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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-04

pies. At the Idaho state fair this
same exhibit took ten firsts, seven
seconds, five thirds and seven purples.
The exhibit of Poland China hogs
made by Vahlbery G. Son at the
Gem State fair won the championship
on aged herd and junior sow, took
two first, two second and two third
premiums. At the Idaho state fair
the same herd took the grand cham
pionship for the herd and best sow.
two champion premiums on sows, two
champion premiums on sows, three
first, two second and three third pre-
miums. There are many other stand
ard bred herds in the county besides
these mentioned.
Increased Shipments.
One of the facts that speaks strong
ly of the increasing prosperity of Gem
county is the increased freight ship
ments over the Oregon Short line
railroad. The four principal shipping
points are Emmett, Montour, Letha
and Bramwell. Since January l there
have been shipped from Emmett 233
carloads, Montour 149 carloads, and
about 10 cars each from Letha and
Bramwell. A conservative estimate
of the shipments for December will
bring the total carload shipments up
to 40.
There have been 1877 carloads of
stock shipped. Montour leading with
l02 carloads and Emmett a close sec
md. with SO cars. The shipment of
lumber is 40 cars. Emmett leading
With 81 carloads. Seventy-eight car
Dads of grain have been shipped, EN-
nett shipping 81 carloads, Montour ]
Il and Letha 10. The shipments of
WOOL aggregate 81 carloads, Emmett J
hipping 20 cars and Montour seven. :
'ramwell shipped about 10 carloads h
f melons. The remaining shipments 7
include canned goods, hay, poultry, h
erishable freight and merchandise.
hese figures indicate that the general !,
reight business for the year has in h
reased so per cent over what it was fl
l 1915. =
1t must be born in mind that the
eneral failure Of fruit in Gem Coun- -
z has resulted in only small ship F.
ents of fruit fer the current year, :,
lille last year the county shipped !.
)out $50 carloads. Had Gem Coun- :.
produced its usual fruit crop during :,
'16, it would have nearly doubled
e present large shipments Nor do T,
csc figures give the full story. The 10
press shipments have been large, w
ID with the exception of fruit ship d,
ents, show an increase of nearly so II,
r cent. ,r
Parcel Post Booms. Ec
The parcel post business, even with fel
2 fruit failure, has made note
rthy increase. The increase is APP er,
Ultimately 25 per cent over the bust 10
IS of 1915, and every indication Sp
nts to the passing of the Emmett Ar
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-04

pacity is 5000 feet, board measure,
per day and more than 100000 feet
of lumber was cut out.
A mile north of this mill is located
the sawmill of j. w. Sevey, which has
just been completed and will be ready
for operation next spring. The ca
pacity is 10000 feet board measure,
daily. 1t will be equipped with an
up to date planning mill.
Ranchers Take Product
So far the ranchers of Squaw creek
have taken the product of these mills
as fast as the lumber was cut, putting
it into buildings and farm improve
ments.
On the head of Squaw creek, 7
miles above Gross, two small mills,
one owned by W. r. Shepard and the
other by PLANT Brothers, have oper-
ated the whole season cutting some
thing like 100000 feet of lumber, but
have been unable to supply the de-
mand in the Crane Creek farming dis
trict.
Among the industries which usually
give work to a large number of peo-
pie must be classed the packing
houses which handle fruit, grain and
feed. Though 1916 was not a fruit
year, yet Denny & Co. have establish
I'd large warehouses and made pre-
'aration for the handling of large
mount of business for 1917. The :
anne is true of the Fruit Growers
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Dairy and Cattle

Dairy products have increased 20
per cent in volume the last year
About so head of purebred or graded
dairy animals have been added to the
herds within the last months.
These have been mostly Holsteins.
One of the best herds of this class in
the valley is owned by E. C. Vahlberg
of Emmett.
The use of silos is not confined to
use in connection with dairy herds.
The progressive sheepmen of the
county have found them valuable in
feeding early lambing ewes.
Because of the curtailment of early
spring ranges, it has been necessary
for the flockmaster to devise some
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Real Estate Activity.

