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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-23
Wall Paper at vincent's.

NIB. Cherry spent several days this
week at Opal, Kemmerer and other
Wyoming points, in the interests of
the CIV. & M. Co.
Andy ]. Wells and James G. James
returned last Sunday night from
American Lake, having failed to pass
the physical examination made by the
army surgeon at Camp Lewis.
Heaters in all sizes at reasonable
prices at the Nielsen Furniture Co.
The local Red Cross chapter has re-
ceived another shipment Of yarn and
those desiring to knit can secure yarn
at the Red Cross room. or from Mrs.
o. H. Groo.
Not for a long time will such val
ues be offered again. You will save
money by buying two pairs of ladies'
shoes during the Ladies' Shoe
Week" at Burgoyne's-Nov. 26th to
Dec. LIST.
Farm loans, long time. per cent
interest, no commissions. money
Ready as soon as title is shown clear.
Bear River Valley Land G Abstract
Co.
The feature for Saturday night at
the Rex is Pearl White and Ralph
Rellard in THE Pearl of the Army"
play unmasking Americas secret
foes. This will be OF interest to ev-
eryone.
The chicken dinner served by the
Methodist ladies last Saturday wae
we'll ptaronized, and a rafting good
dinner it was. The dinner netted the
ladies about $50.
Wesley Windley and Miss Thelma
Arnell, both of St. Charles, we're uni.
ted in marriage by President shep-
herd at Paris on Thursday, November
18th.
The Vincent Furniture Co. offers q
splendid line of rockers. library tables
and dayenports for holiday gifts. Cal
and inspect our stock before buying
Every Friday evening from nov
there will be sewing in the Red Cross
rooms to give every lady an oppor
tunity who cannot help in the iay
time to do her bit for the hurry al
work that has been called for.
| No one ever thought that 1t wal
possible to buy shoes at reduced pric
es these days. A surprise was en-
joyed when a week of special values
in ladies' shoes was announced 70
next week. Monday Nov. 26th to Sat
urday Dec. 1st by e. L. Burgoyne
Sons.
VIII Stephens requests the Ex
Iaminer to state that the attachment
recently issued against him was en-
tirely uncalled for. He says tn
money is ready. and has been 10
some time, TO pay the plaintiffs ha
they lived up too their contract wit
him.
Yesterday VIM. Thornock brough
lover two beef cows from Blooming
Eton. which he sold for. the neat SUI
y Of s1s5TThe animals weighed $50
{ POUNDS each. 4 few years ago
ekVOuId have taken q half dozen {
more beef COWS to have brought tbs
. sum. With these prices being pal
. for beef animals IT Is no wonder II
"a consumer Is now paying more Il
. chuck steak than he did for Il
a choicest T-bones a few years ago.
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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-23
Local News
Montpelier. Friday, Nov. 20, 1917

MOAtPOAAOEJ PAAudyI NV co. 4OAd
A son registered at the home Of
Ezra Kunz of Bern, last Tuesday.
You will find a complete line OF
wall paper at lowest possible prices at
the Nielsen Furniture Company.
A daughter registered at the home
OF Fred Aegerter last Monday.
Warm felt shoes for men, women
and children; come let US At you
H. B. Whitman.
There is a new son at the home of
Tom Stephens. He arrived last Sat
urday.
Do not buy your holiday goods un-
til you have seen our line. Goods
will be on display Nov. %. Toys for
6. 10, Is and 25 cents, and lots of
them.-H. B. Whitman.
THE Fighting Trail will be pre-
scented at the opera house tonight. A
splendid play, Be sure and attend.
Kodaks, cameras. films and sup
plies at Rinehart'S studio. the kodak
store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Meal Knutti returned
yesterday from their honeymoon
trip and are busy receiving the con-
gratulations of their friends.
The public library is open in the
city hall every Saturday afternoon
from 1880 until S o'clock.
J. o. Phelps arrived last Monday
from Phoenix, Arizona, having been
called home by the serious illness OF
his father, ]. NJ. Phelps.
On Nov. 81 we will place on sale
our immense stock of holiday goods
II will be a surprise to you to see
the low prices on toys and Christmas
goods.-H. B. Whitman.
George Blechert was in from Ray
mond yesterday. He reports havinl
shipped two car loads of cattle las
Friday to the Omaha market.
window glass and prepared paints
at the Nielsen Furniture Company.
Ed Taylor, an old-time citizen o
Montpelier, spent q rev days in tn
city this week shaking hands witt
old friends. Ed il now engaged II
mining in Boulder county, Colorado.
Anything that you want in the ruI
line and at prices that will please yoI
at the Nielsen Furniture Company.
The pupils of the Montpelier Jun
Tor and Senior High school contrib
uted $36.75 toward the Y. NJ. c. A
war fund last week.
Call and investigate our Christina
gift OFFER in the way of beautiful 81
yer frames free with each doze
photographs during November
Rinehart Studio---
Mrs.~Ed Lambert and childre
came up from Ogden Wednesday Il
| weeks visit with relatives.
Next Monday night Walnut Cam
w. o. w, will elect officers for tt
ensuing year and a good attendant
of members is desired.
We are showing the largest line
brass beds ever seen in this city. II
patterns are as handsome as can
found any where. the prices are
good deal lower.-Nielsen Furnitu
Naunauu
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-23
Hlsgea and pel,a.

