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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26
LOST AND FOUND.

LOST AND FOUND.
BAR PIN LOST-Set in sapphires and
pearls between du Pont Building and
CLAYTON street. on Delaware avenue Re
ward If returned To room ISL. du Pont
Building.
BROOCH LOST-Large valued as a gift,
on Saturday night. Reward II returned
TO CPS West Sixth street.
COAT BELT BOST-Flaid. saturday
betec Four tn and Orange amt Nineteenth
and Franklin. Return to 33t Delaware
avenue.
SCARF LOST-SeaisLin. on Friday night at
the Hotel du Pont or In taxi going to
COG North Jackson street.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26
BUSINESS SERVICE
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY FOR MORTGAGES
~ sums ~ suit. kcai estate for safe
WILLIAM II ZONES. S23 ShIpley st
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26

trio light. S01 Shpicy street. Room
1SS2i for storage or shop. Garage 7I2 w
Ninth 81 Apply 500 Shipiey street.
orb story building. 3sI7s feet. and storaye
wharf inquire of Cold Spring Ice Il
Coal Go.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26
$3.50

441u
buys fully guaranteed ne~ player y sno.
bench, arf 80 rolls music years fire.
tuning. Easy terms n desired Sevshr
Piano Co, 10 Yves Ninth trset
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26

Ohio now has IA, 155 cars, marking an
increase of approximately 100000 cars
In the last year.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26
FOR RENT REAL ESTATE.

STORE, INCLUDING MEZzANINE
GALLERY, NOW OCCUPIED BY
THE UNDERWOOD TYPEWRIT-
ING co, IN THE FORD BUILD
ING. POSSESSION MARCH 25.
INQUIRE ROOM G12.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26
MUSICAL.
APART NENTS.

ApARTNfEST-Thre on second
npor. App.y 1921 West Thirteenth street.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26
REMOVALS.

MRS. ALICE w, HAYES has moved from
aIs King street TO 1912 Market street.
ID a A. phone 6oot.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26

RTAiENT-B3cheior room ana bath.
Immediate possession. goo Jefferson
strcet. Phone l554R Call before
2 =.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26

class in tho manufacture, care and
repair of starting, lighting and ignition
systems Of motor vehicles has been estab-
iished by the University Extension Divi-
non Of the University OF Wisconsin at its
branch in Milwaukee. for both employers
and employees Of garages and service
stations. Later the course will be present
ed in other Wisconsin cities.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26

Ii a popping noise occurs IN the car
bureter when the throttle is opened sud
denly and the spark advanced, then q
weak mixture is indicated. Open the gaso-
line adjustment slightly \ sluggish
engine which exhausts black smoke IS
being provided with too rich q mixture.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-26
NEWSPAPER REPORTER

An intelligent man. thoroughly depend
able and experienced, can secure perms nent
position in news department, Must furnish
references. &c. Apply by lettsr only 20 man
aging editor. Every Evening Office.
, 1918-09-12
MUST GIVE ROADS ATTENTION
Taxpayers viii Face Huge Road Bills
After War lie Over II This
IL Not Done.

Road maintenance must go on I'M
i~nterruptedly or the taxpayers Of the
country will have to pay an enormous
bill for the restoration of the high
ways after the war, says an editorial
in a recent Issue Of Good Roads,
Something like a quarter of a cell
fury ago, systematic. intelligent road
Improvement was commenced by a
few of the states in the northeastern
part of the counfrys Today there is a
highway department in practically ev-
cry state and in most of the states the
department is one of the major divi-
sions of the government.
During this era of road improve
ment the annual expenditure through
out the nation has grown from an In
, 1918-09-12

