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Harding Against the Oil Duty.

On the rapidly diminishing oil
supply OF this country depends much
more than the gasolene which part
of the public is likely to think of in
casual way as a passenger automo-
bile convenience.
1t means very largely the driving
power of the nations warships and
the American merchant marine.
It means the fuel of some railroad
systems and hundreds Of thousands
of motor trucks, now become so es-
sential to local distribution which
in it's whole work throughout the
country is of vast magnitude.
1t means the mechanical toiler of
the farms-the great plough, reaper
and harvester-which must produce
the food for our hundred million of
population; the force which turns
the wheels in numbers of mills and
factories, drills the mines and cuts
the forests.
1t means dyes and chemicals; the
gas factory's material to make illu-
mination for the home and heat for
the kitchen oven-it means the indus
trial existence of the country and
all but the life of it's people.
Yet the Fordney tariff measure pro-
poses to diminish or shut out importa-
tion of oil with duty which will
tend to serve as dam against the in
flow of foreign supplies that would
help to retard the depletion Of our
own home supply. The Fordney
measure proposes to hasten the none
too distant day when, our own oil ex-
hausted, the American people will be
at the mercy of foreign producers
and sellers.
This is what President HARDING
had in mind when, protesting against
the proposed duty on oil, he warned
Chairman FoRDNEY of the Ways and
Means Committee that 'our future is
so utterly dependent upon an abun-
dance of petroleum that it is vastly
more important that we develop an
abundance OF resources rather than
temporary profit to few producers
who feel the pinch Of Mexican COM
petition" But FoRDNEY's committee,
in the face Of the Presidents protest.
went ahead and put the oil duty in
the tariff measure.
II the Fordney tariff on oil is per
mitted to go into operation the peo-
pie of this country must look to some
other authority than the United
States Congress for their guardian
ship against national danger and
disaster.
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Al, Fail. as n Thirst oucuchcr.

From London Toicn Topics.
This Is a true story OF an adventure OF
two lady artists in sunny Spain. They
were walking and arrived nj a little coun-
try Inn hot. dusty and thirsty. They
couldn't talk Spanish. but wanted some milk
badly. - one Of them drew a most beauti-
ful hirh arty cow, while the other jingled
some cons The spnrlards looked and
boy was sent Off post haste. In half an
hour the boy returned. hot aud triumphant
With two tickets for bufight.
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in domestic and foreign prices. In
England. France and Italy the depre-
ciatioa in exchange is Offset by the
increase in costs and wages. In May,
1921, to cite one example only, Eng
lish exchange at $500 represented a
premium of about % per cent. on
gold. but this was nullified by the
English price level, which stood at
1879, or SO per cent. above our own
gold price index of $50. the equiva-
lent of 100 in gold in 1914
But the premium of 1900 per cent.
on gold or dollar exchange IN Berlin
in May, 1921, coupled with the higher
prices in America. England and
France. should have made the Ger
man internal price level between
2,400 and $500 in May to conform
to the world level. Instead the Ger.
man index number was 1,429, or
slightly below the 1900 paper marks
at present exchange which 100 gold
marks would have purchased in 1914.
German prices, therefore, are no
higher, and if anything are a shade
lower, now than before the war, de-
spite imitation and deprecated paper
money.
The reparations export tax takes
this difference in the two price levels
and covers it over to the account Of
the Allies. During part of last year
when it became apparent that enor-
nous profits would result on export
business as result of the price dis
parity the German Government fixed
two levels, one internal and one ex-
ternal, and took the difference for
its own use.
The present tax will not be direct
levy. 1t will be paid by the German
Government. Exports are simply to
be the index to the amount payable
to the Allies. Thus the change is
purely one of psychology. Instead
of giving up abnormal profits for the
benefit of their own Government, Ger
man merchants will be contributing
to the reparations pool.
But the same thing may be said of
the other taxes Germany will have
TO levy to pay her obligations under
the reparations agreement, and that
is why 1t is difficult, though possibly
desirable, to find substitute for the
export assessment.
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The Duke and Duchess de Richelieu
sailed yesterday for Europe on board
the Old North State OF the United
States Mail Steamship Line. and will
pass several weeks in England and
France. Other passengers included
Mrs. j. G. Alexander. Mrs. II. b. Brad
ford. Gen. j. L. Chamberlain. Mr.. and
Mrs. Stephen Cummins, Col. r. c. Foy,
Mr.. George Parsons. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles III. Stringer, Dr. and Mrs. Il.
w. Todd, Miss r. H. Todd, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. II. Winslow and Miss Mar
iorie Winslow
Gen. Pietro Badoglio. former Chief OF
staff of the Italian army. and Col
Sicillianl arrived yesterday on the
Giuseppe Verdi. They will stop at the
Ritz-Carlton for a few days before
going West on a.tour. Col. NJ. c. Buck
ley OF the United States War Depart
ment and Capt. Carlo Huntington, AS
sistant Military Attache of the Italian
Embassy came from Washington to
meet the General.
Mr.. and Mrs. DevereuX Milburn are
due from Europe to-day. They will go
first TO their home at Westbury, j.. l.,
and later to Southampton, l.. j., to be
guests of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Steele.
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Taxing German Exports.

