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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27
UPPER MESA
BY Mrs. H. L. Cowan.

Miss Katherine Gilbride Of Emmett
was weeks end visitor of Heller
Hampton.
Mrs. George Parks was caller or
MRS. William Enrich Friday after
noon.
Prof. f. J. Kreis was an over-Ssn-
day guest at the Cowan home.
Haw creek has been very high and
flooded some fields.
William Enrich is on the sick list
Gilbert Catalan, nephew of James
Catalan, is visiting relatives in Boise.
Mrs. G. G. Ellis and babe visited
the Cowan home Wednesday.
Mrs. Frank Chaplin and baby were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jay
Sanders.
Mrs Ed Francis father of Kansas
il here visiting and looking for a
location.
Miss Gertrude Sanders has been
quite sick again, but we are glad TO
report is feeling better.
The roads were damaged a great
deal by the water running over the
grades and washing out some cul-
verts.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27
Mail Orders Promptly Filled
index office

and the three being covered with
earth, turn into nine stalks. This
process being repeated third time,
results in 81 stalks, and the Russian
in question repeated it ten times in
all, so that at last each grain pro-
duced 5000 stalks. If the seed is
first sown in the ordinary fashion and
then transplanted to the pit before
mentioned, you get an even stronger
growth, so that after only eight
coverings, more than 100000 stalks
have been produced from a single
grain.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27
HAVE YOU WEAK LUNGS?

Do colds settle on your chest or in your
bronchial tubes1 Do coughs hang on, or
are you subject to throat troubles1
Such troubles should have immediate
treatment with the Strengthening powers
of SCOTS Emulsion to guard against
consumption which so easily follows.
Scott Emulsion contains pure cod liver
oil which peculiarly strengthens the res
piratory tract and improves the quality Of
the blood; the glycerine in it soothes and
heals the tender membranes of the throat.
SCOTS is prescribed by the best special
hts. You can get it at any drug store.
Scott x BOVINE Bloomfield. MI.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27
Ptomaine Poisoning of chickens


Would Mrs. JONES and Mrs. Palmer
tell us why they thought their chick
ems died from eating burnt wheat,
causing ptomaine poisoning? If there
were any poison or germs in the
wheat, burning would kill them. The
usual understanding is that ptomaine
poisoning comes from eating meat
or canned vegetables that have start
ed to spoil. The best poultry ex-
perts recommend charring corn and
wheat occasionally to feed poultry.
as it acts as tonic. Could the chick
ems have had access to any dead ami
NAL, salt, brine, poisoned wheat nut
out for animals, or other food? IF
water was thrown on the wheat while
it was burning, it might form some
kind of gas, but l do not believe thew
would eat enough of it to kill them.
Let us hear from them, or Others.
A POULTRY RAISER
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27
BRAMWELL.
By E. F. Wells.

Tom Carr moved his sheep last
week from Frank Newman's place to
across the river below Falk.
The recent heavy thaws have done
considerable damage to culverts
around here.
The many friends of Mrs. John
Simpson will be pleased to know that
her condition is much improved at
this time. The attending physician
thinks an operation may not be neces-
sary.
Mrs. Sid Walker is assisting in the
care of Mrs. George Sillivan, who is
quite sick from gathering in her
breast caused from cold
Mrs. Win Burns and family are en-
joying visit from her father, Mr..
Head, from Oregon.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27

the fittest. At any rate, he ran out of
the henhouse with the cat making
marks up and down his back every
time it kicked out its hind legs, and
trying to do strangle hold with its
forelegs.
johnson doesn't know what caused
the cat to break loose, but it did. His
nightshirt was torn almost from him
and he was badly cut and scratched in
the fight-but he saved his chickens.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27
NEWS OF GEM COUNTY
By The Index's Correspondents.

last week. The creek went out Of its
banks at several places.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. H. Johnson are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. johnson
in Boise. Thomas Stone is helping
Jack Schultz feed the sheep dur
ing Georges absence. The snow was
so deep in the sheep corral that they
had to haul several loads of straw.
The Seventh and Eighth grades had
examinations on Thursday of last
week and the rest Of the school had
vacation that afternoon, which the
Riddles spent hockey bobsleighing.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27
CLAIM YOUR EXEMPTIONS
Affidavits for Same Must be Made
Before Fourth Monday in June.

