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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
BUILDING AFTER
 WAR RETURNING
 TO NORMAL RATE

Although the amount of building contracts awarded in the territory east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River had reached a normal amount as early as the month of April, according to sta tistics compiled by the F. w. Dodge Company, the month of July was the first one of the current year to show a normal volume of building activity in each of the six districts covered by the Dodge Company's reports. The New England states, Pittsburgh dis trict and Northwest district (com- prising Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota), which had Jagged behind the Central West and the Middle Atlantic States, all showed totals for contracts awarded in July in excess of the average figures for July of the five years preceding 1919.
 Buildings contracts awarded during the month, of July, 1919, in that DOT ton of the United States east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River, totalled S3OS,324, 900. This indicates an increase of per cent. over the figure for June, which was s299,178,000.
 The average value of contracts awarded for the month of July foE each of the five years from 1914 to 1918, expressed in terms of 1919 values, totalled $155, ,460, 1000. Conse- quently. the total volume of opera tons, as indicated by contract awards in July, 1919, was very nearly double the average for the same month o4 the preceding five years.
 Il, tn1 amount of contracts awarded from January 1. 1919, to August 1, 1919 up to s1,29S, S,OOO, which indicates average total volume of building op- erations for the same period during the five years preceding 1919.
 Contracts awarded during July in the New England States amounted to S27, ,96O,OOo, which is an increase ot 20 per cent. over the June. 1919, fig ures The July total indicates an increase in volume of activity of 2S per cent. over the average for July of the years 1914-191S, inclusive.
 The July figures bring the total amount of contracts awarded in this district during the first seven months of 1919 up to s10s, 900. This fig ure is 25 1-2 per cent. less than the average for the first seven months of each of the five years preceding 1919 (figures for previous years being reduced to figures based on 1919 costs.)
 While resumption has been less rapid in New England than else where, the steady increase in contract awards from month to month leads to the expectation that the total for the year 1919 will reach figure indi- eating something close to a norma years building activity.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
BRITISH EXPORT TRADE IS IN
 SERIOUS PERIL
Costs of Production Makes Leaders Fear American
 Competition.

London, Aug. 1S--(Corresponden of The Associated Press) s).-Steadily increasing production costs, due to increased labor and higher prices for raw materials, have developed the fear in England that British export trade is to suffer a severe jolt, if not serious injury. Comparisons are constantly being made with foreign costs, but it is noted that most men fear American competition more than any other.
 Sir Auckland Geddes, discussing in the House of Commons the effects of increased coal prices, compared Brit ish iron and steel prices with those prevailing in the United States.
 Steel rails in England. he said, cost sS5 a ton while in the United States they were $50, and steel plates for shipbuilding s87.50, and in the United States S70. Crown bars were S110 a ton as compared with the American price of S57.50. In pigiron he pointed out, the British cost is | $40 to the American $50.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
HAVE TROUBLE
 GETTING MATE IN FAR INDIA

What would you do if you were an orphan girl in India, where every one is supposed to marry, but where mar riages are arranged by parents? One solution is to go to a mission school for mission girls are in demand, par ticularly if they have had industrial training, and the teachers are willing to act as a matrimonial agency.
 When Govind decides to marry, he geos to the principal and asks for a wife. One of the teachers investigates his references. ami finds that he was formerly of the tanner caste. but is now a Christian, and that he is a policeman with a salary of four dol lars a month and a house. So she recommends PhulwantI. who also came from the tanner caste, and ar ranges for them to look at each other. Both are satisfied and the marriage is arranged for next week.
 But the arrangements are not all ways so satisfactory.
 Bhiwa wants Tara, of whose beauty he has heard. but the teachers decide she is of too good a family for him, and recommend Sonu. But Bhiwa will accept no substitutes and goes away wifeless.
 Prahbu has no better luck, for threo girls refuse to marry him. ''We know a story about him." they say. And for Ameer the teachers can find no husband because she is an ex-Mo- harnmeda in a district of Hindus. So even in India. where every one is supposed to marry, a matrimonial az ency has troubles of its own.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
"TOOTHPICKS. SUH:"


