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New Britain herald., 1917-06-08
OSTEND BATTERED BY ENTENTE ! AIRPLANEs Photographs Prove Havoc Wrought in German Sub
 marine Base.

London, Juno. 8.-A series Of pho- togRaphtc plates of the bombardment of Ostend which have arrived here afford . remarkable, example of the development of photography observa- ton and records of airplanes. They show in undeniable fashion that the British bombardment of Ostend last week was the most successful of its kind yet accomplished, ensuring that Ostend will be crippled as useful Herman base for weeks If not per- 11aAnently. N
 rhsrs ars several series of thsse| plates in tha little photographic r4cprd room of the admiralty building tO1G Gklher to anderstnnd tho alrplaues11
 One group of plates shows ostend after the bombardment. At first sight the pictures are disappointing. Taken from an airplane a mile or more above the town the pictures show no great general devastation. The work of . hundred or two heavy projectiles, such as are used by the Britiah monitors, does not impress itself heavily on a landscapo like the work of an earthquake. There gre no large general changes In the outline of the town, but when one gets down to careful comparisons with the pie lures taken before the bombardment there are some striking changes here and there which grow in importance as they are studied under magnify ing glass.
 The ma9nifying glass reveals some of the reasons for this change. The breaking down of the locks prevents the retention of water in the basin and the canals which feed it, incipaci- tating the entire port machinery. Equally effective in crippling the harbor is . hit on the operating ma chinery jamming the locks so that in- gress or agress Is impossible until elaborate repairs arc made.
 The plates taken the day before the battle show . number of ships at anchor or tied up in the basin. In the succeeding plates some of the ships have disappeared and others ap- | parently are half submerged. The long wharf Is like . caricature of it's in the dockyards have suffered badly.
 Three ,Ge9unan Planes Shot Down London June 8-The British are continuing their aerial operations over Belgium and have put three Ger man airplanss out of action near Dix nude. The following announcement is made by tho admiralty:
 con Wednesday evening naval I airplanes attacked two enemy
 machines three miles northeast
 of Dtxma1da Both enemy ma .
 chimes want down completely out
 of control. Another naval pilot $
 attacked and shot down out of
 control an enemy aeroDlane f1ve <
 miles northeast of Dixmude."
New Britain herald., 1917-06-08
GOETHALS DIsMIsSEs AIDS
]. A Eustis and F.H. Clark, Dis charged Following Pubsic 0 Criti,
 ciszn Of ship Building Corporation.

Washington, June 8.--Major Gen. eral Goethals, general manager of emergency fleet corporations today dismissed F. A. Eustis of Boston, as- sisstant general manager, and F. H. Clark of New York the two engineers who originated the wooden fleet idea.
 This dismissal of iEustis and Clark today followed their action of last night in issuing statements virtually charging General Goethals with hold ing up the shipbuilding plan in the nations emergency.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-08

had been selected. Presurnatlys.y eral Pershing will inspect thee make complete arrangementss 1gl3 reception of his troops. No Aiu41 ton as to the cpnnpqsition s .A American force or when it tal expected to reach Francs nesg given out by the general pta U. s: AVIATORs l one Hpndred Asei Y - " \ i|a!l '|!]
 for Innmediate D,,ay - ' retary Da.,1els An,,p K
New Britain herald., 1917-06-08

American Avaators X from tA1 aviation, corps have AI9ffySd { France for any dlita mi aana3I sent HSelf, accordinl | fiesnad todays by aeo Y | 3 3
 hex are the ilstt V, iI)1 el TIT MY MY lighting forces to rSArl llts Eloe
New Britain herald., 1917-06-08
NO DETAILS HEARD {
 OF NATURAL HORROR
Photographic Communication Wrecked
 by Upheayal, Leaving Fate Of Resi-
 dents in Doubt-Amerioan Minister @ Wired Report Last Night Tcaltns of
 Volcanic Activity It 2 P. m.--
 esrsetovn seasnos ,aph Recorded. s lGosepent. 5sss

