Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

Arbi t ration awards give new concessions to London (England) county conncil tramway employees totaling £50,000 a year. All tee school boards of Caithness, Scotland, have adopted a minimum salary for assistant teachers, commencing at MOO. Oyster shells are being used extensively in the manufacture of portland cement along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. '

The first short course of agronomy and animal husbandry at the University of British Columbia is now in full progress. After a controversy that lasted ten years French scientists have decided that the use of old corks in wine bottles is not detrimental to health. Two shoes have been patented to support the arches of their wearer’s feet, one with a bracket extending forward from the heel and the other having a projection from the shank to the ground. * ' ■ r - . -' W ‘ J . •