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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02
Strayed Away or Stolen

3 ewes with crop off right ear,
swallow fosE in left, under nick in
same ear, P on left side, X on hip.
One eve crop off right ear, W on
left side and W on hip and hog
ring in left ear, five ewes with la
bel name, ~. W. E. Lockridge,
Poverty. Va" in ear. Reward
two dollars and a half a piece for
ewes. Address
J. W. E. Lockridge,
Monterey, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02
Private Sale of Town
Property At a Bargain

A nice dwelling and store house
with three rooms and one acre OF
ground more or less, on mcadam
road near Staunton, in the best
small town in Augusta County with
all modern improvements, near
churches. high school, mill. For
further particulars apply at this
office. At
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02
Notice

We take this means of thanking
our customers for all past favors
and patronage and we further an
nouDce that our store at Doe Hill
will continue under the firm name
of Jones and Jones, the share in
store formerly owned by John M.
Jones, deceased, having been be-
queathed by him to his two sons,
Henry and Tom Jones.
Jones & Jones
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02
Public Renting of
Grazing Lands

On Saturday, February 10, 1917,
I will rent at public auction for a
term of one year beginning March
|, 1917, the Charles Wade land on
Back Creek owned by Charles F.
Dever's children. This tract con-
tains over 400 acres, and furnishes
excellent grass.
Terms and conditions made
known on day of renting.
Edwin B. Jones, Guardian
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02

Crabbottom Circuit Sunday
February 4, 1917
Sunday School-10 a. m.
Preaching at Central-11 a. m.
Preaching at New Church-3 p.
m.
League-7 p. m.
Rev. F. A. Finney will preach
at Central on Sunday morning,
Everybody welcome.
R. Fl. Evans, P. G.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02
Hog Weighing 965
Pounds is Killed

Berkeley Springs, W. Va, Jan.
2S.-W. 5. Funkhouser, of fingers
Store, Morgan county. has just
killed West Virginia's champion
hog. 1t weighed 965 pounds. was
s feet long. girthed 8 2 feet, and
its fat yielded 40 gallons of lard. 1t
was three years old.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02
SUFFERED From BAGKAGHE :
RHEUMATISM. lRopsY.

Dear Mr.. Editor-I wish to tell you
of a recent experience had when suf-
fering from backache, weak back, rheu-
matism, dropsy, and congestion of the
kidneys. I tried new medicine called
uAnuric," which has recently been dis
covered by DR.. Pierce, of whose medi-
cines and Surgical Institution in Buffalo,
N. Y, you have no doubt heard for
years. This medicine acted upon me
in a wonderful manner. l never have
taken any medicine so helpful in such
quick time. I do wish anyone in need
Of such remedy would give it trial.
(Siened) G. H. HERR.
NOTE: Folks in town and adjoining
counties are delighted with the results
theyhave obtained by using" ANURlC,"
the newest discovery O. DR.. Pierce, who
is head of the INvALIDs' HUTEL and
SURGICAL INSTITUTE, in Buffalo, n. 7.
Those who started the dag with back
ache, stiff legs, arms and muscles, and
an aching head worn out before the
day began because they were in and out
of bed half dozen times at night are
approaching the perfect rest, comfort
and new strength they obtained from
DR.. Pierce's Anuric Tablets. To prove
that this is q certain URIC acid solvent
and conquers headache, kidney and
bladder diseases and rheumatism, if
you've never used the uAnuric," cut
this out and send ten cents to Doctor
Pierce for large sample package. This
will prove to you that "Anuric" is
thirty seven times more active than
ithia in eliminating uric acid-and the
most perfect kidney and bladder cor
rector. Ifyou are sufferer Is 60 to your
of vAnuric." You run no risk for DR..
Pierce's good name stands behind this
wonderful new discovery as it has for
the past half century for his uGolden
Medical Discovery" which makes the
blood pure, his uFavorite Prescription"
for weak women and "Pleasant Pellets"
for liver ills.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02
For Sale

