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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12

Eve have been accuoulating very
great reserve power Of wealth and
business possibilities in this country
but they were So hemmtd in by inan-
clsI dams erected under Republican
administrations, rs ~ carry no fertil.
ity To the whole country, thouph
they did furnish power 81 the big
business that had built the dam, aud
claimed all the rights IN the power
President Wilson, by I series Of legis'
Ia i've enactIn nts opened up the
slflices Of this dan and made It pos
sibIe that the waters Of fertility and
poAer could become the common
property 81 all our citizens.
TIE whole country has been accus,
toned to business and money corners,
during Presidential campaigns, lol
years Now We are t1 be spared
bese Troubles which we're visited up
on US every four years for electiUneer.
ing purposes 20 Whip the Whole
country into line for the national Re-
publican party. That Is a KIND
of pgeF,iOu that this IeutOcratic ad b..
ministratl0n has Killed outright, and
no business man ~ilI regret IL.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12
Notice for Publication,
Serial No. OI6SI5

0ellal No. 0l6Sl5.
department. OF "a Interior. T. :
L, 1916. ""'io' april
NoIICE is hereby given thu,
S'iehael I. Lambeth, Of salmon fda'
~, who, On March rs, 1919 m I'D.
d homestead Entry, Serial No olRsTE e
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12
LEGAL ADVERp

for Lots 8, il, II. g.
II Notrh, Range 81 ~.
dian has filed notice J.
make dnal five-year ~
lisb claim TO the land ~ soa
before Allen G. Merr,sa ,oil
missioner, at Salmon. II.
9tb day of June, 1915 ias'|
Claimant names as ~.
William B. Horn.
William Shanafelt LAM
all of Salmon, Idaho.
BEN r. GRAY
April 2S-May Is.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12

Fish and game licenses v !.
ready at The Rel Gross Z ~
Ii you can't come in send J =
with personal description =
and license will De returned 2
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12

A h, Allen, forest ranger located
near Ulysses, rs business visitor in
Salmon
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12
LEGAL ADVERTISING

No. lOj.
REPORT OF TIE CONDITION
OF THE PlONE ER BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY At SALMON
In THE STATE Oh IDAHO, AT
THE CLOSE or BUSIN ESS
MAY /, 1916.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12

The 0nlg place to stop when IN
Gilmore the Harris iIOtel. -Ad.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12

I, ", =. aHuWp, FftslUent OF the
above named hank, do sOlemnly swear
tia the above statement i, true to
the best Of my knowledge aud belief
w, z. SilOUP, President.
Subscribed and sworn ID before
me this l2th day OF May, 1915. /
certify that ! am not an officer OF di-
rector oil this bank.
ENOCH w. WIIITCOMB,
Notary Public.
Residing al Salmon, Idaho
Correct test:
A, W, PIPES
N. II. SHOuP
Directors.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12
Notice for Publication.

March 81 April =.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12
Notice for Publication.

May 5--56.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-12

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
Did rs He Was Told.

One evening, just as 1t was getting
dusk, laborer walked down the main
street Of the city. Coming to poultry
dealers place, he stopped and gazed
admiringly at the fowls and game dis
played on the window slab. One tur-
key OF about fifteen pounds weight
took his fancy. After running his
fingers through the coins in his trou-
sers pockets a few times he decided
on having that turkey. Picking 1t up
he entered the shop. The shopman was
very busy. Jest weigh this bird for
me, will yeT' said he. why don't
you take your bird somewhere else TO
be weighed?'' snappily replied the
poulterer without looking up. "Oh,
kin do that all right" he replied, cheer
fully picking the bird up and walking
out with it.--London Tit-Bits.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
Weighing Machines.

