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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Thought Cakes Tainted.

Virginia loved to help her mother.
One day her mother was making a
special effort to bake prize cake for
the church fair and Virginia was all
interest. The cake rose beautifully
and appeared to be thoroughly done,
but when removed from the stove 1t
fell flat and had a sad streak through
the center. Another cake was immedi-
ately mixed in haste and little yir-
ginla's eyes grew large as she lis
tened to her mother lamenting over the
first sad cake that had fallen. The sec
ond baking proved the same as the
first, but the third attempt resulted In
veritable triumph. Virginia, how
ever, could not rally from the morn
ing's tragedy, and when her aunt came
over she exclaimed in great excite
ment "Oh, auntie mother made three
cakes and two of 'em tainted"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Year of Christ's Birth.

History tells us that for 500 years
the Christians had no calendar of their
own, but reckoned the years according
to the customs of the nations to which
they belonged. The Roman Christians
used the Gamma Urbis Conditiae" or
year of the founding of Rome, to count
from; others counted from the reign
Of Diocletian, calling it ''the Era of the
Martyrs" and stkl others used the
calendar Of the COpts of Egypt. In the
sixth century, Denis the Little, Greek
monk living in Rome, made calendar
counting from the Incarnation, the
date of which he fixed at 753 A. u. G.
SO we commonly say that Rome was
founded in 753 B. G. At the beginning
Of the eighth century, the venerable
Bede pointed out that this was an his
tOrical blunder. But no general no.
tice was taken of his criticism, and the
error has continued to this day. His
toric facts have enabled modern schol-
ars to determine, without much pos
sibility of doubt the exact year of the
birth of Jesus, and to place it at what
we call B. G.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
WHY NOT SKIM MILK ROUTES?

To make use of a valuable food
which has been very much neglected,
the federal dairy division is urging
dealers to consider seriously the adj
visibility of putting out skim milk on
their regular milk routes. Consumers
can help the movement by asking for
this product.
In the past many dealers have been
opposed to the sale Of skim milk on
the routes, fearing that it would cur
tail the consumption of whole milk.
1t Is believed, however, that many
people, If they had an opportunity,
would use skim milk for cooking and
drinking In addition to their custom
airy quantity of whole milk. Skim milk
sold in this way should be pasteurized
and handled as carefully as market
milk. It should also be labeled con-
spicuously to comply with local re-
qulrements, so that the consumer may
be fully informed as to its true char
acter.
Skim milk contains all the food ele-
ments of whole milk except the Eat. 1t
has a little more protein than whole
milk, but because Of the deficiency in
fat, does not supply so much energy.
When A per cent whole milk-an
average butterfat content of market
milk-sells at IL cents quart, skim
milk is worth 12.4 cents a quart as a
source of protein. In energy value,
skim milk is worth 6.3 cents a quart
when per cent whole milk Is SELL
ing for II cents.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
w. N. u, Salt Lake City, No. 5--1e1a.


The drug hashish or Indian hemp,
for which Egyptians will pay such a
high price, has given us our word,
ASSASSIN" These desperadoes form
ed originally secret society in Per-
STA, relates London Chronicle, In the
eleventh century. members of which
were under vow of blind obedience
to their chief. They were called upon
to perpetrate the most atrocious deeds,
and before these ruffians We're sent
out to perform their grewsome tasks
they were given hashish, by which
they were thrown into kind of &C.
stasy or intoxication. Hence they were
called 'Hashishln," meaning hemp
eaters. The word became part of
Western languages, but was changed
into 'assassins.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Get Rid of Rats and Mice.

