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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

BALTIMORE. April Especially -
Potatoes, white, 100 pounds, 75a1.75;
15e-pound sacks, 1.25a2.75; sweets
and yams, barrel, 2.50a6.50: bushel,
1o0a3.00. Asparagus, dozen, 4.o0a
500; beans. bushel, 3.ooa5.50; beets,
1.25a2.o0; carrots. hundred, 4.00a6.00:
caulifiower. crate, 3,00a325; celery,
crate, 375a4.25; cucumbers. crate,
600a8. 90; eggplants. crate, 3.00a5.0
kale, 'bushel. 75aS5: lettuce. bushel.
1.5oa5. 90: onions, 100 pounds. 1.ooa
LIS: oyster plants. hundred, 6.00aS.00;
parsnips, basket, 60a70; peas, hamper,
400a6. 90; peppers. crate. 3.00a5.5O:
radishes, bushel, 1.5oa2.5o; spinach,
bushel. 1.5oa1.75; squash. crate. 4.ooa
500; tomatoes. crate, 2.50a450; tur-
nips, bushel. 40a50.
Apples (picked), barrel, 2.00a5.00.
bushel, 50a150; box apples, 1-75a2.2 Is.
Grapefruit, box, 1.75a3.00; oranges,
box, 2.25a400; strawberries, quart, 20
a50.
Settling Prices ON Grain.
wheat-No; red winter spot.
1.os7s; No. red winter. garlicky,
quotations: No. 4 or No. red win
ter, garlicky, spot, no quotations.
No sales.
Corn-Cob, new, 425a4.So per bar
rel for yellow and 4.10a415 per bar
rel for white; No. 2 corn, spot, SO Is
No. corn, spot, SOS No. 3, new, 80.
Sales, ,665 bushels No. white,
80 per bushel.
Oats-No. white, 56a561a; No. 2
white, new, 54 II ass.
Rye-Nearby. 7Oaso; No. 2 rye, spot,
7SA.
Hay-Receipts, 144 tons. The out
ward movement fairly good for better
grades of timothy and clover mixed
and sound clover. with no oversupply
of such description on hand. Low
grade and damaged hay in full supply
and slow to find an outlet at any
price. Quotations.: No. / timothy,
27.0oa27.5o per ton; No. 2, 26.00a26.50; !;
No. 5, clover, 23.00a24.0o; No. 1 clover
mixed, 25.00a25.50; No. l clover,
&c. .0oa27.O0.
Straw-No. / straight rye, 24.00a
$500 per ton; No. l tangled rye,
1s.80a2o. 0o,ANo. ! wheat, 1S.00a1s.5o;
No. oatS F.ooa1S,oo.
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BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON, April (SpeciaD The
wool market wound up a dull week
today with the range of prices prac-
tically unchanged. The slowness
with which mills are buying raw wool
has led to some shading, but wool
growers in the west are holding for
extremely strong figures. Exports
during the week have been heavy.
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DEMAND STERLING UP.
Heavy Buying of Issue Noted on
Foreign Exchange.

NEW YORK, April 5.-Demand
sterling, which has been at a stand
still for several weeks, assumed lead
ership of the foreign exchanges to-
day with gain of 2 cents. Heavy
buying orders. which bankers believed
reflected confidence in the forthcoming
Dawes report. carried the rate up to
s4321s. other European exchanges
also were strong.
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H|GH-GRADE BONDS
IN STEADY DEMAND
Market Shows Liberal In
vestments, Particularly in
U. S. Liberty Issues.
BY GEORGE It. HUGHES

