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The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. stewart and
grandchildren will leave the latter
part Of the week for an automobile
trip 10 points in Kansas.
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

9. II. Grnlmau is here this week
from iuhhnck paving visit 10 the
Grolmuu y to. Store
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

A. L. Phillips Of Grady was in town
Thursday. lie says everybody is busy
ont his way
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

We are in the market for your milk
and cream Alameda lee Cream
Works. j2.tfc
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13
AUCTION CLUB

Mrs Jno. q. lrltchard will enter
tain the Auction club Thursday after
noon Of this week.
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Mrs. l.. +. SimpkinSon of Pasadena
calf. is visiting Mrs. Dalton Reed
this week.
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Assistant District Attorney Mcars ot
Portalc> was hcI" Nuqgy looking
uftor legal business.
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Mr. ana Mrs. G. " Harrison left
Mouday morning for Bells, Texas 10
attend The funeral Of Mrs. llarrson'>
sister. Mrs. T. y. Thomas. Mr..
Thomas lived ~ Boff Ok.ao w, the
fuucra, was mold no Rolls
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Mrs. l.. H. Martin If Amarillo is Il
guest Of Mrs. T.. VI. Chapman this
week.
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Time 10 think about the War Gar.
den. Let Us supply your Rakcs and
Hose.
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Auto painting. Bert Curlcss. Phone
25l > If
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Phouo Us Your House Cleaning
wants
The Clovis news., 1918-06-13

Let the News do ,ha, fine job printing
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
From Lawrence Polly

Feb. Al am now in Paris on a
detachment until the end of the war.
am working in the base censor office.
go to work at $3.50 in the morning,
off one hour at noon, and then on
duty from l to $50. Our duties are
to read and censor mail, which is not
going to be very hard, at least not so
hard as my previous army life has
been. We have very good quarters
and chow. 1t is almost like a civilian
job would be, and believe me, boy,
am sure going to do my best and make
good. I am where l will get to see
quite bit of the city, as we have a
day and half off each week and have
some other privileges.
This is sure queer country and you
will find many things which will sur
prise you, especially the crude ways
of the peasant class, but they are GER
tainly a good hearted class of people.
They have one queer characteristic
which l suppose all classes of French
people have, and that is that they
very seldom drink water. | don't be-
lieve they know what it tastes like,
but drink wine, wine, wine. l have
drunk about two glasses of it since
l have been here and think that is
all the French wine l care for, altho
it is very weak. | believe H-2O is
the real stuff.
These peasants are queer, crude and
rather interesting. One queer thing
is that nearly all of them wear wood
en- shoes about the size of small
sized canoe. In almost every home
was a book containing French and
English words and phrases and they
all seem anxious to learn English.
They have large vineyards on which
they make their living. The land,
where was located before, is very
fertile and the climate is the best,
just like spring.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
From Howard Steward.

Your last issue OF Inc index re-
ceived today, and it surely was mos
heartily welcomed. | see that slight
mistake about Raymond Fowler has
been made. Raymond was transferred
to the radio school Harvard Univer.
sity) at Boston, Mass, to undergo in
struction in wireless telegraphy. He
left Friday, the 1st.
Abe HIT is still at the station. He
is woman at the Extraordinarily
desk and l guess that he will be or
the job as long as he makes good, and
| he sure is doing that, so he will be
here for some time.
| notice that the army seems to get
all the praise What's the matter
with the navy? People forget that
| the boys in the sailor suits make ii
possible for the soldiers to get to
France and the hardships these boys
are undergoing at high sea is very
severe. The decks of the destroyers
are coated with sheet of ice and
many of our boys have been swept
off into the ocean, and the ships never
stop. Do we ever think of them? No,
/ it's only the boys in khaki, while the
poor jackies have to fight the storms
anu DdIlle Lie SuUS- WlIlOQt a WI IL
1t must be remembered that the re-
quirements for admission into the
navy is the most rigid of all the diff
ferent branches of the service, and they
receive the least recognition of any
of them, and they don't ask anyone's
help. All we want is chance to get
one of our 16-inch guns on kaiser
sub or battleship and there will be
more food for the fish than they can
eat
At present there is another big
drive on for men in the navy, and they
are coming into the station on every
boat, men from every cline and ev
cry nationality-all with that big
smile and careless winning way that
wins them into the heart of every
true Americans home.
The city of San Francisco has made
every possible form of amusement for
the enlisted men of the United States
various clubs, auto parties and dane
es, places to go where we can write
letters, read and enjoy ourselves. Last
Sunday l was walking through the
Golden Gate park and a big Winton
Six passed me with two girls and
boy in it. They stopped and asked
me where l was going and told them
l was headed for the Ferry building.
They invited me to get in, and after
we reached the Ferry they asked me
if l was going anywhere that evening.
/ told them no, so they took me out
to the house for dinner and after
dinner we went to the theater and then
back to the boat. Numbers of the
boys have had the same experience.
Remember me to all my friends and
believe me to be a strong booster for
peace at the point of U. S. Spring
field rifle.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
SOLDIER. LETTERS


