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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-22
Restricts Future Dealing in
Oats by Placing 50
Cents as Limit.
ON PROVISIONS, TOO
High Prices Are Set on Mess
Pork, Lard and Short
Ribs by Action.

Chicago, Feb. 2l.-Maximum prices
on oats and provisions were set by the
Chicago Board of Trade today in an
effort to stop speculation in those
products.
resolution adopted by the board OF
directors in special session provides
that on and after February % men,
bers of this association In making con-
tracts for the purchase or for the sale.
by grade alone. OF oats to be delivered
In store during the months Of Febru-
airy. March. April and May, 1918, shall
not in entering into such contracts. ex-
coed the price OF 93 cents per bushel."
Provisions Fixed.
Regarding provisions the resolution
reads. that on and after February %
contracts for the purchase or sale of
mess pork to be delivered In store dur
Ing the months Of May and July
shall not exceed the price Of $5055 Il
barrel. Contracts for the sale Of lard
to be delivered In store during May
and July shall not exceed the price Of
$2697 I-2 for May and $27.25 for July,
That contracts for short ribs to be de-
livered In store in May and July shall
not exceed the price of $26.20 per 100
pounds for May and 1856 per 100
pounds for July. Prices for mess pork,
lard and short ribs beyond July shall
not exceed $5O.55 per barrel for pork
$2727 per 100 pounds for lard, and
s2655 per 100 pounds for short ribs
Contracts for mess pork lard and short
ribs for delivery prior to July shall not
exceed $50.55 per barrel, for mess pork
$2697 1-2 per 100 pounds for lard. and
$26.20 per 100 pounds for short ribs
Colds Cause Headache and Grip.
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE re-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-22

yer consists first. in the early recogni-
ton OF the cases as they occur, and
second, in 4 thorough isolation of those
sick.
It is most important to remember
that a child sick with scarlet fever
who is properly isolated does not trans
NIT the disease.
This isolation must be carried out
for minimum period of six weeks or
longer If the mucous membranes of
the nose and throat are not thoroughly
healed by that time.
Safe and thorough isolation in the
home, however, is rather difficult to
accomplish in overcrowded city dis
tricts. For this reason much attention
must be paid to transmission OF the
disease.
The contagion of scarlet fever is
spread principally from the discharges
Of the nose and throat. and the acts
responsible for the transmission of the
disease from the sick to the well, arc
those which are common in every day
life, particularly among children.
Some OF the most dangerous arc:
Use of the common drinking cup and
towel, placing in the mouth such
articles as lead pencils, candy, APPLES.
and the like, which have been previ-
ously placed in the mouth or infected
with the nose and throat discharges
Of persons suffering from scarlet
fever Being sprayed with such dis
charges by being ''coughed at" or
''sneezed at" is another frequent source
nf infection
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-22

Talk Is scarce during courtship, but
married life brings up the average.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-22

Some men work an empty honor for
all there Is In Il.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-22
Isolation
Most Effective Check of
Spread Of Scarlet Fever.

The world possesses no specific
remedies against scarlet fever.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-22

Colds Cause Headache and Grip.
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE re-
moves the cause. There Is only one
"Bromo Quinino." II. w. GROVES
~t~-aturc Ia ~ hoy 0Nc
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-22

The disease once
contracted must run
it's course. The
chief efforts for ITS
control, therefore.
must be directed
toward its proven
ton.
The most impor-
tant means for pre-
venting scarlet fe-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-22