One of the noticeable factors during
the year 1916 has been the activity
in real estate. Not only have nu-
merous properties changed hands, but
a considerable increase has been made
in the acreage under cultivation. New
settlers have located on homestead
lands and new dry farm lands have
been titled. A conservative estimate
places the dry land acreage brought
under cultivation in 1916 as % per
cent greater than in 1915 Under the
Emmett irrigation district there is
now under irrigation more than 49,
900 acres of land, an increase during
1916 of about 1000 acres.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-04

The following review of the acti-
vities of Gem county during the year
1916, prepared by the Emmett Com
mercial Club, appeared in the Boise
Statesman's New Years number,
which was issued Sunday:
The county of Gem, though the
youngest of Idaho's counties, has en-
joyed during 1916 a most prosperous
year. Until few years ago this sec
ton was chiefly known as wonder
full fruit country, but gradually other
agricultural and manufacturing inter
ests have been developed and have
assumed large proportions. The prac-
teal failure of the fruit crop during
1916 brought these other lines of pro-
ductivity to the forefront with the
result that a new revelation of our
possibilities have been made. The
wonderful story of a prosperous 1916
is detailed in what follows:
Increase in Population.
At the beginning of 1916 the popu-
lation of Gem county was close to
5000 people. The coming of the Boise
Payette Lumber company, and the
coming in Of homesteaders and set
tiers has caused healthy and note
worthy increase in population. This
increase has been close to 20 per cent,
or 1000 people, making the present
population of Gem county about 5000.
At the last election about 1000 votes
were cast in Gem county, almost 700
more than two years ago. The number
Of children of school age, according to
The school census returns, is approx
nately 1900.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-04
Livestock in Gem.

The number of cattle raised in Gem
county is about 5000, the sales for
1916 amounting to more than 1000
head.
A conservative estimate of the
valueaof the livestock, including cat
tie, hogs and sheep, sold by residents
of Gem county, places it at more than
one and half million dollars.
The wool represented in the "a car
loads shipped from Gem county adds
another item of s35O,OOO to the re-
ceipts.
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Huge Alfalfa Acreage.

huge Alfal1a Acreage.
More than 10000 acres of alfalfa
was grown in Gem county in 1916,
which at a conservative estimate gave
return of 100000. The Van Deu-
sen Brothers, sheepmen of Gem coun-
ty, have paid out over sos, 900 for hay.
Early potatoes were damaged some
what by the frosts of last May, but
even at that Gem County produced
about 100 carloads, or $4,000 bushels,
which have brought a return of about
$4,000 to the growers. The average
yield was about IT'S bushels per acre,
or $3.50 profit per acre.
The number of sheep owned by the
sheepmen who reside in Gem county
gave return of 100000 The Van
Deusen Brothers have in the county
from $4,000 to 10000 sheep, and Andy
Little and the Mcconnell Bros. will
add to this $4,000 head.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-04

The parcel post business, even with
the fruit failure, has made note
worthy increase. The increase is APP
proximately 25 per cent over the bust
ness of 1915, and every indication
points to the passing of the Emmett
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
FINE TREATMENT
OF SOLDIER BOYS
CAPT. T. Y. ENGLISH is GREATLY
PLEASED WITH HIS MACHINE
GUN COMPANY.

Capt. Thomas Y. English, COM
mander of the machine gun company,
of the Second Tennessee at Murfrees-
boro was here this morning en- route
back from his home at Enterprise,
where he spent the week-e with his
family. Capt. English declared that
the personnel of his company would
be as high as any in the service, that
there were no less than twenty-nine
college graduate sand two former ma
rines in it. 1t has been examined and
formally mustered into Federal ser
vice with seventy-four men, the full
war strength. He stated that the peo-
pie of Murfreeseboro were treating
the men royalty, that they were quar-
tered at the Tennessee College for
Women. sleeping in the dormitories,
in good comfortable beds, all patriot
ically rendered to them. He declared
that President Jones Of the State
Normal, rendered the grounds and
dormitories and beds of that institu-
ton, but the college was more accessi-
h1a
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
MOTHER! YOUR CHILD
IS CROSS, FEVERISH,
FROM CONSTIPATION
IF TONGUE is COATED, BREATH
BAD, STOMACH SOUR, CLEAN
LIVER AND BOWELS.

