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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-21

Dixie Ginger Bread: Mix two
cups of flour. one cup of meal, one,
half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon bak.
ing powder, two teaspoons of ginger
and one teaspoon salt. Stir together
one cup molasses. one-half cup boil.
ing water, one-quarter cup shortening
Combine two mixtures. Beat thor
Oughly. Place in creased pan and
bake for half an hour.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-21

The sugar that goes TO waste in
the bottom of American teacups
would help to sweeten the life in many
French home"
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-21

Food in the mouths of our allies
is ammunition no less important than
the shell in their siege guns"
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-21
SOCIETIES

* .. .: ' :: :s 1s { !; =: e.
month at $500 p. m. All Mas
ter Masons In good standing
are cordially invited to at
tend.
EDGAR REMNANT, w. w.
J. 2. TRiPLET, SEQ.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-21

Farmers who chop wood to save coal
this winter will be making the chips
fly for freedom.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
THE STORAGE INDUSTRY,

American cold storage houses are
jammed with food. The stock of poul.
try, eggs, dairy products and meat
stored is incomparably greater than
ever before. They have been bought
for the most part cheaply and held
by speculative gentlemen for war
prices. These gentlemen will get
war prices" but not the sort they
expected. For the government is TAX
ing hand.
A member Of the federal food ad-
ministration, addressing the Amer.
lean Association Of Refrigeration the
other day, gave this friendly warn.
ing;
"You must understand that during
the war the law Of supply and demand
Is shelved. We are now experiment
ing with democracy in industry. Let
US first be patriots; let us first be
for the consumer, and then for our
business. We cannot win this wal
unless we have contented and salts
fed people. Take warning from thu
Socialist vote
And feeling. perhaps, that the stor
age industry Is not naturally dis
posed to put the consumers interes
before its own profit, he added
I'VE must follow the system work
ed out by Food Administrator Hoover
or go to the European system of ra
tioning We may have to go to ra
tioning il this war lasts longer thar
year or two, and there is no sigr
now that ii will not We must NEE
with reasonable regulation, or w
will get worse"
Which Is to say, II the storage
people don't let their accumulated
foodstuffs fow into market natural
ly,. at fair prices, the matter will be
taken entirely out of their hands ant
their profits severely limited The
government has the power and 1t will
not hesitate to use it II necessary.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
FREICHTlNG A STEAMER.
Il Now Can Be Done by Marine Ele-
vator.


A marine elevator which enables
vessel t be loaded at any time or tide.
which doubles the normal rate of the
loading and which reduces expenses q
corresponding amount is now being, in
troduced all along our coasts. For
merly a coast steamer had to wait for
tide to come in before she could
steam up to the loading dock. Then
the cargo was either hauled up by the
ships derrcks piece by piece, or it
was run up the gi.igway by the truck
load.
But with the elevator designed by
Harry Barlow Of Seattle, Wash, an
entire platform of material Scan be
quickly carried up 10 the vessels deck
at once And ii the tide is out, the
light sound boat carrying the eleva-
tor steams from the dock to the yes
sci anchored near by.
A small electric motor mounted on
the top of the elevator structure fur.
nishes the power for the half dozen
cables used. The motor controls are
placed at any point that affords the
operator an unobstructed view. AT.
ter the operator has brought the plat.
form to the level of the loading dock,
the filled platform can be easily rails
ed up to the deck the largest steam
or Level trucking is thus afforded in
place OF trucking up or down steeply
inclined gangways. This fact makes
the elevator indispensable for loading
explosives or fragile wares.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
LESS SUGAR, LONGER LIFE.

