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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12
$500 Per Year
County Meeting Called.

In compliance with the proclama-
tion of Governor Alexander, County
Auditor Lundin advised us over the
phone yesterday that he has called
meeting of the business men and
farmers of the county to convene at
Shoshone on Saturday of this week
April 14th, to take up the matter OF
the production of food stuffs the
coming season. 1t Is quite important
that this meeting be attended by the
representative men of the county, as
it is hoped to devise some plan
whereby every acre of available
ground might be put into crop this
season. We trust that this call will
not be overlooked, and that the meet
ing will be largely attended.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12

The Lincoln County Farm Bureau
wishes to call attention to the fact
that the Jerome authorities, at the
urgent request of various farmers,
have established a Municipal Employ
ment Bureau for the purpose of as
sisting the farmers in this vicinity
in securing necessary help. To ac-
complish this the village clerk has
employed an assistant and establish
ed an Office in the city hall. This
office can be reached by telephone
and is open from o'clock 4. m. un-
til 4 O'Clock p. m. Farmers are ur-
gently requested to cooperate with
this office that the best service may
be obtained.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12

outstanding sale certificates for fail
ure to pay the installments of inter-
est and principal as they fall due by
anyone who is enlisted in the service
OF the United States government.
That members of families and de-
pendents OF any person or persons In
the service of the United States who
may be in need OF the necessaries of
life, are requested to advise the state
board of examiners by mail or other
wise OF their condition so that the
board may make arrangements for
their immediate relief.
Governor Issues Proclamation.
Following this Governor Alexan-
der, has issued proclamation calling
on all patriotic citizens of the state
to encourage intensive cultivation,
that the needs OF those at home and
abroad may be supplied.
This proclamation is in the form OF
a preparedness step to put Idaho in
the forefront in the matter of bring
| ing lands under cultivation during
the national crisis. The governor
requests the auditors of each county
in the state to call meetings of COM
missioners, county agricultural
agents, superintendents of schools
an officer of each bank, of all agricul.
tural agents and representatives from
all business houses, to organize and
take charge OF the campaign TO cul
tivate more land In their respective
counties this fall. All other organi
cations are called upon to suppor
the movement. The county conven
tions are to be held Saturday, Apri
IA.
Closing his proclamation. the Gov
ernor says: THE state of Idaho 4
rich in it's wonderful resources ant
appeal to all citizens OF this com
monwealth to take an active, earnes
part in this movement to increas
the food supply for man and beas
so that we may be prepared to NEE
any demands which the future ma
make upon us, so that this war whic
has been forced upon the nation ma
be fought to a victorious conclusio
in behalf OF freedom and the right
OF humanity
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12
More jerome Boys Off For The War

On Monday of this week, several
more of Jerome's young men bade
farewell to their friends and acquain-
tances, and imbued with the patriotic
fervor that is sweeping the country,
departed for the front to offer their
services in the protection of the stars
and stripes and the manhood of the
United States. Among those who
left Monday were:
Hilton D. Stewart.
Wallace Jellison.
VIM. Uhrlaub.
William Rice, Jr.
Virgil Robinson.
Roy McEvoy.
Myrl Beason.
William Myers.
Mr.. Stewart is a member OF the ma
val reserves, which have been called
into active service. His time would
have expired in October, but the call
came and he answered it. The re-
mainder of the young men who com
posed this patriotic delegation, go
with the determination to enlist in
the navy They will go to Salt Lake
City and from there to San Francisco,
where they will be assigned to duty.
The best wishes of the entire COM
munity go with these boys, and the
prayers of their mothers. wives and
friends will always be with them
| u-haro d,,+-- oallc x,-;+b aarnact xr;chao
for their safe return home.
A delegation of a hundred or more
of our citizens were at the depot to
bid the boys good bye and wish them
God speed.
Last week E A Fry and P j. Hite,
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. L. Fry,
residing northwest of town. departed
for Twin Falls where the enlisted in
the National Guards Jerome has
certainly demonstrated its patriotism
in sending 20 of her young men to
the front, and if the same percentage
is kept up in all the towns in Idaho.
there will be no question about f1ll-
ing the ranks.
Dr. E. D. Piper who has been on
the reserve of the medical corps has
received a commission as lieutenant
and has been informed that he has
been transferred to the active medi-
cal corps and is now waiting for ad-
vices to leave fro the front.
Advices received from the boys
from Salt Lake yesterday state that
they all passed the examination with
the exception of VIM. Rice. who was
disqualified on account of eyesight,
and that they were on their way TO
, Frisco.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12

of the necessity OF appropriating ex
ira money to support the families of
married members while there are un-
married men to spare. If a membel'
OF the guard is married and wants TO
60, he assumes the responsibility OF
supporting his own family.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12
For Sale.

