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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19
Carpenters

George Kramer arrived this week
from Durango and departed almost
Immediately for a job awaiting him at
Chapelle, Neb.
Charles Leonard has gone to Lima,
Colo, for an extended employment.
Otis Summerville, former member
of No. 55, died in Cheyenne and the
remains were brought to Denver, the
funeral being held Friday.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19

mems rates S27 week this year and
S28 during 1918. Journeymen's rates
$22 a week this year and s23 during
1913. This is a general increase of
50 week during the contract.
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May
12.-One-year agreement with the
Post; increased wages and working
conditions, apprentice regulations.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19
Plumbers

Ladies' Auxiliary of Local No. 3,
Plumbers and Gasftters, will give a
card party and dance Tuesday evening,
May %, in Lower Howe hall, 1548
California street. There will be
prizes and refreshments. Tickets of
admission, 25 cents each.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after-dinner smoke. Union made.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19
KEPT HER WORD.

$50 Edith married a farmer. And
she always said she would only marry
man of culture"
"Well, she did-a man of agricul-
ture."
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19

Send The Bulletin to distant friends.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19
Painters

Alfred Strangeman, aged 50 years,
a pioneer Denver decorator and mem
Der of Painters Union No. 10, died at
st. Joseph's hospital this week from
apoplexy. He was stricken while
working on a job at Estes park. De-
ceased is survived by a widow and
one daughter, Mrs. w. w. Martin. The
funeral took place from Hofmann's
Undertaking parlors and burial was at
Fairmount cemetery.
Beats them all. La Belle Sc cigar;
union made in Denver.
See Dairymen's Association ad on
Twin Page.
Let us tell you about job printing.
Tell 'em you saw it in The Bulletin.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19

Tell 'em you saw it in The Bulletin
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19

Beats them all. La Belle SC cigar;
union made in Denver.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19

Let US tell you about job printing.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-19

See Dairymen's Association ad on
Twin Page.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
HISTORY is REPEATED.

The words OF Governor Kirkwood
in 1862, urging the people of Iowa
to exercise economy, are as peril
nent today as they were the day
they we're written, says the author OF
a biography Of the old War Gov
erner, which will soon be published
by the State Historical Society Of
Iowa, "our business operations have
been interrupted" said the Governor,
"our markets have been closed, the
prices of the products of our country
have been lessened, we have been
compelled to wholly forego or mater
tally to curtail the use of some lux
uries which, by use, had become to
us comforts OF life and these things
must continue to be. We must give
up the idea OF money making to a
great extent until this war is over.
We must be content to devote to the
preservation OF the country portion
OF all the surplus We have been ac-
customed to lay up In years gone by"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST.

Germany has in service 200 submar-
ines, and never has had more than
$50. .
Germany is constructing submarines
at the rate of three or four a week.
The allies are-destroying German
submarines at the rate of one a week
There have been admissions that
the loss of merchant ships amounts to
500 900 tons a month.
The value of a ship is said to run
from $1,000 to $4,000 per ton. Taking
the lower, the financial loss is ships
alone would be s1,5OO,OOO,O0O month
Cargoes of the ships destroyed in
many instances are worth more than
the ships themselves.
Some officials estimate the damage
inflicted upon allied, American and
neutral tonnage available for allied US
es to run from $4,000, 0OO, 900 to $1,000
OOO, 900 a month.
With this enormous loss, 4 is up to
America to build ships as rapidly as
they can be turned out, and for some
genius to invent an effective submar-
inc destroyer.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02

dreaded the approach of the day. Moth
|ers offered prayers of thankfulness
when the morning of the fifth found
their children unframed. The day was
one of lawlessness. Tn sle was disre-
gard of the rights of property, as well
as of the rights of men TO liberty. life,
and the pursuit of happiness. Fire loss
es always mounted. The reckless use
of fireworks led to the reckless use Of
firearms. Men did not hesitate to shoot
pistols recklessly. And all of the reck-
lessness, disorder, and anarchy was
done in the name of patriotism.
"This experience teaches that it is
not difficult to chaneg a harmless
custom. Our people are possessed of a
common sense which saves them from
their folly once they are convinced.
We have other harmful customs. A
number could be cited, any one Of
which is responsible for more than 466
deaths and 1888 disabling illnesses
and injuries. One by one these GUS
toms will be changed"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
U S. DOOMS ALIEN SLACKERS
Dodging Subjects to Be
Deported.