Give California Syrup of Figs" at
once-a teaspoonful today often saves
a sick child tomorrow.
If your little one is out-of-sorts, half
sick, isn't resting, eating and acting
naturally-look, Mother! see il tongue
is coated. This is sure sign that its
little stomach, liver and bowels are
cOlgged with waste. When cross, irri-
table, feverish, stomach sour, breath
bad or has >stomach-ache, diarhhoea,
sore throat, full of cold, give tea
spoonful Of California Syrup OF Figs"
and in few hours all the constipated
poison. undigested food and sour bile
gently moves out of it's little bowels,
without gripping, and you have a well,
playful child again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving
this harmless fruit laxative" because
it never fails to cleanse the little ones
liver and bowels and sweten the stom.
ach and they dearly love its pleasant
taste. Full directions for babies, chill
dren Of all ages and for grown-ups
printed on each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask
your druggist for 50-cent bottle OF
California Syrup of Figs" then see
that 1t is made by the California Fig
Syrup Company. "-(Advt.) /
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
500 REWARD, S1CO

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, re,
quires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal.
ly acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitu
ton and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in it's curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send TO,
list of testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO..
Toledo, O..
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti
pation.-(Advt)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
WANT DIR. HORN
ONE MORE YEAR
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE At
RiGBYviLLE WOULD LIKE
PASTOR AGAIN.

At the fourth quarterly conference
of the Methodist church, held at Big
byville on Saturday, the following res
olution was adopted unanimously:
"In view of the fact that our be-
loved patsor, Rev. j. NJ Horn, has
served SO faithfully and acceptably
for the past three years as pastor, we,
the members of the fourth quarterly
conference of Bigbyville and Mt Oil
vet, desire to go on record as to the
love and esteem in which he and also
our presiding elder, Rev. w. B. Low
ry, are held and trust it will be in
the Providence of God, and the wis
dom of the Tennessee Annual Confer
ence, that Rev. ]. M. Horn, as our
pastor, and Rev, w. B. Lowry, as our
presiding elder, be returned the COM
ing year
Respectfully submitted: w. H.
Estes, E. F. Marshall, T. H. Neeley,
C. R. Baker"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
lR. R. PILLOW, JR.,
PASSES THE TEST
SPLENDID YOUNG SURGEON AND
PHYSICIAN-SON OF PROM
lNENT SURGEON.

Dr.. Robert Pillow, Jr., has success.
fully passed the medical examination
for service in the officers medical re-
serve corps, and been accepted by the
department and will receive his COM
mission within short time. Dr. PHI
low is splendid young surgeon and
has only recently taken special
courses in the treatment of the eye,
ear nose and throat His father, Dr..
Robert Pillow, is considered one of
the best surgeons in Middle Tennes-
see and has made quite reputation
In this branch of the profession.
Young Pillow, sides having a splen-
did schooling in the profession, has
also had the advantages accorded him
by his father.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
ClRLs!LEM0N JUICE
IS SKIN WHITENER
TOW TO MAKE A CREAMY BEAU
TY LOTION FOR A FEW
CENTS.

lie juice OF two fresh lemons
strained into bottle containing three
ounces OF orchard white makes a
whole quarter point Of the most re-
marNable lemon skin beautifier at
about the cost one must pay for a
email jar Of the ordinary cold creams.
'are should be taken to strain the
lemon juice through fine cloth so no
lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion
",l keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is used
" leach and remove such blemishes
as I-orkles, sallowness and tan and is
'Ae IDEAL skin softener, whitener and
'eaatiaer.
Just try it! Get three ounces OF
orchard white at any drug store and
TWO lemons from. the grocer and make
Up a quarter pint OF this sweetly fra
grant lemon lotion and massage 1t
o}i'y into the face, neck. arms and
hanis.-(Advt.) 1
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
BEGIN EXAMINATION
Of C0Ux1I'S DR. F!
ON NEXT SATURDAY
FIRST 129 MEN ARE SUMMONED
BEFORE LOCAL EXEMPTION
BOARD THAT DAY.
JTH-RS COMING ON MONDAY
FINAL Number VIII Be Examined en-
Tue sday-Notices to This Effect
Mailed to All of Them Today
County Board After Facts.

