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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
Parker Brothers,
Bachelors
By SUSANNA GLENN

Copyright. 1911. by Associated Literary Press.l
Jason Parker pushed back his chair
from the table, and looked about the
room critically.
Come to think of IT," he observed
slowly. things don't look as they did
when mother was here"
Look pretty we'll considering how
busy we are outside all day." an
swered his younger brother William.
That's just the point. Will! We're
used to It, and so we don't notice
what rut we're getting into What
we need is a woman in the house
I've felt 1t for a long time. And 1t ap-
pears to me that. seeing you are the
younger and the handsomer Of us,
It's your duty to get married. Ever
think about it,"
Never" answered William.
well, mean what say. I'll give
you six months to find wife. and II
you do not, I'm blamed If l don't get
married myself"
Go ahead" said William.
There are plenty Of nice girls to
CuOOSS lTOAA, COutluu0O Jd0OA'
There is Mary Bushnell. neat. pref
ty, anl smart as a steel trap. l guess
things would shine with her here!"
when l do get married" William
interrupted CURLY. II shall choose my
own girl!"
| "Oh, to be sure; just mentioned
her as an example! You'd better
think over what say"
To his annoyance, William found
that he did think But not of the
capable Mary Bushnell.
II can see what would happen to us
II Mary was to come here" he said
to himself as he hoed corn in the
lower lot that afternoon. She gave
me her opinion the other evening
She believes in modern things ant
means to have them! l guess Jasor
will have to do the marrying If any
is done!"
But" whispered persistent voice
Mary Bushnell isn't the only CIR
who would make good farmers
wife. Do you mean to say you intent
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
DANGER IN MERE SOUNDS
French Actress Thought She Was
Being lnsuIted When Russian
Asked for Cloak.

A Russian who, although he has
or nothing of the French language.
has just been sentenced to a month 8
Imprisonment for having assaulted a
policeman. He had also been accused
of having insulted the agent of the
law, but he was acquitted on that
count after an explanation from his
counsel that the word which the po-
liceman regarded as Objectionable
was also Russian word, and per-
fectly innocent.
BY way of emphasizing his argu'
ment Maitre Longuet related an
amusing anecdSte. A few months ago
a Partisan actress, who was perform
ing at ST. Petersburg theater. was
invited to dejeuner by a grand duke
On hearing a furious exclamation
followed by the noise of couple oil
slaps a moment after her arrival be
rushed into the hall to see what wal
going on.
What is the matter?" he asked
Your servant is an impudent fellow,
she replied; "he ran up to me wher
came in and called me horrit
names"
What did he say?" the grand duke
inquired, considerably puzzled. Thel
she repeated a couple of words which
are dreadfully abusive in French. Thu
unlucky man had simply asked he
for her cloak in his own tongue. AM
the sounds were so very similar tina
she imagined she was being insulted
and resented this in spirited mar
ner. The Judge was greatly amused
and the counsel gained his point.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
CITY DIRECTORY
POPULATION OF BLACkFOOT.
1000
Grove City Cemetery-OWned DJ
the city. w. B. Jacobs, Sexton.
LODGES

