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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

NEARLY 100000 has been spent
y or viii Be spent before the year is
out In improvements. extensions and
new buildings at Fort Bliss
The fort, indeed. has added greatly
70 the total Of building operations in
Il Psso and its immediate envircns
although the figures OF money ex.
pended on work at Fort Bliss are not
Tors records because the army reser-
walton Is outside Of the city limits.
add 10 the S3.oo0.000 worth CT work
at Fort Bliss this year the $780, 00
worth o. construction during 1918.
and IL is easily understood why Fort
Bliss ranks as the largest and best
military post in the southern depart
ment not excepting Fort sam Hous-
ton. san Antonio, Texas, said TO be the
second Oldest post in the United
tateA
Il Paso Important Post.
Immediately following the armis-
tee the powers that be in military
circles at Washington turned their
attention TO the border. and principal
" TO FL Pasc and Fort Bliss because
this is the gateway 70 Mexico. Plans
a. once were put on foot 70 enlarge
Fort Bliss and 10 build up the canton
msuts in the FL Paso district. These
plans have been CARRIED out right
along. without q break on zeeount OF
high prices, labor shortage OF scar
city Of materials.
Most Of the figures on expenditure
It Fort Bliss are for labor. The gov
eminent furnishes thousands Of dol
lars worth OF material for every job
az the fort, having an abundance OF
al kind OF materials left over from
the building program during the war.
The government during 1890. Is do
ing all its new work at the fort BY
civilian contract which meaus that IN
keeping with the goverum ent's policy.
local contractors get the Jobs. the
needed materials as Tar as Is possible
are bought locally, and thousands OF
Il Pasosns are given employment
working At the fort.
= Big Hospital
The biggest project at the fort for
1892. is the new hospital building, ~
a cost CT Sl.zll.lQa- II is one Of tho
best hospitals IN The country. modern
throughout and 1icre than takes care
q Fort Bliss needs for d first class
hospital The work VIII not be fin
ished By the end o. the year.
Balloon hangers constructed az the
fort cost $4,000 They are made n
steel and are 4o0z10oxe0 feet
Railroad tracks lead to every part
Ct the fort where Il is Necessary %
make hsavy hauls. Two miles OF
tracks connecting the hsnEars was
built at a cost OF $4,000.
a district sectional school build
Sig Of brick, was also constructed. Il
cost s55.000l
Big Zone FF1rehouEeE-
The second largest underta king at
Fort Bliss was the building OF "a zone
warehouses 10000 feet each. Thsv
81, 100. 900.
A machine. blacksmith and optical
shop. for the ordance department.
largely made o. steel. vas also con-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
T'wo More Factory
Branches Locale Here

paint concerns have established
branches in FL Paso-
They are the Sherwin-W Williams
Co. and the G1idden Paint and Var
nish Co.
One by one the larger manufac-
turers OF the country are estab-
fishing branches in FL Paso for the
distribution Of their goods in this
territory.
Practically all the automobile
tire manufacturers have branches
here. where they carry a large
stock for the trade territory, and
many manufacturing concerns have
similar branches This Is particu-
larly true in the building line
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
OVER Two AND HALF MILLION IN BUILDING
YEAR OF 1920 BIG
one FOR Ell PASO
IN WAY OF GROWTH

More Building in Half Of This Year Than in All Of Last
Year and -Four Times as Much in Half Of This Year
as During All 1913; Skyscraper Of Mortgage Com
pany and New Insurance Home Among Buildings.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28
new BASE HOSPITAL
IS BUILDING; COST
OVER One MILLION.

Zone Warehouses Now Building Will Cost Over Million
Also; Quarter Of Million for Balloon Hangers;
Tremendous Campaign Going Forward Making
Fort Bliss Biggest Post in Southern Department.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

spurs in west Texas and the more ex-
perienced. Of US have grown uncon-
sciously a set Of diablo horns that
we might have our photographs taken
for the ngravure" page Of some
metropolitan Newspaper.
But two years ego the misrepre-
sensations OF the west palled upon the
people OF the west Two years OF
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

Cantaloupe Shipments From 81 Paso Valley Large, but
Exceeded by Those From Mesilla Valley North of
FL Paso; Pear Orchards Are Being Added to An
nially; Receipts From Crops Are Tremendous
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-28

