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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-09
SOLDIERS LETTERS

This letter was received by Mrs.
Gertrude Martin Tuesday from Floyd
Mcdonald, who is training in France
and has received slight wounds:
Somewhere in Active Service.
Dear Foster Mother:
Good morning, | wonder how you
folks are this morning. Well l hope
and also hope you are not worrying
about me, but l am afraid you are.
Well there is no need of it at all, as
I'm fine and dandy and have a nice
clean bed and sure have good eats.
had hotcakes and egg for my break
fast, I'm afraid I'll get fat, now
wouldn that be awful.
How Is every thing at home? Be
sure and don't let mother worry for
will be alright and / don't want her
to worry at all. 1t is SO quiet here
you could hear a pin drop, while at
the front, where we were there was
continual roar and rattle.
l really don't think the war will
last much longer, some time this fall
/ think we can all come home.
know we have the dutchman's goat,
and have got him scared to death.
I think they would all give up now,
but are afraid of being killed COM
ing over, so they stay there and get
killed anyway.
Say its sure great to go over the
top with fixed bayonets and lay down
and pump lead at the dutch until
your rifle burns your hand. I'll tell
you the particulars and everything
when l get home which won't be very
long.
Now about my being wounded, it
is very slight and not painful. I
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-09

LOCAL NEWS

P. J. Leane of Rigby was a bust
ness visitor in Blackfoot Thursday
Mrs. Paul Troutner of Pingree was
a business visitor here Tuesday.
Miss Leona Hines and Miss Eula
Wells spent Tuesday in Pocatello.
Alfred Tibble of Logan, Utah, was
in Blackfoot on business Thursday.
J. H. Earne of Rexburg was in
Blackfoot Thursday on business.
Louis Robbins of Moreland was
in Blackfoot on business Wednesday.
Joseph Myers of Willow creek was
a business visitor here Wednesday.
Mrs. Olive Haney and Miss Anna
Powell are spending the weekend
at Lost river.
MILFORD Christensen, county Com
missioner, was business visitor here
Tuesday.
]. E. Smith of Sterling was a
Blackfoot visitor Saturday and Sun
day.
John and Leonard Josephson of
Pingree passed thru Blackfoot en-
route to their herds in the hills.
Mr.. Pearson of Moore is spending
a week here visiting with relatives
and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Scott and Mrs.
Scott's mother Mrs. L. Cox are visit
ing at Lost river for few days.
Mrs. Percy of Idaho Falls was
visiting with friends in Blackfoot
Thursday. Mrs. Percy left for Ogden
to visit with her sister Miss Mary
Alfred of that city, Thursday.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-09
FOR SALE-MiscellaneOus


SECOND HAND THREE INCH TIRE
Studebaker wagon and box in good
condition. Frank Packer, box
585. Up
ONE 1917 FORD RUNABOUT IN
good mechanical condition, shock
absorbers and extra tubes. Byron
Defenbach at the court house.
2a4
400 ACRE SHEEP RANGE, SOME
wheat stubble, will furnish water.
Walter Hagen, route 2. 2a2mf
FOR SALE-Violins broken violins
repaired or taken in exchange. w.
w. Kinney. 29tf.
ONE LARGE EIGHT-HOOP INK
barrel, we'll oiled and seasoned;
open at one head, 50. Republic
can office. tt
VARIOUS SIZES OF WOOD AND
iron pulleys; one set cone pulleys,
shafting and hangers. Republican
office. tt
WILL SACRIFICE PIANO. WE
have had left on our hands near
Blackfoot, new, atrictly high
grade piano, which If taken at
once will be sold at a tremendous
sacrifice. In fact no reasonable
offer will be refused for quick
business. Special terms will be
given to responsible party. Write
quick for information II interested
to the Denver Music company,
Denver, Colo. adv. SIT
SECONDHAND FORD. Call 424.
1atf
M Nh AMI nT AvTD EnD CAIN
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-09
sTRAYEr

