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DOUGLAS CtftJNTY giwTTNET- EOPQLABVILLE GEORGIA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1919.
AN INFANT WAR INDUSTRY
GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL C TIES i w ° rld 10 manufacture ammonium m-
How the Ordance Bureau of the War
Department broke all speed records in
the building of a young city and cre
ated probably the largest plant in the
MICKIE SAYS
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INFLUENZA
starts with a CtU
Kill th. Cold. At the
CASCAIAgQUININi
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Standard cold remedy lor 20 year*
r*in tablet form—cafe, cure, no
opiates—break* up a ccld in 24
"iours—relieve* grip in 3 day*.
. Honey back if it fails. The
^„ genuine be* h«* a Fed
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picture.
k. At Alt Drrag Stmrma
NOTICE HUNTERS
The law requires that everyone
hunting outside of his militia dis
trict must have a license, whether you
are hunting protected game, such as
quail, or unprotected game, such as
rabbits. All county and district war
dens are authorized to demand that
anyone found hunting be required to
show his license or be arrested. Bet
ter be safe, and county license only
cost a dollar. See me at once and
get yours.
J. J. KIRBY,
County Game Warden.
I CHASM eo*.
1HM LITTLE M
SEEVN9 at HON
WANTED
Several families to work in Ho
siery Mill. Good wages paid for
knitting, looping, boarding, and
all other class of work. Please
call at the Hosiery Mill and talk
the matter over with me.
Yours very truly ,
DOUGLAS HOSIERY MILLS
C. S. Foster, Supt.
BtK'III'.'l'M'i I! I'lBrl'i'l 1 l.'l i
FARM LOAN*.
Small annual payment*. Rea
sonable interest. Five year
loans. Repay ene-tenth an
nually for four years, balance the
fifth year. Interest payable an
nually. When loans fall due can
be renewed for a further fiive
years. Loans made to finish
payment of lands held under
bond for title. If you want
money tm good’ter ms and at low
rate of interest see me.
Loans made without delay.
J. R. HUTCHESON
Rooms 1 and 2 Hutcheson Bldg
Douglasville.Ga..
i PROMINENT MERCHANT FOUND
LASTING RELIEF
In a South Carolina county-seat. a
prominent merchant suffered for years
with eczema. Money was hot a con-,
indention If he could only be relieved
from the terible itching, burning, and
irritation. He scratched his back at
, night ipitil it .bled, but the soreness
.only became worse. He visited-West-
, t cm Springs, end consulted' various
physicians, but ncverfotei^ a perma
nent cure uptil a friend brought Zem-
erine to his notice. Re tried this
j; great treatment, qpd. \ov sings its
i praises highly. Zemerine is a won-
r , derful treatment. for-.,diseased .skin,
. especially,. eczema, tetter, rash, itch,
and similar disorders. It is sold upon
, the fairest basis imaginable—your
money will be returned if it doesn’t
elp you after a fair trial. If you can’t
get Zemerine at your druggist send
; $1 or 60 cents to the Zemerine. Chepi-
, cal Co., Orangeburg, and a jar will be
Bent you direct.
trate from the air, has been proving
most interesting to Congressmen in
Washington, who have been holding n
sort of post mortem on war efforts
trying to determine how big govern
ment undertakings created for de
fense, may be best turned into peace
time industry. All the world knew of
Hopewell, Virginia, as a city of 25,-
000 people, built by the DuPonts In
1914, to manufacture explosives; but
the lid of secrecy was so carefully
casked that the building of another
city equally large, at the instance of
our own Government, attached very
little attention. Just how Germany
snooped” out so many things not in
tended-for her to know about is haid
to understand; but it is certain that
the enemy was astounded when it
found its own fine-spun plans for
taking nitrogen from the air com
pletely supassed by the United States,
which it knew to be a novice at tthe
game. The Germans stood paralized
with fear as they confronted the
Aladdin-like methods of Uncle Sam
in pouring soldiers in upon their fron
tier, while at Muscle Sholes, Alabama,
a plant had suddenly sprung out of
the earth capable of producing thir
teen per cent of ail the high explosives
needed by the Allied armies on all the
rfonts in the expected drive of the
following Spring.
