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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-23
YES, SOME DIFFERENCE.

I'm the Chicago market
wheat is quoted at from
S1.2l to Sl24 per bushel.
The top price in Liverpool is
.S1.7S per bushel. At the same
time the Portland market Of
ters but "a cents for club and
81 cents for blueStem and Pen
dleton prices are based on the
Portland quotations. The stu
alton means our farmers OBJ
tain but half what wheat sells
for in England and lust at
present are offered about so
cents less than the value of
wheat in Chicago.
What difference Just a
few miles makes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-12-23
Life of Parliament Ertcndcd

LONDON. Dec 23.-The House Of
Commons passed the bin prolonglns
the life Of the present parliament. An
attempt was made 70 introduce ar
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
Anderson Recovering From
Fall in Motorcycle Race

tiplying labor, that the farmer should
at every turn strengthen his position
against them. Bear these invaders in
mind in planning the crops and in
deciding on the fields to grow these
crops, in choosing the implements,
in buying seed and in many other
farm activities. Lack of careful plan
ming with reference to weeds is ap-
parent in nearly every community.
1t has been shown in experiments
with corn made by the United States
department of agriculture that weed
eradication is the principal, if not the
only, beneficial result of cultivating
this crop after planting. This means
that in cultivating the corn crop the
implements used should be designed
primarily for accomplishing the de-
struction of weeds in the easiest and
cheapest way. It seems to indicate,
futher, that as weed control becomes
more thorough, intercultural tillage
of growing crops may be accordingly
decreased.-Gem State Rural.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11

A. H. Anderson, who came here
three weeks ago from Clear Lake,
Mimi. and is employed in the bee
yards of j. H. Stoneman, is now in
the Brigham City hospital recovering
from a fall received in the motor
cycle races two weeks ago, which re-
suited in his arm being broken in
two places, bad bruise on the head
and cut on the lip which required
several stitches.
When Mr.. Anderson left Minnesota
he intended to ride his motorcycle
through to- Blackfoot, but starting as
he did with the beginning of bad
weather he encountered very bad
roads and to make matter worse was
misdirected at Chyenne and took
the wrong road, which lead him into
the mountains, where for two days
he was lost and during which time
he reached an altitude of IL 900 feet.
At such a high altitude he had
trouble with the carburator of his
machine and being without food or
sufficient clothing and with snow
storm raging he nearly persisted.
Gasoline gave out and he was COM
PEELED to push his machine through
snow and over drifts six feet deep
or abandon it, He finally got out
to Laramie, Wyoming, where he took
1.-THE train for Blackfoot and left his
motorcycle to be shipped through.
He arrived in Blackfoot two weeks
after leaving Minnesota.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11

CONCRETE cULvERT is BEST
FIat-Top style Being Built In Kansas
ls Shown In lIIustration-Good
Roads Save Money.

Had we begun not more than fiji
teen years ago to build concrete cul-i
verts and bridges in this townships
and continued at the rate we have
been building them the last three
years, we would now have no place to;
put another one. Besides our expenses
would not have been much more than
they have been in building the wooden
ones, writes J. T. King, trustee of Lin4
coin township, Lebo, Kan, in Farmers
Mail and Breeze. We began with the
full-arch style of concrete culvertsi
That was before we knew the good Of
the fiat-top kind We now use the full
arch only where there are high banks
on both sides, SO we can grade up to-
the top of the arch and make the
road level For all other places we
prefer the fiat top. We build them
from by 16 feet, to 20 by 16 feet.
All concrete work must be we'll re-
enforced with iron wire. We use any
kind of bar iron in the tops, laid hit
and miss lengthwise with the road.
Heavy woven hog wire is laid cross
wise of the top and in the wings, in
termingled, SO as to unite the whole
culvert into one piece. The tops have
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
PLANTS MILLIONS OF TREES