the soldiers have found out that they
of France in day of week, they
have adopted the French custom of
visiting over glass of wine and sip
it instead of boiling it down.
Such articles as / have seen from
some American papers make ne mad
all over. We are all proud of our
army in France, and justly so, and
any discrediting remarks like those
mentioned are deeply resented.
We read with sorrow of the sinking
of the Tuscania, but that is one of the
eventualities of war. But for every
American soldier drowned there will
be several German soldiers with
American bayonets in their CUTS in
steads of pretzels, and every soldier
here swears vengeance, and that IS
the spirit that will clean the trenches
when the time comes.
Here is a pretty good one l heard.
They say the English have signs writ
ten in German and placed so the Ger
mans can see them. They read like
this: "The Yanks are coming, and
they licked US twice"
Saw Lee and Clark about ten days
ago; also Tom, Pink and the other
Emmett boys. And that reminds me
that forgot to mention another char
acter here, and that is the village
druggist. All he needs to complete
the type is the Rexall line and | could
swear George had sold out and moved
to France to catch the good soldiers
pay of many francs.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14

N. Y. While Jerome was in Texas
he went to the postoffice and called
for his mail and they gave him letter
from Kenneth's dad to Kenneth. In
that way he found out Kenneth was
in the same camp so he looked him up
and they spent Christmas together.
Neither of them knew the other was
there.
ran across Miss Thorne (the Miss
es Rundstroms niece, who taught
school on the bench) in San Diego,
Saturday afternoon. She is teaching
school at Escondedo, about twenty
miles from camp. l also saw Bud
Bigelow. He is the same old Bud.
He insisted on introducing me to ev-
erybody in his hotel and of course you
know how l enjoyed it.
Am sorry to hear that John Rem
wick is still following the ladies.
fear it will get the best of him some
day. Tell him to let the ladies alone
long enough to write to me.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
Women, Prepare!

Thousands of women in this section
have overcome their sufferings, and have
been cured Of woman's Ills by DR.. Pierces
Favorite Prescription. This temperance
medicine, though started nearly half q
century ago, sells most widely to-day. 1t
can now be had in tablet form as well
as liquid tablets, 6Oc.), and every woman
who suffers from backache, headache,
nervousness, should take this "Prescrip-
ton" Of DR.. Pierce's. 1t is prepared from
natures roots and herbs and does not con-
tain particle of alcohol or any narcotic.
It's not a secret prescription, for its in
gradients are printed on wrapper. All
druggists. Send l0c. for trial package to
Doctor v. M. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
From Floyd Sanders.

