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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-09-20
EMMETT NEWS


Jap-a-lac for making old furnitur
new, at Reilly's.
Chimney blocks, any size at nj
Gilbride's cement works, east o.
Fruit Association.
President Wilson has fixed the price
of paper for the government printing
at 2iS cents pound and the manu-
facturers are glad to sell at that price
Why not pass prosperity around to the
other printing Offices?
Hugh Crabtree returned Friday
from Long Valley, where he had beer
fighting forest fires. While on duty
one Of his knees collided with bould-
err, and he is so lame he can scarcely
walk. No serious results are antici-
uated, however.
The bakers, it is announced, will
not reduce the price Of bread until
their stock of high priced flour has
been disposed Of You recall when
flour started upwards, the bakers did
not raise the price of bread until their
stock of low priced -four had been
used up. You remember this, don't
you? Neither do we.
F. f. Batturs, general passenger
agent at San Francisco for the South
ern Pacific, has found the LATEST man.
The LATEST man lives in New York,
where his wife raises canary birds.
The husbands duty had been to sit in
an arm chair and whistle to the birds,
encouraging them to develop their
vocal talents. This finally became too
strenuous and he now has phono-
graph TO do his whistling.
Taking the mortality figures of the !
Trench army for the full three years
Of the war, Roger Babson. II noted |
satatls tician, porvss that our boys who
are to fight in Europe will not run
anywhere near the risks of being
killed or wounded that popular fear
and imagination have conjured. Mr.
Babson finds that about $50 men out /
of thousand are wounded, and about
60 men out every thousand are killed.
In other words, the odds are about
seven TO one against the individual
soldier being wounded, and 16 to one
against one against his death These
are the French percentages for the
entire period of the war, but under
present conditions, where man-power
is being better conserved by the allies
ouly about one in 30 is being killed
In point of the soldiers chance of
being wounded is but little greater
than that of the railway employe in
the United States of being injured.
The railways employed 1,7l0,296 en-
oloyes in 1914, and the records of the
interstate commerce commission show
hat in that year 1922 of them were
injured lin accidents of one kind and
mother. One in seven wounded in war,
about one in 10 injured in rairoading.
Kippered salmon at the Cash Gro
cry. '
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-09-20

Jap-a-lac for making old furniture
new, at Reilly's.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-09-20
Optometry means eye service.
Whitman sells the Universal Fur
mace. Both heat and health.

Whitman sells the Universal Fur.
mace. Both heat and health.
Impure blood runs you down
makes you an easy victim for DIS
ease. For pure blood and sound di-
gestion-Burdock Blood Bitters. Al
all drug stores. Price SIPS.
When wheat was rs cents it took
two bushels to buy The Index for
year. With wheat at not less than
$40 to SO and everything else we buy
in proportion we ought in all fairness
to get 81 year on each subscription
An Emmett man, recently in Den
yer in his automobile, says he had in
mind the speed limit in Emmett and
went accordingly. In the first ten
minutes three different traffic police
men yelled at him, Get a move on
you or you will be run over"
81 Morrow, looking fresh as daisy
and frisky as 2-year old colt, drop
ped into town Tuesday to see how his
old-time friends are sagaciating. He
is now located at Cascade, where
everything is hustle and hurry. He
tells us his boys are attending school
at Cascade and that he expects to
remain in that town the coming win
ter.-Meadows Eagle.
The largest cherry tree in the Unit
ed States grows on what is generally
known as the Hall ranch on Snake
river above Grandview. 1t is only q
years, yet the trunk is eight feet in
by actual measure, and
the tree is fully 60 feet high. 1t is
sweet cherry of the Royal Ann or
Napoleon Bigerau variety. The tree is
thrifty, makes large annual growth
and never fails to produce a tremend-
Jus tonnage of cherries. The farm is
owned by A. A. Kennison. He has
almond and English walnut trees load
ID and peach trees that have borne
annual crops for 20 years.-Nampa
Record.
An American inventor has a mys-
erious little machine which he says
will propel an airplane from Wash
ngton to the European battlefields
md back again without carrying fuel
The House Patents Committee has
Ioted for a test of the contrivance
The inventor says his discovery har-
iesses at trivial cost an untapped
cean power. II sounds most interest
ng If it would run airplanes it would
lso furnish power for automobiles,
nd the price of gasoline would cease
0 worry Mr.. Chuggins or any of his
modest motor friends. Cheap power
) what the world has been seeking
Or some time, and it was never more
eeded than today. We wish the in
entor successful test. 1t would
olive a considerable problem of our
Walton tasks and make us supreme
l the air.
For good bread use Fleischman's
east, at Reilly's.
Expert repairing and prompt SER
zee at Lockett's harness shop.
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28
"Human Nature" in Dogs.