THERE CAME TO MY PLACE JULY
10 one blue roam mare branded
T F; one bay mare with colt,
branded circle over l; one black
three-year-old; one black two-year
old; one sorrel, consisting of five
head grown stock and one colt.
Owner will please pay advertising
and identify stock and settle for
care of same. Walter Hagen,
Blackfoot, route two. 1tf
THERE is AT MY PLACE SIX
miles north of Moreland five stray
horses: one sorrel, one black,
one buckskin, two yearling colts,
one horse colt and the other a
mare, branded 81 on left shoulder.
Rodney FarnswOrth. 1atf
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T. C. Peterson came back Tues
day from a business trip to Lost
river.
julius Horbein, United States
mineral inspector, returned to Black
foot Wednesday to attend to official
business.
Paul Carruth and several of his
friends whose names we do not know
are spending a few days fishing out
on the Blackfoot river.
Miss Minnie Holburg accompanied
her grandmother to Pocatello, who
is enroute to Colorado Springs to
visit with her relatives.
Mrs. ]. F. Hamilton left Wednes-
day afternoon for Salt Lake, where
she will spend a few days visiting
with friends and relatives.
R. S. Hale in company with sew
eral parties from Groveland left
visit at Lava not Springs.
Miss Grim and Mrs. Springer were
passengers on the morning train
Wednesday for Pocatello returning
in the evening.
Mrs. Claude Lampson, who has
been visiting for the past week in
Rexburg returned to her home in
Mackay Wednesday.
Mrs. ]. H. Finn of Anaconda,
Mont. passed thru Blackfoot We'd
nesday enroute to Aberdeen, where
she will visit.
R. H. Walker, who has been in
Blackfoot for few days attending
to business for the government, left
Wednesday morning for Idaho Falls
to continue his work.
Mrs. cunningham went to Salt
Lake Wednesday, where she will
make her future home. Mr.. CHUNG
ham is in training at Camp Dodge,
Iowa.
l.. E. Dillingham;, editor for the
Mackay Miner, stopped in Blackfoot
Wednesday on his way to Pocatello,
where he will spend a few days at
tending to business matters.
Mr. and Mrs. Finmey Monroe of
Emmett, Idaho passed thru Black
foot Wednesday enroute to Yellow
stone park. Their daughter accom-
panied them as far as Idaho Falls.
w. Walker, special agent for the
land office, went to Idaho Falls We'd
nesday after spending a week in
Blackfoot attending to business
matters.
j. P. Neff, assistant engineer for
the o. S. l.. from Pocatello left here
on the morning train Wednesday for
Aberdeen. Mrs. Neff visited with
friends in Blackfoot until the return
of Mr.. Neff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Higgingbottom and
little daughter Bertha Lauree ar
rived in Blackfoot Wednesday from
Tulsa, Okla. They are looking for a
favorable location to make their
home.
Mrs. Cora Webb returned home
Wednesday, after spending three
weeks in California visiting with her
son Harold Colbaugh, who Ia in
training there. She also visited with
a daughter.
Preston Cherry, who is employed
by the Pearson Grocery company is
going to work on farm in the Lost
river valley. Clifford Royse will
take his place. He will begin his
duties Monday morning.
Mrs. Claude Stewart of Blackfoot
left Wednesday morning for Leslie,
Idaho to see her brother John Gard
ner, who leaves for training August
8. While there Mrs. Stewart will
visit with her mother Mrs. H. J.
Gardner.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kamp Mrs. Ed
ward Sheppard and Alice Mae Shep-
pard of American Falls motored to
Blackfoot Wednesday and spent the
day visiting our city. They left
Wednesday afternoon for ten days
visit to the Yellowstone park.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-09
PIANO AND PLAYER FOR SAIL

We offer for immediate sale at q
substantial reduction in price a new
piano and player, which we have in
the vicinity of Blackfoot. Quality
guaranteed. Liberal terms to re-
sponsible party. For particulars
write Consolidated Music company,
Salt Lake City, Utah. adv. 1-6mf
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CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISING

RATES: Advertisements under
this head will be charged for at the
rate of 10 cents per line each issue.
The Republican will not be re-
sponsible for more than one inser-
tion for errors in classified adver-
tisements.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12
Swallows Fight for tanners
They Are the Light Cavalry Of the Bird Amy

