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New Building For Growing Trade Section H. W. Fisher Puts Up $4500 House; Contractor Erecting Three Houses. A combined store building and residence, to cost $4500, is being built W by contractor A. A. Lawler for H. Fisher, El Paso merchant, at the cor ner of Alamogordo and Piedras streets, near the new Five Points business district It is of red pressed brick, fronting on the two streets. with the residence on Alamogordo. Mr. Fisher build other structures on adjoin ing may lots to the south Mr. Fisher and family will live in the residence section and he will open a store in the front For section, W H. Skidmore a five room Mr. bungalow is being erected by of east Lawler in block 14, West Los Angeles Nevada street, street Intersection, just at a cost of $4500 Two Other New Homes. five room a Between Piedras and Raynor, bungalow on home Alamogordo, is being contractor put up for Lawler Mrs. Sidney It will cost Hockett $3800 by and will be the home of Mr and Mrs. Hockett He has been a Santa Fe railroad employe for many vears, running between El Paso and of on Ben Welsh, San Finishing Marcial work is being done on Gold the street, new home 2300 block, Highland Park ad dition, which has cost $2800 by It is Mr a four room bungalow built his Lawler Mr. Welsh will move family here from Phoenix, Ariz readjustments to conform with re serve regulations. But if you give it all will a fair trial, I pledge you realize that its in a great year, usefulness you and be its friend 'I have told the people at Washing those than ton that there weren't a of more El patri Paso, otic who, people despite the drouths have gone over the top in every Liberty loan drives and Predicts 100,000 More Inhabitants. "I have predicted that the time will come when El Paso has 175,000 in stead of 75,000 people, and bank de posits of $150,000,000. In ten, 15 or 20 years from now you will have 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 people in this section, people as good and enterpris ing as those to be found anywhere. Asks Support for Lawder. Judge Ramsey complimented El Paso on the fact that Mr. Lawder had been made manager of the local reserve bank pointing out that he had grown up with the system. Judge Ramsey pleaded for the utmost support of Mr Lawder 'It's not where a man lives, but what he does, that makes him a good director he said Judge Ramsey also praised W W Turney as well equipped to be one of the governors of the branch will be and you believe we are going to give satis you good fied, and service while the right has been reserved to discontinue the branch if be would personally mortified necessary if you don't give the bank full support "Bulldog" Tenacity Holds. refer by Ramsey concluded ence Judge to the great battle raging in France predicting that the bulldog our end tenacity of the British would prevail first are They cousins, in the he said, and the only dif on are and them ference between us is that we better have fighters improved I don't believe God will per mit that beautiful France be crushed the Sammies and I hope that when our boys will are meet all over Hindenburg there at his Waterloo, and I von hope that Wilhelm be damned will be on his knees eating out of a spoon handled by Woodrow Wilson Judge Ramsey said $50,000,000,000 the war may and take 10.000,000 ten men, years, but the war would go on to victory However, the end might be preceded by great sacrifice Hopes Dead Son Died Fighting to his own son, lost on the bat tlefield, As judge Ramsey said that he 'would give all the gold in the world to bring him back, but not for all the gold in the world, would want the thought that he had a yellow streak that kept him from fighting Brig. Gen. Robert L Howze, com of the El Paso district, prefmander aced his talk with the request that his hearers rise and bow their heads of in recognition of the sacrifice judge and Mrs Ramsey Asks Soldiers' Protection. have The general said oversubscribed that soldiers to in Liberty this district loans and are pledging them your at usurious rates want moral support the general said. We have orders to protect the soldier and I think, with your help we can protect soldiers against that prostitu tion, am informed the clearing house will take that up, and you will help us to make the soldier save him self. The general predicted that Hun the American sword "will teach the that humanity shall not be sacrificed on the German iron cross. Mr Wingo promised that every local bank would cooperate to the end that soldiers receive full value for their John bonds. Metz. Merchants Bank & Trust Co. Tucson, Ariz., the next said: speaker Arizona Has Come Out. "Old Arizona was known in the old days as the land that God forgot the land of sagebrush and Gila monsters But she has come out of that stage We organized our bank in April 1907, but the panic came on and we were not able to open until the 15th day of January, following I didn't understand why the great banking resources of the country should have allowed such a condition to arise, and it seemed to me there dust have been the some lack of organization. as bankers were the custodians of the entire resour of the country Makes for Proper Financing "To come down to present conditions, suppose we were called on to finance the war. It would seem to be impossible if the conditions were now as they were in 1907 But a law has been passed creating the reserve bank "I don't believe that law came from pressure on the inside but from the outside depositing public, who real ized our inability do not think the country will ever permit a condition such as that of 1907 to arise again. 'Realizing our shortcomings I believe it is the duty of every bank in the United States to come forward and assist the reserve bank system in solving war problems. I believe every bank should join the system, for without it, the country would be paralyzed. As to judge Ramsey, the speaker thought that Whoever had the ap AMUSEMENTS.