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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
FARMER
TALKS ON WHEAT
R. C. McCROSKEY, OF GARFIELD,
REVIEWS WORK WHICH
RAISED THE PRICE

Hon. r. G. McCroskey, one of the
Palouse country's most successful
farmers and business men, who prob
ably did as much as any one man to
secure an equitable price for wheat
in the northwest, was in Moscow yes
terday on business and called on the
editor of The Star-Mirror. Mr.. Nc
Croskey is the owner of more than
1000 acres of rich land at Garfield
Wash, and president of two banks.
He made his money by farming and
won the distinction of raising the
largest average yield Of grain on 1000
acres in the United States num-
Der of years ago. His yield was men
toned in the government agricultural
reports as the highest average yield
for so large a field ever reported in
the United States. It was very close
to SO bushels per acre. Senator Nc
Croskey has just written the follow
ing letter on the wheat price situa-
tion and the work that was done to
get an equitable price for the north
west. His letter follows:
II desire to call attention to the
benefits that have accrued to the
wheat raisers in eastern Washington
from the efforts of the committees
sent to Washington, ID. g., to obtain
an increase in the price of the 1917
crop, which was is cents per bushel,
and also to the increase that was
gained by the committee sent for the
1918 crop, which was also Is cents,
80 cents per bushel in all.
'The proclamation of the President
recently fixing the price for the 1919
crop leaves the price at 1920 at Ia
coma, or the price that we had for
the 1918 crop, thus enabling the wheat
raisers to obtain 80 cents more per
bushel for the 1918 and 1919 crops
than we would have gotten, had we
lain supinely upon. our backs. The
of the committee from Whit
man county for 1917 was c. L. Nc
Kenzie, and for 1918 was J. S. Klein
gard The members from Spokane
for 1917 were A. L. Elmore, R. In
singer and R. J. Stevens, and from
the same place for the 1918 crop were
E. T. Conan, R. J. Stevens and A. A.
Elmore. Sam Armstrong of Seattle
was our faithful friend on both oc-
,asions. We should not be unmind-
'ul of their efforts when we are re-
,eiving 80 cents more for our small
crop than if we had not taken up the
natter with the administration.
R. C. McCroskey."
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
STUDENTS ARMY TRAINING
CORPS CURRICULUM GIVEN

tions in approved technical subjects.
Provision will be made for approx
ing general programs as we'll as tech
meal and special programs In Medi-
cine, Engineering, Chemistry and
other technical courses.
The allied subjects will ordinarily
be selected from the following list:
English, French, German, Mathemat-
les, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ge-
ology, Geography, Topography and
Map Making, Meteorology, Astron-
omy, Hygiene, Sanitation, Descriptive
Geometry, Mechanical and Freehand
Drawing, Surveying, Economics, Ac-
counting, History, international Law,
Military Law and Government. Per-
mission may be granted for the rec
ognition as an allied subject of not
more than one subject outside the
above list provided that it occupies
not more than three hours per week
in lecture and recitations with CORES
ponding time for study.
In the case of technical and pro-
fessional schools provision will be
made for approving general programs
of study containing subjects other
than those included in the above list
of allied subjects. The program of
study in allied subjects must include
course on the underlying issues of
the war. This may be planned as q.
special war aims course with a min
imum of three class room hours per
week with corresponding time for
study covering three terms or the re-
quirement may be met by course or
courses in History, Government, Ec-
onomics, Philosophy or Modern Liter
ature, where these courses are so
planned as in the opinion of the edu-
cational directors to accomplish sub
stantially the same purpose.
MACLAURIN,
Educational Director.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07

The University of Idaho is just i'm
receipt of instructions from the war
department on the curriculum for the
Students Army Training Corps,
which will open here in connection
with the university school year work,
on October /. The curriculum will be
Of interest to all young men who con-
template entering the school. 1t fol-
lows:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. g.
In the curriculum of the Students
Army Training Corps the averag
number of hours each week will be as
follows:
Military subjects, including prac-
tical instruction, theoretical military
instruction, and physical training,
eleven hours.
Allied subjects, including lectures,
recitations, laboratory instruction and
the necessary preparation therefore,
forty two hours. Each hour of lee
ture or recitation will necessarily re-
quire two hours of supervised study.
The hours above set forth have
reference to the normal course.
In the case of students who have
pursued for at least one year at an
approved institution such studies as
form part of the program of prep
aration for the Chemical Warfare
Service, the Medical Corps, the En-
gineer Corps, the Ordnance Corps, or
other technical branches ofthe serv-
ice, the committee on Education and
Special Training may authorize re-
duction on the hours Of military in
struction (including practical military
theoretical military in
struction and physical training) to not
less than six hours per week, pro-
vided that the reduction is made good
by the substitution of corresponding
Of additional hours of instruc-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07