Will sell privately one half inter
est in the Monterey Flour Mil
on reasonable terms. A good op-
portunity for the right man.
E. B. Whitelaw
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02
To The Public

have decided to resume my
work on South Mill St. You can
get any and all kinds of Black
smith work done at my shop. |
cannot promise to take lumber and
hauling for work as Others do, but
will give you good prices and
guarantee work.
Yours to serve,
E. K. SAMPLES, Blacksmith
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-02-02

Be sure and get your home paper
and the Thrice a. week World.
Both for S1.75 for a whole year
home and war news of the latest.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

The furnaces are enormous. They are
cylinders or boes made or fire brick, so
high that the tallest man could walk through
them without bending his head. They are
about twenty feet long, seven feet wide,
and large enough to hold 10000 pounds OF
material This material consists OF crushed
coke and sand, mixed with a little sawdust
and salt to aid in the reduction. 1t is put
into the furnace in such a way that cord
or rope OF graphite runs lengthwse through
the center OF the mass from one end to the
other This cord, which is merely Jumps
OF graphite laid together in little trench,
Is connected with two big carbon rods, one
at each end of the furnace, and the car
bring in the electricity.
The graphite cord carries the current
much like the flament i'll an incandescent
lamp. AS it comes in, the black cord turns
whte-hot and the electric heat increases un-
til 1t reaches the enormous temperature
which | have mentioned. The heat is so
great that it would turn steel. iron, granite
or marble to Vapor and make the most re
fractory materials burn like so much tallow.
The fire is so garing that il person should
look directly into furnace he would be
blinded. and the power consumed would be
insufficient to operate SlXteen-candle
power incandescent lamp for more than two
hundred years
1t is this terrible heat that turns the coke
and sand into crystals 1t does that with
i'll thirty-siN hours, at which time the steel
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

During my stay here | have gone through
some OF the great power plants which have
been constructed a short distance above
the falls. The water is taken from the
Niagara river in canals walled with stone
and is dropped down through penstocks or
mighty steel tubes SO large that if they
were laid upon the ground horse could
walk through them and his ears would lust
Craze the top Stood upright thev are as
tall as siXteen-story house, and the water
drops down this great height in such wav
that 1t pushes the turbines around turning
the mighty steel shafts which connect them
with the dynamos There are ten or more
OF these penstocks in each plant, with an
equal number of turbines below. and Of
dynamos high above them.
The dynamos are enormous. They look
like giant mushrooms of black steel, which
are turning SO fast that you cannot see them
move. They fly around at a speed Of
mile and three-quarters a minute. and each
generates electricity equal to more than
5000 horsepower. Each dynamo is about
thirty feet in circumference AS | looked
they made me think Of thousands of horses
galloping at a faster speed than has ever
been made upon the race track
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21
HOW NIAGARA FIGHTS FOR UNCLE SAM


right to 10000 cubic feet BY the Burton
law our Congress has restricted the Amer
lean use to less than lo,Ooo.feet Just now
all the factories are short Of power and
their work for the war is being cut down
Of our industrial establishments have been
getting their power from Canada, but this
has been cut off SINCE the war began, i'll or
troops, and there is now strong demand on
the part of the manufacturers at Niagara
Falls for more water.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21


| do not want to argue as to the advis-
ability of taking more water in such way
as to injure the beauty OF Niagara Falls
They are the greatest show upon earth and
they belong to us and the Canadians 1t
is well, however, to know what the show
costs us. The amount is equal to $4,000
horsepower. 1t equals coal mine OF 25,-
100000 tons every year, or more than q
100000 tons OF coal every month, wear in
and year out, to the end of time That is
what we are losing. If we had such a mine
to burn every year, we could have the most
gorgeous Conflagration on earth and we
might think it would pay us to keep it
ablaze in order to show our friends and our
visitors the magnificent sight | don't know.
AS 1t is now, only about 20 per cent@of the
waters of the falls are in use and some en-.
gineers say that 50 per cent could be taken
and not spoil the scenic effect of Niagara.
They claim that we could easily add | 600
600 additional horsepower to the amount
now being used. | am told there would be
demand for such power as soon as the
plants required to generate it could be
built
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