significant sum to a total well over q
quarter of a billion dollars.
To date probably no more than
12h per cent of the country's road
mileage has been surfaced. Consider
ed merely as a percentage, this
showing is not encouraging, but when
1t is remembered that this one-eighth
means an actual mileage of something
over 100000, the magnitude Of the
work accomplished is better appre-
ciated.
Another fact that must be taken In
to consideration is that a large ma
jority Of the traffic of the country Is
carried on n small proportion Of the
total mileage and the greater part of
the work of Improvement has been
done on these more important high
ways.
Some of the money spent for road
betterment has been wasted. Some
of 1t has been used for permanent
work. the amount involved represent
ing an investment that cannot be
lost. A very large proportion of the
total expenditure has been used for
the construction of pavements and II
faces Of varying durability and of diff
ferent needs as to maintenance. The
money they represent is an investment
also, and M that car Ind will be lost
II the upkeep of the roads is neglected.
The country's roads are worth bill
lions of dollars, even If nothing more
than their first cost is taken into &C
count. Their present value, in terms
of service rendered. is literally meal
culable, for without them every ac-
tivity would have to cease.
The successful prosecution of the
war is the chief business of the
American people today. But that
doesn't mean that every American
should be fighting or working In a
munitfon plant or on a farm. There
are countless other activities that are
contributory to the three obvious es-
s%entials, and every n of them In
turn Is absolutely dependent upon
transportation.
The nations highway system is the
foundation of its whole vast and com
plicated machinery of transportation.
The public highways are indispens-
able and they must be kept in con-
dition unless all the work we have
done Is TO avail us nothing and the
work yet before us is to be left un-
done. Money must be spent and labor
and materials must be used-now.
, 1918-09-12
~cHgERED HIM UP.

CallerI sent you a poem about three weeks
ago. What have yoL done with tit
E~ditor--rm holding 1t. Every little while lately
J get to thinking that we are not getting out as
good a paper as we ought, and then I take that
poem and see how much worse the sheet might
be, and that makes me cheerful again. Say,
how much1l you take for itf
, 1918-09-12
Properly nuIIt Road prso.

With the drag properly built and Its
use well understood. the maintenance
Of earth and gravel roads becomes a
simple and inexpensive matter. Care
should be taken to make the log so
light that one man. a lift It with
ease.
, 1918-09-12
Construction and Maintenance.

Road construction and maintenance
in the United States involve an annual
outlay of over $3OO.O0O.O0O, a sun
which, II capitalized at o per cent,
would represent an investment Of S6,-
10000. 600.
, 1918-09-12
FORCE OF HABIT.

where you goin'f Charlie" asked a. friend Of
an old horseman who had kept up with the pace
Of civilization and had bought an automobile.
"oh, I'm Just out to let the crIttur stretch her
legs a bit and take the kicks out of the gasoline"
, 1918-09-12
MlscELLANEoos MAnknTs.
Metal Prices.

New York.-Lead-S6.06 .
spelter-East st. Louis delivery.
Bar Silver-$1.01M Y.
Copper-t26.62h.
Tungsten conoentrates-Unit, $4,000.
Boulder, Coio.-Tungsten concent-
rates. 90 per cent. $4,000 22.50 per
unit; rs per oent, $12.00Q12.50; 10 per
cent, Se.40@12.2O.
, 1918-09-12
ID AND i
Dry Flfnt Hides.

ISL Pound
Fallen. ali weights, Nos.i and q fiai ssc
Bull and stag Nes: ! and . flat. ..Iso
splted hides. &c TO SC per Id. less.
HorrehideB ono-half TO fwo-fhIrds
the price OF green sailed.
Dry Fiint Peftn.
Wool pelts. butchers and MUIR
sa sslp' VOC ssS'' ps SIi.s...:::.H$..SS::
Butcher sheariingu, No 1......278S0o
No. 2 murratn nhearlinge. ...iSB11o
Bucks. saddles and pieces OF
p Green ssited iffd... rt.
Heavy cured. No. 1 Cover Is
lhs-) .....160f<s
, 1918-09-12
Buttsr. EEss. Potatoes ana Pou


Kansas City. Mo.-Butter-Creamery
47s; ssconds: stAc; packing. SIC.
Poultry-Hens, zfhc: ROSTERS. 1gu,
springs. 2bc: broilers, 2Bc.
, 1918-09-12