Ground was broken for a perma
nent plant building at Muscle Shoals
on February 16, 1918, and on the
i twenty-sixth day of the following
October, or eight months and eight
days later, the wheels of manufacture
started revolving in the production of
ammonium nitrate. The great plant
that was completed, and which stands
today as a monument to American
enterprise and brains, is fitted to be
come one of the great sources of fer
tilizers for the land of the United
States. It is this feature of the prob
lem as to what to do with the big
plant that is appealing strongly to the
Congressmen; and in their belief that
;• should ae put in •; ‘’nl.f.n alone
these lines they are supported by
every interest* in the Agricultural De
partment of the Government that has
long been fooking for a solution o’!
the farming question in the South,
where fertilizers and industry are
needed to complete the setting made
by nature, and to turn vast idle acies
into productive agricultural areas.
From explosives to fertilizers is
not a very big jump in industrial ex
pansion; and of course high explo
sives was the prompting reason for
the Muscle Shoals project. When the
United States entered the war it was
providing the enemies of Germany
with explosives, and with four mil
lion of our men added to the fray it
became necessary to get quick action
for enormously increased production.
The principal raw material for ex
plosives was nitrate of soda, and this
had to be brought from Chile, fpur
thousand miles away. Ship bottoms
were so scarce that the Allied coun
tries and the United States decide*! to
sweeten thenfselves without sugar,
from Java, and. that was oply a thpus-
Your Style-Taste Anticipated Here
and miles. o^f thaneC^ile., 1 (
nitrate .of 54yd* JfW# - ty.H
at any. cost tynd.at apt;. sacrifice. ^ And
after it was bright here, the,ne?ces-
§ary time had, to elapse s to, jjeirolt-
treating if with 'sulphuric acid to pro
duce nitric acid, which is an essential
of ammpnium nitrate. The sulphuric
acid supply was reaching its limit
and n$w, ynethods of “delivering the
goods’’ of explosives, were demanded.
The coke ovens doing their level
best, all over the country, in produc
ing ammonia, but even at that their
capacity was only a quarter of the
demand. Tlie Ordnance Department)
came forward with the solution of, the
difficulty and it showed„ that cyna-
mid, a commercial fertilizer, had for
some years been successfully manu
factured at Niagara Falls under a
German process, which had been se
cured by Frank Sherman Washburn,
head of the American Cynomid Com
pany.
Muscle Shoals was selected as the
most available spot in the United
States to put the war industry to
How well the plan succeeded is shown
by the foregoing.
Nitrate From the Air
In the belief that the process of
“extracting nitrogen from the air”
should become more than a mere
phrase in the minds of newspaper
readers, it is explained that cypnamid
is produced by extracting nitrogen
from the air and combining it with
calcium obtained, from limestone rock
and carbon from coke. By additional
processes cyanamid becomes, the basis
for creating both ammonia and nitric
acid and combining them into the ex
plosive, ammonium nitrate. Mr.
Washburn, of the American Cyana
mid Company, made the contract
with the Government for building the
ammonium nitrate plant at Muscle
Shoals, Alabama,-in November, 1917.
To have, general supervision of
planning and carrying out the work
an- organization known as the Air
Nitrates Corporation was formed to
act* as agent of* the Ordance Depart
ment. This corporation provided the
general designs, supervised all the
work, and operated the camp, the
town and the plant. It also installed
all equipment in the chemical plant.
The various other sections of the work,
were subject to organizations that
were specialists in the directions in
which they were asked to help.
