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The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
CONTROL OF GRAIN INSECTS
Pennsylvania Experiment Station Fur
nishss Some Timely Advice.

Pennsylvania Experiment Station Fur
nishss Some Timely Advice.
G. H. Hadley, Jr., in charge Of en-
tomology extension at the Pennsyl-
vania State college school of agricul
ture and experiment station, reports
considerable injury to grain in the bin,
especially to seed wheat, this fall. The
best way to prevent such injury. ac-
cording to Mr.. Hadley, Is to fumigate
the bin with carbon bisulphide. This
chemical may usually be purchased at
drug stores.
The following directions for use are
outlined The bin should be made as
nearly air tight as possible. About one
pound Of the suStlide is necessary for
each 100 cubic feet Of space. The liq-
uid should be poured into one or more
shallow dishes and placed on top Of the
grain The bin should then be closed
tightly and allowed to fumigate from
| twenty-four to thirty-six hours. The
fumes will penetrate the grain, killing
| any insects present.
If the grain in the bin Is quite deep
it is good plan to insert pieces of
gas pipe, each with stick inside.
down into the grain at various points.
The stick is then withdrawn and about
one-fourth pint Of the carbon bisul-
phide poured into the pipe.
Carbon bisulphide is infammable;
hence it is absolutely necessary to
keep lighted cigars, lanterns, etc, well
away from the building In which fu-
migation is taking place. One should
not inhale the fumes of the chemical,
as they may cause sickness.
Provided fumigation is not continued
longer than forty-eight hours the ger
minating quality Of the grain will not
| be injured.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
BARN WISDOM.

BARNS For Wisconsin Dairy Farms
Is the title OF new bulletin issued by
the Wisconsin experiment station. The
following counsel applies most any
where:
Gambrel roofs give more room for
hay than do gable roofs. This is an
important point to consider.
The barn should have Its length run
north and south if the largest amount
of direct sunlight is to be let inside.
Rectangular shaped barns are more
satisfactory than round ones.
The location should be at least 200
feet from the house and handy to a
well, sheds and granaries. Drainage
is necessary if the stock is to be kept
healthy. Concrete is the best product
than can be used for the foundation
ground floor and wall of the barn.
Build the barn large enough to meet
future needs and to permit the han
ding of the maximum capacity of the
farm. Ii the new barn just holds the
stock at time of building another barn
will probably be needed soon.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28

to the wall at q sharp angle to pre-
vent the hen from roosting ON the nest
When she enters the nest the hens
back raises the door, which releases
the catch and allows the door to shut.
The catch should be set SO that it's
edge just holds the door. the position
being regulated by screw or nail at
the lower inside edge of the catch. A
washer on the screw will prevent 1t
from sticking. The guard around the
catch holds the nesting material away.
The nest should be visited frequently
to release the hens.-Popular Science
Monthly.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
PROHIBITION OPINIONS
OF GREAT MEN

The conflict between man and alco.
hol is as old as civilization.-Henry
w. Blair.
The prohibition movement-a tryan-
nous scheme to establish virtue and
morality by law, to regulate personal
appetites and individual habit by the
will of the majority, in embryo to res
urrect and reestablish the principle and
affinity of church and ctate-is quite as
mischievous delusion as any of those
which have gone before it.-Henry Wat
terson.
There is spent daily for drink in the
United States one-tenth of the sum
expended for the carrying on of the
war now raging in Europe; the amount
expended for drink in the United
States would build six Panama canals
each year: the amount annually spent
for drink is more than three times the
entire amount spent for education in
the United States; the amount spent
for drink is almost double tho annual
expenditure Of the United States gov
ernment-Wiliam Jennings Bryan.
Nothing is more foolish, nothing more
utterly in variance with sound public
policy than to enact law which, by
reason of the conditions surrounding
the community in which it is declared
to be law, is incapable of enforcement.
Such an instance is sometimes present
ed by sumptuary laws, by which the
sale of Intoxicating liquors is prohibit
cd under penalty in localities where
the public sentiment of the immediate
community does not and will not sus.
tain the enforcement OF the law-Wil'
liamH. Taft.
now believe that if we could feel
that we would get our results i'll year
or two years earlier by a surrender on
the part of liquor, it would be possi
BILE, and certainly l would give my sup
port and influence l have with the
temperance and prohibition forces, tt
have some kind of statutory provision
in which the federal government ant
the states and the communities shoulc
share and share alike in defraying th'
incidental expense of this, of course
very radical, change.-Richmond p
Hobson.
| 1t is contended that prohibition pro
duces temperance where it is on thu
statute books, but l find on an exami
nation of the bulletins issued by tn
bureau of census that the improved
conditions of men and women who
practice real temperance are not fount
in the states where prohibition law
have been on the statute books TO
many years, as compared to those state
where liquor is sold under a Gcens'
system or where temperance laws ar
controlled by the sentiment of local com
munities.-Oscar w. Underwood.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
MANS BEST FR1END-AFTER MOTHER.

