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The Prescott daily news., 1917-09-25
fEEO h'' MATCH WITH GIBBONS

vorl. Sept. 25.-Harfy Hieo' pa,.Surgs Ss~ pride in the middIemslgn' "angn' Pl'.sy p'sion has been knocking opPoh- d,,'Sf' t.. .tif and ant, has been defeating G them Fn's s'ints S, with such regularity that he cn pGl'i,S .,s as the only possible oppon- p0S af ,f class for Mike Gibbons. The en' Oi e. paul boxer has whipped grea' s tho others. He's so good a noS' ,,;+b most of those in his class pl'',I at sound bit good to the aver ass Z, creb. however, there is a youth
 II .aors unbeatable. He has come NnY .o fast of late and seems to be 'V"s d that it seems logical for him |to pick on Mike
 c.veraI stabs at such match have s.sn made-by Pittsburg and other s.omoters. but it hasn't been made i.,r.,tive enough yet for Mike. Glb- p,ns is growing out of the fight game certain extent, partly because his s,,thar Tom looks perfectly able to t,ts care of the family reputation' |,rB partly because Mike is reaching a
 ,t whore he doesn't want to get .esdy to fight. His business interests have grown big and he would be con +snt to drop the ring game and take Esre of them exclusively.
 promoters have been looking a long lime for some one to send against Nike who would be able to make 1t Interesting for the famous lrishman, but no one has appeared who looks the hart Soldier Bartfeld's cries for a hatch haven't taken seriously, for he soldier cant be considered in the ssme breath with Gibbons, in spite of h fact that he once gained a news haper decision over Gibbons. Mike bDOwd thinks he wants a match with Gibbons and several promoters are |ai to have made tempting offers for he mill, but it is probable this match Iger will be made Mike practically aught 0'Dowd everything the latter nOws about fighting, and has senti- mental reasons for not wanting to t1nge with the latest St. Paul sen- stOn
 All deductions bring the promoters ace to face with match that will lave as one of its principals Greb and fs the other Gibbons. The early win ter will see great activity looking oWard such an encounter.
 Grebs record in the last few months holds victories, among others, Pver Jack Dillon and Battling Levin ny the two feroclous light heavy Feghts Dillon was scarcely able to aya glove on the elusive Pittsburger, Fhle Leyinsky was given the scrap
 his eyentful life.
 Greb recently made his first fight e'ore a New York audience and he eu' them home marveling after stop u'g JacE London in the ninth round. .pe original match was with the 1alu Ald' but he didn't show up and 0pdOn was substituted.
 u'eO has an awkward, apparently uHlSy style in the ring. He floun- ,' around pounding the air with his s' ou' he has the knack of hitting "p,su' m spite of all his seeming
 Uuty to stand up straight. His
 '"Ou ol milling is disconcerting to '"F or his opponents. Pittsbure .n '" masse to see him fight and 4' at ms funny efforts, but is s'ay to mortgage everything and hot ,,. 'ne IaVorlte son when he goes '''Oil-no matter who is selected
The Prescott daily news., 1917-09-25

Ama,,o s'e Is dissension on the Boston IsDort. .'R e,. League club, according to beagnso N''erlng around the American
 Barry hs recent visit to New York Jack |hst nIsl' Usgan riding Duffy Lewis when |after Fr~yer m.,', returned to the bench |an TS' raA'ng a bad play on a fast ' argument waxed hot until
The Prescott daily news., 1917-09-25
It Didn't Fit.