Weighing machines and scales o
some kind were in use 1900 B. O.. 70
It is said that Abraham at that tim
weighed out" 400 shekels Of silver
current money, with the merchant t.
Ephron, the Hittite, as payment for 1
piece of land. including the cave and
all the standing timber lin the field
and IN the fence" This is said TO be
the earliest transfer of land of which
any record survives and in which the
payment was made in the presence OF
witnesses. The original form of the
weighing scale was probably a bar
suspended from the middle with q
board or shell suspended from each
end, one TO contain the weight, the
other TO contain the matter TO be
weighed. The steelyard was probably
SO called from the material OF which II
was made and from its former length
II is also known as the Roman bal
ance and is OF great antiquity.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
The Summer Hotel.

II is quite an eye-opener to trave
around to the summer resorts and see
the lavish and enormous palaces built
for the summer vacation business. When
YOU consider that most of these places
can do a good business not over two to
three months in year, it does seem as if
many of them must be run at a loss.
Not merely do they have as heavy an
operating expense as fine city hotel.
but they must pay interest on capital,
depreciation. repairs and taxes, out of
the profits of very short season. The
arrangements mayssave something by
transferring their force of employees from
winter resort houses run alternately with
the summer places. But at best there
must be long between season periods
when things go slow.
The modern wealthy American is
free spender. and he demands and is will
ing to pay for high standards of service
and Injuries Probably the servants in
these places get their pay largely out OF
the free tipping prevalent, which must
help lot.
Smaller hotels run for people of mod
crate means lock like less risky prop
NHitlpU iutNt are Ntl APT " tfPNhh
for their service on school teachers or
college students living near by, who can
be hired at moderate rates and need be
engaged only for a short season. Their
seems rather primitive to peo-
pie used to high class hotels. There may
be no electric bells and the guests may
have to depend on oil lamps. But at the
present cost Of living great many PEG
pie are willing TO put up with the lack
Of modern conveniences
There are thousands OF these small no.
tells in attractive scenes that get Just
about the same crowd Of people wear
after year. II they provide good home
comfortable beds. pure water. /
md good sanitation. a great many other /
lacks pre- overlooked. People return |
year after year. and the pleasure Of |
Meeting old friends counts more than the !
liceties OF servioe.-Quincv Mass Pa
riot
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
Waning War Orders.

Persons of various political and re-
ligious belief who have scolded and
stormed at the international custom OF
selling arms to fighting nations doubt
less feel relieved to know that the am
munition contracts taken by manufac-
turers in the United States are beginning
to run low The war prosperity, as far
as munitions are concerned, is waning.
But while these sadent reformers are
hugging themselves over the decline OF
the hateful war ORDERS" they must
have a thought. too, for the men and
women who have been given war-order
employment. A suggestion of what is
to come is seen in the Pittsburg plant of
the Westinghouse Airbrake company.
where $500 workers were dropped in a
body when the company finished work
on a contract for British shells. In a
city Of Pittsburg's size $500 unemployed
workers means little; they would soon
be absorbed in other industries. in nor
NAL times. The hard part of it is that
hundreds and thousands Of other num-
lions workers will soon be turned adrift
and they will remain adrift until gen.
ersl industry gives the labor market
new balance.
A comfortable belief Is that the war
business viii be promptly succeeded b.
other business; that the present pros
perity will leap the gap between war and
peace. Il is a belief held bv shrewd
business men as vel a. BY born opt:-
mists. II NAV h tested before this
year snds.-Boston Journal
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
ANCIENT ANESTHETICS.
Nepenthe and Other Agents We're Used
by Old Time Surgeons.

Those who imagine that surgical
knowledge began with later genera
lions and that the discovery of chloro.
form revolutionized the science should
read an article published by DR.. ]. de
Fenton in the South African Journal
Of Science.
Various anesthetizing media and
methods were well known both in an
tiquity and during the middle ages.
Homer mentions the anesthetic effects
of nepenthe: Herodotus states that the
Scythians obtained similar effects from
the vapors of hemp, produced by
throwing hemp seed on hot stones. A
Chinese physician Of the third century,
B. c., gave his patients a preparation
Of hemp to make them insensible dur
ing surgical operations.
The most important anesthetic Of an
cient and medieval times was, how
ever, wine Of mandragora, the use OF
which is mentioned by a great number
of early writers and is referred to by
Shakespeare. More recently, In the
year 1760, the German surgeon. Weiss,
better known as Albinus, amputated
the foot of Augustus Ill. king of Po-
land. while under the influence of man
dragora.
Two other anesthetizing agencies
were employed in very early times,
arterial compression and hypnotism.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
Poisonous Flowers.