A real, full-blooded English bulldog
has been in our family for seven years,
writes a newspaper contributor, and
as time goes on we find him more and
more human.
One of his traits has amused us for
years. Sunny, as the dog has been
appropriately named, is very particu-
lar about his food. Real, old-fashioned
dog biscuit is beneath his dignity.
When a bowl Of biscuit is put down
for his supper he shifts with disgust
and turns away.
But resting conveniently close at
hand is little papier-mache model of
a bulldog that rejoices in the name of
Fido. All that we have to do in order
to bring Sunny back to his bowl is to
call "Here, Fido, Fido!' and to put
F'ido in front of the dinner. So long
as he feels that some other dog may
possibly get the food, Sunny will eat
every crumb, and with grunt of salts
faction nose Fido out of the way. Is
not that precisely the nature of some
humans?
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28
LOYALTY BIG MALAY VIRTUE
Danger and Adventure Appeal to
These People Who Are Different
From Any Others In Orient.

The Malay cities of Malacca and
birthright of old native ways and GUS
toms. They have taken on a charac-
ter peculiar to themselves that is
unique and interesting, but they are
not at all typical of the federated
states or of the peninsula as a whole.
An inland trip of some length is al
most a necessity for anyone who
would get glimpse of the Malay life.
Such a trip would take the traveller
to any one of a score of villages or
little cities, each as like the next as
one pea is like the other, save for
some detail of river, jungle or hill.
In such untraveled neighbOrhOOdS the
Malay remains very much as the Lord
and his environment have made him.
He is a different individual from
any one else in the Orient. He has
neither the servility nor the Difference
to caste that belong to the lower class
natives of the near East, nor the in
dustry and culture of China and Japan.
He is an Independent, erratlc, SnlTt-
less, proud, indolent individual, fig
ure that lends itself readily to ro-
nance, a victim Of thousand super
stitions, with little culture and con-
siderable amount of pOise and self
possession.
The Malay is romantic because his
virtues are the virtues of feudal So
ciety. He is brave, enduring, courte-
Gus, reserved and hospitable. He has
a real appetite for danger and ad-
venture; nothing lifts him out of his
habitual sloth and dullness so quick
ly as an undertaking that has spice
of peril about it. Under such circum-
stances he will prove cool and faith
full as long as there is life in his
body. Loyalty he counts as chief OF
the qualities to be admired.
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28
WEIGHT OF AN INCH OF WATER
One Hundred and Ten Tons Fall on
Every Acre Covered by Shower
of That Proportion.

Do you know what an 'inch of
rain" means to farmers? When the
weather bureau reports that an inch
of rain has fallen, it means that the
amount of water that descended from
the sky in that particular shower
would have covered the surrounding
territory to a depth Of one inch, if
none Of it had run off or soaked into
the ground.
1t means that on one acre Of ground
water to fill more than 900 barrels
of 45 gallons each has fallen. That
quantity of water weighs more than
10 tons. If the rainstorm covered
1000 acres, which would be a very
small shower indeed, 10000 tons of
water would fall from the clouds.
Rainstorms frequently cover whole
counties, and often two or three or
five inches of water fall in one
storm. In that case the weight of
water that falls to the earth is sim
ply enormous. A single widespread
and heavy storm might result, it has
been estimated, in 100O00,0OO000 tons
of rain.
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28
Tinder Boxes Not Obsolete.

