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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

At first glance, it seems the whole
graduating world is to be gowned in
net, so completely does the fabric domi-
nate the collection. No doubt, it is the
extremely full skirt that brings this
material so noticeably to the fore; but
regardless of the cause, the effect is
charming in the quaint Empire, bodice
and bolero dresses, showing features
from old fashions such as short, puffed
sleeves and narrow ruffles. Valencien-
mes, filet and imitation Irish crochet,
repeated again and again in the trim
ming, reminds one forcibly of the time
ly revival of these three laces. There
are frocks, too, where heavy embroidery
is used in the ornamentation; others
edged with half-inch SHRED ribbon, and
here and there model touched with
taffeta. One froek in particular of the
last type has the new laced front bodice
ripping peplum, and applied hem to the
silk. The guimpe, showing above and
between the lacings of the bodice; the
sleeves, puffed until they resemble toy
balloons and the skirt, with its entire
width gathered in at the waist, are of
net. A half blown rose Of delicate pink
tackled above the hem, gives a touch of
color, which makes the net and taffeta
seem the purer white for the contrast.
It might be we'll to add here, while
speaking Of the rose, that all the frocks
have this bit Of color and are named
according to the flower they show. The
model mentioned above is the rose dress
the Marguerite frock has . chain of
daisies around the waist and the pansy
dress, q corsage bouquet Of deep pur-
lple pansies Is the name implies.
These touches and trimmings are
also carried out in frocks Of other fab
RIGS introduced, perhaps, to diversity
the net models or for the few who do
mot care for such transparent material
las the net. As the styles themselves
hint Of old-time fashions 50 these tex
lures, have their origin in the modes
Of from 1910 to 1850. Sheer Swiss,
plain and embroidered, batiste, point
d'esprit organdy aad dimity sAov. TO
good effect With valsnsiennes lace.
Only two really modern materials are
used and these are cotton crepe and
lvsils.
Since - many Of the seAeels have
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
WANT PEACE.

OLYMPIA, Wash. = Governor Ern-
est Lister occupied the pulpit of the
Olympia Congregational church Sun
day when "peace Sunday" was observ-
ed
81 hope the present war will not be
ended until the nations concerned are
convinced that there are other means
than the appeal to arms of settling in
ternational Disputes the governor
stated, pleading for the world court
idea.
Sen tor Wesley Jones of Washing
ton, who attended church with the
governor, was invited to address the
congregation, and urged the church
mci, 70 write President Wilson that
the nation wanted peace not war.
"My vote will never be cast for wal
on the basis now existing, to sustain
the technical right of citizen to &C
abroad and thus place this right
above the right of the country to en-
joy peace he said.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
HELP TO SAVE IDAHO'S
BIGGEST INDUSTRY

The situation is serious. The potato
industry is threatened. Our yields are
hot only being cut down, but our repu-
tation for fine seed and high grade
market potatoes is at stake. Many
fields have been visited where grow
ers planted seed so affected with
disease, that small crops and discour
agement must be the harvest. Seed
offered for sale on the market is often
found full of disease.
Every grower is urged to take steps
to protect himself and his neighbors.
Help in fighting the diseases by taking
such steps as will save your crop. Put
in only clean, treated seed on clean
ground. Profit by the experience of
other potato growing sections. Help
to get hold of the situation before it
is too late
Dipping potatoes will not cure disease
Dipping only kills the germs of the
disease that may have fallen on clean
seed. Plant no seed which shows signs
of any of the diseases here given. Treat
all seed as directed to insure that it is
clean when it is planted.
Plant only in clean ground. Though
the seed may be clean, the soil may in
feet the potatoes.
Rotation of crops is the best insurance
, against disease. Plant potatoes on al
falfa, clover or pea ground.
Grow clean seed on clean soil. Start
potato seed plot.
Soak all seed potatoes before cutting
in solution of four ounces of zorro
sive sublimate in thirty gallons of wa
ter, for one and one half hours. This
should be put in a wooden or stone
ware container, not metal. This is a
deadly poison and care must be exer-
cised that treated potatoes are not eat
en- by stock. The solution will not hurt
the hands. Store treated potatoes in
new sacks to avoid infection.
Fusarium Wilt-This is the most
serious disease we have to deal with
the more so because the disease may not
show itself on the outside Of seed po-
tatoes. When potato affected with
this disease is planted, the fungus
grows up the water tubes in the stems
which carry water to the leaves, with
the result that the flow of water from
the roots to the leaves is stopped and
the leaves wilt, hence the name pota
to or fusarium wilt
When a potato affected with this
disease is cut at the steam, and char
acteristic brown streaks, which form
an irregular ring may be seen. Thi:
may turn dark as the potato remains il
storage and may spread to the entire
tuber. Under certain conditions sucl
potatoes will not start when planted.
All seed potatoes should be examined
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

