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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
7
Washington reports Aldrich-Vreeland funds totaling 500 million dollars stored in new rooms and guarded relays. Deputy Treasurer Bentz notes 190 million dollars in cash reserves and predicts no stringency this year as New York and western banks show surplus and crop movement remains smooth.
The will of Colonel William F Vilas, former cabinet member and U S senator, leaves an estate valued at 2 to 3 million dollars to be held in trust for Mrs Vilas during her life and then for the university of Wisconsin The trust charges 30000 a year to his daughter Mrs L M Hanks and directs the net income to be used to build a 30 million dollar endowment by gradually expanding the principal and income for ongoing university support
Washington forecasts a gas engine powered future warship. Rob ert Heywood Fernald, a mechanical engineer with the U S Geological Survey, envisions smokeless, low profile vessels with a full gun deck and reduced coal needs. He cites cost and efficiency gains from gas production and engine use for naval and civilian ships.
The Atlanta Constitution notes that improving roadways cuts wagon transport costs, with potential savings of sixty percent and billions across agriculture. It cites federal aid prospects, a proposed good roads bureau, and bills for national and cross country highways as Congress considers post road authority and boulevard projects.
On his first day at school Johnnie could not read the letter A. The old method tests phonics as the teacher prompts aloud and the pupil reads the same lines. When asked if he could read he answers in a measured voice that he had never seen a donkey.
Magistrate Corrigan orders Alexander Berkman the Anarchist to thirty days in the New York workhouse. The decision follows Berkman’s arrest and charge.
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