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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-05-17

Mr.. John HiIligOss is q new en-
ployae At the Hood Implement Store.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
Roads Must Be Kept
Open to Help Move
Nations Foodstufs

The announcement of the United
States Railroad Administration that
the' shipment of foodstuffs you'd
be given preference over thatof any
commodity, will no doubt have con-
siderable effect on the rerouting
of the country's transportation
equipment" says Carl Changstrom
OF the Standard Motor Car GO.
The extremely heavy movement,
Of grain, flour and lother foodstutfs
overseas. will to a great extent de-
pend on the ability of the motor
truck. This will no doubt give
those freight cars as well as motor
trucks loaded with foodstuffs the
right-of-way over any other COM
modify, If our roads are not kept
open this winter, there is bound TO
be congestion of commodities
only secondary in Importance to
foodstuffs. understand that al
ready a large number of permits
have been cancelled, and freight,
held as non-essental will not be
forwarded from points of ship
ment"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
Clarke CottreII, Who Directs
Expenditures of Millions,
Visits Boyhood Home
at Auburn.

Clarke Cottrell engineer of high-
ways of the state of Nevada, a Ne
braska boy, who made good, was in
Omaha Saturday, on his way to his
boyhood home, Auburn, Neb.
Cottrell was born at Auburn, De-
cember 2l, 1885, and is a graduate of
Auburn High school, 1904.
After leaving the state university
he took up engineering and superin-
tended one of the first roads built
under federal auspices, in the coun-
try and the first of its kind in Ne
braska.
Road Is Model.
This was road across the Mem
aha river bottom east of Auburn,
and it is being exploited by the ma
tlonal government as model OF
highway construction. 1t embraces
many novel drainage features and
was the first road in America to have
what is technically known as
shoulder protection"
Mr.. Cottrell went to California
and was made superintendent of
construction and maintenance of the
San Francisco BAY road district, un-
der the California State Highway
commission. He directed work in
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
Finds Goodyear Tire Kits
in DESTROYED Ford Cars

Many of our soldiers, now abroad,
who were formerly employees of
the Goodyear Tire & Rubber COM
pany, Akron, Ohio, have written the
company concerning interesting ex-
periences they have had. Corp. John
D. Walker, with Company f, Supply
Train. No. 10, writes in part: Il was
detailed to one of the American
motor bases 10 get 40 Ford machines
that had been destroyed i'll the drive
of the Argonne sector. In each car
| found a box of accessories and in
checking these over found that each
car was equipped with Goodyear
Tire saver kit. 1t made me home
sick for minute. But as | had
some $50 kilometerS to drive to the
front, was very much elated to
have the repair outfit with me as
matter OF protection against delay
on the road on account OF tire
trouble"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
Willard Has Done Much
to Make MOTORING Easier

1T is gratifying but not surpris-
ing that threaded rubber insulation
should have originated in the Will
lard factory" says Elmer Rosengren
of the Nebraska Storage Battery
company.
"Mr. Willard is never satisfied,
nor are the men associated with him.
in the past achievements. For
years their slogan has been "A Still
Better Willard
Many years ago, Mr.. Wizards
work in connection with the i'm
provement OF starting motors and
lighting generators helped to make
electric lighting and cranking pos
sible.
His Improvement of the pasted
plate type of battery for automobile
lighting and self-starting service
was equally important, for upon it
depended the commercial practi-
cability of the entire electrical sys-
tenn.
Every part and piece of the mod
ern storage battery owes some I'M
provement-in greater or less de-
gree-to the inventive genius and
manufacturing resources OF the VII
lard organization.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
American Cotton Equal
to That Grown in EqYpt

