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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21
NEW SUGAR REGULATIONS
Food Administration Supplying Mer-
chants With Sugar Blanks for Pa
irons.

County Food Administrator Myers is
sending the following letter to dealers
in foodstuffs, today:
Dear Sir: l am sending you here
with a considerable quantity of sugar
certificates. Additional certificates
will be supplied you as needed.
Upon due execution of one of the
certificates, permission may be given
to any one in your county to buy not
to exceed 100 pounds of sugar for can
ming and preserving purposes only.
You will notice that in consideration
of this privilege the purchaser prom
ises to limit the use of sugar for all
other purposes in the household to
three pounds or less per person per
month for the duration of the war
Under no circumstances may sugar
be sold in larger amounts than in S1.00
quantities to city customers and to
twenty-five pounds to country custo-
mers without the execution of the GER
tifcate.
Any violation of this rule. or failure
to obtain a certificate in writing for
each sale for home canning and pre-
serving purposes will be cause for
denying a merchant perEiss on to sell
sugar in any quantity. Any person
making improper use of 4 certificate to
obtain sugar will be denied the right
to make any further purchases of that
commodity.
Please call attention to the fact that
families in the state of Idaho are
placed on their honor not to purchase
a larger supply of sugar than will be
required for their use in canning fruit
and vegetables and that many should
be able TO do with considerably less
than the authorized 100 pounds. When
ever possible they are asked to do so.
The merchant selling the sugar must
make a record in a book kept for that
purpose, showing dates of sales. name
of purchasers and amounts purchased,
SO that he may at all times know the
amount so sold and that the county
food administrators may be readily
able to check up such sales, whenever
in their judgment reason to do so
exists. Purchases for home canning
and preserving purposes must not ex-
ceed 100 pounds without special per-
mission from the county food admin
istratOrs.
Yours very truly,
POWER COUNTY FOOD ADMIN
ISTRATION.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

THRIFT STAMP SALES.

Due TO the closing of a number of
schools the Thrift Stamp reports are
growing fewer in number. but the
children are not forgetting their part
in the war. Another Thrift Stamp
garden club has been formed. in Dis
trict No. 22. Mrs Dickinson teacher.
with eight members. The children
pledge themselves to grow "A acre of
potatoes or beans and to invest the
proceeds in Thrift Stamps: Clifford
Cochran, Charley Campbell. Walter
Mattingly, Bruce Coulter, Grace Mat
tingly, Edward Mattingly, Reba Coul-
ter and Roberta Coulter.
Cove school. Lucetta Meeks teacher.
S5.66. Iris Blanchard leading with SO.
Roy, Bess Matthews teacher S325.
Mount Hope, Mrs r. c. DeatOn
teacher, $3.50, Willie Isaak leading
with $175.
Cedar Greek, Grace Cronkhite teach
er, S2.75, Gustina Brucks leading with
S2.15.
Cedar Ridge, Bessie NJ. Davis teach
er, S1.25, Alice Ziek leading with 81.
Mt. View. Helen f. Evans teacher
so cents. Ivan Clark leading
Neeley. grades l. and 4. Laura
Phelps teacher. 25 cents. Ella Isaak
leading.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

