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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-12-19
PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS


The best literary program 81
the year was rendered By the high
school last Friday afternoon The
public : cordially invited to at
tend these sessions every other
Friday afternoon
Marguerite Ot'onnor and Zoe
Cnrless are beginning 10 write
their examination for their Palm
er certificate They expect 10 fin
iSh III about a month
The b0okkeepino class held an
allelay session last Saturday.
making up great deal Of the
back work.
Milton johnson heads the class
N typewriting with ten lessons
accepted. Edith Snith Is second
with nine lessons accepted.
Several Of the manual training
boys are making tables this week
About the middle 0f January
forge and engine work viii start.
Eva Marsh and Elizabeth Wade
lead fhe junior high IN penman-
ship this month. each having Is
drills accepted.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-12-19

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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-12-19

.Chansbssiain ; coagh Remedy j.
splea.iid for Group, writes Mrs. Edw.
Hassest. Frankfort. \. i. Ny eAil-
issa Aasr heen quickly relieved Of at
iaeks 81 sAis lrsadfnl complaint b. St.
use = This nenledy contains 10 opium
~ ether narcotic, and may BE- ssven to
child a. confidently a. % an asialt.
Al ali druggists
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-12-19
Joined the Red Grossly
Letter From Billy Gray and Mark
Price.

KA1LEa
France, Nov. 5 Is.
Two Nezperee boys in the U. $
aero service in France, express APP
probation Of Herald's visits;
W. z. C0nger, Edr. Herald,
Nezperee, Idaho.
Dear Mr.. COnger. Being so
far away, il is but natural that my
thoughts are often Occupied with
memories Of the friends ] left be.
hind III Nezperee. ReeOlleetiOns
Of the good times / enjoyed there
enable me 10 pass many a lone
some hour pleasantly And, think
ing Of home and Nezperee, my
conscience reminds me that Meth
er Price nor myself have ever ex-
pressed 10 you our deep appreei-
stion Tor the copies Of The Her
ald which have enabled as 70 keep
ia touch with life there and which
you have 20 regularly forwarded
to "a. Please accept, then, our
sincere thanks for the same ia q
hope that the pr0wess Of Ameri-
can arms will make 1t uHneees-
safy for you ~ fOruard the cop
ies much longer.
The rigid censorship imposed
upon us prohibits NE fr0m giving
sou the details VI our lie here
and the work we are doing !
eau ouly inform sou that, while
~ ID o. actual firing line, sac
are doing our bif ~ make possible
tie Alies' supremacy 0f the air.
4 condition which. thanks ~ the
skill aad daunfiess courage of
oar knights ~ fhe air, has OBJ
faiufa Ior SOME fiale past
Sincerely youts,
~ Billy Gray
Marx Price,
25 Aero Squadron. a y d
Joined the Red Cross2)
what H. gse 70 Frsysat Appendicitis.
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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-12-19
Joined the Red GROSSLY


There are fea iEdeed who escape
having a. least one eola during fhe
winter moathF, and they are fgrf snate
$40 have bar enc and 80 thro1gh wish
a quickly sad eifhoal any senous eos
sequeAees Take chamberiain , cos9h
sta eaeb bottie, and you are likely fo
b. o1e ~ the fouDuafe oues. Tie
Eorft enG merit ~ fhls femeay AaFe
been fuiiy prefen. IAefe are maag
faaii.es eho lase aiesys use9 i for
years ahfd tresbiff nifi esaet ~
eala, auA sift thf Aea feegte AZ aii
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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1918-12-19
THE WINNIE.

Somebody said that It eoaidn' I n
done.
Bur b. with a ehuekle denied II
That maybe il couldn't, but be
would be one
Who wouldn't say no till he
tried II
50 he baekled right IN with .
trace Of a grin
ON his FACET he worried, be
hid Il.
lie started to sing as be tackled
the thing
That eouldn I b. done, and tie
did IL
Somebody seoffed, "Oh, you1l
never do that,
Or, al least. no one ever has
done II. -
But he oBly laughed while his en-
emics ehzffed.
And the first thing they knew
he'd begun II
He went right ahead with an OPP
tlInlst : smile,
With never a thought that he
rue IL;
For he made up his mind that the
man worth while
Would always make good, and
he'd do IL
Thousands viii tell You it cannot
be done;
Thousands Of friends, too, viii
fail you;
Thousands viii point to you. one
By one,
The dangers that wait 70 as
sail you.
But hustle like sin, " and you re
sure 10 win;
So take off your coat and go
% IT."
Despair viii take wing as you
tackle the thing
That couldn't be done, and
you Il do IL
Dorothy O'Neill, In Life.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Big Valley