Brandon, a small town in Suffolk,
England, still supplies the world with
fint-and-steel tinder boxes, which even
the developed friction matches Of to-
day have not made obsolete, notes the
Popular Science Monthly. Elderly
persons can still tell us about the time
when f1int-and-steel were universally
used; when old rags had to be
charred for tinder, and when the
sparks had to fly to get these to catch
fire. Brandon f1ints have always been
justly famous. They were used in
the kitchens at home, and on cannons
In the wars. They saw service at Wa
terloO, in the Crimean war, and even
as late as in the South African cam
paign. The first one was made in
1927.
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28

was a little lad was not without its
influence. Perhaps after all this girl
was not well-bred enough to fit in with
his people.
Small boys as a general thing are
exceedingly democratic. A common
same footing. True there are some
times small snobs who are the fruit
of the training of the big snobs; but
no wholesome, ordinary boy is born
snobbish. Birch Parks, and Jay Ben
son were of the latter class. They af-
filiated cordially with Teddy Carr
whose adventurous spirit not only at
tracted them, but made him kind of
leader.
1t was through the small boys that
Vera came to know more of Jerry
Parks. He was especially popular
with them all, and some of the stories
about him that came to her ears made
her think she, would really like to
know him better, even if he did be-
long to the cottage set"
Teddy Carr was always promptly on
hand for luncheon, so one day when
he did not appear 1t was opined that
something rather unusual was detain-
ing him. Vera took the small row.
boat, and started out to search. A
slightly sprained wrist made the han
ding of an oar rather painful, but she
was not the sort to be kept back by q
personal hurt, so she went on. She
was making for one of the little Is
lands in the bay when she heard the
chug, chug of a motor boat. 1t was
Jerry Parks launch, and the next
moment he was beside her.
"Ship ahoy!" he called out. Their
he noticed the bandage around hel
wrist. Had an accident?" he asked.
ooh just little sprain. I turned II
yesterday"
"And you're trying to row with
thatw he exclaimed. "Now don't dC
it, I'll give you a tow right away
And he shut off the engine and started
up for the rope.
She stopped him with: mo please
I'm looking for Teddy, and I may b'
gone quite while"
sand Pm looking for Birch. II
bet my hat they're together, and W.
might as well join forces. I'll civ
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28
Thy Fathar's Friend.

In the will of the late Justice Lamar
Of the United States Supreme court
there was one very unusual legacy. He
5equeathed his friendships to his fam
lily.
''To my family" the will runs, Il be-
lueath friendships many and numerous
in the hope that they will be cherished
and continued. True friendships are the
most valuable of our earthly posses
sions, more precious than gold, more
enduring than marble palaces, more
important than fame. AS Henry
Drummcnd has well said, Friendship
is the nearest thing we know to what
religion is Youths Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28
Two Bold
buccaneers
*
By HI AKERS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Copyright, 1917, by w. C. Chapman.)

Copyright 1917, by w. G. Chapman.)
Jerry Parks had taken notice OF
Vera. He liked her voice, the way she
spoke, her firm, swinging walk, and
the straight gaze of her gray eyes. But
things had not gone much further than
few words between them, which came
about through his helping her to res
cue floating oar. Talk about Amer
ican democracy! Well, at summer re-
sort it's about as easy to establish So
cial relations between the cOttagers
and clearinghouse keeper as it is
to get lady's maid on the calling list
of the duchess of Parchester. Vera's
mother took summer boarders in or
der to be able to live through the win
ter when there were not any. She
had "seen better days." and the re-
membrance of them had made her
careful to instill into the mind of her
daughter the fact that she was not
to allow herself to be patronized by
the cottage set" The bitterness OF
her own ostracism caused her to lay
rather an undue stress on her advice.
But Vera did not seem to even have
to repel patronage, she was simply ig-
nored by the social leaders. Still this
did not in the least trouble her. The
social swim was not with her burn
ing ambition, and she was too busy
helping to run the house, and keep
track of Teddy. particularly adven-
turous, small brother to have time to
be unhappy.
When Jerry broached the subject of
Vera'S attractions to his mother, a
fashionable matron of the exclusive
set, she gave him such a hard, cold,
emphatic settler on any attempt at
social recognition in that quarter that
the young man went off by himself to
ponder over the prose and cons of the
situation and whether after all the
so-called "best society was not in
need of "hurry CALI treatment, and if
TRANSMISSION of blood were not neces-
sary for it's continued existence. Re
bellion was rising in his soul, but his
mothers teaching from the time he
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28
Was He Really Stupid?

