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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
Bfoot. Brok. & Real
Estate Co.
WEEKLY BARGAINS

Five first class milch cows (fresh).
Some good work horses for sale -
cheap.
Small farms to trade for larger ones.
Farms to trade for city property.
Coed rooming house for sale, doing
good business.
Two good buggys for sale with pole
and shafts.
New wide tired wagon for sale =
(price right.
What have you got to sells Tell us,
we buy and pay CASH.
We have some great Bargains in
farm and city property
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
ST. PAUL's p. E. CHURCH.

Services on Sunday next whit Sun
day. at 1880 and II a. M, and clock
p. m. Sunday school at 10 o'clock.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Call J. II. Asher, Painter and Deco
raor. Phone 90 j.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
DR.. v. G. White, Veterinarian, resi-
dent phone 800, Blackfoot-

Mrs. Rachael Killian of Orangeville
Utah, arrived in Blackfoot yesterday
on a visit to her two daughters and two
sons. Mrs. Osmond Buchanan is one of
her daughters.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

E. M. Kennedy who has been con-
fined to his home for the past few
weeks with number Of very serious
boils, is again attending to business.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Reduced prices on all Trimmed Hats,
at the Paris. Main street, Blackfoot.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Mrs J. H. Cutler has been confined
to her bed the past week with servere
attack of bronchitis.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Mxs. r. J. Riley and two sons have
gone to Boise for few weeks visit.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Tender, Juicy Sugar Cured Hams fol
TIC per h., at Central Market.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

have just received a new line of
Panamas and White Hats, suitable for
Commencement McNees.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Special sale of all trimmed hats
Saturday, April oath, at Irene McNees
Bridge street.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Kinney & Co., have the Best in Gum
Boots, and will stand behind them,
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
Buy your current magazines and ne
riodicals 1t Powers Pharmacy.

R. G. LOOMS is preparing to move
onto his homestead about the first of
next month.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
Tender, Juicy Sugar Cured Hams for
TIC per h., at Central Market.

Hall Smith the barber, and MILFORD
johnson, the Singer sewing machine
agent, have rented the vacant store
room in the Biethan block on Taylor
street and are having it remodeled and
renovated for their respective business
We have just received fine line of
Panamas. The newest shapes, different
prices. Call and see them. = Mrs. A.
jackson.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

DR.. v. G. White, Veterinarian, res!
dent phone 800, Blackfoot.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Read our ad regarding Arsenate of
Lead.-Palace Drug Store.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20

Tender, Juicy Sugar Cured Hams for
tic per h., at Central Market.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
DR.. GEE TO TRY AGAIN

Buy your Gum Boots at Kinney & Co.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-05-20
IF the Boots you buy at Kinney B.
Co., are not satisfactory, you get a
New Pair.

Mrs. C.sB. Taylor returned Monday
from visit to Mackay, where she was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. VIM. Van
derwood.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
AMERICA FIRST,'' ''
 WILSON'S PLEA
PREPARE FOR GREAT WORLD CRISIS,
 IS WILSON'S WARNING TO AMERICA.

Incisve yesterday by President Wilson in is speech the Associated Press luncheon at New York ollovs:-
 You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately uoverns the world
 The times behind us have been difficult The times before likely tO be more difficult, be- cause whatever may be said about the present com dton the worlds affairs it is clear that they drawing rapidly to crisis
 T. am not thinking pFeposterous thought as that should sit in judgment upon them (the warning nations) but that shall some day have to assist in reconstructing the processes of peace
 | am not speaking in a selfish spirit when say that whole duty, for the present. at any rate, is summed up in this motto: America Firstr'
 Let us think of America before think of Eu- rope in order that America may be fit to be Europes friend when day tested friendship The test friendship is getting ready to help both sides when the struggle is over.
 The basis of neutrality is not indifference; it is for mankind fairness; it goodwill bottom it is inpartiaIity of spirit and judgment.
 There is in quarters disposition to create diste1npers in this body polite Men are saying that if veshouId go war upon either side there will be a divided Amerca-an abOmnable libel of ignorance!
 My interest in the neutrality of America is not the petty desire keep out of trouble. do not want to walk around trouble. If any man wants scrap that is an interesting scrap and worth vvhile his man. scrap his advertisement, but if he is looking for trouEIe-that is the trouble of in generaI-and can help little, why, then, am in for 1t.
 The world ought to know the truth, but the world ought not at this period of unstable equilibrium to be disturbed by rnOr. We cannot afford to let the rq1- ors persons and origins get into the at1mosphere of the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