chamber of commerce to extend an in
vitation to the association to hold its
demonstration here next spring. phe
last demonstration was held at Pull
man and drew hundreds of people
from as far away as Canada and as
far south as Oregon and Boise There
was such a crowd that the hotels of
Pullman could not accommodate them
and scores of people came to Moscow
to stay over night and the hotels of
Colfax were filled to overflowing.
1t will mean much to Moscow to
get the demonstration here next year
and the chamber of commerce will be
asked to extend an invitation and, if
accepted. arrange for land on which
20 hold the demonstration. The event
is a big one and is certain to draw
a enormous crowd.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
MOSCOW LIBRARY
TO Be RE0PENED
NEW LIBRARIAN MISS ALICE
BESSIE TAKES CHARGE.
BOOKS CATALOGUED

The Moscow public library which
has been closed in the afternoon since
August 18th, will be open both af-
ternoon and evening as usual, begin
ming September 9th. In the four
weeks that the library has been closed
/ in the afternoon the work of classifi
cation and cataloguing of books, has
been we'll started, the librarian giving
four hours day assisting Miss Ham
ilton, cataloger at the University of
Idaho, who has charge of the work.
The time has been used also for
general cleaning and putting in order.
Of the library. This has meant so
far the cleaning of rooms, ,lshelves and
books, the complete rearranging of
the shelves and the institution of a
new checking system for magazines.
Miss Alice Bessee, student at the
University, entered upon her work
as librarian August 18th. Miss Bes-
see is a Junior in college but will
arrange her studies SO as to-. take
three years instead of two, to COM
plete her course at the university,
thereby being enabled to devote most
of her time and energies to the IL
braly and its needs. She has spent
one wear as student assistant in the
U. of I. library and will continue
her training by making use of the
opportunity now offered her, to ac-
quire both the theoretical and prac
tical knowledge for her work.
A limited list of books has been
ordered, as the expense of catalogu-
ing will, necessarily reduce the
amount of book money for some time.
Those sent for are to meet the de-
mands, so far as possible, of the rent
shelf, of the interest in war liter
ature, and of the children. The com
plete list of new books will be pub
1ished later.
The work has also been started of !
valuable pamphlet material
for the library, much of it to be had
without cash. and Of character to add
both value and interest to the reading
matter of the shelves.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
MOSCOW YOUNG MAN is
CITED FOR BRAVE ACTS

Harry Marche, son of Mrs. w. w.
Robertson, of near Moscow, was re-
Gently cited for bravery in action.
The young man is attached to the 43d
engineering corps, and with com
panion, volunteered for hazardous
patrol work in "no mans land
Marche returned after having per-
formed his mission, while his COM
panion fell, victim of Hun bullets.
The extreme bravery and loyalty of
the young man came to the attention
of his officers and the citation fol-
lowed.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
TRACTOR DAY IS
BEING PLANNED
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO ASKED
TO ASSIST IN ARRANGING
FOR GREAT WORK

l President Lindley, Dean Iddings
and Professor John C. Wooley, head
af the agricultural engineering de-
partment of the University of Idanc.
we're guests at the meeting at the
Davenport hotel, Spokane, YESTERDAY
to arrange for the next show Of the
northwest Tractor association. They
were asked to represent the Univer-
ssity of Idaho and assist in selecting
"a place to hold the next tractor DEM
fonstration, which is big annual
tevent.
Dean Iddings will ask the Moscow
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07