Washington-That Uncle Sam is
determined future generations of
young Americans shall not suffer
any decrease in the crop of Christ
mas trees is shown by the fact that
the forest service is about finishing
up its big planting of ten million
trees. All over the vast areas of the
national forest reserves in the west
ern states, mostly in mountainous re-
gions, this work has been vigorously
prosecuted for several months. Not
only does the government wish to
preserve the stock of Christmas trees,
but it seeks to preserve the fertility
of the higher areas, and prevent the
washing away of the soil into the
valleys by the rainfall. The trees
and their roots form huge reservoir
on each hill and mountain, retarding
the rainfall and SHOWS, thus prevent
ing floods as well as preserving fer
tility.
Under the care of the forest re-
serve men, an area equality $4,000
acres have been put out this year in
pines, larches, spruce, cedars, frs and
similar varieties. About two days
has been required to plant one acre,
the work being done by gangs of
men who set out with wagons, cook
ing outfits and the paraphernalia of
a mining expedition.
The young trees were grown in
nurseries located at different points
in the west. At these stations the
seed is sown in huge hotbeds. This
seed is gathered each fall by the ton
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
TEACH GOOD ROAD BUILDING
One Sentence in Discussion of Con-
crete Construction Worthy of Be-
ing Printed in Big Type.

(By E. B. HOUSE. Colorado Agricultural
College.)
In the engineering record OF recent
issue is an interesting article CONCERN
ing meeting for the purpose of in
struction to road builders, by experts
in that line of work.
Speaking of the meet Il the Record
comments as follows: One sentence
in the discussion of concrete road
building would have been worth put
ting in black type. 1t is this: You
cannot design a concrete pavement
four miles long and assume that you
can use the same cross-section
throughout; you will have to design
it the same as foundations for build
ing, depending on the bearing power
of the soil, etc."
This is undoubtedly true, and yet
it states fact that is almost univer-
sally disregarded.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
THE COST OF WEEDS

Probably few people realize the
cost of weeds to the farmer, and to
the land generally, no matter where
grown.
Farmers Bulletin No. $50, on
Weeds and How to Control Them"
gives some very pertinent informa-
tion on the subject, and it would be
we'll if farmers would take time to
send for and read this publication
carefully.
The bulletin can be had on ap-
plication to the department of ag-
riculture, bureau of publications.
The following discussion of weeds
is taken from the bulletin, which
discusses in detail methods of con-
trolling annual, biennial and peren-
NAL weeds through cultivation and
rotation and by keeping weed seeds
from reaching the farm in crop
seeds, in stock feeds, in manure,
and in hay and straw. The bulletin
also devotes chapter to the intro
duction of weed seeds by the wind,
and as seeds sometimes blow mile
or more in strong wind, prevention
of trouble from this source depends
largely on cooperative weed fighting
in neighborhood.
The Importance of keeping weeds
in subsection cannot be emphasized
too strongly. 1t is difficult to esti-
mate the damage they do, but 1t is
probable that they cost the American
farmer several hundred million dol
lars every year. In sense, farm
ing might be called warfare against
weeds. Some farmers emerge from
the struggle victorious, while others
go down to defeat. So powerful are
weed enemies in reducing crop pro-
duction, while at the same time muf-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
ONE SUBSTANCE AT A TINE

Orderly housewife: "You left some
of my fruits outside of the ice box
yesterday"
Industrious ice man: 81 under
stood you wanted your ice box filled
With ice."
o. H. w.: II did, but wanted the
things put back in to keep them cool.
What is the use of me buying ice and
then keeping things out in the heath
I. I. NJ: "As the ice melts you
keep filing in with fruits and veget-
ables keeping the ice box full. That
is fine, but where am l to put the
ice?"
o. H. w.: Take them out and put
In the ice and then"
I. I. M: Eyes, and then-that's
what / should like to know"
o. H. w.: II guess we'll have to
see about some room"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
THE COOLING MOTH SPRAY

