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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH WATERWAY A FACT UNDER MEN GOV. Carries Project to Success After Others 52$ How would YOU We Are Now like a raise, like this ? Prepared Illinois Executive To sell you anything in a General Line for Spring Purposes. Fail. LINKS -- and for Removed. That Great Lakes and the Mississippi river. The Minister Never Fails You Every officer of the Government with a war message to deliver appealed to the ministers first of all. But 80 of the ministers receive less income than government economists figure as a minimum for the support of an average family. When hospitals need money they enlist the support of the ministers and receive it. But when sickness visits the minister or the members of his family they must be treated in a charity ward. His pay is less than a day laborers. 8 out of every 10 ministers receive less than $20 a week about half the pay of a mechanic. authorizing the state to proceed at once with the improvement. The beginning of actual construction work is now but a matter of a short time, and completion of the water .link at last becomes a visible goal. Tremendous benefits will be realized by all classes of business Interests in the Mississippi valley as the result of the opening of the water route. The waterway will be of immense value to farmers of the great producing region of the entire Mississippi valley and the Northwest, .Governor The Illinois project Lowden said. will be In accord with the improvement of the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers by the federal government for navigation. Locks will be 000 feet long, 110 feet wide, accommodating fleets of barges carrying 6,500 to 8,000 tons of freight, the equivalent of six to eight average train loads. Before the war and the increase of rail freight rates a. ton of freight was carried a thousand miles by water as cheaply as fifty miles by rail. This is a fair indication of the benefit to be afforded the public' by the work when it is completed. Its value is ,now enhanced by the government requirement of interchange of freight by railroad at suitable water terminal points throughout the country. The waterway will follow the drainage canal from Chicago to Lock-por- t from which the connection will be made with the Illinois river at Utica by a barge canal eight feet deep, which may later be deepened to 14 feet, as conditions require. In addition to the great advantages to commerce, water power valued at approximately $1,000,000 a year will be developed which will effect a saving of approximately 500,000 tons of coal an- $20,-(00,0- MUST MEET COMPETITION If western beet growers demand prices which factories cannot pay in competition with foreign supplies, it will simply mean that factories will eventually have to raise their own beets. Farmers should grow beets at fair prices, utilize the by products and enrich their soil with crop rotation. The sugar factories must improve manufacturing economies and distribution and maintain fair prices to consumers or beet growers, manu factures and public suffers. ' A man who doesn't advertise is like a young fellow winking at his girl in the dark. Ife knows what he is doing but the girl doesnt. Como to the Storo Where yon can get what you want Any Time. Allen Brothers t!r And of these pitifully inadequate salaries, how much do you contribute? Nothing if you are outside the church; an average of less than 3c a day if you are a church member. All of us share in the benefits of Christian ministers to the community. They marry us; bury usj baptize our children ; visit us when we are sick. In their hands is the spiritual training of the youth. , UTAH HYRUM, We Pay Him Half the Wages of a Mechanic We Are All Profiteers at Their Expense Part of the Interchurch World program is this a living wage for every minister of Jesus Christ ; an efficient plant, and a chance to do a big mans job. If you want better preachers, help to pay the preachers better. Its the best investment for your community and for your children that you can ever make. We sell anything the Farmer Needs We Buy anything the Farmer Produces. A good vegetable garden will give you health and happiness, further it will save yon money. Our Vegetable Seeds are Utah grown, therefore will do better than eastern seeds, because they are acclimated. Boys and girls organize a Garden Club. We will assure you a prize worth while for your efforts. WATCH NEXT ISSUE i South CacheProduceCo West part of Adamson Bldg., Main Street, Hyrum lOTERCHlIRCH WORLD MOVEMENT nually. The surveys and engineering work for the improvement have been under the direction of M. G. Barnes who, during the Roosevelt administration, designed for the government the structure of the Panama canal. Construction work will be supervised by Frank I. Bennett, director of the department of public works and buildings, and William L. Sackett, superintendent of the division of waterways. These 'officers state that much of the preliminary work lias already been acFunds for carrying on complished. tle construction were provided through the action of the last legislature authorizing the issuance of bonds which have been affirmed by a vote of the people. is as yours. But he is paid on the average just 52 cents more per church member than he was paid 34 years ago. The project has been under discussion for more than 20 years, and have several state administrations this in vain wttk. important struggled It remained for Governor problem. Lowden to carry the great improvement through to success. The last bar to the project was removed January 16 with the issuance of a permit by the secretary of war 'I And many other things too numerous to mention the kind of increase in salary minister has received. His living expenses have risen just as fast and as far One of the outstanding achievements of Gov. Frank O. Lowdens administration in Illinois was the putting through of the Illinois waterways project which will cost $20,000,000 and provide water connection between the , GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE SILVERWARE 34 Yfears Work. Con-etructi- on e SHOES, OXFORDS AND PUMPS FUNISHINGS OF ALL KINDS LAKES TO MISSISSIPPI! Improvement of Vast Importance to Mississippi Valley and Northweet All Bara to Actual ofjMer-chandis- 45 WEST 18th STREET, NEW YORK CITY Tie publication of through the this advertisement is made poasible of 30 denominations. t t; tT REAL ESTATE t?$ t tT tt tt tf T f t f? Hans Mikkelsen and tt ? t? t fv t We deal in all kinds of Farm and City property. If you are' in the market for a farm a home or a building site, see us and we are sure to have something that will please you. If you, have any property to sell list it with us and we will sell it for you. W. A. Liljenquist 41 , Real Estate, Loans, Bonds and Insurance. UTAH HYRUM, V f ' . JOB PRINTING AT THIS OFFICE " come to those who have the money to make leisurely trips. Why dont you plan to see something of the country this year? Its mighty good country to get acquainted with! Start a Travel Savings Account With Us This Week asaa HYRUM STATE BANK i ; |