The embargo on imports of
Egyptian cotton for use in automo-,
bile tire, airplane and balloon fabric
and the limitation of the imports to
10000 bales for the current year will
not seriously hamper American
manufacturers, The southwestern
states, in which, since 1912, produc-
ton of Egyptian cotton has risen
threefold, will yield close to $4,000
bales 1t is believed that eventually
importation of this product will
cease altogether, as American plan
tations increase their yield.
Careful analyses and spinning
tests by the Department of Agri-
culture remove all question as to the
quality of the American product,
which has been found to be the
equal in every respect OF the foreign
cotton.-Motor Life.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
Start Motor Freight
Service to Decatur
from Omaha Monday

c. Z. Stallard, for several years
connected with the Missouri Pa
cihc railway here, and more recently
il. charge of the highway transpor-
yation rate committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce, will start mo-
tor truck transportation between
Omaha and Decatur Monday. Mr..
Stallard's plan has ben endorsed by
tie industrial committee of the
chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Stallard will start in with one
two-ton truck, increasing the num-
Der as the business justihes it. Each
truck is capable of making three
trips per week, leaving Omaha on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
and leaving Decatur Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. Fl. Cal
houn, Blair, Herman, Tekamah and
Decatur are the towns on the route
chosen and every class of freight to
be transported between those towns
and Omaha will be handled.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
De Palma Smashes Auto
Records With Packard

Ralph de Palma, driving his spe-
cial racing Packard, smashed exist
ing automobile speed records for
four distances at Sheepshead Bay,
August II. The former records for
two, ten, thirty and fifty miles were
1:12. 5:24, 1886 and 2S:04 The new
figures de Palma established are
Los, 5;23, 1851 and 27:29 respec-
lively.
On August 81, de Palma drove
four miles against his own record in
an exhibition at the New York Po-
lice Games on the same track His
time for this distance was two
minutes and three seconds. The sec
ond two miles of this trial he drove
i'll one minute and four-fifths of a
second.
The latter record, however, has
not yet been sanctioned by A. A. A.
contest oficials.-Motor Life.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15

When an organization assumes
the responsibility of caring for
$4,000 men and women employees and
realizes that their health and physi-
cal fitness must be kept constantly
in mind the obligation assumes ire
mendous proportions.
Few people realize the many
varied industries that must be main
tanned in connection with our chief
occupation of building automobiles"
said one OF the officials OF the
WHY'S Overland company in talk
on factory activities.
"Of course. there are dining
rooms, temporary hotels for use OF
men until they can get permanently
located, hospitals for first aid work
and mapy other important branches
which are vital to the PHYSICAL hit
ness of our employees.
Perhaps one of the most un-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
Makes New Long Distance
Record Run in Australia

Ever since automobiles have come
into extensive use in Australia. there
has existed a spirited rivalry among
motorists of the eastern coast con-
corning the establishment of the
fastest driving time between the cit
les of Sydney and Brisbane, dis
lance of go miles.
From time to time speed records
have been made between these two
points which promised to stand for
long period-only to be again low
cred. The latest record is the one
set up by Fred Eager, well-known
automobile man of Sydney, who has
created a new record of 10 hours.
5812 minutes. cutting e hours, "A
minutes from the best previous rec
ord. Eager drove an Overland car
equipped with Goodyear cord tires.
and established the new record
under the auspices of the Automo-
bile club of Queensland, his time
becoming a matter of official record
with the club.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
NASH WILL NOT
CHANGE PRICE
OF AUTOMOBILE
President Of Huge Concern
Says Cars and Trucks
Cost Same for Six
Months.