DcIOre rOurtn MONDAY In June.
The county assessor will soon call
upon the taxpayers of Gem county to
make the 1916 assessment. Certain
property is exempt from taxation by
the nature of the property. There
are other exemptions, however, which
are allowed only if they are claimed
by affidavit before the fourth Monday
in June, 1916. These classes of ex-
emptions are as follows:
y Property of fatherless children,
$1,000; property of widows, $1,000;
property of Civil war veterans, $1,000;
surgical instruments of professional
men, $1,000; tools and implements,
$500 where the total value does not
exceed $1,000; household goods, $500
where the total value does not ex-
coed $1,000.
All these exemptions must be
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27
TYPHOID
Is no moro necessary
than S m allpox. Army

HOIU experience has demonstrated
the almost miraculous effi-
cacy, and harmessness, of Antityphoid Vaccination
Be vaccinated NOW by your physician, you and
your family 1t Is more vital than house Insurance.
Ask your physician, druggist, or send for Have
you had typhoid" telling OF Typhoid Vaccine,
results from use and danger from Typhoid Carriers.
THE CUTTER LABORATORY, BERKELEY, CAL.
PRODUCING yAcciHIs sERuns UNDER U. s. soY Liesnsa
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-01-27

FOUND-An initial bracelet. Apply
to this office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
CHURCH NOTICES.

Unitarian church, Rev. +. Q. S. Osgood,
pastor. Subject of sermon, The Per
mancncc of Christian Truth. In place
of the usual Sunday school exercises
the rite of confirmation will be OBJ
served. All are welcome.
Swedish Lutheran church. Services
at 1880 and 7.30. Sunday school 1910.
On Wednesday evening the church
board meets at $50, and the young peo-
pie 5 society at S 0 clock. On Thursday
the Dorcas society meets in the church
rooms.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, En-
crson building, Elliot street. Sunday
service at 1915. Subject, Unreality.
Wednesday evening testimonial meeting
at 5 o clock. Reading room open daily,
except Sundays and legal holidays, from
; to ) o'clock. All are welcome.
st. Michael 5 Episcopal church, Rev.
J. Frcdrik Virgin rector. Fifteenth
Sunday after Trinity. Holy communion
at $50 and at 1890. Sunday school at
noon. Evening service at 80. Tuesday
and Thursday, holy communion at 80
IA. m. Friday, evening prayer at $50 p. N.
St. Michael 5 Roman Catholic church,
Rev. James Z. Rand rector. Masses at
! $50 and 1890. Rosary and Benediction
OF the Most Blessed Sacrament at 80
p. IN. The Senior Holy Name society
! win receive holy communion i'll a body
at $50 mass. Next Thursday confess
aions viii be heard at $50 and 7.3f
p. m in preparation for the First Fri
+ day deyotions. Friday masses at ) and
4 a. H..
Univcrsalist church, Rev. d. f
Trout, minister. Divine worship 1915
a. m. with sermon by the pastor. Holy
communion will be observed. Bible
school 10 a. m. Y. =. c. L. service
$50 p. IN. in charge of the pastor. The
reports Of the general convention of the
young people will be given by the dele
gates sent 10y the local union. y short
business session viii follow the devo
tional service. Preaching service a
Guilford Center 2.30 p. m. Thursday
Oct. ,, the regular meeting of the La
dies circle at 400 ?. M. in the churel
parlor. The annual public harvest sup
per win be served at 6.l5 p. m.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
Public Business and Efficiency.

That was a pregnant sentence in the
speech Of DR.. Hawley, chairman of
yesterday s convention, when he said;
Il pledge myself - and every
one of you should do the same-I
pledge myself that i'll so far as
l have the ability, | will apply
in the conduct of the public bust
ness, the same principles which
good business men adopt in pri-
waite affairs. -
This principle has been enunciated
many times by The Herald, but has
very seldom actually been put into eff
feet by public servants that the mem
.ory of living man recalls. Some pub
lie officers have attempted it, but
they never lasted very long, and were
very cordially disliked while they
lasted. Sooner or later the politicians
have their way, and the best laid
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30