Washington, Aug. 1.-Two resolu-
tons designed to bring within the Op-
eratiOns of the s6lectiye draft law all
aliens of nations allied with this gov
eminent in the common warfare upon
Germany, or else force them to return
to their native countries to do their
bit, were discussed in the United
States senate There was such a
unanimity of opinion in favor of both
measures that it is probable that both
will pass without opposition.
Senator McCumber's resolution re-
quests the president to obtain an agree
ment from European nations engaged
in war against the central powers,
which would declare their citizens and
subjects domiciled within the United
States subject to the selective draft.
Senator Lodge, speaking of the Nc
Cumber resolution, declared that the
allied nations were heartily in favor of
such action by the United States as
would bring their slackers in this cOun-
try into military service on the same
basis as citizens of the United States.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
EoLLoMlNe rAE ElAe.

The talk about the song Canning
the Kaiser" which puzzled our British
cousins, has brought out number OF
other things besides our slang that
follow the flag" George AIDE once
had the cocktail following the flag,
but those days were the old days. All
that is. changed now, Instead of the
cocktail, 1t is the ice cream cone, says
the Minneapolis Journal.
This American invention appeals
strongly to the French taste. 1t would
perhaps have been path for itself in
France without the flag, for the
French commissioners when here,
were loud in their praises of the in
yention. which was then unknown in
any section of Gaul. Ice cream they
knew well enough, but the idea that
il could be tanned and eaten out of the
hand in an edible receptacle was to
them a new idea. They fell for it with
enthusiasm.
THE Frenchman likes TO take his
gustatory pleasure at sidewalk table,
where he can watch the world go by,
But France has been speeded up since
the Prussian attempted to overrun it.
The Frenchman will find that he can
go about his work and still enjoy the
pleasure of the palate by use OF the
ice cream cone. 1t is ana American
idea and a good one. The cone Will
follow the flag"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
1914; $50 tons in 1915; and 4ss tons in
The cHlLpREN,s MITE.

Thousands of children have already
given of their pennies to help build
the Happy Tribes Million Penny War
Fund. In looking over the rapidly
lengthening list of Little Patriots who
are helping to feed the starving child
rem of Europe, it is wonderful to find
that the fund is really being built by
pennies.
The Happy Tribe records do not
show any large gifts. Instead they
represent the love and sympathy OF
thousands of little children who have
only pennies to give. Thus from day
to day is being made a reality the
vision of a great relief fund for war
orphans built from pennies in which
every child in America will be able to
take part.
Through the giving of pennies child
rem may learn their first lesson in
patriotism. This war becomes their
war and it comes home that they, too
may help Uncle Sam. BY giving ia
the Happy Tribes Million Penny War
Fund a child plays his part in war re-
lief work, part he will like to re-
member in years to come.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
THEN AND NOW.

ION July A." says DIR. Evans in the
Chicago Tribune, Il went over a good
deal of Chicago in order to observe
the celebration of the day. / heard no
firecrackers and saw no fireworks, ex
cept those arranged for by the park
boards and proprietors OF licensed
gardens. Everywhere quiet prevailed
The papers the next morning gave the
information that no one was killed by
persons celebrating and that the mum.
Der of injured was inconsequential. OF
the three who were injured two were
wounded by stray bullets.
"The Tribune OF July 5 reported S
deaths and 1876 injured by celebration
disasters as compared with 466 deaths
and 1888 injured due TO July 4 cele-
bration in 1908.
"In the olden time there was a ceas-
less din from early morning until long
after midnight The sick were in mis-
cry. Every physician looked forward
with apprehension to the effects Of the
Fourth on his patients. Every mother
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
ANTHRACITE In 1916.