Examination of the first contingent
of Maury county's quota for the army
draft will begin on next Saturday
morning at the Offices of the local
exemption board in the third story of
the Court House. One hundred and
twenty-nine men have been sum
moned to appear before the board on
Saturday. An equal number have
been summoned for the following
Monday and Us for the next day,
Tuesday.
The notices were all mailed to the
drafted men today and it is expected
that all of them will get these notices
tomorrow. They will therefore have
five days notice of the examinations.
The entire list of the 3S6 who have
been notified Will be posted at the
Court House this afternoon and under
the law this is notice to the men.
From that hour of, posting this notice
not single man whose name appears
thereon can volunteer for army SER
vice. If they have not volunteered
before this hour their time is up.
The board is following the instruc-
tons of the war department in notify
ing double the county's quota to ap-
pear for the examination, but the
members are by no means sanguine
that others will not have to be sum-
moned. All this of course depends
upon the number who are rejected
for physical disabilities and likewise
upon the number who prove exemp-
tons. Unquestionably the number
claiming exemptions will be high, but
the proof must be positive and abso>
lutte before they are allowed. All of
the proof, too, will be in the form Of
written affidayits as no oral testimony
or appeals will be given consideration.
All of the technical rules of evidence
will be discarded, the members of the
board being concerned alone in get
ting at the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
CAPT. HENDERSON
EXTENDS THANKS
IN BEHALF OF HIMSELF AND THE
MEMBERS OF BATTERY F,
FIELD ARTILLERY.

The Herald is in receipt Of the fol
lowing communication from Captain
Thomas P. Henderson, Captain of
Battery "F'' First Tennessee Field
Artillery, thanking the ladies of Co
lumbia and Maury county for the
splendid dinner that was given the
soldier boys on Wednesday the 25th.
the day of the mastering in of the
company into the Federal services.
The communication follows:
COLUMBIA, Tenn, July q, 1917.
Editor Columbia Herald,
"City.
Dear Sir: On behalf of the men
of Battery "F" | wish, through your
paper, to thank the patriotic ladies OF
Maury County for the splendid recep-
ton given the men upon arrival at
Columbia. Had | the time, | would
write a personal letter to each one
who contributed.
"Such treatment by our Maur!
County friends helps wipe away the
feeling of County Sectionalism anc
proves to the men that at their Home
Station, they are in the hands o.
their friends.
Respectfully,
"THOS. P. HENDERSON,
Captain Battery "F' LIST Tenn.
Field A."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
HOUSE DESTROYED
ON HIGH STREET
TOGETHER WITH ITS CONTENTS
mo ONE IN AT THE TIME 1T
CAUGHT ON FIRE.

The house belonging to Joe Ollie
hay. on South High street. together
with all its contents was completely
destroyed by fire about one o'clock
this morning. There was no one in
the house at the time it caught on
fire, and the origin of it is not known.
The house made an enormous blaze
and burned furiously, and but for the
quick response of the firemen many
other houses in the neighborhood
would probably have been consumed.
The loss on the house and also its
furnishings is partly covered by in
surance.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
DR.. GIL MORE TO
BE LIEUTENANT
COLUMBIA NEGRO RECEIVES APP
POINTMENT IN THE u. S.
ARMY.

DR.. LQcius Hough Gilmore, colored,
has been commissioned by President
Wilson a first lieutenant of the off.
GERS medical reserve corps of the
United States army. He is the first
negro to receive his commission in
the medical reserve. He went before
J. l. Finney, United States Commits
sioner, this morning and took the
oath and sent in his acceptance to
the United States government.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
OVERWHELMING IS
MAUR\'S MAJORITY
AGAINST A CHANGE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION is
BEATEN NINE TO ONE IN
THE COUNTY.
DEFEATED IN EVERY PRECINCT
Vote Much Larger Than Had Been
Expected in View of the General
Lack of Interest That Had Eeen
Manifested-light in Columbia.

