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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-04
EXCUSE STUDENTS
FROM SCHOOL
State Officials and Board OF
Education Plan to Mobilize
Older Students for Farm
Work This Spring and Fall.

Twenty-Five thousand schoo
children able to do their bit to-
ward intensified crop production
will be modified in the various
schools of the state Immediately
and during next fall. When call
ed by those in need of assistance,
the students will be excused from
school and credited with school
work as long as they are needed
on the farm or in the field. They
are to be known under the gen.
eral classification of school vol
unteers" in connection with the
Idaho Increased Production SER
vice" organization.
Governor Alexander, DR.. Sis
son, commissioner of education,
Miss Ethel E. Redfield, state su-
perintendent of public instruc-
tion, O. D. Center, head of the
University of Idaho extention de-
partment, and Harvey Alfred,
state director of farm markets,
reached an agreement to mobilize
the school children in their re-
spective schools instead of at
tempting to close the schools
earlier than usual. The advan-
tage of mobilizing them, instead
of closing the schools, is that the
children will be available and as
sembled when needed, whereas,
if the schools were closed they
would be scattered.
Forms, enlistment cards and
instructions will be issued to all
schools and county and city su-
perintendents and principals will
act as local recruiting officers.
Boys and girls old enough will be
enlisted and. wheneverSa call
comes for work they will be as
signed to it. Many of them will
work on the farms of their par
ents but in other instances they
will work on other farms. 1t is
hoped by this method to eliminate
slackers among boys and girls.
"This will have an immense
educational value for the child
ren." said Commissioner Sisson,
speaking of the plan. 1T will
have a far-reaching effect on the
schools and education. | look
upon the plan as one of the ut
most Importance. Many boys
who have had nothing harder to
do than to put on a clean pair of
cuffs will find out what work is.
1t will result in the children as
suming responsibility which in
itself is an excellent thing"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-04

The weather report for the month
of April, as recorded at the Monastery
west of town, is as follows: Maximum
temperature, 81 degrees on the 2Othi
minimum, 21 degrees on the first
total precipitation, 800 inches; total
snowfall, ia inches. 1t was unusual.
ly cold throughout the month.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-04

Jim Triplett and Arthur Williams
left last Friday for Montana points to
look over that country with a possible
view to locating there later.
w. G. Peacock, the Ferdinand
auto man, was in town Wednesday
and drove home with a new Dodge
car secured from the Cottonwood
Hardware company.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-04

with the back of her head against
a rock and suffered a fracture of
the skull. She was brought to
the hospital that night but died
a few hours later.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-04
NEWS AROUND
The STATE
Items From Various Places
Reproduced for the Benefit
of our Readers--Stories Re-
haShed from Exchanges.

Dairymen at Spokane are now
charging eleven cents quart for
milk.
A Japenese cook at Ilo return
ed last week from his native land
and brought along a dainty Jap
wife with him.
The big sawmill of the Grant
Lumber company near Harrison
was destroyed by fire late last
week at a loss of $6O,OO0.
Senator Borah has announced
his intention of retiring from
public life ip 1919 after his pres
ent term in the U. S. senate ex-
pires.
Hamlet H. Choat, who was
shot last week by H. E. McClung
near Viola as the result of a
quarrel over line fence, died
later from his wound and Nc
Chung will now face charge of
murder.
The state highway through the
Lapwai valley is now being To-
Gated and will closely follow the
railroad right of way from Cul-
desac to Spalding and the new
road will be graded up as high
as the railroad grade.
High water in Lapwai creek
did considerable damage to other
property than the railroad last
week and near Sweetwater wash
ed out one mans garden of two
acres, stripping the soil from the
rocks as clean as a swept floor.
Drs. Carssow, Alley, johnson
and Braddock last week purchas-
ed the old Methodist church prop
erty in Lewiston and will fit it
up for their work. A full set of
Offices suitable for their work
will be arranged and the building
when completed will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000
Plans of Portland men to place
a fleet of power boats on the .\Co-
lumbia and Snake rivers have
been submitted to the Lewiston
commercial club by Wallace r.
Struble, formerly of that place.
1t is believed the steamers will
develop a large freight and pas
senger business after getting in
operation.
All grain records for the CEN
tral Idaho country were smashed
last Friday at Lewiston when w.
E. Chapman sold 26,500 bushels
of wheat of various kinds to the
M. H. Houser company of Port
land at price of $2.51 a bushel
for the entire lot, receiving for
the same check of $66,515. Mr..
Chapman still retains about 10
600 bushels for seed and other
purposes.
C. w. Green, an independent
grain buyer in the Lewiston coun-
try, topped the market again
Monday when he paid $2.54 a
bushel for 18, 900 bushels of choice
forty-fold milling wheat in the
warehouse at Palouse City. Mr..
Green topped the market the first
time several months ago when he
paid So a bushel for a lot of grain
at Lewiston, later selling this
grain for $2.32 and clearing a.
round $4,000 on the deal.
Mrs. William Brown, a resident
of the Webb section, died at the
hospital in Lewiston late last
week from injuries received in a
runaway accident at their farm.
Mrs. Brown was holding the
team at the barn while her hus-
band was unloading feed and one
of the horses slipped its bride.
When the team was started it
ran away and in trying to inmn
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-04

