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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06

[XTASHINGTON was made of the
w same clay as most Americans
who have won high leadership and,
like them, he cut his teeth on the
crust of poverty. Only four or FIVE
of our presidents came from poorer
homes than our first president and he
had less schooling than four-fifths of
his successors. He was, in fact, the
only president in the first forty years
who was without college education.
Not starting to school until eight, he
had to leave at fourteen to 60 to work.
Thenceforth until the Revolution the
woods and fields were his only school
room and life his only schoolmaster.
We never can truly understand this
man if we start with the mistaken idea
that he was the product of wealth and
aristocracy. His people really were
only plain, though always highly re
spectacle family, living on the out
skirts Of the cavalier castle which set
up its manors in the James river
region. Georges own father, who at
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
EYE HAS GREAT sENsITIVITY
Wonderful Human Organ Capable Of
Adapting Itself to Any Possible
Circumstances.

On entering dark room after a
stay in the outside daylight the eye
at once begins to increase in sensi-
tivity. At first this increase appears to
be slow, but after five minutes the in
crease is quite rapid, the eye acquir-
ing sensitivity several hundred times
Its initial value. After 80 min
utes' sojourn in the dark the sensitiv.
ity still increases, but more slowly
than before and after 45 minutes or
an hour the maximum sensitivity Is
reached. The final sensitivity varies
slightly with different people, but in
fully adapted condition the eye is cas-
lily 5000 or 10000 times more sensitive
than 1t was at the beginning.
These facts are obtained from
study of the sensitiveness of the eye
in the dark made by Selig Hecht of
Creighton university, Omaha, and pub
lished in the Journal of General
Physiology. Mr.. Hecht's study goes
to show that the increased sensitive
ness is due to a reversible photochem-
ical reaction within the retina, involv.
ing a photosensitive substance and it's
two products of decomposition.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
Honest Toll
By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

Jesus was a Carpenter. Cromwell
y was a Farmer. Washington was q
Surveyor. Franklin was a Printer.
Lincoln was Backwoodsman. To
get at great Character and mighty
Achievement, you are Invariably led
to the source Of it all-Honest Toll.
We are all Toilers. And there is just
as much dignity and honor back of
the sweat of the man who digs with
| his shovel or Yields with hammer as
there is behind the brain of the man
whose thoughts, trained and organ
lied, direct the energies of countless
workers.
The Glory and Reward Of Toll lie
in the Working Spirit that prompts
the smallest effort of Man.
This earth does not belong to the
peoples who inhabit it, but to those
who, in Honest Toll, magnify its Bene-
fits. You owe more to every man than
any man owes to you. We are all
Debtors-from the humblest to the
greatest. Nor is any one of us entire
~ Independent. In Honest Toll, how
ever, every man earns and pays for
his Heritage.
The most Pitiful man on Earth is
the one with nothing to do. Whereas,
the Happiest man on Earth is the one
with the most to do.
So long as you have within you,
sound and intact, the scores of marvel
Gus instruments for Labor and Serv-
ice in your Hands, Feet, Eyes, Ears,
Mouth-each overlooked by a Master
Creation-Your Brain-Complain not
that there is nothing for You in Hon
est Toll. There is everything in it.
There is nothing for you outside of it.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
EhFL. 5IVuS CAUSED III UJsI
Investigation Has Proved That Grain
Is by No Means the Only De-
structive Agent.

When the bureau of chemistry Of
the United States department of agri-
culture started Investigations with the
object of reducing fires and explosions
caused by dust In the grain elevators
and mills it was not long before the
experts realized these fires and explo-
sions were by no means confined to
the grain business. These dust-expl0-
sion investigations are having wide
influence, which has. extended to many
industries. Aluminium dust, starch
and even fish meal, by-product Of
fish canneries, have all been found
susceptible to the conditions which
produce disastrous explosions.
The latest development goes to
prove that the mysterious "blow
sacks" so well known to firemen are in
some cases caused by dust. With the
knowledge of this fact as a guide
many fatal accidents may be avoided.
The firemen of America find the mat
ter of sufficient Importance to war
rant their cooperation with the de-
partment of agriculture in study Of
preventive methods.
The subject was taken up by the
National Firemen's association at
their twenty-second annual convention
at Peoria, III. Engineers engaged in
the dust-explosion investigations rep
resented the department of agriculture
at the meeting.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
EDITOR WANTS OLD
PRIMARY LAW AGAIN

