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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21
PERIL KITTY.

You used to promise anything that might
please the voters fancy
YES" observed Senator Sorghum. 81 don't try
that any more. Voters getting so notionate
you can't even tell what kind of promise is 90
ing to suit their fancy"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21
Riuht at Home.

"Home is where the heart is"
"That's what the young fellow who
Is counting my daughter thinks. He
hangs around my place all the time"
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21

S THE anniversary of the birth OF
George Washington comes again anu
the whole nation pauses to pay
tribute of respect to the memory ol
the greatest figure of American MS
tory, the realization is forced nome
that Washington lives in the hearts
of the people so wildly because or
his intensely human traits.
The American public of today does
not worship a remote legendary hero,
whose glorieS gather luSter through
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21

1t is Willingness to pay good rent
al that gives his Satanic majesty the
choice of apartments in some homes.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21
REALS

You have realistic picture to advertise your
breakfast fool
almost TOO realistic goat came along and
ate one right off the charlottesville Cour-
er-Journal.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21

Headaches Bilious Attacks, Indigestion. are
cured by taking May Apple, Aloe, Jalap made
Into Pleasant Pellets (Dr. Pierces}. Adv.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21

When a fool opens his mouth, you
ran see right through him.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21

"Super-sensitivenes is the child OF
egotism, however unwilling the off
spring may be to acknowledge the
parent"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21
TO ALL WOMEN
Who ARE ILL
This Woman Recommends
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound-Her
Personal Experience.

Mclean, Neb.--" want to recon-
mend Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-21
Evidently.

"What? That letter.
YES; it's my coal BILL"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
F'urs
Strike of Dressers Inter-
feres With Getting Out
Fur Models for Fall

The situation in the fur trade due
to the strike of the dressers and
dyers is expected to be cleared up as
the result of a conference held last
night between representatives of the
workers and the employers. Just what
developed at the conference could not
be ascertained at the office Of the Fur
Dressers and Fur Dyers' Association,
which represents a large portion of
the trade, but it is understood that
conditions in the trade have reached
the stage where immediate definite &C
tion is necessary.
While the fur manufacturers are
now in their comparatively dull sea-
son, they are in need of dressed furs
to go ahead with their production Of
sample models for next fall and winter
The strike is holding back this ma
terial. Several fur dealers yesterday
declared that they had to refuse &C
ceptance Of orders because they could
not have their skins dressed and dyed
for customers. If the strikers win
their demands for a 35 per cent in
crease in wages it is likely to have
an important effect on the price of
finished fur garments
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
CoIors
British Dyestufs Combine
Looked Upon Here as
Formidable CompetitOr

Competition between American and
British manufacturers of colors for the
sale of dyestuffs in foreign markets is
expected to be intensified as the re-
suit of the combination formed last
week by British Dyes, Ltd, and the
Levenstein Company. These interests
are now amalgamated into $10,0O0,-
600 corporation. AS far as England
is concerned the new combine will
have a practical monopoly of the bus
mess because of the restrictions placed
by the British government on the i'm
portation of coloring mate RAILS. The
British corporation ~ also have the
preference in the .ish dominions,
and the exclusion of all but English
dyestuffs put in force by the govern
ment of Australia is regarded by man
ufacturers in this country as likely
to be followed by similar action on
the part of South Africa and Canada.
Restriction placed on the importa-
ton of dyes into the United States,
which will be brought about by the en-
forcement of the patents taken over
from the Germans by the Alien Prop
erty Custodian and now in the hands
of the Chemical Foundation, Inc, is
expected to assist the American dive
industry in entering the foreign field
on competitive basis
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Leather
Subsidence Of Knitting
Craze Increases Demand
for Leather HANDBAGS

