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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-04-02
UPPER EMMETT MESA.
BY Mrs. G. X. Parks.

Mr.. and Mrs. II. L. Cowan enter
tanned Mr. and Mrs. Gurnsey Ellis
Mrs. f. E Hampton and Mr.. j. j
Hampton to dinner one day last week
j. j. Hampton has bought the team
wagon and all other personal property
belonging to Mr.. Kidwell
A very pleasant social meeting of
the u. A. club was held last Thursday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. C. B.
Stimson. A number of visitors were
present, among them being Mrs. E. E.
Hampton, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Burton and
Mrs. Haynes.
Walter Crabtree is blowing and pre-
pairing some corn ground on the Zach
man place for Prof. G. w. Knipe.
Through the generosity of P. M.
Spratt School District No. 10 has one
acre more ground given them.
Mrs. H. L. Cowan and daughter
Evelyn took dinner at the home of
e. E. Hampton last Thursday.
Velma and Lloyd Green have with
drawn from school and will soon leave
for Missouri.
The Eighth grade of District 10 |
have examinations Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday Of this week
Howard Whitsell was absent from
school Monday on account of sick
ness.
The literary society of District 10
will have a declamatory contest and
box supper next Friday, in which
he Central school and Hanna schools
will join. The box supper is planned
md will be conducted by the girls of
District 10. The boxes will be divided
nto three lots: Twenty-Five cents for
title girls boxes, so cents for young
aides boxes and 80 cents for mar
led ladies' boxes. The supper is
riven for the purpose of paying for
he framing of our school pictures.
hey would be pleased to have the as
istance of all ladies on the mesa.
Mrs p NJ Spratt is visiting at the
ONE of her brother, j. F. Colburn in
'oise.
Loe Reed has painted his fine new
arm this week.
The Gurnsey Ellis new house is
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-04-02
LETHA.


Over fifty neighbors and friends
gathered at the home of Rev. and Mrs.
C. II. Blom last Friday evening and
gave them farewell surprise. Mr..
Chittister, the teacher at Vanderdas-
sons, in a few we'll chosen words,
presented clock to Mr.. and Mrs.
Blom on behalf of their friends A
delicious collection of viands were dis
pensed by the ladies. Solo, duet and
chorus vocal music, besides piano
duets by Miss Blom and Mrs. Pomeroy,
were evidently much enjoyed by the
guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Blom, with Hell
en- and Howard, leave this week for
Midvale. Miss Blom will remain in
Emmett to finish the schol year.
E. A. Stegner of Fruitland is quite
i'll, making second trip to that place
by A. ~ Newell necessary.
A good sized congregation attended
Rev. Blom's farewell service at the
Baptist church on Sunday A good
sermon was much appreciated and a
feeling Of sadness prevailed which all
tried to conceal with pleasantly for
the sake of those leaving our COM
munity The Biom family will be
missed as far as they may have met
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-04-02

people and the people feel that they
are sustaining great loss.
Sunday school will be held at 1880
a. ma. at the Baptist church from now
on. There will be a talk by some
member of the school afterward. H.
P, Lee will be the speaker next Sun
day.
Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Blom, Helen
and Howard were the evening guests
at the home of Mrs. Flora Simmons
last Thursday evening.
Mr.. Streeter is very i'll, but his
friends have hope that his life may be
spared some time yet.
George Ewing has entered the
Harding school at Boise for the study
of gas engines and automobiles. He
will be gone about two months.
0. w. Porter of Weiser was in
Letha on Tuesday.
d. ]. Wampler and wife were bust
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-04-02

ness visitors in Letha the first of the
week on their way over to see Mr..
Streeter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wilhelm and lit
tie Claire Miller attended the Luth-
eran church service in Emmett last
Sunday.
The Misses Mae and Bertha Bar
nard came home from Boise on the
Tuesday afternoon train. Miss Ber-
tina will have charge of the store and
postoffice during Mr.. NewelPs absence
at Fruitland.
Mrs. Bismark Youtsler and children
went back to the homestead near
Sweet ON Sunday with Mr.. Youtsler,
who had to be back at the sawmill
ready for work on Monday.
Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Blom, Miss
Blom, Helen and Howard were Sunday
guests at Ewing omeroy home
A. E. Pomeroy made a business trip
to the south slope on Tuesday.
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HANNA
By Mrs. J. l. Guthrie.