Most of the men and women who
are now cutting down their sugar al
lowance, whether from patriotism or
from necessity. may find consolation
in study of health and mortality f.
cures bearing on this subject.
II appears. from profound medlco'
insurance Investigations. that the
average American OF middle age is
about 10 pounds overweight-that is,
weighs 10 pounds more than is good
for him. Without this superauous
flesh, the experts says. the death rate
would be 4 per cent less.
For persons 20 pounds overweight.
the death rate is II per cent above nor
NAL; for persons 80 per cent over
weight, % per cent normal
Bys getting rid Of that 10 pounds,
then, average citizens can gain an ex-
ira year or two of life, and those who
are frankly and conspicuously fat can
gain several years.
And how shall they get rid of it?
Easiest thing in the world. Simply
eat less Sugar.
We have been eating nearly two
pounds of sugar apiece per week A
pound Is plenty, and all of US except
children and old people could get along
with half a pond and not suffer Ger.
many had only two-fifths of pound
week per person last year, England
four.ffths of pound, France a little
less, and Italy three.ffths of pound.
They all have less than that now And
they lack our plentiful supply OF other
foods.
From sheer shame. we ought to cut
our sugar ration in two and divide
with our foreign friends And on top
OF that, it's good for us.
Let the weight-reducing sugar-ab-
stainer, however, get this fact firmly
fixed in his mind. It will do no good
to eat less sugar II he makes it up by
eating more fats and starches. It
should be genuine diet reduction.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
LISTEN TO THIS! :
SAYS CORNS LIFT
RIGHT OUT NOW

You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who have
at least once week invited an awful
death from lockjsw or blood poison
are now told by a Cincinnati authority
to use a drug called freezone. which
the moment a few drops are applied
to any corn, the soreness is relieved
and soon the entire corn. root and all.
lifts out with the fingers.
1t is a sticky ether compound which
dries the moment it is applied and
simply shrivels the corn without inham.
ing or even irritating the surround.
ing tissue or skin. II Is claimed that
a quarter Of an ounce Of freezone will
cost very little at any Of the drug stores,
but Is sufficient to rid ones feet Of
every hard or soft corn or callus.
You are further warned that cutting
al q corn Is a suicidal habit
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

Ottawa, Illinois.
Dear Sir.
was very much impressed in read
ing an article the other day in Wall
Street paper, concerning the mainten-
ance of the Red Cross WORK. This
paper stated that various businesses
were conducted ON small sales, such as
the Woolworth stores, city railways.
Metropolitan newspapers and similar
enterprises. The majority OF the peo-
lie do not realize the vast sums that
can be realized by small contributions
paid regularly by number of people.
Ii has occurred to me to suggest to
management of the Red Cross here in
the city. (which will soon need money
for its work. that if you could get one
hundred families in the city to make
a pledge for one year for he'd Cross OF
) cents day; To families 4 cents
day; 100 families cents day, 100
families . cents day and 100 families
| cent day. the aggregate at the end
u the year. ii all were collected.
would amount to s5,475. OF course
this would require a certain amount
of clerical work to keep track of, and
probably the si75 would more than pay
for the expense of collecting and keep
ing track of these contributions, as
Stunning that they were collected once
month, and would leave balance OF
S5.C09.C9 for Red Cross work in this
city. believe this would be all that
the Ottawa Red Cross could use dur
ing the coming year to advantage,
and am taking the liberty OF preset
ing. the matter thru your columns to
the Red Cross organization and the
people of the city, believing that with
out any undue tax on anyone person
ally. ample funds could be easily
raised.
Very respectfully.
L. G. SWIFT.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
Man Troubled for Two Years.

Men and women should not suffer
from backache. rheumatic pains. stifY
joints and swollen, sore muscles, when
relief can be easily had. James Me-
Crery, Berrien Center. Mich, says he
was troubled with kidney and blad-
der trouble for two years. would haye
to get up several times during the
night and had pains across his kid.
neys He used several kinds of med.
icine without relief but Foley Kidney
Pills cured him. Many such letters,
come every day from all part of the
country. For SAFE by VIM. ID, Duncan.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

The nutritive value of foods Is meas
nrcd in terms Of calories. The white
of mn average egg weighs about 2S.5
grams, consisting of water, proteids
and mineral matter. The proteids Of
the white contribute about 10 calorles
to the total nutritive value of the egg.
The yolk of this same average egg
weighs about IL grams including wa
ter, proteids and fats. Its protein fur
nishes about 9.S calories, its fats 43.7
cal0rieS, or total of 53.5 calories
from the yolk. Scramble your egg and
you will have about GS.i calories.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
0'HARA AND HIS
COMPANY IN CITY

