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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-04-02

The young people of this place, WIZ
attend Derby academy returned Mon,
day to their school work.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-04-02

Mrs. Margaret Coffey and daugh-
ter, Ethel visited at Ed. Streeter's in
Morgan all last week.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-04-02

Mrs. c. S. Rice and son, Glen, Wis
tied at VIII Rice's in Derby and a
Wallace Marvin's in Newport Mon
day.
Continued on opposite page.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

be 3759 kilowatt ma chine, whereas the entire plant is now able to produce only 2600 kilowatts without overload. The cost of this machine will be about s6o,060 the condenser s40,000, while pumps and other items will bring the total to nearly S150,000
 In order to obtain proper. horsepower from the steam turbine which drives the generator it must exhaust into vacuum of about 2S inches. This is provided by the big copper condenser, through which 5Oo6 gallons of water per hour must be propelled to keep it cool Big pumps are needed to drive this water, and another lighter pump is needed to draw off the water produced from the condensed steam.
 In order to provide sufficient steam for the new generator another boiler must be added to the three already at the plant. Later another s750-kiewatt gen orator must be added IS duplicate, So that if one is out of order the other may be ready to work.
 Other improvements contemplated by the company include 20 new swtchboards. The entire distributing system of the company is to be changed from single phase and two-phase to three-phase sys- tenn throughout. This will increase the capacity of the various leads, but the cost of the improvement will lie largely in labor cost, as it will require large amount of stringing and restringing of wires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
Great Construction
 Activity in New Orleans

Four new factories are now being ado- ed to New Orleans rapidly growing list of industrial plants, says the Manufac- +urers Record. Others are projected, and before 1920 New Orleans will boast of at least 10 new plants.
 The New Orleans correspondent Of that journal reports thus:
 Two new chocolate factories are now in course of erection, one for the F'uerst & Kraemer company, who operate a very large candy factory here already, and the other for the Jackson Pure Food Products company, subsidiary or me Jackson Brewing company. which has operated a big brewery here for many years. These two plants will represent an outlay of several hundred thousand dollars. They will be the first factories in the south to make breakfast chocolate and cocoa.
 A new rice mill is to be built at New orleans by the Farmers Cooperative Rice Milling company Qnc), now peing organized here with capital stock or s1O0 600, which will later be increased 10 $500 GOO Plans for the mill are now be-
 
 and machinery expert. A. E. Truxliio or Donaldsonville and l.. H. Collet, rice fac- tor of New Orleans, are the organizers of the new company. The mill is expect ed to be ready for the next crop.
 A new cotton oil refinery has begun operations in this city. Its capacity is 300 barrels of lard substitute day. The company operating it is the Dixie Re- fning company of Dallas and Memphis.
 Another cotton oil mill is to be built on a. site just bought on the Mississippi river opposite New Orleans, in the Jeff ferson industrial district.
 Work on the s15,000,0oo United States government commodity warehouses for exports and imports has been resumed, and the state-ewned industrial canal IS going ahead with al possible speed. The shipbuilding plats of the Foundation company and Doullut & Williams, both of which are building steel ships, are go- ing right ahead with important contracts.
 The change in the general construction activities here has been marked since local building material interests reduced prices. A substantial reduction by the producers of building materials is de- clared to be necessary, however, before things are revived to anything like for- mer proportions as far as small work of a residential character is concerned,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

The next Congress will be asked to en- act legislation necessary to the estab- Iishment of a system of federal home loan banks, according to a statement by the inforamtion and education service of the United States department of labor. A tentative bill has been prepared and has been mailed to all officers and com mittees of the United States League Of Building associations, and copies can De obtained from the division of pupilc works and construction developments or the United States department of labor
 In it's campaign to stimulate eullaing activities the United States department Of labor, in January, invited represen- tatives of the United States League or Building associations to a conference III Washington for a discussion of ways and means of increasing the usefulness or the building and loan associations. It was realized that these associations played an important part in the home building activities of the nation, and 1t was the hope of the department of labor that their field of usefulness might be en- larged Out of this conference came the movement in favor of a national system of home loan banks thruogh which these associations might rediscount thelr se-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
Atlanta to Haue Important
 Hotel Addition Shortly