Health Questions Answered.
X. S. asks: What is 1Iodgkin's
disease and what are the symptoms?'
The disease is an enlargement of the
lymph glands. Tho symptoms, weak
ness, anomia and enlarged glands.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20

building, and its men who are dis
charged from the army and war in
dustries will carry them with know
ledge that will be valuable in their en-
ployment in road building. They know
from practical experience that the
blasting of hard earth is a good deal
quicker and a more effective process
than the former plan of resorting en-
tirely to the pick and shovel and
scraper. Motor turck traffic has in
cI cIeased one hundred percent in the
last two years and it is found that
the heaviest of our hard surfaced
roads are built too light to with
stand the strain upon them by the
new motor traffic. The federal aid
road act provides means by which the
government supplies millions of dol
lars to the state authorities, which
the latter match with their own mil
lions in the building of new highways.
There is a we'll defined movement in
Washington that will make itself
known in tn coming few weeks as fa-
voring a new system of trunk high
ways that will extend from ocean t.
ocean, and from the Canadian boun-
Diary to the southern border of states
Good road authorities are becoming
ir.sistent that better road construction
shall be made more systematic in the
future than it has been in the past.
In view of the fact that practically
all of our main travelled American
highways have broken down under
heavy traffic conditions, it is prob
able that the attempt to build new
reads on a firm foundation will meet
with popular public approval. One
raod official draws a comparison
that highways in the past have been
built upon the same plan as houses
that rested on blocks. He says that it
is as necessary that roads have good
foundations as it is to put important
buildings on stone foundations.
Cancelled Orders.
The extent to which the govern
ment is cancelling orders for war ma
terials may not be surprising, but it
is bringing a lot of heartaches to man
ufacturers thruout the country. The
United States chamber of commerce
has entered a formal protest against
the manner in which the axe has fall
en- upon the necks of manufacturers,
and the chamber declared that in its
opinion "war contracts should not be
cancelled until provision is made for
the absorption of the raw materials"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
A BIT OF NEWS THAT RECALLS
AN OLD TIMER

Mrs. Carrie B. Turner sends us the
following clipping from the Portland
Journal of recent date. The Turner
family made their home here up to
1908, when they removed to Califor-
MIA. Mr.. Nichols was married here
and for several years was yard master
in the Great Northern yards.
Little Winifred Nichols, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Nichols, of
Gladstone, Oregon, died Sunday after
a few days illness from pneumonia,
al the age of two years. The father
is with the 31st railway engineers in
France, having enlisted in California,
where the family resided up to six
months ago, when they removed to
Oak Grove and thence to Gladstone.
The funeral will be held from the Hol-
man & Pace chapel in this city Tues
Gay, interrment following in Noun
tain View Cemetery"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING
FOR SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
Fight In the Ranks of the Red Cross Against
Pain, Disease and Death.

Through three takings of Belgrade,
first when the city was taken by the
Austrians, again when 1t was retaken
by the Serbians, and still again Wnen
1t was taken back by the Germans ana
Austrians together, an American Reo
Cross nurse, Mary Gladwin, worked
In the operating room. In that nrst
capture, when nine thousand wounded
crowded the wards and halls and yard
of the hospital and doctor
and nurse worked together for day
and night without stopping, giving to
each operation an average of six min
utes, and employing emergencies In
spired by the desperate need of the
moment, they did not know that the
city had been taken until all the
stretchers brought Austrian wounded,
and Austrian doctors came to their
relief.
Several hundred women are work
ing over there in the American Red
Cross canteens. There are about two
hundred of these canteens along the
French and American lines of COM
munication, and the women are work.
ing under great pressure, feeding
thousands of soldiers. The Red Cross
Is also establishing canteens by mill
tary request at number of Aviation
Camps. American women conduct
these stations, comprising canteen and
club and reading room. Everyone OF
these canteens has something OF the
genius of home about 1t; and 1t is
because of this, no less than the ia
cilities for cleanliness and rest and
refreshment, that the French govern
ment has given the responsibility for
maintaining canteens for both armies
to the hands of the American Red Cross.
In large numbers women are going
abroad as hospital hut workers, also,
and as social workers for trained
service among the refugees and the
repatrIated. At each base hospital the
Red Cross is equipplng, as fast as they
can be built, recreation huts for con-
valescent soldiers.
Clerical workers have steadily In
creased in number for the admins
trative offices. From that original
group of eighteen, which as the first
American Red Cross Commission to
France sailed about June list, 1917,
the organization has grown to a work
ing force Of more than 5000 men and
women.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
RELIEF WORK MUST Be
CONTINUED FOR MONTHS
Enrolment of Members in Red Cross
Should be Nationwide

