Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 3

THE SANTA MARIA DAILY TIMES Pailfe3 TIME SCHEDULE Santa Maria Orcutt Stage Lv. Orcutt Lv. S. Hardings Washington Church' White Goods 8:00 A. M.

10:15 A. M. 1:15 P. M. 4:00 P.

M. 7:00 P. M. 8:30 A. M.

11:00 A. M. 2:00 P. M. 5:00 P.

M. 9:30 P. M. Taxi Worvlce Phone 5DMV-2 Sort ice Daily, Except Sunday II. A.

WK1HJ Orcutt, TINIXCJ, RKGI LATIXG AX1 REIMIIUXO By Practical Tuner Leave Your Order At GAKDXEIt WHEATON Next to Post Office JOHN II. SLOCUM Will E. E. Long Piano Co. (P mr a SATURDAY.

MARCH 19. 1921. We Specialize in ACETYLENE WELDING and Rebuilding of Wrecked Cars W. H. CRAKES No.

Broadway 'n 3 Percy F. Senay Painting Paperhanging 100 W. Slain St. Phone 211 Time to Buy Fabrics For Summer Sewing Because the goods are all new and fresh, while choosing is made easier when you can seled from an unbroken line. Dainty Voiles and Organdies in varied colorings and patterns, 50c to $1.50 yd.

New crisp Ginghams in plaids and solid 25c to 40c yd. HASLAMS WANTED MENS and BABYS Clothes Red Cross Shop Here lx Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D. which nnt Harding will attend for the next four years He worshipped -re while a senator Inset, Dr S. Abernethy of Kansas City, who accepted a call to preach in the Calvary church at Washington 'niDorarily He may be offered the permanent place later Batterie SHARK SKINS GIVE PROMISE OF CUTTING PRICES FOR SHOES To Display Advertisers MARSHALL FIELD CO. always haye an ad of some size in the papers daily.

Service and Quality N. R. CHOCOLATE SHOP Kevins Rencher The Sweetest Place in Town Singer Sewing Machine Co. W. P.

HART Special Representative Phone 297 128 E. Main St rJX mitted that it possesses less strength than mammal leather, such as calf skin, or cow hide, but that it is soft and pliable and has ample strength, for many uses. Experiments also are being made to find a suitable substance for hardening the skin, to give it the strength necessary to put wearing qualities into shoes. The bureau is devoting its major efforts to the shark leather industry because the supply of sharks appears larger than that of other fishes, It- has been and remains the practice of fishermen to operate most intensively for those fishes for which the demand is greatest and to permit such predatory forms, such as sharks, possessing little or no valuef to multiply and increase their depredations on the more highly prized forms. This is an added reason for the development of the shark fishing industry, for as the depredations of the sharks on the food fishes are decreased the supply of these more valuable fishes will increase.

i iBJBfiiinfeii ROADSTER i VETERANS BRIDE WAS CELLMATE OF EDITH CAVELL If it5 is reasonably well -treated Dodge Brothers Roadster will render faithful service for years, and never vary in its economy of operation and maintenance. Five Threaded Rubber Reasons 1. Willard Threaded Rubber Batteries are standard on 172 makes of motor cars and trucks, and on export models of 2 others. 2. Most of the important battery improvements originated with Willard, snd are today found in the Willard Threaded Rubber Battery.

3. Threaded Rubber Insulation tavas you money because it does not warp, puncture, crack or carbonize. It outlasts the plates. 4. Threaded Rubber Insulation found only in the Willard Threaded Rubber Battery permits bone-dry shipment that; keeps the battery new.

5. As an authorized Willard Service Station we offer to every WiUard user the benefit of the broad Wilbrd policies. LUKEMANIBROTHERS ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE Phone 437 Chapel St. Santa Maria If the high price of cow hides that means shoes pinches your pocketbook too much when you drop into your favorite store for the annual spring fitting and purchase, ask the clerk for a pair of shoes made of fish skins. That old terror of the seas and the bathing beaches, the shark, has come to the rescue of the shoe wearing public and has offered his hide as a means of lowering the price of leather products during the present high levels.

Judging from reports received by the government, the shark furnishes an excellent leather for the manufacture of shoes of all kinds. Not only Is the skin of the shark used for manufacture into leather, hut with the skins of other fishes it has been found suitable for making traveling bags, brief cases, pocket-books, belts and handbags for women. The demand for shark skins for tanning into leather for traveling bags is greater than the supply at the present time. The commissioner of fisheries of the United States, in his annual report, says that two companies have established fishing stations along the southern Atlantic coast to provide regular supplies of shark hides for tanning purposes. These plants are situated at Morehead City, N.

and Fort Myers, Fla. One of the companies has a tannery for converting the skins into leather. On the Pacific coast one company has acquired a site at Edmunds, where it plans to convert aquatic hides into leather, and will draw its supplies from sharks, whalees and hair seals. Other companies are experimenting in the fish leather industry and the commissioner of fisheries expeects that they will engage in the industry on a large scale. At the present stage of these new' industry the shark furnishes the greater part of the new leather supply.

Difficulty was encountered at first in separating the shagreen (outer covering) of the shark skin i na satisfactory manner. Suitable methods have been provided, however, by constant experimentation, hoxvever, by constant experimentation, and the shagreen sometimes remains until the close of the tanning process and then is removed. The bureau of standards in Washington, which has been co-operating with the bureau of fisheries in establishing thenew leather, reports that shark skin leather Is more spongy and of greater fibruous texture than mammal leather. When pulled open at right angle totho surface it often exhibits a laminated structure similar in appearance to that of a loosely matted felt. The bureau is assembling materials to establish more definitely the quality of fish leather, such as durability, pliability, porosity, water absorption, wearing qualities, and also will make further tests to guage the tensile strength.

Tests already made by the bureau of standards have established from the samples of fish leather sub The gasoline consumption is unusually low The tire mileage is unusually high. E. D. Rubel Crescent Garage Santa Maria PITTSBURG, Kan. When Edith Cavell was taken out of her prison cell and put to death by the Germans, Valentine Lorent, a young French woman, wras her prisonmate.

She w-as to be the next to follow the martyred English woman before the firing But Mile. Lorent contracted a severe cold, which developed into tonsilitis and the Huns sent her to a hospital for treatment. Hun surgeons, using ether, performed an operation on iher throat, and the day of executjon was postponed. She did not recover rapidly and another operation was performed and then Mile. Lorent was sent to a prison camp at Mariembourg.

There the young woman made her escape after a period of several months of ill treatment, in which time she w'as compelled to, do hard work, including work in the coal mines. The young French woman, now Mrs. Peshoves, the bride of a veteran of the World War, and resident of Franklin, a coal town, seven miles north of Pittsburg, is in a hospital here undergoing treatment for her throat. i Mile. Lorent was a' Red Cross worker.

She was working with the French army in Belgium. Her intense love of the French cause led her into the trouble. She was carrying dispatches from French headquarters to an officer in the field when she was captured. She was taken to the prison where Edith Cavell was confined and there condemned to die. It was a few days after her arrival there that she saw Miss Cavell led out to die.

Albert Deshoyes was an American soldier. He met the pretty young French woman with a war record of her own and she promised to marry him. He came back to America and later sent for her. She a ca and later sent for her. 1 Ji it 4 vr-v.

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