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New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
British Ban Gas as
Gasolene Substitute
Only Pleasure Cars With Special
Apparatus Excepted Under
Rule

Ihe use of gas as a substitute for
gasolene fuel for motor cars driven
for pleasure purposes has been put
under the ban in England. For time
the shortage of gasolenc in London
and the government prohibition on
the use of oil fuel for pleasure cars
compelled owners to turn to gas. This,
according to Harry A. Mcbride, the
American Consul General at London,
bought about the appcar..,ce of many
closed motor cars carrying on their
roofs large balloon SNAPPED gas bags.
NOW, however, new order by the
Board of Trade, consolidating and
amending the present order restrict
ing the use of gasOlenc, and establish
ing control over the use of gas for
driving motor vehicles, will have the
effect of limiting the uses to which
even the gas substitute may be put
In order to prevent the undue cx-
penditure Of labor and material in fix
ing gas apparatus to cars used for
private or pleasure purposes, it has
neen decided to subject the use of
gas in motor vehicles to the same
restrictions as gasolenc. No form of
gas may be used for driving motor
vehicles without permit granted by
the petrol control department of the
Board of Trade. If the motor vehicle
was fitted with gas apparatus prior to
January 8, 1918, or subsequent to that
date has been fitted with apparatus
ordered prior to December 2l, 1917. a
gas permit will be issued on applica.
tion, subject to certain conditions. IL
however, motor vehicle is not nj
present so fitted, or if the order for tho
gas apparatus has been given since the
intention to restrict the use of gas was
announced, the application will be CON.
sidered on its merits and a gas nermi,
VIII be issued only in those cases
where petrol license would oth,s.
wise be granted. A motor spirit license
ana gas permit will not be granted
for the same car.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Typewriter Business Grows

Frank NJ Kondoff, president Of the
Remington Typewriter Company, in
his annual report to stockholders
issued yesterday, said that the foreign
business suffered a marked decline
last year owing to import embargoes,
tonnage scarcity, and other difficulties
due to war conditions. Expansion in
the domestic trade, however, more
than Offset the decrease abroad, with
the result that the total volume Of
business for 1917 was greater than
for any previous year
Net earnings amounted to S2,256, 1874,
compared with $2,ol .945 in 1916: The
years surplus available for dividends
was 81, 1,677,134, an increase of $261 ,675.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Bonds
Anaconda Company
To Pipe Great Falls
Two New Corporations To Be
Formed for Develop
nent Work
Especial Coyrespondence

BUTTE, Mont, March 2O.-Suffic
volume of gas has been developed by
the Anaconda Copper Mining Company
in the Sweet Grass Hills, seventy miles
north Of Great Falls, Mont, for the
piping Of that city. This was learned
from interests in Butte affiliated with
the Montana Canadian Oil Company,
whose territory the Anaconda is devcl
oping with three rigs, with the ulti-
mate object in view Of piping Great
Falls, Helena, Butte and Anaconda and
the smelling plants of the Anaconda
company at Great Falls and Anaconda.
Under it's contract with the Montana
Canadian company the Anaconda agrees
to pipe the city of Great Falls when
flow of gas in excess of 100000 cubic
feet is obtained, and when the develop
ment has assured flow of 50,000,000
cubic feet or more the piping of the
three other cities is to proceed.
The holdings of the Montana
Canadian Oil Company embrace ap-
proximately 100, 900 acres, and the
ANACONDA company has aS1ecu " "a
pend S25O,O0O in development Of the
field. However, the latter will spend
approximately S9,00O,O00 before it
comes into possession of the gas fields
Of the Montana Canadian, this being
the estimated cost of piping and de-
velopment. An estimated cost of pip
ing to Great Falls, Helena, Butte and
Anaconda, made before the war, was
S750O,OOO. The greatest distance en-
braced in this piping system would be
1876 miles.
The Anaconda company had agreed
to organize two corporations, one a
development company and the other
pipe line concern, provided sutfl-
cient volume of gas is developed for
the supply of the four cities. The
two companies would be Incorporated
for total of 10000 900, of which the
stockh oldcrs Of the Montana-C Canadian
would receive 10 per cent OF each
There are now 250,O0O shares in the
treasury of the Montana Canadian
which would mean bonus of thirty
three shares each one hundred shares
Of the stock. A material economy in
its smelter operation would be effected
by the Anaconda company in the sub
stitution Of gas for coal and coke, as
the smelling establishments in Great
Falls and Anaconda consume about sc
per cent of the fuel used in those two
: cities.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Crude Oil Goes Higher

