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Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
NOTICE INVITING SEALED PRO
POSALS FOX FURNISHING MA
TERIAL FOR EXTENSION OF
WATER SYSTEM.

Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals or bids will be received by
the undersigned, City Clerk of the
City of Ell Centro, at the City Hall of
said city, up to 1880 o'clock p. M,
Wednesday, the 18th day Of Febru-
ary, 1917, for furnishing said City
with the following described mate
rial, f. O. b. Ell Centre, to wit:
181 pieces Class "B," four-inch cast
iron pipe, twelve feet long, or
1O9 pieces Class "B," four-inch cast
iron pipe, twenty feet long Iatter pre-
ferred).
Two 4x4 hub-end cast iron crosses.
Five 4x4x4 hub-end cast iron Tees.
Six four-inch iron body, bronze
mounted hub-end gate valves, Crane
No. 1862, Or equal.
Five four-inch fire hydrants, three
feet six inches bury, Keystone single
throw, 2R inch nozzle.
Twelve 4x2 reducers.
The Board of Trustees reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
By order of the Board Of Trustees
of the City of Ell Centre.
Dated this 25th day of January,
1917.
(SEAL) WE. VAN WAY,
Feb1O City Clerk of Said City.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
For Sale.

About II carloads of lumber at bar
gain prices. Can be laid down here
at practically half the price of new
lumber. This lumber was used in the
false work on the new municipal
warehouse at San Pedro and is in fine
condition. About 5000 pieces of Ak
s feet long, fine for fence posts. 4
lot of 4x8, 4x1O and 4x6, fine for
bridges. Also 2x6, 2x10, 6X6, 6x8, 8x8,
1Ox1O, 1Ox12 and 12x12. About 40
600 feet Ike in short lengths. viii
make very attractive price to anyone
en- entire lot For further informa-
tion and prices address Captain C. j,
Peters, Barbara Worth hotel, City.2-15
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14

3IRDLAND-
Carries the most complete stock
in America of rare and beautiful
birds from all over the world. Be-
fore purchasing a pet of any kind
visit our stores and see the large
collection of fancy and aviary birds.
We carry the largest stock of all
kinds Of cages, of all prices and va
rieties; also foods and remedies for
any of your pets.
TALKING PARROTS
The good, tame double yellow
heads so widely sold as the human
takers; celebrated birds from Co
rinto, known to be the best alking
parrots.
DOGS
Our Dog Department is at your
service with collection of dogs and
puppies of all kinds; also a full line
of kennel supplies. Send for illus
trated catalogue in colors, FREE.
l.. M. GRIDER
1901 Central Ave, and 210 Mercan-
tile place, Los Angeles, Cal. 3-3
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the an
nual stockholders meeting of the I'm
perial Valley Gas Company will be
held at their office, 131 South Sixth
street, in the City of Ell Centro, on
February 20, 1917, at 10 o'clock a. M,
for the election of board of direc-
tors and the transaction of such other
business as may come before it.
Dated FL Centre, February 8, 1917.
2-1O HARRY M. OFT, Secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
Notice to Property Owners.

Call at your Bank, the office Of
your Mutual Water Company or tbs
Irrigation District and sign the peti-
tion for Bond Election. 1t is import
ant that the Election be held at the
earliest possible date. 2-17
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
PROFESSIONAL CAR DS

PHYSICIANS
DIR. r. ID. LUCkEI'T
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
office, Davis Building
office Hours, 10 a. m. to IL M; p. m.
to p. m. Phone 87W.
DIR. w. II. HEFFERNAN
Specialist Eye, Ear Nose and Throat.
Office in Davis Bldg, Ell Centro, Cal.
Telephone 233.
DR.. A. e. ELLIOTT
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Opera House Building
office hours, 10 to IL a. M; to p. m.
Reside ence, Barbara Worth Hotel.
DIR. r. A. BURGER
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
II and 18 Opera House Bldg.
Hours: 10 to 12 to
Phones: office SOW, Residence 89R.
DIR. u. n. MAYFIELD
THROAT. STOMACH, KIDNEYS
SOC Improved for the Blood
Mai e. Mil Surgeon tRetired
Ex-Mem Board Med. Examiners
Late Ry. Surg. and Lect. on Clin. Med;
office, 1872 Panlin Avenue. front of
Calexico Hotel. Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14