Fiske OHara and his company,
The Man from Wicklow" arrived in
Ottawa this afternoon, and tonight
shows at the Gayety theater O'Hara,
recognized as the leading Irish player
of the age. and admitted by all critics
to have but few peers living today,
plays the lead
The Man from Wicklow" is profes
sedly O'Hara's finest production in
which he IL shown him to best ad-
vantage at the same time giving him
q vide field to display his ceverness
and dramatic ability. The seat sale
has not been anything near where 1t
should be on the very eve of the per.
Torrance and Manager Harry Lewis
today announced that unless Ottawa
theatcr.goers showed more interest
In O'ffara II would be useless for him
TO try to get Otis Skinner here IN
Mister Antonio" latcr in the month
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
ENERGY LOST IN COUGH.
German Hao Figured It Up to Heat
limits

German Hao Figured It Up to Heat
Units.
If you cough once every fifteen
minutes for ten hours you eXpend
energy equivalent to $50 units of heat,
which Is equivalent to the nourlsh'
ment contained in three eggs or two
glasses of milk, So says a German
who has specialized on the waste of
energy in coughing.
At a normal rate we expel air from
the chest ct the rate of four feet per
second.
Thus a persistent cought not only
weakens the constitution, but 1t is a
direct cause Of emaciation according
to the same authority. Such weighty
statistics lead to reiteration of the
oft repeated injunction, "never neg
lect q cough
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
King of the.
Khyber Rifles
OPENING Chapter Tomorrow.
Lost in Ones Own Room.

Most of us have been lost at some
time or other in our own bedroom
There Is no more panicky feeling than
to get up half awake and find yourself
stumbling over chairs and tables, than
to realize that you are lost and start
Off again only to meet new chairs and
angles. Nervous or sick persons are
subject to hysteria in such a case, The
psychologist has found that mo.
ments calm consideration will set the
lost one straight. but says that 1t is
secure aid rather than to get another
bump.
- x1
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
TO CEMENT NELlNERS.

Proceed In Following Manner, Expert
Says.
Before cementing reliners, the paint
on the inside of tire should be
scraped Off.
II possible turn the tire inside out,
a part at time, and buff with a pow.
er driven brush.
Neither gasoline nor other LIQUID
preparations should be used. Thnr
gum up the surface enG consequently
make good wo'k Impossible.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
More Than EQUAL.

LADY, hope you feel equal to a
good days work now that have hired
you.
Servant-Shure. mum, I'm equal to
It. an then again I'm more'n equal tc
it. I'm above it!
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
Easy to Sweep.

What is that?"
"A roundhouse. Seems to interest
you"
1T does from housekeeper's stand
point. have often dreamed of house
like that. No corners to hide dirt"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
Great Women,

Grcat women belong to history and
self sacrifice. Leigh Hunt
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

Our idea Of hustler is a man who
can work as fast all day as he car
dress in a cold room in the morning.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

Lots Of fathers who give their
daughters away would like TO get rid
OF their sons.in.law as easily.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

II 10 said that marriage will change
q mans views quicker than anything
else.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

Try the Free Trader Journal Want.Ads
TOR resuits.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

Try the Free Trader journal Want.Ads
for results.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

A sunny temper gilds the edges Of
llfe's blnckest cloud.-~Cuthrle.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
THE
VOICE or THE PEOPLE

Ottawa, H., Nov. l., 1911
Editor Ottawa Free Trader-Journal:
Ottawa, Illinois
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12

Try tb4 FREQ Trader Journal VantAas
for results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-13
THE BIRMINGHAM AGEHERALD sAlURDAA, OCTOBER la,

his voice changes. his clothes become a serious consideration, and he suddenly becomes aware of the importance of the opposite sex.
 Prize speaking at school, fighting the village bullies, playing the flute and the E-flat cornet, not to mention various sentimental episodes of a more or less humorous character, follow one another in rollicking fashion. It is a story full of the fascination of youth, told in way that will delight young and old.
 THE BRITISH NAVY AT WAR" By w. AIacNeile Dixon Houghton-
 Mifflin company, publishers, Boston.
 A most readable and interesting volume is W. MacNei1e Dixon's "The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-13

British Navy at War" which in a nut shell is the real story of what the British navy has done in the presen. war. including full and graphic de scriptions of the Jutland sea fight and other enga gements great and small. as well as an Illuminating account of the submarine.
 The author was given every facility for gathering this information and his book is as authentic as it is thrill ing.
 an astonishingly. complete account of the manifold activities of the royal navy and its auxiliaries from the be ginning of the war until now, includ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-13

