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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1921-12-10
parts Of the country:

parts OF the country.
If this continues il will in
time bring a decline in the price
of commodities as the one will
necessarily follow the other
through the medium of COM
petition in trade.
But the laboring man should
remember that there can be no
material reduction in any line
until the cost Of labor declines.
for labor enters into the produc-
ton of everything we use or
!. Good old Santa Claus will
soon be shaking hands with us
again. He never passes this
l6Wn BY III his annual trips
lkiAd We trust he never passes by
any person in the town or COM
munity.
But to be sure that every one
viii be remembered on Christ
mas day it would be well for
us To look around q bit. There
may be some one who has been
hit more than we realize by the
business depression under
which we have been labOrinQ.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1921-12-10

666 curse Bilious Fever.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Miss Irene Cooper returned Yesterday
from two-weeks' visit with friends IN
Brockton, Mass.
Miss Marjorie Huntington went today
to Nashua. y H., where she will visit
her grandmother
Miss Marguerite Carey of Springfield,
Mass, is a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
b. Haus of Walnut street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George HodgSins are
spending the. week with their niece, Mrs
Wesley Rollin, in Nashua, \. II.
DIR. f. f. Hopkins Of Springfield, Mass,
was here today for tonsils and adenoIds
clinic at the Memorial hospital. Nine
children had work done.
Mrs. James f. Hooker and four chill
dren returned yesterday to their home IN
Schenectady. \. y. after visiting IN
town with Mrs. l.. X. Fuller.
Guy Johnson. student at the George
town University at Washington, ID. C.,
where he is studying law. IS spending a
vacation at the home of his father, John
johnson of Elliot street.
Mrs Lawrence X. Barber and two sons
returned home today from few weeks
visit with relatives i'll Grown Point,
n y, and Dorset Mr.. Barber left yes
terday afternoon for Dorset to accompany
them home.
Mr.. and Mrs Sylvester Pike and sons,
Leland and Arthur. and daughter, Min
ME. of Bridgeport, Conn, left this morn
ing for Wilmington after visiting Mr..
Pixies brother, Arvine Pike, and family a
few days.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
FORD'S OFFER
NOT ACCEPTABLE
Secretary Weeks Says 1t Must Be Modi-
tied-GOveTnment Cannot Guar
antee So Much Power

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Details of
Henry tord offer to purchase the gov
eminent nitrate plant at Muscle
Shoals, Ala ALBANIA, for S5,000000 and for
lease for 100 years on completion of
the Wilson and No. dams, providing
power for the project, at an annual ag-
gregate payment of S1,6S0,000 have been
made public by the war department.
No action has been taken by the gov
eminent on the proposal, although it
was announced yesterday that no other
bids had been received.
The dam lease proposals include pro
visions to amortize in "a years the gov
eminent investment in the Wilson dam,
taken at Sj0,o0O,0O0, and in 81 years the
100000, on the dam upon completion.
pletion.
The offer is made subject to complete
right OF the government to plant, pro-
cesses and personnel in the event of
war and for the purpose of determining
whether the application of electricity
and industrial chemistry to agTlcul-
ture may not do what they have &c
onomieally accomplished for other in
dustries. "
Profits of the operating company
would be limited to eight per cent UNI
der the offer. with a board of farm or
ganization representatives to check up
the books and also to supervise terri
torial distribution of fertilizer produced
with the federal trade commission as IL
nal arbitrator on distribution and dis
agreements.
Mr.. Ford proposal was based on
prompt. completion by the government
of the Wilson dam power project to
produce 100000 horsepower for which
he proposed to pay Il lease fee each
year of 81 ,250e0O together with $4,000
for maintenance and S39.537 against
amortization of the government : in
vestment in 81 years.
On dam No. ,. also to be completed
and develop 100000 horsepower, he pro
posed to pay S4s0o00 in annual lease
fees, the payment in each case being
| SIX per cent on the government S in
yestment.
Designated representatives of the
| American Farm Bunaau federation, the
National Grange and the Farmers
| Union, together with a representative
| from the bureau of markets, and two
| representatives of the company are pro-
posed As the members of the board on
| profits and distribution.
/ Secretary Weeks SAID the offer was
| still being studied and indicated that
considerable modification would be nee
essarv to make it acceptable. Mr.. Ford
practically is asking the government to
offer the delivery of 100000 horse power
from the plant, Mr.. Weeks pointed out
| and this the government cannot under,
/ take.
Mr.. Weeks added that he had been
Informed that a proposal for acquire
| ment of the plant was coming from a
corporation which he would not name
| The government has spent altogether
| at Muscle Shoals, he said, annroxi
mately SS7. 100000 and Mr. Ford sug
gests additional expenditures of abou
S2Si@0OO0 and proposes payments o
interest and amortization charges OF
the basis of 100000 as a value 70
the present facilities.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