 As far as I know, there is only one man in the United States who deals in quill toothpicks. He is a Russian Jew, citizen of the city of New Yirk. Somewhere in Bohemia he had a fac tory built that took the pride of the geese of the then Austro- Hungarian Empire and maEically transformed it into an implement familiar to many Americans.
 Then came the war. The man in Fourteenth street knew that it would mt be long before the transporting of tooth picks from Bohemia to Broad way would become an extinct occu- patton. So he sent his g. Q. g. call to the consular service of the United States: Where can get more goose quill toothpicks?"
 Not long after that the toothpick king travelled to the east, only to find that his reply had come from Meth odist missionary Rev. George S Min CT. Mir. Miner has business ability par excellence. for he has equipped and carried on 117 day schools in his pro- vince without a cent of approprsa; ;ron from tho missionary board of hiI church.
 Pa" Miners schools are for poor boys. but he Is not in the business Of making begEars of his students. no boy enlists his help who does not show ambition to help himself. The tooth pick man saw all this, saw nlso the unlimited supplies of qoose quills to be found in China, and straightway turned over his production end of his business to this missionary and his schoolboys.
 In tho city of Foochow. Sr. Miner had built up a large higher primary school which Is the term used in China for school doing the last four years of what Americans call gram mar school work. The first floor of tho dormitory. by ripping out a few partitions and installing q bit of pick ct fence. was turned into a toothpick factory.
 was fin that factory the other day. Plenty of room. plenty of light, plenty of air---and plenty of quills. Thirty boys sat at long benches. in each right hand a razor keen knife and a short piece of wire. With a quick
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
FOLDING WINGS
 FOR kIRPLANE OFFERED U. s.
Are Now Being Tried Out By British Govern
 ment.

New York, Aug. 1S.-An invention that may revolutlonize naval flying craft has been placed before the gov ernment by the inventor, John Arthur Weis, of 45 West Seventy fourth Street, New York City. The invention involves the construction of contrac- tible wings on all types of aircraft. With it a machine will be enabled to fold its wings when not in flight, as does the bird.
 The invention has been taken up by the British government, and the tn- yentor yesterday received a letter stating that the first seaplane to be equipped with this system was being constructed at tn Falcon works of the Brush Electric ompany at Lough- borough, I4eicestershire.
 With airpl=aes equipped with con- tractible wings" said MT. Weis yes terday, Ca battleship will be able to carry fifty or more machines as against three or four at present This would have a tremendous effect on naval engagements in the future.
 Tor transatlantic flying it will eliminate the accidents which over took the United States Navy's sea planes N-C1 and N-C3 at the Azores
  were destroyed by the heavy seas they encountered. As soon as a sea- plane with contractible wings. alights upon the sea the pilot can fold the wings and save them from the buf- feting of the waves. He can ther wait until he gets calmer water be fore opening them out for flyins again.
 Tho tpveptiOy, does pot cbauPa thf fundamental construction of the air plane wings. Folding is obtained b! constructing the wings in three ol four sections that close up exactl, | in the same manner as the extension arms used on desk telephones.
 In order to avoid injury to the fab l ire covering the ribs the sections ar, | arranged to split completely apart and then fit closely together when tn | wing is fully extended. A move | locking device holds the wing rigi; | when it is extended.
 The ailerons which help to contro | the machine in flight also collapse but are so arranged that they fl | smoothly when the wing is fully ex | tended.
 1 The wings are controlled by a. smal ! winch in the pilots seat. By turn1n: a handle the pilot can fold the wing i close up to the fuselage in d few sec onds. When folded the wings fit clos ! to the fuselage and the machine 1 l then not more than four feet wide. By the automatic locking device tn, wings apparently are completell rigid, and they have the same exter nal appearance as the wings of thu ordinary machine
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
ONLY ONCE-

It was terrible, pftiab1e mistake, an error sad and pathetic. He waited for the railway train; and the lights were low on the platform. It came at last, and from a carriage there stepp- ed down a dainty damsel, and, look ing up and down the place, she flew to the waiting man.
 Jack, Jack" she cried. Dear old Jack,' and as she spoke she kissed him. Then, looking again. she cried, "Oh, what a bad mistake!"
 Forgive me, maiden fair,'' said the man, and as regards the kiss you gave me, I'll give it back
 Since that night the man has often stood upon that platform dim, but only once in a mans life do such things come to a man..
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18

