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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-03

Comrade coffee, pounds for $50
at Reilly's.
Phone Mack, 1872 and he will cal
for your washing.
Ed Plant, an experienced plumber
from Rupert, has been added to Whit
man & Company's force of employees
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Rachenberger
left Monday to join the homesteaders
on Smiths Prairie and will remain I'M
til next fall.
In the physical examination for Ma
tional Guard duty, John Carnage was
found perfect and received a grade of
100 per cent.
B. l.. Dixie of Chillicothe, Mo-, ar
rived Monday to spend several weeks
visiting his sister, Mrs. w. D. Howell.
He is on his way for tour of the
coast.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Stark of Hunt
ington, Ore, arrived Monday to make
their home here They are parents of
Mrs. Frank Lockett. They made the
trip here in their bort car.
Harry Foster, student in the arts
department of the Kansas State Uni
versity at Lawrence, arrived home
Saturday and is assisting his father
on the ranch. He is planning to con-
tinue his art studies, in which he has
made an enviable record, at SYRIA
cuse, N Y, next year unless the war
interferes.
At Middle River, California, has
been established a new industry which
promises to be of considerable import
ance to farmers in that vicinity. This
is what is known as Dry Ventor Sys-
tenn of putting up vegetables. The
principal vegetable to be used now is
potatoes. By the process in use pota-
toes and other vegetables are so dried,
it is said, to save all the flavor and
to keep them good and fresh any reas-
onable length of time. All small po-
.atoes can thus be saved as can the
waste of most kinds of vegetables.
The company is New York concern
With much capital and promises to
save one-third of the waste which US
tally goes on at the average farm.
Who is Margaret Hazel Layne?
tuesdays Statesman contains the fol-
owing concerning her: "The mar
-iage of Jack Forest Winter of Twin
Falls and Margaret Hazel Layne of
,mmett, which was solemnized by JUS
ice of the Peace White at high noon
IN Sunday, eliminated romantic
ourtship which had caused the young
who is not yet Is years
Id, to be sent to the state industrial
chool Young Winter eloped with
largaret Layne several months ago.,
oming to Boise, and his mother, who
ives at Caldwell, interfered, alleging
hat her son was only II years old
nd could not be married without her
onsent. Through her efforts, the
on was sent to the school at st. An
hony. A letter from the young man
his desire to marry his
weetheart and to get back tc his :
-ork, so appealed to the prosecuting
ttorney of Ada county, where the
lother filed her objections, that
trough his efforts the boy was re-
,ased from school and the marriage
CEREMONY performed Sunday
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-03
Optometry means eye service.
Tents, all sizes, at Reilly's.

lcHIo, oil Sizes, at nelly y.
The tax rate in EImira, N. Y, is
$12.45 per $1,000 valuation.
w. H. Lashley was down from his
sawmill on Dry Buck for the week
end.
Hugh Eggleston left Monday for
Sumpter, Ore, where he will work
in blacksmith shop.
Chimney blocks, any size at M.
Gilbride's cement works, east of
Fruit Association.
Miss June DeClark returned Thurs
day from California, where she has
spent the past two or three months
visiting friends.
Blaine Gilkerson, manager of the
Golden Rule store at New Plymouth,
was an Emmett business visitor yes
terday.
Judge l. N. Sullivan of Boise is
spending a few days in town this
week looking after matters connected
with his fruit farm southeast of town
Home cured breakfast bacon and
home made lard at the Emmett Meat
Market. Superior to packing house
products. Patronize home industry.
Ross Mcpherson was in town a few
days the first of the week from his
home at Portland, Ore. He is now on
the road, buying stock for a commits
sion house and is doing fine.
Assuming that figures of the Allies
are correct, five million men have
died during the war. 1t has cost $14,-
300 to kill a man. Properly invest
ed, the money already spent on war
would have yielded sufficient income
10 keep six million boys and girls of |
he world in schools and colleges for
all time. 1t would much more than
support all the churches of the world |
Until kingdom come. Instead of per-
hitting the royal ambitions of a few
lynastic families to kill five million
men at such cost wouldn't it be much
,etter for the rest of the folks to BAN
sh those half dozen monarchs?
Everade Nye informs the News that
While at Yellowpine last week he talk
d with a party who had just receiv-
d a letter stating that Andy Nelson,
ne of the big stockmen on the South
FORK of the Salmon, had lost during
he latter part of the winter 600 head
sheep and 80 horses, on account of
shortage of feed. Usually the ranch
RS of that section have wintered /
heir stock with very little hay, but
onditions for outranging have been
unfavorable the past I
inter and stock has suffered accord
1gly, with considerable losses as a
esult.-Cascade News.
Money to loan on land under Can
on Canal, per cent. w. F. Sinclair.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-03
EMMETT NEWS