CONFERENCE.-The drouth made men des-
perate. To be scanty Of food and 70
read ludicrous tales Of starving hu-
manity and drying-up trees and
Whatnot derogatory OF the west, and
TO have fostering. busybody commit
tees raising drouth relief funds"
made the westerner want 70 fight his
Continued on Page IA Col -
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-06-05
SOLDIERS RECORDS SOLICITED

A concentrated effort to reach every
ex-service man in the state is being
made by the Adjutsnt Generals Office OF
South Dakota, now located in Aberdeen,
for complete record OF the service OF
all South Dakota men who participated
in the great world war.
The Adjutant Generals offices have on
hand list Of names of all men of the
state who entered the service through
the National Guard organization or
through the draft, but have no record in
most cases of men who entered and
were discharged through the regular re-
cruiting offices and regular army organi-
zations.
In these cases where no card is enter
learn of them through the assistance OF
others, and the Adjutant has enlisted
the services of the County Auditors OF
the state, the school teachers and are
now soliciting the services of the meri-
can Legion posts of South Dakota, to
earn the whereabouts of unrecorded
young men.
The offices are addressing blank to
be filed out by the ex-service men OF
names, date of enlistment, duration OF
service, companies in service with and
date of discharge, and record at dis
charge. In many cases these letters
have been returned by the postmaster
and the location of the addresses must
be made through inquiry of friends and
fellow service men.
Filing of records at the Adiutant Gen
erals offices bas many advantages to the
ex-service man, first as a matter of rec
ord Cards with all data of service
would greatly assist former soldiers in
obtaining back pay, adjusting insurance
claims, filing claims for vocational train.
| ing and numerous other advantages,
among them the honorary record that
would be found in the future and the
establishment of service that would effect
future service pay, il the United States
should enter another war.
In the opening of the World War, a
congressional bill offered to commission
| men of former service, an additional
pay, based on former service with the
| United States army, many officers were
enabled to obtain this rate on the record
| filed with the Adjutant General of their
states, while others who had in many
cases put in many years of service could
not take advantage of it, through lost
records, kept individually.
1t is imperative that the records ask ed
for be made at this tne when dates
names and numbers ars still fresh in the
memory of the service men, and while
the whereabouts of many soldiers is
known to South Oak ota people.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-06-05
PRINCLE.

June D, i6ZU.
Pringle is going to celebrate the 4tb
of July. Every body invited
Mr.. Burke is moving his family over
to the Lamere saw mill camp.
At last timely rain set in to relieve
the farmers (of out in the field for a few
days..
The NJ. +. Sunday School social men
toned in last weeks paper has been
postponed till June 18th.
The population of Pringle has been
increased one since last week. A little
lady stopped off to visit the Nelson
home indefinitely last Sunday.
Mrs. Alice Clark is visiting her daugh-
ter in Rapid City this week, she being
called there by the illness of her daugh-
ter's little child. We learn the child
passed to the city OF life and health be-
yond.
There will be dance given by Ed
Shalhoob and Frank Palmentier at the
Pool Hall in Pringle June 18th. Every
body invited to come and have a good
time, good supper, and good treatment.
No joke.
We are going to loose one of our
wealthy townsman. MIR. ID. l.. Hayden
has bought home in Custer and will
move his family there next week. We
wish them happiness in their new home
and will miss them in Pringle.
G. +. Nelson has bought the Broad
head car. So times will pick up for the
Nelson family and another rushi ng
business follow. The Broadhead's will
take their trip by rail instead Of over
land by car as they had intended.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-06-05
NATIONAL TIN CORPORATION
VERY PROGRESSIVE

