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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-10-18
LOST AND FOUND

LOST-Late Tuesday afternoon on hard
Sfoad near Brent, one sack Pansy
Shorts. Return for reward, to r o.
Hancock. 1SoctS
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-10-18

WANTED-A lady stenographer. One
who has had experience in law work
preferred. State experience had and sal
airy expected. Address p. o. Box 1904
11oct
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-10-11
NO FOOTBALL AT
THE HIGH SCHOOL
Too Many of Boys Busy in Har-
vest to Make Organization
of Team Practical
(By School Correspondent


!, Football has been given up this
year, owing to the fact that many Of
the boys have been helping with the
crops and did not attend school during
the first month. Basketball practice
will be started earlier for this reason
and we hope to develop q champion
team. Mr.. Van Ashmun, the new
manual training teacher, will be the
coach this year, Mr.. Meikle not being
able to spare the time.
The athletics which were scheduled
for Friday afternoon of fair week
were rudely interrupted by the fire
whistle. Several events were COM
pleted, however. In the tug-of-war,
in which the eight senior boys guar
anteed to pull any other eight in the
high school, the seniors lived up to
their promise and won an easy vic
tory. The bicycle race was won by
Wesley Monroe, Junior, with Lynn
Taylor, senior, a close second. The
foot race was captured for the seniors
by Ralph Lincoln. Wesley Monroe,
Junior, was second. Ivan Danford took
first in the foot race for boys under
fourteen with Herbert Taylor second.
At the school fair this year as usual,
a pennant was awarded to the class
having the largest exhibit containing
the greatest variety. A keen spirit
of rivalry developed and each class
had large exhibit. The pennant goes
to the freshman class, the senior
booth making a very close second. To
the juniors goes the honor of having
the best decorated booth.
The classes of the high school were
organized shortly after the opening
of school. Their officers are:
Senior-Earl Anderson, president;
Tom Soth, vice president; Gladys Hud-
nall, secretary and treasurer; Miss
Nelson, sponsor.
Junior-Elizabeth Peters, president;
Donald Owen, vice president; Allan
Arnold, secretary and treasurer; Miss
Opal Bonsall, sponsor.
Sophomores-Noma Terrill, presi-
dent; LaVerna Bier, vice president;
Margaret Hadley secretary and treas
urer; Miss Morris sponsor.
Freshmen-Minor Lynch, president;
Allie Smith, vice president; Winni-
fred Huntington, secretary and treas
urer; Mr.. Ashmun, sponsor.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-10-11

auto rides, dances, etc. These same
letters stated that the people of Char
lotte think the Northwest is wild and
woody and even thought the Oregon
naional guardsmen had never seen a
streetcar. One man from Portland
got down on his hands and knees in
the street to see how street car ran,
and Immediately many people explain
ed it to him, whereupon he replied:
"We use them for watch fobs in Port
land" - ~.
Charlotte had population of $4,000
in 1910 but it is said to have about 5O,-
900 now, of whom about 10000 are
negroes. One of the U. S. mints is To-
Gated there. 1t has many fine build
ings, the Masonic temple being said
to be one of the finest in the country.
1t is also the seat Of several large
schools, among them Elizabeth college
and Conservatory Of Music, the Pres
byterian college for women and Biddle
for negroes.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-10-11
GATES ARE LOCKED

S. Poot, who WINS one of the finest
farms on the Yakima river above Rich
land, has been compelled to close his
place to all hunting and fishing be-
cause those privileges have been
abused by people who have visited his
place since the opening of the season.
Some days there have been as many
as $50 fishermen and hunters on the
place and they have left gates open,
frightened stock, trampled crops and
shown no consideration for the rights
or comfort of the owner. Consequent
ly Mr.. Poot has been forced to lock
his gates and to close the place to all
hunting and fishing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-10-11
CAPT. GAsCoIGNE WEEDS

Announcements were received here
this week of the marriage of Captain
Robert B. Gascoigne and Miss Muriel
Gracey Mcmillan, who were married
at Ft. Worth, Texas, September %.
Capt. Gascoigne is well known mere,
where he made his home for several
years. He enlisted soon after the
United States entered the war and
later received his commission as cap
tain.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-10-11
ROSS SELLS DAIRY HERD
Ex-Commissioner Clements Buys Hol-
. stems of Richland Farmer