Flowers Of the jonquil, white hya'
cinth and snowdrop all possess a poi
sonous nature, the narcissus being also
particularly deadly, so much indeed
that to chew a small scrap Of one of
the bulbs may result fatally, while the
Juice of the leaves is an emetic.
The berries Of the yew have killed
many persons, and it Is known now
adays that 1t is not safe to eat many
peach pips or cherry kernels at once.
The lobelias are all dangerous,
Lady's slipper poisons in the same
manner as does poison Ivy. The bulbs
seem to be the most harmful. Lilies
Of the valley are also as much so.
There is enough opium In red peoples
to do mischief, and the autumn crocus,
II the blossoms are chewed, causes
vomiting and purging.
The leaves and flowers of the olean-
der are deadly, and the bark of the
catalpa tree Is very mischievous. The
water dropwort when not In flower re-
sembles celery and is virulent-Coun-
try Gentleman.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
BIG L0AVES OF BREAD.
In France Thoy Arc Made From Four
to Six Feet In Length.

The biggest loaves of bread baked
to be eaten are those made In France
and Italy. In the case OF the pipe
bread of the latter country the loaves
are between two feet and three feet
In length and occasionally even long
err, while the French people make their
loaves in the shape of very long rolls
of bread, ranging from four feet to five
feet and In a few instances even to
six feet In length.
Bread in Paris is distributed almost
exclusively by women. These go TO
the various bakehouses at $50 a, m.
and spend about an hour in brushing
the long loaves with special brushes
When their load Is cleaned of grit and
dust the porteuse de pain goes the
round to the customers.
Customers who live In fats have
their loaves propped up against the
doors Of their apartments. Shopkeep
ers, restaurateurs and other customers
who have entrances to their premises
in the street find their portions of the
staff Of life leaning against their front
doors when they take down the shut
tiers. The wages Of these bread car
riers vary from 2 shillings to IS. Cd. a
day, their work being generally over
at 10 or IL o'clock in the morning
London Tit-Bits.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18

the claim that a modernly appointed
steel plant will be consigned to the scrap
heap. Credence for this contention will
be slow a-coming, but there is reason be-
hind the argument that little profit is to
be found in the manufacture OF armor
plate.
ut would be good business for us to
make armor for the government at any
price over and above the actual shop
cost, rather than sacrifice our entire in.
vestment,' is the way the steel COM
panys advertising specialist sums up the
situation. Persons whose pecuniary in
terests lay in the scales favoring greatly
armament have been righteous
ly suspected of tampering with the pre-
paredness question and it will take a
good deal of sermonizing to convince the
rank and file that Bethlehem Steel is GO
ing to dig deeper into the armor plate
business without prospect of fair profit.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
BETHLEHEM STEEL BEFORE THE
PEOPLE,

Arguments opposing a government ar.
NOR plant should not be condemned un-
reservedly, as the plant of the steel
people may win the sympathy. if not
the approval, of the public. Even though
the reasons behind the company's extern
sive advertising campaign may not be
grounded in sound logic, it must be ad-
mitted that its method of propaganda
against the srmor plant feature of the
preparedness bill has certain singular
features that must command attention.
To begin with Bethlehem's purpose in
opposing a government owned armor
plant is frankly stated. An armor man
ufactory Of no earthly use to it, owners
must be strapped If the government goes
into the armor plate business II is rep
resented that armor making Is the least
profitable feature u the steel manufac-
ture and that interference from the state
viii mean the scrapping Of a 100000
srmor plant Too much that hitherto
was considered waste IS being conserved
IN this efficiency era to give weight to
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
FIRST FRUITS.