In the United States rats and mice
destroy each year in homes, factories,
stores and warehouses, in cars and on
ships, crops, poultry, and other prop
ert valued at more than 100000
an amount equivalent to the gross
earnings Of an army Of 100000 men.
Grain, eaten and wasted by rats and
mice on many farms would pay all of
the farmers taxes.
States, communities and individuals
can help eliminate rats and mice:
BY requiring that all new buildings,
wharves, and other structures be rat
proof; that existing buildings of rat
proof construction be further protect
ed by having basement windows and
drains covered with screens, gratings,
etc.; and that existing buildings that
are not rat-proof be made so by re-
modelling.
By constructing sewers and drains
so that they will not provide entrance
and retreat for rats.
BY insisting on greater cleanliness
about markets, stores, and generally
throughout cities, villages, and the
country districts.
BY threshing and marketing grain
early so that stacks will not furnish
harboring places and food for rats.
BY removing piles of straw, trash,
and lumber which harbor rats in fields
and vacant lots.
BY protecting the hawks, owls and
other natural enemies of rats which
are not so destructive to poultry as
rats themselves.
BY keeping well-trained dogs on
farms and about city warehouses.
BY keeping provisions which rats
and mice will attack in rat-proof and
mouse-proof containers.
BY destroying rats and mice sys-
tematically by poisoning, trapping and
by organized systematic hunts.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16

the tendency has been the other way.
On farm a flock of free pigeons, if
not kept down by killing off the in
crease, soon becomes a nuisance, de-
stroying grain and doing a great deal
of damage, especially on new-seeded
ground.
The remedy for this is to keep the
pigeons under control and use the
young birds, except the few needed to
keep up the flock, as fast as ready for
the table. BY establishing the flock
of pigeons in an accessible place,
giving them little feed occasionally
in their loft, and keeping them shut in
and feeding them when they could
damage new-seeded ground, farm
flock of pigeons can be made to con-
tribute substantially to the meat sup
ply, and still be prevented from doing
any serious damage.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Big CROP WORTH
$1o,7oO,oOO,ooO
Estimate Of Department Of Agri-
culture for 1917.
STATE OF ILLINOIS IN LEAD
Farm Value of Nations Production
Two and one-Half Times That of
1909-Crops Include Cereals, Po-
tatoes, Hay and Cotton Lint.

Thirteen principal farm crops in this
country in 1917 had value at the
farm of $10,700O0O, according to
estimates of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, or nearly two and
one-half times the value for the census
year 1909. This amount is about four
fifths of the value of all crops. These
crops include seven cereals, flaxseed,
potatoes, sweet potatoes, tame hay, to-
bacco, and cotton lint. Three states
stand out far in the lead in their share
of this great and unprecedented total
Illinois is In the front with value Of
$775,0 900 for these crops, Iowa is
next with $712,OOO,OOO, and Texas is
third with $647, 100000.
The position of Texas is determined
by the cotton crop, which was much
damaged by drought; in 1916 and In
the average of the preceding five years
Texas led all the states in the total
value of these crops, and this with
out including cottonseed In the value
of the cotton crop. The states that
follow in order after Texas in 1917 are
Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Georgia, and
Minnesota, with values ranging from
$470,00O,000 to $418,000,000.
Great Achievement.
These figures represent q great
achievement by the nations agricul-
tural forces, and the workers well de-
serve to be cited for commendation.
But it is not the time to rest on these
gains. 1t is time to plan for greater
efforts this year, as Secretary Houston
recently pointed out.
In comparing the geographic divi-
sions of the country with one another
for 1917, the great predominance OF
the North Central states Is conspicu-
GUS, and their production Is mostly hui
man food and animal food. The Il
chief crops produced in these states,
for cotton does not appear, had a value
that is nearly one-half, or over AZ per
cent, of the value of the ID crops for
the whole country. OF this division,
the section west Of the Mississippi
river produced the greater value, or
over 27 per cent, of the nations total,
while the eastern section produced Il
per cent.
Production In South.
The entire South produced nearly
three-eighths of the total value OF the
nations 10 crops. or 361a per cent.
and this fraction was divided among
the three sections so that the South
Atlantic states produced Ia per cent,
the South Central section east Of the
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Important to Mothers
"See?"

