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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08
MONTOUR.

Babe Crawford is recovering from
the measles.
The upper grades had a holiday
Monday, Miss Crowell being too ill
to teach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chase of Liberty were
in Montour Tuesday to receive some
blooded turkeys.
Rev. Seward is again holding reviv-
al services.
Some people are so busy it seems
strange how they can take the time
to attend their own funeral
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08
For Sale.

For Sale.
We will offer for sale at auction
on March 18th, about 500 sheets of
steel flume, at company warehouse,
5 miles northeast of Emmett.
H. HAYLOR,
Secretary Emmett Irrigation Dis
trict.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08
CENTRAL MESA


March / was quite generally OBJ
served as moving day. Messrs
Haynes and Bartholow moved to tn,
Perry Spratt place on the upper Mesa
about two miles north of Emmett.
Frank Hunter bought and moved
to the Hopkins ranch, and Mr.. Spear
late of Arkansas, is occupying the
Billy Feen ranch.
Roy Sanders has moved into his
new house in Emmett, and Jay San
ders to the Roy Sanders ranch.
Claude Barnes has moved to the
Fest place, which he recently purchas-
ed.
Several members Of the U. A. Club
spent social afternoon with Mrs. o.
c. McProud last Thursday at her
mothers home in Emmett, those pres
ent being: Mesdames Whitsell.
Whiteside, Dayton, Kester, Shane,
Sutton and SPOTS, also Mesdames
Tarleton, Guy Dayton, M. A. Turner,
and Mary Hunt of Emmett.
Jean and Ted Fulgham have been
quite sick the past week, but are re-
ported better.
f. ]. Teerink's little folks have also
been having severe colds.
Mrs. Luhr was quite sick Friday
and Saturday.
Mrs. Whiteside is suffering severely
with neuralgia.
Mr.. Grocer and Fred Andrews we're
both reported sick Sunday.
Mrs. II. A. Smith Of Denver, Colo,
who has been spending the winter in
California. arrived Saturday for a
visit with her niece, Mrs. James
Heath.
Mr.. Burdell, Mary and Walter spent
Sunday in Emmett
Miss Stone visited from Friday till
Sunday in Emmett with the Misses
Landers.
Mrs. Kendall, who has been holding
revival services here the past two
weeks left Monday with her two little
boys for Mountain Home, where she
will assist her husband in a meeting.
Earl Hawkins will work for Mr.
Teerink this season, beginning Tues
day.
The Young Peoples gathering will
be held at the Robert Gordon home
this week.
Ross Powers, who with his mother
has been assisting in the revival SER
vices, is quite sick at the Seaman
home. DR.. Clark, who was called in
pronounced it a case of meas
les.
Wayne Taylor and Kent Graves
were out of school the first of the
week on account of sickness.
Leola Mauzer also was quite sick
with grip.
Jake and Marie Conrad attended
he business-social meeting of the b.
Y. P. u. at the Baptist church Mon
lay evening.
Mrs. Whiteside received word Mon
lay of the death of her brother-in- )
aw, Spencer jenkins, at Kansas City,
February 20. Mr.. Jenkins had been
n very poor health since Christmas,
70 his death was not unexpected.
Mrs. Schoening is quite sick with
onsilitis. Bennett Limbaugh's child I
en- and little Marie Limbaugh have
,een having throat trouble. ?
Central Mesa Sunday school next :
sunday at 2 p. m. Everybody cor
tally invited.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08
UPPER MESA
BY Mrs. G.. X. Parks.

G. G. Ellis, Mr.. Meyer and viii
Whitsell attended the f. ]. Reynolds
sale last Thursday in the Hanna dis
trict.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08

Beardless Spring Rye, recleaned,
ready for seeding. For sale at En-
nett Feed Mills.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08
Friday, March Is

Admission, "a nickle a foot, T"
according to your height. Tall
people are especially urged to
come. Special honors for the
tallest person.
A good program of entertain
ment will be provided and splen-
did refreshments will be served.
Come and enjoy the evening
with US.
Everybody Invited.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08

Prayer meeting at the church every
Wednesday evening.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08

Lamb Meal-Just the thing for
raising orphan lambs. At Emmett
Feed Mills.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08

