davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23
EXECUTORS NOTICE

In Court of County Judge, State of Flori-
da, DeSoto County.
In re Estate of Frank S. Strobhar, de-
ceased:
Notice is hereby given, to all whom II
may concern, that, on the third day OF
July, A. ID. 1919. l shall apply to the Hon
orable George w. Whitehurst, Judge OF
said Court, as Judge of Probate. for my
final discharge as Executor of the estate
of Frank S. Strobhar, deceased; and that
at the same time / will present my final
accounts as Executor of said estate, and
ask for their approval.
Dated: Punta Gorda, Dec. "a, A. D.1918.
HABERSHAM KING, Executor.
Salt monthly till June, 49,
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
p, w, MEADOW DECEASED

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
p. w. MEADOW, DECEASED.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS:
In the Matter of the Estate of p. w. Nc
Adow, Deceased:
To all and singular the creditors, lega-
tees, distributes and ALL PERSONS
HAVING Claims or demands against
said estate:
You and each Of you are hereby noti-
fled and required to present any claims
or demands which you or either of you
| may have against the estate of p. w
Meadow. deceased, to the undersigned
Administrative of said estate within two
years from the date hereof, else the same
will be forever barred
Dated Sept. 20, 1918.
MARIAN A. MEADOW, Admins
tratrix of said estate.
| (Sept 20-1S-2 yrs)
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

Mr.. Swan Hartwell, of Boston,
is spending a few days at the Ho-
tel Punta Gorda while he is hav-
ing his new cabin cruiser complet-
ed at Charlotte Harbor.-HOTEL
REPORTER.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23
FOR SALE

FOR SALE - Choice location on the
new hard surfaced county road in So
lana, facing 26O feet on Marian Avenue
and having depth OF SOC feet-,streets
on three sides-splendidly fenced, very
rich soil-fruit trees all of best nursery
erowth-well built small dwelling. Moth
ing can excel the opportunity, for re-
turns on vegetables, fruits and poultry.
Apply to Dr. BURLAND. Box 70, Punts
Gorda, Fla.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

FOR SALE-Thu following cards 1or
sole at this office: ''House for Rent i,
.Uouse for Sale, Furnished Rooms foY
Rent. .'Unfurnished Rooms for Rent !,
Rooms and Board" AUTOMOBILE ieT
Hire. Price 10 cents each or three loF
20 y, cents "a" Std
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

FOR SALE-Best Orange and TrucE
Lands at BARGAIN PRICES, VIZ. S-acrs
p,,nta Gorda; also, 55 acr.s ON Sheif
Creek, FINEST ORANGE LAND In the
stat, 6, ca also for truck. To be sold 10
wind up estate of Mary ]. Buell.. de-
ceased.-Further information given on
application to John Robinson. 1S3 u.
Hudson street, Elrnira, N. Y. 46-st
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

FOR SALE-Two-story rooming house
furnished or unfurnished. Five sleep
ing rooms upstairs. Three suites of two
robins each for light house keeping De
low. Electric lights, large varandas. two
cisterns of rain water. On Dixie High-
way, two blocks from p. o. asd IL miles
from aviation camps. Very asonap'e
Corda Fla 40tf-
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23
CLASSIFIED

ar Advertisements inserted under this
head for cents per line each insertion.
six words counting a line.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

Heartburn indigestion or distress OF
the stomach is instantly relieved by Her
bine. It forces the badly digested food
out of the body and restores tone in the
stomach and bowels. Sold by all drug
gists. (advt)
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

After we have beaten our
swords into plowshares, the next
thing will be to straighten out
corkscrews into hatpinS.-Kansas
City Star.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

All kinds of meats, fresh and
salt, at Fl. w. Smith s. ltf
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

FOR sALE-A good home Groom
dweling) and big barn and 7-acre 10.
with bearing fruit trees, IN eastern par'
of town. Bargain price.-W. G. HALL,
Punta Gorda- 2tt. tit.po'j
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

FOR SALE-Two shot guns, for Tween
tv dollars: one Buick roadster FOR Nnie-
ty Dollars. Address N. c. A., Care 5 r",S
346. Punta Gorda, Fla, oo'A
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

| FOR SALE OR LEASE-On account
of sickness, Thos. Sheridan wishes 10
sell or lease his home place In Laviiia-
stiff.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