port whether it was true or not, and they were not asked whether it was true or not for fear it might not be true- That sort of report ought not to go out over the wires. t
 News Food of Opinion.
 ''There is generally, if not always somebody who knows whether that thing is so or not. and in these days, above all other days, we ought to take. particular pains to resort to the one small group of men or to the one man, if there be but one, who knows whether those things are true or not
 E'The world ought to know the truth but the world ought not at this period of unstable equilibrium to be disturb ed by ina ginative combinations of cir cunstances, or rather, by circumsta,n- ces stated in combination which do not belong in combination.
 'Fior we are holding, not I, but you and gentlemen engaged like yous the balances in your hand. This unsta- ble qualification rests upon scales that are in your hands. For the food of opinion, as I began by saying, is the news of the day.
 ''I have known many a man to go off at a tangent, on information that was not. reliable. Indeed, that de- scribes the majority of men The world is held stable by the man wh o waits for the next day to find out whether the report was true or not
 We cannot afford. therefore, to let the rumors of 1rresp onsible persons and origins get into the atmosphere of the United States. We are trus- tees for what I venture to say is the greatest heritage that any nation ever ha,d-the love of justice and righte- ousness and human liberty.
 .'For, fundamentally, those are the tnings to which America is addicted and to which she is devoted. There are groups of selfish men in the Unit ed States, there are coteries, wh ere sinister things are purposed, but the great heart of lthe American people is just as sound and true as it ever was. And it is "a single heart; it is the heart of America It, is not a heart made up of sections selected out of other countries.
 Loves America First.
 ttSo that what try to remind my self of every day Ns . 2n am almost overcome by perp1exities-w what try to remennb er-+is what the people at home are thinking about. I try to put myself in the place of the man who does not know all the things that I know. and ask myself. what he would like the policy of this country to be.
 Not the taIkatitve man, not the partisan man. not the man that re- members first that he is 2, Republican or Democrat. or that his parents were German or English. but who remem bers first that the whole destiny of modern affairs centres largely upon his being an American first of all
 fIf I permitted myself to be a par tisan in this present struggle | would be unworthy to represent you. If ] permitted myself to forget the peo- pie who are not partisans, I would Nbe unworthy to represent you. am not saying that [ am worthy to rep resent you. but do claim this de- gree of worthiness that before ev- erything else, Hove America
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
Luke McLufSe Sayss

Luke AGEufSS SaSSs
 A man never knows how many cuss words there are. in his vocabulary until he gets his face nicely lathered ana then discovers that one of the children has been using his razor to sharpen pencils.
 An eastern judge claims that per furne is not a necessity This reminds us of the fact that a New York man lived in a house for eight months be fore he discovered that there was no faucet on the bathtub.
 When your wife does something mean to you the only way you can square matters is; to ask her to forgive you.
 You never learn just how high you stand in a mans estimation and just how much he thinks of you until he starts in to borrow $10 from you.
 The wisest men we ever knew used to sit down and worry over what hope less fools they were.
 A punctual man has to waste a lot of time waiting for the other fellows to show. up.
 The reason why baby is the per feet image of it's wealthy uncle is be- cause it looks like little red mon key.
 It is funny that a man can come home about 3 a. m. and be perfectly sober and discover that his latchkey is so thick that it won't go in the key hole.
 Mother hates, to trust father to do any shopping for her because she knows that he would just as soon pay a dollar for an article as 99 cents. When a girl is reading her first love letter from man she can feel ring on her finger and can almost taste her wedding cake.
 The old fashioned girl who used to have to chuSa for two hours every aft ernoon now has daughter who kicks because sine is asked to go to the gro cery store and get pound of butter.
 If they keep on improving the society dances a girl will soon have to take lessons in catch-as-catch-can wrestling or be wall flower.
 Always remember that when you throw mud you are bound to get some of it on your own clothes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
OUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LET FER
Special to The Farmerl