A young foreigner was being tried in
court and the questioning by the law
yers on the opposite side began.
"Now, Laszky, what do you do?"
"Ven?" asked LasZky.
"When you work, of course" said
the lawyer.
"Vy, work."
st know" said the lawyer, "but
what at?"
"At a bench"
"Oh" groaned the lawyer. "Where
do you work at a bench?"
"In a factory"
"What kind of a factory?"
''Brick."
"You make bricks?"
"No, de factory is made of bricks" :"
"Now, Laszky, what do you make in
that factory?"
Eight dollars a week."
"No, no! What does the factory
maker
81 dunno; lot Nv money, I think .
"Now, listen! What kind Of goods
does the factory produce?"
"Oh," said Laszy, good goods"
81 know, but what kind of good
goods?"
"The best
"The best of what?"
'The best there is.''
"Oh what?"
"Of dose goods"
"Your honor" said the lawyer. u
| give up."-New York Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1917-09-28
Makinu IL Worse.

Knicker-We shall have compulsory
military training for schoolboys.
Rocker-And it is all I can do to
lick my son as it is.-New York Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
STOCK BROKERS TO SHOW BOOKS
 IN LEAK PROBE
N. Y. Stock Exchange Heads Compelled to Request
 Members to Act,

New York Jan. 23.- Confronted with threats by the house rules com mittee, in charge of the Teak" in- quiry, to force the production of brokers records if they are not pro- duced voluntarily, the governors of the New York stock exchange tonight requested exchange members to make available their records to cover the period from December 10 to Decem- Der 23, during which time it is al- legged persons in possession of advance information on the presidents peace note made huge profits in the stock market
 The boards action followed notice session today that the committees re- quest for the production of brokers, accounts, including the real names of customers who dealt in the market during the period mentioned, and the extent of operations on either side Of the accounts, had been postponed.
 lndigant over the boards failure to act, the committee advised H. G. s. Mobiles, president of the exchange, that if it failed to obtain the produc- tion of the desired accounts, the com mittee would force each broker lndi- vidually to produce his records MT. Noble explained that the production of the accounts would force a great hardship on many people who are not mixed up in this matter "and that the board was in doubt as to it's power to compel members of the exchange to produce their records"
 Both Chairman Henry of the com mittee and Sherman l.. Whipple, its counsel, hastened to explain that It IS not the committees desire to make public the names of anyone except those who might be able to throw light on the '1eak" rumors. me hoard of governors hurriedly gath cred and passed the resolution re- questing the members of the ex- change to produce the records de- manded by the committee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
PLAN FOR HIGHER
 FEDERAL TAXES
 MEETS APPROVAL
House Ways and Means Committee Agrees on In-
 creases and Bond Issue.

Washington, Jan. 23.-Democrats of the house ways and means committee late today approved of the sub-com mittee's draft of the administration revenue bill, and caucus of the house majority has been called for Thursday night, to consider the meas ure.
 At it will go before the caudus. the measure provides for an increase in the inheritance tax ana a new tax cn excess profits of corporations aid copartnerships, authorizes an issue of $100,000000 of Panama canal bonds in addition to the $231 100000 alre;.ly authorized but not issued, and en- powers the secretary of the treasurer to put out certifida ates of indebtedness to the amount of $300,O0O,00 and if an emergency arises, to increase this amount, based on the income tax, which will be due in June.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
VILLA AFFECTS AGREEMENT WITH
 EMILIO ZAPA1A
Bandit Chief Said to Have Given Men Orders to
 'Snipe' Americans.

Washington, Jan. 23.--Troop move ments preliminary to the withdraw al of the American punitive expedi- tion from Mexico are being carried cut at the southern extremity of the American line, under war department orders, and as soon as they arc cOm- pleted. the main body of the expedi- tion will start north.
 For the first time officials admit ted today that the withdrawal of the outposts at El Valle and other points had more than local signifio and were being carried out on orders from Washington. They made no announce ment as to the probable time the gen. eral northern movement would begin, and would net even admit that the withdrawal of the troops was at hand.
 Today's official dispatches indicate that Villa and Zapata had allied them selves for opertions against the de facto armies, and that 5000 men had been concentrated near Chihuahua City for the Villa campaign in the north.
 Since Carranza declined to accept the Atlantic City protocol. officials have indicated that such problems as the one developing about Chihuahua City not only will be left for the first settlement in such way as to pro- tect American interests.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
REPORT OF PAPER
 SITUATION READY

