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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21
49,, GENERAL BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
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MhbR Letters OF october L~edByT The NaondCv Ban New

The trend of business during the
past month has been very satisfactory.
justifying the expectation that the
volume of trade this Fall will be the
largest the country ever has expert
enced. The reason for it is that the
industries have reached a better state
OF price relations than has prevailed
hitherto since this country entered
the war. The rise of prices of ag-
ricultural products which has occuxed
in the last year, and which is gen.
orally maintained upon this years pro.
duction, is the principal factor in this
readjustment.
Railway traffic in the last two
months has been on a scale never
reached before in corresponding
months of the year, and the notable
feature has been the quantity of mer-
ohandise and miscellaneous freight.
All computations show that build
ing operations are contin ling with
undiminished activity. The F. w.
Dodge Corporations report for
August says:
Construction started In the Sc
Eastern States during the past
eight months has reached a total
OF $3,77S,792,000, an increase of
25 per cent over the corresponding
period of 1924, and by far the
largest amount for any similar
period of any year. At the end
of June, this year was IS per
cent ahead of 1924; at the end
of July, 20 per cent ahead; and
at the end of August, Is per cent
ahead. This shows the rapidly OF
the rise in building activity dur
ing the past few months.
The cotton goods industry is dis.
tinctly reviving. Trade in recent
weeks has been in large volume and
the mills have more business in sight
than in a long time. Furthermore
buyers are not so particular about the
price, or so sensitive to the fuctua.
tions of the cotton market, which
gives glimmer of hope to the man.
ufacturer. Current reports of mill!
sold up several months ahead sug.
gest that perhaps this hand-to-moutf
habit of buying may not be so thor
oughly fixed as has been thought
The goods trade took the addition o.
a couple of hundred thousand bale.
TO the governments mid-Septembel
crop estimate more calmly than TIT
speculative element did. and buying
by the mills seems to have been thu
main factor in arresting the decline
started on the cotton exchange
Wooden and worstcd goods offeret
at the recent opening of the Ameri
can Wooden Company's lines ar,
priced 5 to 10 per cent below las
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21
British to Free
Last of Slaves

Geneva, Sept. PA. P. by Mail)--
The last spot on the British Empires
map where human slavery still exists
is the Hukawng Valley in the upper.
portion of the Indian province OF
Burma. BY next May the Empire
hopes to have removed this last yes
tige from the dominions and colonies
directly under it's. control, and from
those bordering it as well.
The local potentates have agreed
that a fixed prices hall be set for each
class of slave in the Hukawng valley,
and once it is fixed the bondsmen in
question shall Immediately become
free and enjoy all the rights and
privileges of other freemen. The
slave is then to work out the pur-
chase of his freedom by paying easy
annual installments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21
Move to Punish
careless Hunters
N New HAMPSHIRE

,uoncord, n. H., oct 2o-fAPl-
Which, accidental shootings, ole OF
( apenas was fatal. since the deer season
swift IN IN the north country brought
of Fs Seuoh today from Commissioner
Win ,sn and Game Mott L. Bartlett
Super,nasue public a general order to
Fnls. of Wardens John H.
nats oa u Colebrook and all subordi.
sestigs.s ia,s directing that they in
ipmssS;.e all such occurrences. report
sionss a.eiy such cases to the commits.
prass r and volunteer aid to county
yised tha.s oniciais. Mr.. Bartlett ad-
10 count ma actual prosecutions be left
ton ~ attorneys. but called atten-
lessnes. statutory penalties for care
YES IN the discharge of firearms
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21
Free Dancing Lessons
To Customers Children

San Francisco, Oct. 20-(AP)-
large San Francisco department
store is responsible for the fact that
the city has approximately 5000 po-
tential Pavlowas, ranging in age
from five to IA years.
About four years ago the store
tried to give free dancing lessons to
the children of its customers, as an
experiment. At first there was a
class of 80 children. In six months
there were classes for every day In
the week.
No charge is made for even the
most advanced work Many OF the
children have developed considerable
talent and have found professional
work
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21

heavy boats necessary to carry the
binderlike contraptions ripped the
tender stalks from the shallow water,
spelling virtually all rice that the
reaper missed.
Now the tribesmen and their
families in birch-bar canoes and
awkward, but light flatbottom boats.
are proceeding as in the days of old.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21