can be used for grinding any material
without wearing. 1t is employed in every
motor car plant, and it has to do with max
ing ball-bearings, transmission gears crank
shafts and everything connected with the
cheap and high-priced cars 1t is used ii
grinding the tools for the steel plants which
are making projectiles, and it ,smoothes the
shells which fit the guns to the thousandth
OF an inch. 1t is used in making all sorts of
agricultural implements which have to do
with our food supply, and with locomotives
and electrical machinery OF every kind 1t
will even grind manganese steel which no
steel tool can cut, and it will sharpen the
finest OF high-speed tools.
This wonderful product, like most OF the
Others created here, comes from some of the
cheapest and most common materials in
nature. 1t is formed of crushed coke and
common sand, melted into CRYSTALS by am
electric heat OF 1000 degrees Fahrenheit or
more than thirty-four times as hot as boiling
water During my stay here | have gone
through the plant which makes. it. 1t covers
twenty acres and it is now making large
quantities OF abrasive materials to be used
in connection with the war
The plant is guarded by soldiers, and
every employe has to have Photographic
pass before he can get at his job The of
fetal who took me in had to show his pho
tograph upon entering and we We're watched
as we went from building to building,
where are the mighty electric furnaces,
which are turning coke and sand into the
millions Of crystals or artificial diamonds. 70
be used as .grindstones and grinding pow
ders.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

1t IS in this way that the 100000 horse
power now in use is developed. There are
several on the Canadian side of the river.
All are connected with huge factories OF
one kind or another, and they supply the
cheap power necessary for the industries
contributing to our Army and Navy sup
Plies. The most Of the plants belong to the
electro-chemical and electro-metallurigc
industries. They are more os less scientific
IN their nature, and the men at the head
OF them are inventors along chemical and
electrical lines. They use the cheap cleo
tricity furnished here in making products
that could be created in no other way
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

Before l deSCrlDe the wal lllduSlIieS vi
Niagara | want to tell YOU something of
the mighty force that moves them. Ma
CARA Falls is the greatest water power on
the face Of the globe | have seen the Falls
of the Zambesi in Africa and have Travelled
up the Parana below the Falls of lguazu
in South America. Neither compares with
Niagara i'll the force which it eXerts from
one years end to the other. The Falls OF
the Zambesi are twice as high as those OF
Niagara They are twice as broad and
when at their flood they drop with thun-
der equal to that of one of the great battles
in France into a pit four hundred feet deep,
sending up pillars of mist which are visible
for forty miles around It has been cst-
mated that those falls at their flood c Scrt
a horsepower of tens Of millions, but the
most of this disappears when the Zambcsi
is low.
On the other hand, the Niagara river has
an almost even flow the year round. Only
thirty-four miles long and less than mile
wide for the greater part of its course, it
is the downspout of all the Great Lakes ex-
cepting Ontario, 1t begins at Lake Erie
and flows from there for distance Of about
twenty-five miles to the foot of the falls,
dropping the water from height about two
fifths of that of the Washington Monument
A part of this drop is in the rapids above
the falls but more than 100 feet IF If is in
the falls themselves. The force is SO great
that some engineers have estimated it as
equal to that of 100000 horses all pulling
at once.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

framework outside the furnace is raised bv
machinery and the bricks are taken away
showing chunks and masses OF Jewels in the
shape OF crystals OF all the colors OF the rain
bow. these masses are then taken from
the furnace and crushed by big iron wheels
INTO the millions of tiny individual crys-
tails used for grinding and the paking OF
abraslves OF various kind:
But | cannot describe the MANY wonders
OF these Niagara industries 1t would take
more than the space of this letter to tell YOU
the story OF carborundum alone. The most
interesting thing concerning it is how cleo
trlclty Is used to produce it, for it is some
what after the same methods that the enor-
nous current furnished here changes other
common things into materials of the great
est value.
This is the case with ferro-silicon, which
is used to absorb the oxygen from molten
steel, thus making possible sound castings
and ingots by eliminating blow holes We
are now making something like twenty
eight million tons OF steel year and 70
per cent of this is treated with ferro-slicon.
An enormous amount of it is now used N
all the steel plants that are working for the
war.
Silicon is also employed for generating
gas for our military balloons All of the
armies in Europe are equipped with the APP
paratus to generate it, and that in connec-
ton with their observation balloons
Speaking of high-speed steel, this is
product that depends almost entirely upon
Niagara power. 1t is owing to this steel,
made with alloys produced here. that we
have the perfection of the modern cutting
tool. In the old days of carbon steel it
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

