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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-29

to single persons having incomes Of
$1,000 to $4,000. and to married par
sons with incomes up to $1,000. Those
with higher incomes win receive their
blanks by mail.
Mr.. la Favre's office hours will be
except Sunday.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-29
WEST VIRGINIA THREATENED.

Charleston. W. Va, Jan. 2S.-Twelve
hours of rain and thawing tempera-
lures had brought the state Of West
Virginia tonight face to face with the
possibility Of the most serious floods
in history
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City Attorney Campbell
Father Of Husky Son

morning.
He weighs nine pounds and arrived
at the home of his predecessor yester-
day evening.
Which Is just a roundabout way of
saying that Mr.. and Mrs. John l.,
Campbell. $50 South Fifth street west,
are the parents of a son.
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Will Examine Students
for Engineer Reserves

soula from Spokane this morning for
the purpose of conducting physical! cx-
aminations for the Reserve Engineer
corps. Five students of the university
forestry school will take the examina-
ton. Eleven made application for en-
listment in this branch Of the service
but the age limit barred six of that
number. The men who will take the
examinations are s. l.. Heibert. l.. 81
Van Horn, William Zeh, Court Howard
and Harold whistler.
Short friendR often make long aC-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-29
ODD FELLOWS SURPRISE.

The women of the Three Links sew
ing circle surprised the members OF
Odd Fellows lodge. Encampmcnt No. s.
last night by. preparing Tor them de-
llghtfut lunch.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-29
OBITUARY

The death of Mrs. Della Farmer Nc
Gowan, widow of the late James A..
MCGOWAN Of Plains was announced in
Missoula yesterday by telephone mes
sage from Plains. Mrs. MCGOWAN was
killed in a street car collision at Los
Angeles the message said: but no
further details have been learned. Mrs.
MCGOWAN had lived many years in
Plains with her husband. who came
from Wisconsin with the building Of
the Northern Pacific railway and was
later the head OF the MCGOWAN Com
mercial company Of Plains. After her
husbands death, Mrs. MCGOWAN went
to be with her sister, Mrs. Gustav
Marotz at her home in Pasadena, Cal.
The two ladies' came to Montana short
ly before Christmas to visit old time
friends and to look after matters Of
business. They were In Missoula a
few weeks ago and were guests Of hon.
or at a number OF social functions. It
was only ten days ago that they left
for southern California.
Joseph Kau. who died Saturday
AFTERNOON alteF an JlinesS OF many
months, will be buried this morning in
st. Mary's cemetery. The funeral
service will be held at the Church of
st. Francis Xavier. Mr.. kau was 81
years OF age and q brother Of Mrs. j.
Bergman OF III South Fourth street.
west lie Is survived by other rcla-
tiyes living at Drummond.
jeanette Agatha Mcclellan. five
months old, died yesterday at the home
of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. James II.
Mcclellan. Gas Plymouth street, after
an illness Of short duration. The fun
eral will be held this afternoon at .
o'clock at the Church Of st. Francis
Xavier. Interment will be In st. Mary
cemetery.
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CANADIAN CASUALTY.

Ottawa, Jan. 2S.-T. G. McI.aren Of
Grafton, n. D.. Is mentioned in to-
nights casualty list as wounded.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-29

The most striking thing l saw In the
war was the complete collapse Of Ger
man conceit
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-29

Short friends often make long ac-
counts.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-10-31
Continued on Page ~
BLAZE AT LUMBER
YARD
Small Boys Set Fire to Lumber Sheds
Promptly Extinquished

The Citizens Lumber Company
escaped disastrous fire last Sunday.
About ] o'clock passerby discovered
flames between a section of the
yard where thousands of feet of lum-
ber are piled. Hurrying to the spot he
was amazed to find three small boys,
the oldest about 8, with a can of pitch
preparing for a real bonfire. With
presence of mind he scooped up
sand enough to smother the flames
and no real damage was done.
The youngsters were thoroughly
frightened, but were arraigned before
Justice Stokesberry, who in his kind
hearted way endeavored to impress
upon them the real seriousness of
their near crime. They were placed
on probation and appear to realize
the loss their action might have
caused.
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UNITED WAR WORK
CAMPAIGN
ITO Million Dollars Needed to
Maintain Seven War Associ-
tiOns at the Front.