we have been having real winter
Tor the past eiyht weeks, 1t SHOWS
and SHOWS and then blows nu, ros d
shut and then SHOWS some more.
This is more winter than good
many of us ever experienced at one
time.
Eutis Bussard is right sick at
this writing.
Fay Bussard is also on the sick
list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terry Carpenter
are receiving congratulations on
the arrival of a baby boy to their
home Jan. 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Carpenter
and Misses Daisy and Sudie Gibbs
lined at A A. Miller's Sunday.
Miss Mary Rodgers, of Rocky
Ridge, returned home Sunday after
spending several weeks with her
sister. Mrs M. G. Carpenter.
Geo E Carpenter went to Camp
Lee few days ago to visit his son,
Grin. He says he is we'll and get
ting al ,ng all right.
Ellis Bussard, who has been
spending some time in the home OF
D N. Bussard, expects to return
to his home in Pocahontas this
week. S, We mus
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
WORLDS NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

BERLIN.-It is officially announced
that the Turkish cruiser Sultan Yawuz
Selim formerly the German cruiser
Goeben) has been relocated and entered
the Dardanelles.
Observation-Disclosures fact that the
East faces temporary meat shortage
because of transportation difficulties
was disclosed by the food administra-
ton.
acknowledgement denial wac
made In the House Of Commons by
Bonar Law of the rumors that the
United States government had made
representations to the British govern
ment concerning the Irish question.
CAMBRIDGE.-Sch for 2e5
Harvard University students included
the Bassett scholarship, awarded to
William @. Plunkett of Washington, a
blind student, now in his fourth year.
BoSToN.-Fourteen thousand dol
lars worth of bonds, alleged to have
been stolen by two messenger boys
from Hemphill, Wight & Chamberlain
Of Wall street, New York, were recov-
cred in house In the Dorchester dis
trict. The bombs were in envelopes
hidden behind pictures and radiators.
ALBANY.-A war fund OF approx
mately $4,000 will be raised by the
New York State lodge cf Odd Fellows
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Is America Saving?

On all sides one hears talk of
household economy, and thrift in
every aspect of daily life. 1t is in
teresting to learn just what is being
accomplished along these lines,
and an article by Lucy Open in
the February Good Housekeeping
is particularly Illuminating. She
says:
1.-The first factor which would
lead us to expect an increase is the
fact that home gardens, the in
creased use of perishable foodstuffs,
and the increased amount of home
canning contributed very materially
to the kitchen refuse of 1917. The
second factor, which whould lead
US to expect an increase instead of
decrease this year, is the fact
that in practically every butcher
shop in the country, the scraps of
fat and bones, which were formerly
thrown under the counter to be
sold to rendering companies, are
now pushed off to the customer.
Figures from the rendering CON-
panies which used to buy these
scraps show that the housewife is
now doing her own rendering.
under these conditions, the re-
port thatthe quantity of garbage
collected during the first nine
months OF 1917 in eighty-one cities
showed decrease of twelve to
fifteen per cent. over the collections
of 1916 is nothing short of
marvellous. Translated, this means
that the housekeeper who used to
put seven or eight pounds of ma
terial into her garbage pail every
week has not added pound or
two, as might be expected, on ac-i
count of her larger use of perish
able foodstuffs and butchers
scraps. Instead she has actually
withheld one pound out of every
seven or eight which used to go
into the can, and has exercised her
culinary skill to put it into the
soap kettle or baking pan"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
GREAT BRITAIN WANTS WHEAT
100000 BUSHELS REQUIRED As
CONDITIONS GROW SERIOUS.
Lord Rhondda Says Americas Help
Now Vital, but Allies Will
Win.