NEW YORK, April 5.-The week in
the bond market has been character
lied by steady investment absorption
of high grade securities. particularly
liberty bonds, active speculation in
conspicuous weakness in certain in
dustrials.
Due TO Money Conditions
The buying in the investment grade
may fairly be ascribed to conditions in
the money market. Banks have ap-
parently been accommodating United
states government loans as an en-
ployment for their surplus funds. Sew
eral exceptionally large transactions
have been reported. Savings bank
rails have all been firm, but price
changes have not been large. On the
other hand the demand for short term
obligations has outrun the supply.
In railroad bonds speculation has
been most active in the st. Paul, the
New Haven, the Erie and the Sea-
board bonds. To these were added
later in the week Chicago Great
Western and Wheeling and Lake
Erie, the consolidated As of the last
named road making a new high for
the year today. In all these instances
improvement in earnings was back
or the buying movement.
Small Gains in Iudustriais.
Industrials have not Jared as well
as the rails. Cerro de Pasco SIS have
gone up with the stock. the net gain
for the week being between and
Z points. South Porto Rico Sugar rs
have been notably strong on invest
ment buying. These, however, are
exceptions. Extreme weakness has
been exhibited by American Agricul-
tural Chemical Z i.s. These bonds
made a new low today under heavy
selling and the corporations first
mortgage IS went down in sympathy
Ajax Rubber SIS lost more than 9
points on the publication of the an
nual report. Some of the oil bonds
are lower, notably Pierce Oil IS and
Mariand Oil SIS.
fractions and Public Utility bonds
generally have been strong. Public
Service of New Jersey IS have beer
bought in the expectation that the
plan for an exchange OF these bonds
for a new 5 le per cent issue secured
on the Electric Light and Power
properties will go through. There
was heavy trading in these bonds
today at the high of the movement
Foreign Bonds Favored.
Along with the general strength in
the market there has been a better
| sentiment toward foreign bonds Both
French SIS and French 71as made new
highs for the year. Jugoslav SIS have
also made a new high under heavy
dealings, Outside the European grouI
there was a sharp advance in Brazi
! SIS and "A smaller one in Cuban 5Ias
| The only noticeable reaction in the
entire foreign list was in the Swiss SIS
New security offerings totaleG
around sSS.000, 600, against s113.0OO.-
eco in the previous week. The larg-
the Swiss 512s to the amount oil
1900. 900 priced to yield 81 per cent
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DIVIDENDS.
BAR SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, April 5:-Bar silver,
63N; Mexican dollars, 4SA.
LONDON, April 5.-Bar silver,
SO lie pence per ounce. Money, IS
per cent. Discount rates, short bills,
2H per cent; three-month bills, 3 per
cent.
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Denies French Advance.
the Associat ted Press.

PARIS, April 5.-Calling attention
today to q dispatch from the Wolff
bureau in Berlin, saying that the
French troops of occupation had ad-
vanced north of Elberfeld, the Havas
agency declares no such military
movement has been made ana that
none is contemplated
Evening star., 1924-04-05
WOULD ABANDON TWO LINES.

The Detroit and Mackinac railway
asked the Interstate Commerce Com
mission today for authority to aban-
don two branch lines, one between
Lincoln and Lincoln Junction, Mich,
and the other between Tower and
Legrande, Mich.
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N. Y. BANK STATEMENT,

NEW YORK, April 5.-The actual
condition of clearing house banks and
trust companies for the week show
deficit in reserve of $11,155,490.
This is a decrease of $3s,213,310.
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Washington Stock Exchange,

SALES.
Washington Gas 6s $500 at 1ooIa
Washington Rwy & El"c 4s-Slp0n al -
Potomac Electric cons. Js-Sl 900 1T "a
81 400 at ~.
Capital Traction Co a 93i2, : at 49, !
at 93ia.
Washington Rwy & Elec pfd.-lo at 80,
i at T21s, ) a I.1s. 10 at T2i4, 10 at 12'f >
at I24
Washington Gas Lgbt-2O at 49s,, 20 Al
1885,. . 81 49a,.
Lanston Monotype-5 at T2.
AFTER CALL.
Potomac Electric deb 6s-S1 900 at loo
National Mortgage & investment pfd---au
slc 10 at s1e. 100 at ST., 10 at sl.. 30 at
Washington Rwy. < Elec. pfd.-lo al -
10 at 72l.. 100 at I2&s. 200 at s2@s. 100 ."
725s. 100 at 72Es. 81 at 12%s, 100 at y 's. IL
at 73 100 at 80
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U. S. TREASURY CERTIFICATES
RosroN STOCK MARKET.