plans for putting the public service on
business basis go astray.
Once in a while, Vermont, for ex-
ample, is promised a business admins
tration, and one or two governors have
attempted the same careful supervision
of the state s affairs that they give
their own. In perhaps two instances,
there has been an Improvement during
and in one or two respects, notably the
auditor s Office and the purchasing
agent s office, there has been a per-
manent Improvement of business
methods, but most public offices con
duet their departments in the old-fash-
Toned way, and the people S interest is
the smallest visible interest in the
Estate government.
The system heads up in Washing
ton. No cabinet officer, no congress
man, no senator and no president can
change Washington s ways of doing
business very much. They cannot make
government employees hustle. They can
not fix responsibility. They cannot re-
quire full days work. They cannot
get business statement from any
state department without unrolling
yards of red tape. They cannot hire
, and fire." They are practically tied
| hard and fast by the system.
| And yet travellers from abroad tell
/ us our federal office system is a marvel
| of efficiency. 1t may be, as compared
with the :. circumlocution office meth
DDS of some European governments, but
/ it is certainly not a system that a bus
Iiness corporation would tolerate for a
| day-or an hour.
Students of Washington problems
| tell us that the conditions cannot be
materially improved; that the only
hope for the performer is in doing
the best he can with what the system
furnishes, but there are perhaps a
dozen or score of palpable abuses
that Congress can remedy the moment
that Congress wants to.
Take, for instance, the franking
abuse, the right to-print abuse, the
erstwhile free-secds abuse, the pub
lie document" abuse and the many
that are more or less familiar to the
general public. Does any one doubt
for Il moment, that these and kindred
abuses cannot be remedied, if Con
gress wants to remedy them?
The presumption is unsupportable.
There is much more to be hoped fol-
i'll state affairs. With Horace f. Ora
! ham as governor, one might reason
ably expect somewhat expert super
vision of state offices, and departments
as result of his intimate acquain
tance with the details of state bust
mess, but he can do nothing in The
ease of elective offices without the
cooperation of the officers themselves
and very little in appointive offices I'm
less lie is very sure of his men and thor
oughly supported by an exalted public
sentiment.
Press and people together, with sucl
wise assistance from the legislature a
may be necessary, may do great dea
to put Vermont 5 public business on ;
business basis. In this respect, we hay,
probably decided advantage over tn
highly involved and additionally un
businesslike organization of the nation
al government.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
Expense and Advertising.
Rutland Herald.)

With Mr.. Fletcher s campaign ex-
penses around $23 900 and Sen Page s
about So 900, it can hardly be argued
that the direct primary favors poor
man 5 campaign, yet Governor Gates,
with an expenditure Of less than $500,
made a creditable showing and appar-
entity got much more for his money,
pro rata, than either Of the other can
didates.
1t might be said that Senator Page S
votes cost him approximately so cents
each and Mr.. Fletcher S about $3.50
each, while Governor Gates harvested
only 1859 votes less than Mr.. Fletcher
at an expense of about six cents each.
This, however, would be almost an
arbitrary showing, for Governor Gates
as The Herald has pointed out, had 3
readvmade machine, consisting of a
great many personal friends and ap.
pointees of his present office, to say
nothing of men interested IN high
ways in every town of the state. The
same thing applies to Senator Page
with the addition that the Senator
through an admirable talent for letter
writing, had kept in much closer toucl
with his constituents than most people
had supposed.
| Mr.. Fleteher's expenses, though
large, are no larger than any legiti
mate campaign might cost that in
cludes headquarters, political aiver
Using and a statewide organization
town by town Compared with at leas
three gubernatorial campaigns, tn
cost is extremely moderate.
It is not ill-timed to observe tina
political advertising proved itself one
more the cheapest of all campaigl
agents and the most effective. Thi
lis uttered with a full knowledge o
the fact that many political wiseacre
have alleged that Mr.. Fletcher wa
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
Home Demonstrations.
Springfield Renorter.l