Berlin that the still
allied armies hammng them they retire All along front of
100 miles the allies
them back
show that the Germans have been permitted for hour
get Q fighting allies,
night this the
being taken by the allies their advance the Ger
soldiers urenderng offers and the being
to in its hurried flight
Germany reported have made treaty with Finland whereby the
in supply to be killed
s % the the e n taat co v @ quietly submit @
sacrifice kaiser doubted high of allied and
neutral nations
with British French the
American which expected to strike crushing blow the
future.
British Three Towns and Some Prisoners
southeast northeast of Penne captured the towns Of
Nord from Hvrourt northward the British
the of Harvncou wood taking prisoners as they
In the southern end
Of Messn Ridge advanced their es last ngne SNORT os'ah IN ns
North Of canal on the Flanders front British patrols
positions the vicinity Of Cnteux and Violanes
French Still Pressing Forward
the front between somme and Disc rivers the
continued forward last night overcoming stiff resistance OF
Pushing French occupied the of Drury and o
than three miles beyond Ham,
the entire lower forest cou North ve the
have been .aaasy tss no %
concluded between Germany and
Finland Finland Gemany
disposal according a Copenhagen dispatch
French ADVANCE Miles 2omie Front
LONDON p m-Tergnier miles Of h Fere has been
2Ome
of depth of miles
The French also reached
forest a o. entirely ground
practically whole battle front from
the Aisne has forward faster than was expected
First Nearly Organized
of the
told the senate military
the American formerly baded
French are no" oeg
at a undesignated point
This engaged IN the
forward March said that between 10000
and arr with the British
more as
general retreat
OOmle Rheims General March,
60 miles
with late July
Berlin Admits Retreatng.
the heights northeast of Fismes the Vese
attacks
Americans the foowd the Germans
the
the OF Valy the Germans are
fighting gcontact
PressFo Forward-Germans Fall Back
AISNE(By Associated Press)ll
today before the French
and American of the line
Condea and Rheims
Todays Casualty List 293.
Thera names
No lists The list for this morning
follows: Il
wounds g. wounded degree wounded slightly l. total 8
Afternoon in action = wounded
wounded degree
died of wounds 9; total l45
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
Some Beans.

Bert Baker brought in for display
Monday single hill of beans which
contained over 800 pods. They We're
string beans and Some of the pods
are over six inches long. Mr.. Baker
has Z acres of this variety, besides
some 18 acres Of the regular field
beans which are equallyeas fine. He
brought in samples of Dent corn, the
ears being foot long and perfectly
filled, and also some splendid toma-
toes. and cucumbers. What's the use
O. starving in country like this -
Latah County Press.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
: j. 4 ! j. i. i !. 81 I. + + !. I. i.
Boston 2+ChicagO l. !

; CHICAGO. = Boston took the ;
! third game of the worlds series :
+ today, defeating Chicago by a :
: score of 2 to 1. Each team made :
: seven hits and Chicago made one
+ error Boston played an error :
+ less game. The score:
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
Notice to Knitters.

Everybody who has taken yarn
from the Red Cross headquarters is
hereby notified that all articles must
be finished and returned by Septem-
Der 18th, do not forget the date. Our
shelves must be cleared and every ar
ticle is necessary to complete this
Quota. POI
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07
:sE RAISE MOSCOW PHONES

BOISE,AThe Moscow Telephone &
Telegraph company has filed petit
ton with the public utilities commits
sion to increase its toll rates.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07

= series began with a fair attend !
+ ance. Mays and Schang, bat .
+ teries for Boston; Vaughan and :
4 Killifer for Chicago.
+ Hooper was the first man up
+ for Boston. He dropped a Texas
+ Lacquer far back of third, but !
I. Boston got no runs in the first
! inning.
+ Black was first man up for
+ Chicago He walked Inning
{. ended without runs for either
+ team.
+ Neither team scored in the !
+ second or third innings.
+ i. 1. + 4. + J. + 4. I. !. + + + ! 4
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-07

George Clark returned from Spo-
kane, where he has been attending
the fair.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
Winnemucca Is Years Ago Today
From The Daily Silver State

o High School honor roll for January: Flora Davey, Minnie Wolf,
Q Inez Laveaga, Elva Bracket, Pearl Gransdale, Lucy Conner, Nellie
(: Lewis, Iona Minor, Katie Diehl, Meary Corners, May McGrath, Grace
&: MacGonag1e, Amelia Mayer, Cora Rutherford. Suvinia Heney, Adolph
q Laveaga, Malvin Hill, Alex Wise, Chris Dehl, Carl Kissler, Frank
. Leonard, Eddie Nicholas, Eddie Heney, Wilbur Miller, Joe Lorentz
&. William Batner of Paradise Valley is in town today.
{. r. T. Evans has returned from San Francisco.
. Harry Warren arrived from the Golconda placer mines yesterday.
2 Deputy Sheriff Sam Anderson has returned from a trip to northern
4: Humboldt
o
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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09