FARM LOANS
at a low rate Of interest and on
a plan similar to the proposed Fed
eral Loans. Money available at
once. If you cannot find the time
to call, just drop me line or call
me up and I will drive out and cx-
plain. Will loan on final certifi-
cate.
L. P. SARGENT
.552 Main Street Phone 265
Ell Centre If
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
25,889O for 25c

For as little as Is cents you can bring message
OF eighteen words before an audience Of 25,89O
readers.
Are you aware of that?
The Want Ad method Of reaching great mum
ber of people at little expense is the most effectua
known
The Imperial Valley Press goes into 1,726 homes
every day. Granting that there Only five mem
hers in the family, you are assured of daily audi
ence of $780, Your 25-cent message entities you to
three daily insertions. Thus you reach three times
6,400, or rs, 800 readers.
Tell this army Of readers what y0u wish to soll
buy or exchange anything from rabbit to ranch
Ifit has reasonable merit you will 1eceiyc direct
response at once.
Phone your want ad in &c The Pre- NOW.
Phone 26.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
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Notice to Property Owners.

Call at your Bank, the office Of
your Mutual Water Company or the
Irrigation District and sign the petit
ton for Bond Election. 1t is import
ant that the Election be held at the
earliest possible date. PIT
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
Economical, Efficient---Press Want Ads Try One
FOR SALE-LIVE STOCK

FOR SALE--One team 4-year-old
geldings, weight about 260O, well
matched. Inquire Bogue ranch, II
miles north of Signal school. If
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-14
WANTED-WORK

EXPERIENCED chauffeur wants job.
Address Chauffeur, care Press. PIC
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
MORE POULTRY
FOR PROFIT

At this time Of uncertainties we can
mt do anything that will tend to assist
ourselves more in. reducing the high
cost of living that in following to the
letter the advice of Secretary of Agri-
culture Houston, as to increasing our
flocks Of poultry.
Do not sell the fowls off because
the prices are high.
Higher prices will follow.
Last fall-with hogs selling at 10c-
many could not see the future and sold
off what should have been kept for
brood sows, and today with the Nash
vile market at 15c, we wish we had
held these good gifts and were in
shape now to avail ourselves of the
great advance.
Let us hold our fowls and raise
double the number that we did last.
Set all broody hens, and care for our
young chicks as we never have before.
Feed properly: use no raw corn meal,
but bake corn bread for them. Feed
corn chops, butter milk and wheat
shorts, and get quick cash out of the
cockerels as fryers. Save the old hens
and pullets for daily cash through
eggs.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
GARDEN NOTEs-PERsONAL.

Judge Bond has an elegant field Of
corn that he has cultivated himself.
He is doing other splendid things on
farm and in garden. We said that he
is doing it, not having it done in the
old southern way Ask him about it..
Mrs. Sam NJ Taylor, we believe,
knows more about gardening than
most of us. She certainly understands
making the most of space--intensify-
ing. She is generous and accommodate
ing, Ask her about it.
So many gardens on the street-side
in our little town. Notable are those
Of Messrs. Joe T. Mann, II. NJ. Eel
senthal and Billie Bond. Stop and ex-
anime them. Admire and learn some
thing from each one.
Mr. c. E. Wellington spends about
an hour in his garden every morning.
1t counts for large results. Try it.
Claiborne Sturdivant has a good
garden and has in it silsify, parsnips
and shallots in plenty for winter use,
He has some wonderful hills of pota-
toes Ask him about it.
In an interview with Mrs. Spencer
Thomas, chairman of Home Econom-
ice, she says: eve can now go into the
garden for canning and preserving
Late paintings are to be done in June
but an abundance of things can be
gathered for present use and for pre-.
serving. The Cooperative Club is moi
satisfied to be merely self-supporting
but it wants to help Uncle Sam, Tel
everybody to can their beets wher
they get to be the size of a silver dol
lar Canned thus in winter they car
be buttered and eaten or picked. Car
all snap beans to spare, and commence
now. Snap beans that dry on the vines
make the famous Boston baked beans
Most of you have government recipes
which if you will follow closely you
cannot fail"
Miss Corbett is doing the county
great good-making US better home
makers.
Miss Murphy will be with us agar
the first week in July. All come. Mat
tiers of interest to be discussed.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22