years figures. The industry is sea.
sonably more active, but buying is
cautious in view of the tendency to
lower costs. Wool supplies are large
and certain New Jersey mills have
Just put into effect a 10 per cent wage
reduction, to correspond with recent
action by New England mills.
The branches of the textile in
dustry in which prosperity really
abounds are the silk and rayon in
dustries. Imports of raw silk in the
first eight months of this year ag-
gregated 298,9o6 bales, against 2l6,-
o79 in the corresponding months Of
last year. but consumption has been
at a higher rate. Stocks were re-
duced 29,5l6 bales in the same time,
compared with a reduction of 10000
bales last year. Prices are fully
maintained.
The. rayon ("arti6cial silky in
dustry is developing by leaps and
bounds. Numerous announcements ap.
pear OF new companies being organ
lied to manufacture this material, and
of its rapidly extending uses. I'm
ports in the first seven months OF
this year were 1867 900 pounds
against 1871 900 in the correspondents
period of last year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21
aaa'erlcan Equipment
'uOpted By Jap Railways

rscentlv . Iept. 23.-(AP)-In one day
freight me me majority of the TO- 900
Ways a. 1 It's OF the government rail-
ssnger coa Japan, and many of the pas
The modsr aones, We're equipped with
astic co.,, type OF American auto
heeh usin .pier' All of the cars had
"s European coupler Of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21

hook and line type. More than $780,
600 of the American couplers, which
are manufactured by a Chicago firm,
were purchased and distributed
throughout the various railway yards
of Japan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21

The European field is reckoning
to American exporters, principal
speakers declared at the annual
fall convention of the Motor and
Accessory Manufacturers Associa-
ton in Montreal.-Automoti Daily
News, 80.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21

milk cows in the country. That
number was reduced to less than
10000, 900 on January /, 1925. But
to do it the country had to slaught-
er an average of l3,500,0OO cattle
each year and with 100000 in
1924. We ought to finish that off
in this year of high prices and
scarce pork with a slaughter OF
100000 in the II months from
September l, 1925 to September /,
1926. The only way in which you
can decrease the supply of beef
cattle in the country is to increase
the number slaughtered. But this
keeps the price low while the re-
ductim of numbers is going on.
In the FIVE years 1912 to 1916
we were doing exactly the oppo-
site thing. The country had
slaughtered an average of l3,N0,-
600 cattle in the FIVE years 1907
to 1911 inclusive. Then the slaught-
ter dropped to less than $4,000, 900
in 1912, to 100000 in 1914, and
to less than that in 1915. The
average for the S years 1912 to
1916 was 11,500,000. Between 1912
and 1925 the population of the
country has grown about 10000
600, or more than one-ffth. Our
slaughter for the next five years
should average about 100000
cattle. If it does it will keep the
price of beef cattle at a high level.
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Highest Church Spirs

The spire Of Strassburg cathedral
is the highest in the world, being $50
feet high. Around the solid spire is
an open network Of stone with sta
tues, rosettes and arabesques.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21
Price the Regulator of Production

The advocates of a special program
of legislation in behalf of agriculture
have not wholly ceased their efforts,
although they are obliged to admit
that conditions as to agriculture have
improved very much in the past year
without the price-hxing legislation
which little more than a year ago
seemed to them indispensable. Their
argument now is that the improve
ment has been due to weather condi-
tions-short crops here or elsewhere
and that with large crops every
where prices will fall and the FARM
ers be in the same hopeless condi-
ton heretofore described.
Crop deficits somewhere are the
common order of nature. 1t is ex-
ceptional to have full production all
over the world in the same season.
Agriculture as a whole is adjusted
to the expectation of less than full
crops as a rule, and the individual
producer must adjust himself to the
possibility of seasonal over-produc-
ton. 1t can be done in the staple
crops, either by diversihcation or by
carry-over in years of over-produc-
ton. The most economical carry
over is that of the individual farmer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-21
"A"ssuriing
"B"etter
"C"ontact

ANA B. C. report is businessike deciding author
~ ity that has replaced the old custom Of buying
space on certain Claims of the publisher.
The publisher with space to sell submits the facts about
his business in the form of a statement to the AUDIT
bureau of Calculations This statement after it is
checked approved and audited by the Bureau is used
to place the publishers before the Advertiser
who is buying space
The Advertiser knowing the thoroughness Of A. B. c.
methods safely bases his decision on the Verified Facts
contained in the A. B. C. report.
The Audit Bureau of Calculations has brought together
the Buyer and Seller of Space upon basis of Mutual
Confidence.
The careful Advertiser knows that the purchase OF
Space by A. B. c. reports cuts out inflated Waste Cir.
culaon and saves money that would otherwise be lost
in paying for unproductive space.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
N. Y. Cotton Market