w. r. Miles and e. J. Snyder went to
Greenfield this afternoon to attend the
horse races.
Miss Gertrude Eagan of North Spring
field (Nt) is visiting her uncle, Harry NJ
SweetIand.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Bingham, who
had been spending a VACATION at Lawton
hall, have returned to their home IN
New York.
Miss Gladys ADAMS and Miss Patience
Wilder are spending the day in Green
field and will attend the horse races this
afternoon.
Miss Lucy Walbridge. has returned from
a two-weeks' vacation at her home in
Greenfield, and has resumed work las cash
Ter in the telephone Office.
Mrs Nettie Pierce of Bellows Falls,
who is spending several weeks at II. NJ.
Sweetland's. went today to West Chester
field to visit Mrs. Streeter.
Miss Rita NJ Eckels has accepted a
position as multigraph operator with the
Heneph company in Kingston, \. Y. She
expects to go there next week.
Mrs. Fred Swift of Washington, D.
G, who is a guest of her aunt, Miss Allie
f. Morse went today to Vernon to visit
her mother. Mrs. NJ. l. Reed.
Xerle Lunn of Washington, D. c., has
joined his family here in the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Lunn.
He plans to remain here several weeks and
viii be employed temporarily by Manley
Brothers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL


Mr.. and Mrs ID. Z. Dewitt and Mrs.
w. r.. Daley spent yesterday ii North
ampton.
Miss Eleanor Manley went Sunday to
Dorset, where she viii visit relatives
II. NJ. Wood left yesterday for few
days vacation in WallinSfard and
Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. Agnes Fisher and two daughters
moved yesterday from 30 Green street
to NORTHAMPTON, Mass.
Rev +, 5. Hewitt went Monday to
East Clarendon, where ne will conduct
a series of meetings in the Advent
Christian church
Mr. and Mrs Ernest Pike, Mrs. Belle
Pike, Miss Wilma Pike, Miss Hattie Al
len, Mrs. Jennie johnson, Mrs. c. f.
Mann and Floyd Mann went to Wards
boro Sunday to attend the funeral of
Edgar Pike.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph True of Ames
bury, Mass. accompanied RIr. and Mrs
{. \. Wood here Sunday from Ames-
bury: They are spending two weeks at
the Wood cottage on the Connecticut
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
American League
SPORTING NOTES

Champion Johnny Wilson is to take
on Bryan Downey at Cleveland July y.
Something like 100000 people attended
the recent Henley regatta in England.
Baltimore plans public athletic field
to cost a quarter of a million dollars.
King Alfonso is a polo and tennis en-
thusiast and also finds time for a GER
tain amount of golf.
The Grand Prix de Paris, worth this
year about $4,000, is the most valuable
race in the world.
West Virginia University is to have
an athletic stadium with accommodation
for over 10000 spectators
Practically all the women's worlds
records for free style and back stroke
\ swimming are held by American girls.
Today nearly forty English towns hold
annual rowing regattaS, and several of
them more than one in each summer.
- The Boston college football team will
journey to Texas the middle of October
for game with Baylor university.
The earliest big race rowed over the
famous Hanley course was that between
Oxford and Cambridge, in the year 1929.
A. Diemer Kool, the Dutch lawn ten
mis- champion, is said to be just as nimble
with the boxing gloves as with tennis
racquet.
Banny Leonard, the lightweight cham
piOn, is acquiring racing stable and will
hereafter divide his interest between box
ing and the turf.
During the 90 years that Fielding II.
Yost has been football coach at the Uni
versity of Michigan the Ann Arbor grid
iron team has won 131 games, lost %,
and tied II.
The Union Printers Baseball league
which is to open its eleventh annual
tournament in Detroit on the last day
of July, is one of the largest amateur
baseball organizations in the world.
The coming junior championship OF
the Western Golf association, scheduled
for Nashville during the first week oil
August, will be the first time that this
event has been held outside of Chicago.
Probably the most generally -useG
sporting wood is ash. The best baseball
bats and hockey sticks are ash, as are the
frames of lawn tennis racquetS The
same tree also provides cricket stumps
lawn tennis posts, and the cheaper vari
cites of croquet mallets. Billiard cue.
consist principally of ASH the butts be
ing weighted with heavier woods, SucI
as ebony and mahogany.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
Women s and Children s Hosiery
Greatest Sale of Silk and Cotton Hosiery eaveEver Offered


