The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-01
EMMETT NEWS

DIT Rellly ..
Miss Ethel Cantrall is quite sicA
with pneumonia.
Adjustable leg bands for chicken:
at Emmett Feed Mills.
The best line of horse blankets ever
shown in Emmett. See Lockett.
George Smith and family will move
to other former home on March l.
Miss Stella Packer of Nampa Wis
tied Miss Mae Rynearson over Sun
| day.
Mrs. H. T. Davis, who has been
quite i'll for several weeks, is improv-
ing.
Support your home team, Friday
March 2. Emmett plays Boise. E.
P. C. hall, o'clock.
Liberty" a daughter of the U. S.
A., at the Ideal Theatre every
Tuesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Rynearson and
Clyde Huffman and Miss Mae Ry-
nearson spent Sunday with Mrs. j..
W. Hunter.
John Rynearson this week sold his
surplus potatoes, consisting of four
tons to Henry Fujii, the Jap Gardner,
at 8 cents a pound.
Home cured breakfast bacon and
home made lard at the Emmett Meat
Market Superior to packing house
products. Patronize home industry.
One of the men injured in the snow
slide at Haley, which wrecked the
North Star Mining company's bunk
houses about 8 o'clock Sunday morn
ing and killed Is men, is brother
of Ira Lindsey and formerly lived in
Emmett.
Don't worry along with leaky tires.
I repair tubes and castings. If you
have blow-outs or sand blisters bring
your tires in and have them made new
We guarantee satisfaction. Give me
a trial. The Don't Worry Shop-L.
A. Wheeler.
Frank Knox has added to his col
lection of curios at the Pastime Cigar
Store, collection of Confederate
paper money, which has been loaned |
him by Robert Burlingame, an en-
plove at the sawmill. The collection
consists of bills of different denom-
nations issued by the Confederate
government, two of which have been
cancelled by the United States gov
eminent in payment of debts, and
also several bills issued by the differ
mt states of the Confederacy.
We have been assured more than
,nce that it will be very different
England after the war. How differ
mt the revolutionary proposal to
.hange the coinage suggests. There
s a Decimal Association apparently
lacked by large commercial and IL
,ancial interests, which argues that
welve pence shall no more make a
Milling or twenty shillings a pound.
t would simplify a system which
nany regard as an integral and sac
ed part of the British constitution.
'hus the two-shilling piece, or form,
uould become the unit of value, max
no the sovereign a ten-florin piece,
With the shilling half florin and the
ixpence eliminated. This is all very
tactical and logical, of course, espec-
allv since the war is making the
,merican dollar the worlds standard
f value. But without pounds, shlll-
,gs and pence an Englishman would
eel that he had lost his mornings IN
eed The change would not be con-
med to the banks and shops. 1t a
-ould permeate the speech and life
f the people. There would be no
uinea as an excuse for an extra
Killing. no two-and-six for the con-
,s;on of the cabby's belated fare, no
,ppence-ha- penny. Why, half the t
avor of conversation would be lost. $
OR would literature fail to suffer.
erhaps the thing will be brought a
oout. But American experience with
lie introduction of the metric system o
weights and measures shows how A
logical presumably intelligent peo- :
e can be. D
For good bread use Fleischmans
cast at Reilly'S &