Let's all appoint ourselves as a COM
mittee of n TO help keep the town
clean and healthy and let's make a
good start by cleaning up u own
premises, urges the Lake Charles,
Ua.) American Press. In other words,
be consistent, let's all practice exactly
what we preach. If every person viii
do this, we shall have one of The
healthiest cities in the country. In no
other way can this much-to-be-desired
condition be obtained. BY waiting for
the other fellow to start first, nobody
starts. and we just go along in a per-
functory way from day to day and
year to year. Lake Charles is already
healthy and clean, but nobody will
deny that the city could be made a
whole lot healthier and cleaner, and
the way to do it is for everybody to
clean up their own premises and keep
them clean, and this applies especially
to the back yards and alleys where tin
cans, empty boxes, discarded this and
that accumulate from time to time.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
SHAPE COURSE, STICK TO IT
This Is Only Effective Policy to Be
Pursued by Commercial Club,
Ii Is Declared.

Community building, in its final an
alysis, resolves itself into a question
of energy directed by will. If we
want a thing we can get it by shap-
ing out a course and sticking to it,
declares the Bryan (Tex.) Eagle. Dali
lying with every proposition that comes
up will never get a business club any,
where. Nothing viii be accomplished
and the club might as well disband
and 90 home. Every member, par
ticularly every director, should be live.
wide-awake and rearing to go. Every
member should be not only willing but
glad to contribute to any worthy move
ment that means more for the town.
And every man in the town should
be a member.
A commercial clubs supreme pur-
pose is something else than adding
a few dollars TO the trade of the town
and paying a secretary to keep the
minutes and the accounts. The ideal
secretary is a man of ideas and dyna-
mic force, who can lead his people to
the acceptance of those ideas, who
can arouse interest of the directors
and other members and give them
something TO do, unconsciously to
themselves, that is worth while for
the upbuilding of the town.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
NOTICE TO BIDDERS FOR FUR
NISHING FIRE APPARATUS TO
THE CITY OF MINNEMUCCA.

The City Council of the City of VIM
nemucca, State of Nevada, will receive
until 500 pm, Monday. the 4th day of
March. 1918. sealed bids for furnishing
the City of Winnemucea with a COM
bination Chemical and Hose Truck or
Car.
All bids must be accompanied with
full specifications of the Truck or Car
offered.
The successful bidder will be re-
quested to enter into a contract with
the City of W~innemucca, for the due
execution of the contract, and shall
be required to furnish a bond in a
sun equal to the amount of the bid
to insure the City of Winnemucca hat
the contract will be executed ON the
part of the bidder.
The City Council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
C. Il. HAVILAND.
Attest: Mayor.
CARL SCHMIDT.
City Clerk. j15fl1
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
HOME =
TOWN -
SOLVING PROBLEM OF PLAY
American cities Are Beginning to
Meet the Needs of People for
Outdoor Recreation.

American cities are beginning to
solve the problem of play. 1t is only
in the last few years that the United
States has become a country predomi-
nantly urban instead of rural in its
population, and this urban population
has had a hard time getting the out
door air and exercise it needs, writes
Frederic J.. Haskin. The solution of
the problem seems to lie in the muni-
cipal playground and athletic field,
which has come to be a feature OF
the parks of almost every progressive
city in the last few years. The fed
eral census bureau has just complet-
ed an investigation of the parks and
Fairgrounds of every city in the Unit
ed States, which contains some inter-
esting facts.
For the purposes of this work, he
census bureau takes account OF all
cities of 10000 inhabitants or more.
There are 213 such cities in the United
States-a measure of the rapidity with
which the balance of population Is
moving from the country to the city.
Neither the country boy nor the coun-
~try-dwelling man needs any outdoor
recreation facilities he has only to
step across his threshold to be in an
out-of-doors that affords the sports for
which games are only a substitute.
Much attention has been given to the
problem of furnishing country dwell
lers with intellectual and artistic re-
creation, in an attempt to keep them
from moving to the city in too great
numbers; but there has so far been
little attention paid TO providing them
with outdoor sports within average
means after they arrive in the city.
But the movement is under way, and
it is growing steadily.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
duplication No. 1869
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PERMISSION TO APPROPRIATE
THE PUBLIC WATERS OF THE
STATE OF NEVADA