Cottonwood people are destin-
ed to see something particularly
good tomorrow evening at the
Orpheum. Besides the regular
program of motion pictures, some
200 stereopticon views will be
shown. These views are the
property of Rev. Grant and in
clude scenes taken in Canada,
Ireland, England, Africa and In
dia. Rev. Grant will lecture
while the pictures are being
shown and the program promises
to be both highly entertaining
and instructive. The motion
pictures will be shown first so as
to enable as many as possible from
the places of business to attend
the lecture and see the pictures
from foreign lands, which will be
particularly interesting at this
time. The price of admission
will be 25 and Is cents. Better
come and bring your friends.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-04
The Kid EnHStS

The Kid has gone to the Colors
And we don't know what to say;
The kid we have loved and cuddled
Stepped out for the Flag today
We thought him child, baby
With never a care at all,
But his country called him man-size
And the Kid has heard the call.
He paused to watch the recruiting,
Where fired by the fife and drum,
He bowed his head to Old Glory
And thought that it whispered:
Gomez
The Kid not being Stacker,
Stood forth with patriot joy
To add his name to the roster
And God, we're proud Of the boy!
The Kid has gone to the Colors
1t seems but a little while
Since he drilled school boy army
In a truly martial style.
But now he's man, soldier,
And we lend him listening ear,
For his heart is a heart all loyal,
Unscourged by the curse Of fear.
His dad, when he told him, shuddered.
His mother-God bless her!-cried
Yet, blest with a mother nature
She wept with mother pride.
But he whose old shoulders straight
ened
Was Granddad--for memory ran
To years when he, too, youngster,
Was changed by the Flag to mani
w M. Herschell in indianapolis
News.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-04

Mrs. Bryan and children left late
last week for points in Oregon.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
PRINCE RUPERT DUE.

KETCHIKAN, Aug 16.-Steamer Prince Rupert sailed last night and will be due in Juneau late this af- ternoon. The following is the com plete list of passengers abodrd for Juneau: Miss Stella Gill. w. T.. Young and wife, Mary Frances Young. Hyaldmar Olssen and wife, Lee Mighel, Joe Browder, R. R. Car mien, wife and baby, Helena Jen- not. Henry Johnston and wife. Chas. F. Bollinger and wife, Charles Bol- finger, Jr., Mrs. Alice Wright. Rich ard Temby, B. E. Nieding, wife and two children, A. J. Dyer and w. B. States.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
FOOD COUNCIL URGED 70 HELP FISH SITUATION National Organization Is Appealed to by the
 Shippers of the
 Channel.
WANT SPACE ON BOATS
Fresh Fish Shipments Are Held Up as Steamers Loaded with Salmon
 Bound South

