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The broad ax., 1915-02-20

Scientists are agreed that the old
earth Is cooling OF. But the process
doesn't extend to the firing line.
The broad ax., 1915-02-20

With its armed neutrality. its mount
ing deficits and its dearth q tourists,
Switzerland finds its scenery less salts
factory than usual
The broad ax., 1915-02-20

Il IS sad to see family relics sold at
auction. but the most painful thing I'M
der the hammer IL generally your
thumbnail.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
Heater 10 Warm Feed.

An electric heater has been de-
signed especially to warm food for
horses and cattle in cold weather.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22

services Sunday morning, and
upon returning laid down for a
rest before dinner and appeared
to sleep When his wife went to
awaken him before the meal she
could not rouse him. A physi-
clan was called bit all efforts
were useless.
Upon receipt of the sad news
w. B. Mitchell LETT for Portland
Sunday evening, and the body
wac brought to Parma, arriving
on No 4 shortly after noon yes
terday. 1t was taken to the
family residence, where it lay in
state and was viewed by many
friends this morning. Funeral
services were held on the lawn at
the residence this afternoon at
2:30 O'Clock, in charge of Rev.
B. j. Giffen. The sermon was
delivered by DR.. w. J. Boone OF
Caldwell, and interment was in
Fraternity Cemetery.
The deceased is one OF the pic
neers of this section and has
always been prominent in it's
upbuilding since his settlement
near the present town OF Parma
III 1877. Here MIR. and Mrs.
| Mitchell reared one of the most
prominent families in the county
| OF eleven children born to them,
eight survive, and all were pres
ent for the last rites today, Mrs
| Clark and children having ac
companied Mrs. Mitchell on hei
sad return trip from Portland
In addition to the wife and chill
dren here, the deceased leaves
two brothers and two sisters
DR.. J. W. Mitchell OF Superior
Nebr., j. H. Mitchell OF Wilder
Mrs. Chas. Norwood of Boise
and Mrs. Thos. Harwood, of Al
buquerque, N. M. Mrs. Norwood
and J. H Mitchell were presen
, today. Mr.. Mitchell would hav
reached the age of IS years hat
he lived until Nov. 6.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
MANY KILLED
ON RAILROADS
Huge Annual Loss of Life
in u. S. as Result of
Trespassing.

An appalling loss of life results
every year in the United States
from the practice OF trespassing
upon railroad property and
trains. From a report OF rail-
way claim agents the following
information as to railroads in
Idaho for the year 1914 has just
been made public:
Killed. 10; loss OF limb, y
other injury, 30.
Nature of accident-Wa alking
on track, 9; riding on train, %;
other accidents, Il; unknown, 4.
The report for the entire
United States for the same year
is as follows:
Killed, 4746; loss OF limb, $685.
other injury, 5041.
Nature OF accident-Walking
on track, 47l2; riding on trains,
3S4O; other accidents, 1911; un-
known, 1872.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22

Does your sons new occupation as
an aviator suit him?" Well not
down to the ground"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
FRUIT FOR ORPHANS.

The Palmer and Powers young
ladies OF Tendavis, with the as
sistance OF Mrs. Parker, are can
ming a large amount OF fruit and
vegetables, which interested
friends are contributing, and
which will be sent with Parma's s
donation to the Orphans Home.
The business men OF Parma con-
tributed a sack of sugar to be
used in the work, and Mrs. Trout
generously contributed cherries.
of>yhich the young ladies picked
pitted and canned sixty quarts.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
PICNIC EXCELS
ALL OTHERS
Large Crowd Is Present
from All Sections of
Country.

