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Show SOUTH CACHE COU r.R. HYRUM, UAH iay'Miraclb L ODEBN Z-- - Synthetic Chemistry, After Learning the Secret of Making Royal Purple, Succeeds in Producing All the Colors of the Rainbow (Told In Eight Sketches) By JOHN RAYMOND No. V COLOR In the dim ages of history when man manufacture of first felt the desire for beauty, traders coke, in which s, the world for dyestuffs, jew- - cess coal tar is perfumes, spices and precious tained, is the only woods. The risk of these voyages was metallurgical oper-greand only princes or nobles could ation that America rs afford the fruits of ventures to the far continues to No man of duct, in a large of the world. humble origin could aspire to the rich measure, after the crimsoned linen, the Royal Purple of manner of a Tyre, retailing at $600 a pound, tury ago. In 1915 insignia there were 41. SCO, Royal Purple is an age-ol- d of aristocracy. This dye was secreted 000 tons of coke by a small shellfish on the Pastern produced in this coast of the Mediterranean and here country .for which the enterprising merchants of Tyre a m o s t 61,000,000 formed a dye monopoly equaled only tons of coal were used, Because of the enormous demands by the German Cartel. A bit of the whitish liquid secreted by for war materials modern this mollusk, if spread upon a cloth ovens were constructed and in 1919 and exposed to the air and sunlight more than 52 per cent of our coke sup-turfirst green, next blue and then ply came from these ovens. It is'esti-purpl- e. ed ob-el- at con-corne- Upper Left Corner From Photograph of the Flret Telephone, 43 Years Ago. cen-ancie- nt -- 1 The Triumph of Half a Century " If washed with an alkali soap mated that for every ton of coke made in modern ovens there is saved in fuel alone 825 pounds of coal, When a house-holdburns a ton of coal he has sacrificed something like 11,000 cubic feet of gas, nine gallons of tar, twenty-fiv- e pounds of ammonium sulphstfe, 2.08 gallons of pure benzol and 0.56 gallons of pure toluol, In our industrial l.fe the use of coal derivatives is just beginning to be felt, The rubber industry dep:nds upon achievement to snatch its distinctive these products for, solvents, from royalty and to rival the pounding ingredients and softeners, best vegetable indigo of the an- - Practically ali types of pa'nt now use cients but modern chemistry has a derivative of coal. Printing inks, gone far beyond that. Today any kind sho polishes, brake linings, dry clean-o- f in nature can be made in ers, perfumes, explosives, linoleums, dye found the laboratory. Indeed, among the 900 glues, pastes and photographic and colors .being manufactured velopers, contain coal products as there are tints that it would be'diffi basic ingredients. The paper industry, ' the soap business, and the. shoe manu-Thecult to discern in the rainbow. colors all facturer would be in serious difficulties come frorn coal tar without the of coal tar. but after it is un- - The electrical industry would lose its derstood that coal chief source of insulating material and tar is the quintes- - the doctors and druggists .would be sence of the forests without a sufficient supply of phenol of untold ages the to make their supply of everyday feat does not ap- - drugs. Coal tar, (he refuse of ancient pear to be so mar- table kingdoms, is valuable because it And still for cen- - produces a galaxy of brilliant colors. turies this country not so much for the colors themselver) has been wasting but because in producing them sev vast quantities of many intermediates are developed thai the precious mate-- . are of inestimable worth to the indus-ria- l. In fact, the trial life of the nation. it becomes the magnificent Crimson worn by the Cardinals and Princes of the Catholic Church. Tyrian purple vanished from the marts of the world with the fall of Tyre. Synthetic chemistry learned the se- cret of making Royal Purple as, in- deed, it learned to manufacture indigo, the same deep blue that may be seen today in museums, the winding sheets It was an of Egyptian mummies by-prod- er corn-col- or se (Released by the Institute of American Business. New Yorl) w m, itmm C ?' C; i ii i 1 i- 1 strife a A Worthy Example of Independence George Washington the father of this country was a man whose example of thrift and success should be an inspiration to every American. From all his earnings he, set aside a certain part regularly against the days of his sunset. A small amount deposited at this Bank in our Term Savings Accound with interest at 4per cent will quickly grow to large compounded porportions. Try it. semi-annual- ly ( , $1.00 Opens a Savings Account and Obtains a Liberty Bell Bank Hyrum State Bank Dr. D. D. TEBBS