Hard coal mined in 1916 amounted
to 7S,195,083 gross tons, valued at
1902 ,009, 561, a decrease in quantity of
1.6 per cent and an increase in value
of 9.4 per cent compared with 1915.
The shipments decreased IT per cent
from 6S,666,456 gross tons in 1915
to 67,501 1863 tons in 1916. The ship
ments of prepared coal of sizes above
pea in 1915 were 40,747,215 tons, a de-
crease of IL per cent; the shipments
of pea size were 7,520,S04 tons, de-
crease of S.4 per cent and the ship
ments of steam sizes smaller than pea
were 19,233,344 tons, decrease of but
.05 per cent compared with 1915. There
was an increase of nearly per cent
in the quantity of anthracite sold To-
cally and used by employees and de-
crease of "a per cent in the quantity
used for mine fuel. The compilation of
these statistics has just been complet-
ed by c. Z. Lesher, of the United
States Geological Survey, Department
of the Interior.
The effect of the extraordinary de-
mand for steam sizes of anthracite
that followed the industrial activity
in 1916 and the high price of bitumi-
nous coal is indicated in the figures
showing the output of washery product
and dredge coal. Although the freshly
mined coal in the anthracite region in
Guiding Sullivan County showed a de-
crease of 26 per cent in 1916 compared
with 1915 there was an increase of 16
per cent in the quantity of coal dredg-
ed from rivers.
The production in the Lehigh region
was 10,929,055 gross tons; in the
Schuylkill region, 23,e59.44S tons; in
the Wyoming region, 43,111,732 tons:
and in Sullivan County tBernice Bas-
in). 494,S4S tons.
There was a large decrease in the
number of men employed in the pro-
duction of anthracite in 1916, and the
output was maintained only through
an increase in the number of working
days. The number of men employed in
1914 was 1859; in 1915. 1869; and
in 1916, 159,S69. The average number
Of days worked was 245 in 1914. 23O in
1915. and 253 in 1916. The average out
put per man per day in 1914 was 1874
gross tons; in 1915. 1876 tons. and in
1916. 1.sS..The average output per EN-
ployee for the year was 45l tons in
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
EINANcE RULED RY WAR.

War finance rules the business
world today with a grip of steel says
Henry Clews the versatile New York
Banker. Secretary ~McAdoo has just
surprised the country by asking for
an additional $4,000, 100000 to carry
on the war, making when granted an
authorization OF $4,000, 100000
since our entry \, into the struggle.
Such colossal sums are difficult of
comprehension, but some idea may
be gained by the fact that it is more
than all the farms in the United
States can produce within a year; is
nearly four times the value of our
mineral products, and about $1,000
100000 in excess of the banner year
A $4,000, 100000 budget is possible
for the next twelve months to pro-
vide for necessary outlays. or course
the United States will not itself spend
all this huge sum. A large portion
will be loaned to our Allies, so that
actual costs of the war to the United
States. We have recently loaned
about $1,5O0,O0O,O 900 to Great Britain
and must shortly loan still larger
sums, the bulk of which will be spent
here for military purposes. These
latter loans will be an asset, so far
as we are concerned, and not liza
bility. Such a magnificent display
OF financial power should hearten our
Allies, and open the eyes of our ad-
versaries to the stubborn fact that
they are engaged in a war of self
destruction, blindly hurting them
selves against the impossible. Our
own administration has certainly
done wisely by acting with all pos
sible yigor and utilizing our immense
resources Of men, munitions and
money for the scales for the Allies
without stint. The latest advices from
the seat of war have been discourag-
ing, the setback and disaffection in
Russia being particularly unsettling.
Anarchy prevails for the time being.
Nevertheless, such reverses must be
expected. Russia is country imper-
fectly understood, and always furnish
ing surprises. In any event, it is pre-
mature to believe that Russia will
not ultimately pull herself together
and do her share in the world strug-
gle. Her making peace with Ger
many at this time seems incredible.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
A cRINNELL IDEA.

The mayor of Grinnell has a brand
new idea. He suggests that the city
take over the entire matter OF clear
ing the sidewalks of snow in the wintr.
He says that by employing labor saw
ing machinery the city could keep
the walks clear during the whole OF
an average winter for cost Of not
TO exceed 800 for a lot. More than
that he would have all the main
streets cleared early in the morning
and the by-streets later, so that early
morning pedestrians will not have 10
piod through the snow to get to
their work. 1t is pretty warm now to
be talking about snow but he wants
the council to pass the ordinance this
summer and get ready to try the plan
out next winter.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
The Lost is Found.

The Herald is indebted to Doctor j.
G. Barringer for the return of library
book. Red Men of Iowa. history OF
the aboriginal inhabitants of the state
The book in some way found place in
re Barringer library and the Doctor
a few days ago came across note in
the fly pages of the volume, Present
ed to the Herald Library by Miss c. c,
Lacey, September 81. 1888" And the
doctor made special effort to restore
the book to its rightful place on the
Herald shelves.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
SLACKERs FACE JAIL
GEN. cRowDER WARNS YOUTHS
WHO RUSHED TO GET MARRIED.
Consumption Act Provides Prison Sem
tence for Those Who Attempt to
Avoid Military Service.