Young William was evincing much interest in the evening paper, but final ly q puzzled look came over his coun- tcnance.
 "Mother," he said, finally, "what loes Id stand for1"
 Doctor of divinity, my son. Don't hey teach you the common abbrevia. ions in school?"
 Sure; but that don't seem to sound tight here"
 Read if aloud"
 WitneSs-I heard the defendant SaN, "Ill make you suffer for this. I'll be doctor of divinity if I don't "''' -Harper's.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-09-25

If you are not subscriber to The Daily News let us have your name.
 New adoption school books-all kinds of school supplies at Buchanan Drug Store.
 Fresh Norris Candies at Guthrie's.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

Indebtedness which peculiarly fits the
farmers needs. 1t recognizes that the
farming business is one Of SLOW re-
turns.
So, it provides that a mortgage
made under the act shall be paid on
the amortization or installment plan
through long or short period of
years. The mortgage may be made
to run from five to forty years, at
the option of the borrower, and they
must be paid off, interest and prin-
cipal, in equal installments through
the period of the loans. Permission
is given to pay all of the loan or any
part of it on any interest paying date
after it has run five years.
To give the prospective borrower an
exact idea of the size of the payments
required annually to wipe out mort
gage in given period, amortization
tables have been prepared. The fol-
lowing table shows the amount of an
nual payments required to extinguish
in the period indicated, a thousand
dollar loan bearing interest at 5, 5k
and 6 per cent:
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01
Second Article.

OttOUu Altlt1t.
II has always been recognized thai
the most effective aid one can get is
that which enables him to help him
self.
Some critics Of the federal farm
loan act have charged that this act
makes it too easy for farmers to get
into debt, and that there will be a
tendency to overborrow.
A careful reading of the bill will
show that this objection is met by
very carefully limiting the use to
which the borrowed money may be
put and by the requirement that far
mers gradually each year must re-
duce their Indebtedness.
The farm loan act was designed to
be helpful to the farmer of average
operation who has heretofore been de-
MED adequate credit 1t wisely limits
the loans to so per cent of the APP
praised value of the security, because
this limitation makes the security of
high character, thus satisfying the
investor, and therefore results in
lower rate of interest.
The use Of the money is carefully
limited to the purchase of land, to
pay off existing Indebtedness, to pur-
chase live stock, or to make any pro-
ductive improvement such as fencing,
drainage, buildings and machinery.
When money can be borrowed |
cheaply for productive use, a mort
gage becomes an investment rather
than handicap. The farmer is en-
abled to get money to put his land to
better use, so that the profits of his
will pay off his indebted
ness. Hereafter judicious borrowing
on the part of the farmer will be re-
garded as business enterprise, just as
it is now considered beneficial for
arge commercial institutions to bor-
row.
The farm loan act creates a form of
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

the beautiful Emmett valley, it is
loveliest. The rim of the sky above
the hills is like a sea of lovely color,
and shadows fall on the darkening
spaces from little hills. The rising
moon follows the sunset, and fills the
snow covered land with soft light,
enticing lovers to walk in their mys-
ferrous spaces. The color and vivid
ness of green meadows in summer
thrills and stirs the heart. In winter
they have AN enchantment that stills
the heart, like great poem and the
thought of God
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

Sometimes when we hear the pres
ent day woman complain that she has
no time for anything, we wonder what
she would do if she were obliged to
handle for a month the work which
her grandmother did regularly. In
the days Of her grandmother the wo-
man Of household had to make all
the clothes for the entire family, I'M
derwear and all, and knit the hose
and mttens. She had to do her sew
ing by hand, had to spin her own yarn
had to make her own candies and her
own soap; make the family sausage
and dried the fruit for home use. She
couldn't buy her bread and cakes
at the bakery, canned fruit and pre-
pared foods at the grocery store. Yes
grandmother was really a busy wo-
man.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

So it will be seen that the farm
loan act, in addition to providing a
way for the farmer to borrow to the
limit of safety, provides that he must
put his borrowed money to produc-
tive uses and furnishes the machin-
cry to get him out of debt in an hon
orable and business like way The
farm loan act helps the farmer by
placing within his grasp the means
to help himself. 1t makes for bust
ness initiative and independence.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

in the high cost of living. And then
there is a wholesome public policy
in scattering the money around. 1t
will help find work for some poor man
and help some other debtor pay his
debt. So pay up now.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

When the bank advises folks to
save their money, all the fellows that
are tighter than the bark on a tree
take its advice; when somebody says
you might as well have a good time,
you can't take anything with you,
then all the young spendthrifts who
never save a dollar, gaily take that
advice If each one would take the
other fellows dose it would all be
good.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