On Monday night of this week the
writer listened to a plain, country
farmer, as he told Of pilgrimage by
automobile made by himself and a few
other farmers, as they visited other
farms in his own and adjoining towns,
and there saw demonstrations of the
manner in which success was secured
i'll growing alfalfa, fruit, corn and
other farm products. In this way the
farmers saw not only the perfected
product but also the manner in which
it was grown, and the differences
which had made the crop so much
larger than the average crop. There
was the farmer right at hand to answer
any question, and there was a Wis
ible demonstration of the crop in the
field in the act of ripening. This was
Ia hundred times better and more en-
phatic than sight Of the products
III a floral hall Of some fair. If the
farmers of Springfield would 60 in a
body throughout their own town, and
to the towns adjacent thereto, and Wis
it the most successful crops in the act
of growing in their own fields, and talk
with the men who have made them what
they are, it would be vastly beneficial.
A student in public speaking wants to
hear men speak as well as to read about
how to speak, and the ambitious
farmer should want to see crops grow
and hear the growers say how they
made them grow, if they want to excel
in crop raising. Let US have more home
demonstrations of the possibilities
of Vermont farming. There are plenty
of them within the territory over which
the Reporter circulates to inspire the
Farmers of this section to double their
crops within the next five years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
The Rejected Lewis Gun.

The best machine gun is American
made and the invention of an Amcri-
can. Each day in the fighting along the
Sommc IJ,00O,0 600 rounds Of ammlmi-
ton are fired by British gunncrs from
5000 Lewis machine guns. West
Pointer, Col. Lewis, L. S. A., retired,
conceived and perfected the weapon.
He offered his invention in 1910 free to
the United States government. The of
fer was rejected. For two years Col.
Lewis continued to make his offer. As
often as he did so it was refused.
The gun is held to be the best weap-
on of its class i'll use today III the
mighty struggle i'll Europe. Its etfl-
cheney is one of the reasons for the
present British advance. The British
have it and officially we have not
approved of it, To be sure, our troops
in Texas, through the courtesy of the
British government, have limited sup
ply of Lewis machine guns. We may
save more by paying for them and also
paving the royalty Of the company now
i'm possession of the invention. But
the ugly fact remains that the gun was
rejected by our ordnance department
and is still unapproved. =
j Officers of the United States army
quite agree with the British that thu
Lewis gun is the best of its kind. Th'
board, headed by Capt. Halstead Dorey
found the gun superior to the gun ap
proved by the ordnance department
and so reported.
Can't. Crozicr, chief Of ordnance 7
S. a., has an elaborate explanation at
tempting to show why his department
prefers the gun displaced by the Levi
weapon from the British first line
Practical experience appears to b
against him. Now the army is go1n
TO try to repair the damage by me-
tests.-Boston Globe.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
WEST BRATTLEBOR0

Clarence S. Rider is i'll in his home
with a bronchial trouble.
Mrs. Anna Thurber, who is i'll in the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. Hervcy
Harris, is a little improved.
The women of the Baptist church
are planning to hold fair during the
last week Of October in Academy hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pheland and daughter,
Dorothy of Brooklyn, who spent some
time i'll Maine, are guests at Hcrvey
Harris s.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Knight were
guests yesterday of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Miller, formerly Of West Brattle-
boro, now Of Vernon.
Miss Ellen Miner went to Halifax to-
day to remain over Sunday. Leon Mix
err has been spending the week at one
Of his farms in Halifax.
Miss Dorothy Nmdcrveer is staying
with Mrs. a. w. Stowe during the alb
scncc of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
j. Nandervccr, in Boston.
Miss Matte Buck, nurse in the Mel
rose hospital, returned last night from
Worcester, where she spent a vacation
of two weeks with relatives.
Charles Dalrymple, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Melvin Dalrymple of Guilford
street, was admitted to the Mclrose
hospital yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Harriet Fisher, who spent the
summer AT Onset Beach, is now guest
of Mrs. w. r. Mixer. Mrs. Fisher
plans to spend the greater part of the
winter in Brattleboro and West Brat
tlcboro.
John Noursc was discharged from the
Mclrosc hospital yesterday. He had
been there five weeks with blood poi
souiug in his right hand. The hand is
entirely healed.
Miss May +. Throwcr will return sun
day to her hone in Springfield, Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30