The general agent for the North
American Fire Insurance Company
was in Letha on Wednesday.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08
BIG
St. Patrick S
Social

in the Social Rooms of the
Baptist Church.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08
ABOUT MOWERS

Users of Mowers have had trouble in cutting
heavy grass caused by the inner main wheel tend
ing to rise from the ground This is entirely done
away with in The Big Mower, the point where
the coupling bar connects to the main frame is low
horizontal with the crank shaft.
Another mighty good feature is the counter
shaft. The end of the countershaft is fitted with
adjustable and ball race to take up the and
keep bevel gear and pinion in perfect mesh.
The tongue of the Big is no heavier than
the Big but it is better distributed 1t is made
half inch wider at the butt and the socket in the
frame is full height of the tongue adding Is
cent to the strength.
you will compare the Big Mccormick Mower
with other the market confident you
will place your order for Big
We keep hand complete line of repairs
and this is item that should be considered in buy
Hawkins Hardware Store
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
19gaE0crs4srz

rushes, und tells der stage hands to
gedt der scene ready, dot a filibuster
ISIS loose, und to please fill der CALLER
les und invite der reporters. Und
oosual method off procedure now to
gedt der law passed ISIS to haff a flag
waiting contest. Der Congressman vot
wafeS der American flag der longest,
und represents hiss home stadt as be-
ing der most down-trodden in der
country, wins der contest. Now, vunce
in vile, in der oxcitemendt, der
wrong flag ISIS waited. Take for in
stagnance, recently, Skenator La Fol-
lette got all ge-Iwisted oop und
waited idt three hours before der mis-
take vos discofered. But I don't Pc
more. Dot iss how laws ISIS passed.
Heif1e.
Did you see. puy der bapers dot
Congress ISIS declaring dot We ISIS adj
var nit Austria? Dot ISIS a greadt
shock und surprise to der peoples. Off
course. for some time der Austrians
haff been hand in glove nit der Cher
mans in performing der daily pro-
gramme off atrocities und violation
ing der rights off der United Stadts,
und also ven our soldchers shooted
adj a bunch off Cherrnans vot hadt a
few Austrians mixed oop in der bunch
We would be careful to shoot only
Chermans efen iff dey vos seferal
miles away, und dot ISIS vot makes idt
such a shock. But you see, Heinie.
Congress has greadt powers, und Tiff
dey say We iss adj var nit Austria, den
SO ISIS idt, und chust blease consider
der Austriers wiped ouidt und dead
Hoping you are der same,
Your fader,
LOUIE SCHNITZ.
Postal Scrap: No, Heine, dot ISIS
nodt where a airship dropped a bomb.
dot iss-der blaze where dey ISIS build
ing der new comfordt stallion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08

ing courage and in the death of Anti
christ and his ally.
Is. The conquest of Antichrist needs
more men killed than Rome ever con
tanned. All remains must participate.
for the cock and leopard and the white
eagle can not exterminate the black
eagle unless the prayers of the whole
of humanity assist them.
Humanity will never run such a
danger because the triumph of Anti
christ would be equivalent to the tri-
umph of the demon in whom he is in
carnated.
II. For twenty centuries after the
incarnation of the world, it will have
been prophesied that a beast would be
incarnated, in turn threatening the
earth with many evils and ills, as the
divine incarnation brought favors.
The Figaro adds: 1.-THE foregoing is
only a part of the prophecy. The re-
mainder promises France and the
world an era of peace after a terrible
vengeance, surprising even French
desires"
Paris. Sept. IS, 1914, The Figaro
continues the prophecy. The notable
points are: The Black Eagle hurls
himself against the Cock, who loses
many feathers and would soon be van
pushed without the aid of the Loop
ard The Antichrist's cohorts contain
many Christians among his enemies
and many Mohammedans and saw
ages The White Eagle will come to
help the Cock, whose country is half
invaded by the Black Eagle. Finally
the Cock will invade the Black Eagles
country on the west while the White
Eagle attacks on the east. The con-
elusive battle will occur in the Black
Eagles country, at the spot where the
Antichrist FORCES his weapons"
The prophecy ends with this state
ment: The Antichrist will die mad
and exiled and the White Eagle will
expel the Crescent from Europe and
occupy ConstantinopIe."
NJ. Peledan. who signs an explana-
ton OF the prophecy, is a well known
mysticist and head of the Rosicrucians
ciety He has independent means
and is a frequent contributor to the
Figaro
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08