Diamond Edge knives and razor
at Reilly's.
Whitman sells the Universal Fur
mace. Both heat and health.
The First division of the Aid viii
meet with Mrs. Hoops Wednesday af
ternoon, May 8.
Leroy Cook is down from the Ranch
at Alpha to look after business mat
tiers.
The Majestic, the range with &
reputation, at Reilly's.
John Carnage left Sunday morning
for Boise, where he joined Company
L of the Idaho National Guard.
Finley Monroe and wife spent Sum-
day in Boise, visiting with their son,
Fred, who is a member of the medical
corps of the Idaho National Guard.
Frank Lockett, the harness dealer,
has added to his business the agency
for the Bush automobile, a moderate
priced car of merit.
Jap-a-lac for making old furniture
new, at Reilly's.
DR.. and Mrs. Thomas K. Hunter of
Kimball, Neb., arrived Monday to
spend a week visiting their son, Rev.
S. Mex. Hunter DR.. Hunter is pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at
Kimball.
Bob Mcleod, former Emmett bar
Der, and Jack Turner, both of Boise,
are erecting building at Cascade to
house a pool hall and barber shop.
which they will conduct as partners.
Farnsworth & Thompson of this city
have the contract for the plumbing
work in the building.
Remember The Index does all kinds
of job printing at reasonable prices
and the quality Of the work is equal
to the best, and the money received
for the same is all spent right here
in Emmett.
When first enforced during the |
Civil war, in the United States, con-
scription was met with serious OPP
position, and, in some places, with riot
Gus disturbance. But the draft was
soon taken as matter of course, and
incidents arising from it furnished
material for the newspaper paragraph
ers and writers of the lighter popular
songs; one of which, put into the mouth
of an old fashioned mother who sac
redly preserved her boys trousers,
had chorus with a lively swing to it
which ran:
This is the pants that he used to wear,
The same old hole and the very same
tear;
But Uncle Sam gave him bran new
pair
When he grated him into the army.
For good bread use Fleischman's
Yeast, at Reilly's.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-03

Diamond Edge knives and razors
at Reilly's.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
U.S.. WILL
SANITATE
AT CAMP

At the request of Mai. q. M.
Magruder of the U. s. public
health service, who since Monday
has been making survey of SAM
tary conditions around the Amer
lean lake environments. the county
commissioners Thursday morning
passed resolution to include an
item of not more than $4,000 In
the 1918 budget to cooperate
with the federal government In
the sanitary inspection and polio
ing of five-mile zone.
The federal government. said
Magruder. will spend $1,000 for
the purpose.
Mai. Magruder's survey has
included farms. diaries. barns and
dwellings. He did not criticise
local conditions. but said that the
government is establishing health
zones around all It's environments.
The work will involve con-
slant inspection of the country
around Camp Lewis. Men from
the u. s. public health service at
Washington will be sent to do
this, Mai. Magruder said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
8 HOUR DAY WINNING

Tacoma which have established the
eighthour employees today within the last two
weeks:
Wheeler Osgood Co.. tdeflats
Danaher Lumber Co., North End waterfront
F. S. Harmon Co., 1898 Pacific
Tacoma Smelling Co., Ruston.
Keystone Lumber Co., Center and Bailey sts
Local Lumber Co., 18th and Cushman.
Isey Lumber Co., tideflats.
Furniture Manufacturing Co., 2402 Center ST.
Builders Manufacturing Supply Co.. Sawyer and Hood
Carstens Packing Co. tdeflats.
Northwestern Woodenware Co., 2001 Dock st.
Peterman Manufacturing Co., Puyallup and East 0.
Hicrest Mlwork Co.. 1929 South Union.
Pacific Car Co., End and G streets.
Rhodes Brothers, 18th and Broadway
Stone Fisher Co., tn and Broadway.
Peoples Store 18th and Pacific.
Feist & Bachrach TIA Broadway.
Horgan-Parker Co.. I'LL Broadway.
Mccormack Bros, 1850 Broadway.
Standard House Furnishing Co.. 927 Broadway.
Lister Manufacturing Co., 1241 Puyalup ave.
Washington Wood Pipe Mfg Co., Center st.
L. Schoenfed Sons, 105 So 18th st.
William /. Davis & Sons, 18th and Pacific
Mode-Art Apparel Co.. 939 Broadway.
American Wood Pipe Co.. 32nd and Cedar.
Reliance Lumber & Timber Co.. 23rd and East D SITS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
STRIKE END SEES
BUSES DISAPPEAR