Now that the war is won, many
Leavenworth citizens are asking why
the Red Cross is planning to enroll
the entire population of the city as
members the week before Christmas.
Chairman Harry Krollpfeiffer, of
the local executive committee of the
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call organ
ization, makes the following reply:
starvation, sickness and sorrow
did not vanish in Europe when the
fighting ceased. On the contrary,
the new conditions have revealed
greater opportunities for the Ameri-
can people, thru the Red Cross, to ex-
tend relief. This work is just as inn
perative in peace as in war, tho not
so dramatic.
Besides, the Leavenworth boys in
France or in home camps, with mil
lions of other American soldiers and
sailors, have a right to expect that
Red Cross service will be continued
for them in full measure until de-
mobilization is completed. This means
the Red Cross must carry on for
many months, and the money raised
thru membership dues will help fl
nance the service"
All that is asked of any adult in the
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call is that
he or she shall have "a heart and a
dollar" When you multiply these
hearts and dollars my the millions of
adults in the United States, it is evil
dent that substantial total will be
raised if the response to the Roll Call
is general.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20

They have known very well the risks
they were taking-the two thousand
and more women who have gone to
France for varied services under the
American Red Cross, and the more
than nine thousand nurses whom the
American Red Cross has assigned to
foreign duty under the United States
Army and Navy Nurse Corps.
They went under orders, as soldiers
do; prepared for any emergencies, as
soldiers do; they assumed many
strange and unforeseen tasks, as sol
diers do. Literally. they went as
fighters, against pain, disease and
death.
A mobile surgical unit" of nurses
those words don't mean very much,
perhaps, the first time we hear them.
But see such an unit follow an army
up to an advanced post; see how the
nurses work with steady hands beside
the surgeons as the stretchers with the
newly wounded are brought in. See
thousands of them in evacuation hos
pitals, base hospitals, convalescent
0OSplIdis, IuDeItulOslS uObHildiS' oohiO
of them In French military hospitals
where sometimes our men are sent
see them with their specialized skill
In head surgery, or fracture work, or
psychiatry all these women who
keep head and hand cool and steady,
when the ambulances unload greal
harvests of wounded. Then we say
the words "Our Nurses" as we say
"Our Soldiers" "Our Sailors" "Our
Marines"
On the night of March 25th, when
the Germans were fast advancing, and
already within six kilometers of
Annel, an outpost of Compiegne, two
American doctors remained, who un-
der order of the French government,
had sent the patients and personnel
of their hospital farther back the
night before. The artillery was deaf
ening, but the American Ambulance
sections kept bringing their wounded
to Annel. These doctors said that as
long as the American boys brought
them wounded they would operate.
Two nurses volunteered from Com
piegne, and so In the deserted chateau
the two surgeons, the two nurses and
the ten drivers worked calmly on,
while the buzz of aeroplanes shook
the air, and the blasting guns shook
the earth,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
FARMERS ARE HARDEST HIT
BY INCREASE IN WAGES
Since 1914 Wages Paid by Farmers
Have Doubled - Products Have
Not Advanced in Same Ratio.

