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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
MEXICAN GIRLS
 AID HOUSEWIVES

Ell Paso, Texas. July 6.-Mexicani girls have solved the servant prob- lem for housewives in American bor- der cities such as Fl Paso.
 Mexican servants are both plentiful and reasonable in their charges. For $3 per week a good nurse maid may be secured from the Mexican quarter here. Four dollars provides a maid of all work while $5 and s6 are the gates charged by the Mexicans for cooking, laundry work and living on the premises. The wage scale is not the problem with this class of house. hold servants and the Mexican is practically the only available servant on the border, the negroes and Chi nese being few and always retained in the same homes from year to year.
 The Mexican servant girl, within her limitations, is a hard working, faithful and fairly efficient worker, Even the poorest peon girls who know nothing of gas stoves, running water or electric appliances develop into satisfactory servants if patiencei and perseverance is shown. They work hard, rarely complain and ac- i cept their place in the home without protest. They are especially desir- able nurse maids. They like chill dren, having had experience with chil- dren in their own families and are gentle with little ones.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
GATHERING MOSS
 AT ILWACO, WASH,

Surgical pads are made out of sphagnum moss, and the Red Cross chapters in those communities where bogs containing this moss are plenti- ful, have been conducting a vigorous hunt for it.
 The Northwestern Division was ask ed by the Red Cross to supply a half million surgical pads of the new type before July 1, and the following &C., count of how one chapter organized itself for the work may be found in- teresting:
 'At Ilwaco, in Pacific County, Wash, they didn't wait to be urged, nor did they go out singly or by twos and threes, but enlisted every able bodied man in the place and the sol- diers from Fort Camby, and made an outing of 1t that produced the most gratifying results.
 Three companies of soldiers, marching to music hammered out of g. couple of wash tubs, went tp the sphagnum beds along the National Park highway, and with a large num- Der of Long Beach people picked about 1900 sacks fo moss.
 1.-Two auto tricks and several small
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
ABOUT WAR LOANS

@ HE WAR LOANS of the world greater in than they are in fact Their magnitude in fact depends upon the organization of industry after the than any other factor
 The world entered upon the with the usual superst on which consisted mainly of estimate of the func ion of money the yard stick and under estimate of the function of commodities the things measured by the yard stick money
 enormous loans of Germany relative to her population contributed to clear up the confusion that existed scrutiny of the methods of the Central Powers showed that they could continue the while they had the and the goods they had neither power goods but all the money necessary finance war; they could not
 People began see clearly that the is based power plus manufacturing power the latter being produc tion of machines and materials with money the vaIues and the easiest medium of change
 Efficient consisted in these several items There must be sufficient number of fight These must have sufficient quantity of efficient weapons, munitions for the weapons and ood clothing and shelter in the necessary portions.
 The civil population must be productive enough to supply the army and feed and cloth itself
 Given these conditions and might be continued in definitely There would be much of the necessary modes of which would take such sary for the leaving the remainder to sustain the civil population
 The national consisted in the paper given by the gov ement in for goods advanced loaned If the don of continuing would depend not upon the size of the deb but whether there goods enough to with and whether the people were willing to carry on.
 Germany and Austria came to tight place. not be- they lacked money but because they lacked goods A ter telling off enough persons to fight they lacked enough to grow food The land of Germany had been sufficient to completely feed the country and there serious dfcen cies materials not produced n Germany such rub Der, copper nickel and cotton
 So far money concerned Germany probably has much than she need especially of god for which having lit tie foreign trade, she has had little
 Some stascians believe that Germany has largely rem bursed herself costs by great eves occupied rtoes However this may be- her plight is not the compara lively emedabe condition of low cash, but the rremedab condition of not being able to produce the necessary good especially food
 At the outbreak of the certain goods in existence Mostly the goods embraced in the debt represented by production since the beginning of the Therefore the actual commodity cost of the war is substantially only portion of the commodities produced by the civil population during the period of the
 An equal quantity of goods may be produced in equal period after the war; and should be produced in much shorter me since all the people will be at work again. This is y question of efficient organization for industry req sonable efficiency and fairness in distribution.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
scoT1AND,s FIRST BISHOP.