Ing full and clear accounts of the bat. ties of the Falkland Isles, the Dog. ger Bank and Jutland illustrated by excellent maps and plans.
 'The author has with remarkable brevity and brilliancy told the real story of the British navy in the re- cent war. It thrills the reader and 1t Is as authentic as 1t Is inspiring
 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED.
 (REvIEWS IsATER1
 JAPAN IN WORLD POLITICS." By K. x. Kawakaml. The Macmillan com pany, publishers, New York.
 GREEN FANCY" By George Barr McCutcheon. With Illustrations by C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-13

cial reference to the Japanese question in the western states. Dr. Wellington kon the Chinese ambassador, outlines the re- lations that should exist between Lhe United States and China after the war. THE YOUTH PLUPY; OR THE LAD
 WITH A DOwNY CHIN
 By Henry A, sehute. With illustrations
 by Reginald Birch. Houghton- Mifflin
 company, publishers, Boston.
 In The Real Diary of Real Boy Judge Shute drew an inperishable picture or an American boy of our fathers time, and he has continued the narrative in "The Youth Puppy describing Plupy. 2 vicissitudes during that trying and awk- ward period of man in the making, when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-13

Allen eiibert. Dodd. Mead & CO. pub fishers, New York.
 MISS IIARoUN AL-RAscHID." By. Jessie Douglas Kerruish. George II. Doran company, publishers. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-13

VI A04~A1Ay 0OH&e AA'
 Up to midnight September 12th, dur ing period of 8 months, we sold and delivered to tire dealers more United States Tires than we sold to dealers during the entire 12 months of 1916
 This phenomenal sales increase was made notwithstanding our epoch-making sales increases of 1916 over 1915.
 These record-brealing sales increases of 1917 over 1916 and our record-breaking sales in- creases of 1916 over 1915 definitely and finally prove three facts:
 l. The supremacy of United States Tires 2 The fact that the vast army of automomobile
 owners who used United States Tires in 1916
 are using them in 1917 on the sheer merit of
 their experience.
 3. The fact that another vast army of automobile
 owners have been won over to the use of
 United States Tires in 1917 on the sheer su-
 periority of our tires over other tires that -iAeg. have tried. ||s::!s |I,ss! E ,sss;: 0nited StatesTires ag6 7s 2yMgg 1sesI Are Good Tires eoamzo Z nwonnaoM ohA, .;n, 1I.c Rou.lcorp spa.;n,
The Era-leader., 1917-07-12
ERA FRANKLNTON LA THURSDAY a. 1917
Wash, Par, Franklinton, La.

Wash. Par, Franklinton, La.
Gentlemen:
| submit the following
as my report Of the demonstra-
ton work for June 1917.
| have had 2S7 consultations
with farmers and club members
at their homes and in my office.
| have written 63 official letters
and mailed out 90 circular letters
during the month. Also distrib-
uted 40 bulletins to farmers.
have visited 43 demonstrators
81 farmers, and 33 club members,
| have assisted in ) 5public dem
onstrations, at which there were
u people present.
| have vaccinated 81 hogs for
cholera aod 300 head of stock for
charbon.
| have travelled 636 miles of the
Davl3h road with car.
Crops are showing up better
now than ever before since | have
been in the parish.
Thanking you for your assist
ance, | am,
Yours very truly,
J. V. Rabb,
County Agent.
Motion made by G. Nj. Tate,
seconded by r. H. Spring, that
the resignation of Edward Myles
as treasurer of Washington Par
ish be accepted and that his
bondsmen be released from his
bond. Carried.
Motion made by &. M. Tate,
seconded by T. D. Foil, that
the Parish advance to the Asses
sor, $, E. Morris, the sum Of
$1,000 towards his salary for
1917. Warrant for this not to be
issued until the finance committee
has arranged for a loan. Carried.
Motion made by R. H. Spring,
seconded by 5. S. Thomas, that
The Era-leader., 1917-07-12