The Industrial Index says that an addi- tion is to be erected to Hotel Ansley at Atlanta at cost of 2,Ooo,ooo Announce ment has been made to that effect by E. L. Potter, managing director, aud Asa G. Gandler, Jr., the lessors.
 The addition will be merged with the present Hotel Ansley into an immense hotel of see guest rooms, with aH exten- s,ye lobby. It is stated that construction will be begun in short time,
 Although 1t has not been definitely de- cided whether the addition will be to the Luekie street side of the present Ansley or to the rear, it is generally believd that the former site will be selected. In such event the addition will replace the pres ent Forsyth building. The definite de- cision to erect the addition on one of thees two sites was reached, however, at the conference Mir Candler and MT. Pot ter held soon after Mir. Potter's arrival from Sea Breeze, Fla, especially for the purpose of holding the conference
 Atlanta was seelcted by MT. Potter over all other cities in which he has business interests as the most logical place for an enlargement of his hotel facilities. lie expressed the confidence in the ste ady in- crease in population of Atlanta a hd that it warrants more hotel space, the city being entitled to the most modern hotel in every particular that could possibly De built,
 Mr Potter was enthusiastic in discuss ing the new project
 T am convinced" he safd, that At lanta needs just such a great hotel, and am quite confident that the business outlook thoroughly justifies the step we have fully decided to take. We fdel that Atlanta is worthy of the very best in every particular and that is what we expect to give.
 By making an addition rather than a twin hotel, we shall be able 10 con- struct one great lobby which will be a tremendous affair, fringed with stores opening both into the street and into the lobby itself. There will be connect ing halls and when completed the old and new Ansey will simply be enc big hotel, by far the largest in the south.
 ''The present Ansley is being rerequip- ped and the entire new hotel will be furnished in the most modern fashion Since it has not been decided whather the addition will be on the rear of the present Apsley or on the Luckie' street side. cannot say just when the actual construction will be started. Certainly, however, it will begin at a compara- lively early date. Mir. c. A. Creighton,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
GREAT BELIEVER
 IN BLACK-DRAUCHT
Oklahoma Lady Tells How Her Husband Believes in Black Draught and Uses It for Many
 Ailments

Newata, Okla.-Mrs. w. B. Dawson, a resident of this place, says: My hus7 band is a great believer in Black Draught and thinks it cures about ev- erything.
 ss Ia splendid for malaria, headache, constipation (which usually causes headache), indigestion, or any kind of stomach trouble, and we just keep it for these troubles. don't know when we haven't used it. and we always find it satisfactory.
 know it has done us both lots of good and saved us many dollars. I use it in teaspoon doses at first and follow with small doses, and it sure does make a person feel like new.
 It cleanses the liver better than any other liver tonic have ever used, and after taking a thorough course nature asserts itself and you are not left in a constipated condition that follows a lot of other active medicines This is one thing I like especially about it."
 For over 70 years Thedfords Black Draught has been in use for many sim ple ailments and today is a recognized standard remedy in thousands of family medicine chests. It will pay you to keep Black-Draught in the house for use when needed.
 Your druggist sells it.-Ady
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

Shoals brief It is understood that Con- gressmen and many others interested in the development of Muscle Shoals are requesting copies of the brief as a result Of which the revised edition of the brief will probably be ordered.
 Some very important work is being done in connection with the Muscle Shoals
 improvement. Secretary of War Baker on the eve of his departure for France, appointed Arthur Glasgow as admins tratoF of nitrate supplies and plants, and George Roberts as deputy administrator. Comprising a board of investigation these officials arc at work determining the present and future status of the Shelf field and Muscle Shoals plants which have been completed. The board is to decide whether the plants are to be used when needed for munitions purposes, serapped or turned into the worlds larg- est fertilizer industry, to be operated by the government and the products sold to the farmers all over the country at q very low cost, The Tennessee River Im- provement association is interested in presenting the facts of the Muscle Shoals plants to the nitrate board, as it is be- lieved that if the report is favorable to make use of the plants as planned by the government, work will proceed post haste bn the Muscle Shoals dam. Reso-
 utions' and briefs have been formally filed with the board by the Farmers Educational and Cooperative union of America, both of which organZa tions are backing the Muscle Shoals projects, and which were also instrumental in causing Secretary Baker to appoint a board to fully investigate the nitrate in- dustres.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