The eleventh annual Roswell
Parma picnic was held last
Thursday at Andersen's grove
with a crowd of between 5000
and 1000 in attendance. Fine
weather conditions prevailed
and the large crowd enjoyed
every minute OF the day from
early morning until the close OF
the big open-air dance at mid
night.
The platform program in the
morning, consisting of musical
selections by the orchestra and
the Hall Grosvenof quartette,
and speeches by several promi
nent Idaho citizens, was an es-
pecially pleasing feature of the
day. Sen. Borah did not arrive
until afternoon, when he was in
troduced by J E. Kerrick, and
delivered a fine address, taking
"Idaho" as his subject.
The ball game in the morning
between the Parma and Roswell
boys teams was won by the
latter and in the afternoon
FruitIand took the measure oI
the Parma nine in an 8 to Z con.
test and hauled down the long
end OF a $40 purse. The sports
program in the afternoon at
tracted large number of con
testants and all the prizes were
eagerly competed for. A com
Iplete list of prize winners is al
| follows:
Boys diving contest-DonalC
Laurence.
Fat mems chinning contesu-
Yahuka.
10O-yard free for all dash
1st, Roy Stewart; 2nd, Wm
Mitten, Terrill Taylor
Boys race, Is and under
1st, Arnold Cobleyl 2nd, cyl
Taylor.
Pillow fight-Edwin Stockton
Ladies' nail driving contest
1st. Mrs. Clarke Allen; 2nd, Alic
Dutton.
Bun eating contest-Billy Wy
mer.
Mems cloth cutting contest
Tom Allen.
Ladies' target practice-1st
Mrs. Baker; End, Ruth Pierce.
Girls race, 10 and Under
LIST, Adelide Wohlschlegel; Enc
Bertha Sabin.
Obstacle race-1st, A. Cooley
End, H. Mccormick.
Running broad jump-1st, {
Bollman; End, A. Cooley.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
MRS. URILLA cORsON.

Last Friday at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. Fred Baxter
of Roswell, occurred the death OF
Mrs. Urilla Corson, aged 81
years and 6 months. Death was
due to lobar pneumonia.
The funeral was held at the
Baxter home Sunday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock, Rev. Woods OF Ros-
well delivering the address, and
interment followed in the Roswell
cemetery. Deceased leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Baxter OF Ros-
well and Mrs. Jones, resident
of Chicago, to mourn her death
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
The .Makeup Forces.

did you ever help put puzzle to-
semblas herself slone."-Judge.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
LOc4L NEWS ITEMS

Rev. J. B. Story was in Weiser
on business Thursday.
Deputy sheriff Mccullough was
in Parma the first Of the week.
Miss Leila Knight OF Weiser
has been visiting friends in this
city.
Miss Margaret Logan OF In
dian Valley is visiting at the
w. W. Farley home.
Miss Ella Murphy of Beulah,
Ore, is spending the week in
Parma as the guest OF Miss
Florence OMAHA.
L L. Mundle and family left
Saturday by the automobile
route for a ten days visit with
his parents at Haley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Castle, who
were just recently married il
Boise, spent Sunday at the hom,
of Mr.. Castles parents in Big
Bend.
County attorney Henry Grit
fiths and Coroner Farris of Cald
well passed through Parma il
an automobile Monday enrout'
to Payette.
Christian Andersen, Grady
Twitchell, Frank Brown, Fret
Chapman and Elsmere Andersen
autoed to Nampa Sunday to at
tend the ball game. Caldwell
defeated Nampa by a score of i
to O.
j. {. Cress, a friend OF Dl
Schmitz from Parma, was i
town last week looking for a lC
cation for a bakery. He coul
find no suitable building an
went on up the line to see wha
the prospects were there. Mic
vale Reporter.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
A. j. MITCHELL
PASSES AWAY
Pioneer of This Section
Dies at Portland
Sunday.

Messages were received here
Sunday afternoon notifying the
children and relatives OF A. J.
Mitchell of his sudden death at
Portland. Recently he went to
that place with his wife to visit
their daughter. Mrs. 0. l.. Clark
While his health had not been ol
the best lately, it improved dur.
ing his Portland visit, and ap
peared better Sunday than fol
sometime He attended church
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
How EIsn Arc Drowned.

Paradoxicai as N may seem, fish
have been drowned. just as human be-
ings have been smothered by too
great pressure OF air. One experiment
consisted in putting fish into seltzer
water. which brought about death by
suffocation. II a living and healthy
fish be put into water recently boiled.
from which have been driven all the
gases ordinarily present in distilled
water, the fish dies in the same way.
-Harper's Weekly.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
ITEMS
OF INTEREST
Timely News Notes Of
Happenings in Parma
and Vicinity.