 The first Bishop ofsScotland was St. Palladius, whose festival is celebrated today. The Apostle of the Scots was a Roman, and he was deacon in the Church of Rome. He was sent to Scotia by Pope Celestine in 431, a little before St. Patrick's arrival in Ireland. According to Irish legend St. Palladius preached in Ireland a few years before Patrick began his immortal career in the Emerald Isle. Palladius was not as successful as his great contemporary, and was banish- ed from Ireland by the King of Leiu- ster. He then proceeded to North Britain and opened a mission. He was bishop to the whole nation of Scots, but his work was largely in that part of the country occupied by people who had passed from Ireland into Gale donia in the third century, and who changed the name of Caledonia to Scotia. Palladius manifested great zeal in preaching the gospel and con- verted a, multitude. Christianity had been introduced into Scotland about the year 200, but Palladius was the first bishop in that country, and re- ligious historians usually refer to him as the first apostle to the Scots. He died at Fordun, near Aberdeen, about the year 450.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
BUILDING PERMITS

Building permits with an aggregate value of $64,415 were granted during the week by the building commission CTS as follows:
 Private garage on the west side of Howard avenue for Mrs. B. M. Cook.
 Addition for George s. Youngs on north side of North avenue.
 Addition to storage shed owned by P. J. Mccarthy on Norman street.
 Private garage on Belmont avenue for F. and M. Ulbick.
 Addition for Henry B. Seyfert on Deacon street.
 One family brick house on Pearl street for A. Fedor and J. Gribko.
 Two store brick building on North Washington avenue for L. Pavlini.
 Private garage on Alpine street for John Olsen.
 Frame addition on Wood avenue for Paul Svihra.
 Private garage on Lee avenue for Mrs. L. A. Hallock. Alteration on Taft avenue for M. and P, Dobelstein,
 Two family house on Morehouse street for R. Oshar and Anna B. Stall haum.
 One family house on Elmwood place for H. L. Blackman 6 Son.
 Porch on seaview avenue for T Delinsky.
 Private garage on East Main street for Daniel P. Griffin.
 One story brick bakery on Madi- son avenue for Robert Cascella.
 One story cement block building on Gilmore street for M. Capriani. Porch on Ives court for A. Gentle Private garage on Noble avenue for Fanny Rich.
 Alterations to store front division | wall for Sarah A. Beardsley, Addition on Hailam street for Sarah Friedman. Move back store fronts on Johr street for R. M. Judson. Alterations to store and loft build ing on Water street for Susman & Feuer Co.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
Inexpensive Summer Furnishings

This is a season when economy is stern watch word. But none of us are to be denied the comfort of pleasant coolness in homes, the attractive surroundings which mean so much to us. As we have always maintained, taste is not question of money.
 First the Washable Couch Covers. To dress the couch in cool light tan cover which is washable makes it possible to keep the couch in state of neat cleanliness all season. No one needs to be extra careful to dusty shoes, and weary little dog may catch nap on it without offense. It washes we'll
 Striped or plain with fringed edges.
 48 inches long, $1.75
 Blue and White Table Squares and Cloths These of the familiar Japanese Towelng. They are very popular for breakfast and luncheon cloths and are the wistaria, bamboo and maple leaf patterns.
 AS inches $1.35
 Bolts of Toweling, 10 towels $150
 Cretonne Cushions for the hammock or the porch floor.
 Third floor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
HAS PAPERS SIGNED
 BY PRESIDENT GRANT

Winsted, July 6-Deputy State Treasurer B. F. Marsh is the proud possessor of three documents signed by Ulysses s. Grant. The papers are certificates of MT. Marsh's appoint ments as postmaster of the West Win sted post offices and were issued in 1869, 1870 and 1874. MT. Marsh also has certificates of appointments sign ed by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878 and by Chester A. Arthur in 1882. Mir. Marsh served in the West Win sted post office fAr seventeen years,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
COLORED WOMAN EyICrED.