LODGES
With the total membership. time OK
meeting and the names OF presldlne
officers and secretaries:
1. o. o. EVERY Thursday even
ing. A. H. Simmons, N. G.; u. H.
Holbrook, secretary
G. A. R., Geo. H. Thomas Post
Meets first Friday in each month az
the Armory. E. E. Thompson, COM
mander, w. A. Crawford. adjutant.
Grove City Lodge No. 80, A. +.
and A. M.-Meeting (regular) second
Friday in each month. Percy Jones,
w. M; w. D. Gagon, Sec'y.
Esther Chapter No. IA Order OF
the Eastern Star, S0.-First and
third Wednesday. Mrs. Katie Chap
man, w. M; Percy Jones', Secy.
Knights Of Pythias-First and thlrd
Tuesdays of each month. D. F. Ar
thur, c. c.; G. w. Granville. X. OF
R. and S.
M. w. A. 150-First and third
Mondays. E. T. Peck and T. ]. john
son.
w. O. w. 86-Second and fourth
Tuesdays. v. Van Bramer. G. c.; g.
w. Granville, clerk.
Royal Neighbors, 96-Mary A. Bell,
Oracla; Alice Conkle, Recorder.
Women of Woodcraft-Second and
fourth Mondays.
Guardian Neighbor-Mrs. v. Van
Bramer.
Past Guardian Neiehbor- Jessie
Lloyd
Advisor Bond.
Magician-Mrs. S! Thompson.
Current Event-President, Mrs. Hans
brough; Vice-Presddent, Mrs. Susie
H. Biethan and Mrs. Christy; Score
'tary, MRS. Vincent; Treasurer, Mrs.
J. D. Hendrie.
v. l.. S.-Mrs. r. N. West, presi-
kdent; Mrs. A. Younie, LIST vice1presi-
dent; Mrs. ]. w. Chapman, 2nd vice
president; Mrs. L. w. VanAiken, Sec
rotary; Mrs. G. F. Gagon, treasurer.
Meetings are held the first Tuesday
Of each month in the city hall. Ev-
eryone is invited
CHURCHES
Methodist Church-Morning service
11:00; Sunday School, 10000; Junior
League 400; Epworth League, 700;
Evening Service, 500: Ladies Aid,
Wednesday afternoon. c. A. Edward
pastor.
Baptist Church. Corner University
Ave. and Bridge street. Morning
worship 1900 a. m. Evening serv-
ice 1880 p. m. Sunday school 1000
a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday eve
ming 730. Ladies Aid Wednes day
afternoon 2:30. Choir practice Fri
day evening. 800. Visitors always
I welcome. Parsonage phone 228.
, w. R. JEWELL, Pastor
Catholic Church-Services are helt
at the Catholic church by Fathe
: Fuchs of Idaho Falls on the frs
, second and third Sundays Of eacl
month, services at 0:45, 1915 and
10:45.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
PROTECT STOCK FROM FLIES
Excellent Mixture to Keep Trouble.
some Insects From Milk Cows
and Other Farm Animals.

To protect milk cows and young
stock and horses from the common
house fly and the more troublesome
wood fly the following mixture may
be used without injury to the skin
of the animal to which it is applied
1t is an excellent and economical
remedy. 1t is as follows: One gallon
of fish oil, four ounces of turpentine.
one point of coal oil.N one ounce of
the oil of cedar and one ounce OF car
bolic acid. Mix thoroughly. Stir the
contents before using. Spray a small
quantity Of this or apply with a paint
brush to each animal once a week. A
small quantity will answer.
The following formula is recon-
mended by Professor Wheeler. of the
Kansas Agricultural college: Resin.
one and a half pounds: laundry soap.
two cakes: fish oil. half pint, and
water to make three gallons Dissolve
the resin in solution of soap and water
by boiling together. Add fish oil and
the balance of water. Apply with
brush.
Matteson's formula is: Fish oil,
three quarts; crude petroleum, one
quart, and carbolic acid, one ounce.
Mix well. One-half pint will cover
twelve cows; put on with spray
pump. These formulas are all good.
Their use will present the cows from
being annoyed by the flies when at
pasture or in the stable. Cows SO
treated will keep in better flesh and
they will give more milk.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
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The Carminatives possess properties
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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19

In buying a typewriter
the price should be the last
consideration. There are
many cheap typewriters on
the market and many price
cutters after business in
the effort to survive. The
UNDERW WOOD is sold
strictly on quality and is
worth what you pay for it.
It is a mechanical master
piece, and in ease of oper-
alton, speed, accuracy and
durability, is unequalled.
1.-THE Machine You Will
Eventually Buy"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
New Short Line Time Card

West Bound
No. /, 8:4S "a. m.
No. 3, $40 p. m
No. 113, 3:17 p. m.
East Bound
No. 4, 1920 a. m !
No. 2, 3:O5 "a. m
No. ia, 1912 =. m.
Mackay Branch
Depart 9:05 a. m.
Arrive 6:25 p. m.
Freight leaves 8:3 a. m. tri- weekly
Shipments must be billed the prev.
ious day. No passengers carried.
SHIPPERS NOTICE
. Freight going north must be billed
the day before, freight going south
received until 900 a. m. for ship
ment the same day.
EXPRESS OFFICE.
Express office hours 500 to $50:
freight office hours 700 to 500. Shit
ments north must be delivered tn
day before
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
Remedy for Swollen leqs.