THE army If the BIRDS is a familiar phrase, yet the picture 1t paints
in most minds Is, perhaps, al army IN the march rather than an army in
combat; the brds in annual migration from zone to one rather than the
birds OF daily duty from field to field. The latter and morea accurate idea
comes only when special branches of the service are pointed out-when, for
instance, a bird experts says, "The swallows are the light cavalry of the army
Of birds, eve or the move, always o n the skirmish line, foagng the fields
of air, constantly on the alert to cut off sraggiers from insect camps and
missing no opportunity to destroy these enemies of the farmer"
The phrases quoted are used in the opening paragraph of a bulletin
issued by the United States department of agriculture. 1t Is entitled, FOOD
Habits of the Swallows, a Family of Valuable Native Birds" 1t is the last
work done by IN of the greatest economic ornthologiss the world has pro-
duced, Prof F. L. L. Beal for % years an asdstantn the bureau of biological
survey and whose DEATH occurred October /, 1916.
The bulletin deals with the seven species of swallow that are of wide
distribution in the United States, the Purple Martin, the Cliff swallow, the
Barn swallow, the Tree swallow, the violet-Green swallow, the Bank swallow
and the Rough-Winged swallow. The food habits Of all the species are, of
course, similar, but they vary in certain more or less important details. 1t
is shown for instance, that while the other six species eat practically no
vegetable food except such IS is incidentally taken with insect food, the Tree
swallow occasionally makes a full meal of berries or seeds. 1t is definitely
shown, however, that no swallow consumes any vegetable food that is of use
to man, only worthless forms of wild berries and seeds being taken. And
even this forms such a small part of the total det as to be negligible. Ex
cet for the Tree swallow, the vegetable element will not average onehalf
of l per cent of the total diet
With few exceptions, the insects eaten by swallows are injurious. Since
swallows take their food o IN the wing, it follows that they must feed upon
flying insects and, for the most part, predacious beetles and other beneficial
ground-frequentng forms escape. The biggest single item n the swallow diet
is Dphra, the order of insects to which belong flies, gnats and mosquitoes
This item constitutes nearly q per cent of the total when averaged for the
seven species. The next largest item is Hemiptera, the order of insects includ-
ing the chinch bug, plant lice and the like. 1t is shown that, of the beetles
eaten, a large part is made up of weevls, including the cotton boil weevi,
the clover weevf, the strawberry weevn, the alfalfa weevil, which is a re-
Gently imported pest and other highly destructive weevrs.
On the whole, the swallows are shown to be a highly beneficial bird
family and deserving of all the encouragement and protection that a be
given.
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POULTRY DON'TS

Don't allow your hens to eat de-
cayed flesh of any kind unless you
want them to get down with timber
neck and have many of them die from
the effect of 1t.
Don't allow filth and dampness to
abound In and around your poultry
roosting house; IL will cause roup and
its various attending ills.
Don't let the mites and lice get the
upper hand about your place and
cause you untold trouble and loss of
both old and young stock.
Don't be afraid to give your fowls
an abundance of green stuff at all
seasons and all times; 1t is their sal
walton, whether they are old or young.
Don't be afraid to invest a few dol
lars In good stock any more than you
would In improved seeds and grain to
insure success.
Don't keep any males with the fe-
males unless you intend Matching the
eggs. Eggs for market will keep
much longer IL they are not fertile.
Don't put all sizes, shapes and
colors of eggs In n lot for market I;
learn to grade them so they will look
as much like one hen laid them all as
possible.
Don't allow a dirty, stale egg to go
into your market basket, no matter
how high they are or how badly you
need the money.
Don't be afraid to work with your
poultry the year round, as 1t is the
only road to success. and n must
stick to the right track. Keep up In
terest In your poultry both winter and
summer. No matter what other duties
you have, they should not be neg
lected.
Don't expect every egg to hatch
when you buy eggs for that purpose
from some good breeder. Your own
eggs as a rule Will not do that well.
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Importance of a Tan Coat
Depends on How Acquired.

Tan is the result Of the action of
chemical rays or Of the ultraviolet
rays of the solar light on the pigment
Of the skin. 1t proves nothing, says
an authority, but that the skin has
been exposed to Photographic rays of
n kind or another. The skin Is also
tanned by exposure to the rays Of a
mercury lamp, but such tan has moth
ing to do with health.
Tan Is important and of meaning
according to the circumstances under
which 1t Is acquired. Acquired at sea
or by the sea as a result of life and
exercise In the open air, 1t Is a sign OF
health, because it accompanies general
effects which are lacking In the condi-
tons of electric tan.
Electric tan Is accompanied by no
multiplication of red ~corpuscles in the
blood, such rs exercise produces, In
surfing a renewal of physical strength
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12
CURRENCY FOR YANKs
Men Going Overseas Receive Army
Checks In France In Exchange
for American Money.

