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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
S~cotIand's Bit.
From the Minneapolis Journal

FROM lic MliiucdpOlS JOuTHdl.
Little has been said Of Scotland's part
in the war. but close followers of events
nave given the Scotch people credit for
the great part they have taken in the at
tempt to keep the world sweet and free.
More than 100000 Scotchmen are under
arms, or have suffered death or wounds.
In the cities and towns there are no more
eligible men fit to bear arms. They have
all gone. Scotland is now a land Of old
men, crippled men, boys and wonen-and
the boys are looking forward eagerly for
a chance to do their part. The people do
not complain. It is war.
The Scotch fight it out to the last avail
able man. That is the spirit. And as for
the Scotchmen in the trenches. the Ger
mans know their mettle. This and their
kits have won them the title born of thor
ough German understanding, Of Ladies
from He'll" Scotch music, Scotch poetry
and Scotch history tell the tale. The
Scotchman is a born fighter, and he never
gives up. These men nave not failed the
call Of their country nor the call Of hui
mainly. and they will not fail. Scotland
is a small country, but nearly 1,0OO,0OO Of
soldiers have come from her mines, her
mills and her fields to make way for lib
erty. It is a great and noble ~record-but
just what might have been expected.
Does he blench from the helm when the
wind blows highest? He benches not"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
Our Valuable Peat Supply.
From United States Geoloaical Survey Bulletin.

Survey Bulletin.
are favorable to the accumulation OF
partly decomposed vegetable matter.
Many deposits are found also in the
Atlantic coastal plain, from New Jersey
southwark to Florida. In regions of
heavy rainfall along the Pacific coast
peat bogs occur wherever the drainage
is so greatly interrupted that the soil
becomes permanently saturated with
water.
1t is estimated that more than II, 900
square miles of swamp land in the
United States contains peat beds Of
good quality, and hat the total avail
able fuel in these deposits would
amount to more than 10000. 600, 900 tons,
a quantity that, if it could be distrib-
uted, would furnish heat and power for
the entire country for many years.
Much of this material is in states that
have no known deposits of coal and
that account of their cold climate and
their manufacturing industries con-
sumo large quantities of fuel, a con-
stantly increasing percentage of which
has to be bought by rail and water from
distant mines. According to a recent
estimate made by Prof. e. *. Soper in a
paper on the peat deposits of lime
sofa, published by the Minnesota geo.
logical survey, more than 5000, 600, 900
tons of air dried peat fuel can be OBJ
tanned from deposits in that state alone.
The utilization of these deposits would
/ augment the local fuel supply and in
cidently would relieve the strain on our
transportation facilities by furnishing
fuel to an area where coal is now
brought by the longest haul.
Peat produced by the decomposition
Of sphagnum moss is so antiseptic and
absorbent that it is used as a dressing
for wounds and is an excellent substi-
tute for medicated cotton. This fact
was recognized many years ago in
Europe, where %Sphagnum peat is now
extensively used in preparing surgical
dressings. According to Professor
Soper, who has made a detailed study
of the peat deposits in northern United
States, there are many square miles of
sphagnum bog in the northern counties
of Minnesota, Wisconsin. and Michigan
that would supply material suitable for
a~ntiseptic applications. 1t will not be
necessary. to incur the expense of deep
excavation, for immense quantities OF
sphagnum can be taken from the upper
parts of the deposits. Sphagnum peat
is also abundant in Maine, and some is
found in New York and northeastern
Pennsylvania.
Peat has frequently been used as a
source Of charcoal and coke, of various
b~y-products from COX %retorts, such as
those obtained from the distillation Of
wood and Of fuel and Illuminating gas,
as well as in making paper. substitutes
for wood and packing material. The
prospective value of the peal deposits
of the country as a source of these
products is nue. larger than their
| value as a source of fuel.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04

fate was in the scales, picked up the kit
tens, placed them on the table. and said:
You poor little miserable creatures,
what brought you i'll this camp of war
riors? Where is your mother"'
THE mother is dead" answered the
colonel in charge.
Then she can't grieve for them" said
the president. with a sigh, las many a
poor mother is grieving for the son who
has fallen in battle. All, kitties, thank
God o are cats, and can't understand
this terrible strife.
There, now go, my little friends"
wiping the dirt from their eyes with his
handkerchief; that is all I can do for
you. Colonel, get them good milk and
don't let them starve. There is too much
starvation going on in this land, anyhow.
Let us mitigate it when we cam"
The great president, ever at such a
crisis, could, as Admiral Porter says, find
time to look at God's creatures, and be
solicitous for their comfort"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
Value of Field Crops
1913 1917
Manitoba IS 64,557,0OO $137.470,550
Saskatchewan 129,376,00O 3~49,aSS,200
Alberta 90. 4S,712,Ooo 176,965,SOO