for this disease by cutting thin slices
which show the disease should be plant
ed. Infection potatoes carry the disease
to clean ground where it may live for
several years to infect other potatoes.
hizoctonia-This disease causes the
stems of potatoes to turn brown just
underneath the ground and kills the
" set" or young potatoes. Very few
potatoes can from in an affected hill
and the yield is greatly cut down.
Affected tubers arc covered with what
looks like specks of dirt, singly and
in groups. These cannot be rubbed off.
When moistened these speeks turn
black.
Treatment win kill small specks of
this disease, but is not effective for
groups or colonies. It is best therefore
to plant no seed which shows the
disease. Infected potatoes will infect
the soil where planted, and will live
there for three or four years. There
| fore rotate your crops. DO not plant
! potatoes on the same ground several
years in succession.
| Scab--Too well known to need de
scription. Plant only clean, treated
seed on clean ground. Plant no scabby
potatoes.
Grow clean seed on clean ground.
Treat all seed.
| Rotate your crops.
Plant clean, treated seed on clean
ground.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

NEW YORK. May 19.-The question of
graduation dress is always perplexing.
Here girlhood and womanhood meet but
the girl must yet be kept the girl for
the one day of days when she receives
the bit of parchment, which seals her
school life.
In this season of revived fashions
and fabrics, the. problem simplifies it
self to some extent, for all styles are
youthful. One need only visit the large
stores to appreciate the variety offered
in these frocks. La, la, you fair maid
ems, wrestling with the quibs and ques
lions of your last examinations, you
should be with me in the great metro
polls! On the spacious fourth floor of
a house, devoted solely to the needs
of the girl, there are mahogany eases,
filled with frothy white dresses stretch
ing away row after row, like the bat
talions of an army. 1t is seldom YOU
find so large an assemblage of frocks
for one purpose, and age, collected in
one place. Here you can be outfitted
from tip to toe with the style and suit
ability of the garments assured.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
BE AN AMERICAN.

Half the world is busy fighting the
other half.
Hatred and malice toward one another
are spreading through Europe as poison
spreads through the human system
blasting, whitening, destroying.
The United States has kept out of
trouble so far. But millions of this
Icountry's inhabitants have kinsmen
across the sea-fathers, mothers, sisters,
and brothers, or more distant relatives.
And when one has kinsmen, even
killed in the trenches, it is hard to con
troll the feelings, to be neutral to
refrain from feeling bitter towards
your neighbor here whose kinsmen, per-
haps are a part of the foes your kins-
men are fighting.
This is the time then to be an Ameri-
can first.
Nail Old Glory to the mast and then
stand by the flag. You are citizen Of
the United States. We do not want to
ihVi"io l" .hio dilaii III EuioPe OK
oept to bring about peace, if possible.
Feel sorrow and pain that the petty
ill feeling of crowned puppets should
cause the slaughter of millions Of men
some, perhaps, kipsmen of yours
but when hatred begins to steal into
your heart and the blood red haze of
the battlefield rises before your eyes.
! Stop and remember this:
You are an American-first, last, and
all the time.-Illinois State Journal.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
sTArE BOARD 81 HEALTH
EARLY TUBERCULOSIS.
How to Know if You Have the Disease