Representatives of France and Ger
many, continuing at Paris the direct
exchanges on reconstruction and req
arations started in June ut Wies-
baden. are not having much success
in finding a substitute for the tax on
German exports as means OF rails
ing reparations money. The repara-
tions rule calling for German pay
ments in dollars as the only substi-
tute for gold was abandoned when
the Allies saw it would result in
more harm to the commercial world
through erratic foreign exchange
movements than in advantage to
themselves.
Thus far the effect of the 26 per
cent. export levy on Germany itself
is problematical because no payments
under it have been made. But on its
face it has both virtues and faults.
Without il Germany would enjoy by
the very effect of her defeat at arms
and the consequent depreciation of
her currency the advantage Of low
domestic costs and wages. and she
would be able to undersell the En-
tente nations and America in their
own markets.
With the tax in operation Germany
may transfer as much Of her business
TO foreign branches as possible to
make the taxable volume Of trade
look smaller. Yet it is clear that
the export tax or some substitute
must be enforced unless the repara-
tions are to be collected without any
index to German prosperity.
The function OF the tax is obvious.
At the present time low costs and
wages enable Germany to sell certain
mineral products in her own mar
kets at a price 40 per cent. below the
world market. When she exports the
same articles she may tack 30 per
cent on the home price as clean
and clear additional profit. and still
undersell her competitors by a mar.
gin Of 10 per cent.
How this condition works to Ger
manys advantage in the matter OF
general prices can be seen from the
following table Of world prices con-
trasted with German internal prices.
the latter measured according to the
Frankfurter Zeitung. The column OF
world prices is arrived at by multi
plying the German index number by
the rate OF exchange on New York
and the price index in America for
the corresponding time:
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Bobbed Hair in the Office.

Some of the country's most dog
matte Office managers have recently
treated the commercial and indus
trial world to their opinions OF girls
who bob their hair and wear short
skirts and diaphanous stockings at
their work. Most of these eminent
authorities do not approve rouge,
lip sticks. powder and other aids to
beauty now popular with women, old
and young. TIE New York HERALD
will not quarrel with them over this:
they are entitled to their belief.
Much may be said against the mar
tistic application of cosmetics. Of
which everybody who goes about sees
many examples.
But general Indictment OF girls
with short hair. or rouged cheeks. or
powdered noses, or short s';irts is as
ridiculous as q general indictment Of
men who wear spats, or shave the
backs Of their necks or have their fin.
ger nails highly polished. There are
many young women who have sacri-
feed their tresses in moment Of van.
ity or because the weather was hot.
and who powder not wisely but too
thiclly, and who display considerable
underpinnlng. but who do their work
with pep and vim. accurately and in
good style; and there are a lot OF
girls who do not use cosmetics, and
who do wear long skirts. and whose
hair has never known the shears. the
product Of whose industrial or com
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Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Partly CLOUDY
to-day and tomorrow no change IN
temperature: gentle variable winds
For New Jersey-PaT1ly cloudy to-day ara
Tomorrow: no change in temperature selAs
variable winds.
For Northern New England--Partly c'sadv
to-da. and tomorrow; no change In teihpss-
ature: gentle variable winds.
For Southern New Ensland-Partly CLOUDY
to-day and Tomorrow: no change in temper
ature; gentle variable winds.
For Western New York-Party CLOUDY 10
day and tomorrow; possibly local tnurnsr
showers: no change in temperature; gerNls
variable winds.
WASHINGTON. July 1a.--The pressure re-
mains high off the Atlantic coast and Il 10
quite uniform over the United States. but
with centres of relatively low pressure over
the Dakotas and Arizona This pressure dis
tribution has been attended by r,continuation
OF warm weathc. in the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, valleys ayd the upper lake region and
normal temperatures in other regions.
Within the last tweuty-four hours there
were local showers and thunderstorms IN the
Atlantic and Gulf States. the upper Ohio
Valley and at widely scattered points in the
the extreme upper Mississippi Valley. Fair
weather was the rule In other parts OF the
country
The outlook is FOR considerable. cloudiness
and scattered local showers in the Atlantic
and east Gulf States, Tennessee. the upper
Ohio Valley and tha lower lake region No
material changes are indicated for the east
eight hours.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations, taken at g +. NJ. YESTERDAY,
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end of the fifteen months test, was by
the French sire Negofol out of Ballot
Bred by Meddler. He stood lo.5
hands and weighed 1000 pounds. The
highest development among the fillies
was achieved by Royal Traeings,
daughter of Tracery and Royal Coin
age, which stood 1919 hands and
weighed 1000 pounds
These statistics are OF Importance
to the breeders OF light horses and
also of draft horses in all parts OF
the United States.
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AMERICANS REGISTER AT
PARIS .HERALD' OFFICE
Brig. Gen. c. 0. Squire
Among Those in Capital.