MANS BEST FRIEND-AFTER MOTHER.
with
And the world seems dreary place.
Has your dog silently cept to your feet
His yearning turned to face
Has he made you he understands,
Anda all he ~
Is % your lot, be it good ILL.,
With chance to be loyal and truei
you brande a failure! He not know
A inner? He doesn not
Your re master to m--tha all that
and his fair
Your and nothing o him;
palace and hut the same
And his love is yours in honor and peace,
And it's yours through disaster and shame.
Though others forget you and pass you by, T..
He is your faithful friend 1Gttt'..:
Ready to give you the best that is his
unse'fshy unto the end. lin s17;'e
MRS DARLING, Nome Alaska
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
A Irap Most.

This Is an Illustration Of q trap nest,
not a guillotine. 1t is designed to help
the poultry breeder to find out his good
layers and to keep pedigrees. 1t is
very simple. 1t may be attached to
the under side Of the dropping board,
with the front facing the pen and ar
ranged SO that it can be easily remov-
ed. The dropping board will then be
the roof Of the nest.
The rear of nest may be of wire for
the sake Of ventilation. If the nest is
placed on the wall, Stats or wire should
be inserted from the front of the nest
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28

This is the time of year when the
hopper of time is filled with new reso-
lutions. But it is more profitable to
act than to resolute.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
CONDEMN WHEN NECESSARY
BUT GIVE CREDIT WHEN DUE

The past week the following four
very important items appeared in the
daily papers: Southern Pacific and
Santa Fe each grant 10 per cent of year
ly salary as q bonus to employees not IN
four brotherhoods; SstanAard Oil grants
increase of 5 per cent to employees re-
ceiving less than $3.50 per month and
establishes minimum daily wage of un-
skilled labor at So, this is an addition
to 10 per cent increase made to same
class of employees last May and the
Bell Telephone company will distribute
$6,000,0O0 among employees.
In addition to the foregoing, many
other large business concerns have made
similar and even larger increase where
business justifies it.
In none of the above mentioned in
stances have we seen one Of the items
given more than six inches of space
in the big daily papers.
Yet in the same papers when some
I. w. w. or rabid labor agitator threat
ened to tie up an industry oE call IA
big strike, scare headlines and columns
of space would be devoted to- the in
cident.
In other words, an affirmative con-
structive act benefitting thousands and
bringing joy to many homes is barely
noticed, while negative, destructive
act, putting men out of work and dis
turbing industry is played up as an
important event.
This policy of magnifying injuries
and often imaginary wrongs and mini
mizing meritorius acts or ignoring them
entirely simply stirs up hatred between
classes.
Condemn where necessary, but also
give credit when due.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
TYPHOID r: :: ::::
the almost miraculous effl.

caey and harmlessness, Of Antttyphoid Vaccination.
Be vaccinated NOW BY your physician. you and
your family. It Is more vital than house insurance.
Ask your physician, druggist. or send for Have
you ha. .yphnId1" telling Of Typhoid Vaccine,
results from use and danger from Typhoid Carriers.
THE GUTTER LABORATORY, BeRKEifY. CAL
eRopvc,Ms yAr4,ars . sssuns umosa Y. sov ucEHss
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28

Condemn where necessary, but also
give credit when due.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
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THE IMPLEMENT SHED.