Idaho Rural Seed Potatoes.
SGT. b. A. FELTON,
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12

Recognizing the ability OF H.
George Bodle. State Veterinarian,
who has been at the head of this
state department for the past two
years, the state live stock sanitary
board last week elected DR.. Bodle to
succeed himself as State Veterinar-
ian. Dr. Bodle has followed his pro-
fession for almost his lifetime, and
during the two years he has conduc-
ted the affairs of this important de-
partment in a most satisfactory man.
ner. At the time of his election two
years ago there was an attack made
upon him by the graduate veterinar-
ians of the state. but as the doctor
had been practicing his profession
long before the graduates were
thought of. very little attention was
paid to the protests, and his record
during the past years shows that he
has made good.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12
Seed Wheat for Sale.

Have 200 bushels of seed wheat
for sale. at $500 per hundred. c..
o. Mitchell, miles south, " mile
west of Jerome. 6-f.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-12

A good work Mare, weight about
1900 pounds. J. II. Spencer, Wen
dell. Idaho.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23
A Peoples War.

THE great fact that stands out
above all the rest is that this is a
Peoples War, a war for freedom and
justice and self-government amongst
all the nations of the world, war to
make the world safe for the peoples
who live upon it and have made it
their own, the German people them
selves included; and that with us
rests the choice to break through all
these hypocrisies and patent cheats
and masks Of brute force and help
set the world free, or else stand aside
and let it be dominated long age
through by sheer weight of arms and
the arbitrary choices of self-consti-
tuted masters. by the nation which
can maintain the biggest armies and
the most irresistible armaments-a
power to which the world has afford
ed no parallel and in the face of
which political freedom must wither
and perish. h.'-Woodrow Wilson,
President OF the United States. T.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23

FOUR 70 ONE
Draft Army Will See Little Fight
ing, Roger w. Babson
Figures. ss

Roger w. Babson, the eminent
statistician, writing in Bahson's
Weekly Reports, says of the Ameri-
can soldiers chances in France,
which he figures at gao out of 1900
of escaping death and $50 out of
900 of escaping totally uninjured.
We believe that the drafted man
who goes as an ordinary soldier, tax
ing his judgment with him and leav,
ing his enthusiasm at home, is not
only most effective, but is fairly sure
to return in better physical condition
than when he left. OF course, dur
ing the one or more days month
that it is his turn to charge, he is
subject to great danger; but the rest
of the time, with reasonable precau-
tons, he is, statistically, almost as
we'll off as in the streets of New
York. et
Most of the drafted men may see
France, which, by the way, will be
beneficial to many of them. Since,
however, the airplane appropriation
has passed, there is good chance that
but few of them ever will be engaged
in serious fighting.
We believe that the war will con-
tnue until we have several hundred
thousand troops and ten thousand
or more airplanes in France, which
should be some time next spring or
summer. We, however, feel that by
the time these men and airplanes are
over there. ready to do something
worth while, Germany will have
come to it's senses. We see no rea-
son for Germany to stop until we
are actually in Europe with self sup
porting bases, prepared to strike
hard, but we see every reason why
Germany should be anxious to settle
with us at that time, before we do
strike.
Our regular army, and perhaps the
militia, may get into action at any
time, but the chances are four to one
that the men who are now being
drafted will see very little actual
fighting irf' Europe. Even if they are
required to do hard fighting, statis- |
tics are very much in their favor, and !
conditions are improving"
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23
Taxing War Profits.