In accordance with a decision handed down by Judge John J. Walsh in the common pleas court that Mrs. William Cooley, 65 year old colored woman, had defaulted her rights in not appearing in answer to 8 sum- mons to court in the suit entered against her by the Fairfield Avenue Real Estate Co.,, she was yesterday evicted from her home on the estate formerly owned by Oliver Turney in Fairfield and the house burned. She had resided there for more than 25 years,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
BUTCHER BANKRUPT.

A petition in bankruptcy was filed with the United States court yester- day by Walter Eichner, retail butcher and grocer, of 1253 State street, who swore he did not have money enough to pay the filing fee. His liabilities are S3,33401 of which $2,026.26 is unsecured. His assets consist of stock in trade valued at $9oo, debt due on open accounts of $119.6S and $171.0S held under attachment,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
NEW RATE NEXT WEEK.

Owing to the fact that the barge owners and towing companies have had to increase the wages of their employees they have set tentative raise of 25 cents per ton for the trans portation of the coal. This naturally will cause a slight advance in the re- tail price of coal providing that the Shipping Board will allow as great an increase as this. The matter Is up to the Shipping Board and there will be no definite rate established until after Tuesday next,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06

part of Bridgeport They have been moving about keeping few hours ahead of the draft boards.
 Their appearance among their fellow soldiers is not ausp cious But the future belongs hem by good conduct and earnest effort they the bad impression their tions have created,
 They will be judged in camp by what they do, Many stacker has been transformed into brave reliable soldier In America the gates of opportunity open all who de- serving The path of repentance made easy possible
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
GERMAN VALLEY, N. J.,
 NOW LONG VALLEY;

New York, July 6-The residents of German Valley, N. J., rejoiced yes terday when they learned the Post master General, as a suitable Fourth of July gift, had granted to them permission to change the name of their municipality to Long Valley.
 Complaints had been made to the post office officials that the name Ger man Valley was repulsive to residents there, They asked it be changed to Long Valley,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
THE ALLIED RESERVE

ENERAL MARCH says that something like 25l O0O Amer NJ jeans actually in the firing line This is not forng statement for the Kaiser he thereby informed that General Foch has reserved American alone amounting at least to 75O00 and equal to 62 German divisions with the number swelling every day.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
THE sLACKERS

HIS AFTERNOON, unless the program postponed 69 slackers will be inducted into the army of the United States These the who seized in the cent raid They will receive special aenion their pro- gross toward will be ceremonial,
 These young men mostly floaters. They not a
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06
CDe D D Read co
 Eszab/Isheo 1857

The store continues the usual business hours during the summer season. Open daily until 6 o'clock
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06

cars were kept busy hauling the moss to town until seven o'clock. Now it is up to the people of Ilwaco to try to equal or surpass this record.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-06

New Haven, June 24, 1918.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03
NOTHING FROM RuMANIA

Rumania is desolate and barren
country today,-an awful object les
son OF the cost of war. Two years ago
ii was one of the garden countries of
the world, teeming with agricultural
wealth and prosperity. More than
100000 Russian soldiers lived in it
and on it for nearly a year, and they
left very little behind them "a 81 = ~
Anyone who has known Rumania
as she was when peace was forced up.
her by the Central Powers, must be
convinced that twill be years before
Germany can draw from ner fields
and orchards any very valuable tri-
butte. fff
Nor is the Geaman control of Rum
ania's petroleum production likely to
be very profitable investment for
some time. In the so-called occupied
territories" the destruction of the
oil fields was so complete that Ger
many after fifteen months of effort. is
able to measure her supplies from
his source in quarts.
In the rest of Rumania. it is doubt
tul If production can be much increas.
ed beyond that of the past year. and
during the past year petroleum has
been one Ct the scarcest articles in
the country. oblainable only under
personal and special license from the
government.
During the middle of the winter,
an Associated Press correspondent
made tour of inspection around per-
haps a score of the frontier towns
where the largest proportion of
refugee population had been dumped
in the hurried retreat before the Ger.
man hosts. Conditions were serious
beyond description. but the major
part of the suffering was due to fam
inc rather than exposure.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03
MUNITIONS WORKING