if possible, it is knitting he world to-
gether.
Look at the picture. In the center
of the scene, four nations engaged
against the world, and at every point
of vantage showing that they are
seeking selfish aggrandizement; and,
against them, % governments repre-
senting the greater part of the pOpu-
lation of the world drawn together
into a new sense of community of in
terest, new sense of community of
purpose, a new sense of unity of life.
THE secretary of war told me an
interesting incident the other day. He
said when he was in Italy a member
of the Italian government was ex-
planning to him the many reasons why
Italy felt near to the United States.
If you want to try an interesting g
experiment go up to any one of these
troop trains and ask in English how
many of them have been in America
and see what happens
Heart of America in Italy.
HE tried the experiment. He went
up to troop train and said How
many of you boys have been in Amer
ica?' and he said it seemed to him as
if half of them sprang up. Me from
San Francisco; me from New York, all
over There was part of the heart of
American in the italian army People
that had been knitted to us by asso-
citation, who knew us, who had lived
amongst US, who had worked shoulder
to shoulder with US. and now friends
of America, were fighting for their
native Italy
Friendship is the only cement that
will ever hold the world together.
And this intimate contact of the Red
Cross with the peoples who are suf-
fering the terrors and deprivations of
this war is going to be one of the
greatest instrumentalities of friend
ship that the world ever knew, and
the center of the heart of it all, if we
sustain it properly, will be this land
that we so dearly love.
Day OF Duty Has Come.
"My friends, a great day of duty
has come, and duty finds a mans soul
as no kind of work can ever find it,
May l say this? The duty that
faces us all now is to serve one an
other, and no man can afford to make
fortune out of this war. There are
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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21
BRAVE SLACkER FOUND
HIDING UNDER BED
Defied Deputy Sheriff WalwOrth With
Toy Pistol, But Bluff Didn't Work.

Frank Dumont, who is delinquent
several months in the matter of filing
his questionable, and who has been
hiding out around Bull, over in Neva-
da and other places for several months,
was located in a shack in Prosperity
Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Fred Wal
worth, and is now languishing in Jail.
The sheriff's office received a tip on
DumOnt's whereabouts and early Sun
day morning Fred was on his way
Arriving on the scene Walworth
knocked at the door and demanded
admittance DumOnt said he would
open the door, but did not do so After
waiting a reasonable length Of time
Walworth again demanded that the
door be opened. This time he was
met with a def. Dumont said he
would not open the door. and that no
one else better try, threatening to
shoot several holes through anyone
who did so.
Walworth promptly kicked the door
in, and jumped aside to let the prom
ised stream of bullets go by. but none
came. Mrs Dumont, instead, appear
ed, and Fred ordered her aside and
stepped in. Dumont was found under
a bed behind some sacks draped down
to conceal him. with a 32-calibre re-
volver sticking out between the sacks.
He was ordered out. and came. If
you'd have shot me with that and
ever found it out" said Walworth. I'D
have beat you half to death.
Just what action will be taken in
the case is. of course. not known, as
it is a matter for the federal authori-
ties to decide 1t is said that Dumont
had boasted that he would not enter
the army and would not be taken
alive
DumOnt's order number is 623, way
down 10 the foot of the list. He is
married. and had he returned his
QUESTIONABLE. claimed exemption on
the grounds of having dependents and
made himself useful in almost any
kind of work. there is little danger that
he would ever have been called
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

A bill to make disloyal utterances
grounds for revoking the citizenship
of Germans or Austrians naturalized
in the United States has been prepar-
ed by the department of justice. and
soon will be introduced in congress.
J. W. BrintOn, of St Paul. general
manager Of the Consumers United
Stores company. a Nonpartisan league
enterprise. was placed under arrest in
Fargo Saturday afternoon by United
States Marshal 5. ] Doyle, charged
with violation OF the espionage act.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

Raises Red Cross War Fund Quota al
Meeting Monday Night.

Second honors in the Red Cross war
fund drive go to Crystal, whose people
at a meeting held Monday night went
over the top with subscriptions of s210
and an apportionment of 1896. DO
it now" was the slogan, instead of
stringing the work out over a week
The meeting was addressed by Rev.
L. B. Jones, W. y. Currier, E. A. Strong
and H. c. Wones Roy beat Crystal
in reaching the quota. having finished
in the afternoon without holding a
meeting.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

ROY GETS Blue RIBBON.