The United War Work campaign
will open all over this land Monday,
Nov. IL, and continue for one week
The call is for ITO million dollars, and
Gem county's quota is $4500. That
is less than 50 apiece for every voter.
But, of course, there is no limit to the
amount you may give. An over-sub-
scription will be greatly appreciated,
and there may possibly be some
who will not give anything, but that
is remote possibility. The money is
to be apportioned among the seven or
ganizations that are doing such noble
work among the boys at the front, and
include the Y. M. C. A. the Y. w. C.
A., the National Catholic War Coun-
ell, the X. of c., the Jewish Welfare
Board, the War Camp Community Ser
vice, the American Library Associa-
tion and the Salvation Army. By
giving to these seven organizations
all at once, the cost and effort of six
additional campaigns is saved.
When you give to this cause, you
make sure that every fighter has the
cheer and comforts of these seven or
CARNATIONS every step of the way
from home to the front and back
again. You provide him with a
church, theatre, a cheerful home.
store, school, club and an athle-
tic field-and knowledge that the
folks back home are with him, heart
and SOUL
You have loaned your money to sup
ply their physical needs. Now give to
maintain the morale that is winning
the wari
The drive is in charge of Finley
Monroe. He has appointed his assist
ants in every precinct in the county.
Be ready to volunteer your subscrip-
tion and thereby save the committee
much labor.
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From Carroll Fest.

Sept. 18-A short letter today
while / have a few minutes to spare
and those times have not been often
the past three weeks, as you know the
reports of what has been going on.
The past two weeks have been aw-
fully busy ones, and hard work. They
have put electric lights in the hangers,
so now we work until IL and l o'clock
at nights and up and at it again by 8
in the morning. | have had to put in
five such nights and the other times
until 9 or 10.
NY machines have put in two to
fours every day, SO | consider it has
done good, but it meant beaucoupe
work for me.
The Boche are now several miles
further back again at this point, and
we are expecting to move to an air
dome that was occupied by the Huns,
but l hate to leave these quarters as
they are the best we have had since
we hit France.
You have probably read about some
of our fliers being killed by this time.
We added four more planes to our
credit and another squadron added
lS, so you see the Boche lost some too.
The past week the total number of
Huns brought down by the group was
25.
No, l have not seen any of the
Emmett boys yet. | got letter from
Lawrence Polly. He said that Claude
was there with him at that time.
| am not going to collect many SOU
venirs as they take up too much room
and are too heavy to carry, but have
a piece of bomb that hit the airdome
some time ago.
About 1000 prisoners went along
here the other day and the rest went
down another way. Well, | am still
well and happy and feeling good.
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Just few lines in answer to your
welcome letters | received few days
ago, and to let you know am all 0.
K. and do hope you are the same. 1t
lie raining today somewhat which
makes the air feel cool and nice.
Well / hope pay day comes soon
again, because l have just about spent
all my francs and will be broke if
don't stop, but grapes are fine over
here and l sure like them. They cost
a franc go cents) for three bunches.
They have a few pears and peaches
over here, but they are not very good
as they don't seem to ripen like they do
in the states. Gee, they have few
melons and cantaloupes here, but they
melon costs francs, so you see one
can not afford much of these things
ont of So month.
l was talking to Belgium girl last
night and she said she would be able
to go home soon as Fritz was quite
ways back from her home; she said
she had letter from the front which
told her all about it. l would write
about it here, but l cannot as that
would be giving all she knew away.
There are quite lot of Belgiums in
this little town and they can talk Eng
lish very well. The other day | was
watching young girl and old lady
making lace with hand machine. Not
knowing what she was doing asked
her, or tried to,in French what she
called that; then asked her if she COM
pried, or understood, what | meant.
She said, "Why that is lace she is
Weaving; do they do that in America ?"
Gosh, | was so surprised | could not
talk for while but after she said she
was Belgium understood.
Say Kid, it is some fun watching
the fellows trying to make hit with
the girls, when they cannot under
stand what they are saying. First
they will start to say something and
all at once wake up to the fact that
they can't understand our language
and then they will scramble for their
French dictionary.
We had ball game yesterday. Co.
H played Co. G with gas masks on.
Whenever there was a man on the base
we had to put our gas mask on.
Whenever they hit a ball out in the
field, the fielder had to put his mask
on before he could throw it to thebase.
The same with the batter; he had. to
put his gas mask on before he could
run to the base after he had hit the
ball. Co. H won the game by one
point, the score being 6 to Z in favor
of Co. H, the company | am in.
Sept 12-I'm feeling fine today; |
been out on drill for while. All that
worries me now is how you all are at
30 n kaan
from getting hungry. | eat all l can
and in about an hour I'm as hungry
as ever. hope you all get as good as
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TAKES
ITS TOLL
George Dewey Succumbs to Disease
Wife and Children Critically Ill