There is a little word used in con-
versation by the careless, the ignorant,
that, in the way it is used, notes the
Milwaukee Journal, is almost the sill
Hest, the most senseless expression
In the language. See?
Use of this word at the end Of every
sentence In conversation serves only
to clog the thought. See? Yet the
ignorant thrust it in, as if feeling
themselves unable to put their ideas
into clear English--see?-as if they
felt the other fellow were not getting
what they wanted to say. See? In
ninety cases out of hundred they
merely insult the intelligence of the
nearer by their insinuation that he
can't understand and follow their sim
pie train of thought. See?
There is no need of mentioning the
name of the silly little word. Seer
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Production In South.
GREATER EFFORTS NEEDED
SAYS SECRETARY HOUSTON

That the farmers of the nation
have generously responded to
the appeals for increased pro-
duction, and that much has al
ready been done to insure large
supply Of food and feedstuffs,
justifies no let-down in their ac-
tivities or in these of all agri-
cultural agencies. On the con-
trary, even greater efforts must
be put forth in the coming
months If we are to meet salts
factorily the domestic demands
and the needs of the nations
with which we are associated in
this struggle. There must be no
breakdown on the farms, no fail
ure of foods. feedstuffs, or cloth
ing. | cannot emphasize too
strongly the urgent necessity OF
doing everything possible to
bring about a still further In
crease in the production of all
essential commodities, particu-
larly of the staple crops and live
stock.--Seeretary Houston.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16

Mississippi river 9h per cent, and the
section west of the river ID per cent.
The smallest share Of the total value
of the Is crops remains to the North
Atlantic states and to the Western
states, 71a per cent each.
The relative standing OF the various
divisions of states in value Of chief
crops may be better understood when
it is remembered that the corn crop of
1917 has an estimated value Of $4,054,-
100000, cotton lint 81, 452,000,000, hay
$1,359, 100000, wheat $1,307,000,000,
oats 81 O61, 100000; and that the North
Central states enormously produce
corn, wheat, oats, and hay, and the
Southern states cotton, with strong
support from corn, tobacco, sweet po-
tatoeS, and rice.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Choice Meat Can Be Obtained
From a Back Yard Loft.
FLESH IN FOUR WEEKS TIME
Space OF Six Feet Square viii Accom-
modste Eight or Ten Pairs of
Pigeons--Ideal Arrangement
Is on the Ground.
TO RETAIL SKIM
MlLK-A SUGGESTION
FOR YOUR TOWN?

Stations for the sale of skim
; milk are soon to be established
, in Hartford, Conn, as part of
! the work outlined by the urban
, home demonstration agent en-
ployed by the state agricultural
, college, cooperating with the
department Of agriculture. The
direct object of these stations
will be 70 supply a cheap and
! nourishing food and to demon
strate the value of skim milk
} as a tissue-building food.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16

The fact that rabbits are a cheap
substitute for the ordinary meats is
likely to turn the attention of many
more persons to rearing them, special
lists of the United States department
of agriculture believe. They can be
kept in small and inexpensive pens
and buildings and, like poultry, can
be killed and prepared for the table
on short notice.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
PROTECT FOOD BILLIONS;
DESTROY RATS AND MICE

We have billions of bushels
Of food worth billions of dollars.
Let's protect these billions. We
need all of them. Let's not al
low rats and mice to take their
toll of millions this year-$200,-
100000 Is their annual bill of de-
struction. Trapping, poisoning,
and rat-proofng buildings will
help reduce this enormous food
loss. Organized rat hunts by
communities are effective. In
one Ohio town a few years ago
each of two organized teams
killed more than 5000 rats, and
a dinner for all the hunters was
the penalty for the losing side.
Boards of trade, civic societies,
and citizens associations in
towns, and farmers and women's
clubs In rural communities
should find this matter worthy Of
their efforts. Farmers Bulletin
896 tells how individuals and
communities can fight rats and
mice. Write to the United States
department Of agriculture for 1t.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add / OF. Bay
Rum, small box of Barbo Compound,
and a OF. of glycerine. Any druggist can
put this up or you can mix it at home at
very little cost. Full directions for max
ing and use come in each box of Barbo
Compound. 1t will gradually darken
streaked, faded gray hair, and make it soft
and glossy. 1t will not color the scalp, is not
sticky or greasy, and does not rub off. Adv.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Stop the Farm Leaks.