= From now on till next spring !
= most Of the implements of culti- :
= vatiOn will not be used nor will :
= be planters. The place for them I
+ and for all implements not In !
+ use every day is under the shed. !
4 Why? What does a man work -
4 for? Implements cost money.
4 Exposure to the elements causes
+ them to rust, warp and decay.
+ When they are gone more work
j. must be done to get more money
+ to buy more implements, when
+ just a little work and little
= care at the right time would
+ have made them last q year or
= two or three longer.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
SUFFERERS FROM NDI-
GESTION RELIEVED

"Before taking Chamberlain g Tab
let's my husband suffered for several
years from Indigestion, causing him to
have pains in the stomach and dis
tress after eating. Chamberlain s Tab,
lets relieved him of these spells right
away writes Mrs. Thomas Casey,
Geneva, n. Y. Obtainable everywhere.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
COUGH MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN

Mrs. Hugh Cook, Scottsville, N. Y,
says: "About five years ago when we
were living in Garbutt, N. Y, doc
tored two of my children suffering from
colds with Chamberlain Cough REM
edy and found it just as represented in
every way. It promptly checked their
coughing and cured their colds quicker
than anything l ever used.' Obtain.
able everywhere.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28
Mora Live Stock Needed,

The population of the United States
has increased by 24OOO,OOO people in
the last fifteen years, and the number
of beef ~ mails has decreased 6,OOO, 900
and .cvp 100000. while hogs have
III, .eas sed only 11,0OO,OOO.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28

Collective cooperation is only pos
sible where confidence and good will
exists, and where there is determine
tion to utilize thsi combination to the
ultimate good Of all.
The man who holds crouch against
his neighbor cannot successfully pull
in harness with that neighbor so long
as that crouch exists. Lose the crouch.
The man who disparages and under
mines the reputation of another cam
not expect the community III general
to think well of the assassinator OF
character. Speak gently and use the
soft pedal.
The man wo says ego ahead' can
not expect to keep peace with the hust'
Ter who says ''come on.' Step lively
and get there.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-28

The road of life is long, and stormy
and barriers bar our way. But many
hands make light work of the heaviest
burdens and collective might roll away
the heaviest barrier.
| We may each pursue our own chosen
| vocations, and yet all labor in the
common cause of a better and more
prosperous town and countryside.
Two horses pulling in one direction
will get the load there. But when
one pulls and the other balks the load
stands still
Don t poo-hoo at something you don Z
understand. There's always someone
wiser than you who can see the point
| Let us make this more than a col.
lection of individuals. Let us make it
a community of people with one aim,
one ambition, and one great purpose
in life, and let us make that purpose
the good of man and womankind in
general and of this community in par
| ticular.
If we work collectively and earnest.
ly and energetically we will achieve
success, but if we labor individually
we will accomplish but little.
The number of states chat voted ono
way on national issues and another
way on state issues at the recent cleo
tions shows that the people arc more
independent of party control than
they used to be. The increasing size
! of this independent vote adds to the
uncertainty and anxiety of party man
Layers when engaged in campaign
The last election kept them on the
anxious seat for quite time.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11
STRIk ERS RIOT IN NIAGAR
FALLS: POLICE HURT

Niagara Falls, n. y, Jan. IL
Rioting followed a strike of 1000 en-
ployes of the American Aluminium
Company here today.
The strikers stormed the plant in
an effort to bring out the men whose
shifts ended during the day and at
tackled the police on guard with
stores.
The police fired their revolvers in
the air and then attacked the crowd
with nightsticks.
Several policemen were slightly in
jured and four Polanders were taken
to the hospital with battered heads.
The men were getting from S2.15
to $3.50 a day and asked for an in
crease of so cents.
The company offered 10 cents, which
was refused.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11

ton. \. T, Moon; Wyoming, Robert
d. Carey, Joseph Nj. Carey.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11
FireNODu Tor Sale.

Ed Royce Transfer, 632 Main St.
Phone 123W.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11
PROGRESSIVES TO MEET FOR
ACTION ON CONVENTION DAT

Chicago, Jan. I1-MembeTs Of the
Progressive national committee ar
rived here today for the committee
meeting set for tomorrow, when the
time and place for the Progressive ma
tional convention is to be determined
George w. Perkins, one of the early
arrivals, said:
There certainly will be Progress
sive national convention and ma
tional ticket will be named
Colonel Cecil Lyon, Progressive ma
tional committeeman from Texas, gave
his opinion of the coming campaign
in a few words
al the Republicans do not nomi-
nate Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow
Wilson will be reelected president Of
the United States said Colonel Lyon.
Among the Progressive committee
men who arrived are: Arizona, Swigt
B. Heard; California, Chester H. Row
ell; Colorado, Clarence P. DCdge; Ida
no. J. NJ Ingersoll; Iowa, Carl FRANKIE,
j. H. Wyllie; Montana, 0. H. P. Shell
ley; New Mexico, Miguel A Otera;
Oregon, H. W. Coe; Washington, Aus
tin (. Griffiths: Hawaii, George R.
Carter; Kansas, William Allen White,
u. S. Sartin, Sheffield ingalls,; Mis-
souri,. l. r. Kirkwood, Albert D. Nor
TIM: Nebraska, F. P. Corrick; Mon
tana, O. H. P. Shelley; North Dakota,
Don H. Carroll, P. 0. Thoreson, Q. l..
Engel, w. NJ. Smart; Oklahoma, Geo.
c. Priestley; Texas, Cecil A. Lyon;
Utah, Moroni Heiner, Wesley X. Wal
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11
May Never BE Known.