Everett and George Story have
gone to Weiser.
Willie Jurries was down from
Nampa last week.
]. NJ Cason was in Caldwell
on business Saturday.
w. II. Ross is paying best
prices for hogs. See him.
Julian Steunenberg was in
Caldwell and Nampa Sunday.
Miss Margaret O'Connor OF
Caldwell was a picnic visitor
Thursday.
You can get more for CASH at
Tanners than any place else.
We are agents for NJ. Born &
Co., merchant tailors.
Tanner Nero. 20.
H. F. Brown of the Gate City
Journal was up from Nyssa on
business Tuesday.
Mortgages and notes bought
and sold. a. |. MYERS, Caldwell,
Idaho, over Hay 4 Boone's
store. tt
Evening Capital News and
Idaho Daily Statesman at the
Stockton Pharmacy as soon as
the trains arrive.
The annual meeting of The
Roswell Parma Picnic associa
tion will be held in the Oddfel
lows hall in this city Tuesday.
H. C. Baldridge. president o
the Idaho State Sunday Schoo
association, attended a meeting
of that organization at Namps
Sunday.
Miss Myra Casey returned last
week from st. Luke's hospital al
Boise, where she successful,
underwent an operation for ap
Ipendicitis.
The w. G L. u. meeting vhicl
was scheduled to be held this al
ternoon at the library building
has been postponed until tomoI
Erow afternoon,
DR.. o c. Engebretson, former
lly of this city but now located a
Burley, is In Parma this weel
E''Doc" says the Parma countr
lis ahead OF them all
The Southern Idaho Threshel
men's association, OF which OF
ganization Fred T. Baker Of thi
city Is secretary treasurer. nel
its second annual meeting
Caldwell Saturday, July 10.
Ernest Martin left yesterda
for Wickahoney, Ida, where /
. will be employed by w. A, Til
dali on cattle ranch owned b
his father and Mr., Tindal
"Brick" will return to Parm
this fall to attend high school.
F, Z. Fisk, returned Saturda
, evening from an automobile tri
to the Wood river country. B
sides Mr.. Fisk, L. H. Dewey. an
wife and Miss Geraldine Dewe
: and i. P. Murphy of Namp
: made the trip. Good fishin
and bird shooting is reported.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22

Word was received in Parma
this week of the death of M. w.
Waldron, for some time resi-
dent of this city, at The Dallesl
Ore, on July II. Mr.. Waldron
formerly conducted a real estate
business here and later engaged
in farming in Arena Valley, and
leaves a host of friends in this
sections
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
Named Residences.

In England one is taxed for calling
ones house by a pet name. Some Of
tenders ought to be taxed a lot; for
instance "Happiholme" is the name
of one dirty, decayed. originally cheap
little house.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
Ten lines as NalrahIs.

1t means quite a lot to our success
when we put ourselves in the right at
titude toward others Tire figure l
increases it's value ten times when 1t
gets on the right side OF the 0.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22

Ralph Fouch was in Parma
from Pocatello a couple of days
this week.
We have a complete line in
everything we carry.
Tanner Mere. Co.
DR.. T. O. Humphreys, resident
dentist. Office in bank building,
ground floor, phone 4S.
State Veterinarian Bodle was
down from Boise Monday on
business connected with his
office.
Mortgages and notes bought
and sold. A. I..MYERs, Caldwell,
Idaho, over HAY & Boone's
store.
Miss Katherine Stanford re
turned Sunday to her home il
Nampa, after a few days visit
with friends here.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22
Earth,s Centrifugal Force.

If the earth were to revolve IT
times faster than it does bodies at the
equator would lese their weight and
remain stationary in the air without
support.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-07-22

What are Raphaels Madonnas but
the shadow of a mothers love- fixed in
permanent outline forever7-T. w.
Higginson.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-21
GETTING OUT OF THE MUD.

While Iowas governor calls elo-
quently for emancipation from mud
and Iowa farmers buy one-tenth of all
the automobiles that are sold in the
United States other states less burd-
ened with wealth are financing hard
roads as follows:
Seven counties in southern Califor
MIA have voted 100000 in road bonds
this summer Five more counties will
vote this fall.
ella county, Arizona. has voted $500,
600 in road bonds. Mojave county has
voted 100000 for roads.
Seminole county, Florida, loves her
brick roads so much that her people
have recently voted $4,000 in road
bonds for more of them. Leon county
voted 100000 for paved roads.
Dixon township in Illinois will pave
its Lincoln highway with sS2,500 of
bond money.
The first district in Lowndes county,
Mississippi. has voted 800, 900 for hard
roads.
District No in Tyler county. Texas,
has recently voted $1,000 in bonds for
roads. Grayson county sold its issue
of $4,000 in bonds at premium Of
$4,000.
Chetham county, Georgia, has voted
1915. 900 for hard roads.
And then in contrast with one re-
publican candidate for governor in
Iowa who tells the farmers that the
lawyers and bankers should pave the
roads one democratic candidate for
governor in Missouri is advocating a
state bond issue of $4,000 900 for roads
and another democratic candidate
for governor down there proposes that
a special road tax Of $40 be placed on
every automobile in addition to the
license tax being paid
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-21
Iona Newspapers
POLICE AND CIVIL SERVICE.

