The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-19

school board.
 The only juvenile home of it's kind in the world, where medical treat ment is given children who are vic tins of hereditary taint, is main tained in Chicago by the women of that city
 Training in house craft, in which the English women like those of America are in large degree igno- rant, is being advanced as a need in solvino the unemployment situation among English women.
 On January 8 the cotton loan con- mittee announced that it had grant ed it's first loan. The application was made through the Alabama commit tee. The amount and the name of the applicant were not disclosed.
 West Virginia testifes that after having tried statewide prohibition for six months it finds that prohibi- tion helps trade and lessens crime. It is declared that from the standpoint of business prosperity and civic wei fare the best thing West Virginia ever did was to declare for statewide pro- hibiton. This is the testimony of leading bankers and other business men all over the state, according to facts and figures gathered by the Temperance Society of the Methodist Episcopal church.
 P. E. Thomas of Kent County claims the championship of Michigan for corn husking. He established a new record this year when he huslled 146 bushels in 10 hours, an average of II 3-5 bushels per hour, or one bushel to each 2-7 minutes His best time during the day was 15 bush els in 40 minutes. Mr. Thomas grandfather was an expert busker and at one time did even better than the grandson's best record husking 168 bushels in 10 hours. His father husked 147 bushels in 10 hours. Mr. Thomas has made a business of husk- ing corn for IT years.
 The Berliner Tageblatt recently re- lated, under the heading "Chivary." an episode which occurred short time ago in the western theater of war, when a French captain fearless ly left cover to pick up 9 wounded German soldier lying between the hos tile trenches, and carried him over to the German lines. A German officer hastened out to meet the Frenchman and moved by admiration fastened his own iron cross to his breast, where upon the latter returned to his trench. According to the Stassburge Post, the French captain who received the iron cross in so strange a manner was call ed DettWeiler, and was the son of merchant who formerly had busi- ness in Strassburg, but emigrated to France after the Franco-G German war.
 If enough of the horse-raising ter ritory of the United States would fol- low the example set by Jefferson county, one of Southern Nebraska's richest counties, the talked-of action by the army and navy board in re- gard to requesting legislation restrict inging or forbidding the sale of hor- ses and mules to foreign countries would become useless. Buyers of army horses who invaded that county last week were met by a firm refusal to sell, although the reported bids were right at the top notch of any prices prevailing in the war horse market These owners have declared for no horses for the war at any price and evidently mean to stick to it.
 Both the Italian workingman and his horse are undersized, lily nour- ished and overworked. One reason for this condition of affairs is the long hours of labor and consequent lack of time for proper meals. In the city of Florence they meet the difficulty by fastening an openwork basket to the horses bridle and keeping it filled with hay or other foods. By this means