Washington, Aug, 1.-The young
men who have thronged to marriage IL
cense bureaus since July 20 in hope
the government would exempt them
from army service have got married in
vain.
They may even have committed a
misdemeanOr and be liable TO prosecu-
ton. If this is so, their war brides.
as aiding them in the misdemeanor,
also will be liable to prosecution.
Provost Marshal Gen. E. H. Crow
der, aroused by the reports of throngs
of men of draft age invading the mar
rage license bureaus in the larger cit.
les, made this perfectly plain. He an
nounced:
'By section 6 of the CONSUMPTION act
any person who evades or aids another
to evade the requirements of this act
Is guilty of misdemeanor and local
boards are authorized to warn persons
who claim discharge on the ground of
marriage contracted since the date of
the act, that both parties are liable to
prosecution under this provision, II, In
fact, the marriage was contracted sole
ly with intent to evade' the perform
ance of military duty" ; -sE't -
IF necessary" said Secretary Ba-
ker, I'VE will ask the president to
amend the regulations to get at these
slackers. If that is not enough, we
may ask congress for further legisla-
ton on this subject" ,'
The provost marshal generals Of
flee instructed each local board to
continue calling up men until 1t had
10 per cent more to examine than orig
inally allotted. aant satPE 3
Cleveland o., Aug. 1.--Of the first
173 men examined here during the day
only 80 were accepted. One hundred
and nineteen were pronounced physi-
cally fit, but IL of them were aliens
and "a claimed exemption. One man
had already enlisted.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
AN ANclENr roorH.

In the early days Of paleontology 1t
was said that Cuvier, the great
French naturalist, could reconstruct
an extinct animal from the study OF
single fossil bone, and in broad
sense this was true, though the actual
skeleton when found they may have
differed in detail from the theoetical
restoration. To the geologist the
bone of a fossil animal may also indi-
cate an important episode in the his
tory of a region and suggest the
geologic age of the rocks found there,
A good example of the interesting
results that may follow the finding OF
fossil tooth is given in Professional
PAPER 10S-D of the United States Geo.
logical Survey, Department OF the In
terror, entitled "Wasatch fossils in So
called Fort Union beds OF the Powder
River basin, Wyoming by Carroll H.
Wegemann. AMost of the board area
in northeastern Wyoming that lies
between the Black Hills, the Bighorn
Mountains and the Laramie Mount
aims is underlain by Tertiary rocks
q
which contain the principal coal bets
of the region and have usually been
assigned to the Fort Union formation
The highest of these rocks are ex'
posed near the center of the BASIN
in Pumpkin Buttes, where Corypho-
don teeth were recently found in the
upper 1000 feet of beds that had pre-
viously been called Fort Union. But
.Coryphodon is a, large mammal that
is found only in the Wasatch forma'
ton. a later division of the Tertiary
system. On the evidence of the teeth
therefore, the conclusion is reached
that at least 1000 feet of rocks in the
Powder River basin are OF Wasatcn
age, and other evidence indicates that
an additional thickness of 1,4OO feet
of underlying beds may also be Of
Wasatch age.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
Idaho, Utah, wyoming, and Mo

Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, and Mon
tana possesses vast deposits of high
grade phosphate rock. Although the
phosphate areas are by no means com
pletely surveyed, the amount of phos'
phate in the known deposits, as esti-
mated by the United States Geological
Survey, Department of the Interior. is
nearly five and one-half billion tons.
An idea of the immensely of this ton
mage may be obtained by comparing
II with last years production in the
United States of 100000 tons.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02

child in America will be able to take
part.
Through the giving of pennies child
rem may learn their first lesson in pa
triotism. This war becomes their war
and comes home that they, too. may
help Uncle Sam. BY giving to the Hap
by Tribes Million Penny War Fund a
child plays his part in war relief work
part he will like to remember in
wears to come. n
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
EXPORT PRICES.

