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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-01-11
NOTICE

At a meeting of the Directors of the
Oklahoma Gold Mining Company of
Humboldt County, State of Nevada,
held on the 18th day of December,
1915, at the office of the Company, an
assessment No. / of one-fourth of a
cent per share was levied on the CAPT
tai stock of the Company, payable inn
mediately to the Winnemucca State
Bank Il Trust Co., the authorized agent
Of the Company, who are authorized to
receive and receipt for the same. All
stock upon which the assessment is
not paid Oh January 18th, 1916, will
become delinquent and will be sold on
January 3lst, 1916, for assessments
and costs of advertising, according to
law, without redemption.
MOSES REINHART, Sec'y.
First publication Dec. IA, 1915.
Last publication Jan. Ii, 1916
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-01-11
A DELICATE CHILD
Made Strong By Our VinoI

Fayetteville, N. C.-'My little dauph-
ter was in poor health, delicate and
so weak it made us very uneasy 7
heard about Vinol and decided to try il
and the results were marvellous. her
appetite improved, she gained in weight.
and is now one of the healthiest children
IN town. Mothers of delicate children
should tryVinol."-Mrs. GORDON JEssUP.
Vinol is a delicious cod liver and iron
tonic without oil, a constitutional rem
edy which creates an appetite, aids di-
gestlon and makes pure healthy blood.
All children love to take it.
Drug Co, Winnemueea, Nevada
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-01-11
MISTAKE OF
SMALL TOWN MERCHANTS

The greatest trouble in most small
communities is that the merchants as
a general rule are jealous of their com
p~etitors in the same town or neighbor-
ibg town and think because a spas
modic insertion of a small ad does not
Ieep them and their clerks jumping to
fill orders, it doesn't pay to advertise.
And also they do not pay enough at
t%ention to this most important part of
their business.
As a general rule in his ad writing,
when he finally does decide to invest a
few jitneys with the local paper, he
waits until the last possible moment
before getting the printer the copy and
then scribbles only a few general re-
marks that the public already knows,
such as, be it a grocery store: eve
have sugar, lots of it," and signs his
name; and the same way with the dry
goods store: "We handle shirts,
socks, I" and so on through the different
lines of business. Get some pep into
you and give the people the induce
ments that others are doing and it will
pay you to advertise.
The sooner the merchants of any
town where such conditions exist get
to understand that getting up good,
readable ads, in an intelligent manner,
of what they have to sell and what
prices they want, is as important as
opening up their store in the morning,
the sooner they will learn that it is
advertising that brings in the coin.
So many merchants and others who
have goods to advertise, say: ooh, /
haven't time to write an ad," but still
you see no one in the store. Get busy
or you will be sorry some day to see
your trade gradually slipping away
from you and no ones fault but your
own. What would you say to a clerk
who would tell you he hadn't time to
90 a certain important duty be had to
RCAAOt III 0AAO0OtONAI ~ NOhAA w"
stake your time and get out"
Others say: 81 don t have to adver-
tlse; everybody for miles around knows
me-" Sure they do, but if you don't
get up and hustle, or "shake a Leg as
is sometimes said, they win put you
down as a has been and in these days
of hustle you have to be up and going
after what you want or someone will
beat you to it.
If You haven't time or don't know
how, why don't you and others in a
Ike predicament get together and hire
one who can and you will make adver-
Using pay. This can be done at a very
nominal cost.
What does it cost the large mail or
der houses to advertise and send their
catalogues into this county to get their
goods before the peoplei There are,
at a small estimate, about 5000 large
catalogues sent into this county each
year, not to say anything of the numer-
GUS small ones which we will not speak
OF. The 5000 large ones cost on an
average to place in the hands of the
receiver, printing, postage, packing
etc, about one dollar each. This e
$4,000 spent for printers ink by a
house hundreds of miles away. Do you
think they would continue in business
long If it did not payf No; they get
this amount back and much more, and
have a good profit on their books be
sides.@ohn Henry Wulf in Barry
Record.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-01-11
THE WAR A YEAR AGO TODAY
Jan. II. 1915.