200 AMERICAN
 ARMY MEN ARE TO FIGHT TYPHUS

Coblenz, Thursday, Aug. 14-(By A P@Two hundred American army officers and men. forming part of the sanitary mission being sent to Poland to fight typhus. will travel through Germany by train as soon as equipment can be obtained The party arrived here today and planned to continue the journey by automo- bile but the German military author ities refused permission for such a large force of uniformed Americans to pass through the German interior in motor cars. The Germans said they feared speculation as to the req sons for the Americans presence might be aroused among the German civilians and that the trip might be unsafe.
 No objection, however, was offered by the Germans to welfare workers crossing Germany in automobiles.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
THE TROUBLE.

The Teacher-WeH. Mary Ellen. and why weren't you at school yester- day2
 Mary Ellen-Please. teacher, muv- yer was i'll.
 The Teacher Hearing infection)- Dear me: what's the matter with her? What does the doctor say it is?
 Mary Elien-Please, teacher. he says it's boy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
THE EDITORS GUESS.

A leading citizen in small town was suddenly stricken with appendt- citis and an operation became neces- sary. The editor of the local paper heard of it and printed this note about it:
 "Our esteemed fellow citizen, James l.. Brown. will go to the hos pital tomorrow to be operated upon for the removal of his appendix by Doctor Jones. He will leave a wlie and two children"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
DRESSING DOWN.

'I don't know what to make of my wife"
 The fat plumber seemed to be in a nervous mood.
 ''Wbatsa matter?" sy-mpatheticaIly inquired his friend, the thin carpen- ter.
 My wife is a. movie fam That's not so bad"
 But she has formed the habit of dressing like any particular star that strikes her fancy."
 "Weu."
 The other day she came home with her hair fixed like Mary Pickford's." {" 'Indeed!"
 And the next afternoon she had ii dressed like Norma Talmadge's." Some ciass,"
 And this morning I saw her trying to fix up like Theda Bara-'
 But why should you worry about little thing like that?"
 T have just heard that Annette Kellerman is coming to town"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
LOOKED THAT WAY.

Patience-That soubrette we saw at the matinee today has her name on all her dresses. understand.
 Patrice-She must have very short name, don't you think?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18

twist the left hand would hold the quill in proper positions; one cut am other. a thrust of the wire to clear the interior. and the toothpick was done. The boy I watched had cut 72o0 the previous day. The factory had turned out 116.ooo.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18

Reillyz-'You'n be sorry to hear that Pat Donovan was drowned yester- day" Dooley-"But I thought Pat was a good swimmer?''
 Reilly-"Yes, but he was a staunch union man. He swan for eight hours then gave 1t up-on principle"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
AUCTION SALE

Household furniture, per order of Mrs. L. Stone, Rut- land, Vermont, Tuesday morning, 10 o'clock, August 19, at 599 Lafayette St., 1 will sell 15 rooms of good medium grade household furniture and furnishings at public auction to the highest bidders at your own price Parlor, dining room, bed room and kitchen furniture, curtains, rugs, carpets, blankets, bedding, stoves, ranges, etc.
 DANIEL P. KEANE
 L16b'p AuctiOneer
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
NOTICE

On and after this date I will not be responsible for any bills contracted by my wife. Concetta Cialone Fuscettu Fusco. Ermilio Fusciello Fusco. L16ss
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18

The people who laugh at the simple hearted natives out in the country have to pay so cents a dozen for their GEES.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18

Also out in the country the kids refuse to pick berries as they are not offered s5 a day for their valuable time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18

People used to visit the slums to obey the Biblical command to CIothe the naked, but now they should go to the theatres and dance halls for that purpose.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
Attention Cash or Credit
LARGE ASSORTMENT

LARGE ASSORTMENT
 NEW AND SECOND HAND Household furniture, rugs, beds, springs tables rocking Morris and Kitchen chairs: pictures. chtE- and glassware, mirrors, vaseG. RCgels sil- verwGre. etc. Call and inspect our stock. Selling at bargain pm ces Terms to suit Bridgeport Auction Sales Co. 2SS Fairfield Ave. Re fs
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
TODAY'S WANTS