[Des Moines Capital.l
Chief of Police Crawford began his
cleanup of the police department
eighteen months ago. He has just
reached point where he is fairly we'll
satisfied. The clea1-up should have
been completed in four months. The
question arises. why did it take so
long? The answer is civil service.
The present civil service regulations
are detrimental to the welfare of the
police department and thus to the city.
In purpose, they are excellent. Civil
service was established to eliminate
politics; to put an end to the whole
sale hiring and firing of policemen
after every municipal election.
Civil service accomplished this pur-
pose. But its regulations went jus: ca
far the other way. It is now an i'm
possibility to fire a policeman in case
of neglect of duty or abuse Of power
without almost unlimited evidence.
Past trials before the civil service
commission have proven 1t. Failure Of
a policeman to keep his beat clean
should be sufficient ground for sum-
mary discharge But under the pres
ent regulations, 1t requires specific in
stances of neglect Of duty. To dismiss
policemen who have become too old
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-21

The bituminous macadam road from
Folsom to Sacramento cost about $10.-
900 mile. The distance is twenty two
miles, and Sacramento county expended
100000 on this Job.
From Sacramento to Stockton there
are fifty miles of roadway, which av-
erages at least $4,000 a mile, $500, 900
in all. This runs thru both Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin counties. The
state is expanding over 100000 in Sac
| ramento county alone in restoring the
road
In San Joaquin county, from the
county line to Stockton, distance
of about twenty miles. 1t is asphaltic
concrete all the way, ten foot wide
road.
The road from Stockton to Oakland,
eighteen miles long, cost about 81 ,O00,-
900. First out of Stockton it is
of bituminous macadam and then con-
crete. Concrete is used on fairly
heavy grades among the hills nearing
Livermore.
The foundation of all state high
way construction in California is the
slS,Oo0,000 bond issue which was
voted on affirmatively in 1910.
The California state highway COM
mission has adopted as its standard a
type of road that includes a concrete
base and bituminous top. In local
tiles where the traffic is considered
moderate, roads that carry not more
than probably 500 vehicles day, the
concrete base is laid to depth of four
inches. This. when the sub grade is
hard and firm, Is likely to remain so or
can be readily put into good condition.
Under other conditions, concrete as
deep as six inches is put down. This
concrete base is usually fifteen feet
wide, and. when necessary, gravel or
stone shoulders are used to increase the
width of the travelled way On this
bftuminous top is placed from three
eighths to one-half inches in thickness.
Should traffic conditions increase in a
marked degree on any of these roads,
so as TO require more substantial sur
face. it is contemplated to cover this
base with sheet asphalt. Warrenite.
brick, wood block or other material, as
experience may suggest.
No expansion joints are put in the
oncrcte bases. This is not necessary
since the concrete is covered with as
phalt which fills such cracks as may
develop.
After the concrete is laid and has
hardened the surface is sprinkled and
Kept wet for a day 1t is then protected
rom drying too rapidly by cover coat
" dirt or sand, which is we'll watered
or ten days more.
The concrete is cured in a novel way
II the level road sections. When the
concrete is day old it is checked off
Il a similar manner to irrigated land
IN the arid western country. Low
dams of earth are used These shall
low reservoirs are kept filed with
water for ten days. The dams or
dykes cost about " cents lineal foot
If highway The cost of the cover.coat
Of dirt or sand will run about 2Ls cents
per lineal foot Of highway.
When the concrete is about month
old the dykes ad coverings are care
fully removed with a road grader. and
1t is then thrown open to traffic for a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-21