Jan. II, 1915.
Allies, attacking from Perthes'
/ tried to cut German rail communi-
cations.
Russian lines greatly REINFORCED.
Military authorities took oVer all
blankets in Berlin and Branden-
burg.
Italy sent g%arrisons to her ISL
ands In the Aegean.
American party on way to re-
lleve German and Austrian pris-
oners In Russia halted temporarily
by Russian government.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-01-11

the printing and supplying said county
with legal blanks, notices, certificates,
lists, books, ETC., as hereinafter elassl-
Fed, for a period beginning on the Stn
Gay of February, 1916, and expiring Oil
the LIST day of January, 1917.
CLASS ONE
(a) For all advertising requiring one
insertion only, price per square of ten
solid lines equal to solid nonpareil
measurement.
(b) For all advertising requiring
more than one insertion, price per in.
s%ertion, to be measured as is provided
for in subdivision (a), class one.
CLASS TWO
For all legal blanks, notices and Ger.
tifcates, printed on paper equal in quail
ity to paper now used by the county,
necessary blank spaces and necessary
blank space lines and parts of lines
therein to be considered as printed
matter, price per folio per 100.
CLASS THREE
For all letterheads and billheads, 10
be printed on bond or cap, ruled or
blank, as required by the county, said
paper to be equal in quality to the pa.
rer now in use by the county, price per
500.
CLASS FOUR
All tax lists, price per hundred.
All paper and material must be fur
pished by the party to whom the con
tract is awarded. A folio is construed
to mean 100 words or necessary blank
spaces equivalent thereto. All forms
must be accurate and in the manner re
quired by law and an work must be
done in good accurate and workman
like manner.
All bids must be separate, that is to
say, each class must be separately bid
on by the bidder, and the bid for the
entire county printing must be sepa-
rate from the bid for any class.
Bids for class one must state the
price for which the bidder will per
form the work mentioned in subdivision
A, also in subdivision b. BIDS for elias,
ONE must be accompanied by a certi
fed check for $3.50. Bids for each OF
the other classes must be accompanied
with a certifide check for 800. Bids
for the entire contract, whether by
class s, as a whole, or both, must b,
accompanied by a certified check fol
$3.50. All checks must be made paya
BILE to the Clerk of said Board, anC
must be deposited with said Board a
a guaranty that the bidder will ente.
into a contract upon notice of accept
ance of his bid, which check will b.
returned when the contract is entered
into and a bond given and approved al
hereinafter provided. In case of de
fault of the successful bidder to ente
into such bond, said check to be for
feited and become the property of sail
county. The Board reserves the RICH.
70 reject any and all bids as the pub
lac interest may require. The contrac
arising upon any one or more aceepte,
bids must be secured by bond condi
toned for the faithful performance
thereof, in such amount as the Boart
ia its discretion may deem meet ant
proper.
BY order of said Board of Count,
Commissioners dated January 5, 1916
Attest. w. DAVEY,
Clerk of Said Board. (Seal)
First publication Jan. 8, 1916.
Last publication Feb. 5, 1916.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-01-11
A YEAR AGO YESTERDAY

Jan. 10, 1915.
French cut German railway lines
to prevent relief of Altkirch.
Turks marched on Egypt.
Turkish army of reserves, trying
to save Erzerum, repuIsed at from
tier.
German ~aviators threw thirty
bombs on DunkIrk.
French aViators defeated German
airmen in battle at great altitude.
Abbas Hilmi, deposed khedive,
called on Egyptians and Sudanese
to rise against England.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-01-27

