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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-02
ROADS TO BE PART OF ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS.

Road building, such as is planned in Sumter county,
to be extensively carried all parts of the country
during the coming months Highways that will connect
states and in time form wide continental avenues of
uninterrupted smoothness and safety projected and
work many of these has begun
Pennsylvania furnishes example of this new move
ment to keep with the demands of constantly
ing transportation needs This month the highway
department called for bids construction of 1903
miles of permanent road in various parts of the state
Each section for which bids part
of the arterial highways included in Gov Sprouts
primary" system In many places the be built
to be IS feet in width wider than the old
standard 1t is announced that within weeks bids
will be asked the construction of several hundred
additional miles of highway
This extensive road building will furnish employment
for thousands and will be we'll under way before
the spring is far advanced
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-02
HELPING THE MELTING POT.

One Of the best ways to start Americanzng aliens in
this country the United Department of Agriculture
believes is to teach better standards of living For that
reason the home demonstration agents under drec
ton of the United States Deparmnt Agriculture and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-02

The instruction given by the extension workers
carefully adapted the habits of various
nationaties In Newark N j. the majority of the
eigners Jews, Italians Poles The taken not
offend is than compensated by the cordially
corded the home demonstration agents. with Jew
sh people is confined to subjects which do infringe
their dietary laws. One of the Newark home
stration agents. Jewess, induced many of
try and better habits of diet and living The right
kind of food to give children of various ages taught
dren-common in foreign sectionsis discouraged. The
Jewish diet usually lacks fruit and vegetables the
tension workers emphasize their value in the
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
BUILDERS Use CARE IN
PICKING FLOOR LUMBER

The almost universal replacement
Of carpets by rugs in the houses of
this country makes a beautiful and
desirable floor an important part OF q
house, and the production of high
grade flooring is one Of the notable
developments of modern lumber man
ufacturing, according to the archi-
tectural and building code service of
he National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association.
Every detail has been considered
% make a perfect floor, even to the
accommodation of steel cut nails,
lriven at an angle of As degrees, with
no nails placed within six inches of
he ends of the flooring pieces.
The grain Of woods Is carefully
'tudied. Maple. beech and birch are
lose-grain woods which give equally
good appearance and service for
doors, whether slashed or quarter
sawed, and red and white oak floor
ings are popular.
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
FAIR PRICES PAID FOR
REAL ESTATE By U. s
GovernMent Saved Vast Amount ei
Money on Land Purchases By
Judicious Buying.

1t w. In connection with the Gov.
ernment housing plan. probably for
the frst time In the history Of the
Government that complaints were
made that property had been bought
too cheaply. The Bureau of Industrial
Housing and transportation of the
Department of Labor taught Uncle
Sam how to buy real estate and saved
over 81 100000 In the purchase of
land upon which $4,73o.ooo was ex-
pended.
Requisition was resorted to In COM
paratively few cases. Success came
through q system of exhaustive ap-
praisals developed by William Z
shannon. a Washington business man.
who obtained the cooperation OF the
Rotary Club, the Chamber of Com
merce, the Board of Trade, the mayor
and the assessor In each place. These
organisations and municipal officials
reported upon property values, while
in addition two scouts selected from
the list of real estate men furnished
by the National Real Estate Associa.
ton appraised property where the bu-
reau had been requested to build
houses.
As an illustration OF the variation
in appraisals, a certain piece of prop
erty desired by the bureau and for
which the owner asked 50 1000 was re-
turned for taxation at &505. The tax
assessor said IL was worth S7SS and
the mayor S947. The Rotary Club
placed it's valuation at $3.50. the board
Of trade at $1,000, the war appraisal
of the real estate board at
$500 and the chamber OF commerce at
$1.515. The property was purchased
at $500.
In all. the bureau investigated 1872
proposed projects. 1t actually effected
purchases in ninety-three cases. II
purchased 16.766, ,3o1 square feet of
plotted land and 4.461 acres of un-
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
VAST sums NEEDED TO
FINANCE new BUILDING

In spite OF the growing activity in
building operations, figures on build
ing permits still indicate a consid-
erable shortage of building projects
According to Thomas S. Holden. an In
vestigator for the Department of La
bor, an estimate based on the record
ed figures indicates that 1t will prob
ably require something more than
s50o,0o0, 900 to finance the building
projects necessary to make up the
nations shortage.
Mr.. Holden says: 'If the average
value per building (S1s,15O) during
the year 1905 to 1914 be taken as rep
resenting the normal size Of the aver
age new project as required at the
present time, then 1t will on account
of the increase In construction cost
take about $4,000 to build each of
the necessary buildings required. Six.
teen thousand buildings at $4,000
each gives $3.50 ,0OO, 900 as . rough e.-
innate of the amount that would be
required to finance the amount OF
building necessary today"
The Washington times., 1919-12-27