The following statements are from
a lead editorial in the Idaho Enter.
prise, Clyde Hanson, managing edi-
tor, which is published at Malad
City:
That the present bifurcated cleo
ton law Is about the most complicat-
ed and useless piece of legislation
upon our statute books is the opin-
ion of most of the people of Onei-
da county.
1t is said to be compromise be-
tween the convention plan and the
primary plan-but it appears to be
cross between political trickery
and legislative laundering, hybrid
that possesses most of the faults and
few of the virtues of either parent.
The old primary law doubtless had
many faults, but at that was far SUI
perior to the statute under which
today's election is being held in Ida
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
Found News" Exaooerated

Believing that the United States was
in the throes of a railroad strike and
not a wheel. was turning Frederick,
X. Bartlett, wealthy sugar dealer and
engineer, of Easton, Md, arrived at
New York on the steamship Mara
caibo from Venezuela with power
boat and enough gasoline to run it
to his home town. Reports received in
the South American republic, he said,
had indicated that he would. have to
make his way home without the aid
OF railroads or even automobiles, be-
cause of the gasoline shortage.
When Mr.. Bartlett found railroads
were operating he decided neverthe-
less to make water trip to Easton.
SO the boat was slung overheard and
with his wife and daughter he chug-
ged away for home.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
$1,000 IN WINE CELLARS
Rheims Finds Make Shift Shelter for
Half OF Its Prewar Pop
ulation.

Rheims, France.-France's martyr
city" has been able to offer make
shift shelter to 10000 of its citizens,
who have returned, thanks to it's miles
of wine cellars.
The city's prewar population was
10000. 1t has been possible to re-
sumo the champagne Industry almost
at once. The recovery of the textile
industry will be far less rapid, as the
plants in the neighborhood were sys-
tematically destroyed, but already sew
eral are in working order again.
The latest sign of recovery is the
resumption of the street car service,
but 1t is typical of the ruined city
that during the first trial run house,
already tottering, fell across the-track,
a few seconds after the car had passed,
owing to the slight vibration.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
No Time for Interruption,

However deplorable- the fact may
be, playing two-handed pinochle at
% cents a hand is one Of the favorite
diversions of commuters between this
city, New York, Atlantic City. Cape
May and other commercial outports of
Philadelphia. One man, who carries
his pleasures as well as his worries
home from work, was playing pi-
nochle in his library the other eve
ming with crony. when the butler
entered and handed him telegram.
He returned it unopened. "I'll look at
1t later"
"But the messenger is waiting, sir"
the butler respectfully demonstrated
The financier read the telegram. 1t
said: "Struck S,O0O-barrel gusher to.
day. Everything fine"
"Confound you, Thomas, why did
you spoil my game" he cried.
He didn't care nearly so much
about the fortune he had made, as
about the % cents he was in danger
of Observation-Disclosures Public Ledger.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
Concerning Aerial FLIGHTS.

Air Commodore Edward Maitland Of
R-34 fame, speaking at the Royal So
ciety Of Arts, said that while flying
the Atlantic he retired about 8 a. M,
and he was ashamed to say he slept
until nine the next day. He found
that the air not only induced sleep,
but sharpened the appetite. Ladies
had often asked him, the commodore
said, "In what should we dress when
about to take an aerial fight" He
felt tempted to suggest crinolines
which would become very useful as
parachutes should the necessity arise.
London Chronicle.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06