New York. - United States army
service checks, issued in denomina-
tons Of French currency. have made
their appearance at a National army
environment In the East. They will be
accepted as legal tender on the entire
western battle front, including the al
lied lines In Italy. military officers
stated.
The checks bear valuations OF 8, 100
and 200 francs. They will be issued
In exchange for American money to
troops going overseas, eliminating the
former practice of providing the sol
diers with gold.
The check system, it is said. has
been approved by the war department.
French clearing houses of American
hanks are expected to cooperate In
handling It abroad.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12
Pitcher lack Coombs Is to
Retire This Year-To Look
After Business Interests.

Jack Coombs announces that this,
will be his last year In baseball. At
least he declares 1t to be his last year
as an active player and perhaps moth
ing short of a managerial job will
tempt him to remain.
Colby Jacks contract with the
Brooklyn club expires this year. which
is the reason he is making the an
nouncement. He feels that he has
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Scientific Facts.

The Siamese government has
consolidated a civil service col
lege and a medical school into
a university to provide instruc-
ton In all the higher branches
, of education.
A method for rebuilding worn
out automobile tires and making
them pnncture proof with fabric
woven from thread and n vege-
table fiber has been invented by
q Californian.
Oils obtained from Antarctic
sea leopards, seals and pengu'ns
have been tested by scientists in
London and found useful for
soap and leather making and
for heating purposes.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12
The Hidden Treasure
By PHYLLIS M. ABBOTT Gage Fifteen Ye.n)

Once upon a time, many, many years age. there lived in the palace of
Jupiter a beautiful goddess whose mar va Merci Every evening as the
nj went down, Merci would go to the walls of the sky city to look down to
the world below. She loved the earth people and watched over them.
One day, is Merci watched owe the wall, she saw great excitement In
N city: men were polishing long bright pieces of metal that shone in the
u In a neighborng city men we're marching out of the gates with a great
banner al thdr. head. Merci wa puzzled. She had never see anything like
this before, and because she was immortal and knew nothing of the pas
sons of men, she did not understand. Intenty she watched as m the plain
below two great bodies of men came together with a clash and smote each
other with those shining things they carried. Above, Merci watched In
mazemen and sorrow. OIL she must help those men who were suffering So
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Butter, Eoes and Poultry.

Minneapolis, July REUTER-
Creamery extras, per ID. 42c: extra
firsts. Ale; firsts. 40c: seconds Ssc;
dairy. sec; packing stock, 32c.
EGGS-Fresh prime firsts. new
cases, acc: current receipts, new cases
$1,000; old cases. rots out, $1,000;
checks and seconds. dox.. Csc; dirtiesI
candled. 29c. Quotations on eggs In
clude cases.
LIVE POULTRy-Turkeys. fat
10 lbs. and over. Csc; thin, small. 100
l2c; cripples and culls. unstable: old
and young ROSTERS. Ice; ducks. zoe:
geese, 15c; hens. az lbs. and over.
24c; under 3h lbs, z1c; broilers al
weights. h.. 35c..
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12
Ants in the Kitchen.

In regard to the question rs to how
to get rid Of small ants In a kitchen,
the Indiana state entomologist says:
Zone Of the best remedies Is to make
a strip Of four ounces Of sugar to one
half pint of water, and after this strip
has boiled add one ounce of sodium
iuoride. Moisten a sponge with this
and put It In a can that has some
holes punched In 1t; then place this
where the ants are most numerous.
The idea is to get the ants feeding on
this and In that way carry some back
to their nest. If they stop feeding.
nov the a back a short distance
and they will again start eating. The
can should be kept moist with this
strip and the ants will soon disap-
pear"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12
DAILY MARKET REPORT.

Minneapolis Grain.
Minneapolis, July 12.-Oats, July
f6h.
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served his time as a pitcher. but he
has also built up a number Of business
interests which r paying him good
dividends, and this is probably the
real reason why he intends to retire
from the game.
Coombs makes his home at Pales-
tine, Texas, where he has a general
merchandise store In addition to being
interested In two banks. His business
has been growing with the boom times
and ne feels that there will no long
err be any necessity of playing baseball
for a living.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12
vivian A. Brown, Age Five Years.