OF American enterprise and ingenuity
and an asset which can be charged
up to the account of war.
Story Of Cinder Village.
Milton Dana Morrill,, architect and
engineer, told the story of cinder viii
lage in a recent issue Of Contractors
Atlas" He says:
I'VE needed munitions and to get
these we had to have dwellings, to
house the workmen. Overlook Colony,
seven miles north Of Wilmington, was
in the midst of the field of war work
congestion. Houses were urgently
needed for the workmen making mu-
milton chemicals. There was a scare
ity of ordinary building materials,
and transportation was a difficult
matter. even If these could be pur-
chased.
Investigation showed that there
was an ample supply close at hand of
crushed coal cinders, ordinarily con-
sidered a waste product, for making
cinder concrete. Samples were taken
and test blocks made. and the cinders
were analyzed for sulphur, as a high
percentage of sulphur affects the
strength of the concrete. These test
blocks showed q crushing strength Of
1,SO0 pounds q square inch, whereas
in the ordinary house walls the load
seldom exceeds 120 pounds a square
inch"
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
D. ]. DUNCAN FIRM
SELLS new BUNGALOWS

A number Of the attractive new Sew.
enth street homes recently built by
d. ]. DUNCAN have been SOLD. Will
liam ]. Meighan bought the house at
1929 Seventh street; Ernest Gibbons
purchased 1925 and Clarence F. Pol
lock bought 1924 on the same street
Several Chevy Chase sales have also
been closed by the d. ]. DUNCAN Of
ne recently. Francis P: Sheehy
bought the home at 3S10 Jocelyn
street. d. F. Groff acquired the prop
erty at 3915 Mckinley street The
house at 3917 Mckinley street was
sold to Nathan B. williams.
Col. L. T, Booth purchased the at
tractive home at 1921 Mckinley street
and William T. Pollard bought the
home at 1928 Mckinley street The
house at 1928 Morrison street was
sold to Mrs. Anne Gordon King.
The Washington times., 1919-12-27

Michigan. Missouri. and Kansas show
outlays of $500, SOC, 900 for the first
eleven months of the year. This COM
pares with S474. .609, 900 last year.
1913, 100000 in 1917, s424.231, 900 in
1916, $230.061 900 in 1915. s196, 564, 900
in 1914, s173, 3S9. 900 in 1913, $163. $780,
600 in 1912, 100000, 900 in 1911, $751;
159,000 in 1910.
All parts of the country score good
gains over their old high records.
New England, on account of the
slump in the munitions industry, Is
not adding to factory capacity as
during the five preceding years. but
its rush to get abreast of the demand
for homes has called for outlays Of
S20I, ,2SS,0o0 during the year, in COM
parison with s142. 2.615.OOO in 1918 and
over $193,0O0,00O for the two years
before that. The Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh districts, with the sur
rounding middle States, have piled
up s743, LOGO 900. In comparison with
s131 ,O64. 900 in the 1918 period-near-
ly double the best volume Of any pre-
ceding year.
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
OLD MONROE HOME SOLD
AS NEW BUSINESS SITE

All the efforts on the part of pa
trietic and historic societies to save
the one-time home of President James
Monroe at the northwest corner of
Lafayette and Prince streets in New
York city have failed. The quaint old
structure lately used for junk shop
has been bought by the G. & NJ. En-
velope Company, together with the
Crosby street. On this site the buy
ers will erect a twelve-story building.
The Monroe home, together with the
remainder Of the plot, was purchased
by the Charles F. Noyes Company at
an auction conducted on November
IL by Bryan L. Kennedy. The house
itself cost $13S, 900. 1t was understood
that the Noyes Company acted for a
client whose name could not be
learned.
This lent some ground for. hoping
that the woman's Auxiliary of the
American Scenic and Historic Preser-
vation Society which had previously
placed a memorial tablet on the build
ing, might have time in which to
raise enough money by public sub
scription to rescue II from the hands
Of commercial interests.
The difficulty confronting the Aux
iliary was the fact that 1t was prac-
tically necessary to buy the entire
plot and the separations from 1t OF the
Monroe home property rendered the
remainder of the site less valuable
for Improvement purposes.
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
Own Your
Own Home
s2,6OO,OOO,OOO SPENT
IN 1919 FOR BUILDING
Great Proportion Invested in Homes
Establishes New Build
> ing Record.