one time had been a sailing captain
in the trade with the mother coun.
try, left his wife and children at his
death five thousand acres of land
more or less unproductive; twenty.
two slaves, slender purse and lear
larder.
While at Mt. Vernon, which his old
est brother, Lawrence, had inherited
he learned the simple rudiments of
surveying, and Lord Fairfax, who lived
nearby, employed him to survey a
vast estate in the Valley Of Virginia
In his young manhood Washington
found his "inclinations strongly bent
to arms" To softer arms than those
of Mars the young militarist also was
inclined.
Frying posterity finds him at six
teen pining for a mysterious "lowland
beauty" who would not have the pen
'niless surveyor. He received also by
his own confession "cruel sentence"
from Miss Betsy" and afterward
was rejected by Miss Phillipse of New
York. At last the oft-disappointed
wooer came to the White House on
the Pamunkey, and once more he lost
his heart. The mistress of the manor,
Mrs. Martha cambridge Custis, was
wise enough to keep it, being a widow
of seven years, the mother of two
fatherless children, the owner of large
estates
When flying embers from the war
fields Of Europe ignited the savage
forests of the New World, Washing
ton was militia major, and he was
dispatched on mission to the Ohio,
perilous journey of ten weeks
through wintry desolation. The
next year he went again with a band
of soldiers, for now the Seven Years
war had spread to America. His CAM
paign was hardly glorious failure,
but he reported that he liked to hear
the bullets whistle.
Now General BraddOck came to
scorn the colonial breed while he
showed them how British regulars
fought in proper, seldierly formation.
The undrilled red children Of the for
est stubbornly refusing to fight on the
European plan, Braddock fell amid his
panic-stricken troops on the Mononga-
hela. At the head of his grave in the
wilderness the prayers for the dead
were read by Colonel Washington.
Although Washington had won no
battles, he had made most important
When the Seven Years war
came he was still an Englishman, and
to him an island three thousand miles
away still was home. In his contact
with British officers he was shocked
to find them aliens to him and his New
World and himself only colonial in
their eyes. With native condescension
they undertook to teach him his place.
but with native independence he OBJ
iected.
BY the time the Seven Years. war
vas over the colonial colonel no longer |
was an Englishman. That Illusion was
gone and had left Washington M
American.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
WELL ON ROAD TO WEALTH
Farmer Undoubtedly Has a Great
Scheme Unless Some Indignant
Motorist Should Catch On"

Straight ahead lay long, straight
stretch of road, and the man at the
wheel of the car settled down in his
seat. 1t was evident he was prepar.
ing for a sprint.
But before he was well under way
an honest-eyed old farmer stepped
from the roadside toward him and
held out OBTAINING hand.
"Thowt mebber We would be a-goin'
to 60 full steam ahead" he remarked
casually when the car slid to stand
still.
The motorist nodded in reply.
well, just take a look through
these at that tree over the bend" went
on the farmer, producing an elderly
pair Of field glasses, "and happen ven
change your mind"
Great Scott!" exclaimed the motor
list when the glasses disclosed a blue
trousered figure perched on branch
In the tree. II say, thanks most
awfullyw
There was the sound of coin clink-
ing on coin and then the motor went
sedately down the road at about six
miles an hour. And at the beginning
of the clear stretch of roadway the
honest-eyed farmer was counting his
cash.
1.-THE idea O. carting the old scare
crow from the orchard and perching it
In that ere tree works out pretty
WE'LL" he chuckled as he heard an
other car approaching. London Tit.
Bits.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
Historic House a Factory

Apparatus for the manufacture o.
insecticide soon will be installed In tn.
old BillOp house at Tottenville, head
quarters of General Howe during the
British occupation of Staten Island ir
1776 and since then place of historic
interest. Announcement of the sale
of the property was made yesterday
and with it came the news that the OLD
house will be converted into a fac.
tory.
All efforts to have the state pur.
chase the house and preserve it and
its dungeon and secret underground
passageway as relics of the War for
independence were unsuccessful. -
New York Times.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
Just Folks
By EDGAR A. GUEST
THE cooKIE.LApY.

THE cooKIE-LADY.
She is gentle, kind and fair,
And there's silver in her hair,
She has known the touch of sorrow
But the smile of her is sweet;
And sometimes it seems to- me
That her mission is to be
The gracious cookie-lady
To the youngsters of the street.
All the children in the block
Daily stand beside the crock
Where she keeps the sugar cookies
That the little folks enjoy,
And no morning passes DER
That tapping at her door
Doesn't warn her of the visit
OF certain little boy.
She has made MIN feel that he
Has natural right to be
In her kitchen when she's baking
Pies and cakes and ginger bread,
And each night to me he brings
ALI the pretty, tenuef tnlngS
About little by-gone children
That the cookie-lady said.
Oh, dear, cookie-lady sweet
May you beautify our street
With your kind and gentle presence
Many more glad years, pray;
May the skies be bright above you,
As you've taught our babes to love
you
You will scar their hearts with sor-
row
If you ever 60 away.
Life is strange, and when I scan 1t,
I believe God tries to plan It,
So that where he sends his babies,
In that neighborhOod to dwell
One Of rare and gracious beauty
Shall abide, whose sweetest duty
Is to be the cookie-lady
That the children love so well.
Copyright by Edgar A. Guest)
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
HAVE ~ALL KINDS OF MONEY
Esthonians Need "Rapid Calculator
When They Have to Make
Change for Cent.