Business conditions are improving throughout the country. Opt Imism pre- dominates, and here in the south evi- dences of prosperity are more than ever manifest If business is not booming everything points to an early stride Tn A forward movement
 One of Birmingham's best informed in dustrial leaders had this to say yester- day:
 Signs have not been wanting the past few weeks of revival in the real estate business in Birmingham, but &he sale of the corner lot and three-storE building at Second avenue and Nineteenth street to the Louis Pizitz Dry Goods company by the J. +. Smith Realty company, an- neunced in The Age-Heraid yesterday, is conclusive on that point.
 Real estate dealers have been report ing sales by the score during the past few weeks, but prior to the PizitY deal the property involved was confined mostly to moderate priced homes.
 Tt is rumored that deals are under way for other central business prGperty and should these go through, as some of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
Big Building Asso citations
 To Rediscout t,t Securities

curities and make available for further loans greater portion of their assets.
 TEa chief work of the building and loan associa Eions is lending money to home builderl. Association representatives, In the washington conference, suggested that Congress enact law permitting these associations to organize regional banks, capitalized by the associations and op4rated by them under government superviFion. The purpose of this was to provide a regional bank which would per form f1r building associations service similar to that performed by the federal reserve bank for the commercial banks and by |the federal land bank for the Na- tional Harm Loan association
 owing to the congestion in important legislative matters in the last Congress, it was Impossible to obtain consideration for the federal home loan bank project. The bull ding and loan associations, work ing in Harmony with the aims of the de= partmeHt of labor in it's campaigns for the rev Wal of building and construction activities, now have drafted a tentative bill which with such revisions as may be considered prudent, will be introduced in the 1ext Congress, with the influence of the national and state organizations of building and loan associations be- hind it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
HEADACHE STOPPED
 WHILE YOU WAIT
Druggist Refunds Your Money
 While You Wait at Counter
 if Aspironal Does Not Re lieve in Two Minutes.

Why suffer half an hour of headache main waiting for your stomach to digest solid tablets and powders, when Aspiro- nal. the new Elixir, gives. relief right now. Your Doctor prefers Aspironal for the reason that it is not dangerous to the heart and does not upset the
 The next time you have headache go to your nearest drug store. hand the pironaI and tell him to serve you one or two teaspoonsful taecording to severi- ty), in a little water or your fayorite in your hand count off two minutes and cali for your money back, as per, man, ufacturer's guarantee, if you cant feel time limit. Your druggist invites and expects you to try Aspirenal so don't be bashful. Everybody is doing it. Same guarantee applies to colds, coughs and neuralgia.--Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
Improvement in Business Situation
 Distinctly Felt in Various Branches
Operations Points to Better CondonsNew Era Prosperity Plainly In Sight
 Only Question of Time

are expected to, the Pizitz transaction will be overstopped by at least two or three of them.
 Tn recent government report it was stated that building activities had revived to a greater extent in Alabama than any other state, and in this revival Birming- ham. while not doing a great deal up to the present time, is likely to play a major part before the summer is over
 with the blowing out of more than half of the pig iron furnaces during the last three or four months, the produce tioR of that metal has largely decreased and several hundred men have been forced into temporary idieness, but while this situation eharacterizes the iron mar ket, other lines continue active, There is no great surplus of labor in the dis trct, in fact, there is a scarcity in some lines, such as carpenters, plasterers, saw mill hands, and a few others
 Those who have studied the situation state that if every available job were filled there would be no idle men in the Birmingham district. In other words, if the men who want work and cannot get the kind they want would take what they can get every one coudl go to work with in 24 hours.
 'The approaching Victory Liberty Loar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
Revised Edition of
 Muscle Shoals Brief
By II. FoNPAINE LITTLE

Sheffield April 6.-(speeial.)-An im- portant meeting of the executive officers of the Tennessee River Improvement as- sociation was held in Chattanooga to- day with c. H. Huston, president; F. j.. Krusie, J. W. Worthngton, Fred Arn and w. H. Mitchell in attendance.
 Che of the matters to be considered by the committee was whether or not the association shall authorize the publica- tion of a revised edition of the Muscle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
Large Improvement in
 Miami Electric Plant

The capacity of the plant of the Miami Electric Light company, H. H., Hyman, noanaser is te he Increased in the com ing summer by 15o per cent, and at a cost of more than Sa00, 600, says the In- dsstrial Index.
 The large item in the improvement will he new generator and other equipment hooded to make it operative. This will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

who is conducting the affairs of the pres ent Ansley in such splendid style, will be the manager of the new hotel.
 Atlanta is, in my opinion. a great commercial center. and it's steady in crease in population certainly warrants more hotel space of the kind we pro pose to give"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
FROM T. K PAYER TO TAX PAYER