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-The cot
ton market was steady at the
opening Of trading today with first
prices from to 9 points higher
March opened at 25,1S, up 9 points.
May at 25.SS, up points and July
at 25.7O, up 8 points.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 26.-Fair de-
mand for spots. Prices steady.
Sales 5000 bales.
Middlings fair. 1915: strictly good
middlings, 1866: good middlings,
l4.4O; strict middlings 14.15; middl.
ings 1890; strict low middlings,
1850 low middlings, 1890; strict
good ordinary, 1890; good ordinary,
1890.
Futures opened steady.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
T NEWS AND QUOTATIONS OF THE FINANCIAL MARKETS
CRUDE OIL PRODUCTIONS
SHOWS LARGE INCREASE

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-The Ameri-
can Petroleum Institute today re-
ported total crude production in the
United States last week at 1,947,6 900
barrels a day, an increase of 1880
barrels daily. With the exception
of the Gulf Coast district, which
shows an increase of 400 barrels
daily, and the Eastern District, in
which production was unchanged.
every producing section recorded a
slight gain over the preceding week
California production was up 300
barrels a day; Kansas up 1850 bar
rels; East Central Texas 1900 bar
rels; Wyoming and Montana 1,7SO;
Oklahoma 900; West Central Texas
$50. Production, in California last
week was col 500 barrels daily; Mid
Continent 1,035,75O barrels; Gulf
Coast and Southwest Texas l22,95O
barrels: Eastern Fields $4,000
Imports of crude and refined oils
at the principal ports last week
averaged 163, 900 barrels day against
1914 in the preceding week. Re'
ceipts of California oil at Atlantlc
and Gulf ports for the week ended
February 81, averaged 63,429 bar
rels a day against Ash for the
previous week.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
women CROWD
|NDUSTR|E
Of JAPAN
3,501,1a3 OF Fair Sex Invade
Professional and Labor
Ranks of Nippon
By LUTHER A. HUSTON.
international News Service.

TOKYO, Feb. 26.--Modern woman
certainly is coming into her own
in Japan.
1t was not so very many years
ago that the idea of women in in
dustry was not only unknown, but
more or less repugnant to the
thought of the times. Now, there
is scarcely an industry or a calling
in the Sunrise Kingdom that has
not been invaded by women. And
the invasion. the women declare,
has only just begun
Statistics show that there are
1851, 1873 women wage earners in
the country, ranking all the way
from manual labor to the higher
professions.
Out of this total 1,315,0OO are
engaged in agricultural work. In
the factories and mines there are
$50, 900 women employed: there are
APO, 544 in government service.
teaching. medical, semi medical and
other professions. and 100000 III
commercial activities.
Divided Into Three Groups
In Tokyo alone, the figures show.
women workers are classified in
three groups, the first including
teachers, doctors, pharmacists,
journalists, authors, composers,
business clerks, guides and detec-
tives. The second group includes
dentists, masseuses, hair dressers,
nurses, typists, stenographers, tele-
phone operators. actresses, artists,
musicians and teachers Of the polite
arts. The third group includes
those who engage in physical labor
such as domestic servants. char
women. etc. This list, although
only a partial one, is sufficiently
inclusive to show that there are
few lines Of activity which women
have not penetrated.
Wages paid to women workers
is slightly lower tina nthe standard
for men. 1t is estimated that
the minimum is about $20 per
month. The biggest incomes are
earned by women physicians. VINO
average from 500 to $3.50 per
month.
Since universal manhood sur
frage has only just come to be gen
orally approved in Japan, 1T is PROB
able that votes for women will be
deferred for several years.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
MOTOR STOCKS
FEATURE OF
TRADING
Specially and Sugar Shares
Also Take Part In Brisk
Forward Movement