Senator Johnson made a telling
point in his address on the revenue
bill, Monday, when he inquired why
Congress was not as eager to enlist
the wealth OF the land for the war as
it had been to draft the young men.
The alifornia Senator was argu-
ing for higher taxes on war profits,
the actual profits coined from the
war. He said that England takes 80
per cent of these profits by taxation,
while the present revenue bill con-
templates taking only about 20 per
cent.
Senator Johnson is not the only
one who has noticed the tendency OF
Congress to deal gently and gener-
ously" with the corporations whose
huge war earnings will make them a
legitimate and necessary subject for
taxation to raise money with which
to carry on the war. Senator La
Toilette has gone to extreme length
along this line, but he is so radical,
SO lacking in judgment and SO mani
testify influenced by his own extreme
pacifist views, that scant attention
has been paid him.
Senator Johnson's address was SEN
sible and timely and will meet fav-
orable response in all parts of the
country. He has very clearly indi-
Gated a way to raise millions with
out excessively burdening the peo-
pie.-St. Louis Republic.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23

f. D., Frazier, owner of the Prairie
Valley Stock Farm of near Drexel,
was in Butler the first of the week
looking after business matters and
found time to make us a pleasant
call. Mr.. Frazier, who has estab-
llshed an enviable reputation for him
self in the hog business is owner OF
one of the finest herds of Poland
China swine in the middle west.
AT a recent meeting of the Bates
County Council of Defense the ques-
tion as to the number OF units of
home guards that the county was en-
titled to was raised, and Secretary w.
G. Dillon was instructed to take the
matter up with Governor Gardner.
He did SO and on Wednesday re-
ceived communication from E. D.
Mumford, President of the State
Council of Defense, stating that the
county could have as many units of
$50 men each as it could raise.
The Monday Evening Club planned
an out door picnic for last Friday
evening in honor of two of their
members, Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Chas-
tain, who were to leave Saturday for
Ft Sheridan, Illinois, he to enter the
officers training school and she to
take course of training in some
branch of the Red Cross work. But
they did not take into account the
weather which made an out door af
fair impossible. They did the next
best thing and decorated the dining
room at the home of DR.. and Mrs.
ley so that it was very fair imita-
toin of out of doors. Leaves and
shrubbery were cleverly used in the
decoration and the lunch that was to
have been taken to the picnic, was
eaten on the floor.
A committee from the Butler COM
mercial club went down to Nevada
the first of the week and met. with a
like committee from the Nevada club
and discussed the matter of better
train service on the Missouri Pacific
between Kansas City and Nevada.
The Nevada committee agreed to
take the matter up with the city
council Tuesday night and have
resolution adopted asking the State
Public Utilities Commission for re-
lief. Kansas City, Harrisonville,
Adrian, Butler and Rich Hill have
already taken action in the matter
and the petitions will be presented
to the commission in the near fu-
ture. The commission will then set
! time and place for hearing of the
whole matter, at which time commit.
tees from the various towns will be
present and present their claims for
improved service. The Public Utili-
ties Commission Is already swamped
with like claims from all parts Of the
state and it may be some time before
they can reach and pass Judgment on
the petitions. i.
N = tr = =
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23