winchester 1Ftcltlct.
j. G. Lynn, W. b. Kriebel, A.
IL. Jump, James Barnes, Levi NJ
Fl0ry, Kenneth r. Hill, Alfred
III. Bjorklund, Delwin Huett,
Reuben S. Harris, +. b. Higley,
Joseph r. Bell, Frank j. Haupt-
imam, Gundy Eubanks
M0hler Precinct.
John Senter, Mat Ransier r. NJ
IPfeifer, Alfred NJ. Abel, Wade
Emiek, Jasper b. Fagg, Edward
p. Coin.
Russell Precinct.
Herman Albers, Geo. j. Sehla-
der, Henry Sehlautman Jr., Jacob
Wolfanger, Walla f, Williams,
Micheal Bogner Jr., John w.
Hansen.
Kamiah Precinct.
j. w. Atkinson, Lewis p. Brad
bury, Geo. V. Carlisle, Harry
Beam, Nathan Drake, Joe Cox,
Thomas Hogan, William Jameson,
Arthur ID. H0llingsworth, James
A. Nation, William B. Renshaw,
John NedrOw, Frank j. McLin.
Central Ridge Precinct.
M. f. Buoyd, W. r. Galloway,
Albert ID. Hunter, Eugene r.
Goffinett.
Mason Precinct.
Frank Burnett, Harry L. Clovis
John A. Harrod, Harley Higgins,
Chris Holee.
Reubens Precinct.
James w. Crow, Andrew j.
Erickson, Arthur L. Fisher, Wal
ter P. MeWilliams, Fred w Lew
| is, Frank E. Gardner, Ole II. Han
Morrow Precinct.
Mathew Carberry, Walter w
Davis, r. E. Kittrell, Lee McClain
John Sales.
DIR. j. p. Jones here presents TO
the board his official bond in the
sum of one thousand dollars
which was here approved by the
board; and the said DIR. John
Paul Jones having taken the oath
of office before the chairman Of
the board, he was declared to be
duly appointed the Coroner of
Lewis County Idaho.
The board here examined and
approved the bond Of Delbert
Harvey as Constable of Cold
Springs Precinct.
In the matter of monthly al
lOwances for indigents and moth
er's pensions: it is here ordered
that the county auditor be author
lied to present claims to the
board for the allowances for the
succeeding quarter and make
payments to the parties in inter-
est on the first day in each month
by his personal check. It is fur
Their ordered that the payment of
the Mothers pension to Louisa
Anderson be reduced to SO per
month in conformity with an or
der Of the Probate Judge.
Claims allowed, current expense
fund:
j. B. White, salary audi
tor and deputies. s. $1067. so |
Manford H. Paige, salary
sheriff. ~. -. 49,. 10000 /
A. w. Mitchell, salary
deputy sheriff 255.OO
L. T. Mckee, salary trea-
surer and deputy. 49,. $500
3. Fl. Ratliff, salary as
SCISSOR 49,. $50. 1890. 3l0.UU /
). o. Tannahill, salary
prosecuting attorney 1880 Il
Thomas M. Roberts Pro-
bate Judge -. .sO75o
2etta f. Martin, salary
setta F. Martin, salary
Supt. 49,. 80. -. ..102.50 |.
setta F. Martin, salary
Supt. 80. -. !. 1O2.50 i
. H. Lowrey, salary Com
missioner. - 1880
7. B. Schlader, salary
Commissioner 49,. -. 1880
p Ragan, salary Com II
missioner . -. !. 1880 K
ames Carlisle, salary
Surveyor -. -. $500 !,
L. Kelley, salary Phys !
ician -. -. 1880
T. Price, salary Coro-
ner -. -. .. 5000
!. E. Wade, salary Agri- r
cultur1st ... 49,. -. 2ZJ.OO
b. White, expenses 1890 r
!. w. Mitchell, expenses 1
Deputy Sheriff 49,. SOS
b. White, quarterly :.
allowance indigents 10000 ?
7. H. Coin, chairman,
claim $500 allowed $50 q
ezperce Telephone Co. =
tolls Supt. go. 4.52 y
ezperee Telephone Co.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-01-27