defeated by his own advertising, while
apparently Senator Page would have
won, they say, without any advertis-
ing.
One needs only to recall the predic-
tions of the same wiseacres that Mr..
Fletcher would be poor third in the
race, that he would not get one vote
in this, that or the other city or coun-
ty. The fact is that if Senator Page
had not met Mr.. Fletcher's aggressive
advertising with the Invest kind of
counterblasts he would probably have
been defeated
On the other hand, the chances are
an aggressive, characteristic sort of
campaign, he would have been not
only poor third in the finish, but
probably so far behind both of the
other candidates as to feel himself
Inundated.
You get exactly what you pay for in
advertising, and you reap results ae-
cording to your merchandise and the
way YOU present its merits. Some good
products have been sold by poor ad-
vertising, some poor products by good
advertising, but never poor goods by
poor advertising.
In political advertising, the personal
element enters in more strongly than
i'll commercial advertising, together
with the strangely incalculable quail
ty of the rebound, or reaction, which
always accompanies the aggressive
type Of publicity. Both Of these finally
worked to Senator Page S advantage,
aided by the long list of interests re
counted by The Herald shortly before
| the primary.
| The fact that both candidates got
more directly, effectively and cheaply
to the people through newspaper adj
yertising IS, however, indisputable
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
DROVE CARELESSLY.
And Also Without License = Woman
motorist Pays in st. Adams.

ST. Adams, Sept. 30.-Mrs. C. H.
Cheney of Swanton was arraigned in
city court before Judge N. n. Post on
a charge of driving an automobile care
lessly and driving without an operator S
license. She pleaded guilty and was
fined s. and costs for each offense,
amounting to $22, which she paid. Mrs.
Cheney was driving in this city late
Wednesday afternoon and came down
Bank street at a rapid rate, crossed the
road, and circled around and went up
on the sidewalk in front of Miss Mary
Sweeney S store. As she went around
a car belonging to Raymond Sheldon of
Bennington was hit and one wheel dam
aged. The Cheney car backed down the
two cement steps, but was not damaged.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30

after having spent the summer here
with her aunt, Mrs. Helena d. Math-
cws. Her sister, Miss Florence, will
remain through the winter. She is at
tending the High school in the fresh
man class.
Mrs. Sewall Morse, teacher in the
eighth and ninth grades and principal
of the academy, was taken suddenly
i'll with acute indigestion while in
school yesterday morning. She was able
TO 60 to the home of Mrs. f. A. Knight
where DIR. Hunter was called. She was
later taken to her home on Canal street
in an automobile.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30

! North Dakota has $64,0O0,oOo worth
Of land set apart as school endowment
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
ESCAPED LUNATIC CAUGHT
Mrs. Price, Who Left Waterbury Asy-
lum, Located at Bedford, Cue.

ST. ALBANS, Sept. 30.-Dr. boa D.
Grout, superintendent of the state hos
pital at Waterbury, was here yesterday
and took back with him Mrs. Georgian
ma Price, who escaped from the hospi-
tai Wednesday night. She was located
in Bedford, Que, where Deputy Sheriff
l.. 7. Martin went to get her. She
came by train to Milton, then went by
team to Sheldon aad later to Morses
line, telephoning from that place to her
husband in Waterbury. She then went
to Bedford.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30

Douglasville, y. J., has a dwelling oe
cunicd continuously for 200 years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
Treasure Found in india.

A bronze goblet secured in copper
vessel, which contained some copper
coins bearing certain inscriptions
which are indecipherable, was recent
ly found by two Indian agriculturists
The coins bear the impress of an image
on one side and, being of archaeological
interest, have been forwarded to the
curator OF the Government museum,
Madras. They are believed to have
been in use during the reign of Tanner
lane.
Texas is the seventh state in point of
wealth, first in size and fifth in popu
1ation
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30
JEREMIAH v. BABCOCK DEAD.
Former Montpelier Merchant Was 81
Years of Age.

MONTPELIER, Sept. 30.-Jeremiah
'. Babcock, for many years merchant
in this city, where he lived for nearly
90 years, died yesterday after few
days illness.
Mr.. Babcock was born in Danville in
December, 1885. He was in the drug
business under the firm name of Bah
cock and Cutter for many years. lie
was a member of Bethany church and
was Mason.
Mr.. Babcock leaves his wife and one
brother, Harvey NJ. Babcock of Boston
and haIf-sister, Mrs. j. a. Haddock
of st. Johnsbury.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-30

If the lady that took the pair of
rubbers from the basket in the kitchen
Of the Odd Fellows temple last night
will be kind enough to return them
the owner will be much obliged and
will get m@theFe,-Ady.--~ ISL