Following the lead of the Sinclair
Oil and Gas Company, the Prairie Oil
and Gas Company and the Texas Com
pany both advanced their prices yes
terday on Kansas and Oklahoma crude
oil 25 cents barrel to 1925. This is
the highest price on record for this
grade of petroleum. Current quota
tions for the other grades of crude are
with hardly an exception the highest
in the history Of the industry. Com
pared with prices existing in 1915 be-
fore the big rise began the present
quotations are striking. Pennsylvania
crude is now 81 barrel, compared
with sl:35 in 1915; Kansas Oklahoma
1915; Indiana, $2.0s, against 70 cents;
Cabell, SPIT, against 81 cents; Corn
ing, Ohio, $2.85, against 83 cents; Hi
nois, 1922, against S4 cents, and Cor.
sicana, Texas, light crude, 50, against
Az cents
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
May Combine British n...s'-,r.,I -
Bank With Bank of Monuv a,'.'

MONTREAL, March svhA sv,rth Ausfs1
of the Bank of British S~ WAS indissEs
by the Bank of Montreal ;ssued ~
as pending in a statement IN
to-day. .u.. ;r.crests q /, Il
GENERALIZATION Of the nas,T;,u,inats Y I.
smomaious smo ,Is,s'ii position W under dss,asrIss
Rank ss british Nortn Apr;t;st s
ates in Canada under . p Y dils
M ter and M with it's board 9 81
meeting in London.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Foreign
london Market Broaden,

London Market Broadcns. - LON
DON. March ia cheerful tone was
maintained on the Stock Exchange TO-
day, and despite last weeks sales of
f55,000,000 war bonds there was a
good demand for most gilt-edged &C.
curitics. A revival of trading in rub
bers and broadening business in min
ing shares, especially tins, were the
leading features in the other sections
Brazilian and Spanish bonds were
helped by the exchange positions.
Money was in increased demand and
discount rates were steady.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21

Relevant Comment
Sumatra Shares Weaken

Continued weakness in the shares Of
the American Suniatra Tobacco Com
pany yesterday attracted attention to
report that a heavy short interest in
the stock had recently made private
settlement with important stockholding
interests. The report also suggested
that the alleged pool which was said to
have been largely instrumental in
running the price up above 95 was now
irving to realize on it's holdings. The
stock closed yesterday at 90a, off IA
points
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Elections

James A. Fayne has ne:,1;aras nee,' ms Stss
director of Transue q ".d; Wiling Jos
Forging Corporation succe''
w. Prentiss, resigned. =, ,rJ
d. S. Bushell has been e'ei inc ca
dent Of the Indiana Pipe ,ls,sd L'asd ve
pany: A. {. Beeson was sssnsral s ms't.
president; r. A. Miller gssnrer, y
ger; w. f. Livingston, s .erv D. }
George Cheseboro. secfs'sG Z Beesss
Collett, d. S. Bushell, =, e e Shise
Raw A. Miller, and Walter y
were elected directors. n cot
Herbert +. Black. Will'shh have ~,
and Powell Stackhousec ecombris r So
elected directors OF the o'
COmpany.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Yesterday, Year ago,
per cent. per cent.
M m on

Commercial Paper.--This market re-
mains in quiet state. Prime paper
Of four to six months maturity is being
discounted at 6 per cent. with an oc-
casional transaction at SIX per cent
for shorter date paper. Out town
institutions continue to furnish the
bulk Of the demand
Bank Acceptances.-A slightly better
demand for acccptances was noted in
the open market yesterday. Rates were
a shade firmer.
Discount Ratcs.-Official rates of dis
count for each of the twelve Federal
districts are as follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Dollar in Foreign Exchange

In quiet market Spanish exchange
displayed pronounced strength yester-
day, pesetas advancing to $500 cents
for cables and 25.t0 for checks, equal
ling the high record touched a week
ago. Rates on Paris hardened on buy
ing Of francs for United States govern
mcnt account Sterling exchange was
firm.
Closing rates yesterday, compared
with a week ago, follow:
,tQuotcd dollars to the pound.)
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Money and Credit