| ity exercised by the United States
under this legislation is void be
cause the act contravens the Thir'
teenth Amendment, which provides
neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude except as punishment OF
crime whereof the parties shall have
been duly convicted, shall exist with
in the United States or any place sub
ject to their jurisdiction"
ITO agree to this contention we
must conclude the soldier is a slave,
said Judge Speer Nothing could be
more abhorrent to the truth, nothing
more degrading to that indispensable
and gallant body OF citizens trained
in arms, to whose manhood, skill and
courage is, and must be, committed
the task of maintaining the very ex-
istence of the nation and all that its
people hold dear. The Grand Army
of the Republic, the Confederate Vet
erans and the Sons OF Veterans are
not maintained to preserve the tra-
ditions OF slavery.
Nations don't pension slaves to
commemorate their valor. They
don't give in charge their manse to
the sweet Tyres, nor does
Sculpture in her turn,
Give bond in stone and ever-endur-
ing brass
To guard and to imr1ortalize the
trust.
The sole additional ground of the
petition is by the common law. 1T
is the right of petitioners to remain
within the realm and that this right
should now be held to relieve them
from military service beyond the bor-
ders of the United States The reply
is that the common law, that is, the
immemorial English law, cannot pre-
vail as to the United States or its
people against the explicit provision
of an act OF Congress- Nor has a
court OF the United States power to
declare an act of Congress invalid
because it is inimical to the common
law. The touch-stone for such judi
cial power is the Constitution and
nothing else.
1T remains to be determined
whether the Constitution has con-
ferred authority on Congress to en-
act this law. Clause ii of Article l,
Section 8 of the Constitution empow-
ers Congress to raise and support
This power is plenary. 1t
is not restricted in any manner.
Congress may summon to its army
thus authorized every citizen OF the
United States Since it may sum-
mon all, it may summon any.
1T is urged by this legation, Con-
gress has taken over and in this way
the National Guard.
This, it is said, is the State Militia.
1t is contended that such militia can
be used only to execute the laws OF
the Union to suppress insurrection
and repel invasion. Since these pc
titioners are not members Of the Ma
tional Guard, in no event could their
rights in this way be affected. But
the National Army is not the militia.
An army is body of men whose.
business is war. The militia is a
body OF men composed of citizens
occupied temporarily in the pursuits
Of civil life. but organized by discip-
inc and drill, and called in to the
'ield for temporary military service
when the exigencies OF the country
.en1lire II /"
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23
Call on Gore to Resign

Hugo, Ok, Aug 2I.-Aroused over
Senator Thomas P. Cores attempt to
force an amendment to the Appro-
priation Bill prohibiting the use OF
funds in waging war outside of the
United States territory, four hundred
citizens of Hugo and Choctaw Coun-
ty today demanded that Gore resign.
The demand took the form of tele-
gram dispatched to Gore at Wash
ington.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23

Now at this day comes the plain
tiff herein by her agent and attor-
ney before the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Bates County in the State
Of Missouri, in vacation, and files her
petition and affidavit, stating among
other things that the above named
defendant George Clark il he be iiv-
ing is nonresident OF The State ol
Missouri, and il he be dead there are
persons interested in the subject mat
ter of this suit whose names cannot
be inserted herein because they are
unknown to plaintiff and affiant, and
that the interest Of such persons and
how derived, 20 far 20 known to af.
fiant. are described 90 follows, Wig:
That If said George Clark be dead
his unknown heirs Or devisees ctaim,
or might claim. an interest or right
in the real estate by descent, inheri-
tsnce, devise or operation Of law.
Whereupon il 10 ordered BY the clerk
In vacation that the defendants be
notifisd By pubiication that, plsiatiff
has comneaeed Z suiti ae1inst 1keau
- this eeqrt ~ pe3ilio1 md Sl1i-
llvit. ~ o&fect aed s6sla uAexse
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The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23

Fall goods are arriving. Come in
and buy your winter supply now and
save yourself, Black & Sons Clio.
Co.
Robert U. Lotspeich, Of The Times
staff, has been confined to his home
for the last week by illness. He was
able to be up town Wednesday at
ternoon and his friends hope that he
will soon be himself again.
Black & Sons Clothing Co.
J. r. Arbuckle, Of Fresno, Califor-
MIA, is visiting at the home of his old
friend, Dan Embree, in Summit
township. Mr.. Arbuckle formerly
lived in the east part of the county
and this is first trip back to the old
home in thirteen years.
Send in the boys to buy what they
need now, Black & Sons.
Miss Frances Shouse, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. B. F,
Shouse, left Monday night for New
York, where she will in short time
take a transport for France, where
she will work as a trained nurse in
some of the Red Cross hospitals.
For short time we will sell YOU
81 so khaki pants and overalls fol
$I.2s. Buy all you need, Black q
Sons.
We are going to hold down on,
prices for short time 90 now's the
time for you to save some money
Buy ali you will need for six month";
and it will be the best buy you've
made for some time, Black 4 Sons
Lieutenant Leo ]. Mccarthy. Of tht
36th u. S. Infsntry. arrived in th<
lefty the first Of the week to spend
few days with home folks before 60;
ling into active service. ,Lieutenau!
lMec carthy has Just conpaeted ! thre5
lm0afhs coorse q the eflieefs trail
fiAe seheol 4 n So e31ixG. lfianesse1
}wkese he fse@ivsd ! eeolln36slea {
lste sssuiae aadsys Z
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23
WIN NOW OR IN NEXT WAR"
German General Hints at Future
Conflict if Berlin Terms Fail.