One of the largest privates sales Of
dairy cows ever made in the valley
was closed today when S. M. Ross, Of
Richland, sold II head of pure bred
Holstein cows to Mr.. and Mrs. j. B.
Clements and Mrs. Georgia Whitsett,
for $1,000 cash. In the herd are three
head of 1s-months-old heifers and the
others are cows a and 5 years old.
Mr.. Ross is known as one of the
valleys most successful dairymen. He
does not intend to go out Of the busi-
ness entirely but reduced his herd be-
cause of failing health and because his
home working force has been cut down
by the enlistment of one of his sons
in the navy.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-10-11
HOME
OF FINE HORSES
w. T. Tracy to Establish Largest
Percher0n Breeding Farm in
Northwest in this Valley

Few people know, perhaps, that
Kennewick is the home of more reg
istered draft stations than any other
town Of like size in the Northwest.
The stables of William T. Tracy in this
city now house more than $4,000
worth of horseflesh in which is includ-
ed some of the finest productions Of
the country's famous breeding farms.
And this, by the way, is only a
starter toward the breeding Of fine
horses in this valley. Mr.. Tracy re-
Gently purchased 16O acre of state land
fronting the Columbia between Finley
and Hover and expects to establish
there the largest Percheron breeding
farm in the Northwest. He expects
to begin clearing the land and getting
it ready for cultivation in the near fu-
ture and hopes to have 100 acres in
alfalfa next year. The soil is of fine
quality and the tract lies fine for sue
cessful irrigation which is to be by
means of pumping plant.
Mr.. Tracy will spare no expense in
thoroly equipping and stocking the
farm and is offering prize of $40 for
the best name for the place.
In addition to breeding registered
Percherons, Mr.. Tracy expects also
to breed on smaller scale some thoro-
bred running stock for which he says
there is considerable demand in the
Northwest.
Seven stations from the local
stables were exhibited recently at the
Puyallup Valley fair and altho the
stock was not in good enough flesh
for exhibition purposes, several of the
horses figured with the winners. Bis
marck, the 2,O00-pound Belgian stall
lion, which took second prize at the
Chicago fair last year, was first prize
winner and champion in the aged class.
Castor d, first prize winner at Aledo,
ILL.,, last June, duplicated in the French
draft class and in the aged class for
Percherons, Granger took first.
Mr.. Tracy will ship carload of his
horses to the Toppenish fair next
week and will probably exhibit some
of them at the Livestock show in Lew
iston next month.
Mr.. Tracy became established in
business here a year ago as western
manager for the Dunham Stock Farms
but he recently purchased the inter-
est of the other owners in the local
business.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-10-11
INSTITUTE OPENS
HERE TUESDAY
Visiting Teachers to be WelcOm.
ed at Public Reception Tues
day Eve at High School

The annual joint institute of the
public school teachers of Benton and
Franklin counties will open it's ses-
sions in the high school building Tues
day morning of next week. The in
stitute sessions will continue each
morning and afternoon until Friday
evening. No copies of the program
have been received here yet but it is
understood that Mrs. Crawford, super
Tintendent of Benton county and Supt.
Dorsey, of Franklin county, have sue
ceeded in getting the services Of some
of the best educators in the state.
The entertainment of the two hum
dred teachers who will be in attend
ance is being arranged for by the Com
mercial club with the assistance Of
the Woman's club and the local school
faculty. There will be no evening ses-
sions of the institute and the commit
tee on entertainment hopes to pro-
vide something each evening that will
make the visiting teachers stay here
as pleasant as possible.
The community's welcome to the
visitors will be extended at a recep-
tion in the high school gymnasium
Tuesday evening. There will be a
short program with music by the high
school orchestra and chorus under the
direction of Miss Shier. The reception
is open to the general public and it is
the wish of the committee to have as
many Of the patrons Of the Kenne-
wick, Richland, Finley and Pasco
schools in attendance as possible. We'd
nesday evening there will be some sort
Of stunt, the details of which have not
yet been worked out and Thursday
evening there will be an illustrated
lecture arranged by Mrs. Crawford.
No attempt has been made to provide
any entertainment for Friday evening
as most of the visiting teachers will
leave for their homes on the early eve-
ming trains.
In order to provide accommodations
for the teachers it has been necessary
to ask the people of the town to open
their homes to the visitors. A canvass
of the entire towns has been made by
a committee of high school students
and it is thought a sufficient number
of rooms have been listed for all the
teachers. -.4 r~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-10-11
THREE MEN DRIFT
DOWN COLUMBIA
Homemade Scow Ties Up Here
on Trip from Kettle Falls
to Portland r