new noise was in the air. 1t was the
Iabored, grinding sound of an electric
motor During the night, the me
chanical" had brought up his forces
and at dawn had gone over the top,
forced Old Dobbin to cry "kamerad"
as he assembled the steps of his dug
out and electrified the line.
Line Established in 1873.
The stock of this unique transpor-
tation systematic Consolidated Street
Railway company-is capitalized at
$4,000, a report to the Kansas public
utilities commission shows. During
the year ended December 81. 1916, the
revenue of the company amounted to
$4,364.40, divided as follows: From
passengers, SO, 624.20; from hauling
mail, 1865; from freight, $375.20. Ex-
penses for the year totaled $3,982.54
and taxes $108.61, leaving a net profit
of $273.25. The company employed a
barn superintendent. secretary and
general manager on part time and two
drivers. The line, which had been in
operation since 1887, was the last
horse car line in Kansas and one of the
last survivors in the west. A single
electric motor car will replace the
two horse cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
OWE ANY SRAV BILLS?
American Express Company Can Now
Send Money to Russia.

The United States government war
board has granted special authority
to the American Express company to
receive and transmit money remit
tances to that part of Russia and Rus
sian Poland now occupied by Austria
and Germany, according to an an
nouncement received today from the
company headquarters by William
Summers, Topeka agent. All means of
getting money to sufferers in those
districts have been blocked since last
February when the warning powers
put a stop to remittances.
The American Express company can
now handle these remittances by for
eign money orders sent thru their
European offices for reforwardinS to
destination, and there is every reason
to believe that delivery to the payee
can be effected with reasonable
promptness-
The war trade board has, however.
imposed the following conditions, and
the American Express company is al
lowed to accept remittances only on
the understanding that remitters and
sellers have complied with them.
1-Remittances can be sent to in
dividuals only.
2-Payee must be a Russian or al
lied subject.
3-Payee must be in need of funds
for daily necessaries of life.
4-Remittances for any one indi-
vidual must not total in the excess
of SIS to an adult or S25 to a minor,
during any one period of thirty days
(not more than $125 to a family.
5-Remitter must furnish an agree
ment and guaranty signed by him Cor
her), witnessed by the selling agent
or banker and sworn to by the remit
ter before a notary public that these
conditions have been observed.
6-Remittances must be in United
States dollars only
Payment will be made in Polish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
A Prophecy of 1000
Promise to France and the World an Era of Peace
After Terrible Vengeance.

Document written in 1900; printed
in the Paris Figaro, September IL,
1914
Latin prophecy dated in 1900. The
author is not known. The monk Jo-
names has written the verses thus:
Verse 2. 1t is true that Antichrist
win be monarch. a son of Luther
involving God, and calling himself
Gods envoy.
4. He will have only one arm. but
innumerable armies whose device will
be God with us"
5. He will use craft and felony for
a long time, with spies turnout the
world.
6. He will have learned men in his
pay, proving his mission TO be divine
7. War will provide an opportunity
to raise the mask. 1t will not be war
against the French monarch. but an
other which will be recognizable by
becoming universal in a fortnight.
s. All Christians and all Mussel-
mans and even the most distant ma
tions will partake. Armies will be
formed in the four quarters of the
world, and angels will open mems
eyes to understand by the third week
that il they fight not Antichrist all
viii become his slaves.
o. Antichrist will be recognized by
his massacring priests and monks
ana women and children and aged
persons. No mercy will be shown. He
will pass torch in hand. like the bar
barians, but invoking Christ
H. His words will be Christ -like
but his acts Nero-like. His coat of
arms will contain an ca gle, as will also
the coat of arms of his acolyte, an
other evil monarch.
y. The latter is a Christian and
will die by the malediction of Pope
Benedict, who will be elected at the
commencement of Antichrists reign.
10. Priests will no longer conf ess
and absolve the combatants because
the priests will be fighting in the
ranks. and Benedict will curse Anti
christ proclaiming all fighting against
him to be in a state of grace ascend
ing to Heaven, like martyrs II killed.
A. A psSal bull proclaiming this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
ASK FOR INJUNCTION
Wright Producing Co. Wants p. q.
G. Order Set Aside.

