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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02

age-rOOm walls meet. Care exercised
in making the frame square and plumb
will enable the builder to get the struc-
ture tight with q minimum of labor.
A good room is made by covering the
studding on the outside with tongue
and-groove material but better way
is to sheathe the outside with plain
lumber, tack building paper on this.
and side with tongue-and-groove ma
terial. This construction in connec-
ton with lath and plaster or wall
lent room.
Ventilation may be secured by open
ing one or more windows. An air
duct constructed of wood metal, or
terra Gotta and fitted In one of the
windows, as illustrated Id figure 4, is
desirable, as it permits the cool air
to enter at the bottom of the room.
Two or more joints Of 6-inch stovepipe,
one with damper, and an elbow may
be used. A piece of board with hole
the size of the pipe Is fitted in the
window In place Of one Of the panes
of glass. Another pane of glass may
be removed from the sash and small
hinged door fitted in Its place, which
when open allows the heated air to
escape. In cold weather both the
hinged door and the damper in the
stovepipe must be closed. The win
dows In the storage room should be
darkened in order to protect the vege-
tables from the light.
Barrels, crates. boxes, or bins may
| be used as containers for the various
vegetables, but movable containers are
preferable to built-in bins, as 1t is pos
sible to remove them for cleaning. 1t
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02

Instead of the conventional center
and individual plate doilies, two mar
row runners crossed at right angles In
the center covering four places are
particularly good on the small square
of the runners, the center one and per-
haps narrow border design win be
all the decorations necessary.
The practical value of using oilcloth
as substitute for table linens is ap-
parent After the meal, wipe off the
cloth, and your work is done. No wear
and tear on the linen and no laundry
bill to pay.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02
Cinderella
Without the Ball
By Ceosss Hasken
By George HaskeA

Copyright. 1917. by w. G. Chapman)
"Oh, come on Emf It's going to be
dandy party!"
The girl looking over the fence was
urging another who paused a moment
in the business of hanging clothes on
the line to answer: Il can't Grace
but Dora is going"
Yes, Dora's always going and
you're notwithstanding home, and do
Ing the work"
"Oh, well, I'm trying to get dress
made. When it's done, I'll be going"
Emily laughed cheerfully, gave
towel vigorous snap, and hung it on
the line. She was thin and rather color
less, but her hair scintillated in the
shifting sunlight and had copper and
gold glints. The fence of the back yard
in the village street was not too high
for those who passed to look over but
Emily was not ashamed of her homely
work, they were not able to hire it
done, her mother had never been used
to hard labor Of any kind, and as for
her younger sister Dora, it was quite
out of the question to think of her do
ing the family wash. Dora was eight
years younger than Emily, very pretty,
very self-willed, and very selfish. The
last two traits were probably owing to
the spelling she had received from
both mother and sister. Two children
Emily and Dora had died, and Dora
was the apple Of her mothers eye. She
had lived in luxury, and when the
crash had come, followed soon by the
death Of her husband, she had taken
the little that brought in a very slender
income, and had settled down to live
upon it with no idea Of trying to in
crease it with any labor of her own
She was Of the helpless, unthinkine
kind who will sometime, somewhere
have to experience a heavy jolt tC
awaken them to the purpose of theil
being here on this terrestrial globe.
When Emily was seventeen she hat
taken up the burden of attempting tt
better conditions, and make the little
income go farther by doing the heav,
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02

work that a woman had been paid to
do. Next she saved dressmaking bills
Ivy making her own clothes, and even
tually those of her mother and sister,
1t is always the people who are
willing who are allowed to carry the
BURDENS Of those who are not. There
has been known, however, to be such a
Thug as "tbe last straw"
But Emily gave no indications of the
las straw till a CHEEKY voice hailed
her over the fence some minutes after
her girl friend had passed on. A pair
of merry eyes belonging to tanned,
honest face, not especially handsome,
but lnvitingly reliable, smiled at her
under the raised hat. Emily embar-
raised and rather miserable at the
thought of her appearance In the old,
faded working garb, could only STAN
mer out: "Oh Mr.. Hale! !"
"Yo11l be there tonight at the Ston-
er party, won't your he asked.
"No. I think not. But my sisters
going.~
'sWhy don't you go?' he persisted.
Emily thought she even noticed a
tlnge OF disappointment in the tone.
She pushed a wet sheet along on the
line to better see his face, and said:
"Well II can't explain just now,
but cant CO."
She felt that any plea of Ill health
would be slightly incongruous with her
vigorous handling of the weeks wash.
She could not tell him the real rea-
son, anc with an expression of regret
Hale passed on. The wet towel hung
Imply in her hand, and the wind catch
ing an unfastened sheet, 1t slid to the
ground unhDtlced by the girl. Youth,
the desire TOR companionship, the call
of the heart were all having their say
Their demand was insistent. They did
not even ask why they should be de-
MED.
Emily had met Hale only two or
three dimes, but she had been strongly
attracted to him. When her mother
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02
New Tailored Blouse.