John c. Dewey yesterday morning
received the sad news by telegram of
the death of his son George at Port
land. Later in the day another mes
sage told of the critical illness of Mrs.
Dewey and the four children-all VIC
tins of influenza.
George Dewey's death took place at
the Auditorium Emergency hospital,
where the wife and children also were
being cared for. The family went to
Portland last spring, where George
war working in the ship yards. MEs.
Dewey is a daughter of H. P. Hans3n,
a former Emmett farmer, now living
at Burley.
Two other deaths in that city of
former Emmett residents, from the
same cause, are reported. One of
them is E. C. Vahlberg's brother Fred
and the other is Percy Chase, who
worked on the construction of the saw
mill here and was the foreman of the
mill for nearly a year.
Four Basque sheepherders from the
VanDeusen ranch contracted the Flu
at the Spanish rooming house in
Boise and died Saturday in Boise
hospital.
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NEWS OF OUR SOLDIER
BOYS
Interesting Letters from Our
Boys at Home Camps
and Abroad.
From John Linebarger

The following letter, dated Sept.26,
has been received by Matilda Malm-
strom from John Linebarger, in
France.
will now write you a few lines as
! just came out of battle and was just
relieved of the big guns. / am some
where ou the battle front and believe
me it is sure some noisy place.
We started firing about o'clock a.
m. and fired steady until 9 this morn
ing. We sure fed those sauerkrauts
some misery and we've sure got them
on the run now. l was just down on
the road and watched the prisoners
come in and there was bunch OF
them
There is heavy battle taking place
close here now, and | can hear it plain
as all l have heard for the past 16
hours is a steady roar of the cannons,
and our old boys can sure bark is what
/ am telling you. They sure make the
earth tremble for miles around.
Oh, yes; who do you suppose | saw
the other day? l saw Emmett Ireton
and had a good long talk with him.
My, but / was glad to see some one
| knew. He found out where | was
and sent word to me, so | went and
looked him up, he looks the same old
Emmett. Dow Allen was within just
mile of where / was, but | did not
get a chance to see him. But sure
would have enjoyed seeing him, as we
were always such good pals. also
saw Paul Hughes from Emmett, l
guess you know him. 1t sure was
great to see some of the boys | knew
back home.
This was busy place last night as
everybody was going his best, but it
won't be so bad tonight as we have
them on the run. am sitting in shell
hole on my bunk writing this and l
doubt if you can read it, and it is also
getting quite dark But | will do the
best | can. Probably you will know
where I am if you read the papers, for
I am where the big drive is taking
place. This makes the second big
drive | have been in and believe me
they are sure exciting, but one soon
gets used o'all that My fingers are
awful sore from the powder smoke,
handling the big rammer. From now
on | will pull the lanyard that fires
the gun. That isn't bad, though a
little noisy, but not bad after one gets
used to it.
1t has been raining here for some
time but rain don't stop anything here
on the battle front.
Well, it has been ten long months
ago today since l left home to enter
the service and l guess you well re-
member that.
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Precaution Against Flu.