Dealings in call money we're un-
usually light yesterday, the total turn
over at the Stock Exchange approx
mating sS,oo0,oOo. With the slackenlng
in demand the ruling rate eased Oil
to 4a4 per cent, compared with 512 per
cent on Tuesday. Some call money was
placed on per cent basis.
In the market for fixed date funds
the situation remained unchanged,
houses in need of time money continu-
ing to bid per cent, with offerings ex-
ceedingly scant and insufficient to meet
the demands SO far the money pool
has not loaned any money on time
under the new arrangement, although
it is believed that before the third
Liberty loan campaign is started sub
stantial supply of fixed date funds will
be made available.
Ruling rates for money yesterday,
compared with a year ago, were as fol-
lows:
Yesterday, Year ago,
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Current

The above rates express the cost of
foreign money in terms of the Ameri-
can dollar. You buy an English pound
sterling at, say. S4.75A. The intrinsic
parity is .S4.S65s per pound. Thus you
say either that pounds are at discount
or that dollars are at premium, which
is owing to the fact that in England
the demand for dollars with WAle'i to
settle accounts in this country is greater
than the demand in this country for
pounds with which to settle accounts in
England.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Curbs Meat PrOfiteering

Canada has taken steps to curb
profteering on the part of the meat
packing concerns in the Dominion.
Regulations for licensing abattoir and
meat packing companies whose annual
sales exceed $750000 and for limita
tion of their profits have been drawn
up in an order-in-council just passed
by the Canadian government. Licensed
companies are required to so fix their
selling prices that their profits will
not exceed 2 per cent of their gross
sales in any one year. If a company
makes a profit in excess of 7 per cent
upon the capital actually invested in
it's business, it may retain only one
half of such excess up to Is per cent,
while in excess of Is per cent it may
not retain any profits. In no cases,
however, are the profits of company
to exceed 2 per cent on it's gross sales;
that is to say, no packing concern will
be permitted to earn profits in excess
of II per cent on its invested capital
or 2 per cent on it's gross sales. which
ever is the lesser amount. All add
tional profits will be taken by the gov
ernment. Furthermore, meat packers
will not be allowed to charge up taxes
paid under the business profits war tax
act or the war income tax act, to ex-
penscs, or to deduct them from profits
Instead, such Federal taxes will be
levied "only upon the profit properly
retained" by such companies under the
order in council.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Silver at a Premium

Bar silver is selling in the local
market at premium of about 4 cents
over the equivalent Of the current
London quotation, which is 1914 cents
an ounce. Bullion dealers said yester-
day that considerable business is
being done at 92 cents an ounce:
China is buying on the average of
about 100000 ounces week and
would take more if there were sufficient
tonnage available to transport the
metal to the Far East. Great Britain
is also a heavy buyer in this market
The silver trade generally is waiting
for Congress to put through the silver
legislation framed by the Federal
financial authorities.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Sub-Treasury.-The banks lost S416,-
700 to the Sub Treasury yesterday.

Silver.-Bars in London we're quoted
43a4 d, up I'D; New York, SSl4c, an in
crease of 1c; Mexican dollars, 713sc;
an increase of sc.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21

Below is given the current exchange
value Of foreign money in dollars and
cents, together with tne intrinsic gold
parity, as calculated. by the United
States Nd int:
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-26
Sugar Prices.

We wish to call the attention
of the merchants of the Coun-
ty to the fact that they are
limited to one cent per pound
profit over the delivered cost to
them of all sugar. All sugar on
hands that was purchased at the
old price merchants must sell,
at the old retail price.
All sugar sales for household
purposes are now made on a ba-
sis of e-halfpound per person
per week. For example,: A fam
lily of three is allowed to pur-
chase one and one-half pounds OF
sugar each week, by signing up
the sugar sales record of the
merchant. The two and five
pound rules have been discon-
tinued.
Merchants are expected to look
after the legitimate demands for
sugar for canning and preserving
and apple-butter boiling, and
where you are having difficulty
to furnish the necessary sugar
for these purposes, let me know
and | will help you out. Mer
chants should be very sure thai
sugar that is now being sold for
canning and applebutter is actu,
ally needed for that purpose.
You have a right to ask any
questions you may think neces
sary as to what is being done
with the sugar, and where there
is any doubt about the proper
use of it, do not make the sale.
JOHN r. JACKSON,
County Food Administrators.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-26
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES
Hundreds Of People ia PetfOgrad Fat
10 Death Without Trial in
Single Week.