VISITING CARDS-Visiting cards
printed from appropriate type faces, lin
en- or vellum finish. 25 for Soc. so for Csc,
100 for 81. 00.-THE HERALD.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

u are several people in
tod DO have money to pay for
til but they are too derned
slim 10 they go regularly to
some xt door neighbor to bor-
row the paper. Such people are
always considered as blamed nui-
sances by their neighbors, who
are, however, generally too polite
to tellthem so. 1t makes a man
who pays for a paper weary to
find, when he wants to read it,
that he must wait on some titewad
who has borrowed it.-Ocala Star.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

Let us have a sardine cannary.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS

1918 PLANT PRoTECToR-In trans
planting, guaranteed to protect tenders
plants from sun. cold wind. frost ana
rabbits Simple. cheap. Sample, how 10
make, s1.-JAMES Nj. BROWN, Punta
Gorda, Fla.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

FOR RENT-Office Rooms. neat, large
and we'll ventilated--over Coopers Hard
ware Store. Apply to THE HERALD. ~
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

WANTED-A good mich COW, aiso'
small sow pig Don't care now small.
that is. the price,. S. JACKSON, jr.4tf
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-23

It
e. v. CAMP. Engineer, Box 421 Attain
Ia, Georgia. 1jan19-4t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16

had been carried on by the interests
seeking to depress prices for the beneflt
of the spinning interests of the south
Mr. Wensel called attention to the fac;
that it had cost the south, under war
time conditions, in the neighborhood OF
so cents pound to produce cotton in
1918, and that financial ruin threatened
the south if its crop should be sold be-
low the cost of production. As means
of overcoming the temporarily unfaVor-
able conditions prevailing in the market,
Mr. Wensel in his advertising campaign
urged that every cotton grower in the
south hold the unsold balance of his crop
for remunerati tive prices and that the
acreage for the new crop be cut to the
bcne The whole south responded to this
appeal and the first fruit OF the advertis-
ing campaign was the holding of large
convention in the city of New Orleans,
attended by delegates from every state
ir the cotton belt. This convention for
mally launched and approved the hold
ing and cotton acreage reduction move
ment which Mr.. Wensel has been the first
to suggest. He was elected chairman
of the publicity committee, and in that
capacity has been working day and night
for the past five weeks to make the pro-
gramne outlined at the convention eff
fective throughout the entire belt
Il propose to see" said Mr.. Wensel
recently. that each of the 800 cotton
producing countries are thoroughly or
ganized; that the acreage is cut one-third
as compared with that of 1918, and when
the cotton world is convinced that TINS
has been done the good fight is Won'
and the 1919 crop will not sell at 10 cents
a pound as a crop of 15,000,o0 TO lo'oVo'V"
would"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16

belt. asking him to undertake a publici-
ty campaign, similar to one he had con-
Quoted in the latter part of December,
1916. he came to that city to see whether
the cotton merchants there would JON
in the movement to advertise to the world
the real truth of the cotton situation
and to call upon the farmers of the south
10 hold their cotton off the market Tin
til they could sell it at better price
and to reduce the acreage for the new
crop.
The Memphis Cotton Factors associa-
ton had already pledged its unanimous
support to any work along this line that
might be undertaken, and backed up by
the moral and financial support of cot
ton interests all over the south, he found
the cotton factors of the Crescent city
in receptive mood. They grasped the
big idea, which was that printers ink
should I've used extensively to offset the
demoralzing conditions that threatened
the cotton industry of the south with
ruin.
The support that he sought in New Or
leans was promptly forthcoming, and the
news soon spread around the cotton mar
ket that "Wensel is in town. Bearish
interests that had tried to take adVaht-
age of the situation that had been ere
ated by the famous Lansing interview,
ing our entry into the war against Ger
MANY. knew what this meant. They had
unpleasant recollections of quiet, de-
termined man, who had the faculty. Oh
telling the whole world the truth ABOUT
the cotton situation through the medium
of the newspaper. AS a leading cotton
factor of Natchez. Miss, head or the
well known firm of Rumble & Wensel
Co. Theo. V. Wensefs name was one
to conjure with in the cotton market
Bulls who had been making an almost
hopeless fight to maintain prices, IN the
face of strong opposition from wall
street and northern mill interests. at
once pIucked up courage, and the fight
for control of the cotton market was on
IN earnest.
Assured of all the financial support
that he needed for the time being, MI
Wensel made his headquarters at the
Chambers Advertising Agency IN New
Orleans, and from that source sent forth
a stream of advertising that quickly
overcame the bearish propaganda that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
Cotton Goods Review