High prices have not deferred con-
sumers from purchasing leather hand
bags and poeketbooks, according to re-
tailers of these goods. Sales in the
leather goods departments of the big
stores and in the leather speciality
shops are reported to be as good as
ever. The demand for leather hand
bags 1t is expected will now fall off
sharply, as with the coming of spring
many women favor cloth bags, which
can be made of materials harmonizing
with their garments. Small leather
novelty pocketbooks and plain pocket
books for Enclosure in handbags will
be sold in big quantities buyers for the
department stores predict.
Since the ending Of the war and the
subsistence of the knitting craze
there has been an increase in the sale
OF high grade leather shopping bags
ranging from nine to twelve inches in
size. TIE campaign to encourage de-
partment store purchasers to "carry
their own small packages" still being
on, these bags serve a useful purpose,
Some leather goods buyers declare
that the prices of leather handbags
pocketbooks and novelties have in
creased about 20 per cent since the
start Of the war. Sheepskin, which was
formerly used on the cheapest grade OF
Focketbooks and handbags, is now be-
ing turned out in better finish by the
tanners and Is being made into more
expensive goods. The shortage of goat
skins, which ordinarily go into the man
ufacture Of the better line of small
leather bags, is given as the reason fos
the improved quality of sheepskin.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Business Money

AS yesterday was the last day Of the
month, banks were occupied with other
matters than commercial paper. They
took little interest in the market. The
rate remained unchanged at 51a per
cent. There Is practically no 5E per
cent paper sold in New York and very
little sold out of town. One broker
asserts that he sold here last week
some 100000 of one name at ga per
cent The name, however, is excep-
tionally we'll known, and the notes
were indorsed by another firrl, making
it practically two-name paper. There
is firm market at 51a per cent, ac-
cording TO some brokers, but others
continue to assert that they can sell
at ~ per cent all they can get at that
figure. The first of the new month
is not generally expected to witness
any marked revival in borrowing.
A few new bills have made their ap-
pearance on the bank acceptance mar
ket, SOC Of them commercial and a
good deal of them grain corporation
bills. The demand from the banks
yesterday was rather poor, but suffi-
cient to take up a limited amount of
offerings, so that many brokers re-
dollars of bills accepted by one New
York bank are expected to appear on
the market this week. The bills
drawn against shipments from the
Argentine, which had been tied up by
the recent harbor strike, are expected
to begin appearing some time next
week. The total amount, it is esti-
mated, will be around S10,0O0,O00.
In an address delivered yesterday
at the annual convention of the As
sociation of Reserve City Bankers at
New Orleans, D. H. G. Penny, vice
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Textiles
Large Bleached Cotton
Goods Orders FoII0w
Price Reductions

An encouraging demand for bleached
goods, also for colored products, was
reported in the white goods district
yesterday, and fairly good volume of
business was transacted in unbleached
goods. The mills rather than the
brokers seemed to be favored with buy
ing orders for gray or unbleached
stuff. Fabrics suitable for receiving
printed designs we're most wanted
Some of the mill agents stated that
print cloths known as 64-60s had
advanced to 9% cents a yard, this quo
tation comparing with 9A cents on
Friday last.
In the bleached goods division of the
have cut prices on their products re-
ported that they had enjoyed the larg-
est volume of business placed in four
months. The orders were numerous
rather than large in any singl, in
stance. In many cases kilograms asking
for small quantities of goods, with re-
quests that they be shipped promptly,
we're displayed to prove the asser.i ion
that business in the aggregate was
large.
Ore Of the leading sellers of popu-
lar brand of bleached goods advanced
the price half cent yard and an
nounced that a sufficietn number of
sales had been made to warrant the
higher quotation. In the field of col
ored goods prominent manufacturer
made sharp reductions in the prices of
tickings and domets, the latter being
used in making nightrobes and women s
undergarments. The recessions 7
cents yard in the price Of tickings and
2h to 4 cents yard in domets-were
expected to give buyers basis for
trading without fear of prices going
still lower. A little better inquiry for
housekeeping goods, towels, tablecloths
and napkins developed. In this quar-
ter of the white goods market demand
had been dormant. Mail orders for
high grade cloths made of linen, also
of cotton, appeared, and it was stated
that numerous body Of Western job
bers was expected in the market this
week.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