By majority of about nine to one
the voters of Maury county on Satur-
day smote the proposed new constitu-
tional convention hip and thigh. The
proposition was overwhelmed in every
district in the county, more than that
it did not poll a majority in a single
precinct of the twenty-nine. In many
of the precincts it did not get single
vote and in several only one vote.
The largest vote given the conyen-
ton was at Theta in the Second dis
trict, where cit received thirty-one
votes to fifty-one against. Its largest
district vote was in the Second. The
vote of the coutny was less than LOO,
but much larger than had been ex-
pected Ordinarily the Ninth district
polls from one-fourth to one-fifth of
the vote of the county On Saturday
less than a seventh was cast in the
Ninth, and the Seventh. ordinarily the
second district in the number of votes
cast, was less than 100, one precinct
of that district, Sandy Hook, holding
no election.
1t was a veritable landslide from
the first precinct to report to the last
to be received. There were two pre-
cincts. Sandy Hook in the Seventh
and Taylor's Store in the Tenth. in
which the polls were not opened
It had been expected that the con-
vention would poll respectable vote
in the Ninth, but here the weakness
of the movement was as apparent as
elsewhere in the county. One hun
dred and ninety-eight votes were
polled against the convention in Co,
lumbia and twenty-four were cast
for it.
There were no workers at the polls
in any precinct. No money was
lspent. no organized effort made to
/ get Out lue NOlo, Uul Ju6 peOplt WeTo
evidently unwilling to embark upon
any unnecessary activities as long as
the nation was at death grips with the
forces Of absolutism.
In voting overwhelmingly against a
convention Maury county reversed a
record OF twenty years. = When the
proposition for convention was first
submitted in 1897 this county was one
Of six in Tennessee to return fav-
orable majority. A year ago, when
he question was again submitted, it
gave nearly two to one majority for
the convention. Hundreds who year
| ago voted for the convention, under
changed conditions, voted against it.
The vote:
| DISTRICT AND
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
IT'S SURPRISING

hat So Many Columbia People Fait
To Recognize Kidney Weakness.
Are you a bad back victim?
It's surprising how few suspect tho
Suffer twinges; headaches. dissy
spells?
Go to bed tired-get up tiredf
tidneys.
It's surprising how few know what
% do.
Kidney trouble needs kidney treat
Doan's Kidney Pills are for the
Kidneys only.
Have convinced olumbia people Of
their merit.
Here's a Columbia case; Columbia
testimony.
Kidney sufferers hereabouts should
read 1t.
Mrs. W. ]. Dowell, 331 W. Tenth
st., Columbia, says 81 had dull pains
across my back and hips. had fro
quent headaches and objects fioated
before my eyes, blurring my sight
The kidney secretions passed irregu
larry and annoyed me. I used Doan's
Kidney Pills and they relieved tina
pains In my back and put my kidneys
h good condition"
Price Coo, at all dealers Don't
simply ask for Q kidney remedy-set
Doan's~ Kidney P1Ils-the same that
Mrs. Dowell had Foster-M IT ~
Props. Bufalo. r. Y.-(Advt) o
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03

For baby's Group. Willie's daily
cuts and bruises, mammals sore
throat. Grandmas lameness, = DR..
Thomas Eclectic Oil-the household
remedy. soc and 60c-(Advt)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
CAUSE FOR THOUGHT.

1.-THE boss said was brilliant, so
he put me among the diamonds"
"Hum. He has just transferred me
to ivory goods"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
NO CONVENTION
WINS IN STATE
OVER FORTY THOUSAND IN SEW
TY.NINE COUNTIES ARE
AGAINST IT.

Special to The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 30
Seventy-nine out Of ninety-six
counties give majority Of $4,000
against the convention. II Is be-
Iieved that the total ma iority In
the state will reach $1,000.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
JOY IN PROSPECT.

Doing your bit?"
i've volunteered to censor the let.
ters for this neighborhood. Won't
that be fun?"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03

For mild, easy action of the bow
els try Doan's Regulets. a modern
laxative. 30c at all stores.-(Advt.)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-08-03
Use 'Geis.It," Lin )
Corn Right OF
shrivels Loosens and It's Comet

"Just like taking the lid off-that's
how easy you can lift a corn off your
toe after II has been treated with
Hunt the wide world over and you'll
find nothing so magic, simple and
easy as "Gets-It." You folks wha