Vivian A. Brown, Age Five Years
What could she dor What was 1t they needed? She must find It'll So she
went to Jupiter and told him what happening % the earth people and
asked him where she could find the thing that would help them. Wise old
Jupiter only shook his head sagey and replied:
~dercL / cannot tell you where the treasure is that win help your earth
children. Only you al find It."
Then Merci wandered about the sky palace, asking everyone she met II
they knew where the treasure was. but no one knew. She searched the treas
ure houses In vain. but the wise mn could not tell her where it could be
s60und.
A At last she went back TO the walls of the city, and as she stood looking
down on her suffering earth people she exclaimed:
"Ohl where Is the hidden treasure? What can / do for the earth people7"
Suddenly, forgetting her helplessness forgetting the treasure she sought
forgetting herself, she few down INTO the planet below. She gave the dying
water and bound up the wounds of the injured. giving help and bringing back
happiness % the hearts If the men she loved. Then just at the end Of the
day. ~ the men watched her standing on the boodred battlefield, she van
hhed and among the glorious coWs OF the sunset q tiny scarlet cross
appeared; Merc had found the hdden treasure In her own heart And al
those who wear TINT scarlet cross and carry 1t in their hearts have found .
precious treasure, the Spirit OF Mercy. 1865
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12
ELEVEN
WOULD JOIN NAVY

Philadelphia. - Perhaps the
most disappointed boy in the
Philadelphia district is eleven
year-old Rollo Jacobson of
Landsdowne. He made q round
Of all the recruiting offices In
this city and failed to enlist. IL
want to go To France" he plead
ed. II am certain You want a
drummer boy to go along with
the troops" The young patriot
made a splendid impression and
at the Naval Reserve recruit
Ing Office he was permitted to
fill out an application blank. He
stated that he was in the sixth
grade at school and that his
nearest of kin" was his baby
brother. Marcus, three years old.
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D,,l,,%h eiax

Duluth. July 12.-Flaxseed, Oct
$4.32.
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NJ Marty, prefect OF MarseiIles, an
noiiIiced at a recent public dinner in
honor OF nj. Bouisson, commissioner
OF mercantile marine, that Marseilles,
which before the war had q population
OF 100000, now has 077,000 and Don
will have 100000
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South ST. Paul Live Stock.

South ST. Paul Live Stock.
South st. Paul, July 12.-Estimated
receipts at the Union Stock yards:
Cattle, $500; calves. 1000; hogs. $3.50.
sheep, $50; cars, 208.
Steers, $8.50@13.50: cows, $7.750
$50; calves s7.o0015.25; hogs, $3.50
016.75; sheep and lambs s11017.50.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-12

Japan has superseded China as the
chief source OF supply for tea used In
the United StateA
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SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK MARKET

Sioux City, July 12.-Fresh ad-
vance of 10 q 5c from yesterdays
best time carried the top sales in the
hog division to S17.05 and the bulk
to $1,000 @17.00. Good support was
had from shippers and the local pack
ers appeared to have urgent orders
and the deal ruled active and the up
turn. Run vas not quite as liberal
as either yesterday or the day before.
Cattle run was on the moderate
order, estimate calling for 1,40O, a
week ago was a holiday, while 1891
arrived the corresponding day a year
ago. Market on killers ruled steady
while there was a slight touch of inn
proyement noted in the outlet for
stockers and feeders.
Sheep supplies were again limited
and the market was nominally steady
with the previous day.
COUGHS AND COLDS VANISH.
colds are not hard to break
up. coughs and hoarseness are easy to
get rid of. III you will take Foley's Hon
ey and Tar Compound. Mrs. Mary Sog-
dam, 2S2 Maple street, Perth Amboy
N. j., writes: 1T helped my throat:
never had anything better" Slightly
laxative. Contains no ~opiates or narcot-
les. Sold ~eyeryWhera-
Cheyenne record., 1918-09-12
SPORT.

Boston won the third game Of the
worlds series at Chicago, giving them
two out of three games. The rest of
the series will be played in Boston.
Statistics compiled by the Y. M. G.
A. officials show that baseball is by
far the most popular sport among
our soldiers and sailors, both here
and abroad
Miss Detroit III. won the second
heat of the race for the international
challenge trophy at Toronto, Can.
covering thirty miles over five-mile
course in 80 minutes and 13 seconds.
Miss Minneapolis finished second.
War made its hand felt in the at.
tendance and receipts of the first
game of the world series. The figures
on the opening game at Chicago and
a year ago: 1918-Attendance, 1874;
receipts. $3O,34S: players share. S16.-
38792; each clubs share, $5.462.64;
national commission share, $S,034.s0.
1917-Attendance, $4,000; receipts,
s73.152; players share. 9.502.O6: na.
tional commission share, $7.315.20.