Jitney buses evaporated from
Tacoma streets like snow under
warm sun, as soon as announce
ment of the street car strike set
Element was made.
Street car strikers personally
notified all volunteer jitney driv-
ers Wednesday night that street
cars would be running Thursday.
and warned them not to operate
any longer unless they had state
bonds.
Some OF the donation" jitney
drivers made as high as $35 ana
$50 a day during the strike. ac-
cording to reports received by the
police.
1t was not uncommon for Q
driver to collect as much as $50
for operating few hours In the
evening.
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CONTINUED From Page One.)
war department will take over
and handle the entire lumber sit
uation.
Four shipbuilding plants at
Grays Harbor and two at olympia
are tied up by refusal OF ship
carpenters to handle non-union
lumber.
Falling Into Line.
The eight hour day is growing
to be as popular in Tacoma as the
street car men we're during their
strike.
Employers in big manufactnr-
ing concerns and business houses
turnout tho city are rapidly fai-
ing in line, with statements de-
claring their belief that the prin-
ciple not only is just to employees.
but will promote greater Gill
cheney.
Today six more firms went on
the eight-hour basis, bring tho
total number OF the last 10 days
up to %.
In addition, the Sperry Flour
Co. announced that 1t will go I'M
der the eight hour plan with the
present scale of wages Monday.
More Join In.
The firms which started tue
eight-hour plan today were the
Washington Wood Pipe Co., the
American Wood Pipe Co., l..
Schoenfeld & Sons, w. L. Davis
& Sons, the Mode-Art Apparel
Co., and the Reliance Lumber &
Single Co.
Employees Of the ashington
Wood Pipe Co. on Center street
"wednesday adopted brand new
scheme for making their demands
for eight Tours. The men had
Joined the timberworkers' union
and when D. m. came one OF the
men tied down the factory whistle
cord.
The men started for home. The
foreman wanted to know what
was up and wss told the employees
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
u. S. FLYERS
WIN MASTERY
OF THE AIR
Omitted Press Leased Wire,

PARIS, Aug. complete
allied mastery of the air has
been achieved on that section of
the front where the Lafayette
escadrille of American air fight
ers is located.
Dispatches from the squadron s
headquarters today declared on
Monday the star filters of the La
fayette corps, including Captain
Thenault. Lieut.. Thaw, Lieut..
Lufberry and Sergeants Rock
we'll, Parsons and Willis, had
flown a distance of 20 miles be-
hind the German lines without
ever sighting an enemy plane.
Most Of their reconnaissance was
over German aviation fields, but
the enemy declined to fight.
81 am thirsting for good, old
fashioned fight" complained one
Lafayette flyer in a message re-
oeived here today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02

TO BACK
,JITNEYS

All labor organizations In the
state are being lined up today In
OF the home rule init
alive measure to retore the right
of iitney buses to operate. as tho
result of action taken by the Ia
coma Central Labor council at its
meeting Wednesday night.
The initiative petitions are now
being prepared and Will be ready
for circulation soon.
New Faces Appear.
Resolutions sent out In the
form of a letter from Tacoma
probably will be adopted by tins
central labor councils OF the other
cities In the state, declaring that
Il Is the desire of organized labor
and the public to restore the rights
of the jltneys; to restore TO
the people OF the cities their
rights over public utilities, and to
abolish the public service COM
mission.
Delegates from the new retail
clerks union and from the tim
workers made their first official
appearance In the council ranks.
The action of the timberwork-
ers in taking striking Japanese
millworkers into the union pend
ing the formation OF separate
organization, was approved by the
council.
An organization committee OF
the council, including 8. T. Ham,
mersmark, of the retail clerks;
Roy Yinger, of the building labor
ers, and Joseph II. Lyons, secre-
tary of the council, was appoint
ed by the president. A now Leg
islative committee consisting or
#. F.. Burns, chairman: William
Maggie and II. c. Comprite, also
was appointed.
The newly elected officers of
the council were installed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
KAISER CALLS
WAR COUNCIL
Omitted Press Leased Wire.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. Pre-
sumably because of the great nj
lied drive n FLANDERS, Kaiser
Wilhelm today summoned a sIs-
cial meeting OF Germanys war
council N Brussels.
In addition to the German em'
peror, Field Marshal Hindeusu:g,
Quartermaster General Luden-
dorff, the crown prince and nn-
merous other military leaders
will attend.
Dispatches here emphasized the
importance of the conference in
Indicating that every German mil
itary leader of any importance
would he present.
Kaiser Wilhelm has just re-
turned from the Galician front,
whore he witnessed the advance
of the Teutonic armies in that
section.
German dispatches recently
have limited at considerable dis
satisfaction with lack OF progress
of the crown princes drive
against the French along the
Chemin des Danes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
LIGHT RAILS
FOR CARLINE