AT three p. m. last Thursday ID. Be.
van and A. Goddard, Of the Couer d
Alene country, and Chester Cox, of
Colville, tied up at the Kennewick dock
after a 300-mile trip down the Colum-
bia river from Kettle Falls in home
made scow. These men built their boat
east of Bosberg and hauled it by wa
gon twenty miles to their starting
point at Hickey Rapids below Kettle
Falls. They started August 9th and
drifted with the current all the way,
stopping for week at Seaton and for
a cay or two at each of several other
points.
Alter few days. rest at Kennewick
they will start down the river for
Portland, where they intend making
their homes. They report easy going
and fine trip with the exception of a
rough time at Rock Island, six miles
below Wenatchee. Here the swells
swept five inches over their deck aad
wet them to their necks. The water
threw their boat high up on rock and
washed two of them overheard. They
had to unload everything and pull the
boat off with lines.
The boat is seven feet wide, 25 feet
long and three feet high, with built-in
hunks and table. By covering with a
canvas they can convert it into cozy
It has no power.
Mr.. Bevan and Mr.. Goddard are
mining men and have made a practice
for several years of spending the win
ters drifting down various rivers. In
1893 they navigatcd the Yukon river
in Alaska in this manner from Lake
Bennett to Dawson, making 600 miles
in Ia days. On this trip they carried
20 tons of miscellaneous cargo and
sold it in Dawson. Following is a list
of prices they received: Potatoes and
onions, 60 cents a pound; eggs and
lemons, SIS case; apples, SIS box;
Limburgrr cheese SIS brick; whisky
glasses so cents each.
Another man who beat them in sold
glasses for dollar each and sold a
125-pound sack of potatoes for $135.
A few years ago they started from
Ft. Benton, Montana, and drifted
down the Missouri to the Mississippi
and down that river to New Orleans.
Later they started in the Yellowstone
river from Miles City, Montana, and
drifted down that stream into the Mis-
souri, and thence into the Mississippi
and to New Orleans. They travelled
about thirty-five hundred miles on that
trip. On one of these trips they said
they were invited to take trip on a
yacht from New Orleans to New York.
They accepted, but asked to be let off
at Mobile, as they preferred to take
chances in the rivers.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
CLAYS
CHARGED WITH
THEFT OF TIRE

Claude Clays was again arrested
Tuesday, and Wednesday taken to
Grand View before Justice OF the
Peace Blodgett The complaint is
precisely the same as that under
which he was arrested at Bruneau,
later dismissed upon motion of Prose-
cutor Hyslop. He was released un-
Ter bond and the hearing set for Jan
uary 2, 1918. Briefly the tale Is told
in the statement that on or about the
l1th OF November an auto tire--out-
side casing and inner tube and rim
we're taken from the garage owned by
Mr.. Snyder, charging the defendant
with the disappearance. These are
he bare facts as revealed by the
complaint, and up to the present no
evidence has been produced upon
which the public can form an opinion
ono way or another and further pro-
2eedings are awaited with interest,"
3runeau Nugget
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
The Way to Peace.

