SIXTEEN GREAT CANTONMENTS TO
BE CONSTRUCTED BEFORE SEPT. I
(U S. Official Bulletin.)
The committee ton public informa
tion Issues the following:
On June 5 we registered 10,000,000
men for military purpose. Five hun
dred thousand of those will be at once
selected for our new national army.
The first thing to be thought of In tHis
army after selection is training, and
to train properly we must have camps,
c.ontonmfcnts, as they are called. With
our 500,000 new recruits there will
lie officers and extra men enough to
make a body of over 000,000, to lie di
vided into groups of 40,000 each That
means tat by the first of Setpember.
have ready for our army sixteen can
tonments or towns. No such task, was
ever undertaken before in twelve
weeks. In three months more money
will be spent than went into the Pan
ama canal in the course of any one
year.
Towns Must Be Well Equipped.
These towns can not bo the old
fashioned camps. It Is not tolerable
that they shall not have ample water
supply and the best of sewerage, and j
to have It when the boys arrive, but
they- must have also streets, a railroad,
barracks for the men ,and quarters for
the officers. Each will be a town of
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about 1,000 houses, as no*- planned,
and all this construction must, as far
as essentials go lie ready by t'.e hist
! of September. Every resource of the
quartermaster department, which has
charge of this piece of work, is being
strained, and to supplement and ad
vise the quartermasters department
the council of nation,ai defense has
i
appointed an emergency construction
committee, l’rohahiy the ablest men
in the construction work in this coun
try are gathered in Washington in this
advisory capacity. We have here tie
best of our city planners and water
experts. They are here working with
out pay and most of I hern nearer 24
hottrs-ft day than 12.
Pans Are Ready
The plans for the great undertaking
are ready. The materials are in sight, i
Of course, the quantities of all ma
terials are enormous. Each camp will
require over 1,300 carloads of 1 tmher,
something like 26,000,000 feet; 3,800
carloads of materials for each canton
ment.
This week the contracts will lie let
for the construction work. The war
department has decided upon u p-d'ey
of absolute and continuous publicity
in the building of these cantonments,
and it is anxious that at the start I he
public, which is so vitally Interested
in having those cantonments healthy
place for the boys going into them,
should understand clearly why they
have adopted the form of contract they
have and what safeguards they are
following in letting the contracts.
No Time to Advertise for Bids.
If the quartermaster department had
leisure, the practice which h s always
been followed in the government would
prevail now; that is full specifltications
would he written out and the depart
ment would advertise for bids. The
contracts would tie awarded only
after the most careful consideration,
and the work would he clone oil what
is called a "lump sum hid” Now there
is no time, obviously, for any such
leisurely work.
it is of the most vital importance
to the men we are to train that this
work should he pushed with all the
speed and efficiency of wl.iclt the
building forces of this country are
callable. This decision has led tlie
advisory committee of the council of
national defense to counsel the quar
termaster department to make con
tiacts on tlie percentage basis. J5ut
in doing this all sorts of precautions
and checks have been provided, in
order that only’ the ablest and most
honest contractors should lie given
contracts.
DO YOU
KNOW THAT
In Japan girl babies have their
heads shaved ^1111,11 they are three
years old.
Black diamonds found in Borneo,
ore tiie li eldest substance known to
rnair.
Vanillin, the active principal which
makes vanilla 'ice cream so popular,
has been found io occcur in the roots
of oats and the leaves and roots of
a number of plants,
A new and powerful explosive, to
which tiie 'inventor, Frank \V. I’ugs
ley an American, gives the name
‘‘rochumbite,’ has been sold to the,
French government. The explosive is
designed chiefly for aerial bombs aed
' grenades as it is an Incendiary—or, in
other words, "boiling hot nhrapncl."
Bulb grow'mg is suggested as a
suitable calling for partially disabled
European soldiers.
Il is claimed that the B. oeon Banks,
off the Georgia boast, are the greatest
oyster beds in the world.
What is said to be the most valua
ble opal in the wovld wns owned by
the late Emperor Franz losef of Aus
tria. The gem weighs Seventeen
ounces.
The gray kangaroo of Australia
measures about seven feet from its
nose to the tip of its tail. It.is claimed
It can itil* faster than a boive and
deaf thirty feet at a Jam.
The inventor of the "hansom cab"
was Joseph Aloysius Hansom, who
was born 'in York in 1803 and died in
London in 1882. He registered his
"patent safety cab” In 1834, and, it
is said, received only $1,500 for his
invention.
The river Orinoco, in South Africa,
is over three miles broad for nearly
half its course, while during floods
the width, even at places far from the
sea is often a. hundred miles.
Paper fabric developed at a French
paper mill, under the direction of the
academy of science has been designed
for warm, lightweight and inexpensive
underwear.