So come into the garden with us and
come quickly now. The June POSSIBLE
tiles and opportunities for planting
are almost passed-still time enough
for some June planting-but plant now
corn, and more corn, beans and yet
more beans. Study the late planting
and plant. If you can't send money
to the soldiers you can dig for them
You can help support the French or
phans by planting and saving right
here at home. You can join the Red
Cross and plant and cultivate food
stuffs. Keep what you need and be
sure to have plenty for Europe. We
have the ground and a plenty of it
and Old Mother Earth responds so
abundantly to us American diggers.
Let US dig hard and deep and a long
time every day that we may do our
bit toward saving the world for de-
mocracy.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
A SLICE OF BREAD

A single slice of bread seems an I'M
important thing. In many households
one or more slices of bread are thrown
away and not used for human food.
Sometimes stale quarters, or half,
loaves are thrown out.
Yet one good sized slice of bread
such as child likes to cut-weighs
an ounce. 1t contains about three
fourths of an ounce of -four.
If every one Of the country's 100000
900 homes wastes on the average only
one such slice of bread a day, the
country is throwing away daily over
100000 ounces of four-over 875,-
600 pounds, or enugh flour for over
million one-pound loaves a day. For
a full year at this rate there would be
a waste of over 319,O00,000 pounds of
four, 100000 barrels-enough to
make 365,000,00O loaves.
As it takes 4 IL bushels of wheat
to make a barrel of ordinary flour,
this waste would represent the flour
from over 100000 bushels of wheat.
Fourteen and nine tenths bushels of
wheat on the average are raised per
acre. 1t would take the fruit of some
100000 acres just to provide a single
slice of bread to be wasted daily in
every home
To produce this much flour calls for
an army of farmers, railway men,
flour mill people. To get the flour to
the consumer calls for many freight
cars and the use of many tons of coal.
But someone says, a full slice of
bread is not wasted in every home.
Very well-make it a daily slice for
every four or ten or every thirty fam
llles-make it weekly slice in every
home-or make the wasted slice thin
ner. The waste of flour involved is
still appalling-altogether too great
to be tolerated when wheat is scarce.
Any waste of bread is inexcusable
when there are so many ways of US
ing stale bread to cook delicious dishes.
The United States Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. c.. or
your state agricultural college will tell
you how to use stale bread in many
ways.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22

when mated with a purebred bull the
calf is threefourths pure. The third
cross produces seven-eighths pure.
bred, or a very high grade, and the
fourth cross results in fifteen
sixteenths pure. For market purpo-
SEES, the high grade beef animal is
practically equal to the purebred, but
they are unreliable as sires, no matter
how good their individuality.
The surest, quickest and cheapest
method 70 improving a herd of cattle
is in grading them up by breeding to
a purebred bull of choice individuality
and good ancestry,
In the crisis before us the breeding
to purebred bulls is a matter of patri-
otto duty, for it means economy of food
production.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
HOME ECONOMICS
High School Food Economics in Prac.
tice.

A report received from the Pater-
son, New Jersey, High School contains
material that may be of help to other
high school teachers in developing
courses in which economy in food is
emphasized. The superintendent of
schools discussed the food situation
with the teachers Of home economics
and asked them to plan ways and
means of conserving and preserving
foods in the nations crisis. He made
the following suggestions:
Keep up the work on substitutes
for potatoes. Use water-cress for
potash salts.
2-Teach ways of using cornmeal.
Farmers bulletin No sos. Also hon.
my, cereals, etc.
3-Stress the value of milk.
Omit all cake and desert lessons
other than simple bread pudding, corn
meal, milk, etc.
5-Encourage the planting of beans
and peas, which are a substitute for
meat
6-Teach methods of preserving
foods Burying, keeping in sand, hang
ing, drying and canning. Vegetables
and fruits.
Ask children to save everv
able type Of jar, glass or can, that
will hold food.
S-Form canning clubs.
Get food from country into city
to can.
10-Have teachers in August take
charge Of canning classes and go into
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
WIEN MASTIC PAINT GOES
ON THE HOUSE, THE
FOR RENT" SIGN
COMES OFF.

Too many houses are without ten.
ants on account Of their appearance.
It's false economy to let your proper
ty stay Imprinted. You not only lose
revenue, but its value and life are
lessened to a marked degree
The expense Of painting is by far
less than the loss thus incurred.
The wise owner paints his property
before he puts the for rent" sign on.
Let us tell you how little it will really
cost you to paint your house with MAS.
TIC PAINT-"the kind that lasts" It's
the best paint for you to use. The
purest white lead and zinc oxide, so
per cent each, ground in pure linseed
oils, go into It, That's the reason
it stood the test of time OF half a cen-
tury Don't put off painting, let us
figure with you at once. Ask for free
paint booklets and color card.
Coppedge Drug, Co., Brownsville, Tenn
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22