Chicaeo-H ogs-Butchers. s1s.4b0
20.30; light. 1885 q 90.3s; packing.
good and CHOICE. Sis:s6 @15.00
Cattle-Beef CATTLE $10.60Q16.e0;
butcher stock cows and heifers, $1,000
1850; Gamer and cutters, 800 q s.1B;
stocksrs and feeders, $8.00914.00; veal
calves. $17.7B@18.B0.
Bheep-Lambs. choice and prime,
$17.b0@18-20; medium and good. $1,000
qI7.b0; culls, $1z.1001S.60:, ewes,
choice and prime. S11.76@12.00: medf-
UNI and good. sio.2b @1l.7b; ouiis. $500
Butter. EEss. Potatoes and Poultry.
Chicago. Butter - Creamery, 4z0
Esss-Firsts. ss04onc: ordinary
firsts; sa@sshc; at mark. cases In
Potntoes-Minnssota, carly ohios,
bulk $z.2o92;2s; de sseked 5000
80; ;~sicconsln bulk. ss.oo@R.25; do
Pouitry-Fowis, ssno; springs. soc.
, 1918-09-12
c4RNER At NueX
M7HZEIHHXD

discharge. On the hos
pital ship and in the
reception hospital on
Ellis Island there will
b e special officers
whose duty it will be
to ascertain all the
available facts about
each mans personal
ability, social status,
and similar data on
which to base a judg-
ment as to the partic-
ular form of re-educa-
ton best adapted to
his needs.
Fourteen of the gen.
eral hospitals being
constructed by the war
department in as many
, 1918-09-12

New York.-Cotton-october. &c. o
1857; May. s5.s2; middlins. ss.20.
, 1918-09-12
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
F. o. b.. Denver. Carload Price.
Hay.
POULTRY.
q v oTATI N q

resse Poultry.
Ths following prices on live poultry
, 1918-09-12

Duiush.-1An.s.d, ss.s7.
, 1918-09-12
Reconstruction Work
Has Already Begun in a
Number of Large and
Well Equipped Hospitals

HE problem Of putting the Grip
pied or disabled soldier or
sailor back into self-support-
ing civil life is one with which
all the European belligerent ma
lions have been struggling for
nearly four years, with only
partial success in its solution.
Based upon the combined ex-
perience OF the allies and the
, 1918-09-12
butter.

ex. lat grade, Id.
Ireameries. I'd grade. 3D..
Process
stock
, 1918-09-12

EGGS. graded No. l net, F. o.
-. OonVor
Eggs. graded No. Z net. F. O..
q. Denver
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05
PROFIT IN SHEEP RAISING.

A trip over the country sur
rounding Ely suggests to one that
there should be thousands of head
Of sheep conserving the acres and
square miles Of pasturage going
to waste each year. With the
price of wool almost prohibitive,
a flock Of sheep to a farmer should
be the same as a First National
bank to him. And with mutton
at and around 80 cents per pound,
with raw wool quoted at 60 cents
per pound, a flock of sheep looks
like money in the bank. Besides
sheep are great land clearers and
this asset talks in favor of the
sheep. This is a natural hay
meadow, this northern Minnesota.
Hay grows like weeds, and hay
and pasturage are all that a flock
of sheep really needs. Just now the
industry is being fostered by Com
mercial clubs and the banks are
offering great inducements to take
the matter up. Wool will, like
iron ore, always be in fashion and
hence a good market always turks
around a flock of these wool pro-
ducers.-Ely Miner.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05

same interests, at the time, were
alleged to control every commits
sion house in Superior and to have
a working agreement with the
Minneapolis houses. -.--.aszz,--es.sa...,, 49,,
Those allegations were not de-
MED over year ago. No one can
believe that conditions are better
for either producer or ultimate
consumer today.
The consumer knows that he
pays an extremely high price. The
producer knows that he does not
receive a price in keeping with
what the consumer pays. The re-
tail merchant knows that he gets
only moderate profit and that he
has to buy what, where and at
such prices as the Food Trust die
tates.
When the soldiers of this re-
public get through tearing down
abuses in Germany, some of them
are not unlikely to return to Du-
luth and clean up Michigan street,
o. d q.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05

peace authorities has been taken.
Some believe that they are afraid
she will scratch out their eyes and
tear out their hair.
Until recently, a. "Twenty mule
Team Borax" advertising COM
pany has been demonstrating
here. Two respectable young
women in that company allege
that Madam LaCouta did her best
to induce them to 60 with her to
do redlight stunts, she assuring
them that they could make $100 a
night. They not only spurned the
offer and declare that they tried
to have the woman arrested, but
without success.
The best people here believe
that the proper solution of the
village problem is to send the
"Mustard Coat Lady, to Rainier
and there have Matt Heiberg roll
her in the same mud puddle in
which he rolled Maggie Murphy,
the "Irish Queen"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05
MUSTARD COAT
LADY PUZZLES
HIbbING TOWN
Madame LaCouta Calls People
Fighting Names" Without
Official Hindrance.