Local fish buyers. who have been seriously handicapped in their work through uncertainty of carrier space on the steamers southbound, during the period when the canned salmon shipments are moving. combined with the buyers from Douglas, Petersburg, Wrangell and Ketchikan, and have taken the matter up with the Bu-
 reau of Fisheries. and through it with the National Food Council. Relief is looked for.
 This morning wire was received by all the local dealers from Ernest P Walker, supervisor of fisheries, asking if they had lost any fish, pr if they had been handicapped in their buying in any way. It is be-
 lieved by the local buyers that the
 Food Council will issue orders to the steamship companies to handle the fresh fish, which is perishable, to the exclusion of canned salmon.
 which is perishable.
 Recently, on account of the inabil ity to secure any certain promises of shipping space, the dealers were forced toalmost suspend their buying activities for time, and what fish
 were taken were at a considerably reduced price
 Now, after five days since a sou h. bound boat took fish from Juneau, he Admiral Farragut and the Mari
 posa are both sailing south tonight. The local buyers have been unable to receive any information as to whether either boat will be able to handle shipments.
 One dealer today expressed himself i by saying: If we cant be certain
 of our shipments we may as well shut up shop. and go to Prince Ru- pert and deal. We can ship from there over the railroad The Can
 adian vessels from here have the
 space and would gladly handle our fish, but they are not allowed to- General Agent Howard Ewing, of the Pacific Steamship Company, said today, speaking of the fish situation, that all of the company's boats with
 the exception of the Admiral Farra-
 gut, which is due tonight, have am pie cold storage facilities and that fresh fish is always carried to the exclusion of any other product. Agent Willis E. Nowell, of the Alaska Steamship Company, said that the instructions received from his
 company officials was to the effect
 that the fresh fish was to take precedence over anything else to the
 cold storage capacity of all their steamers, and whatever other space remained vacant. The steamship
 companies are doing everything they can to handle the situation, but on account of the uncertainty of the fish business, and the inability of
 the dealers to guarantee any certain amount on any certain date. it works hardship on both the dealers and
 the steamship companies, particular ly so when canned fish and ore is demanding space before the vessels reach Southeastern Alaska.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
ODD REQUESTS ARE MADE TO AVOID THE
 NEW NATIONAL ARMY

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1G-This city is being flooded with conscripts who wish to avoid service. A lad from Brooklyn told Secretary Tu. multy that he couldn't fight and wanted to count canned beans. signal in the Rockies or run errands for the President. Secretary Tumults advised him to write his local board but the youth said: eff I do, all the boys and girls will get on and hand me something worse than the Kaiser's bullets"
 A woman has requested permis- sion to accompany her husband be cause the latter is careless" and incapable of doing anything without her
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
Juneau Astonished by
 Merchants Story

A merchant relates the following:
 For years I could not sleep with out turning every hour. Whatever l ate caused gas and sourness. Also had stoma oh catarrh. ONE SPOON- FUL buckthorn bark. glycerine. etc. as mixed in Adler-i-ka relieved me INSTANTLY" Because Adler-i-ika fushes the ENTIRE alimentarv tract it relieves ANY CASE consti- patton, sour stomach or gas and prevents appendicitis It has QUICKEST action of anything we ever sold.
 BUTLER -MAURo & CO.,, Druggists
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
PEACE PROPOSAL
 OF POPE IS NOW
 IN UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. The text of the Pope's peace proposal has been received in this country in ca ble dispatches from London and in dicates that the newspaper dispatch es received during the past two days, had the terms correctly. The outline does not differ from the earlier reports
 The former opinion still is prevail ent that there is no liklihood that the proposals will be accepted in the present form
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
BERNARD BARUCH TO PURCHASE FOR
 ALLIES AND U. s.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.- Bern hard Baruch will in effect act as chairman of the purchasing commis- sion of the new war industries board. making him. virtually the pur- chasing agent of the United States government. It is understood he has also been agreed upon by the Allied countries as their purchasing agent
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
HIGH PRICES FOR
 STEEL HAVE ABOUT
 REACHED THE LIMIT