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'"e ef"''ii'a,'on VI Se'iisn IS, pUl'',-
Cal aims anu ueSireS' Inc DO'-
9neViN "uonoii,ieo seein " nave
pecoilie aiii'c'eu WIN d llls'i'a ior
.ne co'i'pie'e ues'luc''oli Vi @'l
iorilei oliiceIS y. 'ile army. eN
oiiic,a'S VI 'he ioiinei il"'io'i"'
anu local huSSiah governments
anu euucateu anu IL, "el'-to'uo peo-
pie seHera,lE Inc ueciliie Vi 'ne
power o! tne Do'SneV'Ai Is appaf
en''y urlv,ns 'he Venselui anu
'riespons'O'e MASSES u ueSper-
a'ioi, anu causing 'neiil u resort
W Iiiese oioouy ou'raseo III
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-26
Clarke-Lyle.

Miss Frances Pauline Lyle, of
st. Louis, was married in Ste.
Genevieve. Mo-, on the evening
of September 18th to Mr.. A.
Preston Clark, a direct descend
ant of the Beauvia family, among
the early French settlers Of Mis-
souri,.
Miss Lyle is a grand-d daughter
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. David
Fraker, of Fort Littleton, with
whom she made her home unit
their demise. She is a sister OF
Mrs. Herbert Lee McKibbin, OF
this place, and has many friends
here. She has made her home
in the Western city for severa
years.
Mr.. Clark is identified with
steamship navigation, is associa'
ted in business enterprises, anC
prominent in social affairs of Ste,
Genevieve, where he and hi;
bride will reside.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-26
Applsbutler Sugar.

The Food Administrator wants
as far as sugar is available, to
furnish all the sugar necessary
for the making of applebutter,
and for doing any other canning
and home preserving. We want
this sugar to be as fairly and as
equitabily distributed as it is pos
sible to do 80. We are getting
along on two pounds per person
now for general consumption and
no one is suffering. There is no
reason why we cannot cut down
on the amount Of sugar used in
making applebutter. Many a
kettle of as good applebutter as
was ever made, was made right
in Fulton County without a pound
of sugar in it. Sugar in apple
butter in this county is a COM
paratively recent thing. 1t will
be no great hardship to get back
to the good old way, or at least
cut down on the amount of su-
gar used.
Unfortunately some of the peo.
pie think that they should be al
lowed all the sugar they can use.
When asked if they could not re-
duce the amount of sugar neces-
sary for a kettle of applebutter
by boiling the butter just a little
longer, they answer, MOI! This
is surely not showing the .patri-
otic spirit. Fortunately there are
but few of that class of people in
Fulton County. Those that are
here should either have to go to
France or send their sons. They
would then, perhaps, have more
interest in trying to do their BIZ
towards winning the war.
JOHN R. JACKSON,
County Food Administrator
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-26
Cul Out Christmas Presents i.

The great merchants of the
United States, the National Gov
erment and the National Chamb-
er of Commerce have united to
make the forthcoming Christmas
unique.
1t has already been announced
that the Government insists that
no pre5ents-barring toys for
chiIdren-be given, except useful
ones. In an order just issued by
the Council of National Defense,
this request is emphasized very
strongly.
The large merchants all over
the country have agreed to CO.
operate with the Government in
printing advertisements which
will urge people to do their shop
ping early and at the same time
urge them to eliminate all buying
of useless presents.
1t is proposed tina no Christ
mas gifts shall be mailed or eX-
pressed after December 5th. A
number of States have already
adopted that rule, The Council
of Nationsl Defense expressly
says that toys for children are
not to be interfered with.
All the merchants have agreed
not to increase their working
hours nor their force of working
people during the Christmas sea-
son, which means that the public.
In order to do their shopping with
any degree of comfort, mnst be-
gin very early.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-26
Why Russia is Backward.