Many of the swellings on the limbs
of horses can be prevented by the
proper amount of exercise. Do not
keep the horse standing in the barn
without exercise and expect 1t to re-
main free from swollen limbs.
Choice IN FluraIIry.
Margaret and her little playmate
were exchanging condolences. What's
your favorite color?" asked Elizabeth
Margaret looked thoughtful for mo
ment, and then said brightly. PLAID!
The Dclineator.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
Talking Shop.

mot married yet?' exclaimed
Baron Fucash. 81 don't see what can
be the matter with these Americans.
You have one of the finest titles on the
list"
Yes replied Lord Luvvus; but ]
have noticed that our worst titles are
frequently our best sellers"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
The Signal.

Mrs. Hamler-I don't see the Darts
parlor lit up on Wednesday evenings
any more.
Mrs. Kaboux-Then 1t must be true
that CT Gle Is engaged.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
Brooding Hens.

With brooding hens We give exactly
the same diet, except for soft food.
That affects the fertility and is used
only occasionally for change. Then
We usually give blood meal and bran
mixed in the hopper. In the pens We
keep grit and shell all the time, and
since grit is scarce in this country, we
use gravel. coal cinders and broken
glass in order that tie hens may have
something sharp TO cut and digest
their food.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
POSTOFFICE HOURS

Week days from 500 a. m. until
500 p. M; money orders from 900
until $3.50; Sunday mails are handled
as usual; delivery windows open fror
10 to IL q. m.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
EXCURSIONS EAST
October ID. November Is, and De-

cember Z and ".
wa Oregon Short Line and Union
Paclfic for benefit of Home VISI-
IORS. Tickets sold on October date
Emitted to December 31st. Other
tickets limited to 60 days from date
of sale. See any O.S.L. Agent for
rates and further particulars, or write
DE. Burley. Gen. Pass. Agt., Salt
Lake City, Utah.
O5-D22.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
GOLDEN STAR
FURNITURE POLISH

One lady says: The best l ever
used. Another lady says: tried the
sample, 1t beats all. want two bot
ties. You try it. For sale at Bic
thans.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
Preaching and Practice.

FTedcHIHg dnu FTdctICe.
Maybe Champ Clark is sorry now
that he advised young men to go
SOUTH"
why do you think so?"
1.-The day after he gave out that in.
terview in Chicago young bank
cashier went south with large sum
Of money"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
incred IDLE.

Anything new in your wife's let.
.er?"
Yes; there was no postscript"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
Sjlo Has ADVANTAGE,

The man with the silo Is the man
who has the advantage at this time
of year when the dry spell strikes.
Milk flow that is once decreased BY
dried up pastures can never be re-
stored until the next freshening. Don't
let the milk flow decrease.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
"FulI Many"

Full many man who has made a pile
And won success in life,
Owes half his wealth and all his style
To the brains of his little wife.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
SMYRNA AT REHoBOTH BEACH

Much Local Enthusiasm Over Della
wares Popular Resort Concert Band
Smyrna has been having quite
colony of sojourners at Rehoboth
this season who are enthusiastic over
the place in wanting to see more
life and improvements in the coming
year. Besides the Bell and the
Walls families who have cottages
there, a number Of Smyrniaps have
been spending a short sojourn there
during the season and the shore ao-
peals to them more than ever.
Plans for next year are now being
made and it is proposed to make con-
tract, as a town, with fine concert
band to give concerts in a she'll pa
Wilton to be erected on Rehohoth
avenue grass plot every day for two
hours in the morning, two hours in
the afternoon and two in the evening.
The financial plan is for all resi-
dents and business houses to sub
scribe to liberal sums and, when
thoroughly canvassed, the authorities
will make contract with the best and
most available band, the town appro-
priating the remainder of the fund
required.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
SMYRNA GRANGE MEETINGS
Resumed Again Saturday Afternoon
After the Usual Summer Recess

Resumed Again Saturday Afternoon
After the Usual Summer Recess
Smyrna Grange met Saturday af-
ternOon, the first meeting after the
summer recess. Though attendance
was small there was much interest
shown. There was a paper read on
a meeting held by some of the far
mers of Pennsylvania, representing
625, 600 tillers of the soil and some
clipping from a speech made by
Mayor Gaynor of New York. The
Mayor applauds the plan to cut out
middle men in New York markets.
He pointed out in his remarks that
it cost New York last year $50, 900,
600 for potatoes which neted the
farmers who grew them less than
$8, 500, 900. The grange will continue
to meet in the evening except the
first Saturday in each month until
the 1st of November.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
TWO COMING DOVER WEDDINGS
Miss Ida Frazier, Sister of Mrs. Homer
D. Hudson to Wed Daniel E.. Jones
johnson Wiggin Nuptials.