The following letter was received
by Claude Polly from Floyd Sanders,
under date of Camp Kearney, Calf,
February 25:
Received your breezy letter, as Mr..
Skinner would call it, today, and was
glad to hear you were still in the best
of all camps, Lewis. When | first
landed here l was in the recruit camp
for about four weeks under quaran-
tine for nothing. You have been cor
rectly informed in regard to the pill
rolling 1.-THE hospital corps), but we
are in the best branch of the pill roll
ers and so far haven't noticed any
signs of the fattening of the thumb.
If you remember, | always said the
medical corps of the N. G. was the
last place | cared to go before going
to the final resting place below. Well,
| landed there without any effort on
my part and to make the cheese more
binding they informed US that this
organization was made up of picked
men. | don't know what | ever did
to deserve it, but am here neverthe-
less. l am with the sanitary detach-
ment of the 115th Military Police, and
all Joking aside it is the best place
l have struck so far. We are
mounted organization and on holidays
have the same privileges that the M.
P. have without their duties. When
we go to town we simply pin bands
on our arms and act as train guards,
so it cuts expenses wonderfully. We
don't have K P work and no guard
duty, only guarding our own horses,
which is very simple. We got AZ
head from the remount station cou-
pie of weeks ago and at present are
waiting for our saddles. They are a
rather wild bunch, so predict some fun
when we start using them. There are
AZ officers and men in the outfit, IA
of them, including myself, were
drafted men. One consolation is that
they are all white, which is more than
can be said for the infantry in this
mans country. There are sure bunch
of Mexicans here, SO guess am lucky
/ didn't hook up with one of the other
outfits.
Got a letter from Kenneth Reed a
few days ago and he is with the 371st
Aero Squadron, Field No. l, Minneola,
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14

W. H. BAsYE
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
LIVINGSTON. MONT.

HELENA, During middle age l
was confined to my bed great deal OF
the time for over year. The doctors
said the only thing that would save me
was an operation, but / refused. l began
taking DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
in connection with the Golden Medical
Discovery l took about eight bottles Of
each and was we'll woman. also gave
nv daughters 'Favorite Prescription
when they we're coming into womanhood
and it was great help to them.r-MRs.
V. C. RINDA, sOs E. Gatchell Street.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
From Claude Polly.

Camp Lewis, March 81 enjoy get
ting The Index greatly and John Rem
wick is always over to find out what
the news is as soon as it comes, which
is usually Monday The Index is a
sort of clearing house for soldiers
news and if it weren't for it l would
not know where any of the other fell
lows were.. Spring weather is here
now. The frogs croak around here
just like they do at home. All that is
needed now to make our homelike sur
roundings complete are few over
grown mosquitoes.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14

In conclusion, will say l am doing
my best to live up to these high
ideals and that by so doing, l find it
helps me to do my duty, to overcome
that which l know is wrong and bear
that which seems to be unjust.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14

.
ancy l was fright
ened to such an
ex tent that the
doctors said 1t
would surely pr :
fatal. A ncighpor
woman advised DR..
Pierce's Favorite
Pres cription. l
took three bottles
of it. 1t saved my
baby's life and | am
In perfect health"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
= no moro necessary
than S m allpox Army
TYPHOID

eacy, md haraicssness. Of Antiypbod vsccinafion.
BE vsccinat-d NOW by your physician, you and
your family II Is more Vital than house insurance.
Ask your physician, druggist. o. send for Five
200 had typhoid" telling Of typhoid Vaccine,
sess,s iron us and d.neer from Typhoid Carriers.
TT CUTTER LABORATORY. e-2rHrY, CAL
essoscsss vAeesags . vnsxa ~ Z lsezssa
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14

I wish to announce to the public
that l am in position to do carpen-
ter work by the day or by contract.
Estimates furnished free. Phone sc
W.
w. H. BASYE
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14
From Harvey Schreconeost.

Camp Lewis, March dear Broth
er: l will give to you as best I can,
with my ten weeks of life and ex-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-14

DR.. Judd. dentist, Monroe Bldg.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
STRANGE CRAFT DEAD WHALE
An Adventurous Fisherman Secured
a Prize.

An Adventurous Fisherman Secured
Farmers along the bay shore near
Broadkiln Beach, near Milton, Del,
were prepared to protect their homes
with their lives when a long, low, mys-
terious craft made its appearance up
the bay. In the early morning light
1t could be plainly seen coming in to-
ward the shore above Cedar Beach.
Then it stopped, and finally Charlie
Reed, an adventuresome fisherman,
started out to it and found it to be
a dead whale, a prize Of the first mag
nitude.
1t stranded near the Frank NAPLES
farm at Slaughter Neck, and was
viewed by hundreds, who came from
all parts Of Lower Delaware in auto
mobiles and wagons to see it. In the
morning Reed, with a small launch,
landed it at the Lewes fisheries and
will have it made into oil.
1t is estimated that at the present
price of oil Reed will realize several
hundred dollars from it. The whale
was 81 feet long, and is supposed to
have been shot in mid-ocean.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
GIories of Swiss Alps.

