. They slaughter the
young growth so that nothing is com
ing along for the future. If the land
can possibly be made available for any
other purpose, they SO utilize it. Thus
the timber area. is fast shrinking.
Public sentiment should : support
strict laws controlling these hazards.
The farmer who would like to see
young brush grow up into timber
should be given some protection for it.
In many states serious fires are now
largely prevented by watch towers,
from which fire scouts can detect a
blaze when it first starts and telephone
local fire wardens or rangers. The
secret of successful forest. fire fight
ing is just the same as for town fire
fighting. 1t is to get to the spot be
fore the fire has great Roadway
Every man who enters a woodland
tract on a fishing or hunting trip or
for any other purpose, should realize
that he is a fire, peril. He is a guest
in one of the nations storehouses of
wealth. His thoughtless, act may
consume millions worth Of property,
and contribute toward the expense of
living and doing business.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
Belgian Konao.

Belgian Kongo. founded thirty years
ago, is still in the early stage of devel-
opment. So far practically no manu-
featuring industries have yet been es-
tablished, and, aside from the impor-
tant copper mines in the Katanga dis
trict, the only large industrial enter
prises are the railways and river trans
portation services. It may be said that
all business activities in the colony are
devoted to- the collection of tropical
products = rubber, ivory, gum copaI,
palm oil and kernels, cacao, etc.-and
the railway and river services are In
reality only accessories to these activi-
ties, having been Established primarily
TO aid in the transportation of these
products to the seaports. The gather
ing of rubber in Kongo has never re-
covered its former activity, and in all
probability will never again be so rich
a source of income to the colony as it
was previous to 1912.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
work, including an investigation Of
the markets for boots and shoes.
THE FARMS OF
new ENGLAND
Inquiries From All Parts of
Country Received by New
Ravens Industrial
Bureau

Recently the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad Company
advertised in about a dozen agricultu-
raj publications which circulate
throughout the southern and western
states the free distribution of book
let on New England farming oppor-
tunities. The booklet was entitled
Golden Opportunities for Speciality
Farming in New England and con-
tanned articles by leading fagricultur-
lists in Massa chusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island.
Over five hundred applications have
already been received for the booklet
and the letters received by the Indus
trial Bureau plainly indicate a genuine
interest on the part of the writers.
They show that, New England, with it's
numerous Industrial markets at the
very doors of the producing sections,
and with its many social and educa-
uonal advantages, is beginning to ap-
peal to the western farmer as a good
place for farming purposes.
Twenty-one inquiries were received
from Illinois, IT from Ohio, 16 from
Wisconsin, 15 from New Jersey, 96
from New York, ~ from California, IL
from Canada, 8 from Minnesota, 8
from Iowa. Forty states We're repre-
number of the replies were from prac-
teal farmers, a class which is always
welcome in New England.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
Condition of wheat Crop

The Crop Reporting Board Of the
Bureau of Crop Estimates. United
States Department of Agriculture,
makes the following estimates from re-
ports of its correspondents and agents:
The average condition of Winter
Wheat on April 1 was 1873 per cent. of
a normal, against 1873 on April I, 1915.
95.6 on April 1,s1914, and s7.3, the
average condition for the past ten
years on April 1. There was a de-
crease in condition from December /,
1915, to April i, 1915, of "a points, as
compared with an average decline in
the past ten years of 3.5 points be-
tween. these dates Upon the assump-
ton Of average abandonment of acre
age and average influences on the
crop to harvest condition April 1 fore
casts a production, of about 495,O00,-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
The PRICE OF
GASOLINE

Few motorists have felt confident
that the government could keep down
the price of gasoline. Another long
chapter of litigation might be begun.
But whether this would cut this price
is another question The combine
might decide that the consumer ought
to be assessed zanother advance to pay
for the cost of the suit.
More hopeful is the report that au-
tonobi1e manufacturing interests are
moving to form an independent COM
pany, to produce gasoline on their own
account.
The manufacturers of motor cars
could hardly let the price go much
higher without serious loss to their
business. The costs of running an au-,
tomobi1e are already high. With a
30 cent price of gasoline, many intend
ing purchasers would conclude that
the walking Will be very good this
summer. Also the railroads and troll
ley cars get you to your destination
quite promptly. The manufacturers
must protect the public that use their
product, or see their business drop.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
PLAN FREIGHT -
SERVICE FROM
U. S. TO EAST
japanese Firm to Establish
New Shipping and Coal
ing Industry.