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.--Stocks Of
the leading motor companies were
the features in an active and
brisk upward movement Of prices
in the early trading today. Sugar
stocks also spurted simultaneously
with reports of, advancing raw and
refined sugar markets; equipment
shares continued their forward
movement and specialties we're
strong. The market exhibited a
buoyant tone and only in isolated
sections of the list was any weak
ness seen.
Motor shares were in demand on
reports that all of the principal
manufacturers were expanding opCr-
atoms in preparation Tor a spring
selling season. Call money renewed
at Az per cent; gain and COTTON
were moderately higher at the
opening.
Heavy trading in WHY'S Overland,
common and preferred: Maxwell,
Hupp, Pierce Arrow, Studebaker,
General Motors and Chandler was
the feature of the market in this
period. Chandler sold up Q points
at IS; WHY'S Overland preferred
gained 4 points at 81%; the COM
mon sold in thousand share blocks
up to Tx for a. gain of III points:
Maxwell and Packard stocks were
fractionalIy higher, as also were
Studebaker and General Motors.
Most OF the sugar company stocks
were active and higher. American
Sugar reached. 671s. the highest
price of the movement. and only
fractionally below the high Of the
year. Cuban-American, Cuba Cane
Sugar preferred, Punta Allegro and
the beet sugar stocks enjoyed q
good market at better prices. Great
Western rose points and estab-
Iished a new high around SO.
Speciality stocks with pool back
ing displayed conspicuous strength;
Cast Iron Pipe sold up points at
226; Air Reduction, Savage Arms.
Universal Pipe, ETC., moved up from
4 to points. Oil stocks were
steady but very inactive and sf-
forts to boom the railroad stocks
also were futile. St Paul stocks
and bonds werc reactionary. the
preferred stock dropping to 203k for
a loss Of points from yesterdays
high, while the per cent bonds
also lost points.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Chicago Livestock

Hogs-Receipts. $4,000 Market, 1oc
higher. Bulk, 1925, 1900, ~ Is,
heavyweight, 11.75@1215; med. weight.
11.40@12O5; light weight. 11.1o@11.SE;
light lights. 1o.0o@Ii5e; hea7y pack
sows, rough. $1O.5o@ 1890; pigs, 9.sS@
1925.
Cattle Receipts, 1900. Market.
steady. Calf receipts, 5000. Choice
and prime, 1o.5o@11.5o: medium and
good. s0O@9.60; good and choice, 100
ml2.5O: common and medium. 7.00@
$50; butcher cattle, heifers. 500 010.5O /;
cows, +.oo@7.oO: bulls. 4.oo97.oo: can
ners and cutters, cows and heifers, $50
04.OO; Gamer steers, 5.O0@7.0O: veal
calves Digit and handyweight) 10000
1900: feeder steers. 6.76@7.7b; stocker
steers. b6007.60; stocker cows and
heifers. s.6o05.5O: stOcker calves $50
@7.50.
Sheep--16.O 900. Market. steady. Lambs,
fat. 1s.5O01S.o0; culls and cominon.
12.Oo@1AOo; yearlings, 14:oo q l5.ko'
wethers l0.00O12.00 ewes. S,60Y9.7b;
cults and common. SSO@ASO: feeder
lamb1 1e.O0@17.25.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Local Stocks

FURNISHED by W. B. Hibbs & Coz
Capitol Traction Company, log
92h: 5@921s, 10@92h, lW9zHa'
4@921z.
Washington Railway and Etsc-
tric Company. 10@101%, 10@101A
80 a 101&, 1O@1017s, 10@1o2.
Merchants Bank and, Trust Com
pany, 10@135.
$3.50. 1O@S0, 100SO, 10000.
AFTER CALL.
National Mortgage and Invest
ment Pfd.. 30@s1K, 5O@91A
Washington Railway and Electric
Pfd, 1881
UNLISTED DEPT.
Chaplin Sacks IS pfd, 5000.
Money-Call loans, sos per cent.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
MAN IS FOUND SLAIN
AFTER MASKED PARTY

WASHINGTON, Pa, Feb, &c. -
County detectives are. investigating
a mysterious killing at masked
party at Ellsworth. southeast Oh
here, the victim being Thomas
Mario, twenty-five years old. His
body was found in a ditch along
the road not far from his home in
which the. party was held. Mario
still was masked and wore d
woman's cloak.
There was no evidence of a strug-
gle and no trouble occurred during
the revelry last night, so far as
police have been able to learn.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Chicago Grain Market

CHICAG GO, Feb. 26-Grains
opened steady to shade higher to-
day.
Wheat u to ] up.
Corn u up to Il off.
Oats "a to Y up.
Opening:
Wheat-May. 19O%'0191A: July,
1891 @160: September. 1466146A.
Corn-May, 1917 @131%; July,
1884 @133h; September. 1910
1917.
Oats-May. 541a @54%; July. 559s
655h September, 543s.
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Foreign Exchange

FURNISHED by w. B. Hibbs & Coz
NEW YORK. Feb. 2s-
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Curb Stocks

FURNISHED by w. B. Hibbs q Coz
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Extra dividend.
Oil Stocks

FURNISHED by w b. Hibbs T. Coz
~ d
The Washington times., 1925-02-26
Foreign Bonds

FURNISHED by w. B. Hibbs . cc.1
, 1925-02-26
Grain and Stock
. Opinions From
Brokerage Wire
Stock Opinions