The ideal time to make the first
application of spray material for cod
ling moth is when 80 per cent Of the
petals nave fallen However, it is not
always possible to spray at this time.
If an orchard is only slightly infest-
ed with codling moth, one applica-
ton may prove sufficient. AS gen
eral rule, two or three applications
are necessary.
To guage the time for the second
application, it is we'll to watch for
the eggs of the codling moth. The
first eggs are generally found from
three to five weeks after the petals
have fallen. Look for eggs on leaves
near fruit, few eggs may be found
on fruit. The eggs are white, oval
and about the size of pin head.
The second spray should be applied
soon after the first eggs are found
The date for the third spraying can
be determined by banding the trees.
Spray about 20 days after first larva
are found. Wormy apples may also
be placed in cage and the adults
Matched out. If the latter method is
followed, the third spray should be
applied four or five days after adult
moths appear, which is generally the
last week in July or the first week of
August.
On account of the rainy season
this year, most growers have been
unable to make the first application
for codling moth at the proper time.
If the calyx cup has not closed, the
first spray can be applied. If, how
ever, the calyx cup has closed, the
FIRST spray should be applied at the
time for the regular second spray,
which is about FL days after the
petals have fallen.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
TYPHOID FEVER

About this time of year typhoid
fever begins to appear in many of
the counties of Idaho. Some people
are beginning to believe that typhoid
fever is catching" Well, you do
not catch" typhoid fever like you do
smallpox; you swallow it. Typhoid
fever is caused by filth which gets
into the mouth from the fingers, or
from something we eat or drink. We
swallow it; the germs multiply and
grow and cause the disease we call
typhoid fever
To prevent typhoid fever the great
est care must be taken to see that
the well or the cistern or the spring,
whichever is used as a source of
water supply, is protected from every
possible source of pollution. A good
well must have sound, tight top,
with a watertight casing or curbing.
A well witha leaky top, or with holes
around the sides, or with bucket
which is touched with dirty hands,
is likely to give rise to dangerous
pollution.
Then, too, the outside toilet must
be looked after, to see that there is
no danger of pollution from it. The
discharges from human beings con-
stitute the most dangerous material
on the farm, or in the town in sum-
mer time. 1t should be cared for as
carefully as if it were deadly
poison. Flies carry typhoid-fever
germs on their feet, and if the toilet
Is open so that chickets or other do
nestle animals can get at it, they too
will carry this dangerous material on
their feet about the yard, onto the
well top, which, in turn, may be
washed into the we'll, or be carried
on the feet of people into the kitchen,
SO they become dangerous source
of pollution for food or drink.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
ROAD DRAG is INEXPENSIVE
Constant Attention Is Price of Good
Roads-Objection That Too Much
Money Is Spent on Grader.
(By C. SCHULTZ

l have watched the use of the road
drag and the grader past my house
this summer The drag leaves the
road in better shape-the grader. pill
ing roughage in the middle while the
drag smoothes it off nicely. But the
greatest objection is that the drag is
not used often enough. Constant at
tention is the price of good roads, and
the use of the drag is SO inexpensive
that good roads by its use are obtain
able, or would be IL the money we're
not spent in using the grader with
four teams and five men. That's the
way the money goes.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
CHATAUQUA AT IDAHO FALLS

Idaho Falls is to have chatauqua
next week. Arrangements have been
made for taking care of visitors, and
people from neighboring towns are
planning to receive its benefits. Many
will go in their cars to hear parts
which they are specially interested in,
and it is reported that delegation
from st. Anthony will come with
tents prepared to camp out for the
week. May the weather clerk pro-
vide for cessation of the showers
where they camp!
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11

a browning of eight inches and are
made 8 to 16 inches thick in the cen
ter, the thickness varying with the
width. The forms are placed SO the
tops and abutments are all in one
piece. The bars or rods must be
shaped so as to be partly embedded
In the abutment walls.
We have just finished four culverts
IL by 16 feet, made after the plan of
the illustration, at cost of $3.50.
This may seem to be quite price,
yet IL they last as we expect them to,
they will be cheap in the long run.
We use a lot of iron, any length, in
these tops. We get them cheap from
junk dealers.
This good roads move is money
saver to the people. More has been
done to improve our highways in
the last five years than in any Is
years before.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
SUNNYLANDERS VISIT
SALMON CITY