Because heavy street car rails
for the new tideflats car line can
not be obtained in less than three
months, the city council author
ICED Commissioner Atkins Thurs
day to purchase enough 60-pound
rails to construct a single-track
line across the flats. Atkins has
been offered these rails at SIS by
firm in Spokane.
Sixty-pound rails are too light
for constant heavy traffic, but
the council believes it can replace
them later with larger rails. and
use the first lot on spurs and sid
ings.
Laying of rails will begin with
in 10 days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
CITY QUITS;
KAISER WINS

Members of the city council de-
cided Thursday to abandon the
court fight to prevent City Librar-
ian Kaiser from collecting from
the city $500 expense money spent
in a trip to an eastern convention
three years ago.
Kaiser has already defeated the
city In the superior court, and
City Attorney Harmon advised the
council that he had no hope OF
winning the case on appeal:
Kaiser will be paid with a city
warrant which Mayor Fawcett
held up three years ago and has
kept locked in his desk ever since.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
CITY COULD VOTE
BONDS FOR ROAD

The city OF Tacoma could vote
bonds for the construction OF an
additional road to the army post
up to 100000 without exceeding
the limit of its possible legal in-
debtedness, ]. T. s. Lyle, chairman
OF the road to the post committees
reported to the members council
of the Commercial club Wednees
day.
The committee, he said, believes
such road should be built, rum
ming parallel to the Pacific High
way, each to be one-way ROAD.
Officers at the post favor thu
plan. he asserted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02

had decided to work only eight
hours. They got 1t.
Druggists, Also.
Even the druggists OF the city
may fall in line by adopting new
closing hours. The Pierce County
Retail Druggists society at a
meeting In the Commercial club
Wednesday was all in favor OF
adopting a shorter work day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
CARMEN
BACK ON
THE JOB
CONTINUED From Page one.)

Continued From Page One.)
ing street cars for protection OF
the operators were removed by
T. II. & p. employees during the
night.
A committee of five carmen,
appointed by the union to confer
with Manager Bean over the ques-
ton of reinstating seven Tacoma
carmen discharged prior to the
strike, met with Bean at the Ia
coma hotel Wednesday evening.
The men were ]. Boone, +. j..
Morgan, J. Sullivan, j. r. Pace
and G. ]. Hopwood.
Reinstated Five.
Bean outlined a series of
charges against the seven dis
charged men. These men we're
Fred Lehman, K. o. Collins, X. s.
Stroud, ]. Mccoy, Jack Knowles,
A. b. PETERSON and J. A. McGinnis.
The charges did not include
any reference to the fact that the
men had taken an active part In
organizing union.
After an hours session, the
strike committee voted to rein
state five of the men, and left
the question of reinstatement OF
the remaining two to be settled
by the general arbitration COM
mittee.
]. Mccoy and Jack Knowles
were the two union men who did
not return to work Thursday. The
nature of the charges against
them was not revealed by company
officials or union street car men.
As to Union.
An open shop system of en-
ployment will exist on the Taco
ma and Seattle street cars.
Union men said that those en-
ployes who had refused to join
the union, but had remained neu-
trail and had not assisted the
street railway company in any
way, would be admitted to the
union.
Those employees who remained
by the company during the strike
will not be admitted, but will be
permitted to continue in their
employment, without discrimina-
ton by union men, 1t was agreed.
The company has the right to
hire either union or non-union
men, but agrees not to discrimi-
nate against any members of the
union.
Will Live Up to II.
The committee of union men
who signed with Manager Bean
the agreement of strike settlement
was composed of President j.
Boone of the new union, r. T.
Wallace, c. J. Hopwood, ]. Sul!i-
van and Ed Wenzel.
1.-THE company intends to live
up to the letter and spirit Of this
agreement" said Manager Bean
Thursday.
"The cars are running again as
usual and the entire system will
be back to normal operation in
another day.
1.-THE men are all apparently
satisfied with the agreement, and
the company is equally satisfied.
That is all I have to say today"
Claim It's $3.50.
That the street car men and
the r. r. & p. Co. have made
equal concessions, and that the
strike settlement is no more q
victory for the men than for the
company, is the opinion of T. r.
& p. officials. None would make
statements for publication, how
ever.
The company has never dis
puted the right of Its men to Or
ganiEe, but has refused to recog-
nize the Amalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway en-
ployss, with which the local car
men have affiliated. No such
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
4. Pershing's Problem
MUST BESIECE
GERMANY LIKE
FEUDAL CASTLE