the homes ano teach.
1l-Tell children about getting
seeds from U. S. Department of agri-
culture.
12-Stress prevention of the waste
of foods. Cock potatoes in their jack
cts, etc. List foods that are cheap
but high in food value.
13--Course in Firt Aid--High School
only. Course in home nursing-High
School only.
The supervisor of home economics
writes of the work as follows:
The high school girls studying nu-
triton have worked on the following:
problems of substitution: Meat,
I2-Potatoes, Sugar, 4-Use of 9TH
er than wheat flour, and 5, Value of
Milk.
"The following substitutes for po-
tatoes have been taught: a. Boiled
Rice, boiled macaroni, boiled hominy,
boiled corn meal, boiled cereals, boiled
noodles. b. These same materials are
taken and their use in making other
dishes demonstrated: (a) Fried homi-
ny, fried cereal, fried bread French
Toast), fried noodles, fried cornmeal,
farina balls. (b) Combined with
cheese: Escalloped rice, macaroni and
cheese, escalloped tomatoes. Dread
crumbs used.
"A great deal of stress has been laid
on preparing dishes that would be
meat substitutes and upon the fact
that the body does not require meat
three times day nor every day. Meat
less meals are planned, prepared, and
served. We are teaching the girls to
use substitutes for eggs and to leave
them out of recipe where they can
for the sake of economy and where
they are not needed to bring up the
energy or nutritive value of the dish
prepared.
We have been teaching bread max
ing, though we cannot make bread for
less than we can buy it, we can get
more nutritive product. We also teach
the use of other than white flour for
bread.
THE value of milk in the days
meal plans has been and is being stres-
sed. The girls know that one quart
of milk costing Toe is equal to the fol-
lowing:
Eight eggs at 32c; two pounds po-
tatoes, l5c; three-fourths pound beef
at 24c; four pounds cabbage at 48c.
Cost of dishes prepared and cost
Of meals are worked out at nearly
every lesson.
We are teaching the economy of
sugar: by reminding the girls that
cereals, because Of their starch ingre-
dent, do not need sugar added to them
for starch is changed to sugar by the
body as the body needs it. Sugar adj
ded only oyerloads the body. 2-The
use of syrup and molasses instead of
sugar. By cutting down the sugar
called for in the recipes used in class
work.
The girls are now making charts
to illustrate these facts, and we expect
to use them as illustrations in lectures
to housekeepers. One of the charts
will be Simple Lunchens" Example,
one glass of milk, corn cake and but
ter or syrup.
"Weuse ieft-overs and bread in e ev-
cry way possible.
TO prevent waste we cook as much
as possible in large amounts, family
unit, and sell it. The kitchens Give in
number) turned in $72 last month
from sales.
I'VE do not make to sell, but we do
try to make our foods so they will
SELL"
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
CITY ELECTION

In the city primary election held
here Wednesday, the following officers
were re-nominated without opposition:
A. NJ. Carlton, recorder; ]. G. Walker,
city marshal and James Upton, just
ice of the peace. This means that they
viii be elected without opposition. All
of them have proven popular and eff
eient in the discharge of their respec-
tive duties and were deserving of the
endorsement received at the hands Of
our citizens.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
GROWING ANIMALS
ARE PAYING ONES

Remember that there is no profit
in stunning a calf, a pig, or a colt or
lamb.
The profit comes when they are kept
in thrifty condition, steadily growing.
When young things are putting on
weight they are making you money.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
WATCH THE LICE

On chickens. These parasites sap the
very life blod out of them. Dust the
hens at once with B. A. Thomas Louise
Killer and your troubles are ended. 1t
also kills bugs on cucumber, tomato
and squash vines. We sell it to you
and if it does not make good, we will.
All dealers. June
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
USE PUREDRED BULL

The bun is half the herd if he is a
good one, and may be practically all
Of it if he is a poor one.
The first cross of a purfebred bull
on common stock gives offspring that
is one-half pure. If this is a heifer,
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22

Your family is going to be hungry
next winter unless you plant garden
in June and can save and dry enough
food for next winter.-H. VI. COttrell.
Agriculturist, Bureau of Farm Deyel-
opment.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-22
BROWNSVILLE
COOPERATIVE CLUB
Officers