Roy gets the blue ribbon in
the Red Cross War Fund drive.
It reported Monday afternoon
that il had annexed the Roy
Divide and had raised more
than the quota for both, in
cluding the apportionment for
Armenian relief. The quota Of
the two places was S212, and
$214 was quickly raised. E. J.
Peterson and c. ] Sprigg were
leaders in the campaign. No
entertainment or other money
raising plan was adopted other
than outright giving. The peo-
pie Of Roy have again abundant
ly made good.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21
LETTERS FROM POWER
COUNTY SOLDIERS

Mrs. Charles Lee is in receipt of the
following copy of a letter written by
her son, Major Alva, Lee, to his aunt,
Mrs. Gustafson, in Nebraska
Columbia, S. c., May 6.-My Dear
Aunt: l was delighted to hear that
both of my cousins are in the service,
and want to assure you that it will do
them a great deal of good. Any branch
of the service at the present time re-
quires lots of hard work and quick
thinking. Young men are taught prop
er obedience to authority; they are
given lots of healthy exercise; expert
surgenos look after their health and
Y. NJ. c. A. workers look after their
morals. Two or three years service is
as good as a university education for
anyone who is willing to study and ap-
ply himeslf l think Haywood will be
in the service very soon. and Robert
undoubtedly by next fall. l have ad-
vised them both to get in the artillery,
either the drafted army or the regular
army. My training has been princi-
pally in the infantry but boys who
know horses as they do l believe would
do better in the artillery.
have a big job here and it keeps me
working all day and into the night.
have charge of the training, i. e., the
discipline and instruction, of the en-
tire division of 27O0O men, and you
can readily understand this is a big
job.
l believe the war is going along
very we'll. AS soon as we get two or
three million troops in France the Ger
mans will begin to lose, and will lose
steadily until they are ready to ask for
peace But to get two or three million
troops to France and support them af-
ter they are there, it is necessary that
the country wake up and take the war
seriously. 1t is very discouraging to
one of our soldiers, who works like a
dog for II or 13 hours a day for $50
a month, to read about a strike in a
shipbuilding plant for an increase of
wages to $6.10 a day instead of $3.50,
and cut in working hours from to
hours a day. Everybody has got to wake
up and work harder at some useful
employment and buy fewer things to
eat and wear. We have got to begin
doing this right away if we expect to
put an effective army against Ger
many
l notice what you say about my
being a fourth cousin of Robert E..
Lee l used to have a copy OF the
family record, a typewriter copy of
the original held by the captain. but
/ have lost this l wonder if by any
chance you could get me copy. If
not, could you furnish me with the
data on the subject. l never cared
much for family connections, but the
Lee family is such a large one, and
have run into so many Virginia
Lees, that l would like to be able TO
trace the connection if possible.
would like especially to know the full
name of grandfathers father, where
he was born, where he lived. and ex-
actly how they were related TO Robert
Z. l would be very much obliged for
this and any other information along
this line.
I shall not leave the United States
for two or more months, but we
hope TO get over soon. It is very nee
essary work we are doing on this
side, but naturally it will be much
more interesting on the other side.
MAJOR ALVA LEE
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21
MISSING PAPERS.

Twelve subscribers living on
route l report having failed to
receive issues of the Press of
May 10 and II. 1t will be appre-
ciated if subscribers who fail
to receive their papers will
promptly report the matter. by
phone when possible, so that
the trouble may be located and
corrected. 1t is a striking CO.
incidence that twelve people
should miss the same identical
issues.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

LAND SALE POSTPONED.

A telephone message was re-
ceiyed from State Land Com
missioner Smoot yesterday ev-
ening, giving notice that the
land sale set for June Is had
cen indefinitely postponed. No
explanation accompanied the an
nouncement, and it is presumed
that it was concluded that COM
ing SO soon after the Lierty
Loan and Red Cross drives, a
scarcity of money might result
which would operate against
the success of a sale at that
tim. Boise parties now in Boise
will doubtless be able to make
the reason clear upon their re-
turn.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21
ENLISTS IN MARINES.

w. c. Loufbourrow enlisted in the
marines and will leave tomorrow for
California to attend a school for that
branch of the service. Friends of Mr..
Loufbourrow hope that he will come
out of the school with a commission
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

TO REGISTER YOUNG MEN.