The Gornergrat is an unpretentiouS
peak in this royal company of the Va
lais Alps. But it is the center OF a
wonderful oncours of mountains and
glaciers. Most wonderful of these is
the world-famous Matterhorn, butt
tressed against the sky. 1t is almost
$4,000 feet high, with its head reared
cloudward abruptly from the SUM-
kissed valleys: To the east its front
Is precipitous, to the west 1t shoulders
out with softer curving lines, until q
little imagination makes Of 1t a lion
roaring at the rising sun.
The mountains are but q part OF
this picture. In the valley below is
the giant Corner glacier, fed by the
great glaciers that hang from the sides
Of the Monte Rosa, the Ryskam, the
Twins, the Breithorn and finally from
the Matterhorn itself, before it in turn
pours its gray turbid aood into the
Visp-the brawling, noisy river of the
valley of Zermatt.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
Rabbit Meat for Wartime Food.

Wartime conservation of beef and
pork has enabled a Kansan to develop
q rather extraordinary business in the
marketing Of wild rabbits, both jacks
and cottontails. A rabbit-packing plant
has been established and is now ship
ping frozen Dummies by the tens Of
thousands.
A recent contract called for 100000
pounds Of jackrabbit meat. The jacks
average four pounds each when
dressed. This means that approximate
~ 10000 rabbits were required to fill
the order.
The fur is disposed of at q handsome
profit. It is used in the manufacture
of high-grade felt, such as enters into
the making of mems hats.
All waste products are converted
into fertilizer. The industry also rids
the country Of a crop-destroying pest.
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
1eachina the Bows to sina.

A distinguished young musician re-
Gently joined the English army for the
purpose of teaching the boys to sing.
Attached to the royal air force, he has
been commissioned to train the men at
the various centers in choral singing,
thus dispensing with the necessity for
bands. The effect upon the spirits, the
morale and the discipline Of the men
has been excellent. They have devel-
oped a keen interest in singing, and
many of them have been found, to
their own surprise. to possess excel
lent voices. In view Of the success Of
the movement, it will probably be ex-
tended to other branches Of the army,
especially where the formation of a
band is out Of the question.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
WORK NEAR BATTLE FRONT

Handle Messages for the Ordnance De.
partment and Acquire New Vocabu.
larry in Order to Do lt-Make Few
Mistakes in Handling Stores Which
Comprise Something Like $4,000 Sep.
arate Items.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01

offensive gas service is one of them
that call for q whole series of wide
shelves to contain them. Kitchen
equipment, every sort of brush that
enters into domestic use, enamel ware
and hardware, electrical plant, lamps,
stoves, baskets, heavy crockery, are but
a few of the things here ranged which
1t is intended to place in women's
charge. 1t will not be, perhaps, as
easy q matter to issue them, for there
is a regulation system Of catalogue en-
try, and the exact meanings of vouch-
ers referring to, say, "sponge-bath,"
or "bath-sponge," are not always OBJ
vious until the peculiarities of defini-
ton have been mastered.
Again, the women were to be seen
In an enormous depot concerned with
the repair Of all sorts of motor vehi-
cles. Its floor space suggests acres as
the unit of measurement, and in hap
pier times 1t was a vast jute factory.
Every known pattern Of motor engine
is used by the army, and it follows,
therefore, that the spare parts and the
details employed involve a classifying
and a sorting out Of extraordinary
complexity. But the system has been
well devised and the mechanic engaged
on a London General Omnibus COM
pany's chassis will not find his work
hindered by being given the various
items IS used in the Wolseley make.
Only a Beginning.
1t is not desirable at this juncture to
Quote the figures that would indicate
the extent to which women have re-
placed men, releasing them to go to
the actual front. What may be said,
however, is that this advance guard of
"Waacs" is but a small company be-
side those for whom provision is being
made in the near future. Repeatedly
were camps shown that are coming to
completion in which there will be &C.
commodation for $50 to 500 women,
and occupied at present by q bare
tenth of those numbers. There is one,
amid mems base camps, where cooks
and mattresses are most urgently
wanted.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
NO GRUMBLlNG AT PRIEATlOM
6rItishers Willing to Subsist on Short
Rations if That Will Help Win
the War for Liberty.