81 tvpewriter A6.75
Ramey Lumber CO., lum-
Der and supplies. 40'd .l
Syms- York Co, supplies. l22.oo
shaw & Borden Co, sup
plies. -. .... .s.. ~. A"'Oo
Western Hdw. 4 Imp.
Co, supplies 49,. . oS'to
Anderson Pharmacy Co,
drugs indigents. -. O.oV
f. j. Stevens, board pris-
OnerS. -. .... .... 10"
b. Il. johnson, livery -
i Sheriff. -. 49,. $3.50. Nv
James Miner, photos. S-oV
Joe Ivy, team hire Sher- 80
Mrs. rs''' 4. ". Mitchell.
board prisoners. -. 1913
Maud sson Oossy' 90" 200
r. f. Moser, livery Supt., $3.50
L. 4. Moser, livery Sher- -
ltf...... 1855. 1880. low
~. "A. dcilttt ,, dutV HhAN -.
and exam insane. $3.50. SUI
Nv. p. MeWilliams, board
INDECENT $50. 80. .... lo.uu
is. !. Ringsage. witness
ices. ...a.- .....- ...- -O'OV
York Herren, premium on
Manford II Paice. expen-
SEES probation officer. l2I.23
Manford H. Paige, expen-
SEES sheriff -. $500. 1914
w. p. MeWilliams, board
INDECENT -. 49,. 49,. 10
&c. c. AIizer, collecting
poll tax. ... .-. $50. 20
Rosa b. Kineaid, care mi
nor children. 49,. $50. $500
Lewiston Staty & Pig Co,
supplies 49,. 1880. l2-4O
Helen Jeffrey, Jail ma
John W. Graham 1 Co,
supplies. 49, --.-.- low
Celia w. TureOtt, witnes
justice court 1850. $685. $50 /
Fabien Lazier, witness
Justice court . $50
Wilbur Rawnsley, juror
justice cOrut $685. 2.29
Carl YOunt, juror justice
court. 49,. 500. . 10
W. S. Card, juror justice
COURT ....- -....- 80
A. C. Howerton,juror jus
tice court. .-.. 2.25
Chas. Dunaway, juror
justice court. -. -. 2-25
S. Wamsley, juror justice
court. 1880. .. 20
Carl Bowles. witness jus
tiee court. -. . $40
Yves Berry, witness jus
tiee court. -. . $40
T. G. Holmes, witness jus
tiee court -. ... $40
James Kenyon, witness
probate court. ... 100
Olivia LOrang, witness
probate court. 49,. .... HOO I
w. II. Wood, witness pro-
bate court. 49,. 49,. . 1925
Milan Cook, witness pro-
bate court. .. 49,. 49, 4.25 [
Louis Drake, witness pro- I
bate court. .. 4.JO Q
Vincent Lorang, witness r
probate court. 145O \
Robert Frederickson, wit 7
ness probate court $50 o
2. G. Jensen, witness pro {
bate court 1900 500 Ia
Jacob L. Boyer, witness
probate court -. - 400 %
Iaud Covey, witness pro-
bate COURT. 1900. 2.2J 3
orlando Newton, witness
probate cOrut. ~. 100 Il
remington Typewrit. Co.
typewriter dist court 1000 1
ohm w. Graham & Co,
supplies probate Judge 900 Il
haw & Borden CO., sup
plies sheriff. 80. 50 n
haw 4 Borden, supplies 400
rwin-IIodson Co., sup m
plies. -. 49,. 80. s43 50
!. $. Carley, livery hire. $50 al
haw & Borden, supplies 100
! T. Mckee, expenses. 7f65 ov
o. Tannahill, expenses 6325
g. Shumaker, board in
gent. ~. =. 1775
ezperce Herald, print
ing. ...... 124ss
ezperce Trading Co sup
plies jail. ...... PISS ia
eta F. Martin, expen- pr
ses. -. $50. ...... 1884 pr
p Donovan, supplies. 1915
ork Herren, taking tes- NC
t Il u. 80. $40 pr
T. Ramsey, special dep ap
uty = sheriff. 80 !. 5O.35 .
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-12-21
FIGURES DON'T LIE