Amsterdam, Aug. 1o.-General Won
Liebert, in a speech at Rathenow,
Prussia, is quoted by the Deutsche
Tages Zeitung as saying:
I'VE cannot sign a peace before
we have the Flanders coast, a colon
ial empire and maritime bases.
Should we not realize this now, we
must prepare to work for it after the
war in view of the next war"
General Lieberts speech was loud
ly cheered by his hearers, but it was
criticized by the German press.
Vorwaerts declared:
This may prolong the war until
Germany has been so beaten that
even our pan-Germans cannot think
Of next time"
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23
SHORT STORIES
Of Local Interest-Clipped from Our
Exchanges.

The Amsterdam Enterprise ex-
poets to be in their new home early
in September. The walls are up and
work has commenced on the roof.
Mrs. Fred Haas, formerly a well
known citizen of Adrian died in
Kansas City Thursday, Aug. 9, fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
Wolves made raid on w. F. Rid
dell's flock of sheep last Saturday
night and killed two of his best
lambs. 1t is said that wolves are nu-
merous in the Altona neighborhood
but this is the first assault on stock
that has been reported to this office
The people should organize and make
an effort to exterminate them
Adrian Journal.
The large barn on the Joe Braden
farm east of town. together with
some farm machinery and about SIX
tons of hay were destroyed by fire
Wednesday afternoon. The fire
started in the hay NOW and was
caused by spontaneous combustion
There was a small insurance Of about
two hundred dollars on the barn
Merwin Sun.
About midnight Wednesday Will,
Guy Tucker was alseep in the auto
not far from the building the insid,
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23
u. S. COURT HOLDS coNscRIp.
TON IS CONSTITUTIONAL
Judge Speer Rules Nation Nay Sum.
mon All Its Citizens to Bear
Arms.

Washington, D. C., Aug. ao.-In an
opinion teeming with patriotic ap-
pfoval Of Americas cause in the war
and with vigorous denunciation of
the Stacker, Federal Judge Emory
Speer, today at Mount Airy. Ga... up
held the constitutionality of the Sc
lectiye draft law. Judge Speer's
opinion, the first touching upon the
validity Of the law, was made today.
The decision not only sustains the
constitutionaiity Of the act. but holds
tkat writs .cf habeas corpus shculd
Be denied to imprisoned svaders Of
ihe nv. The ruling by Judee Spec:
~ nads ia the caSe Of Albert Jones
- 1ohn Story hejd for tailine q
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The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-23
What A Fifty Dollar Bond Will Do.

The proceeds of one fifty-dollar
Liberty Loan Bond will purchase:
Thirteen 13-pounder shells for de-
stroying submarines.
Four 5-inch shells for the same
purpose.
. One hundred pounds of smokeless
powder.
Eighteen gas masks for like
number of soldiers at the front.
Enough coal to drive a destroyer
one hundred twenty miles.
Enough gasoline to drive sub
marine destroyer one hundred fifty
miles.
A sailors uniform outfit.
Four months subsistence for a SOL
der
The Washington herald., 1917-02-28
CROSS, FEVERISH
Child IS BILIOUS
OR CONS7|PA7ED
Look, Mother! If Tongue Is Coated
Give California Syrup
of Figs.

Every mother realizes. after giving
her children California Syrup of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love It's pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach. liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable. feverish or
breath is bad. stomach sour. look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give q
teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste. sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the
bowels, and you have a well. playful
child again. When its little system is
full of cold. throat sore. has stomach
ache. diarrhoea, Indigestion. colic-re-
member. good inside cleaning"
should always be the first treatnent
given.
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask your druggist for a
50-cent bottle of California Syrup of
Figs" which has directions for babies,
children Of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Beware of coun-
terfeits sold here. so don't be fooled.
Get the genuine, made by California
Fig Syrup Company."---Adv.