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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
BOND DRIVE NEARING
ITS CLOSE
Gem County Responding NObly,
But More Must be Sold to
Reach Quota

With only three more days of the
Liberty bond campaign remaining, to.
day, tomorrow and Saturday will be
devoted to a strenuous effort to put
Gem county in the clear on its $4,000
quota. Indications are that the goal
paign planned for the rest of this
is in sight and that the vigorous cam
week will put it across.
A meeting of Chairman Craig with
the executive committee of the Com
mercial club last night laid plans for
complete house to house canvas of
the city tonight and tomorrow night.
Gems subscriptions reached $4,000
yesterday when Andy Little took s10,-
900 worth of bonds-S3000 for him
self, $4,000 for Mrs. Little and $1,000
for each of his children. The Boy
Scouts have done valiant work under
the leadership of Harland Campbell.
They have turned in approximately
$4,000 in applications.
For the final drive in Emmett, the
city has been divided into 16 districts,
each one in charge of committee of
two or three. The canvas will start
at $50 tonight and be taken up again
at $50 tomorrow night. Those who
have not subscribed should be ready
to give the canvassers generous re-
sponse and thus back up "our boys"
who are going to France continually
to make the greater sacrifice. You
will be proud of your action in future
years.
The districts and canvassers are as
follows:
Riverside addition-Berry and Bur-
lingame.
u. q C. addition and Main street
to extraordinarily and Nusbaum.
Zimmerman and Murray additions
and Waring.
Boise avenue to Commercial, Main
to Fourth-Mrs. Ruth Hunt and Mrs. |
Amsbaugh.
Commercial to Hayes, Main to
Fourth-Finley Monroe and Sam D.
Riggs.
Hayes to John Avenue
Main and First streets-Church and
Edwards.
Second street-Gamage, Rose and
Allmon.
Third and Fourth streets-Barbour
and Haley.
East of Johns
Main to river-B. B. Davis and
Keith.
Main to Second Wilton and ]. V.
Berry.
Second to Fourth-Howell and H.
Campbell.
East of city limits-Bowers and AL
in Myers.
South of Fourth
Boise avenue to Washington-Mrs. ;
,arter and Mrs. Crabtree. {
Washington to Johns-Ei Patison
nd Powell.
East and south of Fourth-E. C.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
In Auto Accident

While returning from a trip to the
upper country Friday in his Ford car
A. M. Rodgers had a miraculous es-
cape from serious injury. While
rounding a curve on the High valley
hill, the brakes failed to work and
the car went over the grade, turning
turtle with Mr. Rodgers under it. For
tunately one edge of the machine rest
ed on a log and Mr.. Rodgers was able
to crawl out, suffering only few
painful bruises. A passing automo-
bile gave him assistance in righting
the car and he came home without
further mishap.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
From "The Bow

Camp Greene, Oct live think
our camp is one of the prettiest and
neatest here. The past few days the
boys have been busy leveling off the
grounds, digging bitches around the
tents and building foot bridges, or
culverts, over them. The streets have
been rounded up until they look like
an ideal street you read about in the
farm journals, and rows of evergreen
trees have been planted along the
streets until they look like those of
model tent city. All the boys have
built desks and benches, clothes racks
and other comforts in their tents and
everything has been made as cozy and
homelike as possible. And we GER
tainly are having good eats now.
While we were at the base hospital
we were handicapped in not having
cooking facilities, but since moving
here we have a large mess hall where
We can go in under cover and sit
down to real tables. Jess Meyer and
Cummings, the other cook, have earn
ed the reputation of being the best
cooks in camp and they deserve it.
All the boys are getting fat on the
grub anyway and every time we get
a new issue of clothes we are COM
PEELED to get them a size larger than
before. Jess Meyer is raising a !
French chef mustache and he is some
swell looking guy when he parades
up town in his Sunday clothes, leather
puttees and swagger stick. Harvey
Parks tried the mustache for a few
weeks, but finally gave it up, and the
rest of US haven't got nerve enough
to appear in a mustache and a swag-
ger stick yet.
Harvey Parks has been sick for the
past week and this afternoon was
aiken to the base hospital. He is a
pretty sick boy and l am afraid he
will have a hard time for the next
lew weeks. l don't know what is
he matter with him, but it seems to
,e his stomach.
We are certainly proud of the Ida
10 Field hospital. The boys of our {
.ompany bought over $4,000 worth
# Liberty bonds. This Sanitary
Train subscribed for over $4,000 in I
wo days and Camp Greene has taken !
ver quarter of a million dollars {
yorth. We think $4,000 is a mighty l
,ood record for our company of so
nen, each receiving only 80 bones t
Month.
Charlotte is certainly an interest t
ng city in a historical way. l was i
p town the other day and ran across 9
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
Trouble Brewing