The. business men of Idaho Falls
to the number of 40 carloads are
booked to leave Idaho Falls, Sunday
morning, for trip across country
to Salmon City, where they will be
entertained until Tuesday morning in
a get-acquainted gathering. On Mon
day they will be shown around the
Salmon country, and in the evening
there will be banquet and ball.
The matter of these friendly visits
between towns was suggested by DR..
Scarborough and pushed along by
himself and Mr.. Oles until definite
plans were formed for this trip.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
1ighty Arches Mark Huge Court of the Universe.
State Distributing Preventative
Vaccine for Typhoid Fever

The people of Idaho are hereby
notified that the state board of
health is prepared to furnish free
5acterin for the prevention of ty-
,phoid fever. The efficacy of this
method in preventing typhoid fever
has now been proven, and it is hoped
that the people will avail themselves
of the opportunity of taking this
treatment in order to lessen the pre-
valence of typhoid fever.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
WE'LL KNOWN ATTORNEY DEAD

J. D. Milksaps, who is well known
throughout the state, and especially
this section of the valley, died at his
office in st. Anthony last night about
6 o'clock. Death came very suddenly
and it is believed was caused by heart
failure. Mr.. Milksaps had been in
Idaho Falls few days ago and has a
great many friends in this city.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11

that the roads freeze up as smooth as
possible this winter. They should get
out after every rain now, and drag.
Drag. brother, drag" If another rain
comes, get on the road again and drag
some more. Every farmer on these
dirt roads should see that his road is
dragged smooth before it freezes up.
Then there will be no trouble except
snow. Dragging won't help that; but
nothing else will, not even hard sur
facing.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
fHlGHI7
IMPROVEMENT
DEPENDENCE ON DIRT ROADS
They Are of Much Importance to
Farmer and Are Good Nine Months
In Year If Properly Cared For.

For many years nine-tenths OF the
roads in the country must be dirt
roads. It is on these roads that farm
ers for the most part go to church ana
60 to school, They are much more
important than the greater highways
of travel in the country. We have
great demand for good roads, mean
ing hard-sarfaced roads of some Sort
whether brick, macadam, gravel or ce-
ment; but we have come to a point
now when it should be known to all
men that since the advent of the auto
mobile no limestone road is worth put
ting down. In the corn belt, about the
only road material we have, outside
of our dirt roads, is limestone. The
brick road is better in the end than
macadam, because it will endure the
strain of automobile travel. The &C.,
ment road is yet in the experimental.
stage. The gravel road is only pos
sible where gravel Is near. Hence the
great majority of our farm folks must
travel to and from the church and
school and nearby town over dirt
roads.
If the dirt road Is first properly
drained to take off the water that
comes in from below or from the side,
if it is properly graded up and there.
are good, permanent culverts and
bridges, and it is then properly
dragged, the dirt road is good enough
for nine months in the year, and long
err. If the above conditions are COM
piled with, it is better during most OF
that time than any macadam or brick
road that ever was built.
Some of our readers will say: "Oh,
you are singing that old song again.
You are talking about the drag" Ver-
lily, we are. In our recent trips East,
we have been glad to see that farmers
in Ohio and Pennsylvania are drag
ging, says Wallace's Farmer. Although
the drag is not as useful there as here,
on account of the stones in the road,
they are nevertheless using the drag.
There is no use dragging the road
until it has been drained and rounded
up by the scraper: but after that is
done, the drag is the best tool that
can be used. Our readers who have
automobiles often find during the sum-
mer a piece of dragged road that Is
delight; and then they run onto piece
where the supervisors evidently had
no gumptfon, piece of road that
causes vexation of spirit If not inter-
nal profanity every time the farmer
rides over it. It is enough to make
even a righteous man mad
One thing we want to remind you
of-that the longer a road has been
dragged, the better 1t becomes. We
have never claimed that you could
make a perfect dragged road inside Of
about six years of proper dragging;
but dragging improves it from the
start, and in time the clay of the road
becomes almost like brick, but at the
same time smooth and elastic; and If
the road be oval and we'll drained, it
Is an ideal road.
Our farmers who do not want to
take their wives and families over
humpety, bumpety roads, and make
them disguised every time they 60 to
church or to town, should see to it
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
Poor HiuhWays.