Slang phrases never lack signifi-
canoe and in no other way perhaps,
or rather through no other medium,
does the soul of a people or gener-
alton so fully express itself. BY way
Of example, there is the popular
phrase, getting by" which one hears
on the lips of modern youth almost
every hour in the day. No combin-
alton of words carrying more of abb
solute peril ever crept unnoticed into
American speech. 1t is terse ex
preston of the old immortality that
whatever succeeds is right and that
nothing matters much if it isn't found
out. To be exact it implies a mental
attitude in which ethical and moral
values are either hopelessly confused
or have ceased to exist.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

Now it is the turn of the Socialists
to be found out as the mysterious
force that reelected Woodrow Will
son. For man who was reelected
by so narrow a margin, it is surpris-
ing how many different interests and
things elected him. But the Socialist
vote fell or by more than 100000
from 1912, and as the falling off was
heaviest in the states that proved
pivotal in the election between Will
son and Hughes, it is easy 10 show
that Wilson owes his second term to
the Socialist voters who failed to vote
their own ticket. The Ohio Socialist
vote fell off SO per cent, Washington
AZ per cent, Wisconsin 20, Kansas IL,
and California 90. The Socialists in
California who voted for Wilson in
stead of Benson reelected the presi-
dent. There are between 100000 and
a million Socialist votes in the United
States and in a close election they
are able to turn the scale.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01
CURRENT COMMENT.

"The people" have no lobbyists, no.
body to speak for them. But they do
have a great power Every legisla
tor knows that same time he must
go home and be able to explain to the
neighbors what he did and did not do.
1t is a real referendum, perhaps the
best ever invented.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

If you have So, or more or less, for
which you have no pressing need, go
and pay debt with it. That is the
best use you can make of money, un-
less you are naked or starving. Now
is the time to obey the Bible injunc-
ton, lowe no man anything" That
is in the Bible, but from the way
some debtors spend money they don't
seem to know it or care for it. If
they have dollar extra, it goes for
pleasure or convenience. The duty
to pay someone they owe never oc-
ours to them. Nor does it occur to
them that every unsettled debt is a
drag on community. Everybody has
to pay interest on it. People have to
pay more for their sugar and coffee
because other people owe the grocer
and won't pay. 1t is one of the items
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

These Tablets are intended espe-
cially for disorders of the stomach,
liver and kidneys. If you are troubled
with heartburn, indigestion or consti-
patton they will do you good.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

While you are cussing the legisla-
ture, you are requested to remember
that you pay its members $3 day.
AS rule people do not get more than
they pay for.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

The man who wrote "Let me live in
house by the side of a road had in
mind, of course, good road, No
man can be cheerful and neighborly
or really good citizen if he lives in
a house by the side of a neglected
road.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