London.-Great Britain calls upon
the United States for 100000 bush
els more of wheat in the next few
months.
This was one of the most important
statements which Lord Rhondda, Brit
ish food controller, made in an inter-
view with the Associated Press. The
controller described the food shortage
in Great Britain as most serious, but
not such as would be detrimental 10
the health of the population with prop
err management Of supplies and will
ingness on the part of the people 10
accept equally nourishing substitutes
for some food they had been accus-
toned to.
He referred to the difficulty of dis
cussing the Subject frankly without
giving encouragement to the eXagger-
ated hopes in Germany that this eoun-
try was suffering severely from lack
OIL lOOu. ne ulS" q oiibl N4"7.hii> ''"''
between conditions in Great Britain
and in Germany, where the public
health, particularly that of women and
children, had been dangerously under
mined by lack of nutrition and semi
starvation and where the working eff
fectiveness of the men had been de-
creased 80 per cent. In Britain, he
said, the self denial thus far practiced
had actually improved the physical
condition of the nation.
with the help Of the United States
we shall pull through" he declared.
~ would feel very respondent over
the sition if the United States had
not come into the war, but | have UNI
bounded faith in your ability and good
will to help us work out the problem.
Our situation would have been happy
one but for the shortage of crops IN
Italy and France.
"The war will be won by England.
II Is a test of endurance between Eng
land and Germany. We. are today
where Germany was two years ago.
have no fear Of failure on the lighting
line"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Gen. perslling Praises
American Fighting
Men in FraIice

In a recent communication, to
Secretary of War Baker, the com
mander of the american Expedi-
tionary Forces said:
There has never been a similar
body of men to lead as clean lives
as our American soldiers in France.
They have entered this war with
the highest devotion to duty and
with no other idea than to perform
these duties in most efficient man
mer possible. They fully realizs
their obligation to their own peo-
pie, their friends, and the country.
A rig d program of instruction is
carried out daily with traditional
American enthusiasm. Engaged
in healthy. interesting exercises in
the open air, with simple diets, Of
6cers and men, like traine /
athletes, are ready for their tasks.
Forbidden the use of strong drink
and protected by stringent reguls-
tons against sexual evils, and sup
ported by their own moral courage,
their good behavior is the subject
of most favorable comments,
especially by our allies, American
mothers may rest assured that their
sons are credit to them and to
the Nation, and they may we'll
look forward to the proud day
when on the battle field these
splendid men will shed a new luster
on American manhood"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Much in Little

4 large percentage of pencils is
b>ing made from California incense
Ct dar.
In time of peace the Transvaal
mines are the largest consumers of
explosives in the world.
Species of feruIa or giant fennel
from Europe, Asia and Africa fur
nish asefetida, now a high-priced
conmodity
Carl Stack, of Carlisle, la. didn't
have the ready cash for q Red
Cross contribution, so he drove a
wagon load of corn into town and
donated it to the cause.
The girl carpenters who are
building huts for our troops in
!! France spent few days at Christ
mas at Byfeet, Surrey, their head
quarters, and on their return held
fancy dress ball.
A false rumor that all pigs were
to be commandered resulted in
wholesale slaughter by pig-breeders
ct Lincoln, England, which was
only stopped Dy a telegram from
Lord RhondCa.
Camels are abundant in Palestine.
L. is told in Judges, vii. II, that
the Midianites and the Amelckites
possessed camels las the sand by
the sea for multitude" Job had
3 900 camels before his affection
and 5000 afterward.
The speed of the dromedary has
been greatly exaggerated, the
Arabs asserting that it is swifter
than the horse, but eight or nine
miles and hours is the utmost that
it is able to perform. This pace,
however, it can keep up for hours
together.
The organization of the National
Bolivian Concession, Corporation,
capitalized at ST 100000. has been
announced at La Paz. The purpose
Of the new corporation is to es-
tablish a mill for the manufacture
of yarns and textiles, both wool
and cotton, and to encourage the
raw materials in Bolivia.
An electric screwdriver is said to
be great time-saver where any
considerable part of the workman's
time is taken up in driving screws.
In the construction of the tool a
friction clutch with spring release
is provided, so that when the pres
sure is released the driving bit does
not revolve, but the motor con-
tinues in operation.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
NO Peace IN
HERTLING SPEECH
Washington Officials Regard Al
SAGE Declaration as Preclud-
ing Consideration.
FORMAL. COMMENT RESERVED.
Separate Exchange Of Views Held to
Be Disloyal to AIlies-Seorn Ger
Minis Proposal Which tier Z
ates No New Attitude.