The party who has been stealing the
apparatus for measuring the rainfall
used by Weather Observer Davis faces
penitentiary Imprisonment unless
he returns it The property belongs
to the government and as this is the
second time it has been stolen, federal
officials have been placed on the case.
Uncle Sam is fellow not to be fooled
with and has no mercy for wrongdo-
ers. A NJ. Schrecongost compains that
some one is taking mail from his
mail box on route 2. This is also
serious offense. Better quit it.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
Building Bungalow

Anthony Peterson has started work
on pretty modern bungalow II TIE
eastern part of town, near the Walter
Knox residence. 1t will be of a SIM
liar type of architecture as the bung-
allow recently built by Mr.. Peterson's
sisters in Zimmerman's addition. The
contract has been given to Maxfeld
& Martin.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
Six Toes-Six Fingers

The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. H. Bauer, 7 weeks old, was
born with six fingers on each hand
and six toes on each foot At birth
the extra fingers hung by almost a
thread and were promptly removed.
The extra toes, however, were more
firmly rooted and an operation was
performed this week for their re-
moval. The occurrence is quite un-
usual.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

Mrs. J. S. Robinson has done her
patriotic duty the past summer by
the intensive cultivation of her small
garden patch. Besides raising all the
vegetables the family could eat, she
has dug six bushels of fine large po-
tatoes. All the work was done by her
self. One of the potatoes, when given
legs made of matches, bears a close
resemblance to large rat.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
BUILDING NEWS

The contract for the cement work
on the new Bowers & Cochran busi-
ness house has been given to 7. E.
McComsey and work will start in a
few days. The brick is being deliver
ed
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

place, dug four hills of a new variety
of potato and the yield was 72 pounds.
The spuds are so large that he is
thinking of taking them to the saw
mill to be cut up. Only four hills
were planted of this variety.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

steel nameplate on one of the cor
ners of a business street which in
forms passersby that it is the spot
where jeff Davis heard the news of
the death of Abraham Lincoln. An
fact was brought out in
this mornings paper. 1t stated that
among the Colorado troops here is a
grandson of Jeff Davis.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
Buys Fine Horses

Walter Little this week bought from
Fred A. West a. team of Percheon
mares, paying $500 for them. They
are both beautiful specimens of the
Percheron. They are years old,
well matched and both weigh 5000
pounds. The horses were raised by
Mr.. West.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

This mornings Stateman says in re-
gard to the car situation: "The I'm
ion Refrigerator & Transit company
has agreed to loan the Pacific Fruit
Express company 200 or 300 refri-
gerator cars for use in moving the
Idaho potato and apple crops. Ac-
cording to message received We'd
nesday by the public utilities COM
mission, the cars will be delivered in
Idaho about November l. President
John w. Graham of the utilities COM
mission is of the opinion that the ar
rival of the additional cars will save
the Jonathan apples in southern Ida
no and give to the growers and ship
pers of the state relief from the car
shortage which has threatened to re-
suit in big loss"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

The city council met Tuesday even
ing to hear protests against the crea.
ton of a graveling improvement dis
trict. There being none, the city at
torney was instructed to draw an or
dinance creating the district.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
CAR SHORTAGE STILL
SERIOUS
Shipment of Apples Delayed by
Lack of Transportation--BOx
Cars Being Used