The new tailored blouse is developed
with front and back yok6s, from which
box plaits are laid, says the Dry Goods
Economist. as there may be cluster
Of plaits in the center back and on
lar is not figuring largely In the tail
ored models, the fiat oallar that
reaches far down the front being ia
vored.
Narrow fluting Is feature of these
waists. 1t is used to edge collar, cuffs
and front.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02

called from the doorway, and she saw
the sheet on the ground she had sud-
denly a glimmering realization that he
meant more to her than she had sup
posed.
In the cool sitting room Emily drop,
ped down on a chair.
Il wonder If that blue wolfe would
look well enough for me to wear to-
night" she said.
Her sister Dora looked up from the
novel she was reading. comfortably
stretched out on couch.
"Oh EN-, that old thing!' she ex-
claimed in distressed tone.
Emily! you would disgrace the
family in that dress'' chimed In the
mother from her corner by the window
where some stockings were receiving
some desultory darning.
This aspect of the case had not be-
fore occurred to. Emily, but she at
once saw the force of the argument.
Il thought / might freshen 1t up a
Bit" she answered alphabetically. But
If you think it looks so shabby, why
I'll just let it CO."
"You must get at your clothes dear,
and fix up something to wear, so that
you'll be ready for the next party"
Emily made no answer. She knew
that the time for getting at her own
wardrobe was not likely to come very
soon with all the sewing for her moth
err and sister that was already laid out
for her. She arose a trifle YEARLY,
and went into the kitchen to prepare
| the meal.
| Dora came home from the party
flushed and excited with the "dandy
time" she had had. Howard Hale had
danced with her more than with any
other girl; and both women saw quite
plainly that something like romance
had begun under their own roof. TIC
the elder sister the knowledge came
with chilling, benumbing weight. She
tried to set it aside, and be glad OF
the others happiness, but her own
heart cried out in revolt. She saw be
fore her battle to be fought to gair
the victory Of remuneration.
After Hale's first call at which Ell
quette required the presence of the
family, Emily invariably left the field
clear for her sister, who had intimatet
that she wished this. Emily was find
ing the battle with herself an unusual
ly hard one. The more deeply she
found she loved this man. the more
strongly came the temptation to re
volt but her mother was so pleased
and her sister so happy how could sh'
reveal her feelings. Besides Hale evi
IDENTIFY loved her sister, and had no
even thought of her, so she hid al
evidences of the struggle under quie
exterior.
One evening Hale came when Dor'
was out, as she had not expected him
Emily met him with the information
After a few minutes talk he said:
"Win you answer me frankly, truth
fully one thing?"
In surprise she agreed to his re
quest.
"Why do you always fly from m
as though l were a pestilencew h
asked.
"Why-why, you come to see my sis
ter"
mo. don't" he broke in. 81 com
to see you! Don't you think knov
you are worth all the Doras In cree
ton. You're courageous, unselfish Iii
, tie womanl'
: At this Emily quite broke dowr
= sobblng out something rather untnte
; ligible. But holding her close agains
his heart, he seemed to understand.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02

a slat floor to keep the crates, boxes,
baskets and other containers off the
ground This is highly desirable to in
sure a free circulation of air and to
prevent the containers from harboring
mice, rats, and other vermin. The
shelves for canned goods along one
side of the room need not be more
than 6 inches wide. A suggested ar
rangement for the bins, shelves, etc.,
in the storage room is shown in fig
ures / and 2.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02
No Time for Debate

Alfred-Please don't put me off any
longer, Mary. Will you marry me?
Mary - Alfred. / hardly know.
whether love you well enough or not.
Besides
Alfred Cooking at his watch)-Mary,
the last train Is due in just three min
utes. Yes Or
Nary-Yes, Alfred.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-02
Line Your Mun.