The following figures are furnished
to the press by the Federal depart
ment of Agriculture. 1t would be in
teresting if the figures showing the
advance in the price of what the
farmer has to sell could be placed in
juxtaposition Tho it is quite certain
they have not kept pace with labor.
Following is the full text of the re-
port;
"There has been considerable con-
troversy over the justice or injustice
of the farmers claim in regard to the
increased cost of production due to
raise in wages of farm labor. Data
compiled representing the actual
wages paid on great many farms
accurately typical of the average farm
wages for the entire state show inter
esting comparisons.
In 1902 the farmers of the state
paid an average of $28.35 for farm
labor by the month with board. In
1911 the wage with board was S32.Se;
in 1918, $33.20; in 1914, $32.90; in
1915, $3.50; in 1916, $500; in 1917,
S47.0O; and in 1918, $4,000. The aver
age wage by the day during harvest,
with board, in 1902, was $2.01, In
1911 the wage with board was $2.31;
in $1913, $242; in 1914, 1929; in 1915,
S2.35; in 1916, $3.50; in 1917, $500;
in 1918, $4.O0 The average wage for
the state with board, for labor on the
farm other than harvest, per day, in
1902 was $1.29; in 1911, $1.59; in 1913,
S1.67; in 1914, $1.60; in 1915, $1.59;
in 1916, $1.82; in 1917, $2.40; and in
1918, $3.15.
Comparable figures for farm wages
without board, which represent the
smaller percentage of farms hiring
labor, indicate practically the same
proportionate advances.
The above figures seem to substan-
tiate the contention of the farmer that
wages on the average farm have ap-
proximately doubled in the past SIX
or seven years. Also, taking into con-
sideration additional operating ex-
penses, such as increased cost of ma
chinery, etc, and the fact that cereal
crops show an abnormal decrease IN
production in this state, one can easily
realize the justice of the claim of a
great many farmers that they have
been unable to operate at profit,
end in many instances have suffered
loss during the past year"
f. T. MARCHETTI,
Field Agent.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
STATE OF WASHINGTON GETS
IN CORN PRODUCING COLUMN
Two Million Dollars Worth Produced
In Eastern Washington
This Year

Gradually Washington is develop
ing into a corn porducing state. Ac-
cording to preliminary estimates, it
has produced in the year 1918 the lar
gest corn crop in its history and also
the largest yield per acreage. At the
same time the total acreage is larger
than ever before.
In the year 1892, the first year for
which any record is available, only
10,250 acres were devoted to this crop
which amounted to $4,000 bushels,
valued at $110,7O0. Since then grad
ual increase is recorded, but the total
production did not reach a million
bushels in any one year until 1915,
when the area devoted to it was &c.,,
600 acres, about four times what it
was twenty-three years before, and the
total yield was 1,053,000 bushels, val
ued at $811, 900.
During the past three years the in
crease has been especially rapid, the
total yield in 1917 from 1900 acres
being 1,406,000 bushels, valued at $2,
458,000, or a value of S59.95 per acre.
For the past year the yield from
total area of $4,000 acres amounted
to 1854, 900 bushels, and the average
yield per acre is estimated at 3S
bushels.
Many people who once thought we
could not raise corn are now agreed
that Washington is as suitable for
this crop as some of the corn states
of the middle west, in a number of
which the farmers were at first dis
ccuraged just as they were formerly
in this state from raising it, and for
similar reasons.
Time and experience, however, tell
a different story, at least as far as
the state of Washington is concerned
1t was only a matter of choosing the
proper variety and getting it accli-
mated" At any rate it seems GER
tain that here there is no limit to
which it may not be raised so long as
the farmers are willing to devote the
space to it.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
LEAvfNWORTH CREAMERY
TAKEN OVER UNDER LEASE
Nv F. E. and Geo. G. Van BrOcklin-
Change Made First of This
Week

Mr.. Minter Love, who has managed
the creamery for the past year, was
succeeded this week by Messrs. Van
Brocklin, who have taken lease on
the creamery plant for year with
the privilege of buying it outright
when the lease terminates. The les
sees are practical creamery men, hav-
ing had previous experience in the
business, and will combine retail milk
and cream selling with butter making.
The creamery has been doing a very
satisfactory business and has proved
a great help to those who produce
cream. Indeed, since the creamery
was established four years ago the
number of cows in this immediate vi
cinity has more than doubled.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
LONG DISTANCE PHONE RATES
CUT ON NIGHT MESSAGES
Half Rate From $3.50 to Midnight
Quarter Rate From Midnight
to 4:30 a. IN.