The lack of refrigerator cars for the
transportation of the Emmett apple
crop has almost tied up the packing
industry here. There are apples
everywhere-piled up in the orchards,
stored in barns, stacked up in the
packing houses and on the loading
platforms s-thousands of boxes. The
Earl Fruit Company this week filled
up Pleasure Club Hall to its capacity.
During the last two week that COM
pany has shipped out only three or
four cars. They could have used
hundred or more.
Box cars are being used by the
Fruitgrowers Association, the Fruit
Union and the Idaho Products COM
pany. The cars are lined with paper
and an oil stove is placed in the small
space in the middle of the car. One
man is sent with each shipment to see
that the temperature does not fall to
the danger point while enroute
through Wyoming and Colorado. Up
to yesterday the Fruit Growers had
shipped 112 cars. The cars are being
loaded to their limit The Fruit Un-
ion is in some cases packing in from
1000 to HOO boxes.
The weather here has been very
favorable so far, and C. P. Hartley
says if it continues two more weeks
practically all the crop will have been
saved.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
glad when she won the pennant.

glad when she won the pennant-
This paragraph was written to the
"kid brother" Well, sweetheart, l
must close, gel drink, put the cat
out and go to bed. Be good boy,
and if you can't be good, don't be any
worse than / am. And be sure and
win that next football game you play
with the Boy Scouts Of the Baptist
church, for would hate to come home
and find that those Baptists had put
it over the Methodists.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
Aw. Now. Quit Your Ioshing

The Caldwell Tribune says: "The
Emmett Index is 25 years old. The
Index, published by Mr.. Skinner, is
one of newest, breeziest newspapers
published in Idaho. The Tribune ex-
tends congratulations and trusts that
the Index and its talented editor will
live to see scores of anniversaries"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

Nephi Yergenson comes in with two
potatoes, one weighing 31z pounds,
the other 21A pounds. One of them
is a freak, the main spud having a
lot of smaller ones attaches to it.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
Recipe for Pear Butter

Pear outer makes such deiici-
Gus change for apple butter and is
about as cheap. Split small pears
without peeling, cut out stem and
blossom end, cook in water to cover
until soft. Rub through colander
sweeten TO taste and cook until rich
and thick. Add lemon juice if liked.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

Someone has left several stalks of
corn at this office that is at least 16
feet tall. AS we will have to raise
the roof of The Index office to get it
inside, we have concluded to leave it
on the outside.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

When W. ]. Easton Dragged about
his Delicious apples he started some
ching. AS you remember, he could
squeeze only 72 in box. Then Will
Whitsell went him one better by de-
claring that he could get only 54 of
his in box. But listen at the record
from the ]. E. Clinton ranch as re-
ported by j. 1. Andrews: The most
he could squeeze into regulation box
was 46. AS we remarked before, Can
you beas it?
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

Another freak of a similar nature
was brought in by Ralph Robinson.
There is enough of it to make
non-Hooverized meal for an entire
family.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

Oct. 1e-Tomorrow we get our sad
die horses. The broncho busters of
the camp have been having lots of fun
riding them, as most of them are wild.
Gee, | don't know what | will do if
they shove wild horse over onto me
to ride. | suppose there will be moth
ing to it but climb on and then get
sent to the hospital for about six
months. Next Saturday we are 60
ing to show the people of Charlotte
what real wild west show is like.
The men of the Oregon cavalry are
going to put on a show of broncho
riding and lassooing ior the natives Of
the South. And they will have plenty
of wild horses to ride, judging from
the exhibition we had in camp today.
One of the captains of the Oregon
cavalry has won the championship at
the Pendleton roundup for years and
there are lots of other good riders in
the outfit.
Say, boy, we had great time here
during the worlds series. One of the
iailies here put big automatic base
oall board up in Camp Greene and
every day great crowds of soldiers
packed around the board to watch the
game. The board showed every play |
made. When a man hit the ball you
,ould see him running to first, then
@ second and on around, and If he
'anned, sure enough it was shown on
he board. 1t was almost as good as
we saw the real game. We were
Ill for Chicago here and were mighty |
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

