The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-01-10

OAuci your pOuiIry crates OF hlcr
/ igan-ldaho Lumber Co.
Ralph Flagler was business visito
in Boise from Sunday to Wednesda,
Chimney blocks, any size at N
Gilbride's cement works, east O
Fruit Association.
William Grothaus, former Kansa
neighbor of Kirk Landers, arrived to
day from Smith Center, Kan, to visi
former Smith Centerites and look owe
the country.
There will be a special meeting O
Emmett Rebekah lodge January 16
for installation All Odd Fellows ant
Rebekahs and families are invited t.
spend social evening, after installa
ton, in |. 0. o. F. hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Edwards Of
California arrived Saturday to visit
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Ed.
wards. Mr.. Edwards met the party al
Payette and brought them here in his
automobile.
W. D. Mcfarland last week bought
the fine team of black mares formerly
owned by A. Hoistad, from Lou Bur-
ton. Mac is very proud of them. 1t
is considered one of the best teams
in the valley.
John Mcconnell brought The Index
a boquet of wild flowers picked from
his ranch on the bench 1t was good
thing he brought them when he did
or this cold snap would have nipped
their noses and toeses.
w. E. Demasters, who has been
for a mining company at
Pritchard, returned home last week
with wife, and will spend the winter
here. Mr.. Demasters will assist his
father in the livery barn.
Ed Baer returned the latter part
If last week from a visit of about six
weeks at the old home in Springville,
iowa. He says Iowa has experienced
| severe winter and his visit was cut
'hort by the extreme cold weather and
lis desire to get back to the banana
,elt.
Frank Morrison, a lumberman of
Council, was in town this week, the |
-uest of his old-time friends, Mr.. and |
drs. B. c. Bullock. He is planning |
o install a sawmill at Council and
vas here on a tour of inspection of |
he Boise-Payette plant to get point
RS.
The English tank is armored with
beet steel, thick enough to turn all
lachine gun fire and many bombs.
n apron of steel extends to within a
)ot of the ground. The radiator is
by two steel doors which,
action, are adjusted to leave small
oening for air circulation. The mid
Zip guns are mounted on a revolving
eel turret, and there are also bow
I'd stern firers. The tank is steered
ON the rear, each tread separately;
lie machine can turn on its own
myth by throwing one belt out of
EAR and twisting on it as center.
, complete is the protection that
Ily heavy guns can do much against
tank even unsupported. In at least
e action a group of three tanks
ached an enemy held village two
urs before the infantry, squatted in
e main street, killed off the Ger
ans who attacked them, and when
und were monarchs of all they sur
we'd. "At first" said Paris news ]
per, "the German fled. Then back
ey came. Machine guns, rifles, gre
des and mortars tried to bore
rough the carapace, but in vain.
ppers tried to place bombs under
I'm. A colonel, mad with rage,
uman, an English engineer, has .
ed to demonstrate the possibility
a battle machine that would make G
present type look like armadilloes. a
proposes wheels $50 feet in dame 7
, horse power like liners and a
ed of seventy-five to a hundred
es an hour. Anything seems pos !
lie. Nothing in the war since the :.
rman guns of 1914 that smashed I
Belgian forts and were to drop =
lis in Dover has so captured the y
leral imagination of the amateur as s.
Sc death crawlers. The airplanes
more vivid, but they lack the @,
stery of the tanks. Nobody knows &c
' many England has, but nobody cl
sses under thousand now in SER
;. Doubtless the German will pro- Vi
, some device for putting them out p
service corresponding 3
he depth bombs which have scan ~
zed the submarines they have met. -
badly the tank will pass before the
is over from the limelight. But .e,
? hold the center of the stage at r.