6R v IL.
A special train of Burlington Railroad
Officials en- route from Deadwood, 5. d.,
to Billings, Montana, passed through our
city May 2Sth.
The party was composed of fifteen
gentlemen headed by Mr. +. p. Brack en-
Vice President, of Chicago; MIR. Ii. Ii.
Holcolm, First Traffic Manager, Chic
ago; Mr.. q. w Hodredge, Vice Presi
dent, Omaha, Neb; Mr. f. Montmor
ency, Omaha, Neb.; Mr.. w. f. THE
hof, Assistant General Manager, Omaha,
Neb. They stopped off here for the
purpose of inspecting the National Tin
Corpo ration Mill, Smeller and Mines.
Mr. Simon Lederer, President of the
National Tin Corporation, had previous
ly applied through Mr.. Bentley, General
Manager of the Burlington at Dead
wood, for increased transportation facil-
tiles SO as to enable the Tin Company to
get their ores from the Mowanitoc mine
speedily and in large tonnage to the
mill, and also that all the necessary ore
cars be here at hand to enable the Tin
Company at all times to transport Cow
boy, Mohawk and Tin Boom ores.
1t has been decided by the railroad
officials to keep a special engine here
continuously for the exclusive purpose
of serving and handling nothing else but
loaded and unloaded ore cars which will
enable them to supply 250 tons OF Tin
aud Mica ore for the running of the
mill continuously twenty -four hours or
three shifts daily.
The necessary spur from the Mowani.
toe mine to the Keystone track will be
laid just as quick as the grading is
done, the work on which will start to.
morrow.
All the gentlemen in the Inspection
Party expressed themselves in the high
est terms with the magnitude of the Tin
Mill and its splendid, modern machin-
cry, especially the Magnetic Ore Separa
tor and the recently completed new
Smelter. They had no idea of the enor-
nous tonnage of tin ores available and
predicted that other large Tin Mining
Companies would doubtless locate in the
Black Hills and make our City the Tin
producing center OF America.
We all know we have the Tin and in
vite the whole world to come here and
see it. Mr.. Alexander Roy, General
Manager ofthe Tin Company, had charge
of the Inspection Party and received
their highest compliments on efficiency
at the Flant which was running and in
fine order during the inspection visit
The transportation facilities now being
put in furnish the necessary link for the
complete success of Pig Tin Production,
and with any kind of fair weather, Mr.
Roy predicts the early beginning of con-
slant Tin Bullion shipments. A num-
ber of the visiting party carried away
samples of specimen tin ore, which they
broke off themselves from the outcrop
pings at the Mowanitoc mine.-Hill
City News.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-06-05
LANDS COM WITTEE
Gives Approval of Candy Bill.-Land
Privileges Wanted for Years
Would Be Granted

Local interest will be stirred by the
contents ofa TELEGRAPH received by the
Rapid City Journal from Hon. Harry l..
Candy, announcing favorable action on
his land bill, provisions of which will be
of great importance to holders of ma
tional forest lands in this region. The
dispatch follows:
Washington, ID. G., May 26. The pub
lie lands committee of the house today
favorably reported my bill authorizing
exchange of lands within national for
ests in South Dakota, under which
many residents in the Hills will be en-
abled to acquire adjoining agricultural
tracts by trading tracts suitable for for
est purposes.
HARRY l.. CANDY.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-06-05
REVISED STATEMENT ABOUT
foxy GRANDPA STORY

FOAf ShANDPA STORY
In the Journal of Sunday, May 10th,
appeared an article headed "Foxy
Grandpa Escapes. to Oregon With the
Coin,' which upon further investigation
was found to be an untrue statement OF
the case. The proprietors of the Jour
nal do not wish to work hardship upon
anyone through the publication of any
thing a reporter on the paper may have
written and regret the occurrence very
much.
The truth and facts of and concern
ing the matter set forth in the said arti.
Gle as shown by the record in the vari-
Gus public Offices of the County of Gus.
ter and in the various offices of the De.
partment of Interior and in particular in
the Land Office at Rapid City, South
Dakota, and which are undisputed and
not in anywise questioned, are as fol.
lows, to-wt;
That John p. burst, the father of the
said Ralph j. burst, was on aud prior
to the fret day of August, A. ID. 1919, he
then being about the age OF eighty three
years, was homestead entry man, hold
ing homestead entry upon certain
valuable land and Improvements situate
near Custer, South Dakota; that the said
property was then worth more than six
thousand dollars and that prominent
banker of said Custer, stood ready and
aud willing to pay the said burst six
thousand dollars for the said property
that about the 9th day of August, A. d.
1919, one William b. Gould procured a
REIMBURSEMENT of the rights of the said
burst, paying him for the said property
and Improvements the sum of twenty
nine hundred dollars; that imme-
diately upon hearing of the said rein-
quishment, the family of the said
John +. burst, presented petition to
the County Court of Custer County,
south Dakota, that being court of com
petent jurisdiction and the court having
jurisdiction of the person and estate OF
the said John p, burst, setting forth that
the said John p. burst was and had been
aged and enfeebled in body and mind,
and was incompetent TO transact his own
affairs and that upon the hearing of the
said petition the said County Court, by
due and proper order regularly made,
decreed the said burst TO be incompe-
tent and appointed the said Ralph j.
burst, his guardian; that the said order
still stands, has never been vacated or
set aside and that no objection has been
made and no appeal taken from the
same or any part thereof; that at the
same time as the making of the said ap-
plication, the family of the said burst
rendered return Of the said sum TO the
said Gould and asked for recession of
the said REIMBURSEMENT contract, and a
return of the said property, which the
said Gould denied and refused and that
the said respective rights of the parties
are now in litigation before the United
States Land Office at Rapid City, South
Oak ota. Rapid City Journal
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-06-05
OIL DRILL sPUDs IN NEXT WEEK