Poor highways lessen the profit of
labor, Increase the cost Of living, bur-
den the enterprise Of the people, dull
the morality Of our citizenship and
hold down the educational advance
ment Of the country.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
Permanency of Bridges.

Concrete bridges for roads are the
kind that spell permanency. Between
threshing outfits and heavy motor cars
the county with shaky bridges is in
for trouble.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11

Pure vegetable parchment paper
and pure vegetable ink is what we
use for butter wrappers. Get tho
best at the Republican office.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
Keen Water Away.

Run burrows along hills that may
conduct water to road and keep the
water away from road and ditch.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11
Cement CuIvert Jolnts.

Fill all culvert joints with cement.
You don't want water to escape
through joints.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-11

Operating a Drag.
Ride the drag. You can control the
cut by shifting your weight.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-05
VOGUE Of White Paint.

A clever decorator who remodeled
the dining room in a New England
farm house has even gone so far In
her use of white paint as to finish the
floors with It The woodwork and
furniture were also white, but plenty
Of color was introduced by bright
chintz-patterned paper and plain
bright green rugs The white dining
room table was always bare. which
allowed the mistress to use many at
tractively colored dolly SETS Her
china showed up to splendid advan-
tage on this white ground, and the
flowers from the garden seemed IN
usually bright and pretty in the midst
Of ali this white A country house
near Cleveland has all its floors paint
ed white, with bright green, blue and
purple rugs used to carry out certain
color schemes. OF course, using white
on floors Is practical only when you
are far from the city's smoke or mo-
tors dust-The Countryside Maya
zine
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-05

energy. There was always a fear and
dread m my mind, had cold, nervous,
weak spells, hot flashes over my body.
I had place in my right side that was
so sore that I could hardly bear the
weight of my clothes. I tried medicines
and doctors, but they did me little good,
and l never expected to get out again.
l got Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and Blood Purifier, and I GER
tainly would have been In grave or In an
asylum II your medicines had not saved
me- But now can work all day, sleep
well at night, eat anything want, have
no hot flashes or weak, nervous spells.
All pains, aches, fears and breads are
gone, my house, children and husband
are no longer neglected, as am almost
entirely free of the bad symptoms had
before taking your remedies, and al Is
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Shamrock, Missouri.
IfyOU want special advice write
Lydia z. Pinkham Medicine Co.
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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-05
SYNOPSIS.

In the New York home Of James Brood,
his son, Frederic, receives a wireless
from him. Frederic tells Lydia DeS-
mOnd, his fancee, that the message an
nounces his fathers marriage, and orders
Mrs. Desmond, the hOuSekeeper and
Lydia'S mother. to prepare the house for
an immediate homecoming. Brood and
his bride arrive She wins Frederic's Xix
ing at first meeting Brood shows dislike
and yelled hostility to his SON Lydia and
Mrs. Brood met in the jade-room, where
Lydia works as BrOod's secretary. Mrs.
Brood IS startled by the appearance of
Ranjab, Brood's Hindu servant She
makes changes in the household and gains
her husbands consent to send Mrs. Des-
Lnond and Lydia away. She faScinateS
Frederic. She begins to fear Rantab in
MS uncanny appearances and disappear
ances, and Frederic, remembering his
lief in magic. fears unknown evil. Ran
7ab performs featS of magic for Dawes
ana Riggs. Frederic'S father, Jealous, I'M
Justly orders his son from the dinner table
as drunk. Brood tells the story of Ran
JAMS life to his guests. He killed wOm-
an who was unfajthful to him YVOnne
plays with Frederic's infatuatiOn for her.
her husband warns her that the thing
ettll loves his dead wife. whom he drove
from his home, through her YVonne.
YVonne plays with Brood, Frederic and
Lydia as with figures on chess board
Frederic is not his son, and that he has
brought him up to kill his happiness at
the proper time with this knowledge.
Frederic takes Lydia home through a
mothers house. His wavering allegiance
70 her Is strengthened by day spent
win her. YVonne, over the phone rouSeS
6reder1c'S infatuatiOn for her again. Lydia
his unhappy parentage. but is turned from
her purpose.