/ Aeroplanes have proved of incalcul
able benefit to the French and Ger
man armies in giving prompt informa-
| ton of the whereabouts of the
enemy. The foe discovered quickly
lenough can often be destroyed.
So it is with tuberculosis, the worst
of all germ diseases to which man is
subject. If it can be diagnosed early
it can be cured Every one, should
know the most important early signs
of this disease, not that they are to be
cause of terror, but that they may
be warning signals to suggest treat
ment.
The records OF Bellevue hospital in
New York city show that out of $50
patients treated during the years 1910,
1911 and 1912, rs per cent. of the
early cases tuberculosis admitted were
discharged cured or improved, and only
two per cent. died. OF the moderately
advanced cases, ) per cent. were dis
charged cured or improved, and 4 per
cent. died. OF the far advanced cases
only SO per cent. were discharged i'm
proved, and II per cent died.
The questions a man should ask him
self if he wishes to detect and defeat
the enemy, tuberculosis, should run
somewhat as follows:
Do I find that work that was once
easy to do now seems hardl
Is my appetite poorer than it form
erly was'
Am I flat chested!
Do I take cold easily9
When I have taken cold, does it
drag ION for weeks with a cough that 8
worse in the morningf
Is the matter that I cough up oc-
OCCASIONALLY blood streaked?
Have I a persistent catarrh?
Am pale and anaemic looking, with
flushed cheeks and feverish feeling in
late afternoonf
Am l lOOsing weight
Do L experience ree1ing of discom-
fort in my chest not especially painful
but something that 1 am conscious of
day after day'
A man who finds he must answer
eyes to one or more of these ques-
lions should recognize the warning of
the enemy's possible approach. Els
pecially is this true II relatives or
others with whom he has lived have
died of tuberculosis.
He should go at once to capable
physician and have his lungs examin-
ed while there is good hope of cure.
The man who puts off going to a
doctor for fear he may find he has
tuberculosis is making grave and
fatal mistake. knowledge is not to
be feared, but ignorance.
The patent medicines advertised for
symptoms like these described above
never do any real good in cases of con-
sumption. They may make you feel
better for time if they have a tonic
effect, and they may relieve the cough,
but they do not cure, and the disease
continues slowly to extend Go to
physician and if possible to q sanator-
ium, not to a bottle of "dope."
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

LOST DOG-There came to my place at
Gibson, between Blackfoot and the
Fort Hall reservation last Saturday,
black water spaniel that had been
following an auto going south. Own
err can have same by paying SOC for
this ad and applying to J. F. Latour-
rette, Fort Hail.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

shell. Poignards, the French call them /;
in plain English they are daggers. One
of these pins will hold the knot firmly
and is fitting finish for = young
girls eoiffure; more, Dame Fashion
taboos ~ poor taste.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
TYPHOID e.: {;
the almost miraculous eff

cacy, and harmessness, of Anttyphoid Vaccination.
Be vaccinated NOW by your physician, you and
your family. It Is vital than house insurance.
Ask your physician, druggist. or send for Have.
you had Typhoid" telling Of Typhoid Vaccine,
results from use, and danger from Typhoid Carriers
THE CUTTER LABORATORY, beRKElEY, CAL.
PRODUCING vAccihEs : sERuxs unsGa Y. GOV. ncgnss
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

For good, up-to-date printing, call -
the Optimist office, o, telephone 500.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04
Sporting
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Football at the University Of Chi
cago netted $1,000 last season, it was
announced The sum represents the
net proceeds after all expenses had
been paid.
Mike Gibbons of st. Paul demon
strated to the satisfaction of $500
fight fans at the st. Nicholas A. c.
New York, that he is entitled to the
term the wizard of the boxing ring"
Gibbons did as he pleased with Leo.
Houck of Lancaster, Pa, for ten
rounds.
Racing had a real test at Belmont
Park, and the popularity of the sport
was proven without doubt The
large attendance at the meeting was
considered a sure proof of popularity.
The worlds champion Braves may
be without the guidance of George
T. Stallings, their manager for some
days. He is confined to his room with
a complaint believed to be nastoiditis.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04
Front Page Stories RetoId in
Paragraphic Form.
INTERESTING MINOR EVENTS
BY Telegraph and Cable Roll In the
important and the lnconsequen-
tial, but to Each is Given
Its Proper Space.
War bulletins