Better ulum'mus, copper and brass
parts are said to he made by a new
process of hot pressing Instead of cast
ing them.
The Norwegian Bea Is separated from
the North Atlantic by what may be
regarded as a continuous ridge running
from Greenland to the British Islands
plateau, of which Iceland and the
Faroe Islands are emerged portions.
The Mediterranean is cut off from the
north Atlantic by a ridge at the strait
of Gibraltar over which the greatest
depth *is only 175 fathoms with sleep
slopes on either aide.
Did it ever strike you Mr. Huoband
that Mrs. Wifoy is entitled to havo tho
Nugget in her houeehold—Do it now.
ed—$2.(0 por month by carrlor.
Like A Boy at 50 Bubbling Over
With Vitality—Taking Iron Did It
Doctor says Nuxated Iron is greatest of all strength builders-Often
increases the strength and endurance of delicate, nervous
folks 200 per cent, in two weeks time.
NKW YOJilv. N. Y. Not long ago a
man c-ume to me who was nearl) half
a century old and asked me to give
him a Iheliminaily examination
foi life insurance. 1 was astonished
to find him with the blood pressure
of a boy of 30 and as full of vigor,
vim and vitality as a young man; in
fact a young man lie really was not
withstanding his age The secret he
said was taking iron—nuxated iron
had tilled him with renewed life. At
30 he wus in bad health; at 40 care
worn and nearly all in. Now at 50 a
miracle of vitality and his face beam
in wiili Ihe buoyancy of youth. As 1
have said a hundred times over, iron
is tlie greatest of all strength builders,
if people would only throw away pa
tent medicines and nauseous concoc
tions and take simple nuxated iron, 1
am convinced that the lives of thou
sands of persons might be saved, who
now die every year from pneumonia,
grippe, consumption, kidney, liver and
heart trouble, etc. The real and true
cause which started their diseases was
nothing more nor less than a weak
ened condition brought on by lack of
i iron in the blood. Iron is absolutely
necessary to enuble your blood to
I change food into living tissue. With
out it, no matter how much or what
you eat, your .food merely passes
through you without doing you any
good. Yin don't get the strength oat
of it, and as a consequence you be
come weak, pale and sickly looking
just like a plant trying to grow in a
soil deficient in iron. If you are not
strong or well you owe it to yourself
to make the following test: See how
long ^ou can work or how far you
can walk without becoming tired.
Next take two Jive-grain -tablets of
ordinary nuxated Iron three times per
day after meals for two weeks Then
test your strength anil see for your
self how much you have gained. 1
have seen dozens of nervous run
down people who were ailing all the
while, double their strength and cn
durance and cntrcly gel i id of .ill
[ symptoms of dyspepsia;*- liver anil
oilier troubles in from Leu In four
teen days time simply by taking iron
in the proper form. And thin after lltt-y
had in some cases heap doctoring for
months without obtaining any benefit.
Blit don’t take the old forms of re
duced iron, iro:t acetate or tincture ol
iion simply to save a few cents. You
must take iron in a form that can be
easily absorbed and assimilated like
nuxated iron if you want it to do you
any good, otherwise it may prove
worse than useless. Many an athlete
m prizefighter lias won (he day sim
ply because tie knew the secret of
great strength and endurance and
filled Ills blood with iron before lie
went into tlie affray, while many an
other has gone down to inglorious de
feat simply for the lack of iron K.
Sauer, Al. D.
Note-—Nuxated Iron, recommended
above by Dr. Sauer is not a patent
medicine nor secret remedy, but one
which is well known to druggists and
whose iron constitutents are widely
prescribed by eminent physicians
everywhere. Unlike the older inor
ganic iron products, it is easily as
similated, does not injure the teeth,
make them black, nor upset the stom
ach; on the contrary, it is a most po
tent remedy, in nearly all forms of in
digestion, as well as for nervous, run
down conditions. The manufacturers
have such great confidence in Nuxated
iron that they offer to forfeit $100.00
to any' charitable institution if they
cannot take any man or woman under
60 who lacks iron and increase their
strength 200 per cent, or over in four
weeks’ time, provided they have no
serious organic trouble. They also
offer to refund your money if .it does
not at least double your strength and
endurance in ten days’ time It i3
dispensed in this city by Lomen Bros,
(successors to Butler-Afauro * Co.,)
and all other druggists.
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NOTICE.
Mrs. Alma Nelson has severed her
relations w*ith the Schneider building.
All outstanding bils will he paid to
me personally.
MISS. ALMA NKi«i*Y.LV.
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COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
Following -ire the lowest recorded
temperatures for this year and last
on the days lealguated. The minus
ign Is fme i number means below
aero.
It. S Weather Bureau.
1910 1917
July I. 4S Oh
July 2 . . .. 40 r>7
July 8 . 40 48
July 4 . 44 44
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