BOSTON, April 5.-Following is a
list of today's highest, lowest and
closing prices for the most active
stocks dealt in here:
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Seasickness can be cured by inhal-
ing oxygen, says a French physiolo-
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TITLE INSURANCE.
SHORT TERM SECURITIES
Quotations furnished by Redmond & Co.


~-Close.---s
Bid ofei
Aluminium Co. of Amer. as 1925. lO2as 10G
Aluminium Co. Of Amer. Is 1898. 1065s 107
American Sugar 6s 1887 lu0M lOi
American Tel & Tel. is 1925. ... 1oa
Anaconda Copper is 1929. 80. 1Ul1s IoIE.
AuglO-American Oil Ilas 1925. l02 102A
Associated Oil Us 1885. ......., gSii 9S3s
Bell Tel. of Canada IS 192J.... 9Tit 913s
Canadian Northern 5iss 1871. 1905 100.s
Central Leather IS 1925. 94Ts a5
Chi Mil & st. Paul Us 1884,. 80 sE"S
Chi r. T. & Pac. Ji2s 1925. -. 90 $685.
Columbia Gas & FL LIST 5s 1877. as3s 9S"s
Du Pont 7iss 1881. ............. 1875 1915
Federal Sugar Ref is 1898. agi. 100
Fisher Body Corp. IS 1927 1...... lools 1OOi&
Fisher Body Corp. 6s 192S...... 1876 100ls
Goodyear r. & II. SIS 1881. ...... iof l0l"s
Great Northern rs 1885. ....... 1O7is 1oIss
Gulf Oil Corp. of Pa. 5las 1928. 100 1O0as
Humble Oil 51,s 1882. 9s ISL
Kennecott Copper Is 1930...... 1e4Ss 10J
Libby Mcneil & Libby IS 1881. 100 l0Dt.,
M St r. & $. S. NJ. 6las 1881. 102la 1a2@s
Morris & Co 7i1s 1880. ........ 93s4 iOnf
New York Central IS 19SJ..... los 10I@>
oregon Short Line As 1929. 93b 9s
Penna. .-0hio Power 4 Lit Us 1926 s9I 100
Pcnna. X. II. * 1880. ........- 1878 los
Swift & Co. IS 1892. an1t aaas
Tidewater Oil 6Ias 1881. J023s 1naIs
Union Tank Car Is 1870. ....... 1Otls lu.it
o. s. Rubber 7las 1880. ........ 1915 Ia1I
Western Union 6ias 1a36...... 40 IIna
Westinghouse E. 4 Nj. Is 1881. l6Ti. IOIa,
Wheeling Steel 6s 1876. a9t. -
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IN. Y. Stock and Bond
Averages.
Friday, April 4.
STOCKS.

STOCKS.
Total stock sales, e12,500
shares.
Twenty industrials averaged
$3.50; net gain, SO.
High, 1924, 1924; low, 93.0s.
Twenty railroads averag ged
S6.32; net gain, so.
High, 1924, $3.50; low, s2.74.
BONDS.
Total bond sales (par value),
Sl4,752,oo0.
Ten first grade rails averaged
S6.S6; net gain, 81.
Ten secondary rails averaged
Sf.s3; net gain, 81.
Ten public utilities ayera ged
$3.50; net gain, 20.
Ten industrials averag 6 e d
e5.47; net loss, .03.
Combined average, SS.29; net
gain, II.
Combined average month ago,
S7.Ss; year ago, ss.s2.
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Stimulating plants by the use of
ether is a recent innovation.
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fPartly extra. Payable in preferred stock.
Dividend rates given in the above table
are the annual cash payments based on the
latest quarterly or half-yeariy declarations.
Unless otherwise noted, extra or special
dividends are not included.
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
Received oy Private Wire Direct Star osce