Every one knows what happens
when water is put into barrel that
has stood empty in the sun for
while. The water leaks out between
the slaves. Many manufacturers hire
men to study out ways of stopping
such leaks in their business. 1t is
said that a well-known automobile
company offers a small fortune to any
man who can save a few cents in the
cost of building prominent parts of an
auto. Just so in farming. The most
successful farmer is the one who has
the best organized business, which is
best adapted to conditions, and has
the fewest "eaks." Every dairy farmer
knows the Babcock test shows how
much butter fat is in a cows milk.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
GET GOOD PIGEON
STOCK; HOMER A
POPULAR VARIETY.

Good breeding stock is neces-
sary to succeed in pigeon-rais-
ing. 1t is advisable to buy
pigeons from reliable breeders
those who guarantee their stock
Many failures in squab-raising
have been due to poor stock
old pigeons past their period of
usefulness, or perhaps too many
male birds. There are a great
many varieties of pigeons, but
only a few are used in SQUAD
raising. The Homer is generally
considered the most popular va
riety. The United States depart
ment of agriculture has a pub
llca..on on squab-raising, Farm
ers' Bulletin 6S4, which will aid
the beginner.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
For PimnIY Faces.

To remove pimples and blackheads
smear them with Cutlcura Ointment.
Wash off in five minutes with Cuticura
Soap and hot water For free samples,
address "Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston,"
At druggists and by mail. Soap rs.
Ointment % and 50.-Adv.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16

The sugar specialists of the bureau
of chemistry have devised improved
methods of L@aparing cane strip that
will neither crystalline nor ferment.
These methods are being adopted COM
merclally. The department is develop
ing improved methods of clarifying
this strip.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Two Views.

"Man," chirped the optimist SIS the
animal that laughs"
"And," growled the pessimist, he
has little enough to laugh about at
that"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16

Much of the excellence of the rab~
bit as food depends upon the cook
ing. AS often prepared, it is dry and
insipid, while in the hands of an ex-
perienced cook it becomes all that a
fastidious taste can wish-wholly as
palatabe as the finest poultry. A spe-
cial requirement in cooking is that
none of the natural juices in the meat
be lost in the process.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Economizing Time.

"What will you have for dinner2
asked the affable waiter.
"Go ahead and bring what you are
serving today" replied the hungry
man. Don't make me guess"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16

The decrease in the number of beef
cattle In the United States, with the
high prices which have pre-
vailed during recent years, has caused
greater interest to be taken in this in
dustry, and many men who have never
raised beef cattle in the past are tax
ing up this line of work.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16

The preparation of sweet potato
flour is under investigation by the
United States department of agricuk
ture.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16

Might doesn't always make right,
but It puts up hard fight.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-16
Try Socks, Then

Try Socks, Then.
why don't you give him the nit
reny''
1T isn't cold hands he has; It's cold
feet"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-11-15
STATE COUNCTL
DENIES SUPPORT
TO ORGANIZATION

Declaring that the organization
known as the Americas Allies Co.
operative Committee has not the
support Of the State Council of ES,
Tense, that body has addressed a
communication to all county coun.
ellis as follows:
so many requests for information
have come concerning the "Ameri-
cas- Allies Cooperative Committee" I"
of 299 Fifth avenue, New York City.
that we deem it advisable to inform
all county councils thai this organi
zation does not have approval of the
Oklahoma State Council of Defense
to solicit funds in this state.
While the motives behind this
organization are doubtless excellent.
the work which they are doing ia
already provided for through other
organizations for which funds have
been raised Economy and efficien-
cy demand that a multiplicity of or.
carnations and campaigns be elimi.
mated"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-11-15
STOMACH UPSET?
Get at the Real Cause-Take DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands of stomach
sufferers are doing now. Instead Of
taking tonics, or trying to patch up a
poor digestion, they are attacking the
real cause Of the ailnent - clogged liver
and disordered bowels.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse the
liver in soothing, healing way. When
the liver and bowels are performing their
natural functions, away goes indigestion
and stomach troubles.
If you have a bad taste in your
mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor,
lazy, don't-care feeling, no ambition or
energy, troubled with undigested foods,
you Should take Olive Tablets, the sub.
stitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil. You will know them by their
olive color. They do the work without
gripping, cramps or pain.
Take one or two at bedtime for quick
relief, so you can eat what you like.
AT Ice and PC per box. All druggists.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-11-15
Paramount Feature
ION THE QUIET" "