London.-One advantage enjoyed by
Great Britain, says the Daily Chronicle,
is that although the exchange situa-
ton is adverse, the people know the
worst.
According to the Board of Trade
Journal. the Esthonians haven't this
advantage. Their currency includes:
Esthonian marks, Car rubles, duma
rubles, Kerensky rubles, Yudenitch
rubles, Finnish marks. Danish kroner
Swedish kroner, cost" rubles and
marks, relics of the German occupa-
tion English notes and German marks.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
Books From Washinqton's Library

i BOOKS from WaSnin9IOn'S Library.
The sale of the library of the late
Samuel Riker of this city was con-
Guided at the Anderson Galleries re-
Gently. DR.. A. S. Rosenbach paid
$4,000 for George Washington's copy
of "A Collection of All the Treaties
of Peace, Alliance, and Commerce Be-
tween Great Britain and Other Pow
ers From the Treaty Signed at Mum
ster, in 1854, to Treaties Signed at
Paris, in 1888" three volumes, Lon
don, 1856. The work contains Wash
ington's autograph on each title page
and his book plate on the inside of
each front cover. The work was auc-
toned off at the sale of the library
of Lawrence Washington, the great
grandson of George Washington. in
Philadelphia, in 1876.-New York
Times.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
Palm to Palm Is Holy paImers Kiss.

Oxford, O.-They'll soon be dancing
just as their mothers did at Oxford
If the censors keep up their work
Miss Dorothy Holiday of Detroit,
president of the Student Government
league of Western college here, says:
'The girls who dance set standards,
and one thing which is tabooed here,
Is cheek to cheek dancing"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
Marry in Haste

AT tea number of ladies were dis
cussing the best age at which to marry
Some championed thirty years, some
.wenty-eight, some twenty-seven. Then
Miss Elsie De Wolfe, who has SO bril-.
liantly succeeded in so many fields,
laughed and said:
THE best age to marry is while
you're still too young to know better, /"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06
A Biz Contract.

II see where the people at Atlantic
City are asking the authorities to
make the high winds stop blowing
the sand about at Chelsea"
"Next thing the public will be de-
handing that somebody stop the hot
air blowing in congress-"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06

no.
onquestionably, the primary cleo
ton law is right in theory and an
honest effort toremedy its faults ra-
tner than an attempt to DESTROY It.
Is what the voters Of this state de-
sire. Undoubtedly the present law
was enacted in good faith. There
was considerable fault found with
primary law, but the people now re.
aiize that even poor primary law IL
better than the old convention svs-
TEN.
In most primary elections in Onei-
da county, about so per cent Of those
who voted in the general election
participated in the primary election
IT is doubtful If the vote today will
De 20 per cent of what will he cast
at the general election.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06

MISS Marion Chubbuck and James
went 70 Pocatello Wednesday night
LOT three or four days visit with
their aunt.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06

Miss Ethel Rand, resident worker
for the Club for Hungarian Servant
Girls, fitted up on the third floor Of
the Hungarian Baptist church, 225
East Eightieth street, New York,
which takes the place Of Y. W. G.
A. for Hungarian servants. 1t was
equipped by various churches and is
run on club plan.
The Jones County news., 1920-10-07

Notice Is hereby given that tne clerk
OF this board will aeceiye sealed
bids to be filed wlte the clerk OF
this board by l2o'clcs N. on the 18Th
daY OF September A. d. 1922, at Ella
lsville, Mississippi, on furnishing
the county county With 300 Flank
bonds andcoapons attached, for the
$500. 0O0000 enad bond issue.
Bidders to turkish speciman Of Bons
ds coupons and etc. The board reser-
YES the right to rejoice auy and all
bids.
Witness my hand and official seal
said board on the 10th day oi
August A. ID. 1870.
u. s. Collins
Chaucery Clerk.
BY A. c. Breckenridge
Dupety Clerk.
The Jones County news., 1920-10-07

