Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-24

ROO OF TWO ana one-ndlI years.
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Atlanta sold more than $4,000 worth
of vegetables, chickens, eggs, butter,
hams and other country products one
day last week at the curb market
established as a municipal enterprise
not long ago.
An aerial railroad, forty-five miles
long, is under construction in the
Northern Andes, South America, for
the purpose of connecting two towns
in Colombia that are now almost in
accessible because of the steep aid
dangerous mountain trails.
If you are planning a trip to Japan,
it would be well to get started in
the next week or two. After Sep
TENDER Is, the steamer fare from
the Pacific coast to the Isle of Nip
pom will be boosted 20 per cent, MAX
ing the trip cost $500.
1t cost Great Britain $267, 300, 900 to
pay for it's military operations in
stice to last March, according to
George George Now that the Bolsheviki
are trying to gobble Poland, how
ever, England has stopped sending
troops there.
Thirty-f1ve vessels, aggregating
272,150 lightweight tons, were COM
Board account in July. Thirty-three
of the vessels were Of steel and two
| Of wood. For the first two weeks
| Of August eleven vessels aggregating
| 60,775 lightweight tons were COM
| pleted.
Raynaud's diseace, a rare ailment
| that affects the extremities, brought
death to a dentist of Yonkers, N. Y,
last week. He was the sixth victim
| to succumb to the strange malady in
| the history of the country, doctors
say. The hands and feet of a suffer
er from Raynaud's disease become
white and cold, then congested, and
finally, gangrenous.
Jean Parmentier, leading figure in
financial affairs of the government
| Of France, arrived in this country
last week. He told prominent New
| Workers that his country was on a
| sound money basis and that every
would be repaid. He may arrange
another loan Of 1925, 100000 or SO
before leaving.
Out at Longview, Texas, cotton
farmers recently adopted the plan of
| paying rs cents a gallon for SQUARES
| infected by the boil weevil. When
1000 gallons had been brought in,
about 80 per cent of them had been
attacked by the weevil. After they
were burned the offer was with
drawn.
The United States army is today
scattered over the face of the
2OS,S7O, units in continental United
| States comprise $4,000; in the
many, 1850 Hawaii, $500; ANA
ma, 1880; Porto Rico, 1900; China,
1,500; Alaska, 500; France, 1913, and
England, 10.
Nearly 100000 American farmers
have purchased approximately 3,O00,-
600 acres of land in Western Can
ada since the beginning of the year,
according to a Winnipeg dispatch to
to the Calgary Daily Herald, which
goes on to say that thousands more
are expected during the harvest sea-
son to inspect the famous wheat
belt and purchase land on which to
settle next year.
Up to date 1867 returned men, out
of a total of 1S,257 for the whole of
Canada, have been placed on the land
as settlers in the Winnipeg district
by the soldiers settlement board. The
loans approved in the Winnipeg dis
trict have been represented at $12,-
247,732, the total loan for the Do
minion amounting to $72,236,142. A
new branch of the soldiers settle
ment work is in helping the settlers
classes of domestic science.
Sir James Eric Drummond, secre-
tary general of the League of Ma
lions, has purchased the National
the League Of Nations. The STATS of
the member nations will be housed
in the hotel.
The site of the leagues head
quarters has not yet been chosen.
Several international bureaus are
M IN fY11 iVo ~
tiers, as the city is overcrowded and
rents and living costs are mounting.
People of the United States are
| spending more than $1,00O,00O a day
for coffee. The import valuation of
coffee entering the country in the
last fiscal year was more than $780,
600, 900, and when it is considered
| that this import valuation is the price
in the country from which imported,
it is quite evident that the added cost
of freight, roasting and distribution
to the consumer will bring the total
| above 365,000,O00, compared with
two-thirds that sum two years ago.
More than half the vessels enter
ing and leaving American ports to
trade with other nations are under
the American flag, it was announced
yesterday by the United States ship
ping board in making public a sur
vey for the first six months of 1920.
Inc RESTORATION OIL LIl0 AU10T1CdIl
flag on the seven seas has proceeded
rapidly the last year. This is shown
by the fact that in 1919 only AZ per
cent of the net tonnage clearing in
export trade was American and only
81 per cent entering in import trade.
A bit in advance Of it's figures on
business conditions throughout the
of Commerce has let out information
that the demand for baby carriages
has fallen off just one-half in the
last six months.
A number of reasons are suggest
ed for this stagnation in the baby
buggy business. Housing conditions
are poor nearly everywhere. Domes-
tic servants, to act as chauffeurs for
the infant riders, are few and far
between. The cost Of baby car
riages has gone skyward along with
everything else.
More cattle are being dipped in
Texas at the present time than ever
before in the history of the state,
according to w. A. Wallace, chair
man of the live stock sanitary COM
mission.
I'VE are. breaking all previous
records each month";" he says. "The
people become educated to the neces-
sity of dipping their cattle and the
benefits that are to be derived from
tick eradication, instead Of escaping
in every way possible through some
loophole left when the tick eradica-
ton law was recently amended, as
some officials were Of the opinion
they would, they are cooperating
with the commission in every way
possible"
The story Of the U-53 ends with
touch which is characteristtcally
German. It was one of the sub
marines which were surrendered to
the allies at the signing Of the armi-
casion, were the Americans; they
were eager to read It's Iogbook, and
to find out just what happened on
this final voyage. The book was on
board, and it contained a record of
the U-5S's voyages, from the day that
it was commissioned, up to the day
that it was surrendered. Two or
three pages only were missing; the
Germans had ripped out that part