Another point which was brought out incide ntally by Secretary Glass has not often been considered by those who have subscribed to previous issues or Liberty Bonds. Secretary Glass says that this great accumulation of loans, made pesFible by the subscriptions Of the American people, after all repre- sents in the final alalysis only pay ment by the taxpayers to the taxpay- CTS This is made possible by the fac. that the United States is now substan- tially free from all indebtedness to other nations.
 = In other words, the money which the taxpayers pay for Liberty Bonds is al- most immediately distributed. It is conceivable 1e that a man who buys hundred-d pllar bond may through in crease of wages or through distribu tion of goEernment funds by means of the purchase of commodities, receive more thah a hundred dollars which otherwise he would not receive. He will get Hack all that he paved for hundred d Pllar bond and more an1 still have the bond. The money goes substantially from one pocket of the taxpayer to the other.
 SOON TO BE AT PAR
 The w1sest of our men of finance have nevdr hesitated to predict that the day is not far distant when these governmeHt bonds will command in the marke certainly par and probably more Some of the financial leaders are persuad ded that within two or three years Libdrty Bonds will command in the mark two or three points above par TheHefore, if it be possible fo. any of thbse who own Liberty Bonds to keep tn em they are likely to recievo by and by for them. if they want to sell them, all or more than they paid for them
 SOME OVERBUYING
 Sufficien|t time has passed since the latest offet of Liberty Bonds was not only fully subscribed but over sub scribed. to| make it clear that geod many persbns over bought these bonds. That is i'd say. that perhaps. acting under impulse, perhaps inspired by Ra- triotic motives, and in many cases by the new sense of pride occasioned by the ownership of securities or JhiS kind. men and women bougnt more bonds than they could pay for. They borrowed money to do that and they now find 1t difficult to meet the ob- ligations which the borrowing of mon ey Antails. Therefore, they have been tempted td sell their bonds for what they could get And it is chiefly for this reason that quick money makers have offerhd to buy bonds. provided they can g|et them below par.
 Secretary Glass is persuaded that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

campaign may have made money little tighter than it was few weeks ago, but bankers report ample cash in their vaults, or securities upon which they can readily get it, to finance any legitimate business proposition. Bank clearances, claimed by some to be a good barometer of business, are running double and treble of what they were year ago
 Merchants report business good with the volume no less than it was a year ago, and collections as good or better.
 Coal prDducton is keeping at about the average of the first two months of the year, which means, if maintained at that rate until the end of December, the 1919 output will be from 1000 GOO to 5,0ea, ,00e tons less than in 1917, and at least 100000 less than in 1918.
 ',Ceke production has fallen off in sym pathy with iron, but as in the iron mar ket a tone of optimism prevails. There is no great amount of iron in the pniteq States and las production is not exceeding consumption it seems to be merely a question of time when the idle furnaces will have to resume operations. This may be in the early summer and it may not he until fall, but iron masters de- cline to betome panicky over the sltua- tion.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

Cleveland's community eenters now have some "patchworll classes,' in which the art of cutting down father's trousers for little Willie, cobhling and other methods of economy are taught.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

According, to an English scientists theory, if the radium in the interior of the earth equals in quantity that in the surface rocks, the world will grow hot ter in time instead of colder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
WHAT WAR BILLS WILL BE

One comment made by Secretary Glass has occasioned a good deal of gratifica ton. He states emphatically that, although the governments ex- penditures, even after the ,armistice was signed, were considerably in eX- cess spf s2.000,00O 900 a month or at the rate of s24000, 600, 900 a year, new ertheless, before this ealendar year Is ended, and perhaps before the close of the present fiscal year, these expendI- lures will have been so greatly reduce ed that instead of s2,000, p00,000 month, they will amount to mo more than $2 900, ,000,000 a year. Men of ex- perienee say that if this proves to Le the case it will greatly aid in facilitat- ing the permanent readjustment of business and financial conditions. Such readjustment is regarded as the one obstacle that stands in the way of restoration of healthful prosperity asd in fact such an increase in prosperity as no nation of the world has ever heretofore been able to report
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07

temptations of that kind will soon pass away and that the annoyance that has been occasioned by quotations for Lib- erty Bonds that are several points be- low par will end. No experienced man of finance and certainly not former Secretary McAdoo or the present sec retary, MT Glass, has everi believed that the depreciation in the market pFice of Liberty Bonds indicated fall- ing off in the credit of the United States