+. F. Cook of Falls City, Ore, {
brother of Mrs. E. j. Reynolds, ar.
rived last Friday for a visit with his
sister and also with his parents who
are guests at the Reynolds home.
Edgar Cook of Toledo, Ohio, an I'M
Gle of Mrs. Reynolds, came over from
Boise Tuesday and will spend the sum
mer on the ranch. Mr.. Cook will be
remembered by many as he made his
home with the Reynolds family for
about year only few years ago.
The Sunday school will hold cleo
ton of officers next Sunday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Simmons and
children visited at the Reynolds home
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. James Howard and baby re-
.urned Friday from their Payette visit.
Miss Wayman, who has ben sick for
several weeks with a severe attack
If neuralgia, resumed her work in the
Emmett schools this week.
j. Il. Clinton and family motored
,ver from Boise Sunday. Mr.. Clinton
s planning some substantial improve
nents on his ranches this summer.
The Hanna boys have organized
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-04-02
CENTRAL MESA.
BY Mrs. w. L. Payne.

Mr.. Graves moved his family onto
his ranch last week
Mr.. Hartmann of New Plymouth
and family visited at the Conrad home
Sunday.
Guy Dayton spent Sunday with his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Dayton
Sunday.
Earl Seaman and family and Mrs.
Thos. Whiteside attended church at
Letha Sunday to hear Rev. C. H. Blom
preach his farewell sermon.
Mr. and Mrs. E. o. Mech were call
ers at the Payne home Sunday
Miss Charlotte Dayton spent over
Sunday at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Payne and
family took dinner Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. E. J Teerink
Mr.. Stone from Nebraska arrived
Tuesday to visit his sister, Mrs. Err
nest Haynes.
Paul Foster spent Sunday with
Cort Zimmerman.
Eliza Limbaugh returned home Fri
day, after spending the winter in
Colorado and Utah.
The u. A. Club met with Mrs. Slim
son last Thursday. Twenty members
were present and five visitors. All
had an enjoyable time. The Club
meets with Mrs. McProud April g.
Rev. A. C. Lathrop will preach at
the schoolhouse next Sunday at 2:30 |
o'clock. All come out and hear him
and occupy our new seats, Sunday |
school at the usual hour.
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SOUTH SLOPE.
BY Mrs. C. W. Cook.

Foods--quality, quantity and its eff
fects on the individual. The art Of
good cookery, the we'll balanced meal
from an economical standpoint, were
Interestingly handled by Miss Amy
Kelly Of Boise last Friday in her talk
before the Crescent Club The Domes-
tic Science department Of the Club are
to be congratulated on being able to
procure Miss Kelly's services so soon.
The hostesses for the afternoon were
Mrs. Bert Wright and Mrs. J. /. Hit,
who entertained the 30 ladies present
in a delightful manner. The club
starts the year with very bright pros
poets OF success
The South Side extension Of the
Canyon canal is undergoing the clean
ing process.
Mrs. Roy Modn spent the past week
In Boise, visiting relatives.
Misses Hazel Flagler, Geneyieve
Pierce and Marie Cain, from Breach's
orchestra of Boise, are visitors at the
lovely home of Miss Flagler's parents
on the Slope.
Coming-"Ho Product Week" in
April. This should be observed first,
last and all the year, in Idaho. Begin
now to form the habit At the next
meeting of the Crescent Club, the
president, Mrs. G. P. Hall, will appoint
a committee to call on the merchants,
inviting them to make a window dis
play. Assist the merchants by buying
home goods; it lessons their expense
Mrs. Sherman T. Majors is over
from Nampa, guest at the Rocky
Point fruit ranch.
Lincoln school did itself proud Fri
day. The little girl cooks, under IL
years, covered themselves with glory.
Such banquet as they had prepared :
And the guests who calmy awaited a
program" were greatly surprised. .
Mr. and Mrs. Tyler have accomplish
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-04-02
NEWS OF TWO COUNTIES
BY The Index's Correspondents.

ed multitude of work. The display
would do credit to any city.
There was considerable cooking
quality in the south wiEd that blew
for short period Wednesday evening
of last week. The sweet cherries
seemed not SO well able to stand the
bite of the frost that sneaked along
as most other fruit, possibly due to
the state of their development at that
time.
G. A. Warden lost valuable COW
Saturday from alfalfa bloat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Findley are residents
of this locality, having moved into the
Jensen cottage on Johns avenue,
south.
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baseball team. A number of ladies
were present last Sunday afternoon
to witness the game. During the
game Ralph Vanderdasson had the
misfortune to injure one of his fingers
quite severely.
Friends and neighbors invaded the
Warren Simmons home last Saturday
evening and surprised the family. A
royal time is reported.
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MONTOUR.