HIBBING, Oct. 4.-(Special to
the Rip-saw) The Richest Vii.
lage on Earth is at a loss how to
handle Madam LaCouta, alias
"The Mustard Coat Lady" who
has been stopping at the Hotel
Hibbing for the past six months
but who, recently, was ousted
from that hostelry by an anxious
management.
The 'FMustard Coat Lady" is
accompanied by her "daughter, y
who gives dancing lessons, partic-
ularly in Bull. After she teaches
the elite of community to glide
in the may dance, she pulls off a
contest and gives a loving cup to
the best dancer. But that's an
other story.
The "Mustard Coat Lady" has
this town terrified. She has q
tongue that would shame Bow
cry lumberjack in the palmy days.
She calls hotel clerks, the guests
or even the policemen "fghting
names.'
Although formal complaints
have been made, no action by the
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05

trouble was Resche's lack of tech
nical education, therefore his in
ability to make good as a brig
adler general. Still other reports
had it that his German brogue or
accent was so pronounced that the
West Pointers in the service could
lily understand him, hence their
recommendation for his discharge.
Any who doubt the accuracy of
congressman Miller's statements
as to Resche's genuine American
ism can pay him back next No
vember by voting for Carss, but
that IS another story.
After his discharge, Resche and
family visited in California briefly
and then came back to Duluth.
Frank Magic, who had been
";subbing" for Resche as proba-
ton officer, must have had a tip,
for he quit before Resche got back
and announced his candidacy for
the shrieyalty. Soon after Resche
got back, he DOTTED his pdttees
and shoulder straps, put on his
civilian clothes and resumed his
old job in the marble-lined court
house as probation officer in con-
nection with the juvenile court.
After Resche had resumed his
old position, many commoners be-
came very warm under the collar.
At one time there was a well de-
veloped movement on foot for a
thousand or more citizens to
march up to the marble-lined
courthouse and demand that the
, district judges secure a probation
officer not "Made in Germany"
Counsel to await time and accom-
panying developments kept that
plan from coming to a real focus.
There are other allegations cal
culated to show undue sympathy
with Germany by Resche in addi-
ton to any that may be. covered
by the sworn testimony now in
the hands of the authorities at
Washington: 1t also is believed
that efforts still are being made to
collect and put in definite shape
all such allegations.
1t can be added that, at first,
some Of the judges expressed fears
that the move against Resche was
merely political, for the purpose
of getting him out and some one
else in his place, Ed Stevens. for
example, but the men back Of the
evidence and its transmission to
Washington allege that they did
not know Stevens was an aspirant.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05
EDITOR IN TROUBLE.

We begin the publication Of the
Roccy Mountain Cyclone with
some phew diphiculties in the way.
The type phounder phrom whom
we bought our output phor the
printing ophice phailed to supply
us with any ephs or Gays, and it
will be phour or phive weeks be
phour we can get any.
We have ordered the missing
letters but will-have to get along
without them until they come. We
don't ique the look ov this variety
ov spelling any better than our,
readers, but mistaix will happen
in the best ov regulated pha,nilies,
and iph the his and c's and p's
hold out, we will cecp (sound the
C hardy the Cyclone whirling
aphter a phasion till the sorts ar
rive.
1t is no joque to US; it is seri-
Gus aphair.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05
HOKE MAY HIKE.