Dover will have two weddings un-
der the same roof of prominent
young people on the evening of We'd
nesday, September 20, when Deputy
State Treasurer Daniel E. Jones
will wed Miss Ida Frazer, daughter
of ]. Augustus Frazer, and sister Of
Mrs. Homer D. Hudson of Smyrna.
The other wedding will be Smith K.
Johnson and Miss Gustavia Wiggin,
daughter of G. B. Wiggin, now Of
Dover, but late of New York. Both
weddings will take place at the res
idence of Miss Wiggin's parents.
The ceremony uniting Mr.. Jones and
Miss Frazer will be performed by
the Rev. S. N. Pilchard of the Will
imngton Conference, an uncle of the
bride, while that uniting Mr.. john
son and Miss Wiggin will be per-
formed by the Rev. A. W. Light
bourne, D. D., of Dover. 1t will
not be a double wedding and will not
be an elaborate affair, the couples
being welded at different intervals
and departing. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Jones and Miss Frazer,
being guests, will be welded first
and will be given a noiseless but
cheerful send-off. Then after Mr..
johnson and Miss Wiggin, daughter
of the hostess, will be married.
Miss Frazer is one of the surviving
members of Dover's Bachelor Girls
Club, the members of which took
some mystic covenant to celibacy,
Only to renounce the same in order
within a few years. The club,
whose constitution did not follow
it's flag, is, however, still kept up
and its annual meeting is a fire
function.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
CAPTAIN JARVIS AND CREW
ARE BELIEVED LOST At STA
FORMER SMYRNA BOY AND HIS
BOAT VICTIM OF HURRICANE

Stern of Captain Jarvis Schooner,
Margaret A. May" Found on Coles
IsIand-Nothing Heard from Crew
Much Apprehension is felt in Smyr-
ma over the fate of Captain George
L. Jarvis, grandson of George D.
Collins of this town, who with his
crew of seven, are believed to have
been lost at sea in the wreck of hi
ship the Margaret A. May" which
left Charleston, South Carolina on
Wednesday August %, with a cargo
of lumber bound for Philadelphia.
The stern of the schooner was dis
covered on Coles Isand on Saturday,
but no word has been received of
Capt. Jarvis or the crew. The one
and only chance of their escape is
that if they managed to cling to
some wreckage until picked up by
some out going steamer, they may
be heard from later, but the con-
sensus of opinion is they were lost.
A telegram was received in Smyrna
from Will Jarvis stating that a re-
port has been received at headquart-
ers that two crews were picked up
by an out going ship bound for
Europe and that the crew of
the May was one of them.
Captain Jarvis is well.known in
Smyrna where he was raised and
spent his boyhood days. He was
married Tuesday, February 18th
1910, to Miss Helen Reading, daugh-
ter of DR.. and Mrs. George Reading
of Woodbury., N. ]. Since their
marriage and owing to the fact that
Captain Jarvis business called him
so much away, they have been re-
siding with DR.. and Mrs. Reading
CAPTAIN Jarvis before his marriage
made his home at Bristol, Pa, with
his brother, William N. Jarvis, now
solicitor for Pierce Business College.
The schooner Margaret A. May has
been commanded by three genera
tions of the Jarvis family. The
May was a three. .masted vessel of
458 ton, built in Wilmington, Del,
in 1884, and owned by William C.
May, of Philadelphia. She vas
lumber laden on her last trip as for
years she had been carrying coal
from Philadelphia to Southern ports,
returning with lumber, shingles and
miscellaneous cargoes. Fuller re-
ports of the havoc wrought by the
hurricane which recently swept the
South Atlantic coast show that the
loss of life and of vessels was
heavier than was at first supposed.
Eleven schooners and one steamer
became total losses, and it is feared
that the crews of the Philadelphia
schOoners John Rose and Margaret
A. May, which are believed to have
been abandoned in the seven-day
storm, will never be heard from
again. These two vessels had over
20 men, whose whereabouts up to
the present time are unknown.
There is little doubt that the May
was driven ashore on the North
Carolina coast and broke up there.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
STATE W. T. c. U. CONVENTION
Plans Completed For Fine PLogram
to be Held at Milton Sept. 27-2e