The Earl company is buying all
the Gull apples and shipping them to
the drier at Meridian. They are pay
ing $40 per ton for orchard run and
$3.50 for packing house run.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

John McConnell's bench orchard
has sunitted samples of apples of
the York Imperial, Delaware Red and
Jonathan. They are all fine.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

ners of business street which in
forms passersby that it is the spot
where jeff Davis heard the news Of
the death of Abraham Lincoln. Ar
interesting fact was brought out in
this mornings paper. 1t stated that
among the Colorado troops here is a
grandson of JEFF Davis
Oct. 1--we received our horses to-
day, about % of them, and also the
mules for the animal drawn hospital
unit. You know our train consists of
four hospital companies and four am
bulance companies, Of which three of
each are motor drawn and one of each
are animal drawn. All the officers
have saddle horses and the headquar-
ters staff have horses or motorcycles,
and l will either be equipped with
horse or motorcycle. The motor
ambulances also came in this week.
The way our equipment is arriving
it looks as if we would be off to
France in a few weeks. One of these
days we will suddenly receive orders
to pack up and we will be off. But
l am ready, for want to get the war
over as soon as possible so | can come
back to my loved ones and friends.
l see by tonight's papers that Wall
street is betting % to 1A that the
war will be over in three months. |
hope that they are right. But in
three months we will be across the
sea and Lord knows when we will get
back, but it is sure to be a long time
after peace has been declared, for the
hospital companies will be the last to
return.
Next Sunday the entire Idaho Field
Hospital are invited out to Steele
creek where they will be entertained
by the people of that community for
the day. We will be taken there and
back in autos. Steele creek is coun-
try church community about six miles
out in the country. They say there
will be thousand people there to
welcome US, so we are planning on
a grand time and feed of fried chic |
kens, candied yams, biscuits and pie.
Gee, I'm going to fast all this week,
for l don't want them to think that
we Westerners have delicate appetites
Many funny incidents take place in
camp here. The other day a negro
who is working in camp left his work
and went into a wooden portion of
the land to have little nap and play
hockey from work. He had just
reached the timber when regiment
If machine gun men, who were drill
ng near by made practice charge
n his direction, unloaded and set up
heir machine guns and prepared for
lction in the short time as only well
Irilled soldiers can do. The darky
hought he was the object of all the
uss and if you ever saw a white
lack man you ought to have seen that
Iigger come out of those woods at
bout 100 miles an hour. And there's
een one less niger in camp ever
ince
Charlotte people are certainly
reating US royalty. On Sunday, our
My full day Of rest, they pick up
oldiers off the streets and invite US |
ITO their homes, where we are en- {
Hospitality. I'll venture to t
ay that every Sunday more than t
thousand soldiers are invited into
ne Charlotte homes by people they f
ever saw before. So you see they I
lace the utmost confidence in US and r
do not believe there are very many L
/ the entire camp who would destroy
lat confidence. AT least, hope not,
,r most of US have warm spot in
II hearts for the people Of this vi 0
nifty.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

C. A. Leggett this week received a
letter from Jesse Stanley. He is still
at Fort Douglass and has been as
signed to troop of cavalry.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

The general quality of Mr.. Mat
thiesen's apples is shown by the
magnificent display made by John Nc
Nish in his store windows.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

C. L. Gamage is building an addi-
ton to his residence, and is install.
ing a complete bathroom.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

Last weeks enlistments included
Carroll Fest of this city, who has
joined the signal corps of the aviation
service.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

The Index yesterday received a
mighty fine present of four boxes of
as fine apples as were ever kissed
by Idaho's sun from the Brammett
orchard of N. B. Matthiessen on the
South Slope near Bramwell station.
They are being displayed in the Of
flee window for few days and are
attracting the admiration of all. There
are four varieties, Rome Beauty.
Gano, Winesaps and White Winter
Pearmain. The Rome Beauty box con-
tains Cd, the Ganos 70, the Winesap
and Pearmain SO each. All are beau
tifully colored. Mr.. Matthiessen's or
chard run has been of remarkable
quality. He has just completed the
harvesting of his entire crop.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

