The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-03-09
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Breakfast bacon, home grown and
home cured, 20 cents pound at
Steward & Burkhard's meat market
Market Day drew a big crowd to
town Saturday. The offerings were
large and the prices secured were sat
isfactory.
We have plenty of coal for all pur-
poses. Try some of our nut coal,
fine for summer use. Fruit Growers
Association.
NJ. A. Ross received his new corn
pepper and peanut rooster on Satur-
day. 1t is the latest machine out and
is very complete.
c. j. Billiard and family and j. NJ.
Johnson came over from Boise yester-
day in the Billiard car to look after
business interests.
Mrs. W. E. Payne left Saturday for
Tacoma and it is reported that she
will remain there. Her son Chauncey
will have charge of the ranch.
Another of those famous hot waf-
f1e suppers will be given on Saturday
evening from 5 to 7 o'clock by the
Baptist young people at their church.
Price rs cents. Everybody come.
On account of the lecture by P.
Monroe Smock Monday evening, the
Ind practice has been postponed to
Tuesday evening. D. E. Smithson,
director.
A. C. Robinson has moved to his
new home on the former j. P. Clifford
ranch near Letha, and L. A Wheeler
has moved into the house vacated by
Mr. Robinson on North Wardwell
avenue.
A son of John White who is spe-
ciaI agent and detective for the North
ern Pacific railroad at Dickinson, No.
Oak, recently made meritorious rec
ord by running down band of box
car thieves and recovering S2400
worth of merchandise they had stolen.
They had S140O worth of grain in
their possession when arrested. The
grain was secured by boring holes in
box cars and through these running
the wheat into sacks.
D. NJ. Johns, one of the well known
residents of Emmett, was business
visitor in the city Friday last. Mr..
Johns states that the outlook in the
Emmett country is very bright. The
fruit crop will be great this year un-
less every sign fails. Business condi-
tions are improving daily. Mr.. Johns
states that there will be considerable
building activity in Gem county this
year Politically Mr.. Johns says that
Gem is in a satisfactory condition
which means that Gem county can be
depended upon to roll up handsome
Republican majority this year-Cald-
well Tribune.
Douglass Campbell nearly lost his
nose Friday evening last by having it
bitten off by horse. At the time he
was bitten Mr.. Campbell was lead
ing three horses to water. The ami
mails were quarreling with each other,
when, without warning, one of them
Iunged forward, seemingly in an at
tempt to bite a mate, but instead
its teeth about the rancher's
nose. Though it will require time for
the process to be complete, it is ex-
pected that the unfortunate m
nasal appendage will eventually be
Easter is festival of the Christian
church, instituted about 6S A. D., in
OF the resurrection of
Jesus Christ, and at present observed
by the Greek, Roman, Anglican and
Lutheran communions. The day for
it's observance in England was fixed
by St. Austin in 597. Owing to the |
disputes that arose between the East
ern and Western churches, it was de-
cided by the Council of Nice in 325
A. D. that everywhere the great feast
of Easter should be observed on one
and the same day." Following this
decision, easter Day is always the
first Sunday after the full moon which
happens upon, or next after, the 21st
day of March; and if the full moon
happens upon Sunday, Easter Day is
the Sunday after" Easter in 1916
will be April %.
In asking the British parliament for
4 credit of S2,1O0,000,000 to carry or
he war until the end of May, Premier
Asquith said the war had cost Britain
IS, $40, 100000, and he said. at is
rot only beyond precedent, but "act-
rally beyond the imagination of any
inancier." The human mind cannot
comprehend the number of units in 1 Il