It really isn't necessary to tell the
British people not to waste food. There
is nothing eatable left on the average
plate when the meal is finished. Meals
are n interminable round Of fish
and eggs, fish and eggs. Eggs are found
disguised under all manner of names,
but always there are eggs, not seven
week, writes Chester N. Wright, mem
Der of the American Federation Of
Labor mission to England.
Meat is rationed by a card system.
So is sugar, of which you may have
six ounces a week and no more. One
Of the best hotels In London is serv-
ing butter or margarine only M
daily. Many hotels have none for
days at q time.
Desserts are q thing Of the past,
recorded in history but not among
the things extant. Milk is rationed.
Tea soon will be. Bread is rationed.
Hotels will serve you with n brown
roll per meal. The average man would
be amazed at the British menu today,
but the British do not grumble. They
go on short rations knowing that it
must be done, and accept it 'as part
of the war that must be carried VIC
FORWARDS.
Even if it were possible to break
the food restrictions the average Brit
Usher has not the slightest desire to
get more to eat than his neighbOrS.
Especially among the British workers
is there an obvious grim satisfaction
when members of the American labor
mission and speakers tell how ships
are being rushed to completion in 26
states, and how self-denial by the Brit
ish people in matters of food and luxu-
ues make each ton Of maximum value
and effect in prosecuting the war to q
finish.
The British workers realize that
more than half their food comes from
the United States.
""The less food the more troops" is
the slogan which appeals especially to
the Clyde ship builders, one of whom
said: "If ships from the United
States are,laden as far as possible with
soldiers and ammunition, then every
bolt we drive is as good as q rifle shot
against the Germans"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01

Flirting with death is nothing new to
the pretty miss who shippers this
speedy ice boat. She considers spin
ming over the ice at the speed of a
racing automobile sport and it prob
ably is if one has nerves steady enough
to stand ity for it requires nerves Of
steel and the utmost skill to steer this
boat over the Recovered rivers. There
Is always the risk of running amuck in
a fog that may come up from the
ocean at any minute, of shooting into
another equally speedy ice yacht or Of
dropping into icy water If one is I'M
fortunate enough to strike a patch Of
open river.
Serene in her faith in an ever-pres.
ent good fortune, this miss is smiling
happily as she starts her yacht for a
spin along the Shrewsbury, inside the
Jersey capes.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01

waiter had brought. "And you came
here and then I spoiled it? You see, i
wanted to get away, too-wanderlust
Is contagious. Perhaps ever Mrs.
Buttersby would have got away from
Peace street if she could" I
Hortense and Matthew stayed away
for a week, and when they went back
they were MI. and Mrs. Watts. ITS a
case of necessity" Matthew had ar
gued when Hortense had finally agreed
to be married "some time" They'll
say we went away together on purpose.
and of course the evidence is against
Us. Let's go them one better and let
them think we eloped from the board
ing house."
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
Improves Revolver.

BY providing the ordinary revolver
with a circular cartridge frame or clip,
Joseph H. Wcsson of Springfield,
Mass, has given the older weapon all
the convenient features of the newer
automatic weapon that is, the rapidity
of fire and quick reload. His clip,
holding five or six cartridges in position,
serves to push them into place in the
revolver barrel at n operation, in
stead Of individual loading, as Is usu-
ally the case.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
Meet After Many Years.

T. R. Trotter, city clerk Of Pomona,
Cal, and his sister, Mrs. F. L. Jess
colt of Philadelphia, met recently at
ter a. years separation. Trotter left
his sister in Cork, Ireland, to become
a sailor and within a few years lost
track of her. He has been city clerk
in Pomona for twenty years. A month
ago Mrs. Jesscott picked up a Los
Angeles newspaper and read a story
containing the name Of her brother.
che Immediately communicated with