Plans Completed For a Fine PLogram
to be Held at Milton Sept. 27-2e
The thirty-secondannual convention
of the Delaware Woman's Christ ian
Temperance Unoin4 to be held in
Goshen Methondist Episcopal Church
Milton, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, September 27, % and 29,
will have at the sessions some very
prominent persons in temperance
work. At the session the first even
ing, there will be present Mrs. Ella
BOole, president of the society in
New York state, who will deliver
an address. Thursday afternoon a
gold medal contest will be conducted
and that evening demonstration of
departments will be held. At 8
o'clock Friday afternoon, the Loyal
Temperance Legion demonstration
will be held, while that evening
Professor Chares Scanlon, field Sec
retary of the Presbyterian Church,
will deliver an address.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
GREAT SLAUGHTER OF BIRDS
Brilliant TaYIor's Bridge Lights Attract
Many Reed Birds to Destruction

Rear Light Station, Taylor's
Bridge, Sept. 5:-A wholesale
slaughter of birds has been taking
place at Taylor's Bridge recently.
Starting in little after night fall,
hordes of reed birds and other marsh
birds have been meeting destruction
before Uncle Sans powerful light
striking hard against the tower and
falling dead. 1t has not been an
uncommon thing to see the ground
strewn with a hundred or more birds
most of which are reed birds.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
FORTUNE IN DELAWARE APPLES
c. II. Bancroft & Son Harvesting
$4,000 Crop From Their Orchard

C. II. Bancroft 8. Son Harvesting a
$4,000 Crop From Their Orchard
A $40, 900 fortune from fruit har-
vest is the story now going the
rounds of Kent county concerning E.
Fl. and Frank C. Bancroft, father
and son, and proprietors of the
Evergreen farms between Camden
and Dover. The report comes from
reliable fruit agents that the Ban
crofts will realize $40, 900 from a re-
markable yield of apples, peaches
and pears. The Bancroft apple or
chards, titled, SPRAYED and pruned,
were recently visited by apple e.x-
perts from the north who pronounced
the home orchard one of the finest
apple orchards in the world. 1t is
known that the Messrs. Bancroft got
great prices for their early apples
and had many of them, apd that they
also have raised, harvested and de-
livered a crop of fancy peaches.
The yield of pears has only begun
and the railroad shipments thus far
indicate great pear year in Della
ware.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
PROF PAYNE TAKES A BRIDE

Former Assistant Principal of the
Smyrna High School now a Benedict
Prof. George Woodford Payne,
formerly assistant principal of the
Smyrna High School was married on
Thursday, August 91st, to Miss Jes-
sica Groth at the residence of her
grandmother, Mrs. Louise Michel, at
Faribault, MINI. They will be
"at home" after October 1st, at
McMinnville, Oregon, where Prof.
Payne is teaching.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
NEW GAME LAWS UNPOPULAR
Under the NewOrder no Effort Will be
Made to Restock the State

Made to Restock the State
The sportsmen of the state do not
feel jubilant over the new game
laws, at least some do not. They
fear that under the new order there
will be no effort made to restock the
state as in other sections, even on
the peninsula. Seventy-two pairs
of Russian pheasants have just been
distributed in Cecil county, Mary
land, and a movement is also being
made to restock Somerset, but nothing
Of any considerable restocking move
ment is being heard of in this state,
for many years the sportsmen s
paradise. Under the old conserva-
tion methods the expense was borne
largely by private contribution and
collections taken by the Delaware
Game Protective Association, now
defunct.
Smyrna times., 1911-09-06
cHEswoLD WHITE RIeBoNERs
Mrs. Lizzie Boggs Heads the Cheswod
w. T. G. U. Organization For Year

Cheswold, Sept. 5:-The first
meeting of the w. c. T. U. after
the summer vacation was held last
Saturday evening, at the home Of
the president, Mrs. Suma Boyce and
the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, Mrs.
Lizzie Boggs; first vice-president,
Mrs. Suma Boyce, second vice-pres-
itient, Mrs. Sallie Garrison; cores
ponding secretary, Mrs. Sallie
Bunker; recording secretary, Mrs.
Mollie Hardeastle; assistant secre-
tary, Miss Mary Anderson; treas
urer, Mrs. Ida Boggs; organist,
Miss Belle Moore.