president of the National Bank Of
commerce, said: prior to 1914 bank
acceptances in the United States were
unlmportant, and we conseouently
lacked the instrumentality for making
dollar exchange an important factor in
international operations. Since the in
auguration of the Federal Reserve
system. however, the growth in the
volume of bank acceptances has been
rapid Bankers acceptances purchased
by the Federe reserve banks amounted
to only $4,000 in February of 1915.
BY February, 1918. the figure had
reached 1924 100000. On August 81.
1913, the total acceptance liabilities of
member banks of the Federal Reserve
system were s522,0O0,0o0. The total
for all banks in the country NAV well
have been S750,000,000, or three -fourths
of a billion
"Of our bank acceptances something
over half are employed in foreign trade.
In the New York discount market for
dollar acceptances the margin of profit
is now about one sixty-fourth of l per
cent, which is about the same as the
pre-war margin on sterling. After
the war we must take many a leaf
from London's book. Cur commodity
markets must be made more LIQUID
Although longtime interest rates on
investments will remain high after the
war, short-time money rates on prime
acceptances and on call money NAV
be expected to go low for period of a
year or more, as consequence of our
excessive gold holdings"
Fifteen to sixty day prime trade ac-
ceptanees were quoted at 5M51z per
cent; sixty to ninety days, 5G05a Der
cent; Endorsed trade acceptances, AZ
per cent, all maturitles.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Carpet Auction Attracts
Many Buyers to City
Forty Thousand Bales of Floor
Coverings To Be Offered
This Week

An auction sale of carpets opens to-
day at the salesrooms of the Alexander
Smith & Sons Carpet Company, 1O5
Fifth Avenue. The sale starts at 10
o'clock this morning and will probably
continue the remainder of the week.
Forty thousands bales of carpets are
to be offered to buyers, and the prices
realized during the auction are ex-
pected to govern the manufacturing
trade throughout the fall buying sea.
son.
An unusually slarge number of buyers
have arrived in the city to attend the
auction, and brisk bidding is expected
Most of the manufacturers united in
declaring that stocks held by jobbers
as we'll as retail dealers cannot be
otherwise than low, and it also was
said that supplies of carpets held by
the manufacturers are light. Produc-
ton, it was asserted, is slowly increas-
ing, but it will take considerable time
for the mills, most of which until re-
Gently had been engaged on govern
ment work, to get back to their pre-
war outputs.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Nova Scotia Miners Ask
Embargo on r, s. Coal

HALIFAX, N. s., March 31.-A depu-
tatlon from the Nova Scotia Federation
OF Miners, it was announced here to-
day, will wait on the government au-
thorities at Ottawa soon to discuss
with them the feasibility of placing
an embargo on United States coal. Ow-
ing to lack of ships several Nova
Scotia mines have been closed and
considerable unemployment is reported
to exist, because of the curtailed mar
ket due, it is said, to the loss of the
bulk Of the ST. Lawrence coal trade to
American operators.
American bituminous coal is now
SAID to be finding its way into New
Brunswick through Quebec. At a re-
cent informal conference between min
efs' delegates and members of the
legislature it was stated that the
Nova Scotia coal mining situation had
reached an acute stage.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Shirtings in Demand
Manufacturers Making Ready
to Fill Soldiers Wants
business Net1s Bureau
Go1. \ o.,ur

business NetpS Bureau
Special Correspondence
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, March 81
Anticipation of large demand from
soldiers and sailors is the explanation
given for lively call for shirting
from New Bedford mills the past few
days. Most of the business done was
for very quick deliveries, as the manu-
facturers are still unwilling to tie up
their plants for any considerable period
at the prevailing market prices. Some
sales were reported also in voiles and
lawns, but not of an extensive char
acter, as the figures Of the buyers and
the manufacturers were too lar apart
to effect a compromise in many in
stances.
Limited demand was made for CAB
ardines and organdies, and in one case
of cloth to go into boot tops, by buyers
who were in town personally. The
total production has not increased per-
ceptibly, but local mill men are still
optimistic of the very near future.
The Fall River print cloth market
has been quiet and steady, with only q
moderate demand, largely for quick
delivery of goods. The total sales for
the week just past approximate 1OO,-
900 pieces, less than half of the sales
of the previous week. In spite Of this,
however, the increased business of the
last four weeks has been sufficient to
warrant mills gradually to resume
full operation. Fourteen cloth manu-
featuring concerns operated their
plants full time last week against
thirteen the week before, and several
others have increased their working
schedules. A still further resumption
Of normal operating time is looked for
in the next few days.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Rubber
Retailers Are ConserUa-
tiue i1. Ordering Stocks
of Rubber Goods