There will be no changes in the
prices of Nash passenger cars and
trucks before July l, 1919" is the
statement made by President c. w.
Nash to a big meeting of Nash dis
tributors from all parts of the coun-
try held at the Nash Motors plant
at Kenosha beginning Thursday.
This statement is bound to be read
with interest in automobile circles
everywhere, as it Is another indica-
ton that automobile prices in the re-
construction period of the first six
months of 1919 will be generally
maintained.
Since the signing of the armistice
there were price reduction an
nouncements made by a few man
ufacturers and this made the ques-
ton of price policy uppermost in
the minds of distributors and dealers
everywhere.
To Maintain Prices.
The developments of the past ten
days indicate that the majority of
the leading manufacturers will
maintain their prices and this seems
to be particularly true among the
manufacturers who have held their
prices down during the uncertain
conditions of war.
The Nash company, while it, dur
ing the war period, was on practical
ly 100 per cent basis, furnished
the government while on this basis
only regular peace-time products of
the Nash factory. Accordingly, they
are among those companies which
are in a position to almost immed-
lately resume quantity production of
their own products for he general
consumer trade.
Tries to Cut Costs.
In discussing his position on the
price question, President Nash said.
1T has always been my policy to cut
manufacturing costs by efficient
manufacturing methods. and to sell
on very small margin of profit on
volume production basis. This
policy we have rigidly adhered to
throughout the war period and are
continuing the same policy now.
I'VE know that the Nash Six with
perfected valve -in-head motor
priced at $l,490 is i'll demand by
our distributors, their dealers and
the consumer public in quantities
that will tax our production facili-
ties. This same point applies to the
complete line of Nash trucks.
Our margin of profit on the
complete Nash line is small one
and it is only by quantity produc-
ton that we are in a position to
market the line at these figures and
remain here in business"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
Overland Plays Washwoman for
$4,000 of Its Employees Each Week

usual is our complete modern laun-
dry. 1t handles an amazing amount
of work each month, probably more
than the average city laundry.
IN October, 27,722 pieces of
laundry, $4,000 pounds. of factory
rags and 5000 automobile covers
were handled in this cleaning plant.
The company washes the out
fits worn by the women workers
twice each week. In October this
totalled $500 pieces, including
bloomers, aprons and caps. Just re-
Gently the company installed over
$4,000 worth OF new machinery to
enlarge the laundry and reduce the
night work which had become neces
sary.
With this additional capacity it
may now handle the work of the fac
tory, hospital, administration build
ing, bowling alleys, Overland club
and Overland camp"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15

tomobile to the average bankers
business, nor the close relationship
which has been formed between the
bankers and the automobile men. 1t
will be his purpose to dispel all
doubt from the minds of the
fnanciers regarding any uncertainty
in handling automobile paper.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
auto DEALERS
MEET BANKERS
IN OMAHA SOON
Invitations Out for Big Meet
ing in January to Prepare
for Spring Selling Cam
paign.

Plans have been developed for e
gigantic meeting of automobile deal
ers and bankers TO be held at the
Omaha Commercial club January I.
Invitations will soon 60 out to the
various automobile dealers and their
bankers throughout the state, &C
cording to r w. Hayward of the
Hayward Cameron Motor company.
The primary object of this meet
ing is to bring dealers and bankers
back to the realization that the au-
tomobile industry will soon be back
to pre-war basis so far as produc-
ton is concerned. Most OF the au-
tomoblle factories are released from
their war contracts and are in a po-
sition to go ahead with consumer
production on 100 per cent basis.
Bring Prominent Speakers.
The arrangement committee, head
ed by T. II. McDermon of the Nash
Sales company, and assisted by R.
w. Hayward, George VanBrunt,
w. S. Johnson, and w. H. Head,
have arranged with three nationally
known men to speak at the meet
ing.
Lafayette Young, who hasiagreed
to speak at the meeting will give a
general talk regarding the outlook
for business of all kinds. His talk
i'll not only deal with the automo-
bile situation, but will take up in a
broad way the national situation.
c. w. Nash, president of the Nash
Motor company OF Kenosha, Wis.
has accepted an invitation to speak
to the dealers and bankers regarding
the situation confronting the manu-
iacturers. Mr., Nash, who was for
a good many years connected with
the General Motor Corporation, has
had wide and varied experience in
the automobile business and should
be able to present the manufacturers
problems i'll very comprehensive
manner.
Talk of Finances.
r. H. Collins of the Cadillac Mo-
tor Car company, Detroit Mich,
will take up the automobile situation
from the angle of sales and service.
Probably no automobile manufac-
turers has given more attention to
working out the details of various
policies than has the Cadillac Mo-
tor Car company of Detroit. Mr..
Collins is personally known to hun
dreds of automobile dealers in this
locality and his deductions will no
doubt carry a great influence
Walter w. Head, second vice
president of the Omaha National
bank, who has been largely respon-
sible for interesting bankers i'll this
meeting will discuss the automobile
situation from financial angle. The
average layman has little or no con-
ception of the importance of the au-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
Shows Goodyear Tire That
Has Been Run 23,440 Miles