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industrial assets of the nation, and its prod
ucts affect every soldier that goes to the
field and every sailor that mans our yes
sells OF war. 1t has to do with every gun
that is fired and every projectle that scat
tiers its deadly missiles over the trenches.
1t aids in making the armor plate for our
battleships and in creating the fine ma-
chinery OF the destroyers which chase the
submarine sneaking along under the sea.
1t has to do with the fighting airplaneS
that fly the skies and With the gas which
fills the drigible balloons that patrol the
waters along our coasts. 1t enters into
every workshop which is producing mate
rial to be sent across the ocean and, | might
say, into almost everything that has to do
with making us equal to our part in this,
the greatest struggle OF history.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

was necessary to have cool cutting edge,
and the best a man could get was cut Of
fifteen feet to the minute. With the high
speed tools we can now take off chips Of
steel an inch and half wide and half an
inch thick at the rate Of forty or fifty feet
minute, and that notwithstanding the tool
is red hot. Without high-speed steel and
artificial abrasives our machine shops would
be cut to three-fourths or four-fifths of their
present product. An automobile plant
which now produces 500 cars per day could
not turn out more than 100 cars with the
SANG plant and the same force.
Among the alloys made here are ferro-
tungsten. Ferro-chronlum is the hardening
agent used in making arnor plate With
out it there would be no tough skin to pro-
tect our battleshps, and no armor-piercinp
pro)ectlles to serve our coast defenses The
battleshIp Pennsylvania has 10000 tons Of
armor, and to make this was required 800
tons of ferro-chromium The same mate
rial enters into the manufacture of automo-
bile steel and dies. More than half of all
the terro-chromium that is used in the Unit
ed States comes from the electric furnaces
at Niagara Falls
Every one knows about aluminium n
goes INTO automobiles and aeroplanes. and
is used for cooking utensils. acid containers
and electrical transmission. There are three
great plants here that make that product
and 1t IS turned out by the millions Of
pounds by means of this electric power.
And then take acetylene. The calcium
carbne made here by electricity is now saw
ing millions OF gallons of crude oil. and
IN the shape OF acetylene gas is giving light
TO thousands OF homes and public buildings
More than 100000 miners now use acetv-
lene lamps, and the same light is used for
guarding the coast line in innumerable ben
con lights and buoys
Acetyene in connection with oxygen
produces a flame which is about the hot-
test known to chemistry. 1t is so power
tul that it will cut the hardest armor plate.
1t IS used in repairing the guns and other
machinery on the battlefields, and also in
dong similar work on our war vessels. Not
long ago fourteen-inch propeller in !,
French warship broke in two. and was
welded perfectly within thirty-six hours by
acetylene flames. A few years ago it
would have been sent to the dry-dock. and
1t would have been six weeks before it was
fixed.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

despair of making you see what this
mighty force is. Where the waters pour
in from Lake Erie they rush on at the
rate of $4,000 cubic feet a second, and at
the falls it is estimated that block of water
a mile square and mile high drops down
every week. The amount is millions OF tons
every hour, and so much every minute that
If it were put upon wagons one million
horses could not haul the load. The force
has been variously estimated at from three
million to seven million horsepower. Take
the lowest estimate and see what it means
in the coal we use to produce it. Every
horsepower which comes from water is
said to annually save at least ten tons OF
coal If this is so, the force of Niagara is
equal to thirty million tons of coal every
year or about one-fifteenth of all the coal
i've are now using for fuel and power.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