The British Admiralty announced
pedoed and sank the pre-dreadnaught
Majestic while she was supporting the
army on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
The u. 5. freiyhter Nebraska OF the
Hawaiian Line, Captain j. s. Green,
bound without cargo from Liverpool
for the Delaware, was damaged for.
ward either by Il mine or a torpedo,
causing her forehold TO fiji with water
and settling her by the bow.
The Admiralty states that the Bri.
tish battleship Triumph was torpedoed
and sunk in the Dardanellas. Most Of
the crew were saved. The Triumph
was Of 300 tons.
Many ranchers returned TO there
farms. near Mt. Lassen. Cal, when the
peak became quiet.
Italian forces have penetrated Aus.
trian territory, occupying the towns
OF Caporetto, the heights between the
Judrio and lsOnzo rivers and the towns
OF COrmons, Ceryignano and Terzo.
Huge clouds OF asphyxiating gas
were thrown against the British lines
east OF Ypres and the atmosphere was
rendered so poisonous that a portion
OF the first line trenches had TO be eva
cuated.
German diplomacy, after failing ut
terly to keep Italy out Of the war, is
now being eXerted in every possible
way TO preserve Rumania's neutrality.
Italy sent its official declaration OF
war TO Vienna, and with drew her
ENJOYS
Hostilities between Austria and Italy
were opened by a combined aerial and
naval attack on several Italian ports
on the Adriatic coast, rom Venice as
far south as Bartlett, north of Bari
a total distance of about $50 miles.
Italy has given her adhesion to the
agreement already signed by the allied
powers not to conclude a separate
peace.
The Russian movement in the north
around Iwaniska has a slight promise
of hanking the great German left,
which may check the German center
now enveloping Przemys.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04
WASHINGTON

The War Department approved the
national militia boards recommends
tion for 200-yard ranges for promo
tion of rifle practice among state
miltias.
To put to an end loss and damage
of rifles and other government pro-
pertw issued to the state militias, Sec
retary Garrison ordered that here
after all amounts for such losses be
deducted from the pay of responsible
officers and enlisted men.
President Wilson cabled Congratu-
lations to President Victorino de la
Plaza of Argentina on the celebra-
ton of the 1O5th anniversary of Argen-
tine independence.
President Wilson declared he had
not considered calling a special ses.
sion of Congress in October.
President Wilson appointed John B.
Evans assistant treasurer OF the
United States at Philadelphia.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04

Bullets fell at Douglas, ArZ., from
Auga Prieta, across the border, where
a Carranza garrison engaged in heavy
fire in celebration of the victory by
General Obregon near Monterey.
The latest of Canadian casualties
is sued in Ottawa contains the same
name of Wendell Hubert Holmes, OF
Worcester, Mass. a private killed in
action.
Hanna, q volcano, and an unknown
peak on the west coast OF Cook Inlet,
Alaska, have been in eruption for over
week
Ignacio Nilamor, former attorney.
general for the Philippine government,
was appointed president of Manila
University.
John ID. Rockerfeler has coutribu.
ted 100000 toward paying off the
debts OF the Baptist missionary
societies. 4; was announced at the con.
vention in Los Angeles
Kenneth Weeks. young American
from Cambridge, Mass. was commend.
ed in British army orders for dis.
tinguikhed conduct at the taking OF
la Targettc and Neuville st. Naast.
The destroyer Gushing showed a
wide margin cboyc contract require
ments at her standardization trial of
Rockland, Me.
Two Ryitish airmen were fatally
burned when tls.ir motor exploded
while they we're reconnoitering near
Hazebrouck. France.
a violent windstorm, followed by
heavy rains. broke ovcs Louisville,
Ky. breaking trees. windows. and dc
molishing signs.
Charles Karin, vsns ~ TIE Cri
mean campaign, and the Franco-PsGs
sian war of 1870. died at his homc in
West Orange. n. j.. AGED SO.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04
Foreign
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Sweden. Norway and Denmark is
sued formal notification of their neu-
trality in the war between Italy and
the Teuton allies.
King George conferred knighthood
upon Frederick Edward Smith, Solici-
tor-General in the new Cabinet.
Reports of serious rioting in the
northern part Of the Malay Peninsula
were received at Toxic.
An organized Anglo-ltalian demon
stration took place in front OF the
Italian embassy in London.
Germany has called all her untrain-
ed landstrum over thirty.five into &C.
tive service.
The Irish Turf Club of Dublin de-
cided there would be no interference
with horse racing in Ireland this sea-
son.
Sir Edgar Spyer, who recently re-
signed the privy coacillorship be-
cause of criticism directed at him as
a native of Germany. sailed for New
York from London for a short vaca.
ton.
Joao Chagas resigned the Premier
ship of Portugal.
Nearly 1900 women throughout
Italy have been enrolled in the female
police force authorized by the Italian
Government.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04
Won JAGOW EXPLAINS NOTE