Washington, Jan. lit was stated
authoritatively today that the next
step of the United States will be to
ask all allies of Germany to agree
that no vessels carrying Americans
be attacked until passengers and crew
have been placed in safety.
The impression grows among ad-
ministration officials that the ma
tionality of the submarine or MING
which sank the Persia may never be
disclosed
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11
NEGRO ARRESTED
FOR 1914 THEFT

Bill Williams, colored, in Novem-
Der, 1914, borrowed a motorcycle from
Alvin Rice of Imperial that he might
enter the El Centre races, but after
the races were finished he kept on
going.
At the time it was thought he had
finished his race in San Diego, but
officers could find no trace of him.
Yesterday Williams was recognized
in Yuma by relative of Rice and
was taken into custody by the Yuma
chief of police. Sheriff Applestill will,
send for him today.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11
CALEXICO MAN GETS
SIXTY-DAY SENTENCE

Robert Thomas is in the county Jail
on a 60-day sentence imposed by JUS
tice Hoffman Of CaleXico On va
grancy charge. Thomas was caught
acting suspiciously in the rear of the
Hotel garage at CaleXico by CaleX-
leo patrolmen and after sentence was
imposed was brought to the county
jail by Deputy Sheriff Kemp.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11

DR.. Hutchison, Valley Optician,
comes to the FL Centro hotel every
Wednesday. He can replace any kind
Of broken lenses or repair your frame.
Call and he will straighten your frame
free. Headache and nervousness re-
lievcd with glasscs.-Adv. PA
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-11
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES

I'll cENTRO LODGE No. 315,
knights OF Pythias, meets every
Tuesday at X. OF +. hall. corner
Firth and Main streets
g. STANLEY BROWN, G. e.
II. D. WEBB. X, OF X. IL S.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-11-03
BREAKS WRISTS AND LEG IN
FALL FROM VIRDEN DUMP

S. E. Beebe, Of Pingree, was
brought to Blackfoot hospital, Mon
day evening, with two broken wrists
and left thigh fractured as result OF
a fall from a beet dump near Pingree,
while he was unloading beets. Mr..
Beebe stood at the back of his wagon
to unfasten the end gate, and 1t is
thought that in some way 1t swung
loose with such quick jerk as to
throw him from his balance. lie
plunged down 20 feet to the ground,
falling between the freight cars on
the track and the tressle beams. II
he had struck either of these ne
could scarcely survived. The acci-
dent occurred at 8 o'clock in the aft
ernoon, and it happened that beet
train was about to come to Black
foot. Mr.. Scott and Cr. Cope. neigh
bors of Beebe, put him on the beet
train and brought him, to Blackfoot
for attention to his injuries.
Conductor Harris and his crew act
ed in a very admirable manner In
this emergency, stopping their work
and leaving everything to run their
train into Blackfoot with the Injured
man. They handled the train as
gently as was possible and made no
stops or switchings.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-11-03
DIR. AND DEPUTY
MIXED IDENTITIES