Young men who have become
q since June . last, will be re-
quired to register for army
service the coming 5th of June,
according to advices received
by the local exemption board
yesterday. Arrangements are
not yet completed, but it is
probable that only four regis
tration places will be provided
one for Arbon and Crystal,
one for American Falls and
vicinity, one for Pleasant Val
ley and. vicinity, and one for
the ROckland valley. Definite
announcement will be made
within a short time.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

Anyone just dying to get to France
quick-who just simply can't wait for
the draft to reach him. if qualified for
tank service. can get 10 France in
fifty days by applying to W. R. Girls
void.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

Officers Training School, Camp
Custer, May 16, 1916. Dear Mr.. Bar
ber-I will write you thanking you
for sending your paper. My address
is now o. T. c., Camp Custer. Michi-
gan. They picked me as one of the
lucky ones to attend this school. 1t
will mean hard work but l guess it
won't hurt me any. We expect to stay
here three months but don't know
yet The camp is five miles out of
Battle Greek which is a very pretty
place. Your friend,
FLOYD STUART.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Ferguson of Idaho
Falls were visiting Mrs. Ferguson's
parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. VI. Davie
Sunday.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21
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+ WAR ECONOMY RECIPES.



One-half cup stoned dates. 1 u
cups cottage cheese.
Cut dates in halves and steam them
until tender enough to pierce easily
with fork. When cool mix lightly
with the cheese. Chill and serve with
cream on toasted waters as a lunch
con dish. This recipe serves three
peOple.-Mrs Hager.
Cottage Cheese Salad Dressing.
Four egg yolks or whole eggs,
tablespoon vinegar or lemon, table
spoons butter. tablespoons sugar or
honey, l teaspoon mustard l teaspoon
salt, paprika, 1-2 cup skim milk
Heat milk in double boiler, beat eggs
add to all other ingredients and pour
hot milk over it, Beat constantly.
cook until thick Beat into it from
IA to IL cup cottage cheese.-Mrs.
Unger.
Parker House Potato Rolls.
Two cupfuls of potatoes, l table
spoon of lard. tablespoonful sugar,
teaspoonful salt, l egg, l cupful milk.
yeast cake, flour.
Add to hot riced potatoes the lard.
sugar and salt. When cool add egg
and yeast dissolved in the milk. Beat
we'll. add flour enough to make soft.
easily handled dough. Let rise until
double bulk. Roll out, cut, brush with
butter, fold over. Let rise until light
and bake in quick oven-NIrs T. T.
ST. John
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

There will be a Red Cross
dance and supper at the Sun
beam school Friday evening,
May "a. Two Red Cross speak
ers will be supplied for the oc-
casion. A sale of donated ar
ticles will be held, and the dis
trict expects to go over the top
with its quota at that time.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21

The Red Cross drive seems to be
doing fine.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21
World Is Knit Together.

Have you formed a picture in
your imagination of what this war is
doing for us and for the world? In
my own mind I am convinced that
not hundred years of peace could
have knitted this nation together as
this single year of war has knitted it
together; and better even than that,
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
WICKEs WAVES.

Miss Mamie Rhinehart went to Fort Smith last Sunday
 Miss Bessie Muckelrath left last Friday for Mooringsport, La.
 J E. Joplin went to Fort Smith on Tuesday to purchase spring goods
 Our school is going on nicely. and not missing any time during the bad weather.
 Herman Black. grandson of W. H. Darwin, has joined the army and is BOW at Muskogee, Ok.
 Mrs. D. L. Rollins has gone to DeQueen to see her daughter. Mrs Mary Spencer, who IS sick.
 Henry May moved his household goods to Cove last Saturday, where he is going t0 work al the planer.
 ]. l. Sanford and J Brinton had T union hog killing last Friday at Ar. Sanford's home. butehering fl nice hogs.
 Mrs. G w Mucklerath is selling her farm implements and getting ready to move to Mooringsport. La, where MT. Muckelrath is employed.
 Our lIttle town seems to be very fortunate so far about the measles as we have not had any cases here vet Health IS good in our commu- nIty.
 About the most important news is hf you have any wood on hand. for certainly 1t is good thing to have
 Mrs. Ola May Tnnnel and son, Lewis, who has been visiting her parents for the past two weeks. re-
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
DALLAS DOINGs.