The backwardness of the Rus
SLAMS can be pretty adequately
accounted for by three historial
factors. There is, first, the
Mongol yoke which rested upon
them for nearly two and a half
centuries. During the wonder
full thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries, while England was es-
tablishing her parliament and
democratic models were being
worked out in the free self-gover-
nment city states of Italy and the
Low Countries the Russians lay
flattened under an Allied Asiatic
despotism. BY the time they
had rid themselves of the
Mongols all legal rig h s
of individuals, local commun-
titles and social classes had
disappeared, leaving the tsars
unlimited.
Muscovites had freed them
selves from the Morgols their in
their settlements in the rich tree
less steppes to the south of them
the famous Black Soil" des-
tined to become the granary of
Russia and, indeed, of Europe
were exposed to raids by the
nomad Tartars hemming them on
the east and south. Until the
days of Peter the Great the Rus
slams were for the most part con-
fined to the less fertile forested
region of the north where they
were safe from the incursions of
the nomads. Let one imagine
how Jour economic development
would have suffered had our an
cestors been confled to the
wooded region of the Upper Ohio
and the Great Lakes because the
fertile prairies from Indiana to
the Rocky mountains lay open to
the raids Of barbarian horseman
yelling up from great popula-
ted area n the southwest!
Then there was the Romanoff
autocracy which in Shake
speare's day crushed the bulk of
the people down into serfdom-
which later became slavery
and kept them there for two and
a half centuries.E Asia" maga-
zine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-26
FOUND DEAD.
John A. MelIOtt Found Dead al His Home
Near Saluyia Ou Wednesday Of
Last Week.

John A. Mellott, aged 81 years,
was found dead at his home on
the Lincoln Highway near Salu-
via on Wednesday afternoon,
September Is, 1918 by Mr.. and
Mrs. H. N. Johnson and George
Dugan, automobile tourists of
McKeesport, Pa, who immedi-
ately reported their discovery to
some of the neighbors.
An investigation held by Dis
trict Attorney S. w. Kirk, Hon.
Jno. p. Sipes and others, togeth-
er with an inquest over the re-
mains, developed the conclusion
that Mr.. Mellott had come to his
death by natural causes there
being no evidence of foul play.
The supposition is, that he had
fallen in an epileptic ft-an all
ment with which he had been af-
flicted for several years.
On his person was found sixty
dollars in currency, and a
bank check drawn payable
to himself. His bible lay near
him on, the cot, indicating that
he had been reading it when
stricken.
The deceased was a son of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. David S. Mel
lott, and on the day of his sup
posed death he was aged 81
years, s months and Is days.
He is survived by seven sisters
and three brothers: Mrs. Mar
tina Mcdonald, of Illinois; Mrs.
Mary Claybaugh, near Everett;
Mrs. Nancy Decker, near Sa-
luvia; Mrs. Frances Strait, Need
more R. r. l.; Mrs. Ella Rohm,
of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Tena Wink
Mrs. Jennie Deshong of Deshler,
O.; Henry j. Mellott, of Canada,
Leonard. residing in Illinois. and
George S., Pleasant Ridge. The
| funeral services were held at the
Sideling Hill Christian church on
Friday afternoon, by Rev. 7. P.
Garland, and interment was
made in the cemetery at that
church.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-26

A number of young folks gath
cred at Mr.. and Mrs. B. G. Hor-
TONS at Wells Tannery last We'd
neSday evening. Although, it
was rainy they enjoyed them
selves by playing games and by
having music, after which re-
ireshments were served.
Those present were: Mr.. and
MrS. B. G. Horton, Mrs. Amanda
Warsing, Mrs. Russell Willett
and children, Enlline, Irene,
Rankin and Clifford; Mrs. Lau.
renee Guillard and daughter
Gladys, Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony
Cornelius, Ruby Warsing, Alts,
Gertie and Marie Guillard, Goldit
BlVens, Dewey Sprowl, Edni
watkins, Mamie Stunkard, Amy
and Stella Horton, Laura Farley
freda, Kate, Hazel and Iva Hor
ton, Harry Burkett Ellis Sprowl
julius Mowan, Vern CLANCY
MARSHALL Hays, joe Cornelius
John Roudabash, William Sunk
Ssid, Edwin Bookhimer, Geo
farley, Robert Horton.