Total $500. $240,645,0O0 S663 1924 $50
The total value of field crops for
1917 was S663, 924, $50, produced on less
than 100000 acres of land.
Further evidence of prosperity and
progress is found in the Government
estimate of the value of farm lands,
and increase in value since 1908:
1908 1916
Manitoba .21.o0 SUB
saskatchewan ........ .20.40 23.O7
Alberta 1920 22.1S
1t will be observed that the average
price of lands has not kept pace with
their producing value. 1t is therefore
pointed out that the opportunities for
the purchase of high-class land is still
within the reach of those with linn
tied means.
a good idea of advancement in a
country's progress may be obtained by
a knowledge Of what has been done In
the production of cattle, and when
these figures are studied in connection
with Western Canada, q country whose
fame having been heralded as a grain
growing country, giving the idea that
that was what it was mostly adapted
to, it will be realized that there is
there a vast storehouse of wealth
awaiting those who choose to take adj
vantage of it. In the three provinces
i'll 1912 there warehouses, mich cows,
other cattle, sheep and swine, four mil
lion head. While in 1917 the number
was seven million.
In 1901 the entire population was
419,512; in 1916 1,69S,220.
One marvels at the rapid progress
of the United States during the nine
teenth century. But Americas oppor-
tunities for growth at the beginning
of that century We're nothing compared
to the opportunities which are Can
ada's at the present time.
The fact that Canada has as its next
door neighDor a nation of owe 100000
O0O-thc richest nation in the world
is bound to have a stimulating effect
on its progress. Already one sees
signs of it on every hand.
Canada not only has the largest area
of unoccupied, but fertile, land of any
country, but. this land is already made
available by a network of railways.
Cost of production of grain is lower
than elsewhere, while the prices are
on Il basis of those of the United
Observation-Disclosures.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04

from OniIeQ oCaCeS 0Gi
Commercial development of the vast
peat deposits in the United States
would materially relieve our present
shortage of fuel. Although peat has
never been largely used as fuel in this
country because of our abundant sup
ply of coal, which can be more readily
prepared for consumption and in nor
NAL times more cheaply brought to the
consumer, it has long been used in
Europe, where Is. 000, 900 to 20,000,0 600
tons are consumed annually in 2ener-
atlnSc heat and power.
The attempts made in this country
to manufacture peat fuel on a COM
mercial scale have not been successful,
but the failure appears to have been
due not to a lack OF market for the
product, but to the lack of sufficient
capital, to the ineXperience of the OPP
orators, and to preventable engineer
ing errors. 1t is said that air dried
machine peat, which is but little in
ferior in calorific value to many grades
Of ignite coal, can be produced at a
cost ranging from rs cents to $3.50 a
ton. the exact figure depending on the
size and the efficiency of the plant;
and it is believed that i'll some parts Of
The country it could successfully COM
pete with other fuels for both domestic
and industrial use. 1t burns with little
smoke and ash, and wherever it has
Oeen USED IN this Ountr 1t has proved
ver% satisfactory and has found ready
sale as fast as it has been produced.
The lack Of other fuel in many Euro
pean countries is now being supplied
in part by an increased use of peat. Ac-
cording to United States commerce
reports, PIG peat machines We're in OPP
Grafton in Norway in 1917, compared
with 55 in 1916 and SO in 1914. Among
these We're two automatic machines,
each costing $1,000, having a daily
capacity of 80 to 40 tons Of fuel, and
requiring only two men for its opera
ton.
Peat consumed in a properly de-
signed gas producer yields gas Of good
quality and in abundant quantity in
as we'll as many valuable byproducts.
This is perhaps the most effective utili-
cation of peat fuel for generating heat
and power, because peat hat is to be
used in this way does not need to be
so carefully prepared nor so thoroughly
dried as peat that is to be consumed
unde steam boilers.
Nature Of Peat Deposits.
Feat is a dark brown or black resi-
dunn produced by the partial decom-
position Of MOSES, sedges n other
vegetable matter in marshes and like
wet places. Most of the peat deposits
of this country occur in Expressions
and poorly drained areas in regions
where the temperature Of the sir and
the soil is low in summer n the hui
nudity of the air is high. The most
extensive peat beds are found in New
England and aroun the Great lakes.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
Lincoln and the Kittens.
From Manford's Magazine.