Amy body of free men that com
pounds with the present German
Government is compounding for its
own destruction Any man
in America or anywhere else that
supposes that the free industry and
enterprise of the world can continue
of the German plan is achieved
and German power fastened upon the
world is as fatuous as the dreamers
in Russia What | am opposed to is
not the feeling of the pacifists but
their stupidity.
If we are true friends of freedom
Of our own or anybody else's we will
see that the power of this country
and the productivity of this country
are raised to their absolute maximum,
and that absolutely nobody is allowed
to stand in the way of it.
"Our duty Is to stand together
night and day until the work is
finished. ~ From President Wilson s
Address to the American Federation
Of Labor
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
BIG RUSH OF men
To VOLUNTEER
Last Days for Enlistment of
Registered Men Draws
Crowds. Number From
Mountain Home.

Tuesday Of this week was the last
day on which any man who was
registered under the selective draft
was permitted to enlist At the
Boise recruiting Office 81 men were
accepted for service on that day and
about AZ were turned away when the
doors were closed. In the list of
those who were signed up Tuesday
appeared the names of Thomas j.
Lynch and William Osborne Casey,
both Of this city Several other
young men are reported to have
joined the colors during the week
but the only names we have been
able to secure are Herman Fields and
Vivian Thatcher.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
Employ Attorney to Look
After Their Interests Be
fore State Boards and in
Court Proceedings.
PARIS MARTIN
CHOSEN FOR JOB
Other Routine Matters Taken up
Meeting Saturday and Assessment
Levied to Meet Expenses of Work
That Will Come Up.

The water users protective asso-
cation held meeting at the court
house last Saturday afternoon at
which they took up the question OF
legal representative to attend the
meetings of the land board and the
utilities commission, and to appear
for the association in any court pro-
oeedings.
After some routine business the
rules and regulations filed with the
land board by the cooperative irri-
cation company, as published in the
Republican, were read to the associa-
lion and discussed, after which a set
Of rules and regulations prepared by
the directors with the assistance of
Attorney Paris Martin of Boise, were
read to the association by Mr.. Martin,
adopted by them and ordered filed
with the land board for their con
aideration
The necessity of having an attor-
ney in Boise to look after the associa-
tons interests and represent IL be-
fore the different bodies was then dis
cussed at length which resulted in
Mr. Martin being employed as attor-
ney for the association for one year,
to represent ii before the land board,
The utilities commission, and any of
the courts, and to defend any suit of
eiectment or foreclosure brought by
the irrigation company against any
individual member of the association,
who, in the opinion of the directors,
has meritorious cause of defense.
The directors were ordered to levy an
assessment of twenty-five cents an
acre for the purpose of meeting the
expense.
The meeting was very enthusiastic
over the progress made, and after
short addresses bX several of the
members, adjourned
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
ALLOWANCES FOR
DEPENDENTS OF
u. S. SOLDIERS

A law has been passed granting to
wives and children, and under GER
tain conditions other dependents of
the soldiers, certain monthly al
lowances, but as these allowances
have to be applied for, and the law
is somewhat complicated, and those
entitled may not all know of the
law and if they do know of the law
may not know how to proceed, the
Red Cross has taken up the matter
OF aiding those people in securing
their dues, and have caused to be or
ganized a section known as the Home
Service Section, largely for this pur-
pose: and have requested all chapters
to appoint Home Service Sections Of
their chapters to handle this matter.
Such a section has been appointed by
the Elmore County chapter of which
Mrs. Ed. Johnson of Mountain HoMe
is President, and w. c. Howie is
Secretary, and this section will be
only to glad to aid any of the families
and dependents of the soldiers in Sc
curing these allowances to which
they are entitled. So if anyone wish
ing any information or other aid
in this matter will either see or write
to Mrs Johnson or Mr.. Howie, either
will be glad to give them any aid,
counsel, or information in relation to
the matter, within their power
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
Volunteer Workers Make
House to House Canvass
Of Town and List Amounts
Of Coal and Wood on Hand
WE MUST HAVE AT
LEAST 1000 TONS
Probable that With Careful Distribu-
ton There Will be Coal Enough
to Prevent Actual Suffering During
Cold Weather.