Rubber drug sund-ias are among the
commodities that tie general public
apparently believes should be reduced
in price, Judging from reports from re-
tailers. Buyers in the department
stores and chain drug stores say that
they are only placing orders in small
lots for these goods, as they feel that
lower prices are in order Only those
stores carrying large stocks which re-
tai! rubber goods under their own
names have to place quantity orders
with the manufacturers to re-
ceive this special stock. Others which
normally sell hot water bags, syringes,
etc, under the stores name have for
some time past abandoned this prac-
tce in order to avoid buying in large
quantities. They prefer under pres
week, whereas before the war it was
customary to place six months sup
ply in stock at one time. Manufact-
urers, it is said, recognize the feeling
Of uncertainty that prevails in mer-
chandising circles, and are not making
any effort to push" goods onto the
retailers.
The general line of rubber goods
that enter into the stock Of a drug
an average of about 25 per cent in cost
to the consumer since the war started.
This advance in most cases, declare
the buyers, went into effect prior to a
year ago. Rubber sheeting increased
in price most perceptibly in the latter
months Of last year, going up about
so per cent. Since the signing of the
armistice, however, the cost Of this
commodity has declined about 25 per
cent. The cotton ingredient used in
the manufacture Of rubber shceting Is
held to be chiefly responsible for its
marked increase in cost during the
war period.
During tho influenza epidemic the
stores made their heaviest sales Of
atomizers and ice bags, but the mild
winter has resulted in their stock Of
hot water bags remaining comparative
ly heavy. Special sales at reduced
prices are. now being held in an effort
! TO move this stock.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Silks
Tendency of Silk
Goods Prices Influences
Buying for Fall

The week opened auspiciously for
the silk trade. Many buyers from the
Middle West, the South, as well as
nearby sections, visited the numerous
showrooms. All of them purchased
fabrics on a rather liberal scale. Not
only spring goods but fall weaves were
taken in way that seemed to please
the selling agents.
Heavy crepe de chine and satins ap-
peared to be in most demand for fall
delivery. The business done in spring
goods was of the filling in type, with
which manufacturers have become IA
miliar during the present buying sea-
son. Retail dealers for months past
have deemed it prudent to buy goods
just as their wants determined, and on
this account buyers have been visiting
the market more often than in other
years.
Supplies of spring weaves we're said
to be running low, and therefore the
products that have recently been pur-
chased have to be drawn from the
shelves of the selling agents rather
than from mill supplies. 1t was re-
ported that visiting buyers who came
here with the intention of filling only
their near future needs seemed to be
impressed with the firm situation of
prices for high class goods, and there
fore they decided to place contracts
for goods to be sold at retail next fall.
There was a good demand for raw
silk yesterday, and prices for Japanese
goods held at firm levels. Somewhat
more interest was displayed in Chinese
silks, but it was said that those manu-
facturers who have become accustomed
to using the Japanese material are not
keen about changing to the Chinese
article, the price Of which now is on
a competitive basis with that of the
Japanese raw silk. Developments in the
exchange rate for Italian money were
reported to have caused a reduction
of about 20 per cent in the price Of
italian raw silk, and for that reason
some of the importers were said to have
sent cables to Italy with q view of
doing business If possible. Other i'm
porters intimated that q drop of 20
per cent in the price of this product
was not enough to bring the cost of
the Italian product to level where
it could forcibly compete with the
Japanese raw silks, the principal stand
ard grade of which is held at $6.45 a
pound, against about $3.50 for the Ital-
ian stuff.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
prrSINESS NEWS BUREAU.
Tribune Building
l54 Nassau Street
Germany Offers
Outlet for Large
Amount of Copper
E Committee Representing Ex-
port Association Also
Finds Industries i'm Other
Countries Need Supplies