The munition factories of Great
Britain responded nobly to the heavy
demand for increased fighting mater
ial resulting from the present great
German offensive, according to F. G.
Kellaway, Parliamentary Secretary to
the Ministry of Munitions Deliveries
of guns, he told the Liberal Club,
exceeded the estimates by 80 percent,
while deliveries of gun carriage were
so percent greater than before.
There was great demand for in
creased supplies of a particular kind
of shell, but there was sufficient on
hand to supply this from stock The
horse artillery after long inaction,
suddenly was called upon for most
active kind of service and consequent
ly an immense increase in the output
of ammunition for that branch of the
shops, Mr.. Kellaway said, rallied mag
nificently and by the end of April the
weekly output had increased 800 per
cent. The production of machine guns.
small arms and rifles increased pro-
Fortunately.
All this. Mr.. Kellaway added, was
accomplished in spite of the fact that
for the month previous to the often
sive this figure was increased to 5000
per week
At meeting for enrolling women
for the Land Army, Mr. Kellaway said
that since the beginning of the war
there had been two great pieces of
constructive work One was that of
munitions and the other agriculture.
With regard to the former the women
had done splendNly The excavation
work at one of the most important
Notifications on the northeast coast
was carried out by fisher women from
the eastern part of Scotland They
said Mr., Kellaway had been the sure
SHIELD and bucker of Great Britain
and he did not believe they would re-
turn to the useless occupations so
many occupied before the War as
there would be room for them and the
men in repairing the ravages of war.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03
LURE OF PLATINUM

: New chapters in the romance of
platinum, once thrown away as waste
but now the most soughtafte metal
in UP work. have been written since
the war began. Nations are fighting
for it, Adventures are risking their
lives to obtain it Women spies and
diplomatic agents are playing the
game of international intrigue TO con
troll even an ounce of the noble me
tar. as it is known to biologists, so
valuable has il become and so neces-
sary TO the prosecution of the world
war.
The United States government re
Gently took a hand in the game by
Communicating all unworked platinum
IN this country. setting there for a
price of $lO5 an ounce. as compared
with $22S5 ten years ago. Even this
action, however, has not obtained
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

1.-The shortage of food was much
that in many instances refugees were
seen in the fields eatingTor attempt,
ing to eat-grass.
Terrible as was the plight of the
people of these refugee districts in
war time they can hope for little al
deviation with the coming of forced
peace. Practically no harvests can be
expected this year in these districts,
for no seed will be available, and
moreover there are no agricultural
implements left, nor any horses or
draft animals, of any kind, Thousands
of Rumanian horses .died5of Starvation
during the winter, for the peasants
were too exhausted i'm caring for their
own needs to make any attempt to
provide for their beasts. 29Aa
In France the horses would have
been put to good use as meat for
human food, but the Rumanian pea
SAINT has an abhorrenee of horse flesh
as meat
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03
WORKING MEXICAN NEWS
PAPERS

The present tour of nearly one hun
dred Mexican newspapers editors
through the United States is regarded
by American officials in touch with
Latin American affairs as far more
important than it may seem TO the
casual reader. 1t is one of the steps il
is hoped may thwart the German pro.
paganda in Mexico and defeat the
sinistereffort 10 align the republic
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