The first drilling in the prospective
Buffalo Gap oil territory will comm ence
in few days on the w. n. Hunter
place, four and half miles southwest of
town. A standard rig and car of cas-
ing arrived here Tuesday and was n, oved
out on the Springs line to be unloaded
at a siding. This outfit shipped from
Kansas, is owned by the Julius Williams
Com pany, who are bearing the expense
of drilling. Competent men are in
charge of tho work and the drilling will
be pushed as rapidly as possible. The
outcome of this test will be watched
with great interest, for the location is
considered by geologists, one of the best
for oil east of the Black Hills. .-Buffalo
Gap Gazette.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-06-05
CUSTER STATE PARK
GAME SANCTUARY

The following dispatch from Congress-
man Harry l.. Candy appeared in the
Lead Daily Call. 1t is dated Washing
ton, May 2Sth, and tells of the passage
by the senate creating game sanctuary
in the State Park near Custer:
"The Custer State Park Game Sane
tuary has passed the senate, having been
approved by that body without amend
ment. 1t now goes to the President for
his approval"
This measure provides an addition of
approximately 10000 acres to the big
State Park OF South Dakota, and gives
the state the right to fence the land des-
ignated.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19
As Others See Us
A Series of Impressions By A Newcomer.

Occasionally. We are enabled as
a civic center. 10 see ourselves as
others see Us. The opportunity Is
given US by a brief essay OF impress
sions written by a newcomer. A. K.
Burns, late OF England. Mr.. Burns
has not been a AIishawakan long.
His description OF the city was writ
ten shortly after his arrival here.
he appears TO be very favorably i'm
pressed with US. But let him speak
for himself: ne says:
1T might interest the readers OF
The News-T1mes 10 read the views
Of one recently arrived in this coun-
try, If America and Americans in
general, and of MishaWaka and the
district In particular. Arriving at
the depot at Mishawaka as 1 did, on
a sunny afternoon in the early part
Of September, my eye rested with
pleasure on the garden town Of
Mishawaka. The city. TO a strang-
er. looks as pretty as the Hitting
sound Of its name Is sweet. He looks
up 20 the cleaning cross on st. JO-
seph's church, and down on the wa
ter which flows between green
banks After a somewhat prolonged
stay in the mushroom crown city OF
Detroit. congested beyond all mag
nation. and a busy time in New
York. Mishawaka looked TO me like
a veritable city Of rest. where one
could be lazy and not feel guilty
II was hard TO believe that this quiet
town was a hive OF Industry, and
that the results of It's labors finds
purchasers in the far markets OF the
world.
Nor was I long allowed TO feel
stranger in the city. Az soon as Il
was known that / wished 10 settle
here-for a time, at least-more
than one kindly person came for
ward and offered their services to
help me TO find rooms, or. az they
expressed 1t, Ito get located" on
every side l met with kind service
and courtesy.
Although Mishawaka might i'm
press a stranger as a quiet spot the
stranger soon learns ii is not behind
the times. The inha bitants are not
I behind In learning the value OF a
dollar, and the value OF their mer-
chandise. The newcomer finds that
his hotel or his meals at the res
taurant are as costly as they are ir
New York or Detroit. and when he
goes farther and looks for rooms
/ he finds that they are on a level
with everything else.
In New York-the great port Of
| landing IN America-one is not sur
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19
The Gentle Art OF COlunnin9
Described By Local Visitor