Notice is hereby given that on the
23rd day of January. 1918, in accord
ance with Section 50, Chapter 140. of
the Statutes of 1913, one John Yribarne,
of Golconda. County of Humboldt, and
State of Nevada, made application to
the State Engineer of Nevada for per-
mission to appropriate the public
waters of the State of Nevada. Such
appropriation is to be made from
Eden Greek, at a point in the NWA
of SWA. Sec. 10. T. 3S ~, r. Al e.,
NJ. ID. b. & NJ, by mean of a ditch,
and 1.6 cubic feet per second is to be
conveyed to SEA, Sec. A, t. SO ~,
r. Al f., NJ. d. B. & NJ, by can of
bitches, and there used for irrigation
and domestic purposes. from March
until September of each year. Water
not to be returned TO stream.
(Signed) SEYMOUR CASE.
State Engineer.
First publication January 81, 1918.
Last publication February 2S. 1918.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
nenicts the "ereat Trek.U

An interesting film has just been
shown in London dealing with early
South African history, and has been
praised by General Botha, 1t depicts
the "Great Trek" of the Boer into
Natal and Dingan's Land in 1886, and
follows Peit Retief's adventure
through with tremendous realism.
Coming into collision with the native
Kafirs, and with the British when the
latter made Natal an English colony,
The Beers pushed on beyond the ORA
kenberg mountains TO found the Trans
vaal and Orange Free State. You
have depicted the history of my people
in a manner at which l can only mar
vel" Botha told the producer.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09


The Connecticut Mills has declared
a quarterly dividend Of $1.75 a share
on preferred stock, payable February
1 to holders of record January &c.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
NOTICE TO BIDDERS FOR FUR
NISHING A TWO TON AUTO
TRUCK TO THE CITY OF WIN
NEMUCCA.

The City Council of the City of
Winnemucca, State of Nevada, will
receive until 500 pm. Monday. the
4th day of March, 1918, sealed bids
for furnishing the City of Winnie
mucca with a two-ton capacity auto
truck equipped with 2~15-yard capacity
metal dump body.
All bids must be accompanied with
full specifications of the truck offered
The successful bidder will be re-
quired to enter into a contract with
the City of Winnemucca, for the due
execution of the contract, and shall
be required to furnish a bond in a
sum equal to the amount of the bid
to insure the City of Winnemucca that
the contract will be executed on the
part of the bidder.
The City Council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
C. E. HAVILAND,
Attest: Mayor.
CARL SCHMIDT, City Clerk.
(SeaD j17f14
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
Avoid HortIouIturaI Museums.

Nearly all gardens have too many
sorts of plants. Do not strive for a
horticultural museum. advises land
seape gardener. Try to build a picture
and pray do remember that plants are
as much raw material as bricks in a
garden wall. They are TO be used for
collective or composite effect, not for
individual beauty or effectiveness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-04

The retreating German troops and con VOWS and enemy ammunition dumps ana various villages within the Teuton lines were attacked today by American bomb ing airplanes.
 Great damage is reported to nave been done and consternation caused among the retreating troops.
 The American bombing machines made two attacks. the first in the morning and the other in the afternoon, reaching as far as Stenay.. and Beaumont. Fires are reported in both places.
 Eight squadrons participated in the air raids today. The bombers attacked Beaumont, where they destroyed warehouse and exploded an ammunition dump. Tn Stenay another ammunition dump was exploded.
 The bombers also attacked Martin court, Mouseay, Beauclair and Beaufort. The last two towns simultaneously were under the fire of American heavy guns. In the region of Vaux and Sommau the pursuit planes harassed the troops along the roadways with machine guns and small bombs.
 The weather was cloudy but it was the first really clear day on the ground since the os6 ensiye of the Americans was resumed.
 There were various combats in the air.