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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1917-04-12

Rev. Geo. II. Ellis returned
home Tuesday evening from
Butte, Mont, where he has beer
conducting a big revival meeting
for the past three weeks.
1fr. and Mrs. Hans Knuts0n are
rejoicing over the birth of a big
girl at their home north Of town
on Saturday, April 7th, which
they ehristened Iris Irvine.
James johnson was an arrival
from Lewiston the forepart of the
week and has charge of the motor
car service on the L., n. & K.
which was resumed yesterday.
james S. Kincaid was an arrival
Monday from Michigan and is Wis
iting his brother Frank Kincaid.
He win make his home at Melrose
and viii engage in the farming
game.
Al Cochran has resigned his po-
siti0n as fireman on the L., \. &
f. and left Monday with his fam
ily for their ranch near Sites. Ed.
Garvin is now heaving the dusky
diamonds.
Thos LAWN, Of Lewiston, stopped
over here the first Of the week for a
brief visit with his sisters, Misses sa-
die and Leila LAWN, while on his way
to join the Grangeville company Of Ma
tional Guards.
Saturday, 3 Spokesman contain
ed the information that Mrs. Julia
Sullivan Lee, of Kalispell, had.
brought suit against her Chinese
husband for a divorce. Mrs. Lee
was formerly a Nezperce girl.
L. NJ. Simpson, of Spokane, gen
eral manager of the @. +. L. & r.
Co, was an arrival last night and
is comforting with Supt F. T.
Scholer regarding local condi-
tions.
VIM. Hollingsworth was in
town from Lewiston the forepart
of the week and while here pur-
chased Ben Rasbaeh S fine farm
north of town, the consideration
being $13,50O.
The Alabama Tr0ubadors ap-
peared before a small sized au-
dienee at the opera house last
night and gave a very creditable
They viii play a !
return date here in about a month.
The snow is. going off nicely
and no extra high water is anti
cipated at Nezperce. Friday il
reached the high mark this spring
when il practically covered Maple |
street between 4th and 9Th ave
nues.
John 0'Connor. Art and Earl
Carol Rowe, Bascom Bill
Iups and Geo. Ratliff, our soldier
boys, were arrivals from Grange
Vile Saturday to spend Easter
with their parents. They return
ID Sunday afternoon.
Marriage licenses were issued |
ly the county recorder as follows
April 9. to Robert Y. 0'Hare and |
Mrs. Alice v. Devita, both ofl
zamiah. Ernest Roberts, of VIM
chester. and Miss Bertha Rose
borough, of Reubens. April II.
opel Zilliox and Miss Agnes j.
Denny, both of Reubens.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Farrar and fam
". who last week left this city to
eek new home, have decided TO 10
ate in the Lewiston section, and Mr..
'arrar on last Saturday bought fine
anch in the famous Tammany valley
ust south Of Lewiston.
Mrs. f. j Stevens. accompanied
FRS. Rosa NJ. McCroskcy, district
'rganixer for the Women off
TO Grangeville this af-
ernoon where they viii attend
iig meeting of that order which
gill be held there this evening.
]. NJ. Medved. Of the City Meat
Tarket, last Saturday paid o. A. |
loupe. Of southwest Of this city /
6s.75 for a hoe-o ono hog; the
op figure ever paid IN Ncxpercw
or porlxer. The animal weigh /
d 500 pounds and brought 189ze.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1917-04-12

When you are in we would also
appreciate showing you the New
No 8 Canton Gang. II win turn
the ground right and scour with
any plow built.
If you need more implements
this spring call in and let's talk it
over.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1917-04-12
COUNTY COMMISSION
ERS ARE IN SESSION
Summary Of the Business Trans
acted Up to Noon
Today.