IN 1914 the Kennewick-Rich-
/ land strawberries brought the
grower $1.75 a crate. In 1915
they brought SLIGO crate. In
1916 they brought $2.43 a crate.
We do not know what stronger
argument in favor of the Kenne-
wick-Richland Marketing Union
could be advanced than the ar
gument contained in these fig
ures. The thing the strawberry
grower is after is dollars for his
berries. This year he got it and
the Marketing Union is raspon-
sible for his getting it.
If the grower will contrast the
results of 1915 when there was a
woeful lack of cooperation and
when price control was thrown
to the winds, with the results OBJ
tanned this year he must admit
that the salvation of the berry
business is in the growers work
ing together.
To date about fifty per cent
of the Kennewick acreage has
signed up for membership in the
association. Before the signing
is over this per centage should
be raised to one hundred and the
membership should come vol
unfairly. The initiative in the
matter should rest with the
grower who has not signed the
contract rather than with the
directors or the growers who
have signed up. Instead of some
body taking time away from his
own affairs to go out and solicit
membership the man on the out
side should come in and seek
membership.
The director is a director only
because he is DESTROYS Of pro-
tecting his own rights and pre-
serving his own business. He
receives no pay. His time is not
the Unions but his own. Be-
cause he is willing to assume the
responsibilities of management
is all the more reason why he
should be spared the added bur-
den of rounding up membership.
Every berry grower should feel
that he is a self-constituted COM
mittee of one on membership. :.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-12-21
4 4 4 4 4
NOT GUILTY

PROSECUTING Attorney
i Fristoe assures this paper
that when County Commissioner
j. B. Clements testified on the
witness stand that he had called
on Mr.. Fristoe on November 5
and asked him how to build a
court house, he was mistaken.
Mr.. Fristoe insists that Mr..
Clements did not suggest the
court house proposition to him
until after the general election.
We are inclined to believe the
prosecutor, as it was evident that
Mr.. Clements was not very GER
tain about anything connected
with the bond deal other than
that he had signed the bonds on
Sunday, December 8 because he
was a slow writer and that he
had left all details to his attor-
neys (the same attorneys whom
the taxpayers are now paying to
make the deal stick.
Prosecutor Fristoe in offering
his explanation has only spoken
the mind of the general Prosser
public. The Prosser people in
general and a few public officials
in particular are going to be
mighty prompt to wash their
hands of the whole affair. And
rightly so, for we believe that
the Prosser people were kept as
much in ignorance of the deal
as were the people in other parts
of the county.
Before the affair is over with
we are of the opinion that the
men who will wish most to wash
their hands of the deal will be
Clements and McNeill.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-12-21

elect r. E. Pratt were to notify
the board and the auditor that
he was not yet ready to take his
seat but that he would qualify
at the end of sixty days, what
would happen? We are of the
opinion that the county's gov
ernmental machinery would
hardly be halted to await Mr..
'Pratt's pleasure or that a place
on the board would be held open
for him.
This is exactly what Mr.. Hous-
ton has done. He was eligible to
take office Immediately after the
general election, but he notifies
the board that he isn't ready to
assume the duties of his Office
until sixty days later.
So far as we know, nobody
wishes to deprive Mr.. Houston
of his place on the board but we
wouldn't blame anyone for not
feeling sorry if that gentleman
had jockeyed himself out of Of
flee.
Mr.. Houston's present atti-
tude is rather hard to reconcile
to his prediction announce
ments. While he was a candidate
he evinced a keen eagerness to
get a seat on the board that he
might begin house cleaning and
interrupt some of the highland
ed practices of the commission
ers whom he denounced in no un-
certain language. He seems to
have adhered strongly to this
purposeful desire until Monday
morning, December a, when he
suddenly became convinced that
after all he really didn't want
to be commissioner.
The trouble with too many of
us is that our moral fibre is al
ways very strong until a little
strain is put upon it; our sin
cerity is full-carated until the
first drop of acid is applied, and
we never know just exactly
where we do stand until some
body has taken us up on the
mountain and shown us the val
leys.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-12-21

atories, the tiny inmates Of tho
orphanages. If you are able -
bring a bit of cheer-practicail
cheer - into the dead life of
someone confined in one of these
institutions. Do not think sucb
an effort is a waste of time or
out of date. Indeed, it will be tba
kindest act you can do at Christ
mas time-to think of someone
who has lost his place, or is mot
yet able to take his place in tbo
great world.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-12-21
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