President-Mrs Jonas Sternberger
Vice Pres.-Mr. Mann Wills.
Treasurer-Mr. ]. R. Ellsworth.
COMMITTEES and Chairmen -
Education-Mrs. Mann Wills.
Sanitation-Mr. Currie Dixon.
Memberships. w, Lyle.
Recreation-J. o. Bonner.
Home Economics-Mrs. S. F.
Thomas.
Marketing-Mr. Abe Sternberger.
Publicity-Mrs. E. C. Sturdivant.
City Beautification.---- - ----
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-18
FOOD SAVING DOES NOT MEAN
A LOWER LIVING STANDARD
By HERBERT HOOVER.

toned to, we must now eat fruits and
vegetables which will give US equal
nourishment at lower cost and improve
our health.
The standard of living in America
is something that we should all jeal-
ously guard. 1t must not be lowered
even in war times if we can help it.
Our country is so rich and our ma
tional enterprise is so great that we
can meet any food scarcity by increas-
ing our efforts and stopping our
wastes.
A standard of living does not neces-
sarily turn on food alone. The trained
American workman on good wages is
proverbially lavish in his expenditures
for his table. He wants his family to
have an abundance of the best that is
in the market and he is absolutely
right. But the most expensive foods
do not always give the best nourish-
ment, and the most nourishing foods
can often be used in a combination
with cheaper things like fruit and
vegetables to improve ones health.
In the European countries the liv-
ing conditions are harder. The people
have long learned to nourish them
selves on less chosen diets of COM
paratively cheap things. We might
very well take lesson from Europe
TO reduce the cost OF our food with
out impairing our health, and put the
money saved thereby into something
that counts bigger in maintaining a
high standard of living.
Suppose we saved our food and put
the extra money into better schooling
for our children, more play and recrea-
tion for our wives and ourselves, more
comfortable living quarters, for many
other of the fundamentals of life
that would be a genuine uplift in our
living standard and one that COM
mends itself to every sensible person.
The first time one hears about this
proposition of saving food, it NAV look
as tho one were asked to tighten his
belt and get along with less to eat, but
that is absolutely a mistaken way to
look at it. What we are asked TO do
is to use our alert American brains to
modify our diet and get more out of
life, not less. Our bountiful soil has
responded to this new demand in a few
months and it will respond further as
wheat and the bigger food staples are
worked out. Already the American
farmer is blowing for a crop of wheat
next summer. which will exceed any
thing we have ever raised. Until that
crop is harvested we must use the
abundance of quickly grown fruits
and vegetables that have been pro
duced to meet the emergency. So
from now on until next summer our
motto must be: Save some of our
wheat bread by eating potatoes-eat
! an apple and send biscuit"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-18

What the American people can do
when they are aroused to cooperate
is shown in the bountiful harvest of
fruit and vegetables now being gath
cred. 1t is predicted that we will
have the largest potato crop that we
ever raised and that the shortage of
onions, cabbage and other fresh vege-
tables which caused such high prices
last winter has been overcome.
This great harvest is the result of
our energy in planting war gardens
ed by farmers. The demand for war
gardens did not start until the plant
ing season was well under way in
many states but the American people
were right on the job and answered
the call for food and now they are get
ting their results.
Steps are being taken to store these
crops and the prices of potatoes, ap-
pies, onions, cabbage and similar prod
ucts will undoubtedly be normal this
winter.
Now, there is something further to
ask of the American public-that we
use these first fruits of our war plant
ing program to help US save wheat,
meat and fats for shipment to our
allies.
Over in Europe there are millions
of men fighting our battles and tens
of millions of men and women back in
the factories supplying the fighters
with munitions and war supplies. The
efficiency of all these fighters and
workers can be measured and actually
be put upon a pair of scales and
weighed. If we send them only as
much wheat as we could spare from
this years crop after using what we
have been accustomed to, there would
be not enough to properly nourish our
allies. If we can save and send them
one third of what we normally con-
sumo they will be properly nourished.
Nothing could be palmer than that
On the bread plate before you are
and send one abroad somebody over
battles. If you eat three and send
none the time may come when you or
some other American must go abroad
to fight.
Now, in the great crop Of perish
able foods which we are harvesting
there is abundant nourishment for
every American worker. Our food
saving program will not tolerate IN
Ider-nourishnIent in any American FAM
! lily. We must be well fed ourselves,
/ for we, too, are called upon to carry
our great world tasks. Food economy
with US is a matter Of using our
brains to get the same amount of nour-
| ishment by modifying our diet. In
stead of eating meat and bread, which
are extremely rich fools, in the large
quantities that we have been accus-