BOSTON. Aug. 16.-There are in dications that the extreme high pric- es for the moment have been reached in steel as well as in other commodi- ties. A large steel interest recent ly communicated to one of his com panies a bid for goods at $50 per ton, or $20 per ton lower than the ruling prices. He was surprised to receive word to ''book it."
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
INTERNED VESSELS ARE CONFISCATED
 BY THE CHINESE

SHANGHAI, Aug. 1G.-Three in termed Austrian merchantmen have been seized here by the Chinese ma val forced. The ships were found to be undamaged and no resistance was offered by the crews. The German and Austrian ships now ta- ken aggregate 1S000 tons.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
STRIKE CALLED OFF.

SPRINGFIELD, H., Aug. 1G. - Through the efforts of the district president. the strike of coal miners in this section has been called off and the men will return or be ex- pelled from the unions as they yio- lated all agreements by striking.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
RENAMED FOR RESERVE BOARD.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Presi- dent Wilson has designated w. P. c. Harding as governor and Paul M. Warburg as vice governor of the federal reserve board for another year.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
CONFEDERATION AT
 VENICE IS STARTED BY BOMBS DROPPED

VIENNA, Aug. 1G.-It is officially announced that four tons of bombs were dropped last night by aero planes on the maritime arsenal at Venice. The bombs, according to the Central Powers aviators, start ed number of conflagrations.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
PROVING GROUNDS FOR LARGE GUNS
 BEING MADE READY

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. = The War Department has begun clearing l2.30o acres near Savannah, H., for proving ground for large guns manufactured at the government ar senals. Practically all the guns man. uiactured for the army will be test ed at the Savannah plant.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
HAS CHEERFUL OUTLOOK

BOSTON, Aug. 16.-Representativ Fuller of Massachusetts. declares coalition cabinet should be formed by President Wilson at once. He believes the war will last until 1922
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
MAY TAX SOFT DRINKS

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.-Ameri can people spend $174.000.00O an nually for soft" drinks. and possibly will be taxed in order to make up for the loss of revenue that may follow prohibition is suggested in some quarters.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
MEDAL FOR ELIHU ROOT.

NEW YORK. Aug. 16.-The med al for distinguished valor in the ser vice of the United States has been presented by Mayor Mitchell in be- half of the American Art Club to Elihu Root
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
IRlShMEM UNDER
 ARREST--WOlATED
 DEFENSE REALM ACT

ENNIS, Ireland, Aug 16. - A large number Of arrests throughout the county of Clare was made yes terGay under the Defense of the Realm Act. The prisoners are chlrg ed with illegally drilling Sein Fein CTS
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
ALLIES BUY COPPER

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-The Eur opean Allies have just purchased more than 50,000.O00 pounds of cop per from American producers. The per pound.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
AMERICANS ARE HAILED.

LONDON, Aug. 16.-A large party Of American engineers from the Bor- den Camp were given 24 hours leave to visit London and see the sights of the city. The engineers were given hearty welcome wher- ever they appeared.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
B. M. BEHRENDS GO. Inc
ENOCH PERKINS GETS GOOD POSITION WITH
 OKLAHOMA MINE CO.,.

Mrs. H. L. Faulkner has received a letter stating that Enoch Perkins, formerly connected with Alaska Gas tineau, has been made superintend- ent of large mine at Miami, Ok lahoma. Mrs. Perkins is at present in Sand Point, Idaho, but will join her husband in Oklahoma within a month.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
WOLGAST KAYOED.

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 16.-Owing to physical defect, Ad Wolgast, former champion of the light weights, has been rejected by the examining board.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16
TO HONOR AMBASSADOR.