Charging that an order of the pub
lie utilities commission has tied up
and made worthless $50. 900 worth of
property, the Wright Producing &
Refining company has applied to the
Shawnee county district court for an
injunction setting aside the order.
The company in its application
states that it owns considerable prop
erty in Franklin county consisting of
gas pipes and other paraphernaIia,
valued at $4,000. since the gas dis
tributing system was installed, the gas
supply has become exhausted, the ap-
plication states. ana there is not suf-
ficient gas to supply pipes while the
wells, which were used as feeders, are
exhausted.
The pipes and property of the COM
pany are absolutely valueless to Gus
toners. the application states. Yet,
if the company is permitted to take
up the pipes and use them for other
purposes they will be worth $4,000
to owners, the application points out.
An order by the utilities commission
issued early in November forbidding
removal of the pipes is described in
the application as confiscatory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
NOV. fine MONTH.
Temperatures Above Normal;
Weather Always Pleasant.
Wheat in Poor Condition Be-
cause of Little Moisture.

Last month was one of the driest.
mildest and most pleasant Novemosrs
Kansas has ever experienced ana
taken in connection with September
and October preceding, makes the
driest autumn in the last twenty-nine
years of the states record. according
to the summary of the reports OF lSv
stations of the Topeka weather bu-
reau. which cover conditions IN pfac7
tically every county.
There was an exceptionally fine
stretch of Indian summer Inc Hfst
two weeks and daily temperatures.
taking the month thru, ranged above
normal more than two-thirds OF the
time. There were no cold waves ana
not nearly as much freezing weather
as November usually has. the nlgh-
est temperature recorded was 80 de-
grees on the Sd at Lacrosse and
Medicine Lodge. and at Clay Center,
Greensburg and Heaiy on the Attn
The lowest was IL degrees at Leotf
on the 2Sth. Only one other Novem-
Der on record has passed without a
lower temperature than this soTne-
where in the state.
The average precipitation Grain and
melted snow) over the eastern third
of the state was OILS inch; the middle
third, 0.54 inch: the western third
0.43 inch; and for the entire state
0.3S inch, or OBJ inch below norrnal-
There was hardly q county, except a
few in the northcentral portion, that
received more than an inch of mots-
ture and by far the greater number
had less than q quarter of an inch
which was so small 1t did no good
whatever. Measurable snowfall oc-
CURED at only a few places and there
1t melted almost as fast as it fell.
The heaviest amount of precipitation
for the month was 2.61 inches at Co
lumbus. in the extreme southeast cor
ner of the state. Four places, Abilene,
Burlington, Council Grove and Oslxa-
loosa had no rain or snow at all
The general drouth proved very I'M
favorable for the wheat crop, the con-
dition of which was commonly report
ed to be below what it has been in
any fall OF recent years At the close
of the month the ground had dried
out, both on the surface and In the
subsoil. until moisture was badly
needed. In the northern and eastern
counties. where conditions were more
favorable than elsewhere, wheat was
still rated as good" and in a few
places was rank enough to be pas
tured, but over most of the remains
der of the state it made very little
growth and its condition was rated
as poor" In the extreme western
counties considerable of It was not
up yet and some not sown when the
month ended Corn failed to dry out
properly during the month and was
not fit either to crib or min, except
in the western and extreme southern
counties. This almost unprecedented
condition was commonly attributed Ia
the late growth the crop made after
the heavy rains of August and to the
early killing frosts of October.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08

fairy's pretty rosy face to a dull pur-
pie which was very far from beautiful
on the face of a fairy. But this made
more of a change than the fairy-desir-
ed for all who had admired her be-
fore now avoided her and did not wish
to look upon her again. This too gave
her much pain and she was so lonely
that she was pining away with grief
The fairy queen saw how unhappy
she was and took pity on her. So one
day she sent for her and said, ut
grieves very much to see you so sad and
lonely and unhappy but 1 cannot give
you your pretty face again. so I will
transform you into a pretty purple
flower. and your name will be Violet
l will not take from you your modesty,
that shall be your greatest charm"
If YOU will go out into the fields where
the violets grow you will see that she
still shrinks from the gaze of admirers
and hides her modest head within the
shade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
HIS LAST STAND
Old DObbin Loses Final Kansas
Fight to Enemy.
Mechanical Rival Takes Last
Road From Him.
EARLY DAY RELIC IS GONE
Strong City Transportation
Line Now Motor Equipped.
Horses Have Handled Traffic
Since Pioneer Days.