Washington.-Unless Germany and
Austria Hungary make direct oIer
lures to this government no movement
for peace will result from the speeches
made By Count Won .Hertling. the Ger
man chancellor, before the reichstag,
and Count Czernin, the Austro-Hun'
gar!an minister for foreign affairs, be
fore the reichsrath. That is the i'm
mediate judgment of officials here,
who suspend comment in any formal
way, however, until the texts OF the
two addresses have been received in
Washington and time has been given
for their study. One opinion Is that
Count Won Hertling has surrendered
10 tn, Pan-GermanS, who seek extern
sion of German territory by conquest.
1t may be said that the words of the
German chancellor and the foreign
minister of Austro- Hue gary have fall
en- rather fiat In this capital. The
chancelof's speech had been heralded
rs an epoch making utterance which
would point the way to peace or indi-
cate that the central powers lad de-
cided to defy their enemies and 60 on
with the war without any offer of con-
cessions. 1t had been made known
that Count Won \I4ertling would answer
the 'ecent speeches of Premier Lloyd
George and President Wilson, Ii. which
they outlined the war aims Of the al
lied nations. The delivery Of the chan
callers address had been postponed
so often that the impression grew that
it would be remarkable state docu-
ment upon which the beginnings Of an
adjustment Of the greatest war In his
tory would depend.
In Hertling's speech Washington
found neither the way to peace nor
elements of statesmanlike or orator.
cal greatness. The chancellor's state
lnents are looked upon as no different
in their contribution to the statesman
ship of the war than those made on
several occasions by Bethmann Holl-
veg. For a long time Germany has
Eeen. telling the allies, the neutral
world and the people Of he central
empires that she was for peace and
making every effort to bring hostilities
10 an end. She has made several
peace proposals which this govern
ment and its partners in the wsr re-
garded as ins!lcere and without other
purpose than to cause one or more of
the allies to bite at the German bait.
Washington rather expected that
Count Won Hertfing would imI rove on
the umateurish efforts Of other Ger
man statesmen to befog the issues. but
general opinion here Is that he has
done no better than they.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
The Shows Silver Lining

Abnormally heavy SHOWS in the
lower Mississippi Valley and in the
Central and Eastern States helped
complicate an already badlydemor-
allied transportation system, with
the result that a great loss of time
and energy fell upon the industrial
interests of the country.
One consolation to be derived
from the situation is the probability
that the losses sustained now will
be compensated for by an improved
winter wheat crop. Some grain
experts are of the opinion that the
heavy blanket of snow extending
almost unbrokenly over the whole
If the VIII ter wheat region will add
scores of millions of bushels to the
wheat crop and correspondingly to
the wealth of the land. If this be
true, Allied success in the war IS
made all the more certain.
The snow is expected to serve a
double purpose of good. 1t otfords
protection to wheat fields during
the cold months and it promises to
provide needed moisture for the
start and PROCESS of the spring
growing season. Ifit wards off ne
alternate freezing and thawin"
v hich so often does great harm to
winter wheat in March and April,
there should be a wonderful har-
>est of Winter-grown grain.-Min-
reapolis Tribune.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
CarDenter

On October Is, 1917 Ira G. Car
penter was called TO Camp Lee,
Va and was there in training I'M
til Dec. "a when be was transfer
red to Camp Greene, Charlotte, N
C. On the 9th he contracted
measles which was followed by
pneumonia, and on Jan 18th death
claimed him.
The body was brought to the
home of his parents.s Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Carpenter, of Big Valley and
on Tuesday, Jan. 18th was laid to
rest in the neighboring burial
ground.
Ira was good, quiet, honest,
truthful, and hard working boy.
He will be missed greatly at home
and in the community. The fami-
ly have the heartfelt sympathies of
their friends and neighbors in this
time of bereavement. The terri :
blenes5 of war is seen and realized
even in the preparation for it. May
it end speedily. All M.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
To Pass on New Securities,

Washington. Allen B. Forbes of
New York, member of the bond selling
firm Of Harris, Forbes & Co., has been
appointed chairman Of a board Of
three advisers to the Federal Reserve
Board to pass on applications for ap-
prevail of security issues.
The board will devise plan for in
vestigating the necessity for proposed
private security issues and make Indi-
vidual recommendation on each to the
Federal Reserve Board, which will
have final Jurisdiction. 1t is under
stood that one Of the members will be
from Chicago and one from the West.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Honor Roll
Blue Grass High School Januar