whit
black and 800
black
Hose
Sport changeabe
Silk ST.
Raalte fashioned $25
fashioned SOS
half 12!c
Chidren Socks big 29G
Infants Hose black white Now 19c and Csc
Misses Mcerzd Hose fine quality Now soc
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
Sale of Summer Underwear
Muslin Underwear at Less Than Cost of Material

Muslin
Night Robes
WOmens Batis Robes silk yoke, $1OO
WOmns Muslin Night $12
Womn $500 Batie Robe Embroidered French Knots ST.
WOmns $225 Night Robes finely trimmed $175
WOmns 81 Envelope Chemse,
WOmns S125 Envelope Chemis trimmed
Womns lace yoke S1.5O
$500 Lady Seal S15O
Boomers
$1O0 Muslin Skirts embroidered ounce ESQ
S125 Muslin Skirts. embroidered founce S1OO
Muslin embroidered funce
Muslin embroidered founce
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
Sporting News
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Games Today

Games Today
Boston at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn at Chicago.
New York at Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-27
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Standing of the Clubs
Games Today

Games Today
Chicago at Washington.
Detroit at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at Boston.
st. Louis at New York.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03
Misunderstanding Cereal Beverages

MOVEMENT asking congress 20
a sbIft burdensOme taxes from inc
1 people to nonalcOholic beer mas
been started throughout the country
Congress is urged to have the reSenus
hi, nroyide for the manufacture anu
Yole Of beer containing 2.75 per cent
oIcobol and In that way raise froc'
s.OOoOOO,OOO to $1,2SO, 10000 In taxes,
and the proposition Is being seriously
considered. -
A serious effort has been made 10
cot Prohlb;tionIsts to agree TO tnx
Of $40 Der barrel on Notwithstanding
cereal beverages containing not more
than ~ per cent Of aicono' Os
weight"
The suggested legislation. Il % ar
~,ed- would not violate the spirit o.
the eighteenth amendment, but IN q
sect amend the volstead act By XIII
| ing the provision prohibiting the man
ufacture of beer with an alcoholic
content In excess Of One-haf OF ont
per cent. A bill, or an amendment O
that effect, will be introduced In tn
bouse to be considered when the regu
lar revenue bill Is taken up
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03

and he has introduced me to a dreau-
ful.looklng woman of extreme virtue,
who has adopted me as her niece Tor
the great occasion.
what great Occasionf" asked LAX
ingtOn.
"Why, his coming Of age" cried the
girl. II am to go to Laidley Towers
as an honored guest Of the duchess
of hampshire" She threw back hes
head and laughed. what 40 you
think Of that, my friend? The old
lady will be wearing pearls and all
complete, In honor Of the great day,
and / shall be one Of the admirinS
house party"
Flow do you know she'll have them
I'm the house?" said Lexington.
Because dear Freddie has told me
So" answered the girl. She blew tive
smoke rings and then laughed.
"Freddie is really rather a dear a
times. don't think I've ever me
anv one who is so nearly an lido
without being one. STILL" she re
peated thoughtfully, "he's rather
dear"
ITO BE CONTINUED0
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03
Flood Prevention in Arkansas Valley

Another plan provides for the en-"
Iargement Of the channel through
Pueblo and for q concrete channel.
The engineers make II plain that
their present recommendations are
based on fragmentary data available
at this time and that complete study
of the problems involved will require
much more time and more accurate
photographic and topographic data
than Is now ut hand and also much
detailed engineering work.
All the alternative plans which IN
c,ude flood detention storage with pos
sible use of the Steel Hollow reservoir
site, would benefit property interests
I'm the Arkansas valley below Pueblo.
while the alternative plan embracing
only channel enlargement or bank
protection through Pueblo would not
protect property interests In the val
ley below Pueblo.
~Due to the limited storage posi-
h,l,ties and as a very little. II any
| water IA available for storage In the
Arkansas river above Pueblo, there
does not appear to he any project OF
developing irrigation storage WIFE
economy In conjunction with flood DO
tention storage" reads the report
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03
WASHINGTON
SIDELIGHTS
Parcel Post Rates May Be Increase