Special Correspondence to The New York
HERMp.
PARIS, June 25.-Americans who have
registered at the Office OF THE NEW
YORK HERALD in Paris include Brig
Gen. George Owen Squire of Washing
ton. MIR. and Mrs Edwin B. Eising. the
Misses Florence, Edna and Ruth EisirS.
Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Bunker. Miss
Katherine Bunker, Miss Emily L. Cobbe,
Mr.. and Mrs. Romsine Pierson. Samuel
II. Levy, William Herr, E. Sewell, Miss
Susan Hatch. Mrs. G.. J. Bennett, Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Goetz, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
NJ. McFerson, Mrs. Woodruff Leeming.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Price, Thomas Car
mlchaels. Mrs. ". X. Sherwood and Henry
Freund of New York.
Also Mr. and Mrs. Gustave We'll. Mime.
Ifortense. Lewis Reiss. julius Crechanow,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis a. SILK. Leo Kahn.
sidney jacobs. Gene Richards, Clarence
w. Kline, Jr, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan
Reh. Rudolph Gunther. Barney Gallant.
Frank A. ConDor, c.. w. Mowat, Mr.. and
Mrs. g. Rawak. DIR. Basile Fellrath. Mr.
and Mrs. o. Fribourg. M. y. Somper, Mr.
and Mrs. c. Lubarski. Miss Mildred
WELLER. Arthur Kaufman and Capt. NJ.
II. B. Heighham of New York.
Also Frank T.. Zerega and Mr.. ana
Mrs. J. w. Weber Of Brooklyn, Mr.. and
Mrs. James +. Warren OF Yonkers: Mrs.
IT, r. Remington. Miss Harriet Reming-
ton and Mr.. Francis Remington OF
Rochester. n. Y: Miss Grace Greenwood.
Ann Arbor, Mich. Mrs. Joseph g. Coch-
ran and Miss Lois Cochran OF Parkers-
burg. w. Va. Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Nor
ris and Mr.. Lauren Kellogg. Jr.. OF
Amsterdam, n. y; Mrs. r. Coe, Miss
Rachel Perkins. Mrs. NJ p. Chahoon.
DR.. and Mrs. J. II. Dellinser OF WASH
ton: l.. Hemingway. Charles L. Purdy
and George r. Purdy of Philadelphia:
Dr. and Mrs. Raymond r. Piper OF
Syracuse and Mr.. and Mrs. George G.
Rosa and Miss Mary Rosa OF Wellwille,
N. V.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. William Boswell.
Cincinnau Mr.. and Mrs. Z. u. i. kehr-
lein. Oakland. Cal. Mrs. Lilly 1saacs.
Mrs. Sarah Treyhan. Miss Marion Oden-
hemer. New Orleans; Mr.. and Mrs.
William u. Shaheiner Richmond
Douglas Fairbanks. Los Angeles: Oar
win Curtiss, r. J. Hooper. Miss Sophie
II. Rosenblat. Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
stuart. Mr.. and Mrs. Michael q. Wal
lace Of Chicago: Mr. and Mrs. II. l..
Cornish Berkeley. Cat; Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert C. Munroe. Miss Dorothy Mum
roe. Detroit. and A. ID. Raynor. Mont
clair. .,
Also r.. Y. Nelson. Manitowac. wis.
Carter O. Euziere. Kaukakec. ILL.,: VIII
lis p. Ames. Ellenbergen. Wash; Gus
Ackermans. Abilene. Texas Mr. and
! Mrs J. NJ. wallace. Boston: Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Sinclair. Misses Cora and ALE
nav. Miss Minnie Garretson, Mr.. and
Mrs John L. Clausen, Philadelphia
charles X. Payne, Charleston, w. Va
N. Darling. Omaha; Clarence J. Beck
man. Cincinnati; Frank Shannon. CO.
lun,bus. Ohio; Mrs. Nathan Marcus.
Reading Mrs. Theodore schweimer. Ger
mantown, Pa. Mrs. Harry Hawley.
Miss Sarah Hawley. Galveston, Texas
Thomas C. Greenwood Detroit; Mr. and
/ Mrs. Thomas c. Marlowo, Miss Madeline
r. Mariowe. Pasadena. Cal; Mr.. and
| Mrs. Charles Wilson, Evan NJ Dilson,
| <ttas NJ Adelc AIort.ig Rosemont Pa.
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Two Pilgrims From Texas.
Their Feat Surprises Pedestrian
of Long Experience.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: \ SEN
tence appearing in news story i'll your
paper a few days ago indicates that
couple of prodlgies of vaSabondia have
been produced by the State OF Texas in
the persons of the two youths who are
said to have tranped from the Lone
Star state TO the Empire City in twenty
s.x days on an expenditure OF flfty-eight
cents, all to attend the Christian En-
deavor convention.
Cold calculation makes it q test OF
human endurance, when the number OF
miles a day is taken into account, that
the hardest tramp would balk at in this
hot weather. The money reported TO
have been expended on the protracted
journey may well serve as an object
lesson to tax squanderins politicians and
warn them that some things are yet
attainabe in the way Of economy.
In reading of this remarkable hike one
is reminded of the story Of the pilgrims
who were condemned 20 do penancc by
making a long journey afoot TO shrine
with peas in their shoes AT the end OF
the pilgrimage one OF the penitents
walked with the case and confidence
with which he hal started out. while
the other one, CALLED by the peas, hob
bicd his feet blistered and swollen. He
asked his companion how il was that ho
could walk so easily with peas in his
shoes whlle he himself was suffering all
OF the pain that the penalty imposed on
both of them could infilct. The fellow
answered that it was easily explained.
for he had boiled his peas.
Probably the youths from Texas were
walking with boiled peas in their shoes.
F'INDLAY SAcKETT.
NEW YoRK. July ~.
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More Sea Island Cotton.