'LOST-Pair tortoise shell glasses on Fairfield Ave, between Middle and Main Sts, Il a. m. today; reward. Phone Barnum 542-2. L16s" wANTED-work by the hour caring for children or invalidsby an Amer ican woman. Address American Woman, care Times. L14d"p SCIENTIFIC READINGS - Mrs. Schrewe; appointments daily. All Scaview Ave. Tel. Barnum s55.
 L9t"p
 AUTOMOBILES
 SPEEDOLINE-Fo your motor, 259o to 40fo gasoline saved; increases mileage; delivers pep; guaranteed. Carroll, distributor, Room 26, 925 Main St. '19L1 6aIf
 ROOMS TO RENT
 FOUR largo sunny rooms after August 16. 143 Milne St. Inquire upstairs
 L15s*p
 PASTRY SHOP
 LEAVE your orders for birthday. wedding and party cakes All kinds Pastry Shop, 229O Main St Phone Parnum 2266-12.
 NOTICE
 PARTNER OR HACKER wanted for wonderful new patent; great labor saving device: nothing like it; big money maker; investigation desired. Plans and model can be seen at 69 Crescent Ave. corner Noble Ave.
 L15d"p WANTED.-10O mel for tobacco strip, 9:3O a. m. every day, S2sG day. Board, lodging; laborers 45 cents hour time one-half overtime 100 laborers and woodsmen for Yer mont, New Hampshire. Maine state, $5O good board, lodging. Mrs. Carrol1s Agency, 24 Allyn St, Hart ford. Conn.
 WANTED-10 tobacco men at once. Ship every day at 9:30 a. m.; $2 and $3 with good board lodging; hang CTS S5: farm hands, mixers $50: 100 woodsmen for Vermont, New Hampsire, Maine state, $50. board lodging. Mrs. Carroll's Agency 24 Allyn St, Hartford. Conn. L9t*
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18

LEAVE your orders for birthday, wedding and party cakes. All kinds of pastry bread and rolls. Sprague' s Pastry shop. 22a0 Main St Phone Rarnum 2266-12.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-06
Many British Women viii
Continue To Hold Jobs

London, Dec. 14-(By mail)-Want-
ed: Work for 100000 women.
The number of women who will be
thrown out Of work by thu ending Of
the war is not SO great as is Imagined.
About one and half million extra
women have been employed in the
United Kingdom since July, 1914, but
the number of killed and disabled men
amounts to about one million. There
fore there remain 100000 women work
ers who will be displaced.
Their displacement will come gradu-
ally and they will not be thrown on the
labor market at once, for 19 of the
increase in women's labor consists OF
dilutees. Until the men come back they
will remain at their jobs.
In the meantime many new spheres
have sprung up for women. They will
continue making tools and machinery,
they will be employed in subsidiary
ship building industries, they will do
their share in the chemical trades; and
also, there are two quite new branches
of work open to women of the United
Kingdom-the manufacture of pianos
and toys, both of which industries are
being wrested from the hands of the
Hun.
The outlook for women is cheerful.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-06
Paris And London Are
Neighbors By Plane

London, Dee. H-(By Mail. Thanks
to aviation the world grows smaller
every day.
Time was when Londoners regarded
Paris as town a long way off, and
those who went there considered them
selves welltravelled. Those were the
days when "straight as the crow flies -
was mere figure of speech; but nav
the journey to Paris is being made that
way every day. Parisians are beeom-
ing to Londoners just next-door neigh
bors, and Mr.. Smith Of 1919 will say
to himself al think I'll just drop in
on Alphonse in Paris for lunch" 1t
won't take him any longer to see Al
phonse than it would to drop in and
see his wife in their little suburban
home.
A similar idea occurred to Fred II.
Lawton, of the American Y. NJ. G. A.
While London was rejoicing over the
signing Of the armistiee the American
conceived the idea of showing the
Yanks snd eompatriots in Paris just
what form these rejoieings took. So
movie of the London crowds was TAX
en-. With this Lawton left England at
1880 p. m. and arrived in Paris in
time for luncheon. The flight was
made in big Handley Page airplane,
and from start to finish took only 50
minutes.
That night the Partisan armisticers
were able to see on the screen the an
tics of their friends in London, with
whom they were united in a common re-
joieing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-06