Adv Rumley.
Allied Chem 60.
Ajax Rubber. 80.
Alas Gold Mines.
! Alaska juneau =.
| Allis- Chain "a.
Am Agri Chem. :.
Am Agri Chem pf
Am Beet Sus (4)
Am Bosch.
Am Br S & F {5s.
Am Can f6).....
Am Chain A f2).
Am. & F.P.25eo pd
Am Hide & l. pf..
Am In ternatl.
Am La r F. Il (l).
Am Ldnseed /. -.
Am L:nseed pf. E.
Am Lncomo CO..
Am Metal 3D..
An Roll M pf y.
Am Ship & Com.
Am SIN & Re (5).
Am s & r pf (7).
Am Stl Fdys a3).
Am Stl F pf (7)A
Am Sugar.
Am Sumat Tob. :.
Am t & Tel CD
Am Water Wks.
Am W w 1st (7)
Am Woolen t1>..
! Am Zinc pr. .....
| Anaconda. ......
Asso Dry G (5)..
Asso Oil t1h)..
At T & s Fe (6)..
! A T & s r pf (5).
Az Coast l. Cd.
Att Fruit ctfs.
! At Gulf & W I.
| At Gulf & W I p;.
| Atlantic Ref t41.
Atlas Powd o..
! Austin Nichols
Auto Knitter...
Bald Loco o..
Bai & Ohio 3d..
Barnsdail A. .....
Barnsdall B. ....
! B'ch Nut (2.4o).
Beth Steel (5)...-
Beth Stl pf (7)....
Booth Fish 1st pf
! Brk Edison (sD.
! Brk-Man Tran.
Brk-Man TT pf.-
Brklyn Un G. ca
| Burns Br (1o).
Burns Br b <2)-.
/ Butte c & Zinc.
Butte & Superior.
! Caddo Cen o & r
Cal Pet f1Z)....
/; Cal Pet pf o..
Can Pacific (1o).
Cent Leather Co.
Cent Lea Co pf. :.
Ger de PasC 60.
! Chand Mot 3D..
nes & Ohio 90.
Oh & o pf (6h)..
| Chic & Alton pf.
| Oh & East til pt.-
Chic CT West. .-
| Chic Ct West pr.
| Ch Mil & st Paul.
Ch Nil & st P pf..
Chi & Nwn o..
Chic r ! & Pac. -.
C r l 4 p pf (6).
C r I & P pf CD.
Chile Cop (2h)..
Coca-Cola Co..
Colo Fuel & Iron.
Col c & Il t2.60b.
Com Solv A o.
Com Solv B (4)..
Congoleum o.
Consol Cigar. 49,.
Consol Gas (5)..
ConsoI Textile.
! Cont Can t4)....
Cont Motors. -.-.
Corn Prod (10)
Corn Pr K NV wi.
Cosden Co. 80.
Crucible Stl (4) =.
Cub Am Sug (3b
! Gu Am Su pf a.
! Cuban Cane Sug.
Cub Cane Su pf i.
/ Danl Boone M(3)
Davidson Chem .
Del & Hud CO.,.
De. L & W fs).
Det Ed Co (S) =.
! Dome Mines co.
Du PIT de " (s) -.
DUG 1t st pf CD.
East Z tt5E)...
Eaton AK (2.6e1
Eli St Bat Cts y ,
! End-John pf (7) .
, Erie
/ Erie 1st pf. .....-
Famous Pl (S).
Famous Pl pf (8)
j Fifth Av B t64c3
Fisher Bdy (10b .
Fisk Rubber. 49,
Fl'chm'u (f3k).
Freeport-Texas..
Gen Asphalt. 80.
Gen Cigar o..
Gen Elec o..
| Gen Ell spe { 60c)
! Gen Mot t1.20).-
! Gen Mot db (6) -
Gin bel Bros. ...-
Goldwyn Pict. 80,
GOODYEAR Of.
F.! G'dyear pr pf (S)
/ CRANKY Consoi- ,
Gray & Davis.
at North pf (5).,
i CIR Nor Ore o..
CIR Canan Cop. -.
| Guantan Sugar. =
Gulf Mo & Nor,
; Gulf M&N pf (4)
! Gulf St Stl (5)..
f! Hanna 1st pf 90,
+, Hayes Will t3) :.
Houston Oil. 80.
Hud Mot G (5)...
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ON new YORK BONDSs7oo E1cHANcz
Received by rrivaAo WIZ DASet - The Star oAacs.
(salss are in $l.oos.)