H. M. Robinson, superintend-
ent twelfth division railway mail
service, has been called to France
to arrange for postal service for
the American troops.
The steamship Orleans, the
fast American vessel to brave
The German ruthless campaign
was destroyed by a submarine.
Premier Lloyd George announ-
ced that the first sittings of the
Irish convention will be held July
70, in Dublin.
1t was announced that fighting
had begun in the Chinese revo]u-
ton, which Inns t. restore the
Mur"bu dyH sly.
l"otcVu.'A.>5 against twenty live
coal companies and seven indi-
Vlduals in the price fixing case
were dismissed, leaving sixty-fve
corporations and forty-three oper.
atOrs on trial,
London was raided by twenty
German airplanes and MANY
killed and great damage done.
Three OF the enemy planes were
brought down in a battle over the
North Sea.
General Brussiloff attacked
near Pinsk and Stanislau, $50
miles from his recent advance,
Big guns were roaring all along
the western front.
A million American women
had signed pledges to follow food
conservation directions.
Governor Pleasant and others
were mentioned as possible candi.
dates for the senatorship against
Senator Ransdell.
Hillaire Carriere, slayer of
Sheriff Marion Swords Of st.
Landry parish, was placed iii the
parish prison pending the COM
pletion of improvements at the
state penetentiary.
News of the re. establishment of
the republic in China reached
Washington.
Dispatches from Berlin dis
closed the German empire on the
eve of a momentous if not histori.
cal parliamentary upheaval.
The Era-leader., 1917-07-12

seconded by T. D. Foil, that there
be some one selected as chairman
of the finance committee. Car
ried. j. P. Starnes elected chair.
man Of the committee.
Motion made by G. NJ. Tate,
seconded by T. D. Foil, that the
vice president and secretary be
authorized to arrange for loan
and sign the certificate of indebt.
edness for a loan of $4,000 from
the Washington Bank & Trust
Co. Carried.
Franklinton, La, July 3.-The
regular meeting of the Washing
ton Parish Police Jury, the fol-
lowing resolution was presented
by l. B. Roberts, duly seconded
by 7. Z. Foil, and unanimously
adopted.
Whereas, it appears after ex.
animation that the revenue for
the year 1917 will be in excess of
tie statutory charges imposed and,
Whereas, it is desired that all
finances of the parish be placed
on a cash basis during the cur
rent year.
Therefore be it resolved that
the parish of Washington, be au-
thorized to borrow from the
Washington Bank & Trust Co.,,
the sum of $4,000, said amount
payable January 10, 1918. This
is to be used for the current ex-
penses of the parish and the to-
tai revenue Of the parish for the
year 1917 is hereby pledged.
Police Jury Washington Parish.
By ....,
....i.. .'....,
Franklinton, La, July ST.
Police Jury q. School Board Of
The Era-leader., 1917-07-12
,1enernI News items IN Brief

All France celebrated the
Fourth of July with enthusiastic
pro-American demonstrations.
Eight persons were killed bv
German aircraft which raided
Harwlch, the enemy losing two
or more machines.
The Fourth of July was made
an occasion Of a notable display
of friendly feeling in London.
The weekly British shippipg
summary showed the smallest
losses by submarines in manv
weeks.
Announcement was made that
clothing and camp equipment for
the war army will he avaiia ble by
the time the men are called, Sep
tember /.
The salute to the Union, fired
once each year, was given at
Camp Nichols and after battalion
parade and review there were
sports.
German forces in France failed
completely in their strongest Of
fensive effort since Verdun.
1t was said to be probable that
Mexico may declare war upon
Germany within a months time.
Additional loans amounting to
$3.50, 100000 were made by the
United States to Great Britain
and Italy.
The War Department made it
plain that the mere fact of being
within the draft limit will not bar
men from training at the officers
camps.
Senators from cotton states
found themselves unable to har-
monlze their views in regard to
cotton price control.
Successful tests were made in
decolorizing sugar with carbon
made from rice hulls.
An additional war loan of
500, 100000 was made to France.
Robert McManus, %, of Pine
vile, La., shot and wounded his
wife when she told him she would
~ live with him any longer, and
then killed himself.
The Era-leader., 1917-07-12
Average Man in United States
S11.51 Richer Now Than
Three Years Ago.

Washington, July 5.-The
average man in the United States
is $11.51 richer today than he
was three years ago.
Total money in circulation,
shown in a chart in the July
Federal Reserve bulletin, has
risen from So, 100000 on June
I, 1914, to .s4,742,ooo,o0 on June
1, 1917.
The circulation wealth per
capita in 1914 was 34.35, in, 1915.
$50. Al, in 1916 S39.29, and in
June 1917, was over S45.S6.
Louisiana's quote for the sec.
ond officers training camp was.
stated to be 288,