New York, March 15.-Cotton goods
markets have been more active than for
sometime past. Sales have been made
freely at very low prices and toward the
end of the week advances were paid on
print cloths and other convertibles. Price
revision made on southern staple glns-
hams, tickings, and some other colored
lines were very sharp and new ousi-
ness was booked for future delivery moro
actively than has been the case for
long time. Some further reductions were
also made in the prices of low grade
cotton flannels.
The reduction in cotton blanket prices
has been followed by the booking of more
orders Some of the jobbers and cata-
log houses are making new and lower
prices on staple lines and are stlmulat'
Ing new business. Jobbels continue to re-
port steady trade in eastern markets.
the lots purchased being small in volume.
Seasonable merchandise, such as fabrics,
white goods, cretonnes, have sold bettet
than staple domestics.
There is a better demand for cotton
goods for export and sales haye peen
much better. China and far eastern mar
kets have purchased more than 1o,0Gt
bales of sheetings for future delivery anu
additional business has been done III
the eastern Mediterranean and Red sea
markets Two of the largest manutac-
turing units in New England are to re-
sumo and increase their output and II
several directions signs of larger busi-
ness are evident. Prices quoted are d.
!, follows: .-eo,.
! txyEt r. brown sheet
! ines southern standards, 161sc to TIC; de-
MINIS southern indigo, 22Os, 25c; ticklngs
S-oz., eastern, nominal at 34c, southeri
at &c; staple ginghams, eastern l'72'
nominal, southern 111ac; dress glnghams
2Oc and PC.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
Clearing House Banks

New York, March 15.--The actual
condition of clearing house banks and
trust companies for the week show that
they hold $5S,7S3,510 reserve in excess
of legal requirements. This is an in
| crease of $S,S72,4 from last week. The
statement follows:
etc. $4,92S, O4s,OO increase, $113.0O9.-
federal reserve banks, $951S00O0: in
crease, $1,552, 900. Reserve in federal
reserve bank of member banks. $685.
$4,000; increase, $24,540,000. Reserve
| in own vaults. state banks and trust
companies $11,619,0OO; increase, $780,
! 600. Reserve in depositaries, state
banks and trust companies, $10,96O, 900;
! decrease, s1,335 900. NET demand de-
posits, 1895, 1855, 900; increase. $780,
476.O00. Net time deposits. $14S.556,-
000 increase. $S.736.000. Circulation,
$36, 200: increase, $4,000. UNITED
| States deposits deducted, $259,S03,00O
Aggregate reserve. $685., 49S.000. Excess
reserve $5S,7S3,510; increase, $S,S72.-
440.
! Summary of state banks and trust
companies in Greater New York. not
included in clearing house statement;
Loans, discounts, ETC., $79S,S13,50O; in
] crease, s3,295,S0O. Gold, $S,157, 500; de-
crease, $4,000 Currency and banknotes,
| $l7,075, 700; increase $1,50S,600. Depos-
/ its with federal reserve. bank, New
York. $65,5532 200; increase, $6.o9S.7O0.
| Total deposits, $S07.606.300 increase,
$7.650,S00. Banks cash in vault. S17.-
10000. Trust companies cash in vault.
$72,9S9,500
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
For Rough, Wrinkled,
Freckled, Pimpled Skin

AS March winds. flying dust and dirt,
are apt to injure any complexion, this
information will be of special value
right now. If you have any cutaneous
blemish, don't use paint, powder or any
thing else to cover it up. Too often this
much easier to remove the disfigure
ment with ordinary mercolized wax
Applied nightly, the wax VIII gradually
remove freckles pimples, moth patches.
sallowness, red or yellow blotches or
any surface eruption. The affected cuti-
Gle is absorbed, little each day, until
the clear soft. youthful and beautiful
skin beneath is brought wholly to view.
Ask the druggist for one ounce of mer-
colized wax and use this like you use
cold cream. Remove in morning with
soap and water. Many who have tried
this simple, harmless treatment report
astonishing results
If bothered with wrinkles or burrows,
wash lotion made by dissolving an
ounce of powdered saXolite in a half
pint of witch hazel will prove wonder
fully effective.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
Merchants Glad to See One
Saturday Without Usual Kan
Rr John c. MOSES