Wednesday morning, the twenty
fifth, at about 3 o'clock in the morn
ing DR.. Beck, returning from a night
call, received an alarming visitation,
which thru Misunderstanding caus-
led some trouble and might have end
ed fatally.
The sheriffs had been watching for
some booze coming into the town sur
Ireptitiously from the north. They
took turns riding up to Idaho Falls
and back IN the evenings, and Tues
day night was Deputy Anderson's
turn. On the return journey he no.
ticed that the train slowed up this
side of Wapello, so when he got to
Blackfoot he proceeded to watch for
la car bringing in the supposed boot
leg. In a short time there came a
car spinning down the railroad track
from the north and he followed it
to it's stop, not knowing whose resi-
dence it was.
In max 'ng sure the garage into
which the car was put he attracted
DR.. Beck's attention, altho he had
not intended to go further in the
matter that night. He states that
when the doctor, unknown to him,
spoke, he told him he was Deputy
Sheriff Anderson, and was looking
for a man. He asked him to come
out, but the doctor refused. Then
|he heard Mrs. Beck calling for Patrol
man Drew, and himself went in
search of the night watchman, but
did not find him.
According to DR.. Beck, he had just
come in from a country call, at about
3 o'clock in the morning. He put
away his car and went into the house.
A few moments after he noticed a
flash light moving about in the yard.
He went to the back door and asked
who it was. The man answered with
a request that he come out. He ask
ed the doctor If he had not just come
in with the car. DR.. Beck now
considered seriously that something
was wrong with the man and he pro-
cured a revolver and returned to the
door. The man stood in plain moon
light. In the meantime Mrs. Beck
was reused and very much frightened.
She began telephoning for Night Pat
rolman Drew. When the man out
side heard that he exclaimed that
he too was an officer, Mr.. Anderson.
But DIR. Beck did not know him nor
did he believe the words. He was
very near to using his gun, but the
man disappeared. When Drew ar
rived the two of them searched the
premises over but found no one.
: In talk with Sheriff Simmons a
day or SO later, DR.. Beck was inform
ed that some bootlegging had been
going on and that close watch had
been set to catch the lawbreakers.
The incident was unfortunate in
that neither man was acquainted with
the other and neither made the other
understand who he was.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-11-03
SAYS REPUBLICANS
WILL SWEEP IDAHO

William H. Gibson, who served as
secretary of state of Idaho for three
consecutive terms, declared during a
visit at the Republican county head
quarters in the Wilson hotel last
night that the Republican ticket will
sweep Idaho from Utah's border to
the Canadian boundary line on elec-
tion day.
Moses Alexander, the present
Democratic governor of Idaho, who
is up for reelection, has not ghost
of show" said Mr.. Gibson. HE
went into the governors chair purely
as the result of an unfortunate con-
dition which developed week before
he was elected governor. He knows
that his election was the result Of a
misfortune"
Mr. Gibson says that the direct pri-
mary law has proven unsatisfactory
not only to the people, but to both
political parties of idaho and that the
return to the old system of making
nominations at conventions is being
urged generally. He said that Utah
is to be complimented upon its atti-
tude to the direct primary law and
urged that it continue it's convention
system.
Mr., Gibson has conducted cam
paign thruout the state Of Idaho for
the Republican party. He will leave
Salt Lake this afternoon for the Ma
lad district, where he will campaign
Until election day.-Herald-Republi-
can.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-11-03
"a (K)NIGHT IN A CABARET
To be Presented for Benefit
of Local Knights of Pythias
Fifty of BlackfOot's Foremost Enter.
tainers to Participate i'm
Novel Event

The members of Athenian lodge
No. "a, Knights of Phythias, are de-
termined to put their local order on
the map in the way of providing
modern, up-to-the-minute amusement
and have arranged for an early pre-
sentation Ct "a (K)Night in a Caba-
ret" which is described as a twin
six cylinder, 1917 model musical ex-
|travaganza. More than SO of Black
foots most popular singers, dancers
and entertainers will be enlisted to
help along the jollity and fun maxi
ing, and the public is promised the
llveliest, bri htest and most novel en-
tertainment it has had in long time.
The production is under the direc-
tion of Mr.. and Mrs, G. H. Lewis,
of Chicago, and has been presented
by them in practically every city be-
tween Chicago ana the coast during
the past three years. In Seattle,
where three performances were given
in the Metropolitan theatre recently,
the daily papers declared it the most
successful affair of the kind ever Of
fered in that city. and in Butte, where
three performances were given in the
Broadway theatre just short time
ago it had the support of the most
prominent business and society peo-
pie of that city and made such de-
cided hit that an extra performance
had to be given. The promoters car
ry all stage settings, costumes, cleo
trical effects, etc., and the staging
and dressing of the production is said
to be far superior to that of many of
the larger travelling companies. In
fact, they guarantee the most elabo-
rate stage picture of any similar af-
fair ever given in our city. More
than 80 late song hits will be intro
duced, many of them being taken
from the newer musical comedies,
such as "Chin Chin" "Blue Para
disc" Girl From Utah. Antique
Girl" "Sybil' and others, and will be
offered as solos, duets, male and
mixed quartets, all supported by a
large chorus and full orchestra.
The patrons of the carbaret will
not be required to sit thru a long,