Commissioners Lowrey, Gross
and Pomeroy are all in attendance
at the regular April meeting Of
the board, which convened at the
court house in this city Monday
morning. Following is a summary
Of the business transacted up to
noon to-day:
The herd district in East Nez-
perez and Russell precincts, Pc
toned by Andrews Sfellmon. G. p.
Christensen, et al, was created.
Bonds of G. w. Rowe and John
Biggart, as road overseers, were
approved.
w. w Gragg was allowed 500
for two months as an INDECENT.
Assessor Ratliff reported auto
license collected as follows: Gen.
trail Highway district, $3.50; Kam-
iah Highway district, $50: Ever
green Highway district, $50; bal
ance of county, $1l30. Total,
$l41O.
Petitions for special property
road tax Of . mills in road dis
tricts Is. II and Is were granted,
and the compensation for labor IN
such Districts was fixed at g. so
per day for men and $50 per day
for each team.
A like order was made for dis
tricts 10 and u, with tax of 1ia
mills.
On petition, the noxious weeds
in road district - were ordered
destroyed by June /.
The rate of interest on county
deposits was reduced from 3I5 to
212 per cent.
The wages for all highway work
in the county outside of indepen-
dent road districts were fixed as
follows: Men, $3.50 per S-hour
day, or 31l4 cents per hour; hors-
es, 81 per team per day, or %
cents per hour per team.
The $4,000 depository bond of
the Bank Of Reubens was approx
ed.
The salary of the senior deputy
Of the county auditor was fixed
at $125 per month of the junior
deputy at $50 per month.
The salary of the sne deputy
between county collect
or and assessor was fixed at $95.
An order was made for the Sc
curing by the county surveyor Of
data for improving the
grade at the Stevenson crossing
Of Lawyers canyon. Such data
to be supplied for consideration
1t the next meeting of board.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1917-04-12
Community Meeting District 10.

community MA&@k1m& O2SGx1CK III.
The following program win be
given at the community meeting
to be held at the school house Of
district No. 10 ON Thursday. April
26, and a cordial invitation il ex-
tended to all to come and spend
the day;
Song by school, Ny Own Ameri-
ca, with flag salute.
Recitation, Harold Wright: rec
itation, Carl Riegers: Song. Jolly
Boys; recitation, George Riggers:
recitation, Lois Harris; soIo. Adah
Ratliff; dialog, Medical Advice:
songs. Popping Thru the Snow,
Questions; solo. Golaee Ralstin;
recitation, Walter Reed recita-
ton, Winfred Riggers; violin sole.
Mr. w. Gray duet. afr and Mrs
Fred Riggers; flag drill by school
dialog, A Changed House Wife
address by Miss Martin; round
table talk. led BY Prof Wade.
Adah Rafliff, Teacher
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
18-CyIinder Engine.

BY leaps and bounds the stationary
type airplane engines are increasing
in power rating in the stern competi-
ton between the central powers and
the allied nations. In England Louis
Coatalen has been doing commendable
work along these lines, and among his
latest products is the 19-cylinder Sun
BEAM atalen engine, which develops
Ats brake horse power, and has no
fewer than half dozen magnetos and
an equal number of carburetors, says
the Scientific American. The arrange
ment of the cylinders is interesting;
Twelve of the cylinders are arranged
as in the usual twin-six practice, While
the remaining six are arranged in the
upper center, forming what is styled
the "broad arrow" type.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
The Pilots Heart.

"The romance of the air." writes an
aviator of some experience, sis diff
ferent thing from mascots and super
stitions. 1t is not bound up in the
machines. 1t is something deep down
in it's own grim and callous self. Those
Who know it best acknowledge it least.
And the pilots themselves-do they
speak of a 'lucky" or an "unlucky"
pilot? Never. They speak only of
good" pilot or bad one. The only
time man is told he is lucky is when
he has failed to break his neck despite
bad plotting. Flying is a cruel mis-
tress. Only a pilot knows what she
does to pilots heart. Where are the
young pilots? At the airdrOmes learn
ing to fly. They are nowhere else.
But bound up in the romance there is
a pride that only pilot can know. 1t
is the pride of the self-dependent"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
USERS OF EXPLOSIVES MUST
SECURE FEDERAL LICENSES

A Federal license is now required
in the United States for the legal
possession CT explosives, any person
having explosives and not holding a
license therefor being subject TO
fine OF $4,000 ana imprisonment for
one year.
Only citizens of the United States
and friendly countries may obtain Ii
censes. The purchaser Of dynamite
must state definitely what the ex--
plosivc is to be used for when OBJ
tanning his license, and will be held
accountable for its use as stated and
the return of any that may be left.
With the strict enforcement of this
law tbs Federal authorities hope to
prevent explosives failing into the
hands Of eyilly disposed persons, and
to put stop to all further dynamite
plots
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
HOW SHE DID HER BIT.