!. San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, June 8.San Salvador, the capital of the Repunlic of Salvador, with . popula,- ftlcas nnfs than s6o.po0, has been tot11ly dkStfoyed ,accordinY to a de- spatch from San Miguel Salvador.
 No details as to the manner in which the city was destroyed have been received, but 1t undoubtedlyswa was the result of an earthquake or .vol- canic eruption. saes.-.szs x
 A A despatch from Teguciealpa, Hon duras. says that in addition to the wiping out of San Salvador the town sof QueGalttpeque Nejapa. suchichoto, Raispal, Arm enios and Mejicanos also were destroyed. Mejicanos was . suburb of San Salvador.
 At 9:50 o'clock this morning there was still no scommunication between San Salvador and Tegucigalpa-
 . An operator who reached the edge of the destroyed zone reported at 9:20 o'clock this morning that San Salvador was in ruins and that every thing within . radius of thirty miles had been destroyed by the earth quake.
 The town of Santa Tecla also has been destroyed, according to this re- port. Residents of San Salvador are camping in the streets and parks. At the time thes report was sent 1t had been raining heavily for live hours. The disaster Is supposed to have been caused by an eruption of the volcano Of San Salvador, at the foot of which the city Is situated
New Britain herald., 1917-06-08

Washington, June 8.-Dispatches from American Minister Long at San Salvador, sent at o'clock last night, while the volcano of San Salvador was erupting. said part of the city had been destroyed by fire, but that it was under control. Great damage was done.
 The despatch said that about 6:35
 p. m. yesterday severe earth shocks
 began and continued until about S:45 with varying degrees of intensity. At about S:45 the volcano of San
 Salvador began to belch forth fire and
 smoke apparently on the side toward Quetzaltepeque. There was later one,
 a very severe shock. but the tremors ] of the earth continued with decreasing violence. At the same time there was E steady showed of ashes falling over the city. The report says damage to the
 American legation building will rem
 der 1t uninha bitable but that all rec ords are. safe. It adds that all other city property appeared practically un- tenantable. One important central
 business section had been destroyed by
 fire which at the time of telegraphinE seemed to be under control. No deaths were reported in the minister's de- spatch as being known at that hour. It Is possible that further volcanic eruptions, fire or earthquake might have wrought greater damage after the sending of his despatch.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26
IS THIS "YOUNG MANS AGE?"
Golden Period of Achievement Comes When Man Is Well Past Forty
 Years of Age, 1t Is Claimed.

"Our times are frequently called the age of the young men. But when one looks back to the revolutionary era of our country, from 1775 to 1925, and considers the striking youthfulness of the leaders of America the appellation does not appear exactly to fit" said q New York man in a recent interview.
 ''Nor do the men now in their twen- ties and thirties push the men of the forties and fifties hard enough 70 prove that this is pre-eminently the young mans age. Unless men of forty are considered young, this scarcely is a young mans age.
 ''The youngsters under thirty receive an undue degree of attention from the professions and business. A notion prevails that the latest graduate from college. technical school or university is more desirable than the man who has had postgraduate courses in lifes college of experience. Best sellers, movies and magazine articles about
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26
A Reasonable Supposition.

The farmer alleged freight train of the defendant company had hit one of his mules. Now, MT. Jones'" said the attorney for the corporation to the aggrieved party, who occupied the wit ness stand, will you kindly tell the court whether or not your mule was on the track, the property of the de- fendant, when hit by the train?" Well sir" replied Mir. Jones, II didn't witness the occurrence, but I suppose things must have been about as you say. This was q pretty bright mule and reckon if that train had took out after him in the woods which fringe their track there where he was killed he would have got behind a tree"- Macon Telegraph,
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26

business foster the notion. Conse- quently, distressingly large number of men from twenty-five to thirty eX- pect to be the bosses of big businesses or corresponding professions or tech nical vacations by the time they are thirty-five.
 Many will. if they work hard and prove to possess capacity. occupy posi- tions of responsibility. But scarcely at thirty-five. The golden age of achievement really comes in most cases 15 years later In fact, the pres ent age is the age of the mature man. In literature the success today is not the man of thirty. Irwin Cobb would almost universally be considered a success in literature, but Cobb is forty one and has not reached the fullness of his power. George Ade is fifty-cne, Tarkington forty-eight, Frank Cobb, chief writer of editorial, forty-eight. The success achieved through develop ment of talent, hard work and sacri- flee is reserved for the mature."
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26