Newtown, April 21-Mfchael F. Shannon died yesterday afternoon at the Danbury hospital to which he was removed last week suffering. from an injury to his arm, received in a fall Comp1ications set in. which resulted in his death. The de ceased was the son of the late John Shannon of Walnut Tree Hill, aged 37 years, and unmarried. He is sur viyed by three brothers, Martin, Charles and John Shannon Of New town, and two sisters, Mrs J. E. Me Carthy of Sandy Hook and Mrs F. F. Kohler of Trumbull Undertaken E. w. Troy brought the body to his brothers home last night
 Mrs Daniel J. Keane and son, John F. and Harold were visiting in Bridge port yesterday.
 Supervisor of State Roads w. e. Johnson with a force of men is re- placing the wind-jamning depression left in the road at the railroad sta ton by the railroad company in 1912 with a cobbIe gutter that brings up the grade.
 Carl Imhoff Of Trumbun, former ly of Botsford, has taken the con tract to relay all the stone fences on the extensive estate on Castle Hill of William T. Cole, superintendent of the Fabric Fire Hose Co. Imhoff is nearly seven feet tall, strongly built
  stand on one side of wall he is re- laying, reach over and lift a 200 pound capstone from the ground on% the other side of the wall and drop it into the right position on the top of a five foot wall He can do this all day long.
 Mir and Mrs A H. Patterson are entertaining a, house party this week. Among the guests, are included his father and mother from New London, pr. D. c. Patterson and Dr. Dorian Smith and Miss Jane Smith of Bridge New London.
 MT. and Mrs. Peter scanIon of Walden, My, motored to Newtown, Tuesday, and were guests of Henry Petit, Pleasant street.
 Mrs Lee M Johnson of Gainesville, Ohio, after spending 10 days with relatives in South center, left yester- day for home
 Dr. Allee of RfdgefeId, $. J. Wright, Farm Agent for Fairfield county, and H. F. Brundge from ,Storrs Agricultural College addressed the advantages of etpreservfng', yes terday and showed the importance and extent of agricultural work all over the nation. More than 30 pu- pills sfgnified their willingness to join such an agricultural club, and the
 
 plans in operation took a decided jump ahead. All the parents are in terested in it's success, as it is, be- heved it will have an influence for good over the youth of Newtown and keep them at home on the farms in stead of going to the cities, and join ing the bread lines in times of com merciaI depressions-
 Joseph Keane, son of John D. Keane of Dayton Street, has taken a position motorma.n on the Danbury and Bethel street railway.
 Martin Keane, Kenneth Murphy and Charles Willard, of Danbury, came over from Danbury, Sunday on their wheels and spent the day with friends in Sandy Hook.
 Miss Lillian Jaynes of Matteawan, N. Y.,- has taken possession Of the l. B. Harris hornstead at Jeanville, left to her by the will of the late Mrs Harris Henry Hunt of South Main street has been engaged as man ager of the estate.
 Miss Anna Carlson and her mother, Mrs. John Carlson, have returned
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

tracks pay for and maintain thC pavement of half or more of eveEE street not in excess of 3s feet between curbs. The law under which the tTol-i ley companies are called upon to keep the streets in repair between thelFI rails and feet outside thereof Wasi passed in 1893, when n-h orses drawing the street cars made furrows in the pavement and at which time pave rnents cost, if there were any. be- street, whereas now the cost of pave ment only to the trolley company iBl oftent1mes $35, 1000 a mile. At the present date trolley compan8es4a the only users of the highway between curbS who do not use the paRements, cars running on rails provided by the company, and although wear and tear upon permanently paved highways by Jitney service may not be consider able, it certainly will have a. disas-f trous effect upon all Waterbound and bituminous macadany roads, or such roads as are not provided with even these types of pavement.
 Pay Taxes of $4zS,5f4
 For the year ending September 30, 1914, the Connecticut Company and it's leased lines paid in taxes to the State $478s514.65. With refer ence to this amount paid the State in taxes, if it should be cOntended that each trolley car occupies as
 
