Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

More than 600 women applied for the nurses’ training camp at Vassar college. The demand of the New York Musicians’ union for higher wages has been rejected. A Belgian machine for digging canals will eat its way through the ground at a rate of 100 yards an hour' Mobile infirmaries, operated by women, are to be established behind the United States lines in France. New Zealand is going extensively into the erection of concrete roads, because the cost of upkeep is so low. The Herts (England) war agricultural committee has started a library Of fiction for girts working on the farms. The National Federation of Foundry Unions has been recently established in England, with a membership of 50,000. A pure white mineral wool is being manufactured at Yarraville, a suburb of Melbourne, from basalt rock or “blue stone.” , , • —“ Women may serve in the naval reserve as telephone switchboard operators, nurses and “yeowomen” or clerical workers. The scrap and waste of the marble quarries at Rutland, Vt., is now made up into quicklime, hydrated lime and agricultural lime.

It has been noticed that the ash tree is very Injurious to vegetation under its shade, while scarcely any plant will grow under a yew.