wait. Now, don't strike any matches. Get me that big pan you use for the starch"
 In the bathroom Helen emptied the whole half gallon of gasoline into the starch pan and dipped into it her chif- fon waist.
 The filmy material wilted down as 1t soaked up the fluid. Her hands in rubber gloves, she swished it around, held it up to drain, and pinned it to the shade before the open window.
 After dipping a lace collar and the net yoke and sleeves of her gray taf feta, the gasoline was still clear enough for something else. While she was at it, she would clean those pink satin slippers.
 Even with the open window, the stupefying fumes were now sickening- ly strong. Hastily, with held breath. she immersed the slippers, brushing them with soft naibrush.
 The soiled gasoline she always saved to use again after it had cleared by standing, but now, too dizzy to pour it back into the Small-mouthed bottle, she emptied it out into the washbasin. Then, escaping from the bathroom, she closed the door on the stiiing fumes.
 Here, Dora,' as she took the starch pan out to the kitchen, wash this out well. This gasoline bottles empty I'll put it here on the lower shelf Be careful not to use it for anything else"
 When a little later she went back to the bathroom, the waist. except for the thicker parts around the neck and sleeves, was almost dry It was beau tifully white. Had she sent it to the cleaners, they would have charged $2 and done it no better
 It was now after three, and she was anxious for the things to dry quickly so there would be no traces of odor when Warren came home
 He had repeatedly forbidden her to use gasoline, insisting that he would pay any amount of cleaners bills rath- CT than have her take chances with this inflammable fiuid
 Ilc NitSS Oi lIe tOW cl GdCh SIIc re- arranged so the air could get to the yoke and sleeves, but the slippers on the stone ledge outside the window were still quite wet
 She had just examined one and set it back when lighted cigar butt. tossed from a window above, fell straight into the pink satin toe.
 A sizzling flash and the gasoline soaked slipper was aflame. For a sec ond Helen stood petrified. Then, jerk ing up long-handled bath brush, she thrust it off the ledge. But it was too late The blaze had leaped to the thin lace waist.
 Screaming for Dora. she hurled the waist into the bath tub and turned on the water. But now the dress had caught and the flames were leaping up the tiled wall.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26
.Gnsoline ?, rroaned Warren.

"Gasoline 70 groaned Warren.
 "Yes, they will use 1t. Your wife ran out into the hall--worst thing she could have done. If Mrs. Reed hadn't thrown a rug about her 1t might have been serious. Everybody else seemed paralyzed."
 Mrs Reedi So she owed her rescue to Mrs. Reed The words throbbed in the blurred blackness before Helen's closed eyes.
 With awkward, unsteady fingers Warren was smoothing back the singed hair.
 She's suffering little from shock. I'll leave some quieting powders in case she can't sleep. You can give her one at nine and repeat in an hour if necessary. I'll call in the morning to dress the arm."
 The doctor gone, Helen for the first time looked up at Warren. He was strangely white and haggard.
 "Oh," faintly. they frightened you when they 'phoned."
 That's all right-don't think of me. Does your arm hurt?" still smoothing the crisp, roughened hair.
 Her head moved in denial, not want ing to admit the pain.
 Mrs Reed, who had been waiting in the other room came to the door. You don't need me now, Mir. Curtis, but if you should later-just phone down"
 q won't attempt to thank you, Mrs. Reed" Warren rose from the side of the bed "There are some things you can"
 "Oh, please don't speak of it. I'm very glad I was able to do something. We had almost the same accident in our family-I suppose that's why thought of the rug"
 He was following her to the door. Their low murmured voices came from the hall
 Helen's turmoiled thoughts were re- hearsing the tragedy. The bathroom What damage had been done? She had visions of q heavy repair bill-of the tiled walls and porcelain tub cracked by the flames. Warren WAS again by the bed, but she did not look up. Just then it seemed easier to lie there with closed eyes. Now that they were alone, she was struggling against hysterical desire to burst into tears. She yearned yet dreaded for him to com fort her.
 There was a long silence. He was holding her hand. stroking slowly the came the rhythmic chatter of hoofs and the receding rumbling of wheels.
 Well, Kitten how about the gaso- line? Is one lesson going to be enough?'
 Helen nodded. biting her lips to steadiness. Another silence. Then she asked. quiveringly:
 Dear, the bathroom! Did-did it 1 iniure the walls or ceilingT'
 Haven't looked" briefly. You're all right-that's all that counts. Any damage is dirt cheap if it'll make you leave that internal stuff alone"
 'Oh, I'll never use it again." choking back sob. 'Tll never even have it in the house."
 "All right, Kitten, won't rub it in. A jolt like this is pretty tough on both of us." Then, with relieving humor, "Well, you won't have to frizz your hair for while. You've made pret- ty good job of that"
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26