Line your winter muff with velvet;
II you haven't new velvet, use old. n
Will never wear out, is much warmef
than silk, and one doesn't have to BE-
constantly refining, as one doss with
silk.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
SHERIFF'S SALES
SHEEIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
awrit of Ais. Lev Fac to me directed,
will be exposed to Public Sale at
the County Building, South east
Corner of Eleventh and King
Streets, City of Wilmington, New
Castle County, Delaware.
ON SATURDAY,
THE 1ST DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1917,
At 10 O'clock, A. NJ,
the following described Real estate. viz
All those certain pieces or parcels of
land situated in Brandywine hundred,
County and State aforesaid bounded
and described as follows, to wit:
No. l. Beginning at point on the
northwesterly side of Wooddale avenue
extended, at the distance of one hundred
and twelve feet six inches northeasterly
from the northeasterly side of thirty
first street; thence northweSterly par.
allel with thirty first street one hundred
feet to a corner; thence by two lines
dr. avn at right angles with thirty-first
and parallel with Wooddale avenue ex
tended, one from the place of beginning
and the other from the last mentioned
Corner feet more or less to where
said two lines would intersect the north
erly boundry line of this lot
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Sarah E. Bott. Administra
trix of Samuel A. Bott, deceased mort
gagor and Sarah E. Bott, t, t, and to bt
sold by
THEODORE W. FRANCIS, Sheriff
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del.
August, 16, 1917.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
NOTICE.!

|, CHARLES DEVALINGER, owner
and occupant of the house known as the
National Hotel. situated at Niddletown,
in School District NO. 60, 60 1-2 and 81,
county of New Castle and State of Del
aware, in compliance with the require
ments of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly, In such cases made and provided do
hereby give notice that | shall apply in
writing to the Court of General Session
IT., State of Delaware, in and for New
Castl" County on Monday, the 18th day
OF september A. D. 1917, being the next
term of said Court for a license for said
house as an inn or tavern for the sale
therein of Intoxicating liquors in quanti-
ties less than one quart to be drunk on
the premises, and the following respect.
able citizens of said School District. at
feasr six of whom are substantial free
holders of said School District, recon :
mend the said application,
Geo. w. Price, Benz Boyles,
Corbit Vinyard, John P Cochran, Jr., g.,
j. l.. Parsons, c. r. Uhler,
C. P. Coch, an, S. M. Rosenberg,
F. j. Pennington, Geo. VI Wilson,
Geo. H. johnson, Geo. w. Johnson,
VIM. Morris, James J. Walker.
Joseph Gary, Oscar A. Husfelt.
CHARLES DEVALINGER.
Middletown, DEL. Aug. II, 1917.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
PAID LOCAL ADS.

FOR SALE Wagons and dearborns.
J. c. GREEN.
Peach and Truck baskets, Georges
Greek Bituminous Coal stored in our
warehouse for immediate delivery.
Send your teams along.
Jesse L. Shepherd.
For SALE.-Four burner, gasoline
stove in good cond ititn. i'll be sold
cheap. Apply at THIS OFFICE.
FOR SALE-A very fine organ.
Price $500. Can be seen any time at
the Middletown Opera House. Call at
THIS OFFICE
FOR SALE. Two horse power In
ternational gasoline engine, in good
condition. Will be sold cheap. Apply
to THIS OFFICE.
FOR SALE-Armstrong farm at
Glasgow, Del. 264 acres. Eight price.
MRS. JOHN W. DERRICKsoN,.
"Ginn's Corner.
Townsend, Del.
White girl between the
age Of Ii and 35 years to assist with
housework in a doctors home in Phil.
adelphia. Apply to
MRS. ELIZABETH VINYARD.
Nliddletown, Del.
| FOR SALE-Four Courtland Car
riages, one new, one nearly and one in
good condition. One family carriage,
fair condition. Will sell reasonable
A. LEE ORRELL,
| Odessa, Del.
| LOST OR STRAYED-A valuable
Chesapeake Retreaver dog, answers to
the name Of REX" Dark brown and
recently clipped Reward of $40 will be
paid for his return, or information lead
ing to his recovery.
JAMES s. MOORE,
Middletown, Del.
Phone--248R31.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15

water they furnish a supply of delicate
flowers for cutting throughout the sea-
son. The phloxes are also useful as
window garden plants. The first sowing
of seed should be made as soon as the
frost is out of the ground in the
spring; later ones in May, either where
the plants are to bloom or in a seed
bed, as the phlox transplants readily.
In transplanting, set the taller kinds
about a foot apart; if planted too
thickly, they suffer from mildew. The
removal of flowers and seed-pods
makes the plants more bushy and COM
pact and lengthens their blooming Pc
riod. The average height Of the plant
is ahout O foot.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
F0RGET.ME-NOT
(Myosotis)