Toxic, April 11.-Another company
is planning to inaugurate a freight
service between the United States and
the Far East. 1t is known as Shos-
hovoko, a shipping and coa1ing firm of
Toxic and it is preparing to place four
ships on the Pacific, running monthly.
The promoters, who already send ships
on the Australian route, believe that
the freight rates for goods shipped
across the Pacific are high enough
to permit unsubsidiZed companies to
make a profit in competition with the
three big subsidized companies, the
Nippin Yusen >Kaisha, the Togo Kisen
Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha.
It is understood that the first steam
er, the Kageshima of z, 900 tons, will
leave Kobe for the United States via
Yokohama about the middle of June.
The other ships to be used in this
service will be the Esan Maru, 5000
tons; the Ataka Maru, 5000 tons and
the Dairen Maru, 5000 tons. On the
homeward voyages the vessels will
probably call at V1adivostok to unload
war supplies for Russia At present
the cargo awaiting shipment from ia
pan to America is far larger than the
space available.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
MARKET INVESTIGATIONS
IN SOUTH AMERICA

South American markets for tex
tiles, wearing apparel, and electrical
goods of all kinds are to be investiga-
ted by the Bureau of Foreign and Do
nestle Commerce, Department of
Commerce. The Bureau has appoint
ed Philip S. Smith, of New York, to
take up the work on Slectrica1-appli-
ance markets, and he will sail about
the middle of April. w. A. Tucker,
of Massachusetts,, will leave about the
same time for South America to stu
dy the markets for textiles and wear
ing apparel.
One of the principal imports into
South America is textiles, particularly
cotton goods, and the United States
has heretofore supplied a much small
er part of this commodity than many
of our European competitors. Mr..
Tucker will inquire into the reasons
why European goods have dominated
the market, and will collect samples
showing the class of textiles in de-
mand. Mr. Smith also will collect
samples of electrical appliances, to-
gether with catalogues and price lists,
H G. Brock, of the Bureaus staff, will
accompany Mr.. Tucker to do special
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
NOTICE.

Hearing de petition of Connecticut
Co. for permission to install under
ground duct in StratfOrd avenue.
At the meeting of the Common
Council of the City of Bridgeport,
held April 8, 1916. the following re-
solution was adopted. to wit:
Resolved, That the Clerk be and
hereby is directed to notify the per-
sons in interest to appear. before this
Common Council, at the Common
Council Room, City Hall. on the sew
enteenth day of April, 1916, at eight
o'clock in the evening, and be heard
in relation to the petition of the Con-
necticut Company for permission to
construct an underground duct line
in Stratford avenue, from the lower
or Stratford avenue bridge to Yellow
Mill BRIDGE and install and maintain
its wires therein with necessary man
holes and appurtenanees.
Attest:
]. ALEX. H. ROBINSON,
City Clerk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
NOTICE.

Hearings de construction of sewers in
Sundry streets.
At the meeting of the Common
Council of the City of Bridgeport,
held April 8, 1916, the following re-
solution was adopted, to wit:
Resolved, That the Clerk be and he
hereby is directed to notify the per
sons in interest to appear before this
Common Council. at the Common
Council Room, City Hall, on the sew
enteenth day of April, 1915. at
o'clock in the evening, and be heard
in relation to the construction OF sew
ers In the following streets, to wit:
Westfield avenue, from wayne
street, a distance of 800 feet easterly
Linen avenue, from Lexington ave
nue. to Oak street. 3
Arson street. from Fairview avenue
to Hunting street.
Capitol avenue, between Hillside
avenue and Brooklawn avenue.
Attest:
]. ALEX. H. ROBINSON,
City Clerk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
TAXES, 1915

Notice is hereby given to the tax
payers of the City OF Bridgeport that
the taxes on the grand list of 1915 are
now due and payable at the Tax Col
Iector's Office, Room 6, City Hall. The
undersigned will be at the Collector
Office, as above, on May 1, 1916, and
daily thereafter, Sunday excepted,
from a. m. to p. M, and Saturday s.
from a. m. to IL m, for the purpose
of collecting said taxes. After June
Is, as required by law, interest at the
rate of three-Quarters of one per cent:
will he added to all unpaid taxes and
the same on the first of each sue
ceeding month.
HOWARD F. SMITH,
J1e hue Collector. ?
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
49,
NOTICE.

Hearing de petition for permission
to cross Singer avenue with indus
trial track. II,
At the meeting of the Common
Council of the City of Bridgeport,
held April 8, 1916, the following re-
solution was adopted, to wit:
Resolved. That the Clerk be ana
hereby is directed to notify the per-
sons in intereste to appear before this
Common Council, at the Common
Council Room, City Hall, on the sew
enteenth day of April. 1916, at eight
o'clock in the evening and be heard
in relation to the petition of c. NJ.
Cole, for permission to construct a
sidetrack from the N Y, N H. &
H. r. r. Co. tracks across Singer
avenue at a point about 120 feet
north of Whiting street to property on
the westerly side Of Singer avenue.
Attest:
]. ALEX H. ROBINSON.
. City Clerk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
Pig Iron records Broken.

