The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-11-22

For good bread use Fleischman'
Yeast, at Reilly's.
Home made hominy at cooked foo
sale, November "a.
F. j. Edwards returned Friday from
a visit to his old home at Shenandoah
Iowa. Mrs. Edwards will remain
there a month longer.
Sidney Walker was over from his
new home at Wilder on Tuesday tt
visit his Bramwell and Emmett
friends and look after business mat
ters.
For any itching skin trouble, piles
eczema, salt rheum, hives, itch, scale
head, herpes, scabies, Doan's ONT
ment is highly recommended. 6Oc q
box at all stores.
w. D. Mcfarland left Monday for
the East with three carloads of apples
shipped by the Fruit Union. He will
visit his old stamping grounds in Kan
sas City before he returns.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Tappan have
rented their ranch west of Bramwell
the coming season and will move to
town. They will move into their own
house in the eastern part of town,
now occupied by Jack Little.
To the lovers of the great out doors
and the wild places of the earth, a
wonderful treat is promised in the
new serial story, "The Fighting
Trail" At the Ideal Theatre every
Wednesday, beginning November 7.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Rundstrom on
Friday evening entertained a COM
pany of gentlemen at their beautiful
suburban home, in honor of Mrs.
Rundstrom's brother, Henry f. Cooke,
who expects to leave soon for his
home in California. The evening was
delightfully."- spent with card games
and story telling.
Clark Miles was in town over Sat-
urday and Sunday to visit his mother
and sister, Mrs. l.. A. Blaisdell. He
was on his way from the officers re-
serve training camp at Preside, San
Francisco, to rejoin the Idaho boys
at Camp Mills, Long Island He has
received a commission as second lieu
tenant of the 10th Machine Gun bat
terry, 41st Division, Major Lewis COM
mandlng.
The American second class private
receives $33 a month. The British
Tommy receives $3.50 a month at
home, with an additional allowance for
service in France, Mesopotamia and
other foreign territories. The French
poilu receives $1.50 month, while
the Russian private receives only 80
cents a month. Austro-H Hungarian
troops are paid two and one-half cents
a day, and the Italians get $3.50. Ger
many has wage scale beginning at
$1.65. Japan soldiers at home re-
ceive So year, and Turkey gives her
men 81 year.
A cargo of German toys, valued at
$4,000,000, ordered and paid for be-
fore the beginning of the war, but held
at Rotterdam under the embargo de-
clared by the British Orders in Coun-
Gil, has been finally released and will
be permitted to reach the consignees,
1913 number, in the United States. Per-
sonal taste and personal feeling will |
determine the course of the people in
relation to this merchandise when it |
shall be offered for sale, but some
-hings which have happened in Bel
yium and France, since the outbreak
If war, will have to be forgotten, over
ooked, or condoned by American par
,nts before they can reconcile them
elves of the thought of bringing home
German toys to their children.
If you have been worrying lest the
var revenue act increasing the rate
f postage would increase the salaries
f postmasters, you may cut out the
worry. The act provides that the sal
ries of postmasters at first, second
nd third class offices shall not be in ,
reased after July l, 1917, during the
ontinuance of the present war. 1t al
o provides that the cancellation COM
iissions of postmasters at fourth
lass offices shall be computed on the =
asis of rates in force before the :
assage of the act. That is, when a
)urth class postmaster cancels 100
tiers bearing Scent stamps under
lie new rate, he will collect no more
than he would have col 4
cted under the old rate with 2-cent
amps on letters.
II. l.. Turton roundhouse foreman
ere for the Short Line who was
bout to be transferred to Salt Lake
5 assistant master mechanic of the
tab division resigned from the ser
ce of the railroad company Thurs
ny and enlisted in the British army.
If. Turton had not intended to en-
st, but he received letter from his
lther, who spoke of his brothers be-
g in the war along with all his cou-
ms and chided him for not having
listed. Mr.. Turton thought the mat
r over, and the more he considered
the more clearly lie saw his duty