 Jitneys, then on the present basis of taxation of Jitneys namely ST per year, the trolley would have paid the state SIP, 500 or if based on the seating capacity Of trolley cars as compared with Jitheys, the company would have paid s6s, ,OOO instead of being taxed in various manners to considerably over one million dollars per annum.
 The Connectfcut. Company also paid I the last fiscal year. s29.297s7 It also paid for snow removal by cart ing in the streets in the same period, SAP, Practically all of this m oney remained in the cornnnunities where it was expended.
 In order to make provision for keeping it's lines open during snow storms, the Connecticut Company has snow. ploughs, sweepers, etc, which cost s$416.425 To provide ser vice for it's patrons 1t has a car equip ment to the value Of $6.922,8OO.
 Cost of Bridges
 There is a. bill before the present General Assembly carrying with it provision that the trolley company shall pay one-tTird Of the cost Of cer- tain bridges, which. if passed. win add an annual burden of several hun dred thousand dollars upon the com pany
 The constantly increasing cost of materials, the higher rate Of wages and the added burdens imp by the General Assembly and the Public Utilities Commission on the one hand and the granting of universal trans fers, extending Of city fare limits and elimination of fare zones have ren- dered the net revenue to trolley com panies so small. that the management of the trolley companies in the last few years have been obliged to re- frain from building many extensions of their lines, which have been re- quested and earnestly urged by the different communities. -Ad9 ae
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
verv WeIfl

Dear Luke: T thank you for the howers you sent,''
 she said, And then she smiled and hung her head 'sPm sorry for the words spoke last
 night, Your lovely flowers convince me yon were
 right Forgive messs He forgave her. And as they walked and talked for many
 hours He wondered whoever sent her those 6 flowers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

from a visit of 8 week with out of town friends
 The Misses Julia and Lillian Dfke- man were recent guests of New Ha,- ven friends.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
rhere Are Plenty Just Like Her.

New Haven, Conn, claims to have discovered a young lady who, when asked by her grandmother what nee dies are for, answered that they are to make the phonograph play.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
Sure Thing.

ssAn>eastern man is. going to start q school to teach housewives how to spend money remarked Mrs Gabb.
 'It is a lead pipe cinch that the blam- ed fool is a single man, growled MT. Gabb. sI suppose some other cheerful idiot will opens school to teach women how to talk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

Nearly 800 of Luke's readers have 1o- eated the old fashioned man who wears the ready made bow tie with the wire loop in the back. Four of our readers sent the ties in as evidence.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

Dear Luke-I see that 7Ura Butcher has started in the automobile business. -F, Columbus, O.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
Huh4

~1 see that they are talking of a plan to stamp the date on eggs the day they are placed in cold storage, observed the old fogy.
 Whats the use?' asked the grouch. .tInk fades after fifteen or twenty years"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
Tough

You'n find the world is cold, I fear. When for some aid you hoI1er, For all your friends win shed a tear But none will shed a dollar.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

Sir Donald Mann, who built the Gam adian Northern railway, declared at Chicago that Canada is in a, position to feed Great Britain throughout an extended war.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
Bits of Byp1ay By Lnke@MoLdke
 -a copyr4Ehf 1e1Bs the cfnrannaa
 nquireE

Correct Lives of some rich men remind UN, Youeu agree with me. I'm sure, That if wealth with greed must blind us, It Is better to be poor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
Names Ia Nance
Oudf

A. B. c. is a schoolteacher at Iearx1- ing, N. D.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
The wfse Fool.

The Wfse Fool. "A man is known by the company he keeps" observed the sage. AYes, and he is also known by the photograph records he buys,'' added the fool.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

Major Luther S. Bent, Civil War vet eran and former president and chair man of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania. Steel Co.,, died at his home in Philadelphia, aged s6.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
You Kme Hin.

