The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-10-17

IN the quart price OF milk.
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One of the "rarin' 10 90" Emmett
registrants, whose name indicates hi
Irish descent, calls his registration
card his German hunting license"
No women are allowed in tn,
trench, but the Y NJ c. A. is trying
to make up for the deficiency by in
staliing talking machines in every hut
A wonderful bird is the pelican;
His bill can hold more than his bellcan
He holds in his bcak enough for a
week.
And don't see how in the helica,
From the musings of an Emmett
woman.
| The Hndenburg line, the Siegfried
line and most Of the other previously
prepared lines have crumbIed There
IL nothing more for the Germans to
do except TO set themselves down on
our previously prepared line, t. e., the
dotted line.
'uhidtr idittu III the Sendler pos
sibly for the reason that there were
senators who judged woman's eHpac-
ity for the ballot by the frenzied an
ties Of the suffs who f,sve been doing
picket duty in Washington.
.
There is such thinv as getting
too blanserf much knowledge and SKILL"
remarked Old Bill Misgrvens reflect
lively. snow there was the case Of II
Doc Singleton. As boy Doc was ac-
knowledged by all the ncighbors to be
the smaftest kid in the county, and {
as he grew op he kept getting smarter !
and smarter. Right from the first he c
showed "A strong inclination to be n n
doctor and surgeon. His mother was a
so proud of young Alexandria, that n
was his first nans-that she could %
hardly talk about anything else, and n
made a good deal of a nuisance Of f;
herself Whenever there was gather b
ing Of asy kind, telling about the N
smart things her boy Alec had said h
Or done. She hardly gave the other h
women any chance to tell how smart Il
heir boys were and 1t made them ii
'ore. Bat just the Same they had TO 81
rive il TO the boy that he was won o
Ter. When he got through high school "
md had had four years of college il
lie went into the office of old Doc h
'eters TO get start in the study of "
Medicine. Old Doc was counted some q
octor. but utter Alec had been with "
i'm six months he owned up that the b
oy was getting rather ahead of his Il
ime, and advised him to go to a good b
medical school. which Alec did. He q
made record there. too, will say Il
hat for him, and specialized in sur G
cry. The head surgeon of the school h
aid after Alec had been there a year.
hat he was the making of one OF the
'est surgeons in the world, and that
vas going some for the professor, p
Who was counted good bit of "
,rouch who hardly ever said good
word for anybody. We'll, after while
Alec graduated and got his hospital +
Practice and his diploma and was adj Ia
nitted TO practice. IL wasn't long ,
i'll he had built up good business .
md was getting right to the front,
,ut here was where his blamed smart 3
,ess nearly ruined him. He was al 1
Ways wanting TO make experiments IN l
urgery. One day Ezra SpoonoacK 4
anne to consult him. Ezra was well !
III. He had accumulated lot OF GOOD D
and and il was climbing up in value
very year. Besides that Ezra was .
me of the principal stockholders IN =
he leading bank in the town where ,
Alec was practicing, and he also own q
d a controlling interest In strihR 4
# fruit packing houses whieh were I
making money, and he had othes '
,ronertv interests in the way OF
,,o,'t,as,es and stocks and bonds. But =
sra was born close He was known
: tho most notorious tightwad
monV the boys when he was young,
IA ne saving habit grew on him. f
sara showed the same enthusiasm
hont letting 20 of dollar that
ound nm shows about quitting a pan
= sweet milk. But finally there got
! ~ SOME disease in Ezra's eyes. lie
r;sd natent eve washes and such
h;ngs till II occurred TO him that ne
80 ooiny numb blind unless he wen,
: seue eve specialist and had ms
a.nsrs fixed. He did consult one IA
nous specialist, who. suppose, had RI
-, onto his financial condition and
ia Err that a successful operation
Sonld set him back $4,000. Ezra near IN
ad a fix when he heard those tigures
+ The specialist, and when he got his
reatt he said that he would be horn
(that was as near eussing
: he ever got) if he would be robbed sa
q he decided to consult Doc Single, bl
IN Doc examined Ezra's eyes and 81
I'D him that while the eye balls were az
,dlv diseased, he believed that ne pa
mid fix him so that he could see all |
ont. and if he would let him make W,
ne experiment he would charge HIM IN
nlv the nominal fee, just enough to ID.
ay for the wear and tear of his in I'll
truments. and the price Of dog. &c
IRA didn't know what the price OF til
% had to do with curing his eyes, co
at supposed mebby that Doc was
,st Joking or something, and the fact pl
lat he could save mighty nigh $4,000 d,
' letting Alec tend to the case rather NJ
ian the specialist. cut big figure NJ