Copyright, 1917

y What faces the American army today, the great
war swings into the beginning of its fourth year9
What is the strategic and tactical situation before
the allies, and what part can Pershing's force play
In the stOrming of the German citadel that has been
preached at some points, but still remains untaken?
1t is possible to put into simple words the military
situation at this moment.
Let us imagine the central power group-Germany
Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey-as a great
fortress, which is besieged on all sides.
The kaiser the castle keep at like eada lord
of to
WALLS keeps eastes@as
sary; at the other is Asiatio Turkey ',,.'~
lons taking Bulgaria and Serbia RSmana and Euro
Projecting from this great & and md protecting its main
she Year last two years allied
basOn front pushing closer the keeps
changer s snan 1 %n"a The ancient Tssp
@ HsiH Tsa ss
s' %sn aS rs m Es%s to
s ass S %d !, city NOW S" a" 1%y must attack
%% " ~as
e. sweep g aons tack
@ wss s out THE @ e "a e he
baterng have attacked the kasers
fortress shown the accompanying SKETCH with
A''' T. Russia has captured the Galican fronts of Buko
Lutsk but the remainder of the large Poland-vo
2. Russia reduced the front and Joined
Br1tsh]ndlan
3. The Brish-n army has captured the Meso-
potantan by reducing Bagdad
4. British Egyptian has reached the Syrian
>. of the Gallpol front have driven
away storming party at this point.
q. Sarral's has preached the Salonlka 'front.'
but defenders cling to their second line.
Z. Italian has preached the Carso front,
the line of walls holds
g. French-Begian armies have driven
the defenders completely the Vimy, Peronne Iaon
and and broken down long piece
of Belgian "outwork and the
line of temporary walls (the findenburg Iine) is en-
-. =,
baterng and caapults and by
besieged battered
AWAY wall until the stones Jared
loose "breach" in the WALL through which
meantime the defenders OF the
walls everything injue the baterng ram and to
the baterng OF the wall went on ty
built inside, in the shape OF a half moon ,-
the Teuons have DONE When the ouwork
in threatened they built the Hnden6ug
when the outer wall preached
The problem the allies smash through wall some
time to build inside WALL or else
inside wall after the first has been ana mus
nour the defenders and
But ancient soldiers had built their hafmoon tenn
the soldiers the walls on
flank the beegers when they rushed TO
second wall
"basions onts 80 hat the maih vi
:, the fortres can
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
TACOMA OFFICER
LEAVES FOR FORT

Lieut.. Thomas Raphael Phil
lips, U. 8. A., oldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. T. II. Phillips of Taco
ma, formerly captain Of the 10th
company, Washington coast artil-
lery, now commissioned in the
regular army, left Wednesday for
Fortress Monroe, Va, on orders
from the war department.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
T. r. & P. co. CASE
WILL BE DROPPED

The case of the public service
commission against the T. r. d
p. Co. will be dismissed Friday
morning at 10 o'clock. This Is the
understanding of attorneys. who
with Judge Mitchell, waited In
court Wednesday afternoon until
A o'clock for definite news OF the
settlement of the strike.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
STOCK OF LUMBER
rs DIMINISHING
Special to The Times. J

SptCIHI 70 IHH IDHbssI
ABERDEEN, Aug. 2.-More
lumber was sent from Grays Har-
Dor during July than was cut. and
stocks are diminishing. Despite
the strike, cargoes and shipments
amounted to more than 100000
600 feet.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
SAY "a AMERICANS
LOST ON MOTANO!

LONDON, Aug. 2.-The 22 sur
vivors Of the American steamer
Motano who landed today, de-
clared "a of the crew, some OF
them Americans, had been lost in
the torpedolng of the vessel.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-02
FIRE DESTROYS
PIONEER LANDMARK

ABERDEEN, Aug. 1.-THE old
Pioneer hotel, one of the first
buildings on Grays Harbor, now
known as the Del Monte, was
burned yesterday morning. The
blaze threatened a thickly built-up
district. and soldiers helped the
firemen to stop It.