Dora, 1 am gO- ing to clean some things in gaso- line. Don't light the stove until I'm through ,'cau- toned Helen.
 "I was just go- in to put on an iron for them doilies," gru m = bled Dora, who never took an or der without some objection.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26
An Irish Supe

Peasants in the wes. is said, will never leay open at one end only. always thrust through the Otherwise some wicked seize upon the shell and m. of it in which to sail the S, careless person to destructi
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26

Copyright 1917 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate1


 Dora, bursting open the door, stared panic-stricken, then rushed back shrieking: "Fire Fire!"
 The water, now filling the tub. ex- tinguished the waist; but the dress, which hung on the towel rack, was still ablaze Frantically Helen tried to poke if down into the tub with the long handled brush. Then, reaching over to turn on the shower, the flames caught the lace of her kimono sleeve, saturated with the gasoline fumes.
 She might easily have smothered it with the heavy bath mat. but now paralyzed with terror, she ran wildly out, too frightened even to scream. Blindly she dashed through the hall door that Dora had left open.
 After that everything was a daZed bur- The draughty elevator shaft famed the flaming sleeve as she flew stumblingly down the encircling stair way Excited voices, rushing feet and Dora's still piercing shrieks of Fire p
 Someone caught her. Something heavy was thrown about her. The rest blurred into oblivion.
 
 eve sent for her husband" it was a woman's voice, lowered to discreet whisper.
 Shell soon be all right a mans voice, deep and restful.
 For several moments after the con- sciousness of the voices Helen. still ciinging to the sheltering darkness, kept her eyes closed.
 A sharp pain in her shoulder. Some one was bandaging her arm. Then she realized that the man bending over her was Doctor Warden, whose office was on the first floor.
 You're all right now" reassuringly, as he met her bewildered gaze. Drink little of ths," raising her head to the glass.
 Dropping back on the pillow, she saw Dora and Mir. Thompson, their superintendent, at the foot of the bed. Standing just back of the doctor was Mrs. Reed. who had an apartment on the floor below.
 Still daZed, Helen again sought refuge in the protective darkness of closed eyelids. The heavy odor of iOdoform added to her sense of strange ness. Her mind was struggling to chaotic thoughts.
 She heard Mir. Thompson murmur something to the doctor and tiptoe heavily from the room. Then the tele- phone rang and Mrs Reed whispered "I'li answer it."
 Does your head ache?" asked the doctor
 AS though to locate the confused throbbing pain, Helen raised her hand to her head. There was a bloodchill- ing feel of crisp singed hair. Then a leaping terror as her fear-stiffened fin gers groped over her face.
 ''No, your face isn't touched" com fOrted the doctor, divining her fears. You got off very easy-gasoline is dangerous stuff. Does that bandage 1 feel too tight?"
 A slam of the outer door. Though her face was to the wall, she knew it was Warren who burst into the room.
 The next second he was kneeling by the bed. The vague dread of his stern apprehension fell from her as she felt his encircling arms.
 "It's all right, MT. Curtis" the doc tors voice was quietly reassuring. "Only slight burn under the arm."
 "How did it happen?" huskily. "Cleaning something in gasoline"
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26
Clue to Mans Nationality.

