The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-01

The Majestic, the range with a
reputation, at Reilly's.
Just received a full line of robes
and horse blankets, the storm kind,
at Lockett's.
Chimney blocks, any size at NJ.
Gilbride's cement works, east of
Fruit Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Needles and
daughter Freda spent Tuesday even
ing with the Sprouts and Jensens, at
the home of the latter
L. A. Stewart, Magnetic Healer,
cures when all other fail. The best
doctors recommend his treatment.
Call at Carnage Rooming house, room
26, and consult him.
The Ladies of the Christian church
will hold a bazaar and cooked food
sale February II at the Pioneer
Furniture Store. They will also serve
lunch during the day.
J. Fl. Whitson of Pocatello, repre-
senting the Western Building and
Loan Association of Salt Lake, is
spending the week with his sisters,
Mrs. George MCGOWAN and Miss Ruth
Whitson.
Friday night, thieves entered the
Ideal Theater. The only thing they
were able to find of value to them
was a revolver, which was in the
trunk of one of the vaudeville per-
formers.
Ed Jewell and brother Albert of
San Diego, Calf, Fred Jewell and
wife of Cambridge, Harry Coon, wife
and daughter of Boise, spent Sunday
as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George Nc
Gowan in this city.
George Womack and family arriv-
ed Friday of last week from Seattle,
Wash, where they have made their
home the past few years. Mr.. WO-
mack says that Brink Woody, a for
mer Emmett citizen, is now in Alaska,
where he is engaged in business.
The Index made a serious mistake
in its Born" statistics last week
Credit for a fine baby girl was given
to Sam D. Little, who lives at Meri-
dian, instead of to Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Little of this city The fact is,
the Boise valley can no NOR produce
such fine girls as the Emmett coun-
try can than they can produce such
peaches. The Index offers its apollo
gies for the grievous error.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. P. Sproul of Lima,
Ohio, who have been all winter guests
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Jensen, departed Wednesday of this
week for their home in the Buckeye
state. Mrs. Sproul is a sister Of Mrs.
J. L. Jensen. These people are en-
.husiastic in their appreciation of the
Emmett country. They say they had
never had such feast of fruit as they
lad in Emmett this "off' fruit year.
Henry Ford is planning to fight the
gasoline combine on a huge scale and
It the same time benefit the farmers
# Michigan. Ford has just announc-
d that he has obtained a shipment of
.lcohol potatoes-tubers so repulsive
n odor and taste that they cannot be
aten. but which yield a high percent
ge of starch that can be fermented |
nd distilled into alcohol. When these
otatoes arrive Ford will turn them
yer to his laboratories in Detroit |
,hieh will experiment with different
inds Of soil and fertilizers until the
ight combination for producing the
Arrest yield is found. This informa
ion, together with potatoes for seed
10 purposes, will be furnished free
, the farmers of Michigan. "The day
i'll come when Michigan's 3 million
lie acres can be devoted to the grow
lg Of these potatoes, of which Eur
Dean farmers raise from rs to 200
ushels an acre" Mr.. Ford said, "and
ley sell there from twenty to thirty
snts a bushel. A bushel will yield
bout four and one-half gallons of 15C
, $50 proof alcohol-the sort we find
orks best in motor cars and tractors.
he dav of alcohol fuel in the United
tates is approaching and it will mean
lie reclamation and use of thousands
acres of land now regarded as I'M
roductive.7 Denatured alcohol now
Ills in this country at eighty-five
,nts to one dollar a gallon and with
lie worlds supply of gasoline threat
led by a gradual decrease, Mr.. Ford
itimates large profits can be made
= the farmers who wish to take up
e cultivation of alcohol potatoes.
The Majestic, the range with
at Reilly's.
Whitman for Plumbing and Tin
ork. Phone 46J.