New York letter to the Pittsburgh
Dispatch: There are many ways for
Or to do their bit, but the other
day a young woman, riding on the
hurricane deck of Fifth avenue bus
discovered new way. The bus was
jdst about to 10 under the elevated
structure, which is only a few feet
above the heads of those seated on
its top, when a young man in kha--
k jumped to his feet to join a wo-
man friend in a seat that had just
been vacated. The conductor sprang
foI ward to grasp the soldier, but a
young woman seated nearby was
quicker "Sit down." she command
ed sharply, at the same time jerk
ing the soldiers arm The khaki
clad young man lost his balance and
the next moment he was seated in
taa young woman's lap. The girl
lpus he'd a bright pink and the SOL
6isr apologized and everybody smil-
ed. 81 don't care" said the young
pN man to her friend 81 feel that l
lave done my bit in saving that
soldiers head from being battered
by the low bridge"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
Sampson Music Co
1daho's Largest Music House.
913 Main st, Boise.
sE,.s. .s.i.s.s + If i ':'s.si
HOW MATCH FIGURES IN WAR
Scarcity of Birthstone Headed Sticks
Results in Special Controller Be-
ing Named in England.

No commodity has had more adven-
lures than the match. The announce
ment of the appointment Of special
controller all to itself is fitting eli
max to a checkered history, says the
Manchester Guardian. In the memory
Of our grandparents the cumbrous
'Prometheans" that sought to displace
flint and steel were high-priced lux
ury impossible to the poor.
In the memory of our fathers Henry
George, for one, condemned the match
as one of the articles that were too
cfeap." He had in mind, of course,
the sweating and the poisoning OF
workers that'for too long went to the
making of cheap matches.
Yet the popular insistence on cheap
matches turned out of office a British
chancellor of the eXchequer and coined
an immortal epigram; and the superb
GRITTY of the matches that can normal
ly be bought in this country over the
himsy, lifeless, expensive sorts SOLD
across the channel under government
control has given the free-trader one
Of his most homely and incontestable
arguments. The British match must
now suffer control.
Such matches as there are will be
fairly apportioned at fixed prices. We
do not doubt that there will be enough
to go round, for, faced with a famine
in some districts and with loose
matches at 80 for penny in others,
people have already begun to make
that economy in consumption which,
with no greater sacrifice than a little
care. might easily save half of the
matches burned.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
CHICKENS FOR EMPTY CANS
Trading of Discarded Tins and Bottles
for Food Is Common in Thlbet,
Explorer Reports.

Bringing with him an extensive col
lection of small mammals, reptiles and
birds, Roy @. Andrews, head of the
Asiatic geological expedition, has ar
rived in New York, after year and
a half in the remote provinces of
China.
The expedition spent much of the
time in the mountains of Yunnan and
progressed as far as Thibet Mr.. An
drews' adventures included everything
from hunting 'blue" tigers to buying
chickens at the rate of two for one
empty condensed milk can.
Politically China is in chaotic
state, Mr.. Andrews reports, as most of
the provinces are so far removed from
the central government at Picking that
any change of authority does not
make itself felt. Socially, he declares,
it is overrun with bandits, most of
whom are recruits from the army. Ac-
cording to Mr. Andrews, there is no
great moral difference between Chi
nese common soldier and bandit.
In many places he found traffic by
water impossible because the army has
a habit of using small river boats for
target practice.
The expedition found the border of
Thibet an ideal place to live in. Food
may be bought with old bottles and
cans. There are plenty of servants
and no rumor of the war has pene-
trated that far.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
aOVIE OFF MODERN BOOKWoRM
Student Would Not Be Influenced by
Any Pleasures the World Could
Offer Him.

Now behold the student coming UP
the street! He is clad in rubber and
shining black. He is thin of shank as
becomes a scholar. He says with
knowledge. He hungers for wisdom.
He comes opposite the book shop. 1t
is but coquetry that his eyes seek the
window of the tobacconist. His heart,
you may be sure, looks through the
buttons at his back.
At last he turns, Charles S. Brooks
writes in Yale Review. He pauses
on the curb. Now desire has clutched
him. He jingles his trousered shil-
lings. He treads the gutter. He squints
upon the rack. He lights upon a
treasure. He plucks it forth. He
is unresolved whether to buy it or to
spend the extra shilling on his dinner.
Now all you cooks together, to save
your business rattle your pans to rouse
him! If within these ancient build
ings there are onions ready peeled
quick throw them in the skillet that
the Whit may come beneath his nose!
Chance trembles and casts its vote
Genie meenie-down goes the shilling
he has bought the book. Tonight he
will spread it beneath his candle. Feet
may beat a snare of pleasure on the
glad cries may pipe across
the darkness, a fiddle may scratch its
invitation-all the rumbling notes of
midnight traffic will tap in vain their
summons upon his window.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
TARGET Balloons.