One of the most interesting win
dow displays that has appeared re-
Gently, exhibiting tires, was the one
shown by the Franklin Wicks COM
pany, Seattle, Wash. The display
consisted of a number of Goodyear
cord tires, marked with the number
of miles each had delivered in &C
tual service. The average mileage of
all the tires in the window was
1908. In the center was shown a
tire that had run 23,440 miles.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
volving the expenditure of $20,000,,


volving the expenditure of $20,000,-
600.
Commissioned in Army.
He is married and has one child,
When the war broke out he volun-
teered in the combatant engineer
service and on the day the armistice
was signed he was granted his COM
mission as first lieutenant. He has
been discharged from the service
and will return to Carson City, New.
to resume the duties of his Office.
Mr.. Cottrell will soon award CON
tracts for $4,000,000 of road con-
struction to be done in his state
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15

R. A. Newell, formerly with the
Geo. H. Lee company, has accepted
the position Of sales manager for the
Universal Motor company, 1852
Leavenworth street.
Mr.. Newell is an Omaha product
and graduated from the Omaha
High school in 1904. He comes
from a successful sales record of
seven years with his former en-
ployers and is well equipped for his
new position. His many friends and
acquaintance predict a successful
future for him in his new line OF
work.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-15
We 'Ates EN-

We 'AteS En-.
Another thing we don't like is
these marble seats they have in some
of the banks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
IJNIISIRAuIS

The following are some recent in
s%ructions received from the War De-
rartment and should be carefully read
~ all re@is rants ko have not re-
turned their QUESTIONABLE.
/. Under Series VII the regula-
lions have been modified so that the
two lines in black faced type under
0stion 2 should be disregarded. All
the other questions should be ans
wered unles his answer to Che first
question is Eyes"
2. Supporting afidavits are re-
CURED where claim for exemption is
made under Series V, Series VIII, Sc
rtes x, Series II, Series XII. When
supporting afidavits are made they
should be signed as fully as possibly
by persons not related to the regis
trant.
g. Oaths may be sworn by any per-
son generally qualified to administer
oaths, Also before any Postmaster and
| INV member or associate member
of the Legal Advisory Board.
4. The registrant should whenev-
er possible answer the questions when
ever possible in his own handwriting
None of the printed portions of the
questions may be struck out or erased.
5. If a case arises where it is ap-
parent to the person consulted, in re-
gard to the QUESTIONABLE that the re
gistrant is making false statements
the facts should be reported to the Lo-
cal Board.
6. Each registrant will receive no.
tice from the Local Board Of his
Classification. If he desires to appeal
to the District Board he must go to
the Office of the Local Board and fill
out the notice Of appeal on his ques-
tionnaire or have some one do this
for him. This must be done within
five days from the date of the mailing
Of the notice.
Z. When you figure up to find the
last day for the return of your Ques-
tionnaire count as one day the date
stamped on the first page and add 6
days to that date.
Grand Rapids, Wis, Dec. %, 1917.
George L. Williams,
Chairman Legal Advisory Board.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
HIGHWAY
BUILDING
AWAR AND
PEACE MEASURE