Blue Grass High School January
Lillian Snyder, Celia sweeker'
Rosa Colaw. Dagie Snyder, Margie
Winner, Ocie Winner, Fred Aroo-
CAST, Dennis Hildebrand, Everett e.I
WAINWRIGHT, Weldon Winner, Miller
Winner Hilda Tinney, Grace
Winner, Bunker Mullenax, Dudley.
Rexrode, Hazel Arbogast, Lottie
Glenn, Sallie Mullenax, Eula WIN
ROLAND Simmons, Madeline
Marshall, Rudolph Fox d EDWIN
Hildebrand Josephine Golaw'
Grace Will, Ronald Muilen ak:
Roscoe Fox, Ray Kiser, Mallin
Marshall, Henry Tinney, R0oere-
son Whitecotton, Clarence MniienaA
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Public Sale of
Personal Property

l will sell at public auction where
I reside on the Cowpasture one
quarter mile north of the S. & P.
pike on Saturday, February %,
1918,
The following personal property:
2 good work mares, 4 and 6 years
old, 5 good young COWS, 2 three
wear old heifers, will be fresh in
May, 2 two year old heifers, 25
head of good young sheep, will drop
lambs about April the 9Th, l brood
SOW and six shoats.
One road wagon, l runabout, l
buggy, sulry, l Deering moving
machine, / Johnson hay rake good
as new, / turn pillow, one double
shovel pillow, single shovel pillow,
single trees, double trees, and
spreaders two forks, one mattock
and shovel, one log chain, iron
kettle bars, etc., one whole sled,
| block sled, l cider mill, 10 rods
wire fencing, some potatoes, some
white pine and spruce lumber, one
Brunswick sewing machine; some
household and kitchen furniture.
Tefms-All sums of $500 and
under cash will be required, over
that amount a credit of eight
months with interest from date,
the purchaser executing negotiable
note with two good endorsers.
2t D. A. KISER
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Trial by Ordeal In Early DAYS.

Trial by ordeal goes back to ear
Hest days, and in the Book OF Num-
bers there is case recorded Of a
Hebrew woman having been required
to submit to test. Among the Hin
dus the ordeal has been practiced by
fire, by water, by poison or drinking
water in which deities had been
washed, by chewing rice, by hot Oil,
by red-hot iron, and by drawing two
images out Of a jar. Livingstone de
scribed the practice as being common
among all negro races north of the
Zambesi, the natives having the great
est faith in its efficacy. And it has not
always failed, or the trepidation of
the criminal before the dreaded ordeal
has frequently betrayed him.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Examinations are Postponed

BY order of Adjutant- Gsnel al
". " Sale, the physical examina
tiun of men in Class /, is delayed
u til receipt by the Local Board of
certain changes in the regulations
i; respect of the physical examlna-
tim.
As soon as the notice was re-
ccived. the Local Board erdeavored
t. get word to all to whom notice
had been mailed, that they need
MT appear until receipt of further
n tice. 1t is understood that the
ncw regulations will be in theIhands
o the Local Board in a few days.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-02-08
Problems for the
SnOW-Bound

SlOW-DOuIlu
Mr.. e. B. Wood:
have in my possession Coughs
Arithmetic, printed in the year
1903, from which | will send you
a few problems to publish in Re
corder, and give reasonable time
fer parties to send answers to same
|. A gentleman caught a fish
whose head was 6 inches long, the
all as long as the head and half
the body, the body was just tie
cngth Of the head and tail. what
was length of the fish: what the
length of the body, and what the
length of the tail.
2nd
When first the marriage knot was
tied
Betwixt my wife and me
Ny age did hers as far exceed
As three times three doth three,
But after ten and half ten years
We man and wife had been
Her age came up as near to mine
AS eight is to sixteen.
Now Tyro skilled in numbers say
What were our ages on the we'd
ding day?
A man shut in by snow drifts for
the last seven weeks will take some
interest in problems, I say, if he
has plenty of grub and fire wood.
-. Yours truly,
w. W. Hevener