president Lincoln was as sensitive to
external Impressions as the test ape Of
the chemist. The results OF a battle panied
him as though he himself were among the
wounded or mad lost a brave son. This
syrnpathy-that is. his power of putting
himself in another's place-extended even
to animals.
The day on which GRANTS army began
the final advance the president sat in a
small telegraph office at City Point, re-
ceiving kilograms n examining a pook-
ct chart. Three little kittens were run
ming about the hut. in which was the
ekflce. The president OF then ai'-' whose
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
The Makers.

Booth Harrington, the novelist, met
in a New York book store a young lady
who was buying books to send to the
soldiers.
81 think ! ought to send them seri-
Gus, heavy books-history and so on
don't you?" she doubtfully inquired.
Good gracious, not" said Mr.. Tar
kington. "Send them novels, r%ousing
novels, and nothing else. History:
What do they want with history? Why,
they're making it,"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
B0sCHEE's GERMAN SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies,
when Boschee's German Syrup has
been used so successfully for fifty-one
years in all parts of the United
States for coughs, bronchitis, colds
settled in the throat, especially lung
troubles. 1t gives the patient a good
nights rest, free from coughing, with
easy expectoration in the morning,
gives nature a chance to soothe the
infamcd parts, throw off the disease,
helping the patient to regain his
health. Made in America and sold for
more than half a century.-Adv.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04

OF course, a man may scrape up the.
necessaries of life-but the women
and children can't smoke.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04

RED CROSS BALL BLUE
Makes clothes whittier than snow. De-
lights the housewife. Large package
S cents at all good grocers.-Adv.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
Why Sambo Keeps His Mule.

"Why don't you get rid of that
mule?"
well, sub, ! hates to give in. If
/ was to trade dat mule off he'd re-
gard it as a personal victory. He's
been tryin' foh de las six weeks to git
rid Of neutrality-suspicious. Magazine.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04

Some people kick because they are
unable to discover where the shoe
pinches.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
How's This ?

We offer 10000 for any case of catarrra
that cannot be cured by HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALLS CATARRH MEDIC--JL is talk
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces OF the System.
Sold by druggists for over forty years.
Price 75c. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
The Particular Time

You say you worship me? Whes
do you do itY J
Dearest, in my idol moments"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
important to Mothera
Bad for Him.

Narviss-What part of Il railway
train do you think most dangerous?
Dispepp-Ihe dining cur.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04

Nature probably backed the camel
up to win the animal races.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04
DISAPPOINTED,

Sylvester, aged four, vas sent to bed
early as a punishment. While saying
his prayers he remarked:
"Oh, Lord, ] have asked you to make
me Il good boy and you haven't done it
and | am very disappointed in you"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04

To keep clean and healthy take DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu-
late liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-02-21
NOTICE OF SHERIFF's SALE UN-
DER WRIT OF EXECUTION

In the District Court of the Tenth
Judicial District Of the State of Ida
no. in and for the County of Idaho.
5. L. Johnson, plaintiff. VS.. Elvia
Liston and John Henry Liston, de-
PENDANTS.
Under and by 7irtue Of a Writ of
Execution. issaed out of the District
Court Of the Tenth Judicial District of
the State of idaho, in and for the
County of Idaho, on the 22nd dav of
January 1918. in the above entitled ac-
ton. wherein S. l.. Johnson. the above
named Plaintiff. recovered JUDGMENT
AGAINST Elvia Liston and John Henry
Liston. Defendants. on the 29th, dav
OF February, 1916. and the Judgment
roll in the action in which said iudo-
men was docketed IN said clerks Of
nee OF said court in said county of
Idaho, on the Doth. dav of February.
1916. for the sum of $105s.40 Iar,ful
money. with interest thereon at 2 ne. /
cent per annum from date of said iudn-
mont, costs, and accruing costs.
am commanded to make the said /
81 ms Of Indictment, interest. costs etc
cut of the real property hereina fer
described. said property being held now
Under attachment; said property is 1eg-
ribbed as follows. to-wit: VIZ VIZ Sec
70. and the SEH Sec. 9, NWH NEH
sec 10 Township 81 n Range ?
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-02-21
SUMMONS

In the District Court of the Tenth
Judicial District of the State If Ida
no, in and Cor the County Of Idaho.
Stephen o. Foster. r'aintif VS..
Catherine Foster. defendant.
The State If Idaho Sends G-estirgs.
To Catherine Foster. the asova nam.
ed defendant
You are hereby Notified that com
Dlaint has been fred against von in
the District Court of the Tenth
Judicial District of the State of
Idaho in and for the County of
idaho. by the above named plain
tiff, and Won are hereby directed to
appear and answer the said COMPLAINT
within twenty days of the. service of
this summons if served within said
Judicial District, and within forty DAYS
IF served elsewhere; and vou are fur
Their notified that unless YOU so appear
and answer said complaint within the
time herein specified, the plaintiff will
take Judgment against you as prayed in
said complaint.
The complaint in said action alleges
the marriage of the parties to this ae-
lion and therein the plaintiff seeks
decree of divorce upon the grounds of |
extreme cruelty practised by defendant |
IN the plaintiff, and plaintiff seeks to
rave adiudged to him to he his sole
md separate property the SWH SWH
# Sec. 4. SEA SEH Of See. 5. and
W. of NE Hof Section 8. all in TWP.
4 n, R. East B. M. in Idaho county.
IDAHO. and, personal property and he
SKIS for other general relief
Witness my hand and the seal of said
district Court, this 31st day of Jan
airy, 1913. .
JOHN p. EIMERS. Clerk.
SEAL) By IT. ROthwell, Deputy. .
[. Reese Hattabaugh and B. Anger at .
'rnevs for plaintiff Residence and
address, Grangeville. Idaho.
T-6 !
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-02-21
NOTICE OF sHERIFF's SALE UN-
DER WRIT OF EXECUTION

In the District Court of the Tenth
Judicial District of the State of Ida.
no. in and for the County of Idaho.
Grangeville Savings and Trust Co.
a CORPORATION, plaintiff, vs. Elvia Lis
ton. defendant.
Under and by virtue of a Writ of
Execution, issued out of the District
Court of the Tenth Judicial District of
the State of Idaho, in and for the
| County Of Idaho, on the 22nd. dav of
January 1918, in the above entitled
action, Wherein Grangeville Savings
and Trust Co.. corporation. the above
named Plaintiff. recovered Indictment
AGAINST Elvia Liston. Defendant. on
the 2lst, day of June 1916. in the Pro-
bate Court Of Idaho county, Idaho, and
the said Judgment was docketed in said
clerks office in the county of Idaho.
Idaho. on the 23rd, day of June 1916.
and filed for record in the above en-
titled court. as appears of record in !
Judgment Docket No. l, at page $50
records Of Idaho county. Idaho. for
the sum Of Two Hundred Forty Nine |
and $1,000 Dollars, with interest at |
nercent per annum from June DIST |
1916, costs and accruing costs.
am commanded to make the said
sums due on said JUDGMENT. interest.
cost. etc. out of the real property here
matter described. said property being
held under attachment since the 2nd.
dav of May. 1916. said property is des-
cribed as Follows. to-wit: An undivided
one half interest in and TO the SCI h
of Sec. 9. and NWK NEH Sec. IS
Twp. 81 North Range East. B. NJ
in Idaho County. idaho. !
Public Notice is hereby given, that 7
m Saturday the 23rd. dav of February {
1918, at the hour of 1890 'cloek. q q
n. of said day, in 'front.' Of the Court y
House door, in the city of GrangeviIle. I
IDAHO County. idaho 7 will in obed- !
ence to said Writ of Execution, sell i
III the right, title. claim and interest =
f the above mentioned defendant. of a
n and to the above described real ii
roperty. or so much thereof as NAV +.
e necessary to satisfy said Judgment. S,
interest. costs. etc. to the highest and
est bidder for lawful money of the 3,
nited States. ~
Dated at Grangeville, Idaho. Jan ,,
airy %, 1918. ~
L. R. YATES. Sheriff. ~ ~
y T. +. Quinlan. deputy. 37-4 =,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-02-21

East, B. M in Idaho County, Idaho.
Public Notice is hereby given, thai
on Saturday the 23rd day of February
1918, at the hour of 10 O'Clock, a. m
Of said day, in front of the Court House
door, in the city of Grangeville, Ida
no county, Idaho, viii in obedience to
said Writ of Execution, sell all the
right, title, claim and interest of the
above mentioned defendants, of, in and
to the above described real property,
or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary to satisfy said Judgment, inter
est, costs, etc., to the highest and best
bidder for lawful money of the United
States.
Dated at Grangeville, Idaho, Jan
uary %, 1918.
L. R. YATES, Sheriff.
By T. e. Quinlan, deputy. 97-4
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-02-21
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior. q. S.
Land Office at Lewiston, Idaho. Jan.
nary 2sth, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that .Teffer-
son w. Swan, of Grangeville. Idaho.
who, on March 25th, 1915, made Home,
stead Entry, No. O5996. for Lots 3 and
4, Section 9. Township 80 North. Range
East, Boise Meridian, has filed no.
tice Of intention 10 make tbree-vear
froof, to establish claim TO the land
above described, before H. w. Carrots.
~ ,. Commissioner, at Grangeville. Ida
no. on the 9th day Of March, 1918.
Claimant names as witnesses: Merle
Whitney, Henry Murray, ST., Bert
Baker, Joseph Himmelspeck all Of
Grsnaeville. Idaho
5Y'o Henry Hefrtsld, Register
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-02-21
NOTICE OF SHERIFF's SALE UN-
DER WRIT OF EXECUTION

] In the District Court of the Tenth
! Judicial District of the State of Ida
no, in and for the County of Idaho.
j Observation-Disclosures Company Ltd.
a corporation, vs. A. S. Nelson and
John H. Liston, cO-partners doing bus
mess under the firm name and style
of Nelson and Liston and A S. Nelson
and Maggie Nelson, defendants.
Under and by virtue of a Writ of
Execution, issued out of the District
Court of the Tenth Judicial District of
the State Of Idaho, in and for the
County of Idaho, on the oath, dav of
January 1918, in the above entitled
action, wherein Alexander Freidenrich |
Company, Ltd, corporation, the above |
named Plaintiff, recovered judgment
against A S. Nelson and John II. Lis
ton, co-partners doing business under
the finn name and style of Nelson
and Liston, and A. S. Nelson and Mrs.
Maggie Nelson, Defendants, on the 18th
day of December 1915, in the Justice
Court of Grangeville Precinct, Idaho
County, Idaho, and on the 10th dav of
December 1915, said Judgment was
docketed and filed for record in the .
office of the clerk of the above entitled !
court, as appears of record; in judy {
ment Docket No. l, at page 271, re- g
cords of Idaho County, Idaho for the
sum of Ninety Three and 70-l00 Dol ]
lars, together with interest thereon at {
z percent per annum from December t
18th, 1918, costs and accruing costs. {
am commanded to make the said J
sums due on the said judgment. with a
costs, ETC., out of the real c
hereinafter described situa- n
ted in Idaho County, Idaho, to-wit: a
VIZ NWH and VIZ SW14 Sec 10, Twp. L
q North, Range East, B. M. and d
llso the interest of John H. Liston and al
Mrs. Maggie NJ Nelson in the com M
nunity interest of the said Edward Lis d;
on, deceased, standing on the records G.
# Idaho County, Idaho in the name hi
f Edward Liston, deceased, to-wit be
'E4 Sec. 9, and NWH NEH Sec. 16. al
'wp. 81, North, Range 2 East, B. NJ til
Public Notice is hereby given, that as
n Saturday the 23rd day of February eft
9lS, at the hour of II o'cloek, a. m. no
said day, in front of the Court HI
louise door, in the city of Grangeville. to
iaho County, Idaho, I will in obed- ne
nee to said Writ of Execution, sell OF
l the right, title, claim and interest co.
the above mentioned defendants. of
and to the above described real prop SUI
tv, or so much thereof as may be int
,cessary to satisfy said Judgment. Pre-
it'll interest costs ETC., to the high prc
t and best bidder for lawful money sin
the United States. sal
Dated at Grangeville, Idaho, Jan to-,
ry 2S, 1918. Sec
L. R. YATES, Sheriff 3.
r T. E. Quihlan, deputy. 37-4 Fl.