= EFT the spirit of Christmas
Il time, "Peace on earth, good
will to men," come into your
heart and be merry and glad.
But in the midst of your merry
making and charitable thought,
do not forget that there are
many to whom Christmas will
bring no cheer. These are the
hopelessly i'll in hospitals, the
human driftwood in the reform
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-12-21

GOING, OR COMING?

NNE result of the court house
" controversy has been to
leave E. C. Houston in a position
where he doesn't know whether
he is going or coming. He does
not know whether he is commits
sioner-elect, or commissioner-re-
tired.
If the court holds that Mr..
Houston really qualified on De-
cember 2 when he filed his bond
with the county clerk and took
his oath of office, the withdrawal
of his bond and oath of Office
will, it seems, constitute resig-
nation. If this be true there is
now undoubtedly vacancy on
the board.
Should the court finally
hold that Mr.. Houston did not
qualify there is possibility that
Mr.. Houston will still have diff
Guilty in taking his seat on the
board. As we understand it the
law provides that an official
elect shall have fifteen days in
which to qualify after he has re-
ceived notice of his election and
after his terms begins. If this
be true and should the law be en-
forced Mr.. Houston may find
that his services on the board
can be dispensed with for the
next two years.
In any event Mr.. Houston's
procedure is rather unusual to
say the least. Supposing that
on January 8, the day on which
his term begins, Commissioner
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-01-08
SAM SMITH REPORTED KILLED

Sam Smith, about 81 years of age,
a wealthy and well-knOwn rancher
and one OF the first men TO settle i'm
Union county, according 10 a report
brought TO KentOn by rider and
telephOned TO Clayton, was shot and
illed by an unknown person Friday
afternoon. Officer CrumIey, Justice
L. w. Kingdom and County Physi-
clan DR.. Bristol left Immediately in
an automobile for the Smith ranch
via kentOn. Through absence of any
wire connection between either Ken
ton or Clayton and tie Smith ranch
we are unable to learn any of the
details of the supposed murder. A
general air OF mystery surrounds the
affair as il is reported that no one
saw the crime committed, yet the
theory of suicide that was later re-
ported was promptly discredited al
though there is no basis by which
either story can be confirmed.
Officers were expected to arrive
in Clayton Saturday night.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-01-08
Another Jitney Line

H. II, SammOns, who has been
cashier at Clayton for the C. & S.
has temporarily resigned TO conduct
a iitney line from Clayton to Gren-
vile, Mt. Dora and Des Moines. Mr..
Sammons purchased a new Ford at
Wikoff Garage and made his first
trip Tuesday. This business seems
to be paying one as C. A. Merritt,
who started the line from Clayton
10 TeXline and Dalhart, has added
another car TO his equipment and
extended the line to Texhoma and
other points.
Since the C.. & S. pulled Off two
passenger trains from Clayton's
daily service folks who have wanted
to travel have found it difficult TO
go anywhere and get back. Sched-
ules of both auto lines are arranged
to eliminate long waits for the morn
ing and evening passengers.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-01-08
COMMISSIONERS CREATE 8
new VOTING PRECINCTS
Folks can Vote and Get Back Home
in One Day. Other Capital
Notes.

Upon presentation of petitions
signed by the majority of taxpayers
who were interested the Board of
county commissioners, in session this
week, created three new voting
precincts. The new voting places
will be Pasamonte, Lone Star school
house and Mt. View school house
The creation of these new pre-
cincts will allow folks 10 make the
trip to the polling place and get
back home the same day.
The boundary lines of the new
precincts will be described in the
Commissioners proceedings which
will be published in an early issue
of The News.