In training aerial marksmen to shoot
straight the British government makes
use of small target balloons which are
manufactured in large quantities, says
the Scientific American. Double tar
get balloons are made in two sections,
so that when one section is punctured
by a successful shot from the gun Of the
aerial apprentice the balloon remains
In the air, permitting a second hit and
thus doubling the life of the target.
An electric air pump is being used to
fill the balloons.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
Hardwood Floors parkened.

Floors that turn dark from oiling
generally need to be scraped. Some
times a paint or varnish remover,
bought at paint shop, is used first.
One housekeeper improved dis
colored floor by scrubbing it hard, u.s.
ing naphtha soap and adding washing
soda to the water. She did only a
small piece at time, using one of the
small wooden-backed nail-brushes with
very hard bristles. Cracks can be
filled with mixture of sawdust and
glue. This can be darkened with
little burnt umber to match the floor.
In mixing use water 20 parts, glue one
part and sawdust as necessary. An
other filler is a pulp made from news
papers torn up and pounded into a
flour and water paste. 1t hardens in
the crack
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
EVEN FOOD ADMINISTRATION
MEN CAN'T GET THEIR SUGAR.

Members of the Food Administra-
ton at Washington, d. c., now have
an added personal reason for urg-
ing conservation Of sugar.
A recent canvass Of retail stores OF
the city showed that OF % stores Is
had no sugar. Three had only a
SMALL supply Of cube sugar in pack
ages. Every store had less than 100
pounds and none had prospect of
an immediate supply. OF three whole
salers and one jobber, two had no
sugar. One had a three-day supply.
No relies is promised for at least
six weeks, and Washington will be on
a short sugar ration until after
Christmas at least.
In the Middle West and on the
Pacific Coast, where reserve stocks
are heavier, dealers generally are
responding to the cry for help by
placing the same limit on sales in
use in the hard-hit Eastern districts
2 pounds to a customer, providing
other purchases are made.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29

only been supplying the Enginee
equipment fer more than 100000
men, ubt the members CT the rail-
way sectior have undertaken to
transport ami install and put in OPP
Grafton overs as complete railway
equipment.
The cost Ct materials ordered to
date is approx mately S7O,0OO,OO in
some hundreds Of locomotives
more than 100000 tons Of steel
rails, moro than 5000 complete turr
outs, 5O0e,O tics, $4,000 freight cars
500 fill and ballast cars, 500 miles
of telephone wire and apparatus, and
vast quantities of construction and
repair equipment.
A duty imposed upon the engineers
has been the purchase OF the nee
essary Engineer equipment for more
than 100000 men Within 15 days
after the Engineer Corps, following
the the declaration of war, adyertis-
cd for equipment, awards had been
made covering the requirements for
this vast force-a total OF S,7OO,0OO
articles, including among other items
) miles of pontoon bridge.
The Engineers have also undertake
en- the work Of organizing and equip
ping troops for special services, such
rs lumber supply, road construction.
nitary construction, camouflage SER
vice, gas and flame service, mining
work, and mapping.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
AN UNNECESSARY SACRIFICE.

iats Teeth pulled to Escare Draft;
Rejected on His Feet.
Minneapolis Journal The story Of
Minneapolis drafted man who went
70 dentist and had all his teeth
pulled in the hope of obtaining ex-
cmption was vouched for by a mem.
1cr of local draft board, who spe.
officially asked that the mans name
md the ward in which he lived be
not mentioned.
Hoping that the examining physi--
ian would see his plight the fellow
walked into the room and began talk
ne rapidly in the strange tones of
no toothless. The physician ignored
aim, then looked at his feet.
"Thay, DOCTOR" enunciated the man
with difficulty. 81 can't 20 into the
army; all my teeth are gong"
Still ignoring the remarks, the ply
s,oian grasped the mans left foot
Ind examined the instep critically.
DISCHARGED he said. lone of the
worst cases of fallen arches 1 ever
saw"
Afflicted also by acute falling Of
The crest, the man took himself
homeward. Nothing else fell until the
collapse Of his pocketbook ON receip
Of the dentists bill. He is having
Patchwork done now.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
Too BUSY to HELD,

Even in war times heroine is often
without influence in her own home
town, writes correspondent. A young
woman nurse gave up a paying prac-
tice and offered her services to her
country. She is now nursing "Jackies"
in a naval hospital, and, finding how
much pleasure the convaleseents take
in music, she wrote home to her IA
Their to put a notice in the local paper
asking for records If anyone had dupli-
Gates or discards.
1t is a place of about 5000 inhabit-
ants, but not one record did she re-
ceive In answer to her appeal.
probably they are all too busy with
war work." she commented, humor-
ously.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
China Is on Guard.