N. j. Sheldon, rancher of Johnson
creek, is putting out this year 80 a.
cres of grain, Is acres of corn and 10
acres of Alfalfa.
Mrs Dora Lockett is back on her de-
sert claim on Anderson creek.
c. w. Tanner is putting in a big
acreage of corn this spring.
The Mcconnell boys are in the midst
of Landing on Anderson creek and the
increase is large. They are also lamb
ing band in Oregon.
Dan McGraw has moved from En-
NETT to the company ranch at Mon
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-04-02

Frank Beamguard called at the Ew-
ing-Pomeroy home last week. He re-
ports that the prospective silo builders
in this valley are getting cold feet.
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Continued on Page 81
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
ENGLISH SOCIETY TESTS
THE AMERICAN GIRL

The ordinary American girl, espec-
Tally of the class that marries into the
English arlStOcracy. has been brought
up to look upon politics as q vulgar, in
COMPREHENSIVE, masculine concern with
which h need only trouble herself
when she happens to be visiting in
Washington. But in England politics
M society are inextricable. Practic-
ally all the leaders of the great world
are either themselves prominent in the
fiouse OF commons or the house of lords,
Cr are Intimately related to the mon
WI arc. Their wives and daughters
are thus committed from the beginning
to a personal interest ia the topics and
lntrisues Of the day. However high
THEN position in society. it is not. ami
never can be. so high as to remove
them above the sphere of politics. Their
male belongings are sure to De players
in the game and they themselves are
sure to be something more than spec
tators. Practically all lGnglishwonlen
OF title are born into politics, hear poll
tics discussed at their dinner table in
termittently. and meet day by day the
men to whom politics are life. The
tradition OF playing Il part in the gov
eminent OF their country run through
all that is best in English society, and
a woman who is born or has married
into it and has the intelligence to real
!ze its possibilities soon finds herself
In possession OF Il hobby infinitely more
engrOsSlng than any ordinary social di-
version. To form a salon and to be-
come known as a political hostess; to
follow With comprehension the ms and
butts of the great game; to mingie freely
Ind on equal terms with the men in
whose hands lie the destinies of the
British empire: to be their confidante.
Sheir adviser, n their encourager; to
manage" them with the kind of delft
hess that only feminine diplomacy can
achieve; to bring all her mental and
social to the task of for
warding the political fortunes of the
man in whom she is Interested; to take
part in great decisions and the forlnn-
ton or guidance of momentOuS policies:
to help in disentang!ing the personal
Washes and a~ntagonisns that die at
Che root of most political crisis-all this
Furnishes a clever E,n2lishwoman with
IN absorbing. permanent and many
kided avocation. But all this is abso-
lutely remote from the experience of
he ordinary American bride. She is
l~nacquainted even with the first moves
of the game into which she is so sud-
denly thrust. She comes over to Eng
land n settles down on her husbands
estate With no more than the l,aziest
notion of what English politics really
are, of what the principal parties stand
for. and of the opportunities
that lie open to a woman OF tact, as
siduity, and knowledge.
Here. then. are some pretty severe
tests for her adaptability. She meets
them with her usual high and trium-
plant spirits. Within an incredibly
brief time after her debut, you will
f1nd her putting posers to the prime
minister, facing a steward of the Jock
ey club with paralyzing assurance.
and discussing all the minutiae of sport
with an air of finished knowingness.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
"An Outlaw Among Nations

HAOli III <AlluIild SOIlStiCullOl.
Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts, has
aptly characterized the position of he
United States as an ''outlaw among ma
tions' as long as it stands committed to
the free tolls provision in the
Panama canal legislation.
The senator's remarks were made in the
course of a running debate, in which all
most as many republicans as democrats
defended the demand of the president
that the free tolls clause be stricken.
There was much tina was insulting and
stupid in the charges of Bristow, the spec
tacular n fTeakish senator from KAN
sas, and the laxative Chamberlain, Of
Oregon that the president had been UNI
duly influenced by the trans-continental
railroads..
This all to one side. discussion about
the ethics of our right to grant a SUBJ
sidy to coastwise shipping, and a subsidy
Is all 1T is, is not germane.
There is no ethics in dishonor.
And 1T is dishonor of the most pro-
nounced type when a nation Violates its
written pledge.
hi is what it is proposed we shall do
In the matter of preferential treatment Of
American vessels.
1t Is time to set this nation right before
civilization.
The issue is not one of p~artisanship.
Patriotism and old-fashioned and UNI
adorned honesty are the sole considera.
lions.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
Whom Docs Eugcnics Exclude?
From the Toledo Plade.