Members of the school board are
authority for the information that,
some time between now and the
holidays, Kremer J. Hoke, superin-
tendent of the Duluth public schools,
will apply for leave of absence for
the purpose of engaging in war
work in the East.
Supt. Hoke came to the Duluth
schools two years ago. He brought
a neat collection of sheepskins, nam
ing his degrees in Latin and set off
! by big seals. His administration has
not been as strong as Northern
schools require, although he has not
lacked for wealthy and influential
champions. He started work here
at $4,000 a year but, last February,
the dominant faction of the board
advanced him to $4,000 year.
1t is believed by people who are
clever in reading between the lines
that Supt. Hoke is automatically
preparing a place to fall and that,
once away from Duluth. he will find
ample excuse not to permanently
return.
Supt. Hoke came to Duluth from
Richmond, Va, where he was third
assistant superintendent, in charge
of night schools, at a salary of
800 a year.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05

Needing the "Back to the Soil''
demand Of the times, a young man
in Duluth brought some acres un-
der cultivation near Cedar Lake,
Mimi, less than 100 miles from
Duluth. This season, he produced
a superior crop Of vegetables, the
cucumbers- and sweet corn being
particularly fine in quality.
On Aug. 20, last, this earnest
young grower of vegetables con-
signed four dozen of extra fancy
''Davis Perfection cucumbers to
the Fitzsimmons-Palmer company,
down on notorious old Michigan
street. The cucumbers were care
fully selected and would have
taken prize at any exhibit.
Under date Of Aug. 81, the ship
per received statement as fol-
lows. viz:
/ Bus Cslx sold for-..$0.75-
l basket. 5000
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

Ladies wore DuStleS.
Operations were rare.
Nobody swatted the fly.
Nobody had seen a silo.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Nobody sprayed orchards.
Cream was 5 cents a pint.
Most young men had "livery
bills"
Cantaloupes were muskmelons.
You never heard of a "tin Liz
zie.'
Doctors wanted to see your
tongue.
Milk shake was favorite drink.
Nobody cared for the price of
gasoline.
Farmers came to town for their
mail.
The hired girl drew one-ffty a
week.
The butcher "threw in" a chunk
of liver.
Folks said pneumatic tires were
a joke.
Nobody "listened in' on tele-
phone.
There were no sane Fourths nor
electric meters.
Strawstacks were burned in
stead of baled.
Publishing a country newspaper
was not a business.
People thought English spar
rows were "birds.
Jules Verne was the only con-
vert to the submarine.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-10-05
Net proceeds .

The statement was accompanied
by a check in the sum Of 80 cents,
possibly the original and proven
bial $50 cents"
For four dozen as fine cucum-
bers as ever reached the Duluth
market, the shipper received 10
cents. The additional 20 cents
was for the basket, which cost him
25 cents.
The ensuing Saturday, the
grower and shipper of those Eek,
ira fancy" cucumbers priced that
vegetable at several Duluth gro
ceries. Scrub stock was retailing
at 5 cents a cucumber while fancy
stock brought 10 to Is cents a
cucumber, none Of it any better
and much of it not so good as the
shipment sent from Cedar Lake to
Messrs. Fitzsimmons-Palmer com
pany.
AT that time. too, the wholesale
quotations in the Duluth Evening
Herald were:
Choice cucumbers, 50 a basket
fancy cucumbers, 70 cents a
dozen; hot house cucumbers, $500
a dozen.
On Aug. %, the Cedar Lake
grower of choice vegetables
shipped that same Fitzsimmons
Palmer outfit 4S dozen ears of
sweet corn-576 very fine roasting
ears. Before he got returns from
the sweet corn, he received the
returns on the cucumbers. He at
once sent back the 30-cent check.
called their attention to retail and
wholesale prices for that week and
then, told them that if they were
going to pay for the corn on the
same basis as they did for the
cucumbers, they need not trouble
themselves about makingea remit
tance. .E.
The thrifty old firm took the
chap at his word and never sent a
check for the 576 choice roasting
ears, evidently needing the money
worse than the young ,agricultur,
ist. They did not even pay for
five jute sacks, worth 10 cents
each.
At that time, roasting ears were
selling at 10 to Is cents a dozen.
wholesale. The shipper should
have had anywhere from $3.50 to
s7.2O for his 576 roasting ears.
He received nothing and lost the
value Of his gunny sacks. besides.
At the time the cucumbers and
corn were consigned to the grand
old firm of Fitzsimmons-Pal Palmer
company, Crosby merchants, on
the Cuyuna iron range, were pay
Ing 60 cents dozen for cucum-