The dainty little flower commonly
known as forget.me-nots are hardy
perennials that love cool, moist soils,
and, like pansies, bloom most freely in
fall and early spring. They make
satisfactory close border, the beauty Of
which is heightened by abundant
bloom. The forget-me-not is also sat-
isfactory as a winter-blooming plant
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
PHLOX
(PhIox Drummondii)

The annual phlox, sometimes called
flame flower, is particularly useful and
attractive when sown in masses or
ribbon beds Of contrasting colors. Few
annual plants are more easily grown
from seed, give a quicker return OF
bloom, or offer such variety to choose
from as do the phloxes. There are few
desirable colors beyond their range,
and if given good soil and plenty Of
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
EVENING PRIMROSE
(Godetia)

The evening primroses are choice.
free-blooming ANNALS, with widely
opened flowers Of satiny texture, with
delicate colors. They are suited for
solid beds, border lines, for pots, and
to grow in shrubbery borders in shad-
ed places, where few other flowers
will flourish. The seed should be
sown in an open border or in a cold
frame in spring. If the latter, the
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15

for growing in cool rooms or cold
frames. Another feature characteris-
tic Of this plant is that, after once
having been introduced into a garden,
1t perpetuates itself from year to year
by self-seeding like the poppy, portu-
laca, and several Of the other desir-
able ANNALS. Sow the seeds in spring
in warm, sunny border. Most va
rieties bloom freely the first season
and profusely the second year. The
average height of the plant is six
inches.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
How to Lead an Unruly Horse.

How to Lead an UnruIy Horse.
will describe a plan 1 have found
to be excellent for leading unruly
horses, says writer in Farm and Fire
side. Tie ring in halter Of horse to
be led. Then take a half-inch rope
about 20 feet long, and having tied one
end Of the rope to the halter, run the
other around rear axle, then back
through the ring in halter, and then
to the wagon seat or to anyone in the
wagon.
With this you can draw the horse
in or let him out without danger Of
upsetting the rig. In an emergency
you can let 90 Of the rope and free
the animal antiralY. - --
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15

FOR SALE. Wagons and dearborns.
J. C. GREEN.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
r4E.MlDD1E1oRN rRANsuR1rT M1DD1ETowN, DEL
C0RN-FLOWER
(Centaurea)

Centaurea Cyanus Is also known as
"bluebottle," ragged sailor" ''kaiser
blumen," and sometimes as bachelors
button" These bright-fowered plants
are of hardy nature, requiring SIM
pie culture, yet they are among the
most attractive and graceful of all the
old-fashioned flowers. When placed in
water after cutting, the flowers in
crease in size. Seed Of the annual
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15

seedlings should be transplanted 10
stand about foot apart in rather
thin or sandy soil. These plants are
also successfully treated as biennials
by sowing the seed in July and trans
planting the young plants to a cold
frame, to be placed in the open the
following May. The blooming season
is from early spring until frost, and
the average height of the plants is
one and One-half feet.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-05

Next Tuesday bids for remodeling
the First National bank building at
Thief River Falls, Mimi, win be OPEN
ed by the owners.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-05

The McGrann Reynolds Co. and their
architects, Ashelman IL Gage, opened
bids for the company's fruit house this
morning.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-05

On Tuesday bids will be opened on
the school house at Clyde, plans by w.
ID. Gillespie.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-05

On Monday bids will be opened on
the brick store building at Portland
BY the architects, Haxby and Braseth.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-05

BUILDERS EXCHANGE.
Bids were opened yesterday for the
residence for Henry e. Rowland on
Ninth street south.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-05