(Fractions represent thirty seconds.
Example: 98s3 means 9S 3-32.l
Evening star., 1924-04-05

Operating income of SS32,s71 for
1923 is reported by the American
with $1,107,570 in 1922. Operating
revenues were $157,443,7S1.
, 1924-10-02
TITO RED
CROSS OFFICIAL
VISITS RAWLINS

Miss Helen Uhl, field representa-
tive of the National Red Cross in
charge of the Wyoming district ar
rived in Rawlins last Friday for a
three days visit and while here h
met with the executive committee of
the local Red Cross and made plans
for the coming roll call which will
be held in this city ON November 20.
The conference with the executive
committee of the local Red Cross
met in the Community room of the
First National Bank Saturday after
noon and selected Attorney Thomas
O'Hara Is the Roll Call Director.
With the selection OF Mr.. O'Hara
the Red Cross has a director who is
well acquainted with the work for
he has had past experience with Red
Cross roll calls in Wheatland, Wyo.,
where he conducted several success
full roll calls. Miss Uhl is personally
acquainted with Mr.. O'Hara and was
in perfect accord with the selection.
All but n Of the executive commit
, 1924-10-02
LOUIS JAHNKE
DIED SATURDAY
FROM GUN WOUND

Louis Jahnke. who on the morn
ing OF the 21st was shot in the abdo-
men by q hold-up in Bebe Harris
residence on the South Side. died at
$3.50 last Saturday morning at the
Memorial hospital. At IN inQuisition
held at the Martin Home Mortuary
on Tuesday afternoon, 1t was found
that the deceased came to his death
as the result and effects OF a bullet
wound in the abdomen, fired by an
unkonwn person. Coroner c. w.
jeffrey conducted the inquest before
jurors A. p. Barton, p. II. Healy and
J. J.. Murphy. The witnesses were
Bebe Hart. DR.. e. A. Kell and Miss
Grace f. Lansing. superintendent Of
the hospital. The body WAS shipped
Tuesday evening to St. Paul. Mimi.
where the deceased has a mother
and sister living.
II was brought out at the in
QUESTION that Jahnke was an unruly
patient. after a successful operation
he was not prone to taking medicine
but instead as soon as the nurse would
leave the room he would spit out
the medicine and try in every con-
ceivable way to keep from taking II.
The second night after the operation
he got up from his bed and went to
the drinking fountain. After he was
tied to his bed he would work the
sheets loose and try to- get up. Every
method was used to keep him In bed
but they were all to no avail.
The bullet entered on the right
side of the abdomen. injuring the
upper side OF the liver. grazing the
large bowel. into the lining Of the
abdomen and imbedded in the right
hip bone. There was no ~perforntion
of the intestine. On Thursday the
patient began to get delirious and
show signs OF delirium tremens and
they became worse until his death
on Saturday morning.
The reports OF the shooting were
the same as appeared In this paper
last week. As an additional point.
the gun which was supposedly used
to shoot Jahnke was found on the
morning after the shooting In front
OF the Franks Grocery store. II II
believed that the hold-ups threw
tho gun away after the shooting.
This. however. might be questioned
for Il Ia seldom that the men who
commit the hold-up throw away
their guns. Also from several state
mcnts which II IL reported that tho
dying man made. others than the
supposed hoid-ups would be incrim-
mated.
, 1924-10-02

