Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1918 — INTERESTING ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ITEMS

An electrically-driven machine has been Invented to take the place of the adze in shipyards. There are 30 varieties of bamboos. Some of these trees grow 2 feet in 24 hours, shootlhg up at this rate for 150 feet. In 1880 negroes in Georgia held property valued at $5,764,293; in 1917 the figures had increased to $40,287,921 — nearly nine-fold in 87 years.—The Crisis.