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south of the Rio Grande against the
United States.
President Wilson openly recognized
this factor when he addressed the
editors in private audience at the
White House. and then insisted tn,.. .
his peech should first be reaG by the
Mexican people before it was printed
in the newspapers of the United
States.
"The stories OF German atrocities
in Belgium" said one of the American
officials in touch with Latin affairs
do not seriously disturb the average
Mexican. t'''iif .f'iii r.
"Of course, the better classes those
more highly educated, have the same
feeling regarding the treatment of
Belgium as the rest of the civilized
world, but this class is comparatively
small. The greater part of the Mexi-
| can people have seen so much horror
in recent revolutions that another
horror has little effect upon them.
1.-THE Gemrans in Mexico have per-
slstently impressed upon the Mexi-
cans that German efficiency and fore
handedness, as well as German valor,
are going to win the war. Every
slight victory is immensely magnified
when related to the Mexicans. An
| example Of this war shown when the
pro-German press in Mexico reported
the sinking of sixteen American bat
tleships off our coast recently by u
boats when, as matter of fact, a
few coasting vessels only were sunk.
"The Mexican editors are sending
back to their papers stories telling
something of what the United Staes
is doing to win the war. These stories
cannot fail to impress the readers as
the Mexican likes above all winer the
visitors have seen many things that
very few Americans have seen; the
wonderful work of our ship yards
munition plants and big gun works.
They are more and more impressed
not only with the fact that the United
States is in he war to win but with
the fact that the Allies with the help
of the United States will sure win
the war.
This is the message the Mexican
editors are sending back to Mexico
daily-that Germany is doomed. They
fully appreciate the fact that the
United States has not yet reached
Is = - $500
her maximum of productiveness either
OF men or material and that the deter
mination of this country to make the
world safe for democracy is unshak-
able. And they realize that when the
war is over the United States will
have tremendous trained army.
This visit of editors from our sis
ter republic is of supreme importance
at this time when the Germans in
their country have control of large
portion of the press and are doing
their utmost to create trouble of
serious nature between the two coun-
tries"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

Now let President Wilson set Amer.
Jean and Allied war aims over against
those of The Prussian as pronounced
The other day when all the British
Navy and forty five billions Indem-
mites and vast territory were demand,
ed What an incongruity.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

There are laws passed to catch the
idle, work haters. One has motto:
work or fight, and other: work and
fight. Both are perfectly good for the
man who knows no difference.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

The Liverpool cotton exchange has
it properly figured. There is to be no
trading with the enemy for ten years
latter the war has been closed. Let
tthe remainder, of the civilized worlG
Itake note aAd arrange to follow suit
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

The Americans keep themselves on
the front lines and also on the front
pages. 1t is apparently their greatest
delight TO catch the Boches mapping
tThey are indeed better soldiers than
hhe Germans.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

John McGraw was chased off the
field in Saturdays game and fan
heaved bottle at the jumps. Train
ing, as it were, for the series with the
Clubs.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

The railroad administration will per-
NIT circuses to travel as before the
war except in the congested Eastern
shipping districts.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

More than 10000 IONS of cereal
food.suffs were shipped to the allies
from North America during May ac'
,cording TO the Food administration.
April shipments were more than S00,-
900 tons.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY

If You are in doubt, go to work.
You have heard about playing safe,
we presume.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES" r
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

The government of Uruguay has
made the use of the metric weights
and measures obligatory in all trade
transactions.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

:. Some day Russia will resent the
murder of former Emperor Nicholas.
The Romanoffs are not all dead.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

with long; range guns. Then they viii
meed somebody TO man those guns
land also pilots who know how 10
Hodge Yankee gunner II cannot be
none fsEY.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03

The smallest bill against the State
of Rhode Island to appear in the
House was passed recently, the meas
ure.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-03
Senator Hoke is going the

Senator, Hoke is going the rf
route 10 fame now. He has secured
the attention of the army long enough
to suggest the COW pea as part Of
the menu. Or did he do that? ----.