tee met with Miss Uhl, this absent
member finding it impossible to be
in Rawlins at the time of the meet
ing.
At the meeting, Miss Uhl gave an
interesting talk about the Red Cross
and its workings, the plans which it
has followed in past years and the
future plans of the organization, and
the preparations which are being
made for the future. Also at this
meeting the plans were made for
other meetings which will be held
before the time Of the roll call.
, 1924-10-02
FOrty-Sixth Reunion
of COnsistory No. l
December 9Th to 18th

Tho 18th Reunion m Wyoming
Consistory No. I will he held nj
Cheyenne on December 8th. 9th. 10th,
and 18th. 1924.
This IL the only reunion to he
held during the year 1924. II will
be held in the now Masonic Temple
which In tho finest building ever
erected in Wyoming.
Tho new Consktory Temple has
cost In the nciGhborhood of n half
million dollars and tho class which
Q in II the December reunion will
always have the added distinction
Of being the hrst class to be initiated
In this new Temple.
Officers OF Wyoming Consistory
announce that the December Re-
union will be the best. In the history
Of wyoming Consistory No. I and II
10 s1pected that there will BE- an
exceptionally large class present for
the i~nitiatory sxsrcisse.
, 1924-10-02
A Town is Judged
By Its Newspaper

Most people look at a news
paper as the BUSINESS of a
single individual. If it thrives
that is the owners or the edi-
tors business. If 1t fails, that
also Is the owners or editors
business.
AS a matter of fact, the sue
cess or failure of a paper is a
matter of grave c. to an
entire town.
Newspapers are the best ad-
v5rtisment a city has in the
outside world. Other cities
Judge a town by the kind of
newspaper it has. If it does not
thrive, outsiders are inclined
to look on the town as unde-
sirable to live IN and so move
on to other cities.
Thomas Jefferson once said
that If he had to have govern
ment without newspapers or
newspapers without govern
ment, he would take the news
papers, because through them
he felt that the state could
be run with at least fair sue
ess
If some of us appreciated
more fully the value of our
newspapers, we would make
geeater effort to see they got
the news and advertising and so
become successful. Modern So
ciety cannot. get along without
newspapers any more than it
can without schools and
churches.-Tyrone tPa.) Times
, 1924-10-02
RAWLINS MAN GETS
BRIDE IN LARAMIE

Mr.. Rome Daniel Of Rawlins cams
70 Laramie yestsrday to meet his
haneee. Miss Ruby Heding. Of Water
loo. Iowa. aad after the usual pre-
iiminary visit 70 the court house the
happy couple sought tho Baptist par
sonaee where Rev. Richmond used
tho ring ceremony 10 make them hus.
band and wife. Mrs. Daniel 10 .
nurse who spent Q year IN RsWltas
and there was commenced the 70.
maaee which viii centinue II their
nsv hoRe u that eity.-LAranss Re-
0ubiSeAs.
, 1924-10-02
KINDER FILES INDEPENDENT
FOR united STATES SENATOR
FORMER PROMINENT DEMOCRAT SUPPORTS PROG.
RESSIVE TICKET And files AS INDEPENDENT
CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR

CHEYENNE WYO, SEPT. 3o-Hon. George f. Kinder
States Senator from Wyoming Thursday afternoon, 20 minutes
before the Secretary of States office closed on the last day
of the filing period. He filed as an independent candidate but
stated, in commenting on his candidacy, that he would sup
port the LaFollette- Wheeler presidential ticket y. G. Apple
gate, Cheyenne, whom many had expected would file as an in
dependent candidate for representative in Congress, did not
, 1924-10-02