old Dobbin has been forced to
make another strategic retreat IN
Kansas. an.
Under the hammering. Haig-like
blows of progress, another tlrst iIIle
has been shattered and he has been
pressed back, fighting valiantly, strlV-
ing to hold up his head, but giving
ground and yielding another strong
hold to his "enemy"-the mechanical
Too proud to admit defeat, reluctant
to evacuate terrain while there was
the slightest chance OF checking the
drive. he has failed to hold his one
remaining position in the public eye
The enemy has crushed his linden
burg line"
Kansas, with its tens of thousands Of
motor cars, it's belts of steel over
which transcontinental trains rush
its modern cities with their skyscraper
horizons. has until the present, num-
bered among its varied transporta-
tion systems a horse car line. In
the east-central part of the state, the
observant transcontinental traveller
looking from a window of his train,
as it paused a moment at station
called Strong City. would have seen
there relic Of a bygone day.
Line Had Rolling Stock.
This horse car line, the pride of
Kansas horsedom-for it was the am
bition Of every Kansas horse to be
efficient enough to draw a car over
a mile and a half of track in an age of
electricity and gasoline-connected
Cottonwood Falls, county seat of Chase
county. with Strong City, on the main
line of a transcontinental railroad.
Two cars-also reiics-and eight
horses composed the rolling, or rather
rolling and walking. stock of the
line. For fourteen hours a day, each
half hour, Old Dobbin stepped smartly
over the one and a half miles of the
narrow gauge line. pulling passen-
gers, mail and freight for he public
service corporation which furnished
him with oats and hay. We consid-
cred his position pregnable until
one morning, at the dawn Of Novem-
Der day, the barn superintendent
failed to lead him out to be "hitched
up" for the first round of the day. A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
THE BIRTH OF THE VIOLET.

There was once a very pretty fairy
maiden in a country far across the sea.
The other fairies admired her and al
ways told her how beautiful she was.
They thought that this would please
her but instead 1t made her very I'M
happy, for she was not at all vain. In
deed, she had no peace when others
We're near and she often sighed and
wished that she were not so pretty for
then she might pass unnoticed.
So one day she went to the fairy
queen and begged of her to take away
her beauty and make her homely. as
SO much admiration was a great trou-
lie to her. The fairy queen was much
surprised that she would ask such a
thing and told her not to think of it
anymore. But she pleaded so hard
and so long and the tears fell so fast
granted her request. She turned the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
dein dear son Heine:

Mein dear son Heine:
Der English langvidge ISIS peculiar.
Take for instagnance der word
busted" Now, der skollege profess
sors say dot der word busted ISIS nodt
goot English, but adj der same time
iff idtevos .nodt for der word busted
der skolleges could nodt be main
tanned for der students wouldn't know
how to write letters to DER pappas
und mammas mitout dot word. How
efer, heremit ISIS der check.
1 see dot Congress hass again open
ed oop shop, Heine. Now, dere ISIS
two kinds off Congresses. yum ISIS der
Congress off Wild West Riders in der
circus und der oder ISIS politicioners.
Vun ISIS worth looking adj but der
oder shouldt be watched. Congress.
Heine, vich made off politcioners,
ISIS composed off der House eff Con-
gressmen, und der United Stadts Sken-
ate. Now a Congressman ISIS Teller
Vot wears shoes NIT rubber in der
tops insteadt off shoe-laciugs like oder
peoples, vich ISIS der difference. und
a Skenator ISIS a Teller nit a fancy
vest, und on Sunday he wears silk
hat. Each Stadt ISIS apportioned so
vests puy der Gofernmendt, ind SO for
dot reason each Stadt hass SO many
Congressman und likewise Skenators.
Der chob off Congressing und Skena-
toring ISIS simple. Take for in
stagnance iff you want to gedt some
law passed vich hass been overlooked
pefore. You wrotten to your own par
ticuIar pet Congresser und told him
dot something ISIS loose. und to fix it
oop Immediately.
Now dot ISIS hiss chob. He ISIS der
plumber for der Statute books. So
soon as he gedts your letter he
chmups ouidt off bed and takes a Tex
as cab for Washington's Monument,
we're der Congressing ISIS done. In he