Under the energizing influence of many
active figures the Barre Board OF Trade
is striking stride that will bring up at
undreamed of destinations if the good
work is allowed to go on. Yesterdays
show of hospitality to the Clapp party OF
Iowans was an earnest of what may be
achieved on short notice. Between sat
urday night and Monday morning the
Board of Trade perfected plans for show
ing the visitors, some 80 in number.
through the manufacturing belt and over
Milestone hill. Due measureably to the
whole hearted cooperation of the Barre
& Chelsea railroad officials, members of
the Granite Manufacturers and Quarry
owners associations, the plans were car
ried through to successful termination
A sturdy band of westerners got a new
notion OF Vermont hospitality and when
the visitors were finally speeded on their
way the Board of Trade had the salts
faction of surveying the results of
worthy deed well done. More power to
the Board of Trade in the work it has
undertaken.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
Striking Diversity in Evening School
Budgets.

Surprising differences have been re
vealed by a recent investigation int
evening school expenditures of the 2
leading American cities, made by the de
partment OF the interior through its bu
reau of education. Newark, n. j., tn.
highest city on the list in per capita ex
pnnditures for evening schools, reckonec
on the basis of total population, spends
over IL times as much as Baltimore
Newark's expenditure is $4,000, or A.:
cents per capita, whereas Baltimore, with
$4,000 population, spends only $4,000
for evening schools, or 80 cents per cap.
| ita.
Pittsburg and Detroit, which are in
the same population groups as Baltimore
spend 1876 cents and ITO cents, respec-
lively. Los Angeles and Buffalo, each
with about 100000 inhabitants, spend
respectively, 26.6 cents and 24.2 cents,
as contrasted with Cincinnati and Mil
waukee, also in the 100000 class, which
spend IS cents and 81 cents respectively.
New York City, first in point of popula
ton with 5.333,000, and Kansas City, 2lst
on the population list with $4,000 both
occupy consecutive positions in the sched-
ule, spending ia cents and AL cents,
respectively.
Boston and Philadelphia are consider
ably below these figures with SO cents
and 10 cents expenditure per capita, re-
spectively, yet both of these cities count
their foreign born by the hundreds of
thousands and their non English speak
int inhabitants by the scores of thous-
ands.
Chicago and st. Louis spend like
amounts-l0.2 cents per apita-slthough
these cities differ widely in population
and in the character of their immigra-
tion problems. Seattle and Cleveland are
far apart from almost every point of
view save per capita expenditure on
evening schools. Their expenses on this
account are 90 cents and 90 cents, re-
spectively. Minneapolis spends 10 cents
per capita, while New Orleans and Jersey
City are close rivals with 81 cents and
. cents per capita, respectively. Wash
ington, with its congressional appropria
ton of $4,000 per year, just escapes
trailing along at the end OF the list. II
expends only SO cents per capita on even
ing schools.
w iilt THESE lRufte w htA nave OH.
necessary connection with the character
If the work accomplished and while there
are undoubtedly varying conditions to be
considered yet it must be admitted that |
per capita expenditures on evening |
schools gives some measure OF the com |
nunity interest in this type of work.
Evening schools offer almost the only |
means of combating rliteracy and in
utility to speak English among adult
liens. two disabilities which have al
'esdy reached disquieting proportions in
he United States. Society has stamped
10Th as liabilities. and the public veal
demands united effort to discharge such
liabilities. Elimination Of illiterscy and
inability TO speak English is only one
orm Of educational preparedness. Are
be school budgets OF the p leading
american cities making due provision TO
meet this responsibility
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18

Throwing hand grenades has become
an important factor in modern trench
warfare and Americans in the Foreign
Legion, thanks to their, baseball prac-
tice, have distinguished themselves in
this line. 1t is related of an American
unit now in France that practice com
panies alongside the Yankees have to be
placed farther apart when they include
the members of the legion. Owing prob
ably to the natural desire of the erst-
while ballplayers to wind up" before
letting loose with the grenades. At pres
ent an Armenian Frenchman holds the
distance record, 1872 feet, three inches,
but some baseball star of the American
diamond may yet top the record 1t is
not to be presumed, however, that dis.
lance always counts in hurting a hand
grenade.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18