The popular conception Of the dining
car is that it is a portable restaurant
which is owned by the railroads and
paid for every thirty days by the pas
sengers. 9aA$
Dining cars are operated for the
benefit Of people who are averse to the
hard boiled egg and the Ben Davis APP
pie as travelling companions. 1t has
many conveniences. including po-
lite conductor and bill of fare with
the prices printed upon it in plain.
menacing type. A person who Is trav-
cling thru the Rocky mountains and
turns to scan these prices will not have
to lower his eyes over a thirty second
Of an inch. r.
Dining cars have a small, well-venti-
lated kitchens which conceal the food
while 1t is being cooked, while at the
same time advising those In the dining
room that somebody has ordered beef
I steak smothered in onion. The menu
card Is a great disappointment to
frugal passengers who wander in un-
der the impression that an egg sand
witch and Q glass Of milk can be OBJ
tanned without splitting 81 bill both
ways from the middle, and it Is not
an unusual sight to see an embarrassed
tours. withdraw noiselessly to the
| smoking car and console himself with
seed orange. Most people, however,
remain and pick out a few durable
dishes which they can pronounce
plainly with an indelible pencil.
Dining cars are constructed on .
swinging platform, which provides the
guest with mixed rations at no extra
cost. When the car attempts to take a
few reverse curves and straiEhteng out
without breaking in two, the motion
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-21
Topics of the Times

To pave one-third and to gravel
two thirds of the county road system
in Iowa would cost the average coun-
ty $620000 and the county is paying
one sixteenth of that sum every year
for dirt roads which can be used less
than half the days in year
After fifty-seven years of active
newspaper work J. j. Richardson, OF
the Davenport Democrat, has laid
down the reins and will rest. If ever
any man has earned quiet and restfui
period Mr.. Richardson has it coming.
The Democrat has been always one OF
the most welcome of the many eX-
changes tina. come to the editorial
rooms of the Times Republican and
this paper will miss Richardson no
matter how excellent the work OF the
new man.
An old fashioned girl, plainly dressed
and with her hair combed down would
look odd nowadays but shed look
mighty good to lot of us older people
at that.
Wherever an arsenal is located the
issue of preparedness needs no fur
Their impulse. And all the powder mills
and gun factories are convinced that
we are standing on the very brink OF
fate and that billion spent in the
right place would save us while 1t
made the Wilson vote solid in the east.
The politician gets job and then
he hires livery and then he runs
round raising sheol with rural free de-
livery. If were to get our mail at all
and have the mail routes stay Well
have to dump his party out and take
mis- job away
Those Texans seem entirely able to
take care Of the border if the govern
ment will turn them loose. They
haven't forgotten how if the longhorns
and The six guns have disappeared
from the landscape.
If the weather isn't fooling we are
in for long spell of those beautiful
fall days that make Iowa exceptional.
And we can stand several weeks Of
fine weather before wishing for con-
trast
Would a main travelled country road
paved at a cost of $4,000 per mile De
worth per cent per annum? If il
would that is all it would ever cost the
taxpayer for per cent on the cost OF
the road viii pay average interest on
county bonds. maintain the pavement
and pay off the debt in thirty years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-21
THE BLIND MANS EYES.

A party of six stopped over night in
Marshalltown this week on their way
to the Pacific coast and the EXPOSE
tions. The head IF the party is blind
man who has been sightless for thirty
years. He has been great traveller
ened years and his daughter, one of
the party, spoke of the enjoyment her
father took in his travels and of the
fact that he got more out of trip
things about the states he passed thru
and the towns he stopped in than ony
Of the other members Of the family.
The remark Of a iMarshalltown youth
who put the party on the train next
morning explains his sources Of in
formation when he said to his father,
What kind Of a man Is that blind
man? He asked me more questions
about MarshaIltown than ever
thought could be asked by one man in
twenty minutes. He wanted to know
SFCAy AAoii lhC POp0AoSIOh W lllS
price Of hens eggs
His way OF travelling Is to ride days
asking questions OF those who look
thru the car windows; to stop over
nights in principal towns and ask
questions. And 80 he probably visual
ICES the country better than those who
see. Further than that he is content.
His blindness doesn't worry him. He
goes right on having corking good
time. And so he goes from one coast
to the other, seeks out the show places
Of the earth and sees the Yellowstone
and the other remarkable spots Of the
earth with a clearer vision than those
who see. At any rate he knows more
about them when he gets home
That's making the best Of It, seek
Ing and finding q Jewel in the dark.
It is a remarkable instance. II ousnt
to bring something hne to other men
not only those who suffer under some
calamity or deprivation but those whc
have the fun Of senses and faculties