people all had more patriotism, but
real patriotism was lacking IN the
leading classes. They made it their
point to reap fortunes. No matter
which way the Fatherland was drift
ing, they didn't care how much the
lower classes were suffering under the
hardships of war.
"The rich were squeezing all the
money they could out of the people
like you would squeeze an orange. No
wonder the poor working men and
soldiers were thinking at last, i don Y
care whether l become a French, Brit
ish or American subject, so long as l
get it a little better than this All at
once came the breakdown. Soldiers
refused to do their duty, first few,
then more and more, and at the same
time the whole fleet"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-06
The Wondesful Call
When Baby Comes


OF all the INST vital times IN a wuman's
hfe The coming Of baby is fraught with the
greatest meaning. Care should be exercised
TO insure that the crtsis 10 passed In safety.
Apprehension - avoided by tho timely
use Of Mothers Friend, preparation Of
Penetrating oils and medicinal ingredients,
whish renders the muscles, cords, tendons
and lsaments ptiaSle. and tAus tension Is
avoided. Tbs usual nervousness, nausea,
eearinr-tiown end stretching Gains are coun-
teracte aai the period Is c1e CT calm re-
ycsc.
his s.sad. fst Abdominal muscles relax
with case. and when baby comes the time
at TIE crisis Is iess and paia ard danger IS
avoided.
Thousands OF women for isalf century
I've used this penetrating external applics-
Ion. prepared especially for expectAnf nsostS
srs. and every woman awaiting The crisis
should give nature q helping hand.
Write the BradElcl6 Regulator ConSapY,
Dept. +. Lamar Building. Atlanta, Georgia,
for their Motherhood book, CT great yaire
p all uonen, and obtain a bottle OF
Mothers Friend frcm the druggsst and BE-
sin Is application regularly night and
morning.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-06
DALLAS LOCAL news.

Dallas, Or, Jan. 5.--Mrs. Addie Dal
rymple Of Portland is visiting at the
home of her parents, Judge and Mrs
Hardy Holman.
Mrs Harry II. Belt was called to
Portland Thusrday morning upon re.
eeipt of o message stating that her sis
ter was seriously i'll.
Mrs. Anna Embree has arrived in Dal
las from Burns, Oregon, for an extended
visit with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Campbell are in
the Capital City this week guests of
their daughter, Mrs. William May.
Paul Skeels, a Polk county boy draft
ed last year into the army, has returned
from training camp in Georgia where
he was mustered out Of service.
Mrs. Harry B. Cosper was Capital
City business visitor this week.
County Assessor G.. s. Graves has 70
turned from a short business trip Il
Tillamook.
County Commissioner Clyde Beckett
of Spring Valley was Dallas visitor
this week
Mrs. 0saer Hoekett and children have
returned from an extended visit with
relatives in Portland.
Mrs. r E. Meyer has returned to hei
home in Tillamook after several days
visit at the home Of her parents, Mr..
Hardy Holman.
R. f. Williams, president of the Dal-
las City and the Dallas National banks
was in the city from Portland this week
looking after business interests.
Miss Dorothy Childs of Independence
was guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. c. Eakin this week.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-06
Polk County Indian Boy
Wounded In Action

Capital Journal Speeisl Serviee)
Dallas, Or, Jan. 5.-Word was receiv.
ed in Dallas this week stating that Oar
van Watts, Pol keounty Indian boy
from the Siletz country, had been Sc
verely wounded in action while fight
ing with the famous 9lst division.
Watts was a full blood and was draft
ed from this district last March, being
among the first men to be taken from
this county. He was the third Indian
boy to be drafted from the reservations
of this county. One Of the others, Mar
tin hairless. being killed while fight
ing in the Argonne forest. Another
brother of Hairless was also at the
front. Watts was wounded in the same
battle in which Hsrtless was killed.