There is one important feature
which distinguishes the construction
Of highways and the construction of
drainage systems as war measures.
Every dollar which today is put into
these projects which are primarily de-
signed to relieve railroad congestion
or increase the productivity of the
soil, will return interest in peace times
They are peace measures as we'll as
war measures. It would be most eX-
cellent if the same could be said OF
other necessary war activities in
which the country is engaged. But
unfortunately that is not the case The
Weapons of offense and defense which
are forged at great cost, cannot be put
to any peace-time use, unless, unhap-
ply, the United States should be COM
PEELED as a matter of protection to
maintain a great armament after the
war in Europe ceases.
But the dollars expended on making
good highways today mean that these
highways will render a service to ci-
rilization in time of peace. The same
act applies to the money expended in
war time in developing our transpor-
tation facilities of all kinds-the eX-
penditures are not alone war meas
res, but they will tend to place the
comes.
What is needed most at this time in
Highway construction is a program of
construction of roads of economic val
1e to the nation. We can temporarily
dispense with the construction of seen
C routes. They can be deferred until
after the war. But we should have
~oads over which a maximum amount
of farm produce can be hauled to the
cities at a minimum expense. We
should have roads which will relieve
as much as possible the strain under
which the railroads are laboring.
Local associations of merchants and
manufacturers, boards Of trade and
similar organizations can do effective
work in the various states by mapping
out program of road construction
that will serve real war need. Such
action would conform with plans made
by the American Association of State
Highway Officials at a meeting at
Richmond, Dec. A.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
RLO]GETI'S
INSTALLING
COLDSTORAGE
PLAN I
From Marshfeld Herald

From Marshfeld Herald
What will be, when finished, one OF
the finest and best equipped cold stor-
age plants in the state, is now being
installed by the c. E. Blodgett & Sons
Co. in the west end of their wholesale
grocery house. The floor space used
will be 40x60 fet, extending from the
basement to the third floor. 1t will
have a capacity of 125 carloads and
will be used for the storing of meats,
butter, eggs, cheese, poultry and fruit
and as far as possible will be for the
use of the public-merchants and in
dividuals of this city and community.
A thirty-ton amonia machine will
furnish the temperature which will be
distributed among two freezers and
three coolers, all of which will be regu-
lated automatically, without the slight
est variation in temperature. The
plant completed will cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 and will be ready
for use about March LIST.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
HEALTH
SUGGESTIONS
For Theatres and Public Halls.

/. Theatres, motion picture thea
tres, and public halls should be kept
clean and free from dust.
2. The floors, when covered with
wood, tile, stone, concrete, Hnoleum
or other washable material, should be
moped or scrubbed with water or
swept with moisture, or by some 9th
er dustless method, at least once daily,
and should be scrubbed with water and
soap at least once weekly.
8. Carpets, rugs and other fab
ric floor coverings should be cleaned
at least once daily by means of suction
beating or dustless sweeping. Curtains
and draperies should be cleaned at
least once monthly by suction, beating
or washing. Cornices, walls, and other
dust-holding places should be kept free
from dust by washing or moist wip-
ing The wood and metal parts of all
seats should be kept clean. Fabric
upholstering of seats and ratings and
other fixed fabrics should be cleaned
by suction, or other dustless methods,
at least once monthly.
H. 1t is the duty of the owner, le-
ssee, or manager of theatres. motion
picture theatres, or public halls to
display, in conspicuous place, signs
prohibiting splitting.
5. 1t is unlawful for any owner,
lessee, or manager of theatres, mo-
ton picture theatres, or public halls
to allow public drinking cups or pub
lie towels. In their place they should
furnish individual drinking cups and
towels.
6. No person or persons who have
whooping cough, tuberculosis, or other
infectious diseases shall be allowed to
enter any theatre, motion picture thea
ire, or public hall and it is the duty
of the owner, lessee, or manager of
said theatre or public hall to deny them
admission.
Z. Retiring rooms and toilets
should be kept in a sanitary condition
at all times, and should be scrubbed
at least daily, or oftener, if deemed ne
cessary.
8. Every theatre, motion picture
theatre and public hall shall be venti
lated as required by the state building
code.