c. MOSES
Groupers-14c.
Shrimp-Iq1213c
Meats
,. S. ribs-25.90c,
d. So Clear Beliles-32d33 SIC.
ID. S. Rib Belies-31G32c.
Premium Lard-30Ac.
Silver Leaf Brand Lard-2924c.
Choice dressed oeef-ZJa23c; mdeiIm,
2Od21c.
Choice LSmb-30c.
Hams-Regular, 30q34c: skinned. 32qSo
Pork loins-20c.
Produce
Lemons-s5 box.
Peanuts-Spanish roasted, size; Span
ish, raw, Sc; Virginia No. l. 101Rc.
abbage-Florida s4.75 per crate.
Rutabagas-s2.75 per 100.
Sweet Potatoes-Nirginia, 1012c.
Sweet Potatoes-s3.5O per 100.
Irsl. Potatoes-s2 80 per 100.
Onions-Red Globe, $3,75; sack, -.
Iettuce-$4.50d5 per hamper.
Oranges-Florida, $3.50.
Bananas-Extras, &c Id.
Celery-Crate, Sl0@12.50
auliflower-Hamper, 50.
Apples-Barrel, Ben Davis, $50; Wine
saps. &1012; boxed. extra fancy Pippin'
H25; Winesap, s3.75; Ben Davis, $3.50.
Grapefruit-$475.
Tomatoes-s5.50 crate.
Limes-S1.25 per 100.
Strawberries-50c quart.
Meal and Feedstuff
Mixed Horse Feed-$6j.
Old Style Hulls-s2l.
Velvet Bean Meal-s4S.
Corn Chops-$3.50.
Corn-S1.7S.
No. 2 White Oats-SSc per bushel.
ShortS-$55.
Bran-$4S.
c. S. Meal, per cent-S60.
Peanut Meal-$56.
Hen Feed-$3.6O per 100-lb. sack.
Choice Pea Green Alfaifa-s4S.
No. / Alfalfa-S43.
Southern Alfalfa-S38.
No. 1 Timothy-s40.
Glover and Timothy-s8.
Wheat Straw-$20.
Johnson Grass-$3i.
Hides and Tallow
No. 1 green hides, 1870 19c.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16

No. , green salt hides. 17d 1Sc; halt
cured 102c less
No. l green hides, 154 16c
No. green hides. 14Q15c.
No. | dry flint hides. 500 Sic.
No. dry flint hides. 29Q soc.
No. L dry salt hides, 270 2Sc.
No. 2 dry salt hides, 26q27c.
Goat skins, S0@90
Sheep skins and wool, s1.25 41.50.
Lamb skins, 75c@ S1.00.
Horse hides. seas.
Colt hides, 5@ soc.
Hog skins, 25d soc.
Wool 75a soc.
Live Stock
Onion Stock Iards)
Feed Steers:
Good to Choice-11413c.
Medium to Good-9a1lc.
Common to Medium-749c.
Grass cattle. according to weight. Cual
ity and flesh:
Steers-9d11c.
Fat Cows-Sa10c.
Medium Cows-7@Sc.
Cutters-6M7c.
Commensurate.
Heavy Bulls-Sdf0c.
Light Bulls-667c.
OXen-5dSc.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
Weekly Financial Review
BY Associated Press

New York March 15.-Five consecutive
days sessions of trading whlch aVeraseo
considerably over 100000 shares ioaliy'
measures the extent of bullish sentiment
in the stock market this week, even
though an overwhelming proportion OF the
turnover had it's origin with professional
interests.
Fully two-thirds Of the operations, ac-
cording to authoritative estimates, con-
verged around speculative issues TO the
neglect of rails and other shares of &C
oepted intrinsic value. and gains were
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16

well maintained in the face Of incessant
profit taking.
Backwardness of steels and coppers
were again ascribed to conditions In
those especial industries The suspension
of dividends on Calumet and Hecla
throws further light on the state Oh
metal trade.
Apart from these SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS
and a growing conviction that commodity
prices in general are tending down.
ward all reliable indications point to fur
Their improvement in many lines of busi-
ness Bank clearings show an increase
over last week and a marked gain over
the corresponding period of 1913.
The money market has been conducive
to stock market enthusiasm, call loans
lending freely at an average OF AZ 10
AZ per cent, with time funds STEADY at
81 to 51a per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16

All merchants we're glad to see one
Saturday go by without the usual DOWN
pour of rain. And as result Dig uay
trade was enjoyed by all lines
Displays were the best so far TINS sea
son, and prices seemed a little more
Quotations we're as follows:
Poultry
Guineas-50c each.
Roosters-1SG20c.
Turkeys-Live, old toms. 30c; hens, Soc'
Ducks-30c.
Fryers-1k to . lbs, SOC III.
JIenS-2S01 o0c.
Geese-25c.
Fresh Bggs-3Sd40c
Butter
CreameryA-64Q66c
Fish
Spanish Mackerel-20q2ilac.
Pompano-35c
Salt Water Trout-20q22c.
Mixed Fish-12c.
Red Snapper-Headless and drawn, 20
GJ2lc
Gray Saapper-Headless and drawn, l4c
Fresh Water Perch-123c.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
Over w. |. Phelts & Co.'s Wire