One can generally tell a mans na- tionality from the manner in which he carries his pocket money, for the various methods employed frequently betray the name of the country of which they are typical. The D, ~7sis-,
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26
Daily Thouuht,

There is but one straight road to success and that is meflt.- .--Bourke Cochran.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26

be it gold. silver or COT up in the right-hand [ Frenchmen, more of ' satisfied with an - purse in carrying
 classes of the l
 small fortune isE> handkerchief. M,~ to hide their say, or the lining of tn,
Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26

China has 5000 miles of rail-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-03
BARNSTABLE, SCHOENBERG
AND ROBBINS GO FOR SERVICE

Blackfoot and Bingham county
have contributed freely and loyalty
with their young men for this world
war. On Monday evening three
more, namely, Christopher Barn
stable, Robert H. Schoenberg and
Ronald Robbins, left for Salt Lake
City to make final arrangements for
enlistment, the first two in the avia-
tion corps and the latter in the
artillery band.
Mr. Barnstable, who is we'll known
and respected here, has not taken
the examinations, but the probabili-
ties are that If he does not get in
the branch of his first choice, he will
try some other field Of service; he
does not expect to return to Black
foot.
Mr.. Schoenberg has taken the ex-
aminations and for time will be
in Salt Lake City. He has been the
successful and genial proprietor OF
the Club cafe for over a year and
has now sold his interests to Roland
Baldwin, who will have charge Of the
cafe.
Ronald Robbins, as was stated In
our Mondays issue, has joined the
Utah artillery band, and will prob
ably play first baritone.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-03
NOTICE OF CALL AND
TO APPEAR FOR PHISI-
CAL EXAMINATION

The following-named persons are
hereby notified that pursuant to the
act of congress approved May IL,
1917, they are called for military
service of the United States by this
local board.
The serial number and the order
number of each of such persons Is
shown below. They will report at
the office of this local board for
physical examination on the fourth
sixth and seventh day OF August
1917. at 8 o'clock a. m.
Any claim for exemption or dis-
charge must be made on forms which
may be procured, or the form OF
which may be copied at the oInce
of the local board, and must be nled
at the office of this local board on
or before the seventh day after the
date of posting of this notice.
Your attention is called to tne
penalties for violation or evasion OF
the selective service law approved
MAY 18, 1917, and Of the rules ana
regulations which may be CONSUMED
Of this office
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-03
RED CROSS WORK PROGRESS
ING; KNITTERS WANTED

Mrs. H. G. Taylor and Mrs. j. G.
Thompson of Wicks attended the Red
Cross meeting in Blackfoot, Tuesday
and contributed $27 to the Red
Cross fund. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs
Thompson canvassed the district last
Friday and collected "a dozen eggs
which they sold for 35 cents per
dozen. They also collected $12 cash
$40 of which was donated by Peter
Larsen. This with seven new mem
bers enabled them to make the con-
tribution of $27.
The knitting committee reported
and they are very anxious that all
those people who know how to knit
should notify Mrs. G. F. Hendrie,
Mrs. C. A. Albertson or Mrs. r. L.
Archer. The soldiers are greatly In
need of knitted articles and Black
foot should do her part to provide
them
The executive committee of the
Current Event club met Wednesday
for the purpose Of deciding upon
their course of study for the coming
club year. The need for bandages
is great as is horribly depicted by
the fact that the wounds Of many
of the soldiers of the allied forces
are wrapped up in straw and paper
instead of the sanitary bandages so
necessary. In view OF this great
need they decided not to take up
any course of study or work rela-
tive to the regular club work, but
to devote their entire club time to
the rolling of bandages.
Shelley has started on their first
box and the sewing in all the auxili-
aries and local chapter is progressing
nicely. Again an appeal is made for
sewers, and you are asked to go to
the high school and assist in getting
garments ready for our soldiers. The
Bingham county chapter has made
articles to the amount of $50 pieces
to be used by the patients and bey
the doctors and nurses in the operat-
ing room.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-03
BINGHAM COUNTY
WANTS TO KNOW

The Idaho Republican has been the
means of joining the peoples forces
and ideas for the solution of some
hard problems, and it has under
taken another.
On the seventeenth of August It
will begin publishing series of five
short chapters of one column each, to
set forth the facts regarding an in
dustry that affects everybody in the
county. 1t will show how badly 1t
has been conducted, will expose much
of the corrupt practices in vogue dur
ing the past ten years, and will in
vite the readers of The Republican
to map out,the remedy.
Those that send in the four best
solutions of how to remedy the mat
ter will receive the $780, and their
statements about it will be published
for the consideration of the whole
public. Next issue we will tell more
about it under the title, What the
Public Think"