While in Rawlins Miss Uhl went
over the records of the local Red
Cross and expressed herself as being
completely satisfied with the work
which has peer accomplished in the
past year.
On Saturday Miss UhI. in the COM
pany of Mrs, w. f. WEIGH, Mrs. Mer-
rell and Mrs. Laura Heath made a
, 1924-10-02
1924 TAX PAYMENTS GOOD

Mrs. Laura Heath, County Treas
urer reports that the 1924 taxes are
being paid in an excellent manner
for in response to the notices which
were sent out on Friday of last week
by Monday evening there had been
80 persons who had paid their taxes.
, 1924-10-02

Laramie-University of Wyoming
begins its thirty-eighth year with a
record irst-day registration of 5S7.
net including vocational students.
, 1924-10-02

trip to Parco and through the kind
ness of Superintendent Richardson
the ladies were conducted through
the refinery.
, 1924-10-02

Mr.. and Mr.. Joe Ttsrnsy Who left
. vssk ago wednesday on Q honey.
aeoa trip % Dsaves asd Salt Lake
CITY are e.Deess4 baek n Raviias
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-10-17
Gouls Conceded to Be
First Makers of Soap

Made from goats tallOw and beech
wood ashes, the earliest forms Of soap
were used by the ancient Inhabitants
of Germany to give a reddish color to
the hair, according to the records of
the historian, Pliny the elder AL
though mixed into hard and liquid
material, ii was not known as a
cleansing substance, but was often
employed in the treatment of skin
troubles.
The Gauls, it is said, introduced II
into other parts of the world.
Today the yearly production in the
United States is estimated to be
two and one-half billion pounds. Not
until about the Second century Of the
Christian era was the product used as
a cleansing article, ii is claimed, and
an ancient factory for manufacturing
the material unearthed in the ruins Of
Pompeli still contained a quantity OF
1t in a good state of preservation.
Northern Spain and Marseilles later
became the chief centers Of the in
dustry and produced large amounts Of
the CASTLE variety from olive oil and
I've. Earlier accounts of the existence
of soap among Asiatic peoples are
believed to refer to some kinds Of
mixtures which were devoted to pur-
poses entirely apart from those Of
dyes or cleaning Observation-Disclosures
Mechanics Magazine.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-10-17
Soft Drinks Traced to
American Revolution.

There is an interesting story about
how the first soft drinks happened to
be made
Back in the days of the American
Revolution a man named Townsend
Speakman was running a little drug
store in Philadelphia. He supplied
medicines for Washington's army, and
was pretty well known. One day.
says writer in the Progressive Gro
Ger, doctor asked him to fill pre-
scription of carbonated water. Drug
gist Speakman succeeded In COM
pounding the concoction. The doc
tors patient liked the new water.
Soon, one patient after another passed
the word around and, before long,
Druggist Speakman had lots Of calls
for the new medicine water.
But Druggist speakman was keen
business man and conceived the idea
Of favoring the medicine water with
fruit juices to increase Its popularity.
The plan worked. Its popularity
spread like wildfre. That was the
beginning Of the carbonated soft
drink business.
The soft drink business has been
growing ever since Last year, for ex-
ample, the people In the United States
consumed 100000 bottles Of non
alcoholic beverages, an average Of rs
bottles for every man, woman and
child
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-10-17
Ducks Use of Wings

Do ducks use their wings while
swimming under water2 The question
is discussed frequently among sports
men and nature students, and opin-
ions sometimes differ. Testimony Of
reliable authorities, says Popular Me-
chanlcs Magazine, supports the belief
that various species of ducks and
grebes, looms and other diving birds do
not use their wings when swimming
beneath the surface for food or in
trying to escape capture. A ruddy
duck was observed on Lake Michigan
not long ago, feeding in fifteen or twen-
ty feet of clear water. AS it got well
started on its downward plunge, the
wings, about two-thirds extended, were
used In quick, short strokes, at the
rate Of about one a second. to assist
in propelling 1t and in rising to the
top, as well.