Mrs. John Ogden has returned from Texarkana. leaving her daugh- ter much improved.
 Mrs G. M. Pledger returned home on Wednesday from Board Camp, where she had been for a week.
 Mrs. Eugene Summerville left on Sunday morning to join her hus- bad at Caney, Kas., where he is working on a ranch.
 Mir. Matthews is still on the sick list. but is reported a little better Ward Goodwin and Fred Farms worth cut wood for him Monday.
 Dr. ]. G. Hilton was called to visit the sick at HuIston's. He reported them a little better On his return he ran out of gasoline and had to walk about a mile 10 J. D. Kaylor's Co get a supply.
 Snow, and still snowingl Haven't we had a long spell of weather the past two weeks? There is not much prospects of it being better soon The STOW is estimated al from six to ten inches deep. The heaviest snow seen in Polk county in many years
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
RANSOM REPORTS.

There was no school Monday rain and sleet preventing.
 Mrs. .Ithro Fouche visited her mother, Mrs. Blair, Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Edward Shinn were in Mena on business Tuesday.
 Pool Wagner of Nunley was a caller on Ransom friends Saturday.
 Mrs. Gardner fell one day last week and it is thought she broke some ribs.
 The Story Tellers' League will give another program Friday after noon if the weather permits.
 R. A. Thomas. Edward Shinn and Burt Mount have been busy hauling wood to Mena. The demand for wood cannot be met.
 Fred Norris is spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. Hunter Elem ing. He is exposed to the measles and has left home until all danger has passed
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
A REAL WARTIME pHoT0pLAy.
The Lyric Theatre Secures "Civil:-
 zatiOn" for January 30 and 3f.

Civilization" a film spectacle of the same size and scope as The Birth of Nation" yet totally differ ent in theme and story, is to be seen Tn Mena at last. It will be produced Tn the Lyric Theatre "Wednesday and Thursday, January 30 and 3i. The picture ran all summer in New York, Boston and Chicago.
 Civilization received it's inspir- ation from the World War now rag ing in the Eastern Hemisphere. II IS convincing argument against givlng any one man the power to declare war on his fellowmen, nc matter how much justification there may be for such action. There are battle scenes by the dozens all of them said to be amazing specimens of motion photoplay at it's best, Armies of people are employed not only on land, but water. For "Civi- lizatlon' not only depicts the hor- TOTS of war upon those actually en- gagged in it, but upon innocent people and the neutral inhabitants of other nations. To emrhasize the latter point, the sinking of the Lusi- tania is reproduced in startling de- tail. This scene was made possible thru the cooperation of the Navy Department in Washington which loaned to the producers of "Civili- zation' several United States sub- marines. A large freighter was se- cured and transformed into a pass enger steamer. This boat was filled with hundreds of men, women and children, most of them professional swimmers. When torpedoes struck the ship, therefore. and sunk it in less than ten minutes the necessary Illusion was created but no one hurt in the confusion, or drowned. The entire scene is said to be a master piece in spite of the fact that the camera seems to have a boundless scope.
 The most remarkable portions of Civilization are those that repre- sent Christ descending upon earth to view the slaughter of those he in- structed to Love one another. :. This element of the picture is SC carefully and so reverently handled that no offense is given anyone. Al the same time the bitter irony of civilization as the world knows il today, is driven home with telling effect. As the producer of the pie ture. Thos. H. Ince, has put in one of his titles; 'In nineteen hundred years the world has refused to hon estly accept the teachings of Christ
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
OLD COVE.


 Mir. and Mrs. C. Liner visited Mir and Mrs Nanderburg Sunday.
 Most everyone thinks that contin- ued showing is nice on account of getting wood.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. J. Turner have re- turned from Louisiana where they have heen visiting their son, Will.
 A Mir. White of Texas. who has only been here a few weeks, had the misfortune of losing horse. The horse slipped and fell on the ice.
 A big boy was born to Mir and Mrs. Cornell, Dr. Young attending. Mir. Cnnell is a new conner from Texas, having bought out w. E. Seals.
 The horse that got away from J. l.. Stockton on Sunday before Christ mas was a mystery and a puzzle to everybody. was found, having fell in branch not over quarter of a mile from the church.
 Early Riser.