While China has not provided for
the internTent of Germans and Aus
TRANS, even those of military age, all
citizens of the central powers are re-
quired to register and are forbidden to
travel. They may engage in peaceful
occupations with China's permission.
The mildness of the regulating created
some comment among foreigners, but
Chinese officials replied to such criti-
cism by saying they closed the German
banks and are limiting the activities
of Germans and Austrians even more
than the United States and Japan are.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
WARTIME DEMAND FOR
COTTON is ENORMOUS

Recent investigations in the use
of Gotten in war show:
A Pinch gun disposes of half
bale Of cotton with every shot fired;
a machine gun in operation will use
up bale in three minutes; in a
naval battle like the one off Jutland
over 5000 pounds minute are con-
sumed by each active warship; more
than 10000 bales year are needed
to provide absorbent cotton for the
wounds of the injured; one change
of apparel fer all the troops now en-
gagged in the war represents more
than a million bales
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
A LOST BROTHER.

J. M. Reynolds of Clyde Texas,
is endeavoring to Locate a brother,
G. E. Reynolds, who was supposed
to have bnen in Payette in July 1915,
working in the hay field. Was about
% years old, dark hair and eyes, 5
fgct 10 inches in hcighth, and wore
"'asses. If you know anything as to
his whereabouts please notify this
office, or write ]. M. Reynolds, Clyde
Texas.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
Just a Mouthful.

Mrs. Brewster was entertaining her
club and the ices were being served.
Presently the hostess observed that
one of her guests had eaten all of her
serving Of cream, whereupon she has
tened to her side.
"My dear Mrs. Glover, do let me
give you some more ice cream"
swell, thank you, Mrs. Brewster, I
will take some more, but just mouth
full, please" replied the young woman.
Martha" announced the hostess,
"fill Mrs. Glover's plate"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
WELL PUT.

Perry Chief: A pcstcfice clerk at
Gear Falls was told by his super
or to fix up a sign telling the pat
ms about the increased postage rat
ar letters. Here is the sign he post
81; Don't kick on 3-cent postage.
Better pay little more than have
the kaiser's picture on your stamps
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
Leaves IL to Audience.

One of the small Paris theaters has
set about proving that dramatic critics
are not infallible. Every evening be-
fore the rise of the curtain on an adj
versely criticized but no less success
full play, the ,irate manager appears,
bearing a bundle of newspapers, from
which he reads The choicest condemna-
tory excerpts. Eaving thus stated the
newspaper view of his play, he leaves
the rest to the judgment Of the audi.
ence.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
GERMANS HELD IN THE UNITED
STATES NUMBER NEARLY 1900.

Two classes of German prisoners
are now detained in this country.
One is comprised of sailors taken
into custody when the United States
entered the war; the other consists
OF "alien enemies,r civilians who
have been arrested and are now be.
ing held under governmental regula-
tons for various reasons
The principal detention camp is
at Fort Mcpherson, Ca, where ap-
proximately $50 war prisoners are
held; at Fort Oglethorpe. Ca, there
are 165 alien enemies; at Fort Doug
las, Utah, there are 517 prisoners of
war and so interned Germans. Small
detachments are now temporarily
quartered at Army Posts throughout
the country, but their number is
relatively small
Altogether there are 1854 actual
prisoners CT war in the custody of
the War Department and about 400
interned aliens held at the request
of the Department of Justice.
1t is estimated that Germany is
now holding 40 sailors taken from
American ships by commerce raiders
and other German vessels.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-11-29
YOUR LIBERTY BONDS

Let them afford you Ilsaaure and
get your Christmas presents. Liber-
ty Bonds will be accept, d The same
as cash plus 4 Fer cent interest as
payment in full Tor any instrument
or part payment on any instrument.
Your Liberty Pond receipts will be
accepted same as cash to apply on
any instrument.
Our one price is your protection
against prices being jusled.