Hides and Peits.
Phone 1875 and sell your hides.
pelts and furs for the highest cash
priee..-staniey Hun.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-23

Gee. aren't we having delightful
weather. but we don't want % say
much about il for fear the weather
man will get an emery streak on him
and give as a touch Of real old winter
weather before we want IL.
There witt bee reception OF mem
bers AZ the morning service at the
M. E. church on Sunday. Nov IS.
ANY others who may desire to unite.
either by letter or on probation. can
do so at that time.
Our stock OF furniture, Universal
ranges and heaters was never more
complete. Special prices on all goods
until Jan. 1st.-Vineent Furniture
60.
the habit of building. and it will take
about Ave years to do Il. Mr.. Mar
tin said that Bear Lake county could
well AFFORD to put up $4,000 year
for the next five years in order to get
good road built into Star valley.
PARROT & Christopherson are max
ing rapid progress digging the
trenches for the sewer system. II
good weather prevails for another
week the trench digging viii be
completed. The machine they use Ia
sure q go-getter.
E. A. Burrell left last Sunday for
Los Angeles. Cali. to spend a month
with his family. He will then return
here for a couple OF weeks. and then
go back to Los Angeles for the bal
ance Of the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Walton. who
left Montpelier about two weeks ago
to spend the winter In Salt Lake City,
are the proud parents OF nlne-pound
baby girl, born Thursday. November
%. Mother and daughter are doing
finely, as reported by telegram ia
Grandpa and Grandma Walton resid.
ing in this city.
There's q reason why the U. 8. gov.
eminent il using car loads and car
loads OF the great Majestic Ranges
Quality of material, durability. and
economy OF operation is the reason
We sell this wonderful range.--Niel
sen Furniture Company.
You are invited to enjoy an eve.
ming with James whitcomb Riley
and the Third ward mutuals at tbs
ward chapel Tuesday evening, No
vember 81. The program will begin
at 1880, at the conclusion OF which
there will be dancing. Music will b,
furnished by the Tueller orchestra
Admission 15 cents. Everybody wei
come.
In a letter to his parents. writer
at Camp Mills. Long Island, on Nov
16, Jim Holmes speaks of havinl
seen win Ansell and VIII Mumford
who went to American Lake with thu
third contingent from this county
They went east two weeks ago ant
are now located at a farming camp OF
Long Island. not far from CAM
Mills.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-23

! Lyle A. Harris. travelling represent
gtative for and graduate from the in
stitution for the blind At Lincoln.
Nebr.. preached at the Methodist
church last Sunday evening" Mr., Har-
xfs Is a man OF culture and q good
speaker. He read verse from his
book of raised letters. from which the
blind are taught to read. Al the close
OF the service the entire audience
went to the front TO see the book and
bid Mr.. Harris an affectionate fare
we'll
Commencing next Monday and CON
tinuing for the entire week. Nov. 26th
to Dec. list. inclusive. special atten-
tion will be given to ladies' shoes.
| Special values will be offered during
this week only for $3.50. $3.50.
$500, $500 and 800. Our entire
stock will be offered for your inspec-
ton at reduced prices. Every one h
well acquainted with our superior
quality of shoes. You can save a.
much as $500 on q single pair dur
ing this week. Call early on Monday
IL you wish to see the line complete
e. L, Bnrgoyne & Sons,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-23