Washington, Jan. 23.-The federal trade commissions report on the news print paper investigation. al- though virtually completed, prooably will be held up for some days, until further inquiry is made concerning the effect of the Canadian government order fixing the maximum news print prices in Canada.
 A meeting, announced for Friday. at Chicago, between manufacturers ana publishers, may also bring develop ments which will have bearing on the report of the commission. The Canadian decree, although having no direct bearing on the situation in this country, has aroused much interest here. It is known that the commls- sion is considering recommending leg islation to prevent a recurrence. ol the present print paper situation wherein the publishers are helpless against the high prices and rob bing.'' The meeting at Chicago Fri day has been called by the manufac- turerS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
BANKER WORKS FOR
 RANK GUARANTY ACT

Little Rock, Jan. 23.-I. Nakdmen' president of the Fort Smith City Wa tional bank, is in Little Rock worklng in the interest of a bank guaranty act He believes that an almost per feet measure will be constructed out of those now pending, by taking the important features from each one; MT Nakdimen was a banker in Okiaho- ma having string of banks there' for a number of years.
 "The Oklahoma law at the begln- ming was not perfect says Mr. Nak- ,. dimen, "yet it worked out all rlgn1' gn, We never had a depositor lose a dol- lar there I can speak authoratively on on banking measures and I will argue ea the matter before any, commitlee against any banker who opposes guaranty bill." ..n,,;na cor,.
 The senate bank and banking com, ,, mittee is now considering two sucn measures, and there are two in the house.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
WAR SUMMARY
Associated Press Summary.)


 The Berlin war office says the Bull garians in Northern DobruGja crossed the southern estuary of the Danube river near Tulicha. and have main- tained themselves on the north bank against Russian attacks.
 This brings the invaders close to the Bessarabian frontier.
 Elsewhere in Rumania, there has been only continuation of small iso- lated engagements, mainly by out posts.
 On the Russian front, in the region of Lake Tuggarion and near Ka!n- gem, in the Riga region, the Gerva ans have delivered attacks against the Russians. Both attacks were rephlscd the latter with heavy casualties to the attackers, according to Petrograd.
 Tn Volhynia. the Germans success fully carried out trench raids against the Russians.
 The fighting fronts in France and in the Austro-Italan theatre continue to witness bomt ardments of splr- ited nature at some places. and small engagements. German airplanes have dropped bombs on Montdidder, France. Three airplanes have been brought down by French guns, two of them during an aerial engagement
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
ALASKA AND HAWAII
 ALSO TO BE BONE DRY
Congress FavOrs Measures That Will Forbid Transportation of Whiskey
 to Possessions.

Washington, Jan. 23.-"Bone dry'' prohibition for Alaska and Hawaii virtually was decided upon today by the house committee on territories.
 The reintroduced Wickersham bill, to prohibit the manufacture, sale. gift. possession or transportation of liquor in Alaska, was ordered favorably re- ported to the house.
 The Hawaiian bill was then taken up and the main features of the Alas kan bill were written into it, after the committee had eliminated pro- visions that would make prohibition dependent upon petitions of the Ha- waiian people.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
NEWSPAPER MEN GET CROSS

Berlin, Jan. 23.-Four of Germanys best known war correspondents, who since the beginning of hostilities nave "coyered" the east, west and south east fronts for well known Berlin and provincial papers, have been awarded the iron cross. second class, for their services to the fatherland. The reclp- tents are William Scheuermann, Rolf Brand, Prof. George Wegener and Herr Katsch. Aside from one or two authors and special writers. they are the first newspaper men to be so dis
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
Germans Sought to Escape From Ice.

London an Reports from Ymuden received by Reuters Am
  which
  in he O
 
  damaged. crew
  O flagship of  Boehm O V-G9w filed, this Both legs away. Schultz been
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
NOTICE.

To my friends and customers. as have dispensed with my foreman and the highest priced man, and am now doing the work myself with this lex pense) cut. and with the high prices paid for materials, can do your work cheaper and better and will guaran- tee perfect satisfaction and will ap- preciate all orders fo- your work Respectfully,
 1-24-6t JOHN DElALMON.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
WOMEN'S CLUBS INVITED All Organizations Asked to Take Part
 fin Tnaupur01 Parade

Washington, Jan. 23.--Women's or ganizations of every state will be in- vited to participate in the inaugural parade on March 4, arrangements for their participation being in charge of Mrs. James l.. Boggs, chairman of the woman's division of the parade.