NOTICE or SALEoF LAND
BY virtue of the authority con.
fsrred - ne as speeiai mmissionar
5y decree of b1 chancellor render
Cd in vacation on September Sih. 1920
in the matter OF the petition OF vii
ton Pitts et Al ex patte. will on
Monday the llth. day I October with
in legal hours Of safe sell "a the high.
est bidder FOR cash 8 front Of the
court hou door at EIlisville. Miss,
the following described land;
SWl ofSEl-4and theSEl.4 ofSW1
Section 2sand the NWl.4of NWi.4 OF
Section 26, and the NE1.4 os NEl-4
of Section q, all in Township I,
North, Range II West IN the first
District OF Jones County, Miss.
Said land is sold for division OF the
proceeds among the parties interest
ed, and the title is believed to be
good, but l shall cnnvey such title
only as is vested ia me as special
commissioner.
This the 10th. day of September 1920.
w. Is. V elch,
Special Commissioner.
The Jones County news., 1920-10-07

When You want % buy groce-
ries see Wofford Collins and get
the best prices also the best
groceries.
Read the advertisement Of the
Cumberland Telephone Company
in this weeks issue.
W,ANTED:-A boy who is not
afraid of work to learn theEPrint
ers trade. A boy fran the coun.
try preferred. between IA and 1S
years of age. A good chance for
the right boy. Apply at News
office. If.
The Jones County news., 1920-10-07
Wards Pharmacy

Notice of the proposal Of the Board
OF supervors of Jones County, Miss
ssippi TO borrow money;
To The adult tax payers of Jones
County, Mississippi, exclusive OF those
payingpon tax only.
Notice is hereby given that the
board Of Supervisors OF Jones county,
Mississippi, propose at a meeting to b.-
held At Ellisville Jones County Miss
ssippi. at II O'Clock A. NJ. on the 10,
day of September A. d. 1920, to bur-
row the sum OF $50 900. 90 for the pur-
pose OF defraying the expenses of the
County for the year 1920, and to issue
Loan Warranty on the Treasure OF
aid0ounty, therefor, bearing interets
at the rate OF not to exceed per cent the
oan warrant to be payable on the 10Th
day Of FEBRUARY A. d. 1921, and will do
sonuiess on or before the 18th day Of
September A. D1s20. 10 per cent of the
adult tax payers ofthe County excite
sively Of those paying poll tax only
shall file with said board petition
against the borrowing of said money.
The board in taking this action is pro
ceeding under the authority vested
in them ny Section 1874 of the Miss,
issippi code 1906 and the amending
laws Chapter 227 laws 1920.
Witness my signature this the
18th day Of August A. y. 1920.
y. S.CoLLINs
Clerk OF Board OF Supervisors
of Jones County, Mississippi
BY A. c. EcRN5 N5RNRIDE d. c.
lie it resolved by the Mayor and
Board OF Aldermen OF the city OF
Ellisville, Miss that it is the inten-
tions OF The Mayor and Board Of
Aldermen at a regular meeting OF
said Mavor and Board of Aldermen
when they make the levy of taxes for
said city for the year 1920 to add not
to exceed two mills levy in addition
to the other levy OF taxes OF said city
for the purpose of providing an addi-
tional street fund IN addition 10 the
regular street tax already provided by
law, provided that at an election
which is hereby ordered to be held on
Friday October the ist l920in said
city of Ellisville Miss at the Mayor s
loiiice in said city majority of the
qualified electors of said city voting
at said election, shall Votein favor oi
said levy.
II is further ordered that the Clerk
have this resolution published in a
newspaper published In said city as
required by law for the publishing
| of such resolutions and notices of
such elections and that the Election
Commissioners of said city publish a
notice of said Election and bold said
election at the time and place aboye
designated.
/ n. p. Cough, Clerk OF the City OF
Ellisvilie Miss hereby certify that the
above and foregoing resolution is
true aud correct COPY ct 2 resolution
passed by the Mayor and Board Of
Aldermen of the civ sf E';isyille,
Miss at regular meeting of said May
or and Board of Aldermsn of said
city on the It'll GeS Of Soptember 1920.
This the ssh day CT September A D
1920,
II. 2. Cough Clerk.
The Jones County news., 1920-10-07
CITATION NOrICE.

CITATION NOTICE.
To Broorker T. Goodlow Whose Post
Of flee address is unknown:
You are hereby Commandeb to
appear before the Chancery Court Of
the Second District OF Jones County,
Mississippi, at term Of said court
to be held on the 4th Monday OF
October AID. 1920, to defend in said
court the suit of Lillian GoodIow
Wherein you are made defendant.
Witness my hand and official seal OF
said court on this the 1Ith day of
September AID, 1920.
US. Collins,
Chancery Clerk,
A. G. Breckenridge,
Deputy Clerk.