Sea Island cotton, production Of
which has been gravely reduced in
the South because of the ravages of
the boil weevil, is now being produced
in the Virgin Islands. according to the
Department of Agriculture, and an
it they may possess an unexpected
source of wealth.
This variety Of cotton, highly
priced for it's long staple, was once
a source of great profit to growers
in favored regions of the United
States. The fact that it can be
grown to advantage in the soil of the
Virgin Islands will be good news to
spinners who had come to the conclu-
sion that it might soon be extinct in
this country. While the area devoted
to it in the Virgin Islands is still
small, in 1919 and 1920 an average
yield of 1000 pounds of seed cotton
to the acre was raised. Under spe-
cially favorable conditions at one of
the Government experiment stations
the crop showed a yield at the rate Of
4,450 pounds to the acre.
The island soil has been found so
favorable that experiments with nu-
merous other varieties of cotton have
been undertaken. Hybrids have been
produced which retained the priced
silky quality of the Sea Island cotton
and the resistant qualities OF other
varieties, with average yields greater
than those OF the parent varieties.
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WOMEN TO TALK POLITICS.
n Non-Partisan Conference to Be
Held i'm Home of Mrs. vanderIip.

The first of series of non-partisan
political conferences will be held to-mor-
row at the home of Mrs. Frank A. Van
derlip at 3eechwood. Scarborough.
More than 1000 women of the Repub-
lican, the Democratic and other. parties
and those affiliated with non-partisan
organizations have been invited. The
conference will start at 1890 A. M.
with discussion by speakers of the
country and city groups.
Luncheon will be served at 1880. dur
ing which Mrs. Lewis S. Thompson.
member of the Now Jersey Board of
Institutions and agencies, will tell about
how equal representation of women In
the political parties was won and how it
has worked in New Jersey.
The afternoon session will start at
2:3O. Among the speakers are DR.. A. r.
Hatton, Albert Bard, chairman of the
Honest Ballot Association, and Mrs. Car
r.e Chapman Gait.
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A Kentucky Challenge.
From n, Horrodsbpr0 Herald.