Berlin, (via London) -Gottlieb Won
Jagow, the Imperial German Foreign
Secretary, outlined the reasons which
impelled the German Government to
send an ad interim note to the United
States Government
"The issues involved" said Herr
Won Jagow. ARE OF such Importance,
and the views in regard TO the Lust
tania show such variance. that the
German Government believed II essen.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04

The Standard Oil Company OF Ken.
lucky declared the regular quarterly
dividend OF 81 a share.
Six persons are reported dead, and
more than sixty injured in the heavy
gale that swept Oklahoma and Arkan.
sas.
A bill limiting the work-day of wo-
men TO nine hours was defeated in
the lower house Of the Illinois Legis.
lature.
Hundreds OF tourists are at the
Swiss border towns in the hope OF
seeing the expected Alpine clash be-
tween the Italian and Austrian armies.
DR.. Waltole Brewer with seventeen
nurses from the American Red Cross
unit at Genoa left for Vienna, by way
OF Switzerland
The Sattleship Rhode Island was
blown against the Nebraska during
the heavy gale in Narrangansett Bay,
and caused considerable damage to
the side gear of both ships.
II is reported in Detroit that an.
other $10,000,000 dividend was de-
Four pounds OF opium, valued at
500 was found in the berth Of a mem
ber OF the crew of the Standard Oil
steamer Escalon, lying at Bayonne,
n. j., when raided by internal re-
venue officers.
The State OF Illinois sent out war
rants for $l,000,000, distributed among
74O individuals and firms toward the
reimbursement TO live stock owners
for loss Of cattle in the foot-and mouth
disease epidemic '
Five thousand persons heard Billy
Sunday deliver his farewell sermon
in Philadelphia before his departure
TO his Oregon farm for a rest. Two
hundred hit the trail O
An order for 700 steel box cars and
80 cabooses was awarded to the Cen
trail Locomotive & Car Co, Of Chicago
by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Unitarians refused TO change the
name Of their denomination at the
nineteenth annual meeting of the
American Unitarian Association at
Boston
Five men were seriously injured in
an explosion at the Du Pont Powder
CO., plant at Graney's Point, n. J.
Ideal weather conditions favored the
official acceptance trials of the des-
troyer Cushing which began with a
Standardization test off Rockland, Me.
Six of the eight Filipino insurrectos
recently sentenced for the Christmas
Eve rioting at Manila escaped from
The Pasig Jai, Manila.
{ Jrie d'Announizo, the Itaian poet,
and his eldest son will join the army,
in which his other two sons are al
ready officers.
All the property of the British
American Tobacco Co., in Germany
has been placed under German super
vision.
special train bearing the honorary
commercial commissioners of the
Chinese Republic, who are touring the
the country as the guests of the AS
saciated Chambers of Commerce of
the Pacific Coast, arrived at Pitts
burgh.
Eugenio Daylis, an Italian of North
y.
Italian can lick two Germans any day"
when two of mis- Teuton friends were
taken to the hospital after starting
war argument with him.
Wireless communication between
the United States and Germany has
been severely Handicapped, and is eX-
June 80, by static conditions prevalent
in the north Atlantic.
The three italian commissioners at
the Panama-Pacifc Exposition an
nounCed they would leave for Rome.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04

tial TO attempt to establish a com.
mon basis of fact before entering into
a discussion of the issues involved.
I'VE hope and rust-that the Amer.
lean Government will take the same
view of the case and let us know in
what points their understanding of the
facts differs from the German view
point as set forth in the note. and in
what points they agree, before looking
for a direct answer to their communi-
cation"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-06-04
GERMANY UPHOLDS LUS|TAN|A ATTACK;
BLAMES ENGLAND FOR SUBMARINE WAR

Note Says Imperial Government Is Unable to Regard British
Merchantmen as "Undefended' ASSERT Cunard Line Is
Wantonly Guilty of Deaths of So Many Passengers
Sought to Protect Cargo With Lives of Americans