This %eugenics. race betterment, and
surerhunan-brecGing talk. besides being
more interesting, would be more clearly
understood If one could learn just what
constitutes the detectives mentioned so
often III the literature and speeches OF the
movement.
Are tramps detectives? The men now
leading blalneless lives who nave played
a little at tran ping in their youth might
object. The railroad officers who have
pronounced the American hobo the most
intelligent "ailroad laborer in the world
might ma uncomplimentary compare
sons w tralnps and those who would
volunteer to pass upon the effectiveness
of these Observation-Disclosures to
the volunteers. Is the roysterer in the
street on Saturday night a defective and
the roysterer on New Years eve not one?
The copper magnates would be ready to
subscribe to the opinion hat the officers
of the metal miners union come under
the meaning of the word and the officers
of the metal miners union would say al
much for the copper magnates, and with
just as much emphasis. But would ethel
be right? A definition that Involves your
neighbor's family. but not your own, is
bound TO be confusing.
In the battle royal every fellow is for
himself only and against everyone else,
the fellow who is most enduring or luck
lest coming out winner. There is more
than a faint suggestion of the battle royal
IN TINS race betterment movement, at least
as It's louder advocates talk it.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
HOFFMAN AND BLOCK
SIGN WITH FEDERALS

Chicago. Special: Artie Holman, a
former member of the Chicago National
league club. and James Block. formerly
a catcher with the Chicago Americans.
signed contracts to play with the Fed
eral league. 1t YVES announced last night
by President James j. Gilmore.
Conferences which indicated that
Jake Stahl, former Boston American
club manager, might undertake. the
leadership of the BROOKLYN Federals
had not. ended in an agreement last
night. Robert Is. Ward. president of
n Brooklyn club. Stahi ana Gilmore
spent much of the day together. but no
announcement was made when the trio
separated for the night. Gilmore In
dicated that the discussions would be
today.
Holman was a IN of the Cubs
during Frank Chances regime. He was
among the leaders in batting, and
Chance often called him among his
most reliable outfielders. Pittsburgh
farIned him to the Nashville club. Of
he Southern association, last year.
Block was the property of the Mil
waukee association club last year, but
played only part of the season as a re-
suit of an injured finger.
II have submitted by proposal to
them. If it is accepted l will join the
Federals,' Stahl asserted last night
after the conference.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
SPRING TRAINING
SCHEDULE OF PILLS

Philadelphia. Special: The schedule
of the Philadelphia American league
baseball club for the spring training
trip was announced by Manager Mack.
Eighteen games have been scheduled
for the "~regulars.' including two CON
tests with the University of Pennsyl-
wanna here March 30 and 81. While in
Florida they will play six games with
the Chicago Cubs and one with the st.
Louis Nationals. On the way home
they will play at Savannah, Charleston,
wilmington, n. G.: Raleigh. Richmond
and Baltimore.
Twenty-nine games have been ar
ranged for the "Yannigans," who ex-
pect to cave for Jacksonville, the
training grounds, Tuesday and be away
from this city for nearly seven Weeks.
The regulars" will arrive at jackson.
Vile about March s.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27

caused Very much of a rumpus. for very
mule is heard of them. But a safe, sane
ana conservative legislature in 1907 took
pans to pass a law restricting them. to-
sethei' with negroes and aliens. from ex-
erefsing the males sacred privilege. The
men of that time. who had very fixed no.
to do and what he meant them not to do.
misht have learned more or less from per-
celvllS that New Jersey remained on the
map. unrevolutiOnized. during those 81
Years, but evidently they proited little by
their experience.
Would it not be a eool idea for some
write a ON the history of eouai
suffrage in New Jersey? What mute, i'm
glorious heroines of the women's strug-
S.'es of that time might he not bring to
lioht.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
WOOD RETURNED TO
SIOUX CITY BALL CLUB