From the Harrodsbpr0 Herald.
MFR. Add STOPPER. who IL In his eghtietb
year, tells us he has been harvesting ever
since he was ten years old and has only
missed two harvests In all that time. once
when he was laid up with two broken ribs
and ono year with crippled foot This
year he and his youngest son p,t oil his
wheat I'm the shocks and when he put the
last bundle In place he jumped UP and
cracked his heels together twice n any
one can beat this Uncle Add would like to
hear from them.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

Board OF Education, stated meeting, :ait
of the board. Park avenue and Fifty-ninth
street. +. NJ.
Protective Section OF the American Rail
way Association. meetings, Hotel Pennsyi-
vnnia, all day.
Union Theological Seminary. conference for
ministers and religious workers. Broadway
and 10th street. forenoon and afternoon.
Northeastern Farm Bureau States, confer
ence OF secretaries and presidents, Hotel
Commodore. beginning A. NJ.
Britsh-American Manufacturers' Company
meeting, Waldorf Astoria, p. M.
National Confectionery Salesmen's Associa-
zion of America. meeting, Hotel Shelourne.
Brighton Beach. 10 a. NJ.
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Nature fans will rejoice in the news,
painful as II is to crows and golfers
a crow. set on tire by lightning or a
1--we wire-here is excuse for acres
OF speculation--fcll into a hay field
and set It OH fire; two golfers dlscov-
cred that woodpeckers, probably fore
seeing n cold winter, arc pecking holes
SO large that they trap high driven
and high priced golf balls.
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An Illinois Union.

From The Bureau County Uii) Republican.
Miss Hetsy Beanbossom. youngest daush-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fehlander Beanblos-
som, and Mr. Phabeus Thackelberry are TO
bo quietly married at the VI. u. Churcn
Thursday Juno q. AZ 2:t0 o'clock. Inc
Ladies' Guild OF the church arc invited 10
come and bring friend. Ten cents ad-
uission will be charged ut the door and an
a additional charge OF five cents 10 those
coming after 2.i5 The generous young
couple are 10 donate the offering at the
door 10 the Guild.
The New York herald., 1921-07-13

Mayor HYLAN praised the Princes ex-
collent Eng!ish.-Ycstcrdoys actc3 from,
CNy Hall
Here was praise from a master. Few
indeed are those whose speech stirs
the Mawr 10 kind words.
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III Il we're as easy to get people TO
believe that the only. way TO win back
prosperity is TO work hard for fair
wages as 1t is to get them to accept
wild yarns about pirates in the Allan
tic bad times would not last month
longer.
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Duke and Duchess de Richelieu Sail
To Pass Several Weeks in England and France-Other
Transatlantic Travellers.

Bar Harbor, Me-. s2.s2O.77: share in
rent of same, $1,000; Federal income
tax for 1914. s2.03O.7O attorneys fees
and disbursements, S1.505.60; premiums
on bonds she was under. $3.50; referees 5
fee in special guardian proceedings.
$3.50 settlement OF accounts with mer-
chants S2,4S4.54.
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The children in The Bronx having
won their crusade for cheaper soda
water. their parents may be expected
10 move for reduction in the prices
of remedies for stomach ache.
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Butterflies.

When yellow butterflies make pirouettc
Above the clover blooms along the
road.
They seem the type OF happiness. and
yet
some hearts still dance though heavy
CLINTON scoLLAnD.
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They Cnn Afford II.

From the GaircstoA News.
Our guess is that the only people who
laugh and grow fat are these who don't
have 10 worn for their board.
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Can, Hold n Good Man Down.

Pompano correspondence ~ INC Fort Lauder
dale Sentinel
Mr.. and Mrs. ". A. Beavitt have gone 70
Miami. not because they like " better but
bocause pompano u such healthy place
,bs, be could not make a living here. and
was such n famous doctor that tho Miami
people Offered him such handsome sum
that he would be foolish 20 turn Il down.
put he Is stlll our doctor right on. He
won't give No his people here.
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The Associated Press Il exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication OF all news des-
matches credited to II or not otherwise
credited IN this paper, and also the local
news published herein.
All rights OF republication Of special des-
patches herein are also reserved.
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a Kansas social and Personal Note.

From the Hidtcdtho World
young man and woman who sat In the
court house park nearly ell day Saturday
we're stri there at $50.
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Germany is the only one OF the
major commercial nations which en-.
joys this advantage Of difference
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Highest temperature, 81, at 2:1o
Lowest temperature. go, at Q 4
Average temperature. 20.
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LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

The temperature IN this city yesterd
of
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tU Uy CIft OH IUfH
In the anI,ars I'd tab
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Directors and officers: Frank A. Munsey
President Erwin Wardnan. Nice-President :
YIN. T. Dewart. Treasurer. Il. III. Tither-
ngton. Secretary.