awake by its barking. When | got
up the next morning | discovered the
dog was NINE"
Little Jacks mother showed him a
letter from a "new aunt" who had
attained to this relationship by mar
rying Jacks favorite uncle. "Mam-
ma" said Jack innocently, as he la
boriously spelled out the signature,
"Belle Paine" does aunty pronounce
her front name in two syllables?"
"Now," said the teacher smilingly,
"who knows what a skeleton isl" A
little girl wearing a clean apron and
occupying the back seat, waved her
hand wildly and worked her mouth in
her endeavor to get the teacher to
look at her. "Well, what is it," "a
skeleton is man who has his insides
outside and his outsides off,"
4 4 =
GLOW the years go by remarked I
an Emmett woman at the lecture |
course entertainment the other night.
Little girls who were starting to
school only short time ago are now
falling in love and you can see them
right in this audience by the Dozen"
This woman is young yet, but she
said it made her feel like grand
mother, almost.
The proud and Happy Father" as
described in the birth notices of news
papers, is big fake. No young faith
II is proud and happy; he's too blam-
ID nerveshaken and scared for any
,ther emotion. And as for the old
ather, his thoughts of doctor bills
md other expenses and nights of
loor walking are enough to keep him
rom dancing and singing.
The first meeting of the "One-Leg-
.ed Mems Association of America
,ill meet next June in Washington,
he guests of LEGGED hotel man,
nd will elect a national president.
me of the things to be advocated is
one-legged mans exchange, where
y odd shoes may be passed on to
ONE brother with the other leg off,
nd use made of it..
you'll have to send for another
octor," said the one who had been
allied, after glance at the patient.
Am | so ill as that?" gasped the
Ifferer. 81 don't know just how i'll
on are,' replied the man of medi-
ne, "but know you're the lawyer
no cross examined me when / APP
cared as an expert witness. My con-
,ience won't let me kill you, and I'll
: hanged if | want to cure you.
God dayl"
How dear to my heart is the old
GLOW pumpkin, when orchards are
lrren of stuffing for pies; when APP
es and peaches have both been a
ilure, and berries no longer dazzle
y eyes. How fondly | turn to the
uit of the cornfield-the fruit coun-
y kids are taught to despise-the
d yellow pumpkin, the Undiscovered
lmpkin, the pot-bellied pumpkin that
axes such good pies.-From the
ymes of a guest at the Mcfarland
rthday celebration. i
4 4 &
At evening, when the sun hangs
" in the west, as if sad to leave
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

The meanest man in this neck of
the woods lives in our neighborhood,
according TO Old Bill Misgivens. HE
walked me up at midnight" Old Bill
declares, "and borrowed my shotgun
to kill dog that was keeping him
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

A reader, in answer to our query
where the Russians who have crossed
the river IA, can BIB, suggests that we
get map and &c. That's all right,
but the most up-to-date war map a
month from now may not be worth
a DID,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

At evening, when the sun hangs
low in the west, as if sad to leave
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

The Wichita, Kan, police have been
asked to find woman, of whom no
description is given except that she
has the letter &c" tattooed on her
leg. Perhaps you can think of a
harder job for police force, but we
can't.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01
How the Farmers May Take Advantage
of the Farm Loan Act
BY Frank Eedera Farm oanR

nix Wilson, Federal Farm Loan Bureau, Washington, C.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

You can believe it or not, as you
please, but the boss of this column
of vagaries can prove chat mosquito
this very day jammed his bill into
the bald spot on the boss's dome of
thought. The bump is still there.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

Dorothy" said mother, eff you are
bad you won't go to heaven. Don't
you know that" "Well," replied lit
tie Dorothy, "I've been to the circus
and the lecture course already. | can't
expect to go everywhere"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

A woman asking for divorce says
she had no objection to making the
living for the family all these years,
but could find nothing in her vows
her to keep her husband
in smoking tobacco
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-06-27
CITY COUNCIL MEETS.

The city council held a special ses-
sion in the City Managers office on
Monday evening, all of the council
men except Councilman Clark being
present. The council voted to allow
Henry Welterlen $500 on the contract
price of the city Jail, the balance to
be held back until number of
changes on the building are made.
A representative of the Iowa Elec-
tric company appeared before the
council with a proposition to renew
the contract for lighting the streets.
After considerable discussion the
matter of signing up the contract was
continued, until future date.
The question of opening 2 streets
from Main street north past the A.
NJ. Cloud farm and connecting with
the east and west road just south of
the fair grounds, was thoroughly dis
cussed, but no action was taken
Councilman Barr is opposed to the
opening of the road, while Council
men Smith, Hruby and Williams look
upon the proposition more favorably.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-06-27
REGISTRATION ROLLS SHOW
9.649,935.