The local management Of the Boise
Payette Lumber Company are glad to
state that there are no known cases
of Flu at the mill. However all pos
sible precautions are being taken, and
four special hospital rooms have been
fitted up for use should any cases de-
velope. This is in accordance with
their reputation for preparedness and
will be greatly appreciated by MEM
bers of their working force who are
without homes.
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there is considerable work on hands
some ready for shipment.
The surgical dressings report ship
ment of 10 boxes, totaling 1854
dressings.
The child welfare reported 801 chill
dren weighed and measured, 722 prov
ing to be normal children. Of those
none were found who were manned,
deformed, blind, deaf or dumb. About
II had diseased tonsils or adenoids
and about 2 per cent were undernour-
ished.
Mrs. Miles reported 81 nurses in our
jurisdiction, being registered<an a
undergraduates, with II additional
volunteers for training. Of these one
has left for hospital in Wyoming.
Greetings from the national head
quarters were read.
Owing to the necessity of drawing
the meeting to a close because of the
of the weather, any action
of the chapter was omitted. But the
purpose was TO express to the out
going president, Mrs. G. B. Mains, by
vote of thanks, an appreciation of her
ceaseless effort and excellent success
in the handling Of real task.
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THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRY

Must revolve more rapidly and effec-
tually now than ever before.
The need for increased production is
not only great, but growing; the
assistance at the disposal of the busi-
ness man materially diminished
The officers of the First National
Bank, Emmett, Idaho, want the busi-
ness men of this community to know
that they are ever ready and willing
to extend every necessary help to
legitimate business
Confer with them.
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From Harold Cornwall.

Camp Fremont, Cal, Oct. 6. Every
one here seems to think that this is
the turning point of the war and | only
hope and pray that it is so. Not that
] don't want to fight for the U. s., but
! would like to see undisturbed peace
and then we can all be back home
where we could have some fun and
settle down.
Well, Mother, we just got our pay
and when | got my bills paid up | just
had SIS left, and then | took hand at
cards and won Is cents and then lost
it again, so then | quit and I'm not
going to play anymore for | haven't
any money to lose Some of the boys
are broke already just two days at
ter pay day. Gee, I'd hate to be
broke, so Pm going to hang on to
mine.
Oh yes, was promoted to first
class private, so get SO month more
From Wm. Cornwall.
Buliom, Franees Sept10-Dear Wife
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tied his officers club, two moving
picture houses Zone for the officers
and one for the men). Saw no pic
lures, of course, nor did we see any
wine at the club, only empty bottles,
but we did not pay any admission to
the shows nor have card to the club.
The only people in town were wo-
men and old men. | saw one thing tho
for which | give Fritz credit; at sew
eral places saw signs: "Civilian Gar
den. Entrance Forbidden" The low
er end of the village was blown off
the map by our own artillery, but
suppose the Boche tried to hold it.
There were three or four good ma
chine guns in the streets. We had ex-
pected to keep on going, but ahead
was level plain as far as we could
see and the Hun doesn't stop in
After nights sleep we came back to
the billets we formerly occupied about
twelve miles behind the original line
We got here night before last, worked
all day yesterday getting our stuff
up and expect to move
tomorrow, though of course we can't
tell.
The only drawback to the whole
was Bert Williams death. The
company was split up and he was
about two miles from where l
was: 1t seems that his section
was to follow the first wave. He
must have gotten separated from
his men. The only thing they
could learn was from a doughboy,
who said some big blonde whom
they had never seen before was
leading them at a good pace when
he went down with about three
machine gun wounds and some
shell fragments. He apparently
lived to get to hospital, for the
captain found his grave in an
American graveyard at a hospital
Will try to locate it exactly be-
fore we get away from this see
ton. We were mighty sorry to
lose him, as he was damned fine
fellow, as you know, and a good
officer well liked by his men.
was not under him directly but
was with him in action once sew
eral weeks ago and know him to
be even better in action than any
where else"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-10-31
BERT WILLIAMS PAYS
THE PRICE
Well Known Forest Service Man
Killed While in Action
in France.