Postmaster General Burleson has
announced a cut in telephone rates
amounting to 10 per cent. The night
rates have been reduced one-half or
more. All preferential rates will be
abolished under the new schedule,
which goes into effect on the 21st of
January.
Sweeping reductions in long dis
tance and toll telephone rates by the
adoption of a basic charge of ga
mills a mile, airline milage, and half
the day rate for night service up to
midnight, and one-fourth the day rate
after that hour, were announced to-
day by postmaster General Burleson.
They become effective next January
21st.
"a night service rate" said the
statement, (which is onehalf the day
rate, is established between $3.50 and
1900 p. m. Between midnight and
4:30 a. m. the night rate is one-fourth
the day rate. These are greater re-
ductions in night rates than have ever
been made in any country, and doubt
less will be extensively used, especially
for social and family purposes. A
person might talk from San Fran
cisco to New York for about 81,
whereas the day rate is approximately
S16.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
DR.. FRANK MCNFTT DIED
OGLfTHORP, GA, NOV. is
Was Connected With Dental Service
Enlisted Last Spring

Mr.. H. S. McNett received mes
sage yesterday morning advising him
of the death of his son, DR.. Frank
McNett, at Fl. Oglethorp, Georgia, at
1920 Wednesday night, and that the
body would be shipt to Portland, from
which place he enlisted for service in
the dental department. He left there
for the southern camp in July last.
He has a brother, Roswell, who is in
the heavy artillery service, and en-
listed at the same time that Harrison
Woodrow left here, early last spring.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
PUBLIC SCHOOL CLOSED CHRIST.
MAS AND NEW YEAR

Owing to the school having been
closed a month on account of the flu
the old custom of dismissing school
week for Christmas and New Year
was honored in the breech thereof this
year. Christmas and New Years day
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20

The Germans are said to believe that
the warships surrendered by them to
the allies will be returned after peace
is signed. Once again we have evil
dence of the peculiar workings of the
German mind.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
JANUARY TERM Jurors

The following people from the west
end of the county have been drawn to
serve as jurors in the Superior Court
at the regular term in January.
From Leavenworth: d. A. Burgett,
Theo. Eresch, Peter Fruchtnicht, G, A.
Hamilton, ]. r. Ramsey and Herman
Stoltze. S. C. Kinney, of Peshastin,
and A. V. Shore, of Plain, are also on
the list.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20

Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Hart left Tues
day afternoon for Everett, where they
win spend the holidays with their
daughter.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20

will be observed by dismissing school
for one day only.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20

The Kaiser, the worlds greatest
four-flusher, probably was four-flush-
ing also in his ATTEMPTED suicide >
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20

Wages in New York state increased
from October 1914 to October 1918,
~ per cent.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-20
Turn Energy Loose on Roads

President Wilson has addressed a
to the secretary of ag
riculture urging that the country re-
sumo as quickly as possible all essen
tial public works, and particularly the
development of good highways, with
a view of furnishing employment for
laborers who may be seeking new
tasks during the period of readjust-
ment" Secretary of War Baker has
also taken up the question with the
agricultural department, and he has
asked that the closest possible CO.
operation may continue with his de-
partment in the building of new
roads, in order that the highways of
the future may be equally valuable
for military purposes and the affairs
of peace. The war department has
learned practical lessons in road
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-06-13
WESTERN STATE POINTS WAY
New Mexico Retains Title to Lands,
Getting Million a Year for
Schools.

g Mexico has retained title to
it's lands. AS a result many cattle
raisers. crowded off by spectators
from the privately monopolized lands
OF other states, are making use Of
New Mexico's public lands. Thus we
get another object lesson showing the
responsibility of land monopoly for de-
crease in u meat supply and for the
rising cost of. living. New Mexico's
enlightened policy is proving profit
able to the state. From the rental
OF It's land 1t has derived a revenue
OF $1.098,900 for the eleven months
ending with November I. For the cur.
rent month $250,OO0 more IL antici-
pated.
This entire revenue goes to the
school system. Had the land been
sold, It is not difficult to see that
most OF It would before now be with
held from use. while the state you'd
long ago have spent the money it had
received. This issthe case where the
sale policy has prevailed. But the
mistake Ii not irreparable. Through
land value taxation It Is possible for
states and communities to get, In the
future, the advantages q prodigal
policy has lost them In the past. And
the advantage needgn be confined to
certain lands set aside for the sup.
port Of the schools, butte all that have
any value.