Auburn. n. Y. Special: Secretary
John HI. Farrell, of the National AS
ISOLATION of Professional Baseball
leagues. today made public the follow
ing ~nnouncement relative to the
changes in status of players prelfm-
inery to the opening of the 1914 season:
Claims Withdrawn for drafted play
ers returned under waiver rule: Elmer
Johnson, from Omaha, by New York
National league.
Awards of returning drafted players
claimed by more than one club: Wood
OF sioux City n Hagerman of Denver,
to Indianapolis: Kraft OF New Orleans,
Holman of Portland, Brennigan of
Petersburg, Va. and Jenkins of Keo-
kuk. to Portland: Barham OF Victoria,
B. c.. to San Francisco; Kafora Of
Butte, to Sacramento; Messenger Of
Birmingham. to Oakland.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
CANADA WINNING
CHAMPIONSHIPS
IN AGRICULTURE
The Latest Is Winning Cham.
p!onship for Oats a Third
Time.

Recently was published the fact of
remarkable winnings by Canadian
farmers In several events during the
past three or four years.. The latest
is mat OF Messrs. j. C. Hill & Sons
Oh LloydMlnster, Saskatchewan, who
won in a hard contest for the oat
championship over Montana. At the
National Corn Exposition at Dallas
during February, Montana bats we're
awarded the championship for the
United States. Waiting for the win
Hef OF this to be announced was a
peck OF oats belonging to the Ca
naolan growers above mentioned, and
alongside OF these was a like quantity
~oeiong1ng to a Minnesota grower, who
vas barred from the regular compe-
tltaon because he was at one time the
winner of the trophy-the prize. The
three entries were side by side on the
judges bench. 1t would not be pos
slbie to bring together three more
likely samples. The Montana and
saskatchewan entries we're of equal
welght-50 pounds to the bushel. The
Minnesota sample was some three
pounds lighter. The award was
unanimous in favor of the Saskatche-
wan oats. A remarkable feature and
one greatly to the credit of the Ca
madam product was that the oats,
grown in 1913, were grown and shown
by those who had competed during
the past two years, winning on each
occasion This tho 4h;rJ -;--i--
gave them for the third time the
worlds championship and full posses.
sion of the splendid $1,000 silver
trophy contributed by the state of
Colorado.
The oats which have thus given to
Western Canada another splendid ad.
vertising card, were grown 300 miles
north Of the International boundary
line, proving that in this latitude, all
the smaller grains a be grown with
greater perfection and with more
abundant yield than further south. In
all this country are to be found farm.
ers who produce oats running from
AZ to As pounds to the bushel, and
with yields of from GO to 100 bush.
els per acre. Wheat also does we'll,
grades high, and yields from 80 to 40
bushels per acre. The same may be
said of any portion Of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, famed
over the world not only as a country
where championship grains are grown,
but where cattle and horses are raised
that also carry off championships and
where wild grasses are abundant
yielders, cultivated hay and alfalfa
are grown, thus giving plenty of feed,
and with a good climate, sufficient
shelter and plenty Of water, bring
about results such as western Canada
has been able to record. Thousands
of farmers from the United States
who have their homes in Canada bear
ample testimony to the benefits they
have derived from farming in west
ern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
Circulation of Scriptures.

At a conference Of home agency secre-
taries. held at the Bible house in New
York, the officers OF the nine home
agencies were present. Their work COW
ers nearly all of the United States. They
reported for the year 1918 a remarkable
advance in the circulation of the scrip
lures. The total reaches the figure of
1,G76.459 volumes. This takes no account
of the general circulation of the Ameri-
can Bible society in foreign lands, to the
trade. or the circulation affected by the
auxiliary and other local bible societies.
The total Is an advance Of 2sa,2z5 volumes
in these home agencies over the peeced-
ing year.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27
HIGHLANDERS LEASE
HOTEL AT HOUSTON

New York. Special: The New York
American league club that
it has closed Il lease of a hotel at Hous-
ton, Tex, for the use of the players
who will report in that city on March
/ for spring training. A number of the
men will leave here on February 90. to
be joined by others in Cincinnati the
following day, in order to arrive at the
camp on schedule time. The players
now in Hot Springs will leave there
for Texas on February q in care of
Coach Tom Daily.
Manager Chance will have So regu-
lars and recruits in line when the
training season begins. On the way
north u second team will play two ex.
hibition games in Mobile.