Consumers of pig iron were more
conservative in the placing of orders
for both steel making and foundry
GRADES last week In all sections con-
tracts placed were little more than
10000 tons, of which. about 10000
tons were placed in the territory east
of the Allegheny Mountains, mainly
for delivery over the balance OF 1915.
The. output of pig iron to-day 81 at
the unpr rate of 100000 600
tons annually, and stocks carried on
furnace banks are approximately L.
200, 900 tons.
1t is an interesting fact that the
United States Steel Corporation is get
ting a larger tonnage Of pig iron from
its III active furnaces to-day than
from a larger number in operation IN
other times of activity. The Carne-
gle Steel Company, has in use fifty
six of a total Of fifty-nine furnaces.
The large Independent steel companies
are also pushing blast furnaces to the
greatest possible limit
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
NOTICE.

SPECIAL, MEETING OF ELECTORS
WARNING is hereby given to the
electors of the City of Bridgeport,
that a special meeting, of the electors
of said city will be held on Saturday,
April 49, 1915, for the purpose of
voting on the following questions,
which shall be separately answered
YES, OF mo- to. witt
- Shall an issue of Bonds be authoriz-
ed to be known as School Bonds to
an amount not exceeding $500, 100000
under a resolution of the Common
Council adopted February 7. 1915?
Shall an issue of bonds .be auth
orized to be known as ''Sewer Bonds
to an amount not EXCEEDING $780,
10000 under a resolution of the Com
mon Council adopted February Z,
1916?
Shall an issue of bonds be auth
orized to be known as ''PaEvement
Bonds to an amount not exceeding
s5OO,OOo.Oo under a resolution; of the
Common Council adopted February q,
1915?
ShaIIa an issue of bonds be author
lied to be known, as Bridge Bonds
(Stratford Ave, East Washington
Ave, and Grand St, bridge approach
esq, to an amount not exceeding $780,
900 90 under a resolution of the Com
mon Council adopted February q,
1915?
shall an issue of bonds be authoriz-
Department Bonds'1 to an amount not
exceeding $125,OO0 under a reso-
luton of the Common Council adopt
ed February z, 1916?
Shall an issue of bonds be author1z-
ed to be known as ''Public Clinic
Bonds" to an amount not exceeding
100000 under a resolution of the
Common Council adopted February
7th, 1915?
Shall an issue of bonds be authoriz-
ed to be known as Park Bonds' to
an amount not exceeding $276sO0O.O 90
under resolution of the Common
Council adopted February Z. 1916?
Shall an issue of bonds be authoriz-
ed to be known as "Street Extension
Bonds to an amount not exceeding
$3.50, 10000 under a resolution of the
Common Council adopted February z,
1915? N
voting machines VIII be open from
6 O'Clock a. m. to o'clock p. M, for
the registration of the votes of the
electors of said city entitled to vote
places, to wit,
FIRST DISTRICT
"a Court Street.
SECOND DISTRICT
62 Kiefer Street.
THIRD DISTRICT
$40 tBostwick Ave. (Rakoczy Retll)
FOURTH DISTRICT /
1881 State Street.
FIFTH DISTRICT
GIL Norman Street.
SIXTH DISTRICT
1873 North Avenue.
SEVENTH DISTRICT
1878 Main Street.
EIGHTH DISTRICT
2o30 Main Street.
NINTH DISTRICT
Corner of East Main and Shelton
Streets.
TENTH DISTRICT
AZ Beach Street.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT I.
A16 East Main Street.
TWELFTH DISTRICT
1885 Seaview Ave, (First Precinct),
.es9 Central Ave. (Second Precinct)
Given under my hand this Sth day
of April, A. D., 1915.
CLIFFORD B. WILSON,
Mayor.
Us de
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-11
NOTICE.

Hearing de laying out of and estab-
Iishment of a grade on VinceIette
street.
At the meeting of the Common
Council of the City of Bridgeport,
held April 70, 1916. the following re-
solution was adopted, to wit:
Resolved, That the Clerk be and
he hereby is directed to notify the
persons in interest to appear before
this Common Council at the Com
mon Council Room, City Hall, on the
seventeenth day of April, 1916, at
eight O'Clock in the evening, and be
heard in relation to the layout of and
establishment of. a grade on Wheel
lette street, it's entire length.
Attest:
J. ALEX. H. ROBINSON,
CITY Clerk