Tho 1919 outlay for building
projects Of all kinds was approx
1ately $4,000, 900 900. The figures in
operations Of all kinds, but practically
two-thirds of the total was invested
IN the building OF homes. The amount
nearly 81 .0oO. .o0o, 900 above the total
tC last year, which was then a record.
. Reports to F. W. Dodge Company
erOm all sections OF the country yes
eeTday for the year to the first of this
Sn nth show contracts awarded OF
1892 .002 900 in comparison ith
81 .631 ,929 900 for the corresponding
period OF last year, 81 527, ,37O 900 in
a917, 81 .243, ,99s.0OO in 1916, ss57, ,1O0,-
poo in 1915. s677 $40 900 in 1914, sT9s.-
t17.0O0 in 1913, $500. .391 900 in 1912,
eI35.2s3. 900 in 1911, s756, 2s4, 900 in
1910.
Current projects are one-third resi-
Dental, one-third Industrial, Is per
cent for general business. 10 per cent
for public works and utilities. The
great volume OF a year ago was built
up on a base OF more than one-thfrd
Government work. General operations
now average well above the normal
for the past f1ve years.
Most of the new housings are in
the suburbs, where land has been
cheap enough comparatively to
protect builders from the higher con-
struction costs of materials and labor
in the old centers. Suburban opera
tors have been putting up small
houses by the hundreds, and vastly
improved transit facilities enable the
city masses to reach the new outside
homes, where conditions are much
better for the best kind of family
life, and rents or ownership are far
more reasonable.
es20,5o6, 900 In Western Work.
Capital for builders seems to be
most available in the central West,
where operations are running far past
all previous volumes. Reports from
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin,
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
COAL ClQDERS USED TO
BUILD DELAWARE TOWN
Necessities of War Develop New Ma.
terial as Substitute for
Concrete.

Cindertown Is a name that could be
truthfully given to little home COM
munity in Delaware. about seven
miles from Wilmington 1t is really
a cinder town. Every one Of the
seventy-five or more homes there has
been built of cinders. the waste prod
uct Of a large industrial plant near
by. There 1t lay, big heap of fur
mace waste, until the war came and
America gave orders mobilizing not
only fighting men but the industries
of the country.
The call to the Wilmington plant
greatly increased force Of operatives.
The men could be had, but the qucs-
tion was where were they to be
housed. Many Of them were family
men.
Speed Was Paramount.
Speed was paramount. Houses had
to be erected. Building material was
not to be had in the neighborhood
and transportation was a most vex-
ing problem at best. The housing
experts were at their wits end as to
what to do. when their eyes lighted
on the big heap of coal cinders. an
accumulation of months. Can it be
done? The mixing of cement and
cinders in the construction of build
ing walls was the question which en-
tered their minds. The unburnt sui
phur in the cinders might have a de-
structive effect on the cement mix
ture. At any rate, the engineers and
architects grasped at the uncertain
offering, the only straw left them, so
a block Of cinders and cement was
made and put to test for strength.
rhe substance developed unusual sta
bility. as 1t did not start to crumble
until 1900 pounds of pressure to the
square inch was applied. This is l.
$50 pounds more than the usual car
rying capacity of a dwelling or light
manufacturing building wall. The
test was boon to the engineers and
instantly the construction of Over
look. as the village is known, was
started.
1t stands today worthy example
The Washington times., 1919-12-27

Of American enterprise and ingenuity
and an asset which can be charged
up to the account Of war.
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
NEW ENGLAND BUILDING
REACHES PEAK IN 1915

Not since the records began to be
kept in 1901 has New England show
ed such large figures for building con-
tracts awarded as has been the case
in 1919. The contracts awarded for
October amounted to S32,384.000. This
Is a gain over September of more than
two and half million dollars.
According to the secretary of the Mas
ter Builders Association in Boston,
the labor situation is holding up
building more than the lack Of lum-
Der.
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
"HoLLY COTTAGE" SOLD.

Norment farm on the 0seruetcvu
pike at Alta Vista Nd. has been sell
to Or. Arthur l. Day. of the Carnegie
Institute. The owner was Harry New
comb, formerly OF this city. hut nov
Of Orange, N. ].
The farm contains about twenty
seven acres. with a handsome old
home There is &lso plenty of shrub
berry about the GroundA
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
Buy Real
Estate Now

plotted land at q total Of q TSa. -.
An average Of only lS cents Dss osuars
foot for the plotted lanl and eaiy
xoe< per acre for the sapaottsd laaA
Ine property waa purchased tor
$soe.e<l less than its Appraised value
and less than 81 800 900 Of the price
asked by the ovnerS- Many pur-
.chAses were put through In less thaa
fifteen day1.
The Washington times., 1919-12-27
BUYS IN CLEVELAND PARK.