Mrs.-Ed. Lambert and children
came up from Ogden Wednesday for
\ a weeks visit with relatives.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-23

NIB. Cherry spent several days thil
week at Opal. Kemmerer and Other
Wyoming points, in the interests Of
the CIV. & M. Co.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15
Enaland's Narrow Diet

least twenty millions worth of food was then
being wasted annually in England by uncon-
scientous and incompetent .housewifery.
Cornmeal is the best -four for bread and
is the most nutritious And it is the staple of
a palatable pudding, an American national
dish.
yellow Indian meal makes that excellent
porridge, polenta, or yellow meal stirabout. as
it is called in Ireland. Some people acquire a
taste for it with thick sour milk. Most peo-
pie prefer it with sweet milk and sugar, or
syrup, when these are to be had, and the
more people fall back upon what sweet stuff
their bees will manufacture and yield up to
them the better now.
"As for binding mediums in cookery, a
tablespoonful of sago will save two eggs in a
pudding otherwise needing three; one duck
egg will go as far as two hen eggs. Oat
scones and tea cakes are best made with the
-four like Scotch oatmeal. All the brown
meals-wheat meal, barley meal rye, buck
wheat, even oatmeal-are excellent for pud
dings with or without some mixture of bread
crumbs, but with some baking powder, little
finely chopped beef suet, few stoned dates
or chopped cooking figs, which are most
wholesome. Syrup is the proper accompani-
ment to these puddings, or honey. Dates
cooked with rhubarb are valuable food
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

Michigan being second only to that of
New York State itself" Mr. Travis fur
ther outlines the history and Importance
of the canal thus:
"On July 4, 1917. according to ne.
mortal tablet preserved in the State Con-
troller's Office, the first spadeful of earth in
the construction of this colossal enterprise
was turned, and by October %, 1885, the prof
Get was completed. Up to the time of this
Undertaking, the state had contented itself in
the matter of providing transportation facili-
ties by offering slight assistance to private
enterprises. Because this method proved in
adequate, the government finally took upon
itself the building of the canal
THE suggestion of building the canal to
connect the Great Lakes with the Atlantic
Ocean was offered as early as 1855 by Wash
ington and others. A survey of the route was
made in 1908, but nothing further was accom-
plishcd until after the War Of 1912 De Witt
Clinton was elected Governor in 1916, and one
OF his first official acts was to create a com.
mission to investigate the project. The result
of this investigation led to the enactment Of
q law creating the Canal Fund and the g..
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

tributary to it is now growing more than a
million sacks of rice every year. Just now
the rice is standing high out of the water,
like countless emeralds sprouting out of a
basin of silver. There are great beds of
these emeralds all the way from here to the
Mississippi River, and they extend westward
and southwark along the Gulf of Mexico to
below the Brazos River, in Texas. They
are part of the great rice farm which runs
along the fat Louisiana prairies above the
Gulf of Mexico and extends far down into
Texas.
The Gulf strip Of rice land is four or five
hundred miles long and from twenty to fifty
miles wde and it is now producing large
part of the crop of the United States. It's
area can be greatly extended and can be
made to include much of the land running
northward from here to Arkansas.
In the Arkansas prairies there are other
rice lands which yield even more to the acre
than those of the Gulf; and within the past
five years big rice industry has sprung up
in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys,
in California In 1912 the rice of California
had not yet come into the market. During
that year a strip of 400 acres was planted
near Biggs, in the Sacramento Valley 1t
succeeded so well that in 1913 5000 acres
were planted, and they yielded more than
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15
in w OOl