,It was nccesr.ary to build a new'
town-to house the laborers. For this’
jobu.W«stinghouse .Church Kerr Co.,
was called in as contractor. This
company also built ihe buildings of
the cheipical.. plant. . jWjthin four
A look at our show windows will
give you an idea of the treat in
style you will find in our stock of
new Collegian Clothes
$25, $30 to $65
New models, fabrics, colorings and ideas.
All at their best in the usual Collegian
way. And the same good quality that
has made the Collegian suits and over
coats famous since 1849.
BLACKSTOCK, HALE & MORGAN
V
| 16 Marietta St.
Distinctive Clothiers and Furnishers
' Atlanta, Oa. Right at Five Points
The
“Shop of Beautiful Gifts”
Suggests
Mesh Bags $5-00 to $75.00
Card and Vanity Cases 5.00 to 40.00
Emblem Sings o.OOto. 18.00
Dorms..... 1.00 to 10.00
Cain Cases 3.00 te 12.00
Oigarfetya Cases. 1.60 to 6.00
Match Safes. 1.60 to 10.00
Bar Pins X.50 to 250.00
Many shops are hampered in their Christmas selling by short
stock. We are most fortunate,. We looked forward and have, there
fore, far your choosing, these and many other exquisite gifts.
Come to sea us—if that is impossible, a letter will bring all in
formation desired and Mail Orders will receive PROMPT ATTEN
TION.
E. A. MORGAN
JEWELER & OPTICIAN
10 E. Hunter 8t. Atlanta, Georgia.
“There’s economy in a few steps around the comer.”
months, 12,000. workmen had been as
sembled and a city capable of accom
modating 2.6,600 inhabitants had beeii
completed,, with, lodging, restaurants|
stores, .offices, police headquarters,
schools, fire departments,; JhospitalsJ
mofion picture.,theatres, electric light
and sewerage systems. . '
The construction Of, the plant proper
was begun on Febjipiry 16, 1918, and
as staled, above, yras completed jyat
eight months and eight days later, aiij
began steady output of ammoniun)
nitrate. The plant contains 113 pert
manent buildings with a roof area of
over,26 acres.
To provide . the electric current it
was necessary to build a steam power
electric plant, for it would have taken
three years or more to complete the
dam and hydro-electric station now
under way. This plant, built by the
J. G. Vfhite Corporation, is one of the
lutgpSt. sfepm plants for developing
electrical energy in the world.
The output of the plant is 200 tons
of' ammonium nitrate a day, and this
can be produced at Muscle Shoals at
a cost less than one-half the standard
fixed price paid by the Government
for ammonium nitrate produced by
other methods and one-fourth to one-
fifth the cost of other high explosives
of equal strength. Compared with
the older process of making ammo
nium. nitrate, the savings made by
this plant would have paid the
000,000 cost of the entire plant in
about one and one-half years of oper
ation.
As a military weapon it is one of
the wisest and most economical ex
penditures that the Ordnance Depart
ment has undertaken. As an agent
in stopping the war and as a future
protection to the. country, its value
is incalculable.
STOP! READ! THINK!
A Dollar Brings You A Hundred Cents’
Worth of Value when you Buy
From
Upshaw Brothers
Goods are high now and are bound to go higher with cotton selling/
at 40c per pound. We anticipated this advance for you months
ago and bought heavily in all our lines, and are now—
Selling Merchandise Cheaper
can :6uv It
and
We call special attention to our values in
Ladies’ Coat Suits, Cloaks, Dresses,
Misses’ Middy and Hoffman Sulits
SHOES
Our Shelves are Stocked Full of PETERS, DIAMOND BRAND and
the Famous HON BRAND Shoes—;the, Best for the Price No Mat
ter What You Pay.
We have just received a big shipment of Furniture
See us before you buy and we will save you money
When in Douglasville we invite you to make our
store your headquarters; we appreciate your business ^
and will do our best to serve you.
UPSHAW BROS.
The Store of Quality and Dependability
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