James F. Byrnes has purchased the
Cleveland Park home of A H. Sypher
at 2s4s Newark street. The price was
approximately $4,000. The sale was
made through the firm of Gardiner &
Dent.
Evening star., 1919-11-27

precautionary teacher: NJ. G: Mason.
sixth grade: Fl. B. Masson, teacher
fourth grade. Van Buren, to fifth
grade :. Mfs. ~. p. williams. proba-
tionary teacher third grade wallach.
to permanent teacher; e. g.. Gray.
teacher class 2. Garnet-Patterson-
Phelps. to Douglass Simmons: r.. n.
Bark ef. teacher class 2. Douglass
Simmons. TO Garnet -Patterson-P Phelps;
Miss q. r. Johnson, teacher Deanwood
night, to principal
y gifscelianeOus.
Accept resignation of Mrs T.. f.
Fucker. temporary teacher. fourth
sraae. veland; change the name, of
Miss n. s; Finckei to read Mrs. n. F.
Dawson; change. the name of Miss r. l..
Barker te read Mrs. +. B. Lawson: dis
miss Abe Buchauan. laboref. New Cen
tral, for deserti0n of the service: grant
Indefinite leave of absence to George
Hill. laborer. New Central: accept
resignation OF Miss II. X. Davidge,
t e e he r. Garnet Patterson Phelps,
night: extend leave of absence of Mrs
T. l.. ConnelIy. teacher, Dunbar High,
20 June 80, 1880. at the request of
war Camp Community Service: extend
temporary appointment of Miss Ruth
Brlnkley. teacher, Dunbar High, to
November 90, 1919; establish night
schoo! at Hebrew Institute, at 461 +
street southeast. for Jewish adults.
Evening star., 1919-11-27
in .tnn 10 con,iriSute One -tia1f' Of I per
osnt Of the country's auota, pr Sl0o,-

natnn 10 con,irf6ute one tialf' Of ! per
cent of the ceuntry's quota, pr sloe'-
900. +,a
This day. has been set aslde oS .e
Thanksgiving day offering .commttee
in a final test to have Washingtoh
take her place among the other 'srge arg
cities of the United states. VINO haTS 1sS
worthy cause.
Less than half of the war time re,
lief fund has been obtained ana
charles Henry Butler, chairman Of the
committee, in a statement begs every
one who has already contributed 70
the fund to induce friend or friends
10 do likewise and thus aid the Dis
trict in reaching the goal:
Donations should be sent to Charies
Henry Butler. manager OF the
THANKSGIVING day Offering committee.
l11s III street and they will be ac-
knowledged through the columns OF
the press
Forty thousand dollars is required
to meet the city's quota.
Evening star., 1919-11-27
ALLEGED RADICALS OUSTED.
Three Leave New York Schools
a. After Manifesto Incident.

NEW YORK. November 24.-of the
New York school teachers subpoenaed
by the joint legislative committee on
the belief that they were communists.
recommendation has been forwa d d
for the dismissal of one. 1t was learn
ed that another had been dismissed
some time ago because Of his view
although he denied he was radical.
third. q woman, resigned October 10.
All the teachers examined had sign
ed the manifesto program and rules
of the orRaniza ton OF the left wing
of the socialist party. described as
virtually the same as those of the
communist party here and In Russia.
Many of the teachers said they had
signed without "a complete UNDER
standing Of the papers"
Evening star., 1919-11-27
Sentenced to Limit for Assault,

Edward Herbert. for fifteen years an
employs in the government printing
office. was convicted of assault and
sentenced to $50 days. the limit of the
law. He was charged with throwing
his arms around a young woman in a
Herbert, Judge Mcmahon said: "a
only wish could make the sentence
more severe
Evening star., 1919-11-27
DENIES CHARGE OF WASTE
AT ANCOR NITRATE PLANT

NEW YORK. November ef (by the
Associated Press).-A telegram de-
nyihg an official statement that More
than $5.000,009 was utterly wasted
for overhead administration expenses
and commissions for the Air Nitrates
Company" or the plant at Ancor. Ohio,
has been sent to Representative Will
liam ]. Graham. chairman OF the con-
gressionai investigation subcommit-
tee. by Frank S. Washburn. president
of the company
Evening star., 1919-11-27
Dc. $4,000 BEHIND /:
I ITS RED CROSS QUOTA
appeal Is Made for Gifts to Put
Il the National Ca 9ital Where
( It Belon gs.