A splendid meeting in the interest
of the bonds and the conservation of
food was held at Hanna Tuesday ev-
ening. A large crowd was present, a
patriotic program was given and
box supper provided. The speakers
from town were V. T. Craig, E. K.
HAYES and D. H. VanDeusen.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

Then there are potatoes. w. d.
Howell, who now owns the j. E. Blake
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
FOOD CAMPAIGN NOW
IN PROGRESS
Every Citizen Urged to Conserve
FOodstuffs, Especially Wheat,
Meat and Fats

County Chairman E. K. Hayes this
food campaign and every housekeep-
er in Gem county will be urged to
pledge herself to avoid waste, con-
serve by observing wheatless, meat
less and fatless days so long as the
war last Thus she can Loyalty and
patriotically do her share in helping
to feed the soldiers and win the war
for freedom, democracy and world
peace for all time.
The following named chairmen have
been appointed to take charge of the
campaign in each precinct in the coun-
ty, with power TO appoint their own
assistants:
North Emmett-A. C. Lathrop.
South Emmett-R. Z. Rose.
West Emmett-Ed Allen.
Hanna. l. Guthrie.
Bramwell-A E. Pomeroy.
Pearl-Dave Mclean.
Montour-H. A. Pugh.
Sweet-A. d. Stanton.
Ola-Sherman Glenn.
Gross-Eimer Nesbitt.
These committees will call upon
every household and ask you to sign
a pledge to follow Hoover's instruc-
tions. Hoover will ask you to do moth
ing that is not absolutely necessary
by the present crisis and serious
in food conditions that
now confront this nation. His advice
will be for your own future welfare.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

For fine fresh candy go to Fossel-
mans, opposite the postoffice.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

Some idea of the vast sum of money
that has been and is being paid out
by the fruit industry here may be
CLEANED by the present record of one
packing house, the Fruit Growers As
sociation. That concern has II peo-
pie on the payroll, receiving wages
ranging from $3.50 to s5 per day.
This does not include the packers who
are paid by the box.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1917-01-06

Mrs. Julia Bradish, OF this city. re-
ceiyed word this week from her
daughter. Mrs. Macmillan Baum.
OF Fort Lyon. stating that Mr., Baum
had Just received news that he had
successfully passed the examination
for pay clerk of the United States
Navy and had been ordered to San
Francisco to receive orders.
Mr. Baum has been stationed at
Fort Lyon for the past three years
and early In December went to San
Francisco where he took the exam
iination for pay clerk. His position is
considered quite an honar. as he is
only &c years OF age and his pro-
motion makes him one OF the young
est pay clerks In the navy,
Mr.. and Mrs Baum are very pop
ular In the social circles OF Fort Ly-
on and also attend many OF the so
cial activities OF this city. They will
be greatly missed In both cities.
They will probably leave In about
ten days for San Francisco.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1917-01-06

4. VI. Potter died very suddenly
in the rear OF his stationery store
yesterday morning about 10 O'Clock
Mr.. Potter has been having serious
trouble with his heart during the
past year. but when he arose yester-
day morning he appeared to be in
unusually good spirits After eating
a hearty breakfast he laid down on
on couch In the rear of the store.
but a few minutes later complained
to his wife OF being cold. Mrs Potter
moved the couch nearer the stove,
and apparently left him quite COM
Portable. 4 short time after. John
Potter. III" only son. passed through
the store and noticed that his father
appeared 10 be breathing rather
heavily He at once called his moth
er, but before she could reach the
Iidc OF the couch her husband had
passed away.
4. VI. Potter Is a native OF Mich
igan. where he was born In Oakland
county II years ago. He has been
respected citizen Of this community
for a little over eighteen years. and
although quie, in demeanor. was al
ways fearless In taking a stand for
what he believed to be right. He
leaves a wife To whom he was mar
ried thirty-eight years ago. and an
only son. John Potter. who is In the
railway postal service between this
city and Pueblo. No arrangements
have as yet been made for the funer-
Il. which will be in charge OF the
Masonic fraternity with interment in
Fairyiew cemetery.