COME criticism has been made of high
prices asked the government for
woolen cloth for the army and navy,
and there is more or less talk about an
investigation of these prices. They are
very much higher than those paid for the
same material in December, 1916. 1t does
not seem as if this investigation would
make any great difference, for, based on
fundamental conditions, these prices seem
absolutely justifable. Manufacturing
costs, which include coal, labor and many
others, have greatly increased since six
months ago. An investigation might help
the situation by driving out undesirable
sellers and showing others the way TO
more economical management and greater
cooperation.
Foreign markets are in great need of
cotton goods owing TO the decline in pro-
duction abroad, and consequently OUTSIDE
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

means about twenty-five pounds Of grain are
required to produce one pound of beef fat.
Dietetically, pound of fat is worth two and
one-fourth pounds of grain, hence the loss
of food value in producing beef fat is in the
ratio of 20 to l.
Because of the more vital need for milk
in the diet than for meat, and because as a
whole, including its fat, it is the most eco
nomcal form of converting vegetable foods
into animal foods, milk production should
not be curtailed until far more desperate
straits of food economy are forced upon us
than now exist.
The restriction of beef production by the
early killing of male cattle seems war time
economy for America, because of its power
of saving grain. Yet we need have no fear
of a beef famine, for the steers that may be
fed from roughage and meat from cows and
calves produced as byproduct of the dairy
industry, together with our milk, poultry,
pork and fish, will adequately supply the re-
quirements.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

gave an enormous impetus to the growth of
the states industries and laid the foundation
OF that financial, commercial and manufactur-
ing wealth which has made the name of New
fork synonymous with the greatest achieve
ments in the world. Up to 1882, when tolls
were abolished over 1921 900, 900 in revenue
had been collected. As the total cost of this
waterway, up to that time, was S7s.s62. 600
the state realized net gain of s42.50O. .OO0
and by the time of the undertaking Of the new
farge canal the old Erie Canal had actually
produced over S20,Oo0,0OO profit to the state.
Thus, every statistical measurement an
pied, whether increase in population, wealth.
number of manufacturers, amount of goods
transported. growth of cities agriculture or
commerce, all testify to its influence. In fact
the building of this waterway stimulated the
development of a wild frontier country and
soon built up great industrial zone across
New York State, II made New York State the
Empire commonwealth, and New York CITY
the commercial metropolis of the world"
IL is interesting to go back and glance
AT the reports of newspapers of century
past on the opening Of the Erie Canal.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

THE narrow diet of the Englishman
who has little tolerance for myriads
of foods upon which other nations
subsist is commented upon by "The Specta-
tor" Nondon), but both the indictment
and the suggestions are applicable as well
TO the American who has too many pref
udices against the foods that nature so
literally supplies. "The Spectator" makes
this timely study of the bill of fare:
"Englands narrow range of daily food has
always amazed people from other countries,
especially in view of family expenditure av-
eraging rather higher than anywhere else, un-
less in the United States Bread really is the
British staff Of life-an dealized white loaf,
artifcially blanched and innutritive, deprived
Of the elements for muscle toughening and
making sound teeth and the bones which make
old bones. The variety of cereals used for
breadstuTs elsewhere is shortsightedly de-
spised
Fruit at breakfast is deemed either lux
ury or fad. even where meat dishes are
superabundant on the table. And the vege-
tables in average weekly use are relatively
few and all too often badly cooked, potatoes
in particular being spoiled and wasted by
being peeled before boiling. An investigator
in the 'eighteen-sixties' found out that at
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15
From BHght.y.

5000 pounds of rice to the acre. In 1914
the area jumped to $4,000 acres, and last
year it covered 900 acres. In 1916 the rice
crop of California alone was more than lO0,-
100000 pounds. 1t was equal to one pound
for every man, woman and child in the
United States, or enough to supply twelve
meals for each of our citizens.
But what of rice as war ration, Mr.
Carpenter asks:
How warm will it keep the soldiers in the
trenches and how much work one do on
such a diet? | have been in Manchuria in
winter 1t is bitterly cold, and there is no
where that one needs more food TO keep
warm. Nevertheless, it was upon diet Of
rice and fish that the Japanese soldiers en-
dured all their hardships and succeeded in
defeating the meat-fed Cossacks from Russia
Every soldier in the japanese army had
little acquered tin case about as big as an
old-fashioned cartridge box. This contained
a pound or so of raw rice, and that was suf-
fcient to sustain his life and fighting strength
for two or three days. The rice could be
and water obtained. 1t was used both in the
camps and on the march.
As to the value of rice for our people at
home, it is equally good. 1t forms the chief
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