An officer of the first Vermont regi
ment on patrol duty at Eagle Pass, Tex.
feels moved to quote well remembered
and burning sentence from General
Sherman in describing his own impress
sion of the climate there. 1t will be re-
called that General Sherman, remarking
upon his Hypothetical ownership of both
Texas and Hades, said he would prefer
to rent the Lone Star state and reside in
his other possession, or words to that eff
feet. Quoting from the fiery Civil war
leader in this wise may serve to revive
the oldtime controversy over the valid
ity of the quotation but most people who
have read in their newspapers of Texas
humidity will concede that the quotation
was an apt one.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
The Primrose,

The primrose has suffered injustice
from the poets. who seem to regard it
as a floral weakling. Shakespeare
wrote OF pale primroses" that die "ere
they can behold bold Phoebus In his
strength" Spencer regrets 80 fair a
flower should perish through ''untime-
ly tempest" Milton laments the rattle
primrose that forsaken, dies" and
many later poets have written of 1t In
similar strain. Why? For the prim-
rose is hardy plant and will be found
where few other flowers can exist, on
the mountain heights of Europe and
Asia and even on the highest ranges of
the Himalayas. And Disraeli recog-
nized its color In the fried eggs upon
his breakfast table.-London Notes and
Queries.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
eukowina's Stormy History

Bukowina, the Austro Hungarian
province, has undergone sundry politi-
cal transitions. According TO many
Austrian authorities. it was wrested
from Pennsylvania in the fifteenth cen.
fury by Moldavia, but ii not long be-
fore that formed an integral portion of
the latter state, to which 1t belonged
until 1t was coded to Austria by the
Turks IN ITS. Bukowina, which
means Beech Land" abounds in wood
land and mineral wealth and rears
large numbers of cattle and horses
London Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
CURRENT COMMENT
Page and the Papers.

1t is surprising to note how many Yer
mont papers are not coming out for Page
In fact, census of the press of the state
would show mCTe of the recognized lead
ing papers with a leading distinctly away
from him. This should disabuse the
minds of the people who think the press
is controlled by its advertising patron
age, because Page has been one of the
most liberal advertisers in Vermont for
a number of years. The fact of the case
is the press of Vermont is one of the
most Independent influences in the state,
actuated by honest and unselfsh mo-
tiyes.-Barton Monitor.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
What, in Montpelier Co H?

Although not represented by com
pany of its own in the Vermont Nation
al Guard, Barre has Is men with Co. II
of Montpelier, which is doing pretty well
The figures rather discount the state
ment printed by the Montpelier Argus
that Barre had only four men in the
company,-Barre Times.
The official who had the roster of Co
H is responsible for the information
that Barre had but four men in the
company. The Evening Argus is pleased
if this information is true, but just the
same, Barre, which claims to be so far
ahead OF. any other Washington county
community, ought to have much larger
representation than claimed by the
Times Montpelier Argus.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18

Pot holes in city streets are a nuisance
that can be abated without involving any
burdensome expense for the better roads
office and not in any sphere that one may
summon to mind Immediately is "the
ounce of prevention remedy any more
efficaeious than on the highways. There
are streets in Barre to-day where lit
tie gravel spilling will have quoting
effect on the nerves of motorists as well
as those whose vehicles have a harsher
cushion than the pneumatic tire.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18
The Puzzle.

81 wonder how Flubdub can afford
an auto. Don't your
mo, don't wonder how he can af.
ford an auto. I know he can't afford
an auto. But how do gaZaboes like
him manage to get hold Of autos 7
That is what fiabbergasts me. Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18

Vermont farmers are rejoicing over a
good stand of hay and the more ven
turesome agriculturists, nurturing alfal,
ia paintings under the direction of for
ward looking county bureaus, are san
guine of big returns. More OF Old Soils
friendly attention and warm nights will
whip the corn crop into line.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-18

Phonetically, Governor Gates state
ment has clear ring and whatever the
issue those who had proclaimed them
selves already showed nothing superior
in the way of announcements.