Block BaIoney-There will be plen-
ty OF chances for good trading in
stocks but II is a ~seiective market.
Numerous industrials act like fur
Their downward readjustment while
some OF the rails should work high
or. The market will not run away
but will be two sided. You VIII make
no mistake in the rails. Take prof
ITS on spots.
Hornblower and Weeks-The mar
ket In detail we find aggressive buy
ing again under way in railroad
quite accumulated proceeding in the
oils, and an extension Of movement
In high priced stocks based on in
creased dividends and split ups.
These movements should grow and
should mean increasing public parti-
cipation before the end of the last
week in March.
Pynchon and Cove continue TO
believe that all minor recessions in
oils. rails and cpppers should be
taken advantage OF for the purpose
Of accumulation. N..Nf
]. s. Bache and Coin the indus
trial issues where advances have
been large conservatism should be
used.
Tobey and Kirk-A trading range.
seems in prospect, pending better
money conditions.
, 1925-02-26
kIWAN|S CLUB )
At HOSPITAL:
FOR LUNCHEON

Casper Klwnnls this noon held
their regular meeting and luncheon
at the Natrona General hospital
there inspecting the departments OF
the institution which have recently
been greatly improved. giving spec
ial attention TO the new sS5. 900 ad.
dition TO the building.
During the luncheon an account
was given by DIR. A. L. Kimbnll of
the history of the hospital and It's
value to the residents OF this city
and county. Those attending were
conducted through tho various de
partments by Mrs. Isabelle Nelson,
superintendent. The Klwnnians ex-
pressed themselves as greatly Inn
pressed and pleased with the splen-
did accommodations of the instutI-
ton which is now declared to be the
finest of It's size In the west.
, 1925-02-26

FOR DO NUS
POURING in

WASHINGTON. Feb. 26-Major
General Robert c. Davis in charge
OF the war department administra-
ton OF the adjusted compensation
act, announced today that 2.400, 0oc
bonus applications had been received
from veterans throughout the Unit
ed States and those now residing in
foreign countries. OF the total num-
Der received. he said. only $1,000 APP
p1ications had been dlsallowed by the
department. but 1t had been neces-
sary to return 500, 900 to the send
ers for corrections and necessary in
formation.
General Davis called attention to
the payment OF cash bonuses effec.
tive March / under the law.
"On that date he said. cash
payments become due to those vet.
Grams whose adjusted service credit
amounts to $50 or less and depend.
ents OF deceased veterans, including
their widows. children. mothers and
fathers. become entitled to the first
installment In cash of the amounts
due them"
, 1925-02-26

throwing mud. sand and water over
every object within a radius of half
a mile. <
'Neighboring wells have been fore.
ed to shut down as a result OF the
spectacular performance Of the out
law. which was drilled by George F.
Getty. Inc. which blew in last Mon
day.
, 1925-02-26
LIVESTOCK


CHICAGO, Feb. 26-U. s. Depart
ment Of observation-disclosures
ceipts $4,000; mostly 15@25e higher
than Wednesdays average: light
light and slaughter pigs fully csc
higher; big packers inactive; top
sl2.20; bulk desirable 220 to 1926
pound butchers sI2.oo112.75: ITO to
200 pound averages largely s1f.sO
911.90; 14o to $50 pound weights
mostly N0.sS@11.25, bulk packing
$10.90611.25; majority strong
weight slaughter pigs $1O.00@10.50.
Cattle-Receipts 1000: fed steers
10 to 15c higher; active at advance;
all grades showing upturps: shipper
fairly active: best matured steers
early s11.s5; some held higher: num-
erous loads s1o.75911.15; handy
weights s11.25; choice yearlings
s12.2t; relatively few young steers
here of value to sell above 5000;
bulk fed steers n y~earhngs $3.50
1915; killers taking practically
everything showing decent kill: fair
ly active demand for well bred light
weight feeder steers: relatively few
offered; stocker and feeder trade
firm; 25c highr for week; she stock
generally steady: a few weighty boz
logna bulls s4.s5; strong, veaiers un-
even; choice heavyweights unevenly
high her to shippers. mostly $3.50 to
400. Desirable light calves to pack
ers s1.50@12.50: about steady.
sheep-Receipts 10000: desirable
fat lambs fully steady; others slow;
steady to weak; early bulk $3.50
GIFTS; top $500; no clippers sold:
fat sheep and feeding limbs firm.
Good TO chaice 124 pound killing
ewes $o.25: bulk desirable feeding
lambs sf1.oo@17.z5. .