bread Of Asia, and about half of the people
of the whole world make it their principal
food The Filipino keeps fat upon rice, and
the Chinese coolie works twelve hours a day
upon his scanty supply. have had Japanese
jinrikishs men carry me over the country
at six miles an hour, running all day, on
nothing but rice, and | have seen Corean
porters carrying loads of 300 pounds on the
same food.
Mr.. Carpenter describes the rice har-
vest in Southern Louisiana as being very
much like the wheat harvest in the North
west
The rice turns yellow and the sheaves look
ike wheat The thrsshing is done in about
the same way. The machines go from farm
to farm, and a single thrasher will handle as
much as 1000 acres per day. In the thrashng
the paddy, or rice grain in the husk, flows
forth at the side of the machine, while the
straw is blown out through pipe at one
end. The paddy is caught in bags, each OF
which holds about 200 pounds, and it is in
this shape that it is carried on wagons or
boats to the warehouse or mill.
1t will not be any stranger than the war
itself if one of its effects will be to fill
with waving stalks of rice thousands of
lowand acres that are now unused.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

buyers are turning more and more to do
mestic producers. This accumulation of
demand, which is worldwide, will tend to
hold the cotton goods market and prevent
any great decline in operations for any
extended time. Domestic consumption of
cotton goods for ordinary purposes is
smaller than formerly, but it is more than
counteracted by very large buying for spe-
cial purposes. 1t is not likely that the de-
mand upon manufacturers will be less for
a long time, but unless this big demand is
handled carefully it may bring specula-
ton. Speculation is liable to produce ex-
ceptional prices, and from any high point
more radical decline can take place than
if quotations were relatively nearer the
actual cost of production. In order to
maintain steadiness in the situation and
to aid the export trade, manufacturers
should keep prices relatively low and ac-
cept contracts at profits which might be
considered moderate as compared with
those which are being obtained. Cotton
has advanced relatively much more than
many fabrics, but exceptional profits are
being made and some manufacturers tend
toward forcing prices still higher.
The wool trade generally feels that by
adherence to the "no speculation" slogan
of Mr.. Hoover they can cooperate with the
government and voluntarily keep prices
down to a non-speculative basis.-Ameri-
can Wool and Cotton Reporter.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

"HIS month the hundredth anniver-
sary of the construction of the
Erie Canal is being celebrated
"The great waterway" says State Con-
troller Eugene NJ. Travis, "has earned the
praise of every one who understands its
influence in stimulating industry, increas-
ing the wealth of the Empire State and
making New York City the metropolis of
the world. Its effect upon the growth of
the nation as a whole has been tremen-
dous, for the canal soon became the ar
terry of inland travel, its value to Ohio and
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

able output of cottonseed oil. While dieti-
tians dispute the interchangeability of yege-
table and animal proteins, it is generally
conceded that fat from vegetable sources is
dietetically as good as apd some contend bet
ter than fat from animals.
II takes fat 20 make nitro-glycerine, but
our allies first call on us is not for dyna-
mite, but for bread. SO long as there is
actual shortage of grain for human susie
nance. and Il comparative abundance of food
fats in America, IL is certainly grossly ex-
trsvAgant TO feed so much Of our food grains
to animals. II requires five or six pounds of
grain to produce one pound Of beef, and beef
sy. RACES less than 70 per cent Of fat. This
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15

~ OSSIBLY at the point of the bayo-
net, as any number of solicitous
u gentlemen already have inferred,
the eating habits of the United States
will now undergo a change. With the
future of the world depending very large
" on how much wheat the average man
can restrain himself from eating, it will
not be strange to find that other foods
have been discovered to be quite as pal
atable as wheat, fully as nourishing and
perhaps just at the present moment not
so precious.
Doubtless one of these foods will be rice
The Department of Agriculture places
rice higher than corn, wheat or oats IN
the amount of nutrition contained, figures
its food energy as three times as great as
its weight in potatoes and more than twice
that of fat beef 1t has higher heat
producing power than rye, barley or
wheat and far more than white bread or
beefsteak. Frank G. Carpenter, who
shows an expert knowledge of the subject,
writes thus of the rice fields of Louisiana
in "The New Orleans Times-Picayune"
Lake Charles is surrounded by thousands
of acres Of rice fields, and the territory