The parcel post system Is co."
mercirI venture pure anu simple MI
Havs said. There is every reaSOn'
therefore, why 1t should be made ~
least self-supporting. This does not
hold true of some other services OF the
post office, which necessarily must 20
accomplished at loss"
Mr.. HAYS explained why denct IL
expected this year ana gave an item
ized statement showing where ana
how the department plans to REDUCES
onerating costs by nearly $l5,OOO'OOO-
For the fiscal year ending June ~
1920" he said, 1.-The deficit was $l''
ono 900. For the fiscal year enolnS
June 30, 1921, the deficit will be t"anC
to be approximately $S4,OOO'OoO VINE"
the reports are all available
"Of this, about S75.OOO,OOO was due
to increase in compensation ordered
nv congress to employees and $ll'OOO'-
600 was additional pay to raiirOa"S
under interstate commerce decisions
"Since April there has been Serl-
GUS falling of of post office business
and In consequence receipts, but ecOo-
omies have been instituted which pre-
vent any deficit other than that Tor IN
creased wages and railroad rate@
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03
CHAPTER VII-contInued.

Hurb bowed eravely. my only re-
Kret Is that 1t failed to function w
remarked. AS told you outsiue'
otllte forgotten your menagerie. II
fact"-his glance wandered slowly a""
somewhat pOlntedly from face 10 NV
AZ the tabIe-'T had no idea II was
such a large one" .,o
$50 this is the InsOlent young s"'ne'
IN itT' The bloOdshOt eyes OF the u'nn
WITH. the SCARED face turned Oh MN
mOroseiy. "What l cannot understand J,
"a why ne hasn't been killed oy now
Hugh waggled an accusing hnsef al
him.
~ knew you were q nasty man a.
ANN a saw you. Now look at Hen
~ no at the end Of the tao'e' "s
doesn't say that sort Of thing. Anu
vou do hate me, don't you, henry
How's the tawT
captain DrummOnd," said LaKins
ton ignoring Hugh and addressing tht
Arst speaker, twas very nearly Kli'et
last niKht. / thought for some um'
Al 20 whether I would or not Ou'
AnaIly decided II would be much tO'
easy a death. So 1t can be remedie'
tonight"
n Hugh felt q momentary twinge o
fear at the calm. expressioniess zone
and the half-satIsfed grunt wnic'
greeted the words, no trace OIL
showed on his face. Already IN
realization had come to him that
he got through the night alive ne woul
be more than passing lucky. but q
was too much Of a fatalist to let tina
worry him unduly. SO he merely stlue
q yawn. and again turned to Lakingto'
$50 Il was you, my little one, who's
fairy face I saw pressed agninst tn
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03
How Deserving German Seamen Slip In

snlte nj the fact that z2,Iao vesseis
were boarded BY immigration ofictalss
1sa 10 Identification cards were isr
sned 4775 seamen were found aniict-
cd with Ioathsome or contagious dis,
eases, and removed to hospitals fpes
treatment. or permitted to depart cns
the vessels on which they came. -
Formerly a deserving seaman
subiect 10 arrest and return, to
On appllcatIon Of the ship 4aaEi
the port authorities. AbrogatDn
this provision In the treaties betwel \
the United States and foreign eoun
tries following the pussage Of the L9.
toilette seaman's act was promptly
taken advantage Of by aliens arriving
as seamen in every port.
That registration alone 10 inefec-
i've. either in the case Of alien sea-
men or other aliens. Is demonstrated
by the fact that in spite Of q registry
l)tion accompanied by photographs thu
number Of seamen who entered tn
country In violation Of the law las
ysnr exceeded by lO.155 the humble
| who remained In the country unlav
fully after deserving In 1sla
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03