War registration returns, virtually
completed Thursday night of last
week by returns from Wyoming and
Kentucky show 9,649,93S men be-
tween the ages of twenty-one and
thirty years inclusive. have been en-
rolled for the country's service.
In addition to the regularly tab
ulated total, 6,O01 Indians were en-
rolled by state officials or on reserva-
tions by interior department agents
Counting the 100000 or more men
in the federal service, and not requir-
ed to register, the provost marshal
generals office says the census bu-
reau estimate of 10,275,6 eligible
was approximately correct, and that
few slackers are to be sought. With
registration complete, it is expected
the regulations governing the draft
probably will be made public within a
few days.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-06-27
ELECTRIC Lines
TO Be REBUILT
IOWA ELECTRIC COMPANY TO I'M
PROVE SERVICE IN MAN.
CHESTER.
FAIR GROUNDS To. BE FENCED
Successful Canning Demonstrations.
Child Conservation League Buys
Playground Equipment.

The Iowa Electric company has en-
tered upon program of improvement
of it's entire electric wiring system in
Manchester, which when completed
later in the summer will mean that
all of the old poles will be replaced
with new and larger ones, the wires
where the insulation has been worn
off will all be replaced, and in fact
the entire system put in first class
condition 1t is a we'll known fact
that in some sections of the city the
system is in need of the repairs con-
templated, and it Is a wonder
at that serious accidents in past years
have not resulted from poorly insul-
ated wires. The company will ex-
pend vast sums of money on it's lines
during the summer. In many in
stances the residence streets will be
cleared of poles, and the lines car
ried along the alleys.
A force Of eighteen men began work
of rebuilding Monday morning, and
if weather conditions will permit, it
will not be long before marked i'm
provement will be noted in the ser
vice the company will be able to give
it's patrons. Extensive improvements
are also contemplated at the water
power plant.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-06-27
PHILUs s. CROSBY.

Philus S. Crosby was born in Cleve-
land, Ohio, March 27th, 1S4s. and died
at his late home in Manchester early
Monday afternoon, aged seventy-five
years. He came with his parents to
Delaware County, Iowa, at the age OF
eleven years, since which time he has
resided in this vicinity and may we'll
be lassed as a pioneer settler of Della
ware County.
He was married November 26th,
1868, to Mary Therese Noble, and to
this union were born the following
children: Sophonia, who died in ealy
infancy; Newell D., who died at the
age of eleven years; Mrs. James Pinch
and Mrs. Sanford Lyman of Manches-
ter, and Mary, at home with the moth
er, are left to mourn the loss of a
devoted father and husband.
There are also several grandchil-
dren, and very many warm friends
who will greatly miss Mr.. Crosby from
the common walks Of life.
Funeral services were held at the
Presbyterian church this afternoon.
conducted by Rev. w. A. Montgomery.
Interment was made in Oakland ceme-
terry.
MIR. Crosby was veteran of the Civil
war, having been member of Co. H,
21st Iowa Infantry volunteers, and was
a faithful member of the Grand Army
post here in Manchester, beloved by
his comrades and all who knew him.
His sickness was of long duration,
so that he has been constant suffer-
er for number of years, with heart
trouble, but was always light hearted
and happy and always had smile and
pleasant greeting for everyone he
met, and his friends will sadly miss
him from the old home, where he has
dwelt so long, and from among the old
familiar haunts where he has fingered.
No home is secure from the invasion
of grief, and someone, somewhere en-
ters the shadowed vale every mo-
ment, still there is nothing in the sun
set of life to alarm the good and
faithful as sunset is the fit time for
and rest.
"Up to that city where falleth no
night, the dear ones are gathering
home"
Mrs Ida Elder.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-06-27
Fair Grounds to be Improved.


At the meeting Of the Manchester
Commercial club held last Thursday
evening. the question of fencing the
fair grounds was finally determined.
It was decided to build steel fence
along the south line of the grounds,
adding greatly to the beauty of the
place. Delaware county has one Of
the finest fair grounds in the whole
state of Iowa, and now that the Man
chester Commercial club has taken
charge of the grounds it is to be i'm
proved and beautitied until 1t will be
lin strictly first-class condition.
Besides fencing the grounds some
notable changes are to be made in
the buildings. Some of these are
to be moved to more advantageous
positions. and others are to be greatly
improved and enlarged. A number Of
permanent improvements were made
last year. and the program mapped
out then will be carried out this
year as far as the available funds
will permit. ,