LONDON. Aug. 16.-A movement is on foot, according to The London Times, to offer the freedom of the city of Edinburgh to Walter Hines Page, the American ambassador to the court of St. James.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16

Old papers for sale at The Empire nfiice. Second and Main streets.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-16

THE EMPIRE-A!i the News Al, the Time. When It Is News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-05-24

Ties OF eacn. a necklace or pearls In
juXtaposition with cloudy tulle or deli.
cate lace CLEANS with a distinguished
radiance. while the shadows beneath
the brows and nose, softened by the re-
lection from the light material. are
much less pronounced than they other
wise would be. and the eyes. catching
up the light, sparkle with a greater
brilliancy. If there are any wrinkles
in the face they disappear. or. If not.
they are greatly modified. and the face
assumes fairer and more youthful
aspect
l have seen a narrow strip Of black
velve. ribbon encircling the neck of
one whose face would. without this
startling device. have shown deep lines.
as in ladies of character and expert
ence. But by this artful continuance
the wrinkles vanish How is it posi-
BILE to discover the wrinkles when this
far deeper wrinkle holds the eye?
M1llet counsels the artist to hide his
art behind his canvas. So the engrav.
er hides his behind his block. But the
feminine arts are past finding out: no
one knows where they are hidden
Timothy Cole in Century
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-05-24

pastures and methods of combating
diseases and insects in grain. hay, for
age, fibres, tubers, roots and stimu-
Tents from complete text books, bulle-
tins and notes, it is plainly seen why
the "Field Crop" class thinks that the
state examination in this subject will
be joke.
-Helmer Thompson, Class of 1913.
The Animal Husbandry class of this
high school is composed of about ten
boys. The class was larger at the be-
ginning of the year, but now some of
the boys have left to work on the
farms in Minnesota and North Dakota.
The work being carried on is both in
teresting and practical.
At the beginning of the year short
time was devoted to the study of the
distribution of cattle over the United
States and the breeds in general. Then
each breed of horses, cattle, sheep and
swine was taken up and carefully
studied. The student was taught to
distinguish the different breeds by
their characteristics. The plan of the
department is to first study the work
in the text book and then go out in
the country and learn to judge the an
imals by actual contact. In this way
the student learns to detect both the
good and bad points OF the animals.
After animal types have been care
fully studied, poultry was taken up in
general way, but as both the in
structor and the class thought that the
study of stock was more important
than poultry, because stock raising is
more common, only short time was
devoted to this branch.
During the latter part of the win
ter when it was hard to get out in the
country, the food values of the differ
ent grasses and grains were studied.
Also their value in the animal body.
Now the boys are working out rations.
The work is entirely along the line
of modern and scientific farming. The
boys have learned that the farm is no
longer a place where brains are not
necessary, but place where just as
much skill is needed as in a jewelry
shop. The farm is just as much the
office Of a professional man as the
law office. No longer can haphazard
methods be employed and good results
be obtained. The farmer must have
just as much system in his work as
there is in a court. Any only by care
full study and the employment of
modern and up to date methods can
the best results be obtained. The OBJ
ject of this department is to start the
boys along this line.
-Chas. Allen, Class of 1917
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-05-24

with clean, comfortable quarters and
should be protected from flies in hte
summer time.
Repeated experiments show that
calves may be raised better and much
more cheaply on separator skim-milk
with proper grain ration, than by
feeding whole milk.
Don't over-feed the calf.
Wherever possible, provide pastur-
age for the young calves.
Calves should always have access
to salt.
COPIES of the above bulletin may be
obtained at the high school.)
How to Get Bulletins
The government has published a
large number of splendid bulletins on
the following subjects: Gardening and
Trucking, Farm Crops, Fruit Grow
ing, Stock Raising, Poultry, Domestic
Science, Incest Pests and Weeds,
Dairying, Soil Fertility, Farm En-
gineering, Sanitation and Health,
School Agriculture, Good Roads, Bus
mess Farming, Farm improvements,
Miscellaneous.
You can obtain a list of these and
other bulletins by writing the Depart
mnet of Agriculture, Washington, D.
c., or University Farm, St. Paul.
New Publications Received
Goose-Raising, Farmer Bulletin 767.
Feeding and Management of Dairy
Calves and Young Dairy Stock, Far
mer Bulletin TIT.
How to Select Sound Horse, Far
mer Bulletin ITO.