The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-01-03
EMMETT NEWS

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The Majestic, the range with 6
reputation, at Reilly's.
Miss Barbara Portlock of Cascade
is spending a few weeks visiting hel
mother.
st. Mary's Guild will meet next
Thursday, January 10, with Mrs. Bill
derback.
Miss Catherine Davis went to Wei
ser on Monday to visit friends for a
few days.
A good line of wells and ribbons for
Christmas gifts. Call at the Brown
Millinery.
If you wish to save money on your
carpenter work see w. H. Basye,
phone sew.
F. A. DeClark has moved his Of
fee into the basement of the Bank
of Emmett building.
The glass for Keith's store front
is here and is being installed. 1t will
be the finest in the city.
Leonard Scott came down from
Donnelly last week to spend the holt
days and may remain here.
Fosselman wants your magazine
subscriptions. Call for bargain list
and make up your own club.
Mr.. Fraser, an employee of the mill,
was the lucky winner of the Duberry
ivory set at the Rexall store.
Miss Geraldyne Laravea is a new
student in Links business college,
leaving for Boise Tuesday morning.
Miss Lynette Davis terminated her
visit at home on Tuesday and left for
Gooding to resume her duties in the
county offices.
Parties taking a package of pic
lures from the Brunswick Cigar Store,
please return to the Brunswick or G.
S. Clifford, Pearl, Idaho.
Mrs. Helen Hand went to Boise on
Monday to take up her work as in
structor in Links business college.
She was accompanied by her daughter.
Mr.. and B. C. Davidson went to
Meridian Sunday to visit his sister.
Monday he did business in Nampa
and Boise and returned home Tues
day.
Albert Heffner of Boise and wife
are new arrivals in the city and have
taken rooms with Mrs. j. L. Reed. Mr..
Heffner has accepted a position with
the Emmett Meat Market.
Mrs. Belle Thompson, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Meyer for a
couple of months, returned to her
home in Portland on Tuesday. Mrs.
Thompson is professional nurse.
For good bread use Fleischman's
Yeast, at Reilly's.
Twenty years ago ladies wore bus
ties; there were no operations for ap-
pendicitis, the doctors diagnosing the
trouble as inflammation of the bow
els" Twenty years ago nobody swat
ted the fly, nobody had seen a silo, no
body wore white shoes, cream was 8
cents pint, cantaloupes were musk
melons, nobody cared for the price
of gasoline, farmers came to town for
their mail, the hired girl was paid
$1.5O a week, the butcher threw in a
chunk of liver, strawstacks were
burned instead of baled, Jules Verne
was the only convert to the submar-
inc, and it cost you a dime to stick
tubes in your ears to hear phono-
graph.
To the mighty fleet of ships of
every description now engaged In con-
veying American troops to the battle
front in France will soon be added
freighters laden with sturdy Ameri-
can cats. Tabby is needed and need
ed badly. Japan in the past has been
importing American cats by the ship
load. After an extensive investlga-
ton Japan arrived at the conclusion
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cious means of preventing the spread
of bubonic plague and other epidemcs
through the determination of rats,
which are recognized as the princl-
pal sources of the propagation OF dis
ease. And now there is big demand
abroad for our cats to wage war on
rats that infest the thousands OF miles
of trenches in Flanders, France, North
ern Italy, Saloniki and even in Meso-
potamia. The British military author
tiles, having heard reports of the tero-
city of the cats that make their hao-
itat on the wharves and piers OF
Greater New York, Philadelphia, Bait
more, Galveston and New Orleans
pirate cats, they call them-have. sent
over here Inspector Cuthbert kldder
to investigate and with authority to
purchase from five hundred to one
thousand cats, to be followed, II the
proves successful, by SNIP