Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1915 — Clerks on Roller Skates [ARTICLE]

Clerks on Roller Skates

One of the latest ideas for saving, time is being tried out by a big merchandise house of Dallas, Texas. Clerks who fill orders in the shipping department are equipped with roller skates. The managers say that the skates are proving very satisfactory, as a clerk can do twice as much work when on them and the work is much, easier, since the clerk is not walking all the time. John A and James M. Harvey of Junction City, Kan., have invented a hay and grain stacker that is a great labor saver. The machine is d riven by a gasoline engine and is so constructed that it deposits the material at any desired place on the stack. The stack is built easily and settles so evenly that it sheds water better than when stacked by old methods. The old belief that the age of a rattlesnake can be told by the number of his rattles is wrong, as also Is the belief that a deer's span of life is accurately recounted by the number of points on his antlers. Scientists have found that the largest rattler may have few rattles and a small snake twice the number of the big one. Careful study has shown that the points of a deer's antlers have no bearing what ever on his age. To prevent shoe laces from becoming untied a New York inventor has patented small metal clasps to be fastened to the tops of shoes to hold thalr