service by stimulating highways
transport of nourishment and sup.
plies so badly needed Routes and
channels from shipping points must
be opened up and efficiently main.
tained and our merchant marine
must be built up to meet the de-
mands for distribution overseas.
Resistance in any form to the
free movement Of farm products
must be reduced and eliminated, and
the most efficient utilization OF man
power must be introduced wherever
possible.
"The United States Shipping Board
urges that this message be carried
through YOU and your regional chair
man to the state organizations and
on down through your great N31y
cf patriotic men whose vision can
well embrace the crying need Of
their brothers in other lands for
help"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-11-15
ASKS HELP TO
MOVE FOOD TO
HUNGRY EUROPE
U. s. Shipping Board Chairman
Appeals for Cooperation In
Big After War Task.

Oklahoma City. Nov. chairman
Edward N. Hurley of the U. S. ship
ping board has called upon Chair
man Max cunningham OF the
Highways Transport committee of
Oklahomas Council OF Defense, to
aid in carrying on the monumental
peace-tlme task involved in the NOV
ing Of foodstuffs from the farmers
door to shipping points and thence
on down to the great ports whore
the merchant marine of today and to-
morrow is waiting to transport it to
The hungry peoples Of the deyastat-
ed sections of Europe
Chairman Cunningham discussing
the urgent request of Chairman Hur-
ley for the stimulation in the most
efficient manner possible of all
forms of highways transport, said he
would urge upon the patriotic peo.
pie Of Oklahoma to rally TO the sup
polt Of the members and workers of
the various highways committees
throughout the state in the same
spirit which has characterized their
efforts during the trying times of
the war
Continuing, Chairman Cunningham
pointed out that if the people of the
state of Oklahoma and OF the entire
country are to realize to the fullest
possible extent the fruits of the
great victory just being achieved in
France, public support down to the
community and to the last man must
be had for the comprehensive and
humanitarian. program outlined by
Chairmon Hurley OF the Shipping
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-11-15
lI!!II!IIIIIINLINII!INlI!I!IN

Board. He added that all Americans
should prove themselves equally re.
sponsive today to the call OF suffer
Ing humanity as in the days OF
suffering humanity as in the days
of strife, as peace hath it's yicto-
rles no less renowned than war"
Chairman Cunningham stated that
the letter Of Chairman Hurley sent
to the Highways Transport Commit
tee OF the National Council of De-
Tense at Washington, and transmitted
to him, Is In full as follows.
"Our merchant marine of today
and tomorrow will carry message
Of good will to the nations of the
world.
Millions Of cruelty starved folk
face westward from every shore
with mouths open to the promise Of
America. These must be fed-and
then clothed-and also supplied with
the other necessities of life. Our
grand privilege is now here to re-
store life, strength and hope to
these martyred brothers OF a hun
dred tongues.
Highways transport facilities at
the farmers gate and-at every far
mer's gate--must Immediately sug-
gest the initial phase of overseas
distribution; must make picture
in the farmers mind OF the move.
ment of the products of his soil and
labor from his own gate through to
the distant points of the world, 20
Europe, 10 Alglers, to Athens, and
the Orient.
THE highways transport serviee
Is the first step in the great system
Of transportation to the sea and tGen
On the merchant marine to the far
points Of the world.
Food must begin to move soon
frcm every Hill, through every val.
ley of the great country behind our
shores, down to the shipping points
before we can start our ships from
The ports and fulfill our duty; ana,
with the promise Of the wars enl
before us, the Highways and Trans
port Committee throughout this land
could and should render peacetime