The Adair County news., 1917-04-25
From Ohio.
Hamilton, April 8, 1917.

| Editor News
Seeing in your PAPER of few weeks
ago my letter from here, will try and
send some more news.
Suppose you and your readers all
know that all the wars the United
States has been engaged in since the
Revolutionary war, have been declar-
ed in April. East Friday, the 9th of
April, was good Friday, and will long
be remembered by the people of the
United States, as on that. day Pres
ident Wilson signed the declaration Of
war against Germany. Let's hope
that this declaration of war and the
agitation of the SociallStic power in
the German Empire will be the means
of speedy ending of the Kaiser of
Germany. With him off the throne,
| think will bring speedy ending of
hostility. Ohio is now preparing to
send her best young men to war. All
the recruiting stations in Cincinnati
as well as Hamilton, is beSieged by
young, patriotic men eager to enlist
for the United States. So in the very
near future laborers here will be at
premium, as it is, there are not
enough men to supply the demand.
Farmers are begging for help at from
$50 to $40 per month with board ETC.,
included. Shops are short of men in
every department. l work in the
country days each week, and in the
city day-Friday. On that day l
make eight factorys in the afternoon,
namely: Herring Hall, Marvin Safe
Co., MoSler Safe Co., the largest safe
factory in the United States, Fred J.
Meyers Manufacturing Company,
maker of ornamental fences ETC.,
Hamilton Foundry & Machine Co.,
Simplex Machine & Tool Co., makers
of all kinds of small machine parts,
Hamilton Tool & Machine Co., Amer.
lean Foundry Co., Autographs Regis
ter Co., G. Benning Hofen & Son,
manufacturers of gasoline engines of
all sizes. They are all short of men in
ducements to young men. On the af-
ternoon make those factories, am
approached by the heads of the differ
ent departments asking me about
men. There will also start here in
about six weeks a big steel plant that
will use about 3 to 500 men on an 8
hour basis. Two of the largest facto-
ries of this kind in the world are To-
Gated and running day and night.
The Champion Coated Parer Co.,
works about 1000 $500 men and wom-
en-. The men work hour shifts
They use on an average Is car loads
Of coal every "a hours
The Niles Tool Works have on their
pay roll about 1000 men. They make
, all kinds of tools and machinery, and
are the largest in the United States.
We also have three oil companies do
ing business in Hamilton. The Indian
Refining Co, on B. Street West Ham
, iiton, head office New York The
Refiner's Oil Co., on Maple street,
and the Old Reliable Standard Oil
Company, on 9Th street. c. H. & d.,
R. R., & Hanover st. The last named
I company am working for as tank
wagon salesman. 1 also have three
more companies to fight in the coun-
try beside those already named: The
, White Star Company, located at
Eaton, Ohio, Moore's Oil Company, of
Cincinnati, and the Western Refining
Company, of indianapolis. The latter
company only sells through statesmen,
, and deliver their goods in steel bar
rels only. The oil business is very
{ good here and prices booming. Coal
r oil is 10 cents per gallon, gasoline %
cents, polarine S2.75 cents in gallons.
1 try to leave each morning at $50,
r more often I, then make from 20 to 35
miles per day. Sometimes 1 do not
get in till s or o'clock at night, but
if we get in at 2 p M, our days work
] is ended. We get straight time when
we lay off Sick-our pay goes on just
the same l have been here six
j months the 4th of April, and have not
O lost day since 1 started in with
them. 1 was out when the thermom-
q eter registered Is and 20 below zero,
Y and made my route just the same. /
did not miss single customer. Now
as summer is coming and so many au.
/, tomobiles in the country, guess it
will keep me busy to supply the trade.
Nineteen out of every twenty farmers
: own an automobile, some have trucks.
Y Lots of farm tractors in my territory
which consume something like 20 OF
> 25 gallons Of oil each day. l have one
Il customer at Seven mile, Ohio, who
uses two big trucks and hauls milk to
Hamilton in the morning, then in the
] afternoon stock to Cincinnati, He
f uses about 100 gallons of gasoline a
week. fill his tanks twice week.
K This county looks like the Blue