EiMillions OF sufferers in Europe and
thousands of soldiers. sailors and ma
rjnes in hospitals here .Nre in need OF
help from the standpoi Mt of welfare
and comfort To give this urgent as
sfstance and to carry out it's war time
obligations the American Red Cross
has appealed to the people of Wash
Evening star., 1919-11-27

The kitchen is the most important
room in the house from a health
standpoint, says the United States
public health service. Keep every
thing about it and every one in it
scrupulously clean
Evening star., 1919-11-27

ERNEST l.. HARRIS,
the American consul general In ST.
berfa. was in Omsk during a bonn
bardment by the bo1shevik forces.
Areoraing ia last reports, he II now
ON his way to Irkutsk. with number
Of Red Cross workers.
During the bonn mbardment several
Ares broke cut in the town. Harris
holds the highest United States State
Department post In Siberia.
Evening star., 1919-11-27
Quick Relief From
Constipation

Get DR.. ,Edwards' Olive Tablets
That Is the Joyful cry Of thousands
since DIR. Edwards produced Olive
Tablets, the Substitute for calomel.
Dr.. Edwards. a practicing physi-
clan for IL years and eslomel's old
time eaemy, discovered the formula
for Olive Tablets while treating pa
|tients for chronic constipation and
torpid fvers,
Dr.. Edwards' Olive. Tablets do not
contain caIomei, but q healing,
soothing vegetable laxative,
No gripins Is the keynote" Of
these little ssigar-coated, olive-coI-
ored tablets. They cause tho bow.
els and FLYER 10 act normally. They
never force them to unnatural &C.
tiou. 49, 49,
If you have dark brown mouth"
-bad breafh-a duh, tired feeling
sick headache-torpid Iiver-consti.
patton, you'll find quick, sure and
pleasant results from one or two
OF DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets at
bedtime.
Thousands take them every nixht
just to keep right. Try them. lec
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-12

finite sinking fund for the bond is
sue is certain. \ bond issue will en-
able the citizens OF Texas to have
good roads much sooner than they
would were they to wait until money
from automobile licenses accumu-
lates in sufficient quantity to build
them"
He said farmers in all parts of
Texas who have heretofore objected
to bond issues for road building are
now advocating such issues because
of their experience with bad roads
during recent months.
Mr., Laney said that three states
have already adopted bond issues
for building good roads and that
other states have similar plans un-
der consideration. They have
found he said, that the need ior
good road, building is becoming
more urgent all the time because
OF increased traffic, intensified farm
ing and the utilization of the motor
truck The demand is coming from
the farmers, who want better means
for getting to market. Frequently
they have been unable to reach the
market when quotations were ia
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-12
MOSTLY OIL and ALMOST OIL
By EUGENE RAY

ability. This bureau OF mines,
right now, is interesting itself in
the conservation OF oil and gas. 1t
encourages the cementing OF wells
to keep the water out. Last year,
from June 10 to December TO- in
the Gushing field alone ll5 wells
were comented as directed by an
expert with this bureau OF mines.
Eighty-nine of these wells are
Welding a daily increase Of 2,375
barrels. Some OF these that were
all water before the cement walls
were put in, are now producing
$50 barrels OF oil. OF course some
produce less, but others produce
even more.
The Gilmer Company, a New
York concern, is putting in vac
uum plant in section 3, about four
miles west OF uealdton.
Bayou 1911 Company, known as
2-4 Company, resume drilling now
that the weather has moderated. 1t
is in the new field north, near Gra-
nam.
N. ". lone, OF the Jones-Eyer-
cit Machine Company, j, in the
Ranger field on business,
DR.. {. O. Richards OF Gary, Ind,
has located in IIcaldton to practice
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-12
Funeral of General Bell

New York, Jan. 1l.-Funeral
services OF Maj.-Gcn. !. Franklin
Bell, L. s. A. commander OF the
department OF the East, were held
today in the church OF ST. Cornelius
the Centurion on Governors Island
The Rev. Edmund B. Smith, chap
ain OF the military post on the IS
land, wa, in charge. The body will
be taken to Washington late today
and intermcnt will be in Arling-
ton National Cemetery
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-12

tions are preparing to erect rigs
at an early date.
The Oakland well has been shut
down for some time on account OF
bad weather.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-12
Ladies' Underwear

To reduce our underwear section
to a minimum, we offer the follow
ing low prices on our Cotton, Silk
and Wool Union Suits. Long and
short sleeves, ankle length, high
and low neck: