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The Republican journal., 1918-09-19
The New Belfast Fair.

The sessions of the New Belfast Fair
on the Belmont avenue grounds Sept.
10th and 11th, are conceded to be the
best, everything considered, in many
years. While the midway lacked many
of the old-time faker features there was
plenty to please the children and young
people with a merryg &c. round, chance
games, lunch counter, etc. VIM. II.
White had charge of this section and
kept the best of order.
The Leonard & Barrows display in the
exhibition hall attracted the attention of
all AID was very explicitly explained by
b. L. Tuttle, foreman of their cutting
room. Both the Goodyear and the
Mckay styles of boys shoes from the
stock to the finished product were shown.
Mr.. Tuttle explained the cause of the
high prices of shoes of all styles when he
displayed strip of lining and said that
three years ago it cost 10 1-2 cents by the
bale and now brought 65 cents. The pub
lie generally appreciated this educational
feature of the fair. Another feature that
brought many to the grounds were the
Fordson tractors, the Oliver 2-gang
nlows and the Roderick lean harrows dis
played and demonstrated by B. o. Nor
ton. It is the time of all times when the
up-to-date farmer is force to turn to the
latest inventions of labor saving machln-
cry.
The presence of an anti air gun manned
by a crew under the direction of Lieut..
A. E. Scruton from Fort Preble, Port
land, was an attractio never before seen
in this county.
THE RACES.
The first days races were reported in
our last issue and tn ose of the second day
were even more entertaining. Charles
R. Coombs accompanied his little son
Horace, who drove double rig of hand
some black ponies while his little daugh-
ter Alice held the reins over one in
dandy single rig They were enthusias-
tically received as they were introduced
by F. N. Vining of ST. Albans at the
Judges stand. The summary of the races:
2.25 Pace, p Trot-Purse SIPS.
Fenia Todd, bm, Buzzell, Belfast. ! !
Twilight, bm, Gray, Bluehill. -. 2 2 3
Nancy Forbes, bm, Gray, Belfast. 2
Loala, bm, Fogg, Damariscotta 3 4 4
Christie B., bm, Mclaughlin, >
Stockton Springs % .
Time-22l IA, 2.23, 2.22.
2.16 Pace, 2.13 Trot-Purse SIPS.
Hawkins, big, Newbert, Boston l l
Lady Booker, chm, Field, Bel
fast. .
Robert W., rog, Benner, Waldo ,
Bonnie Doone, bg, Bryant, Au- .
Time-2.2o, PIG ia, 221, 2.2l IL.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-03-13
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Serial No. Ol19l2

Department e the Ints:iJr, e. 8.
Land Office at Haley, Idaho, Februa-
ry 18th, 1918.
Notice is h reby given ,h,t Howard
Jones, of Goldburg. Id h., w.o, on
June LIST, 1915, made Homestead En-
try. Serial No. ol79l2, fer S11 SEA.
Section 10, Township 10 North, Range
p East, Boise Meri ian, has fled no
tice of intention to make Thres Year
Proof, 70 tsta blish claim to the land a.
bove described, befoie Valentine Mael
ger, United States Commissioner, at
Hooper Precinct. Idaho, On the 10th
d y OF APRIL, 1918.
Claimant names as witnesses;
LATE G. Downey, Of Patterson, Ida
no; John W. Nestitt. of Goldburg, l.
daho; Sherman Beach, of Goldburg. l.
daho; Eugene A. Smith. of May. Idaho
ml3alO BEN R. GRAY, Register.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-03-13

Subscribe!
Giv0 Us your business.
Liberty Ball, March end.
|. I. Perkins = up from Mac
kay.
Bob Shannon is over from MAJ
on business.
Jim Bradshaw baby en- East
Fork has pneumonia
|. r. Wilson is one of the ju.
rors from Pahsamaroi.
One OF the Lehman boys of
Lost River, is here as a juror.
Pat Rasche is down from Stan
ley in the capacity of juror.
The Challis Messenger is the
Official paper for Custer county.
Quite few Austrians are here
as witnesses in the Lietzke case
Born, March 9th. to Mr.. and
Mrs. George Loveland, baby
girl.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Laaton Oh March 18th, baby
girl.
The editor OF the Messenger
Appreciates your business and
solic.ts Your support.
l.. f. Dillingham; and Arch
Howell we're subpoenaed as wit
nesses in the Leitzke case.
For sale: White Russian seed
oats, 8! cents pound in the bin
Write to or inquire of IT, M
Read, Challis, Idaho al t
Geo. MCGOWAN has purchased
the Fox residence property oc'
eupied by E. W. Hovey and fam
lily who are moving this week 70
the Bill Chivers property
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-03-13
ITEMS ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW

Pay your subscription.
Fresh bread at the City Meat
Market. S l9Ady
Don't forget your su description.
A. r, Smith of Bonanza, is in
town on business.
Andrew Gini is down from his
home near Clayton.
Roscoe Hamilton and George
Ellis are over from Ellis on bust
ness.
4 H. B. Garletz ACCOMPANIED by
Jack Inglet, the sherlock
Holmes of Mackay, has been
here in attendance at the present
session Of the District Court.
O. Y. Anderson returned home
Wednesday. Mr.. Anderson is
food commissioner of Custer
county and was giving the local
ity the 'once over when his d u
ties as juror did not interfere.
! Mr.. Rancher: Let US quote
you prices on business station
cry. You will find that the pa
per used is far superior to that
secured in tablets. and just as
cheap, with your name, address
and business printed thereon.
Rob. Campbell returned from
Salt Lake the latter part of last
week, where he accompanied his
brother Tom who was operated
on for appendicitis at the Holy
Cross hospital. Tom is getting
along splendidly and will soon
return home.
Those having boys enlisted in
their country's service can secure
service flags at this office at a
remarkably low price Call in
and investigate. We can 1ur
ish them in either, muslin, fan
mel or silk.
7. A. Wood, of the Cotton
woods ranch, sold a registered
Shorthorn bull Gulf to Jim herr
last week for The sum of SlOo.oo'
Mr.. Wood is raising thorough
bred cattle for the market and
has some exceedingly nice ami
mails.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned firms will, accord
ing to Government provision. sc
on q cash basis April LIST, lslo'
No discounts of any nature Will
be given. Signed: VIM Buster
Mrs. VIM. Buster, Geo. MceoW
an Co., X. D, Williams, H. II
u II. F. Nickerson & Co., j.
y, Garland, NJ. A. Dillingham;
prosseur & lambeth, ludlow q
Baxter.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-03-13
MORE FARMERS
ARE NEEDED

causes TWO blades OF wheat to
sprout where only one grew be.
fore is a great benefactor of man
KIND and so he il, and this be-
ing 50, when we think in multi.
pies OF tens, hundreds and thou.
sands, what wonderful benefac-
ton is the bringing of greater
agricultural areas under cultiva.
tion. for the increased produc.
ton Of all kinds of food pro.
ducts2
In any section, increase in pro.
duction is test accomplished
when two farmers a,e encour.
aged to establishing where only
one was before; in other words,
If we can get two farmers 10 each
work forty acres of any given
eighty acre tract, or four farm.
to work any given 100 acre tract
and work these forties intensive.
ly, much more can be accomplish
ed aud everyone more greatly
benefited than when one farmer
works the 80 acre tract alone, or
one or two farmers work the 100
acres.
The Union Pacific System,
with the thought always upper
most of building up the territory
or states through which it oper-
ates, has put forth far reaching
efforts in colonization for many
years, and at this time maintains
at Union Pacific System head
quarters. Omaha, Nebraska, a
perfectly organized Colonization
and Industrial Bureau, the pur :
pose of which is to multiply ag
ricultural and industrial units as
rapidly and as effectively as pos
sible. To bet accomplish this
purpose, it needs the whole
hearted and general support Of
the public: of farmers already
happily established in Union Pa
cific System territory. of dwell
ers in towns and cities. of trav-
ellers and anyone who has the
well-being of the country and its
citizens genuinely at heart, and
who, with a modicum Of common
foresight could fail to have such
interest?
Cooperation for the increased
population of agricultural Sec
tions can be accomplished in ma
ny ways:
Ifyou are established as an ag-
riculturist in Oregon Short Line
territory, and you personally
know of good acreage in your
vicinity available for purchase
or settlement, write US and tell
us all about it. If you have
friends in the east who are agri
culturists but who desire tc
change their locations, and yot
cannot evactly convince them Of
the advantages of making the
change let us have their names
and addresses: maybe we car
help them to a favorable location
The same cooperation may be
accomplished by city or town
residents or any one.
One of the difficulties of tine
acreage farmer in seeking loca
ton is TO know exactly where he
can secure the kind OF a farm he
wants. either for purchase OF
settlement. People on the groune
know test about local opportuni
ties.
Keep in mind the well.being o.
the Union Pacific System is thu
we'll. being of your territory. anc
the well. being of your territory
is the well.being OF yourself
You are supremely interested
in the welfare of the railroad
just as you are interested in the
roads over which you drive, Of
in the good fences, good homes
or well-kept farms by which yol
pass.-D. S. SPENCER, Gener
al Passenger Agent, Union Paei
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-03-13
Buy at home.

D:. kirtley made a profession.
al trip to Ellis Wednesday, be.
ing called there by the illness of
Mrs. Bob Walker.
The editor OF the Messenger
is always ready and willing to do
MS share and more for the ad.
Vancement OF community interest
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27

when the question of the Stockholm con-
Up until that time, according to II. Will
lam Harris, writing in '"The New 2epub-
lie" for December l, call who believed in
the need for Il we'll established Labor
party in Great Britain were uniformly
pessmistc. The effect Of the war on de-
mocracy was that labor had almost ceased
to count as political force"
Then the Stockholm discussion inter
vened, continued MIR. Harris Labor was
divided and would have hopelessly split
but that labor men saw that "the danger
of disintegration had become so grave
that the choice lay naked and open be-
tween solidarity and impotence" At this
juncture Arthur Henderson, secretary
and recognized leader of the Labor party
was, so labor thought, "chucked" from
the Lloyd George ministry. Labor "saw
or imagined challenge, and took it up
forthwith. Unwittingly enough, Mr.
Lloyd George had galvanized the labor
movement into new life," and Mr.. Hen
derson turned his energies to reorganiz-
ing the labor party.
Labor was divided on going to Stock
holm. The Trade Union Congress, strong
ly representing the industrial side of the
labor movement, was ready to damn the
Stockholm programme. But at the annual
meeting of this congress an adverse
vote on the Stockholm idea to discuss
peacc was ayerted GA SkilfulIv framed
compromise motion, declaring for the
holding Of an international Socialist con-
ference after due preparation in the diff
ferent countries, was carried by an over
whclming majority, and Mr.. Henderson,
attending as a fraternal delegate from
the Labor party, met with an ovation that
set his own position out of reach Of envy,
detraction or malice"
Two other significant events, according
to Mr.. Harris, have also. contributed to
make British labor what it is to-day. One
of these was the entry of the British CO.
operative movement into politics. The
English cooperative societies, with a men,
bership of between three and four million
families, and thus with a claim to sup
ply something over third of the whole
population Of England, have been won
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27

"(a) The rehousing Of the population to
the extent, possibly, Of Il million new cot
tages and an outlay of 300 millions sterling.
CD The immediate making good of the
shortage of schools, training colleges. tech
nical colleges. (c) New roads ID Light
railways. (e) The uniiicaton and reorgani-
fzation OF the railway and canal system. (f)
AHorestaton tg) The reclamation of land.
(h) The development and better equipment
of our ports and harbors. G) The opening
ur OF access TO land by cooperative small
holdings and in other practicable ways"
10 relieve any pressure of an overstockcd
labor market, the opportunity should be tax
en- II unemployment should threaten to be-
come widespread: (a) Immediately to raise
the school leaving age to 16; (b) greatly to
increase the number of scholarships and bur
sarles Tor secondary and higher education.
and lc) substantially to shorten the hours
of labor of all young persons.
Finally, wherever practicable the houls Of
adult labor should be reduced to not more
than forty-three per week without reduction
of the rates Of wages
The party opposes the continuance of the
military service acts a moment longer than
the imperative requirements Of the war de-
mand. 1t stands for the principle of the
common ownership of the nations land. to
NC oPPiiSu DIS suitable opportunities occur,
and Tor the national ownership and admin
lstration of the railways and canals, and
their union, along with harbors and roads.
and posts and telegraphs, as we'll as the
great lines of steamers, in d united national |
Servlce Of communication and transport. to
be worked Tor the common good. The party
opposes the return of the railways to the
shareholders, declaring that the RAILWAYS
and canals, like the roads, must henceforth
belong to the public alone. Both in the rail-
ways and nationaized mines the partv suy
gests a steadily increasing participation in
the management both central and local. of
the employees, and aims at household coal
Of standard quality, at fixed and uniform
price for the whole kingdom, payable bv
rich ana poor alike, rs unalterable as the Id
postage stamp. 1t is further asserted that
health insurance will never be pu. on a prom
er footing, nor the friendly societies secure
clear field, until the nation expropriates
the profit making industrial insurance COM
panles This assumption by state depart
ment OF life insurance is urged.
The party sees the key to temperance re.
form in taking the manufacture and retail
OF alcoholic drink out of the hands of tbos.
who find profit in promoting the utmost
possible consumption.
special capital levy IS suggested to nav
off very substantial part O., the national
debt -chargeable like the death duties on all
property"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27

over to the side Of labor. Again, the British
Labor party has reformed itself. "In the
past it has been a close corporation. Ir
the future its doors will be open to all,
whether brain workers or manual work
ers, who avow sympathy with it's declared
Objects" This is the recently mentioned
''hand and BRAIN movement
The Inauguration of the "hand and
brain" movement went hand in hand with
the report of the proposed new pro-
gramme of the Labor party, which has
recently been published, and which will
be submitted for ratification to party
conference in June, unless a general cleo
ton before then should make a special
conference necessary. The following
summary of the report, taken from The
London Times,' should help explain why
Arthur Henderson, with British labor
solidly behind him, is able to talk of labor
forcing peace and of a peaceful revolu-
tior:
"We need to beware of patchwork" saws
the report. THE view of the Labor party
Is that what has to be reconstructed after
lHe war is not tnlS or that government
department. nor this or that piece of
social machinery; but, far as Britain is
concerned society itself. To-day no man
dares to say that anything is impracticabe
What we now promulgate as our policy
whether Tor opposition or for office, is not
merely .his that specific reform, but
deliberately thought out systematic and
comprehensive plan for the immediate
social rebuilding, which any ministry,
whether or not it desires to grappe with
the problem, will be driven to undertake.
If we IL Britain are to escape from the de-
cay of civilization itself we must insure
that what is presently to be built up is a new
social order.
"The four pillars OF the house that we
propose to erect, resting upon the common
foundation Of the democratic control of
society in all its activities, may be termed:
"(a) The universal enforcement of the
national minimum;
"(b) The democratic control of industry:
"(c) The revolution in national finance:
ard
"(d) The surplus wealth for the common
good.
ITO prepare for the possibility of anv
unemployment, either during demobiliza-
tion or IN the first years of peace, the gov
ernments should make preparations for put
ting instantly in hand directly or through
the local authorities such urgently needed
public works as:
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
The Mark
Gains In
Status
TIME latest German newspapers re-

TIME latest German newspapers re-
port remarkable improvement in
the value Of the German currency
in connection with the armistice between
Russia and Germany. The value of the
German mark reached about it's lowest
point at the end of last October At that
time it took 315 marks at Berlin to buy
100 Dutch forms (the nominal value is
169 marks for 100 f1orins); but by De-
cember % the price had fallen to 226
marks. Similarly the Germans paid on
December % only 17025 marks for 100
Danish crowns, as compared with 23025
marks at the end of October (par is
1925 marks to 100 crowns). In the
same time the Swiss franc fell from 157
to 1852 marks Tin peace 81 marks equal
100 francs).
The German papers assig ign several
causes for the movement The first
cause was found in the business arrange
ments made last fall by Germany with
the neighboring neutral countries, under
which Germany undertook to supply them
with coal, iron and steel and other COM
modities-arrangeme which enabled
German bankers to accumulate credits
abroad against which they could draw
bills. But the papers see a much moro
important cause in the peace negotiations
with Russia, and their effect upon inter-
national speculation. They say that neu-
tral and especially hostile spectators had
been selling German exchange on large
scale in the expectation that the value of
the mark would continue to sink; but the
sudden prospect Of peace with Russia
caused them to buy back with rush.
The result is seen in the prices already
quoted. Some of the German papers
draw from this improvement in the Ger
man mark the comforting conclusion that
spectators outside of Germany are now
coming to the conclusion that Germany
will win the war.
The "Berliner Tageblatt'' had this to
say on the subject:
ut is we'll known that heavy bear specula-
ton in the German mark was going on OH
foreign exchanges, in which neutral and
especially hostile countries engaged. The
peace coming up for several months
caused the sellers of German exchange to
run to cover. This was precisely for the
reason that the view is gaining ground more
and more in neutral countries that the wcrld
will be decided in our favor In con-
nection with this fact there has sprung up a
lively interest not only for our exchange
but also for German loans. 1t was believed
on the Berlin Stock Exchange that the bis.
rise in German and Prussian loans which
has recently taken place also partly due
to purchases by neutral countres.'
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Austria Appears to Have Had Enough of It

day morning, however, authoritative cir
cles in London had reached the concu-
sion that the strike was genuine. Italy
too, was extremely suspicious An official
dispatch from Rome was given out at
Washington on Tuesday, according to
which the Italian press was very skepti-
cal and which suspected the news of the
strikes "to be one of the able manpuvres
of the enemy to distract the attention of
the Allies from the military preparations
and bring about a state of sympathy and
unrest among the proletariat of the Allied
countries.'
That extensive strikes really occurred
however, admits of no doubt. The evi-
dence came from various sources, and
there were quotations from Austrian and
German newspapers confirming it.
The press discussion Of the strike on
this side has been mostly of an optimistic
character, though there is not lacking also
a skeptical note. The very captions OF
editorials breathe optimism: ''The Break
ing Empire" ''The Yeast in Austria, -
"The Austrian Hope" "Austria's Pathetic
Efforts" and more of like tenor "The
Boston Daily Globe" seizes upon the Rus
sian analogy thus:
"Austria exhibits resemblance to Rus
sia's predicamcnt in March, 1917, which is
worth noting The Russian unrest began as
food crisis and turned into q rcvolu-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27

don dispatches, the Premier was openly
heckled while showing why England had
to conscrpt more men and "go on or &c
under"
To these facts must be added some
astonishing occurrences at the prelmi-
nary meetings Of the Nottingham con-
ference, which, according to one Lon
con dispatch, has assumed more and
more the character of an international
gathering of workmen" and which grows
''even larger in Importance through III.
, certainty that the whole peace question
Will be debated" At one of these pre-
liminary meetings three 'fraternal dele
gates" were present: Maxim Litvroff
Bolshevist Ambassador to England Ca
mile Huysmans, secretary of the Social
ist International, and Emile Vandervelde
Belgian Socialist leader Given am op-
portunity to speak, Litvinoff made an ad-
dress which was received with the great
est enthusiasm by the labor delegates
Appealing to British labor to "leave off
resolutions and follow the example Of
Russia" Mr.. Litvinoff added that the
peace negotiations at Brest- -Ltovsk had
made more history in three weeks than
the three years of the war. eff peace
does not result" he said, "then revolution
in Germany, and, let me hope, perhaps
somewhere else, will bring the war to
an end"
This speech stirred the London dailies
according to a dispatch to "The New
York Times" 'The Daily Express" cor
respondent described it as ''the most
menacing speech ever delivered by an
Ambassador in friendly country
"The Morning Post" correspondent also
added:
1T is surely new role for man
claiming to be The representative of a
foreign country to preach revolution in
the country whose hospitality he is en-
joying and against the government of the
country in which he in years past sought
and found sanctuary"
What do these remarkable acts anc
statements signify?
To understand the new British labor
party, which is able to heckle the Premier
of England and unmolested to hear ad-
dresses urging British labor to revolt, ore
must turn to last August, to the period
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
German Conception of the Peace of Brest-I Iitovsk

George. GO go UNDER take new force
from this evident split between the Central
Empires. 1t is good time now for the
Allies to press with all force, with newer
and stronger union"
"The New York Sun" also interprets
the strike chiefly as "a nationwide pro-
test against the high-handed way in which
Prussia has taken over the affairs of the
Dual Monarchy" and concludes that "Aus-
tria desires most Of all peace, and it may
be one Of Germany's difficult problems to
force her to continue an ally of Prussian
militarism."
"The Washington Star" interprets SINH
larly:
"It is rather amusing to hear the German
statesmen express their indignation at the
peace aims of the Allied powers, which sug-
gest a full expression of nationality for the
Austro- -Hungarians, while the people in the
Dual Empire are striking and parading in
token of demand for separation from Ger
manic influence"
"The Cleveland Plain-Dealer" thinks
that elf the report from Austria Hungary
is not greatly exaggerated and if the anti
war strike actually ties up the munitions
industries of the Dual Monarchy the real
upheaval may be nearer than even the
most optimistic observer has expected"
"The Wilmington News" concludes it's
editorial thus:
"It looks if the unrest, due to starva-
ton, coupled with the hanging fire of the
negotiations with Russia, were serious.