1arga demands for copper may be
.xnected from Central Europe, ac-
cording to the committee representing
,ha Copper Export Association, which
has lust returned from abroad. The
committee made an extensive investi-
.at;on of the metal situation In the
various European countries. The
stocks Of copper in Germany and in
what was formerly the Austrian En-
pire, the committee states. are COM
pletely exhausted, and these countries
will be supplied with American metal
as soon as the trade restrictions are
removed.
The committee further found that,
while the Allied governments have
large stocks of copper on hand, the
copper consuming industries in those
countries are short of the metal. The
latter will receive new supplies when
the various governments undertake the
distribution of the copper they now
hold. The industries are doing a fair
amount of business.
Great Britain, France and Italy. it
is announced, have extensive plans
under consideration for the electrif-
cation OF railways and for other con-
struction in which copper will be ex-
tensively used, and if these plans are
carried out American producers will
find a good market for the metal in
those countries. There is besides this
an almost immediate need for replace
ments as the result OF changing over
plants from war to peace operations.
Labor difficulties, the transformation
Of industrial plants, and the lack of
proper transport facilities, are at
present retarding the resumption of
business, but the committee expects
these difficulties to be overcome in the
near future and anticipate an active
demand for copper. Consumers in Eu-
rope have held back purchases, it is
said, because Of the high prices which
the governments have been asking for
copper. This has retarded consump-
tion, but the governments are now said
to have changed their attitude and are
meeting the competition fixed by prices
named in this country. The committee
is of the opinion that this sction will
stimulate buying in the European
countries.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Chemicals
Large Government Stocks
of PhenoI Cause Buy
crs to Hold Oft

The phenol situation is seriously en-
gaging the attention of manufacturers
and dealers. Trading in that chemical
has practically ceased, buyers desiring
to await the action Of the government
in regard to tho disposal Of it's stocks
before entering the market. Various
estimates among dealers are that the
supply Of phenol now on hand In this
country is large enough to last at least
Ave years. Some estimates run even
higher than this.
A slightly increased export demand
for caustic soda way recorded yester-
day, but this was not large enough
to strengthen the market for this
chemical. Otherwise the market for
heavy industrial chemicals is dull.
Labor troubles are having an effect
In restricting tho production Of chcmi-
Gals,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Cocoanut Oil Supply Heavy

Trading in cocoanut oil, used in the
manufacture of cocoanut butter, lard
substitutes and soap, is reported al
NEST at standstill, and dealers do not
look Tor resumption of active busi-
ness until unrestricted shipments can
ne made to foreign markets.
one large importer of cocoanut oil
aesiared yesterday that, although the
restrictions on exports are officially re-
mosea, 1T Is nevertheless difficult to
~; ppsaln license for foreign shipments.
hss explanation was that the Allied
blockade board is preventing the ship
m1aent OF oils and fats to the north
Europeon ncutrals until peace is ac-
tually signed.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Campaign Against Fur Tax

At meeting of the Board Of Trade
of the Fur Industry yesterday a COM
mittee of fifteen prominent members
Of the local fur trade was appointed
to adopt a definite programme in the
campaign against the 10 per cent ex-
else tax on finished fur garments.
Adolph Engel. of A. & J. Engcl, was
throughout the country will be started
for the purpose of adding out of town
members to the committee.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-01
Metals
Firm Bids for Copper Ap.
pear With Resumption
of Opeu Market

No actual transactions in electrolytic
copper were recorded yesterday on the
New York Metal Exchange, although
the reopening of the market for open
trading aroused much interest in the
trade. There was large attendance of
both buyers and sellers. 1t was largely
because of the hesitancy of the latter
that no actual trading ensued, as buy
ing orders were in evidence on firmer
basis than anticipated. Bids for spot
were 15h cents pound. while April
copper drew bids of 1873 cents, and
from that point thers was a steady ad-
cance in futures until August Septem-
ber bids for the metal reached 15%
cents.
The lead and spelter markets con-
tinued dull, and no change in prices
was recorded.