/ ii. g. (Bert) Williams, well known
Throughout the Payette and Idaho
forest, having been deputy supervisor
at the Emmett forest office in 1914,
and later supervisor of the Idaho
forest at Mccall, was killed in battle
in France in September, according to
letter dated Sept. II, received yester-
day from Frank Thornburg by Guy B.
Mains. The story of how he met his
death is told in Mr. Thornburg's letter
printed below, and his many warm
friends in this section will say "Amen"
to the fine tribute paid to him by
this comrade. Mr. Williams resigned
from forest work in 1917 to enlist in
the 10th Engineers. In letter of a
few weeks ago, printed in the Index,
he told of having been assigned to the
work of teaching agriculture to the
French peasants. But his eagerness
to get into the real action led to his
transfer to the 1st Gas regiment, at
his own request, last July. His home
is at Lakeville, Conn. The letter fol-
lows:
France, Sept. 17,-"Well, we have
been in and out again and am still o.
K. We gave them h while we were
at it; only 36 hours, but had to keep
walking most of the time to keep up.
Getting ready and all we put in four
days and three nights in rain and mud,
wet all the time, no sleep and two
days on rations kindly presented by
Fritz. Our ration truck got stuck six
or eight miles behind us 1t was ra-
ther tough, but 'Oh Boy it was worth
it.
| will always take off my hat to
the doughboy; never was really with
him before We went into the front |
line trench at 9 p. m. to get ready to
do our bit. At IL the doughboys filed
in, stood in water or thin mud halfway
to their knees all night with never a
murmur. At 8 a. m. they dropped
everything they did not use to fight !
with-some even their raincoats and 1
(iron) rations Though it was raining) |
and went over the top as if on dress
parade. 1t surely was a grand sight.
We had already hidden them Godspeed
in our own peculiar way, and were
free to go back, but watched until
they went over hill half mile away,
when to our great joy we saw, instead
of the stretcher bearers and wounded
which we expected, groups of Boche
prisoners, in fives, tens and hundreds;
a hundred guarded by two doughboys
and sometimes only one, but what we
did see was surely satisfying and from
later report it was just the same
everywhere along our lines. We have
seen no papers yet.
We went over what has been No
Mans Land for almost four years.
Trees blasted and shot down that had ;
once been beautiful forest. After we
got out of that we passed along a !
good road through beautiful forest .
of beech, off the hill to an encamp- I
ment that had been filled with Boches ;
"a hours earlier. The barracks were =,
empty, but we occupied the officers I
quarters. SouYenirsl l could have I
loaded a truck, but we had already
marched eight miles without break
fast with 60-pound packs and more Z
weight had little attraction. We had
breakfast on Frits' hardtack, cold l
canned goulash and coffee, took
path in his shower bath and swimming
pool, tramped down to the village, Wis c
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-10-31
Bows Eve Injured

Ralph Munday, young son of V. b.
Munday, was painfully and quite ser
iously injured last week by being
struck with block of wood by play
mate. His eye was badly swollen and
the doctor and parents were unable to
ascertain just what the result will be,
but it is hoped the sight will not be
impaired.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-10-31

Emmett physicians report 10 cases
of influenza here. None of them is
serious All persons can assist in
stamping out the disease by avoiding
crowds; taking care of themselves;
when sneezing or coughing place a
handkerchief over the nose and mouth I;
don't get excited; wash out nose and
throat two or three times daily by a
nasal spray and by gargle with a
salt solution fhalf teaspoonful salt to
one of clean water).
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Finish Apple Packing.

The Emmett Fruit Growers Asso-
citation finished the seasons packing
Tuesday and report much better out
put than many had prophesied. They
have employed from Is to 20 packers,
and have shipped altogether 32 cars
of fruit-13 cars being apples and the
balance various other fruits.