DENTIST Office at Elite Hall, Hyrum Res. Phone 17. Office closed Office Phone 163. Wednesday afternoons. Fatal to Friendship. seems to have few Intimate friends. Its his own fault." . Mr. Wudlelgh Why so? Hes always been lending sums ranging from $10 to $50 to people who talk as If they would die of chagrin If they owed him money longer than 24 hours, and then proceed to make It a lifetime obligation. Birmingham Age-Heral- d. e of factorily. de-sha- vege-vellou- years ago the telephone was an experiment an invenuncertain utility and of questionable value. T eday it is an actual business necessity and an almost indispensable household servant. The development of the telephone to its present high state of facility and efficiency has come about through hundreds of supplementary inventions and the solving of hundreds of scientific problems. Nearly half a century of research, experimentation, invention and the exercise of organizing genius has resulted in a public service of inestimable value a service which thousands of telephone men and women are constantly striving to improve and enlarge. It is their constant endeavor to serve you efficiently and satisForty-fiv- tion ns Mountain States Telephones Telegraph Company EAGLE EASILY KING IN ms; Build ThatExtra Room Now AIR s. Has No Trouble in Distancing Airplane Traveling at Speed of Sixty Miles an Hour.- - YOUR old room that had a past now has a future. Change it now from a dusty, mysterious catchall into a sung winter play room, a bright bedroom or either of them, while the present price of lumber This is within your reach. can be done at surprisingly low cost without litter or muss. The eagle, according to aeronautlsta, Is not merely the king of birds, but in flying quality the swiftest of all birds. A French flyer from the French naval station at Salonica in February, 1916, had a match with an eagle near Mount Olympus. The eagle I was competed of Ills free will. followed by the eagle, writes Com mander Larrowy, at a distance of about one hundred feet Our machine was making her full measured sixty nautical miles an hour. In comparison with us the bird seemed so perfectly at a standstill that I was able to it Avith an exposure of a half second, as the sky was cloudy, and the plane gave an absolutely neat reproduction. For two minutes the bird practically did not move Its wings, and seemed to glide, except every ten' or twelve seconds, Avhen it made a very slight and careless sort of rowing motion as if to keep fit. When the bird abandoned all thought of attacking its strange rival it went full speed ahead, and covering much more than sixty miles an hour soon pho-tograp- Too Low an Estimate. The musical director in a local theater has a superlative dislike for a certain popular song. Recently the composer of the song appeared at the theater. Of course the orchestra had to play his song, aift by the latter part of the week the director was almost desperate. One evening, before the show, the composer was telling everybody how It happened. And, do you know," he concluded, I was cheated out of all the profits I received only $500 on my own-son- all told. And you wouldnt be bribed Into keeping the song quiet for that small amount, would you? put in the orchestra director. Kansas City Star. Unhappy Boy. The door closed behind an irate neighbor who had come to complain regarding certain of Willies shortcomings. A few moments later, as Willie was tearfully preparing for a prematurely early bedtime, he said to his mother: I wish we lived in heaven mother. His mother demanded to know the cause of his sudden aspiration towards better things. Oh, well," he sighed, you know the angels wouldnt be half as hard to please as the neighbors are, Get your tin ware rep'airedat the ad S. C. H. S. free of eost. CALL ON h Smith Bros. Lumber Co. PHONE 19 HYRUM. UTAH wrTMigwffprnBsa Sale of Delinquent Water Stock Name of Corporation Hyrum Irrigating Company, Hyrnm, Utah. There is delinquent on the described stock, on account of an assessment levied July 12, 1921, the amount set opposite the names of the respective shareholders as follows: i Name Parley Baugh Matena Anderson. Jesse Thyberg Laura Wm. Doutree Hall Jr Mrs. Emma Lee Hans Markussen John Yeates H. A. Pedersen Jos P. Jensen Est. Robt Taylor Chas Unsworth And in accordance with law, and order of the Board of Directors, made on the 12th day of July 1921, so many shares of each prarcel of stock as may be necessary, will be sold on Saturday, the 11th day of February 1922, at 12 oclock noon, at Anderson&Sons Store, Hyrum, Utah, to pay the delinquent assessment thereon, together with the cost of advertising and expense of sale, - HANS P. ANDERSON, Secretary. JO B PRINTING at This Office Promptly Done |