Take first the artificial abrasive or grind
ing materials which are used in all indus
tries for making, fine fittings. sharpening
tools and cutting the hardest and softest 81
steel. There is factory here which makes
carborundun, turning out million pounds
or SO every month. Carborundum was in
vented twenty-eight years ago, and at first
IT sold for S432 a pound. Iii now produced
so cheaply' through Niagara Falls that II
can be used in every factory and by the most
common workman. This material takes the
place OF srndstones, emery and diamond
dust. In fact it might be called artificial
OF crystals, with edges SO sharp that they
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

VI that vast force we are now consuming
not more than one-sixth. The amount is
100000 horsepower, OF which more than
three-fifths are developed on the Canadian
side OF the falls. According to our ire atv,
we have the right to use only twenty thou
sand cubic feet of the water that goes over.
the falls every second and Canada has the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21

Our military boards have stated that wa
shall need 10000 tons of nitrates per ve--
TO satisfy the demands of the war. Nitrates
are necessity in the making of all high ex-
plosives, and they are also the most valu-
able of fertilizers. BY means of electricity
they are making ntrates from the air at
Niagara. The plant has been located in
Canada because it would not get power to
operate It's electric furnaces on this side of
the falls. 1t is | think, the only plant this
SIDE OF Norway which is making nitrate that
way. am not sure as to what the Ger
mans are doing.
And then there is artificial graphite,
which is made here in electric furnaces bv
the millions OF pounds. This was invented
by DIR. Edward c. Acheson, the same man
who discovered carborindum. 1t is electro
cal and it uses the most common materials
The product supplies the lubricants which
are greasng the wheels of our motor cars
IN France and OF the other great power ma
chimes used there. This graphite is also
employed in electric smelling and refining
1t aids in producing high-grade steels, alloy
steels and other alleged metals of various
kinds.
! might also speak OF the new chemi-
Gals which are turned out at Niagara These
come from the electric processes and they
have made this the center Of the electro
chemical industry of the world Among
other things, they make chlorine, which is
used for bleaching our newspapers, and
which keeps our shirts and sheets from turn
ing yellow after washing. This chemical is
especially important just now from the
wonderful success it has had in the treat
ment of typhoid, and in the publication OF
our water supplies. 1t is said that small
capsule OF chlorine emptied into bucket OF
the vilest water found in the trenches will
kill all the germs and make it so that it can
be drunk without danger
FRANK G.. CARPENTER
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-21
NIAGARA FALLS.

~ HAVE, come here to tell
I'm YOU how Niagara Fall is
M fighting for us in our g eat
9W war in Europe. 1t is on OF
"a the most important of the
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-09-22

The increasing demand for wire
less operators has nee essitated the
training Of more young men in
this branch of the service. To
this end provision has been made
to enroll young men between the
ages of seventeen and twenty-five
years in the Naval Reserve Force
as Landsman for Electrician Third
Glass Radio-student in wireless
telegraphy.
This rating carries pay of
$3.50 per month, together with
subsistence and liberal supply
Of clothing. In other words, the
Navy Department. agrees to pay
young men the salary indicated.
together with their board and
clothing. who are willing to take
advantage of this opportunity to
learn a trade and at the same
time render valuable service to
their country.
Under the present arrange
ment, those enrolled for this train
ing are taught at the Naval Sta
ton in New Orleans until such
time as they are able to receive
and send as many as ten words
per minute, when they are sent
to Harvard University where
their course is completed.
To be eligible for enrolment in
this Radio Class, one must have
had at least the equivalent Of two
years high schoofstrainilg. No
previous experience in telegraphy,
however is absolutely essential.
Young men between the ages
stipulated above desiring to en-
roll in the Naval Reserve for this
training. or secure further infos-
nation in regard to the service,
will call on or communicate with
Lieutenant R. S. Marley, Enrol
ling Officer. No. 215 Godchaux
Building, New Orleans, La.