New Orleans, March 15.-After de-
cline on the opening, due to small con-
sumption figures, cotton did better to-
day, the new contracts standing late in
the session at rise of % to "a points
over Yesterdays close. 1t could hardly
be called a market in the old contract,
especially in the first half of the session,
when almost no business was done IN
that style. That part of the market is
fast being liquidated. Around the middle
of the morning old contract months were
10 to 20 points up.
New contracts lost 10 to Is points in
the early trading, following the census
bureau report of only 1856 bales OF
cotton consumed in the United States
during February, as against oo6,'ol IN
January of this year and 5loOS4 In FEB
ruary of last year. These figures Iuiiy
confirmed past reports of short hours
among the mills as the result of labor
troubles and lack of business, but it
should be remembered that the statistics
reflected conditions of last month ana
not of this. During the greater part OF
this week New York has reported an
active and higher dry goods market ana
Bradstreets weekly review OF To-Day
SAYS that more textile machinery is en-
ployed in New England.
That mills must buy cotton shortly,
especially now tnat tney are uoinS y
better business, is shown by the STOCKS
| they held at the end of February when
they were $4,000 bales smaller than at
the same time last year, whereas at the
end of January their stocks were NWW
| bales larger than at the end or JAM
ury last year. More rain is falling IN
the cotton belt and this, in addition to
| better mill news. cofirms us in our opin-
ion that the market will continue to
work higher.
| Highest levels were reached late in the
| session when old contracts were at a
| ret advance of q to 40 points and new
| contracts were at a net advance OF 70 TO
IS points, The close was q to 40 points
up, net, on the old and l8 to 50 up on
the new.-Shepard & Gluck.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
Over Private Wires
Over S. R. Stewart & Co.'s Wire

New Orleans, March 15.-The market
today declined al much as 20 points IN
the early trading on the reaction ldea
over the weekend, and intention to
push lquida ton of the recent long In
terest, but as soon as the weather tore
cast was posted, promising general
rains, the market turned Immediate
ly and advanced as much as 40 points
However, the weekend tendency to
clean up sheets for the week and sus-
pended new support told again, and the
market experienced a 2O-polnt redC-
ton, soon followed by a covering de-
mand based on the fear of bullish
weather in developments over sunday
and a rally in the late trading.
The dry goods report says; Print
cloths and convertibles hisEe- and
more active Sheetings still held high
with buying more general. Jo5bers e
port a more quickening of spot trade.
The opening was unchanged to elght
POINTS off and with fairly active de-
n.and prices ranged within 60 points
cr May and As points on the other
months. The close was steady, May 80
points advanced over previous cIose and
later positions Is points net gain. The
close of the week finds the market
in we'll entrenched position for buy
ers The feeling of general confidence
| n al, departments of commerce in this
| country, and the feeling that represen-
| tatives of the allied governments VIII
carry to a satisfactory completion the
| settlement of all peace conditions adus
| to the favorable developments for gen.
eral trade.
| Spot prices are 40 up at New York
lmiddling, assoc.
New Orleans middling unchanged al
27.50c; sales 900 bales.
| Interior markets are unchange1 &c
25 points higher, with a fair demand
| Memphis reports sales Of 1000 bales
| at 27.25c.
The price of cotton ultimately VII
| go higher and we believe that buyers
| who do not take advantage of prevail
! ing prices will find steadily increasing
| demands to satisfy which they will have
| to pay steadily increasing prices TO MI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-27

E. Rayford and Albert j. Thrower.
probationary compositors; Eugene T.
Butler. Joseph P. v. Dorsey and Law
renee H. Howe, skilled laborers. re-
instated. and Ernest Adams. Hardy
E. Adams, Basil A. Braxton, Thomas
L. Corbin. Nico1o Ficco. Archie l..
Glover, Adolph Graef, James G. Pat
terson, William c. Patterson and
Daniel T. Shorter, skilled laborers.
Separations Clarence johnson,
skilled laborer; Isaac M Capayas.
John E. Hardin, Ralph B. Reilly, Mrs.
Fannie T. Hyler and Mrs Ellen
Schrum, skilled laborers, resigned;
Harold A. Miller, probationary COM
positor. resigned. and Leo F. Thomp-
son, linotype operator, resigned
Promotions, etc.-MrS Marie Miller,
skilled laborer. 35 cents per hour. to
helper. 40 cents per hour: Miss Mar
garet G. Bateman and Miss Mary II.