He often causes me to rage;
 hate to hear him blow; He thinks that all the world S a stage. And he's tts whole blame show
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

Our Daily Special When money talks 1t doesn't give its self away.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
rhinns to Vfo4rr About.
Thamx

T1ghtening your belts VIII Iessen tha bangs of hunger.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

When was ~Sheridar's Rfds'' intro duced to the public as reeitation3
 Reads war lyric. 'sSheridah's Ride." was first reclted in Cinelnnatd by 1[urs dock, the actor. for whom 1t was Wrib7 ten, on Oct 81, 1864. A few days lat, er. it was printed tn the New York Tribune
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

Kindly give elae population of klle Fol- lowing cities in GaIicias i-ssnhsrss craeoNw, FSrzesnysl, Ta-novss Neu-San- dec and Gorlice.
 Lemberg. 0,ooo. Cracows 1B0.oO0. PremysI, 55.e00; Tarnow. 36,o00; Neu- SaRdec, 16OO8s Gorlice, 6.50o.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

Did you ever reflect upon how a1-l most all other nations, almost every other nation has, through long cs1. turdes. been headed in one direction? That is not true of the United States.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-12-02
The Hodo Again

Do you believe in signs. omens
or prophets? Don't say you don't
for you wouldn't want to 90 back
on the Old Testament. It's the
later day seeresses who do all the
guessing" For instance, Madam
Catherin a noted New York
forecastress of the future, is out in
blanket prophecy which says we
are in for the following eventuali-
ties: T. r. will be nominated by the
Republicans and elected next year
by the biggest majority ever known
and his administration will bring a
business boom without precedent.
American genious will devise some
thing which will make war
so costly that it will have to be to-
tally abandoned. Woman's suffrage
is going to prove a failure. This
country will be at war with Mexico
during 1915, and as result our do
minions will be extended clear
down to the Panama canal. Within
three years we will have war with
Japan, and Germany will supply the
Japs with war material, to avenge
the course we are now taking in
furnishing munitions. The United
States will not become entangled
in the present war but its word
will be influential in settling terms
of peace. Last. but not least, hoop
skirts are to be the fashion. A
Japanese seer a Los Angeles. who
forecasts the future by the aid of
bamboo sticks, it is claimed, pre-
dicted last April that President
Wilson would marry a widow be-
fore next March; he also declared
that the president will not be re.
elected. Now pin up these
prophecies and see whether they
are fulfilled. Elk.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-12-02
Builds Town For Widows, Orphans
and Grandmothers.

Sand Springs, Okla, Nov. 49,
This town was built for widows
They compose more than a fourth
of the 5000 population. The town
was founded by Charles Page, multi
millionaire oil producer of Tulsa.
His earliest recollections were of
his mothers efforts to raise her
large family unaided and he resolv-
ed that when he grew up he would
take care of all the widows.
When he had made his fortune
Page began to find employment for
widows in Tulsa. They became so
numerous he decided to build a
town for them. So he founded
Sand Springs. He built dozens of
comfortable cottages in which gas,
fuel and rent were free. Factories
he bought so the widows might
have employment. He built a car
line to Tulsa upon which widows
ride free. There is nursery, free
medical attendance and a vocation
al school. II a widow wants to get
married, Page helps her do that
He likes grandmothers, too There
is a score of them here with moth
ing to do but knit. read and re.
miniscence.
Page. probably, has more children
than any other man in the world
An orphans home in a nearby
town recently bankrupt. To better
provide for the little inmates, Page
legally adopted the whole institu-
ton and moved it to Sand Springs.