Volunteer workers canvassed all
residences and business houses of the
city this week ascertaining the
amount Of coal on hand and the
amount that would be required to last
through the winter 1t was found
that there is considerably more coal
stored than has been the practice in
former years and that less than
1000 tons would take us through
the winter 1t is probable that there
will be coal on hand within a few
days and if it is carefully divided nc
one will need to go without though
every one must be as economical as
possible in its use.
recent circular sent out by Coal
Administrator Gooding reads in part
as follows:
| would suggest that you keep a
record of those who are in great need
of coal, and that you furnish the
dealers of your town a list of the
people who are entirely out of coal.
so that they can be served first.
In my own town, where the condi-
tion is very serious at this time, | am
advising that the marshal distribute
the coal to the needy ones first.
| find in many of the towns when
the farmers hear of the arrival of a
car of coal they flock to town with
their teams, and before the people
of the town have any chance, most
of the coal is carried away. We want
the farmers treated fairly, but your
town people must be given some
chance to fill their needs. AS rule
there are not enough conveyances to
deliver the coal to the people in town,
and keep pace with the farmers who
are there in force. A fair distribu-
tion should be made, and | am salts
fled if your town is to get anything
like an even break, you will have to
see that the coal is properly distrib-
uted.
If the shortage becomes so severe
and anyone is to be denied coal, it
will have to be the man who has q
conveyance of his own, such as the
farmer, who can go to the timber
and provide himself with fuel.
The situation is a serious one, and
without your cooperation, unless your
town is more fortunate than most
towns and cities, there is going to be
serious suffereing when the first real
winter weather visits your COM
munity.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
RECEPTION GIVEN
FRAZIERS, WHO ARE
GOING TO BOISE

Friends of DR.. and Mrs. w. L..
Frazier arranged a farewell reception
for them which was held at the
school house Wednesday. Dr. Fra
lier will move to Boise within the
next few days and take over the prac-
lice of Dr. Pittinger, who has enlisted
in the medical corps. 1t is feeling
of personal loss that the people Of
this city see the departure of the
doctor and his family, and the re-
ception Wednesday evening was an
lttempt to express the esteem Of the
community. Prof Yeomans with a
neat speech presented a. chest of sill
yer. the gift of friends and Mrs. Carr
'ead a farewell message to which
both DR.. and Mrs. Frazier made brief
responses.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
Why Did | Volunteer?

Why didn't ! wait to be drafted
And led to the train by band,
And put in claim for exemption,
Oh why did | hold up my hand.
Why didn't wait for a banquet,
Why didn't | wait to be cheered
For the drafted men get all the praise
While merely volunteered
And nobody gave a banquet,
Nobody gave kind word,
The puff of the engine, the grind Of
the wheels,
Was all the good-by heard.
Then off to the training camp hustled
To be trained for half year;
And in the shuttle forgotten;
| was only a volunteer,
And perhaps some day in the future,
When my little boy sits on my knee;
And asks what did in the great war
While his little eyes looked up at me,
will have to look back into those
eyes,
That at me so trustingly peer.
And tell him ! wasn't drafted.
was only volunteer,
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-15
RAILROADS ARE
CENTRALIZING
EMBARGO WORK

AT the request of the Railroads
War Board, France, Italy, England
and Russia have centralized their
requests for embargo modification
permits with the Traffic Executive
at 165 Broadway, New York, this
step being taken to relieve the var
ious railroad embargo offices from
needless congestion resulting from
thousands of requests for modifica-
tiOn permits, the majority of which
are Implications. From now on
when permits are desired for traffic
consigned to Comptroller Johnnet
for action of the Franch Government,
General Tozzi, for account of the
Italian Government, Connap, for ac-
count of the British Government or
G., M, Medzikhevsky for account OF
the Russian Government, the applica-
tion will be made direct to the traffic
executive who, in turn, through the
embargo permit department will
make application on the railroad
company. This means that the rail
roads will be no longer burdened
with thousands of duplicate request
but will receive only one request OIL
each shipment from the Traffic Ex
ecutive. 1t is expected that this
Capitalization of authority will no
only increase efficiency of variou
railroad embargo offices but vii
tend to relieve, to a great extent, the
already overburdened railroad ant
commercial telegraph systems,