Plans for the Drake school hous
viii be ready for estimates abou
May is.
The Tomahawk., 1917-12-20
War Restoring Kitchen to Its Pioneer
Place as Center of the Home
By III. E. BARNARD

restored the kitchen to its pioneer Importance as the
center rich nowadays according her
kitchen Stacker according her kitchen actlvl
- ~
ties
For years has been losing its Importance home max
ing lost interest cooking and have found work IN
the many housewives will confess II love to make Salads
but oathe Now wars necessities and all kitchen
work. dswasng becomes patriotic Food
has told and again how the little
ings multiplied by the 2o000o00 kitchens in this country
will conserve enough food to feed our suffering allies
Many who years have been content to leave their Kitchen
in charge Of that it interesting during
the and conserving food for winters USE
They drudgery kitchen work through the clearer glasses and
they done before that is not the work but t'
the work makes sere task After ALL the kitchen Is
only practical working laboratory which the cook takes complex
chemical compounds and -four and turns them into other
transformed in the wonderful laboratory OF the
body into heat and energy.
TO be prepare food in such that it is wholly satac
orv for the bodys than art real science Our
for democracy reaching every home It
people the depths of efshnes and caessne into whcn ""
had fallen reaching into kitchen and Transforming into
place where the simplest duty denne con-
triuion to the immense necessary to bring victory
The Tomahawk., 1917-12-20
United States at War With Germany as
Well as With the Kaiser

nc moi whom at We are
MT h war with the kaiser with Germany Let US not
depend upon the people overthrow their government repre-
by kaiser In Judgment we must conquer the
~ nd H., German government along
lines laid down
We must face the the German people have stood by their
Government as represented kaiser people have stood By
or its representatives history the world They
feel that they are fighting their existence That the problem
that we must people behind their and behno
o;r ent.tves wH as really rescntfu that
no should attempt dictate to them their internal affairs
We must fight baelds Of their choosing not OF ours Our
armies must miles they must be kept supplied VIII"
orc munitions clothing 1t huge task
should not mnmzed If people know what IS before tn
they will bravey face it.
that took at this conflict These arc the conditions
no face We cannot conceang the facts and hangers
cannot win it boasng that will win it. TO win VIII Eer
every ounce of power OF cv cc
resource that our people and this nation get together
The Tomahawk., 1917-12-20

great dOniOn tower, the kernel OF the
imprcgnable nut which has never been
cracked. nearly 200 feet in height, 100
feet in diameter and at the base ~
odd feet thick, the most nearly perfect
example of the medieval architecture
of defense.
In 1914, a month after the opening
of hostilitics, the gray wave of the
German army Of invasion had swept
over Coucy. Its great towers COM
mand the greater part of the battle
field over which writhe three armies
in their titanic struggle. For this
reason the enemy placed their anti
aircraft guns and searchllghts on the
topmost tower. When in the middle
of March they finally uprooted them
selves for the first time since the be-
ginning from their trenches and be-
gan their backward goosestcp out of
France, it was not likely that in the
holocaust of destruction which they
left in their way, which included chill
dren's toys, family photographs and
the doghousc, they would forget the
Chateau Of Coucy.
AS the horizon-blue lines of the
French vagues Of soldiery came within
sight Of the huge pile of their nations
proudest medieval monument, so long
hidden from their sight, thunderous
explosions rent the fair sky of spring
time above Coucy, and they saw with
horror it's great towers totter and fall
through the veil of smoke. With an
almost human groan there came to
their ears the rending crash of the
enormous fissure which broke through
the stern heart Of the great donjon.
And so at last was cracked the kernel
of the nut which had remained i'm
Dregnuble for GOO years.
The Tomahawk., 1917-12-20
Beau Brummell Story.

In Gen. Sir George Higginson's "Sev-
enty- One Years of Churchman's Life. {"
there is a good story Of Beau Brum-
nell.
The author had it from the late Lord
Lyndhurst, who knew him well.
Someone, who no doubt wished to
disconcert him by allusion to his par
entage, asked in the presence Of some
Of his admirers:
spray, Mr.. Brummell, how are your
good father and mother?"
"'Thank you," was the reply, quite
well when I left them half an hour
ago; but by this time they have prob
ably cut their Threats =
"Good heavens!" exclaimed several
of the bystanders, "you must be speak
ing in joke"
mot at ALL" he said with quiet
tone Of appreciation Of the motives
of his questioner; they were eating
peas with their knives"