A comparison of the export prices
for May of this year with those for
May in 1914 reveals decrease in only
three of the articles classed as food
stuffs-green coffee, dried apples and
oranges. According to the Monthly
Summary published by the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of
the Department of Commerce, coffee
exports from this country in May, 1914
averaged in value 1899 pound, 16
cents in May, 1916 and Is l-3 cents in
May, 1917. For similar periods the ex-
port prices OF dried apples were 8
cents, cents, and 81 cents pound re-
spectively and of oranges $3.50, $2.12
and $500 per box.
Breadstuffs show large increases in
export prices. Corn exports in May
1914 averaged 76 % cents per bushel
against S2A cents in May, 1916, and
$1.25 in May 1917, an increase of So
per cent in the last year. Rice exported
in May, 1914, averaged 2-3 cents per
pound against rs cents in May, 1916,
and cents in May 1917. Wheat export
ed averaged 9S2 cents per bushel in
May, 1914, SIPS in May, 1916, and
$2.5S in May, 1917, an increase of $50
per cent compared with May 1914, and
100 per cent a year ago. Wheat flour
exported advanced from S4.69 per bar
rel in May 1914, to $5.7S in May, 1916,
and 1852 in May, 1917, an increase of
100 per cent compared with May 1914,
and sc per cent compared with May,
1916. -s
Eggs exported in May. 1914, aver
aged 1913 per dozen against II 1-3 cents
per dozen in May 1916 and 344 cents
in May 1917. Canned salmon exported
advanced from 8 cents per pound in
May 1914, to 81 cents in 1916, and 132
cents in May 1917 The humble peanut
showed a substantial gain, averaging
61 cents per pound for those exported
in May 1914, but declined to 81 cents
in May 1915 and advanced to 81 cents
in May, 1917, gain of &C per cent in
last year.
All meats show large increases in
average export pricec. Canned beef eX-
ported in May 1914, averaged 10 1-3
cents per pound against 203 cents in
May 1916, and q 1-3 cents in Nav 1917.
Fresh beef exports averaged II Is
cents per pound in May 1914, II cents
in May 1916, and IA 1-3 cents in May
1917. The fresh beef exported in May
1917 was valued at one cent per pound
less than the fresh beef imported for
the same month.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
TAKING OFF TRAINS.

The What Cheer Chronicle; natur.
ally envious of Sigourney-saysi in its
breezy way: g-L"g2s
"The railroads and government
are in conference as to taking of
more passenger trains and 1t is
said the Firefiy east and west
. over on the Washington ana
Knoxville line are to be cut off.
Getting it down pretty fine. 1t
simply means more autos"
The Cronicle may have intended
the above as joke, but it will be no
joke for Oskaloosa if the train is
taken off. And right here comes the
plan for which the Herald has long
Contended. SIS .s.g.g.-s
If the "Fire-fy' is taken off, why
not substitute for 1t one of the main
trains now being run from Des Moines
to Davenport, via Grinnell and Iowa
City. The train could be operated
just as cheaply and Just as quickly
through Pella, Oskaloosa, Sigourney
and Washington, and this line of the
road needs the train worse than the
main line does. ,r
Six trains each way are operated
over the main line and only two over
this division. If any change is to be
made, why not give this division one
of the big through trains and let the
main line get along with five through
trains each way every day.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
'rHE cHILpREN,s MITE.

Thousands OF children have already
given OF their pennies to help build
the Happy Tribes Million Penny War
Fund. In looking over the rapidly
frightening list of Little Patriots who
are helping TO feed the starving child
rem Of Europe. 1t is wonderful to find
that the fund Is really being built by
pennies.
The Happy Tribe records do not
show any large gifts. Instead they rep
resent the love and sympathy Of
thousands OF little children who have
only pennies TO give. Thus from day to
day Is being made reality the vision
Of q great relief fund for war orphans
built from pennies, in which every
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-02
September Trading Stopped.

Chicago, Aug. Trading in Sep
TENDER corn has been stopped for the
season, the board of trade directors
taking action on it yesterday after
noon. Every seller has until Ills D.
m. Aug. 2 to give notice of mis- inten-
ton of settling on the basis of $1.65,
which has been fixed as the true COM
mercial value of the contract grades
of corn on July 81, 1917, for delivery
in store, by a grade alone by a spe-
cial committee. In case no notice of
settlement is given, the seller is deem
ed to have elected to deliver the prop
erty. The previous order is modi-
fed so that in case of default pen.
atty must be paid slsars
The price of cash corn in the SAM
pie market yesterday was $231@2.33
for No. 2 yellow and mixed, or 69c
over the September settlement price.
September corn advanced to $1.64a
yesterday. where it closed, the high
est known. There was heavy buying
by number of commission houses
who were evidently covering shorts,
and there was gossip about something
pending which would affect the mar
ket, but no one seemed to have any
clear idea as to what was to happen.