Today, the columns the thing. If
you can become a column conduct
or in some newspaper, whether II be
a metropolitan aristocrat or an en-
terprising small town bulletin Of 80
ambitious columns you are we'll on
the road toward fame. b. L. T. set
the fad. Ring Lardner followed as
a close second. +. 2. A. and Don
Marquis are equally well known and
equally popular among their parti-
cular fans. And along comes G. l..
Edison, with timely little volume
on columning.-an authority I'M
questionably. but a choice bit Of
column humOr besides.
Edison. it may not be known, has
visited in Mtshawaka frequently. He
is a warm personal friend Of Isaac
Kane Parks, with whom he went to
school in & small country village
when they were both youngsters.
He visited in the offices of The
News-Times on the occasion Of his
last stay In the city. And Mr.. Parks.
when the little book came out re-
Gently, secured a copy especially for
the Man in the Street.
Book Rich I'm HuDOr.
II is called, naturally, The Gen.
tie Art OF Columning" In It the
author sketches an entertaining pic
ture Of himself, his humor springing
from a genuinely rich vein. He dis
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19

prised 20 meet with a cosmopolitan
crowd OF people, nor IS one greatly
surprised 10 find this condition IN
Detroit. But IL Mishawaka one
might expect 10 find a people whose
fathers and fOrefathers had all lived
their lives here. Instead, one finds
people Of all nations and tongues
Greeks. Hunga rians, Germans. Bel
CLANS. Italians. and people from
various parts Of the British Empire.
Speak 10 them and they Will tell you
ia broken English that they are all
Americans.
To the newcomer this is start
ling. Here is America nation
which is not a nation, as she is made
up of immigrants from all nations
She is a people made up of peoples
from all Ovel the world. Here cities
have their various sections, quarters
or colonies. as for example, New
York, which has its Jewish east
side, its Greek section, its Chinese
and Italian colonies etc. They speak
their native languages, though the,
ere in America. Is IL any wonder
that Rev. A Mcclure speaking TO
the members OF the Chamber of
Commerce Counselled them TO make
every endeavor TO understand the
Immigrants as they make up the
greater part OF the population Of the
United States"
At this time Of the year any one
from England, Ireland or Scotland
where Christmas is such a season of
high festival. would not feel out OF
place IN Mishawaka. One sees on
all sides the same preparations, the
same enthusiasts. The stores are
full of the same tempting displays.
The same gaudy decorations, the
same Christmas trees with the same
colore6 candles. and glittering col
ored bells and tinsels have made
their appearance. Even the same
notices. Mail carry and SHOP
Early are 10 be seen.
We are further reminded that this
IS the children's season and that
! the stores all have their special de
partments Of Christmas toys This
IS the true spirit OF Christmas which
IS TO DC found only In the British
/ Isles and America. IL Is the spirit
which has been handed down from
! the Pilgrims Of the MayflOwer, who
| in England before they left her
shores, learnt the true meaning Of
! the Christmas festival. The chill
| dren's season-of toys. of laughter
/ Of song and dance and good cheer
even If the country is dry. The sea-
sen when all become young-be-
! come as children again.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19

kimonos of Flannelette, in many
attractive colors and styles that will
please. Priced at :. ...... .$4.95
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19
Distinctive Little Gifts

Bar Pins and Fancy Hair Pins al
ways attractive. A large assert
ment to choose from. Priced at
Use, $1.OO and ......... $3.50
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19

cusses his art from a TO 2, and re-
veals its secrets without reserve. He
points out the pitfalls 10 the aspir-
ant. and directs him toward the
most prolific fields His book is
really a handbook Of the salient
points in column writing But il is
worth the while of anyone who en-
joys raCy and entertaining writing.
The book has a series Of intro
ductory essays that adds much TO its
value. Such names as Don Marquis,
Christopher Morley. Franklin p.
Adams and George Horace Lorimer
are sufficient in themselves TO at
tract the reader who desires to be
instructed while he is amused. Ed
son was for some years on the staff
of n large eastern daily. His eX-
perience naturally furnishes him
with a fund Of material from which
to draw.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19

And II Makes Bad Scent.-Ikey
docking up from his book)-"Fader
what Is der meaning Of Vortex"
F'ather-"Vy. key don't you
know? OATS der extra cent vat dey
charge on movies und ice cream
'Cohns."-Harry L. Moody
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19

A receipt for the toilet, dating
back to 1890. describes n method Of
making a powder 70 whiten the face
by a mixture Of white lead and
hogs grease.