that man." she cried. HE Is quite
the least boring individual have met
in this atrocious country" She sat
down and lit a cigarette. II saw Wal
ter tonight. He came over especially
to see you. They want you there Tor
meeting, ut the Ritz"
Peterson frOwned.
ITS most incOnvenient," he re-
marked with shade of annoyance In
his voice. "Did he say whyT
Among other things ] think theyr re
uneasy about the American, she an
swered. My dear man. you can easl-
Iy slip over for a day"
"Of course cam said Peterson
IrritabIy: "but that doesn't alter the
fact that it's inconvenient. Things
will be shortly coming to head here
and | want to be on the spot. How
ever" He started to walk up anC
down the room,. frOwning thOughtfCHy
Your fish is hooked. mon ami,
continued the girl to darlington. HI
has already proposed three times
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03
Oil Shale When Our Crude Oil Is Gone
~n-BEARING shale in the United

~ H-BEARING Shale in the Unlted
I States Is capable OF supplying
all Of the cOuntry's demands tOr
petroleum when the supply OF crude
oil is exhausted. This announcement
Is contained in a report of the bureau
Of mines.
OIL shale up to the present time mas
not been mined on a commercial scale
in this country. Since the middle OF
the last century oil shale mining mas
been an important origin Of oil In Scot
land and France.
Rich and easily accessible deposits
of the oil-bearing shale are said to
exist In Colorado, Utah. Montana. Ne
vada and California. where some shait
oil already has been produced and
used successfully. Several small re
ducing plants have been In operation
for some time, and others are unde'
construction near DebeQue. Colo.
Watson, Utah; ElkO, New and Dillon
Mont.
Tests Indicate that the yield OF oil
shale Is all the way from PRACTICAL!
nothing up to ninety gallons or NOR
n ton. Much shale Is too thin to b
mined commercially. but there are ex
tensive deposits running from severn
feet to IS feet In thickness
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03

WV Observation-Disclosures post rates
w must be increased, II an lnves-
tigation shows that this service
is responsible for an expected deficit
Of $7O.OOO,OOO In the postal revenue
this year, Postmaster General Hays
says. Accountants and post office en-
gineers are now checking through the
entire country to learn If the parcel
post Is, as suspected, one of the two
big losing ventures of the department.
Until 1870 postal revenues exceeded
expenditures for several years, but
now deficits are showing, due to Ousi
ness depression, increased wuges and
increased compensation to railroads
for carrying mall.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03

of the federal recia-
II. nation service have completed
preliminary report, based on
hasty. tentative survey. on flood pre-
yention for the city of Pueblo and the
Arkansas river valley.
The engineers, James Mum and J.
7. Savage of the Denver reclamation
Office. have suggested several different
plans and combinations OF plans Ior
flood prevention which would enIai'
estimated costs ranging from $S'OOo'-
UOO to S17.5OO,OOO.
One plan for the Arkansas rver
calls for flood detention storage OF
21O.OOO acre feet with such repairs &c
present levees and channel ms are re,
ouired to provide. a safe capacity o'
25OOO second feet through Pueblo
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03

..It is estimated by the geolOgtca1
survey" says the report, that the
curve of crude oil production Will
reach its peak within few years, ana
then the country will have to look
more and more to- other sources for
Its various grades Of hydrocarbon OILS
-When foreign oils cannot be OBJ
tained In sufficient quantities and ae
reasonable prices we can turn 70 our
oil shales for our supply"
Large amounts will have to Dc tn
vested before the oil shale industry
becomes OF commercial Importance.
ESTIMATES by engineers Of the cost
OF q complete retOrtiDg plant. handbag
1000 tons Of shale a day, are between
81 ,OOO, 900 and 100000"
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-09-03

Steel which has become rusty can
be cleaned by brushing 1t with paste
composed as follows: Half an ounce
of cyanide Of potassium. half an ounce
Of CASTLE soap. an ounce Of whiting
and water sufficient to form the paste.
The steel should be washed after the
paste has been applied. In a solution
of half an ounce Of cyanide OF potas-
SUM In two ounces Of water. On the
other hand rust may be prevented on
steel parts by applying the following
mixture with a brush, just as If II
were varnish: One part caoutchouc
le parts turpentine. These ingredi'
ents must be dissolved ID a gentle
heat and then eight parts Of boiled
oil should be added. The whole Il
now mixed by bringing them TO boil
ing heat. This material may be re
moved by the use Of turpentine.