Iowa City Press-Citizen from Iowa City, Iowa • Page 45

TUCtttAV. AfNttL IOWA CITY DAILY PRESS FAGC FIVE THE ECONOMY ADVERTISING CO. One of the moet helpfu! industries in Iowa City, both from the standpoint of employment of wage-workers and the advertising of Iowa City ia a favorable way, is tne Bconomy ad- Oo. concern is one of the largest printing eubMshments in the employing something like seventy people, and selling its products all over the central and western states. This -establishment manufactures an extensive, and in many particulars an exclusive line of calendars, bank, supplies, leather goods, yard-sticks, aprons, maay other in tfte line of advertising novelties.

It idso specializes in fine book printing, and does a general line of job print- The business of this establishment been built up nhrough a series of years, and is steadily increasing in volume and in the extent of the territory covered. i Keep 10,000 Fifty Ten thousand fleeces, which hart been'stored for 50 years in a big Lincolnshire granary with slanting ash- poles to prevent them from touching the brickwork, have been purchased by T. W. Mays Sons of Bourne, I4n- colcshire. The fleeces were the property of the late Sam Gooseman, a North Lincolnshire agriculturist, who died last autumn.

They were in splendid MaiL German East Africa. The territory known as Germac East Africa borders on the Indiar Ocean between 5 degrees and 11 dfr grees south latitude and extends intc the interior of Africa as far as Lake Tanganyika. It is about TOO miles long and 600 miles wide, and embraces an area of approximately 000 square miles, equivalent to tfc' combined area of Texas and Mexico The Reason. "Pa, why are torrents raging?" "1 suppose they are like people, and are raging because somebody Js trying to cross them." Literary Note. I Same authors remind you of Uncle Jim's poll parrot who got a reputation for being smart by using bad lao- H.

VAILCV, AMD BOMM. in every stale a of a certain type of it is akin to love of cowitry--that flourishes and thrives upon observation of the success of Ufc Individ of those communities. In other words, men mad of Iowa City aad Johnson county, for example, are proud of tUe other men aad women of that citjr and that County -who achieve the distinction in commercial or professional circles known as "-making one's Among the "natire sons" of Johnson who have attested repeatedly possession of the qualities and qualifications thae make for success, whose past career, though still a young man, bespeaks the doing of things in the future, is H. L. Bailey.

Mr. stands in the front rank of Iowa City's "live wire" insurance salesmen and bond men. represents many of the greatest insurance companies in America and the world and the country's greatest bonding corporations, as well One of the evidences of the great strength and stability of Mr. Bailey's insurance companies came a. few years ago, when the San Francisco earthquakes and fires, resultant therefrom, destroyed millions of property insured in.

his companies. The awful holocaust and the seismic shocks svrept many an insurance company to ruin, forcing an announcement that payment w-as impossible, in the face of ithe terrific onslaughts on its treasury. On the contrary, Mr. Bailey's companies were unharmed. They met every obligation, after The Golden Gate calamity; paid their millions of dollars' losses promptly, and then "came up smiling" afeer effecting all setlements, -with an -unweakened surplus.

It is the time of storm and stress that tests insurance companies, and Mr. Bailey's countless friends are delighted that be has cast his lot with such sterling institutions. They will continue to carry thousands of dollars worth of insurance with him, and wish him continued good fortune every field of endeavor. One of his latest enterprises by 'he iray, is one of most stsecess- Iowa Flexotite Company of kk-h he tirwr. Tfcie the biff orfaBizatkm that is to provide "Flexotile" flooring for the numerous new including the Johnson County Saving Bank block; the Iowa City aigh school manual training bidding; and'- the siate institution at Independence She later contract being awarded by the Iowa State Board of Control, after competitive biding.

One Unconsolable Grief. Many boiist-keepers can sympathize with the old Virginia, lady ho said to her friend, oa finding a treasurec" old cap cracked by a careless maid: "I know of nothing to compare with the antiction of losing a handsome piece of old china." "Surely." said the friend, "it not so bad as losing One's children." "Yes it is, for when your children die you do have the eoa of religion, you know." Cheap Way to Mount To mount pictures inexpensively for the nursery or children's bedrooms, cut all the white margia oft the picture, then get some thin, smooth boards I 1 inch larger all round than the picture; stain the boards with Oark oak stain about fwo inches round the edge; varnish them, then paste the picture on the board, leaving an even edge of the stained wood all round; bang on the walls in the Ccual way. Altered the Case. In one revue 1 caricatured a famous dancer. A little while after, while abroad.

I was told that the husband ol the lady was looking for me with a big stick- A few mier I returned to London. I met the husband, who shook me warmly by the hand and thanked me effusively for the skit on his wife. They had quarreled in the intervaL--George Grossmith. in The Tatler. Content.

I would have nobody control me; 1 would be absolute, and who but Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what -will come, I am Her Dearest Desire. Nearly every woman wants her huft band to make his mark, so that shei may smile derisively at her thought she threw herself she became Ms wife. WN. HORRABIN, President and Manager M.

MONTGOMERY, Secretary and Treasurer Mile of Railway Track Along Iowa River Sand and Gravel Supply Is Inexhaustible The Wm. Horrabin Sand and Material Co. Plant and Sand Pit, Horrabin, Iowa If you want Cement, write us. We keep the Universal Portland Cement. Nothing Better and Prices are Right.

WE WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE PRICES OFFICE: IOWA CITY, IOWA The Economy Advertising Co 227-231 Washington St. Iowa City, I a Fine Book i i JFW SPA PERI VWSPAPFRI.