davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
New Slaughter House.

Because the slaughter house of the
Valley Meat Market, east of town, was
not located suitably for keeping it in
a sanitary condition on account of
drainage and disposal of the offal, it
it being moved to location near the
city dump. There a modern plant is
being built. 1t will be equipped with
a septic tank and other appliances for
the disposition of everything that
might contaminate the meat or the
water supply.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

The fiddler's farming was the joke
of the community, He had a strange
antipathy for, or fear Of horse, and
would not have one on his farm. He
put in and tended his crops with a
hoe and harvested them in a wheel
barrow. He would, not even ride be-
hind horse if ne could help it, and
invariably walked to the darces at
which he played. Some of them were
held at distance of ten miles or
more from his home, and one often
saw him setting out as early as 3
o'clock in the afternoon for the dance
at which he was to play that night.
After the dance he walked back home
again.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
KANSAS
PICNIC
Former Residents Organize to Hold
Annual Reunion.

Former Missourians and Kansans,
now living in the Emmett country
held picnic and reunion in Dewey
grove on Tuesday decided to make
the affair an annual event, and those
Mrs. Fred A. West as chairman of
the newborn organization.
About fifty were present and a
most enjoyable day was spent in re-
calling experiences of both their old
and new homes. At noon, well filled
baskest of food were opened and an
old fashioned picnic dinner partaken
of in the shade. 1t was voted to hold
next years picnic in August
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Grain Yields H,g

Some grain yields from east of
town that hit the high spots: Ancy
Sullivan reports an average yield Of
oats grown by him to be 72 bushels
rel acre. Alma YergansoR's wheat
measured 81 bushels to the acre:
Charles L. Anderson's, At bushels; j.
M. Jones's, 40 bushels-all from GER
titled seed of the Dicklow variety.
Evidently it pays to use pure-bred
seed just as Ii does to RI .e pure-brtd
stock.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
IDAHO sPUDs

o 1t has been estimated that the Z
@ Oregon Short Line will handle (
o approximately 9,178,000 bushels Z
o of potatoes over its lines in Ida {
@ no this fall Tributary to the &
o railroad there are $4,000 acres
o planted in potatoes. The pota- {
@ toes run as high as 220 sacks to .
:. the acre. Three thousand five Z:
:. cars will be needed to move the ::
@ potato crop in the Burley sec 6
@ ton, and the average capacity of Z:
@ car is 400 sacks. The govern .
@ ment estimated that the entire &
@ acreage in this state planted in 6
o potatoes amounts to 53,10O 9
o acres. The total Idaho potato 9
@ yield this season is estimated at g
O 9,500,00O bushels. 9
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
BALL GAME SUNDAY
Old-Time Stars to Play Mill Stars
Benefit Labor Day Fund.

A ball game that will put in the
shade any game ever played in the
history of Emmett, if not in the
world, will take place Sunday after
noon, beginning at 8 o'clock, and
should therefore attract large crowd
For there will be fun galore and
doubtless excitement will run to a
high pitch.
If anyone is skeptical, let him
glance over the following list of play
ers who will participate and then
draw hissown conclusions:
All Stars-Joe Dion, c; M. Horton,
p; Ed Skinner, 1 b: Joe Cresswell, 2b;
Harry Shropshire, SIS; F. D. Bowen,
3b; John Barbour, If; John Ketchen,
cf; James Kinzer, rf; Frank Knox and
Dave Murray, substitutes.
Mil Stars-John Atkins, If; Hans
Hansen, cf; A. j. Kelley, rf; o. j.
Jones, D; Robt. Burlingame, c; A. j.
Colvin, 1b; F. W. Tarleton, 2b; John
Sundberg, 3b; Jas Henderson, SIS; Geo.
Code, Oscar Staaf and w. H. Hoover,
substitutes.
Relief players for the All Stars are:
Lou Burton, Smith, Claude Polly,
Claude Roberts, Reub Eaton, VIM.
Madden, Mullay, Sam Mcmillan, Ralph
Hayes and Ed Mays. For the Mill:
L. Coffee, ]. D. Brown, J. c. Kauble,
Joe Campbell, D. Coffee, ]. B. Hall,
E. Howell, v. Bergeson, Ed Schiller,
VIM. Moulton, H. D. Buschki.
The proceeds will go to the Labor
Day celebration fund.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Emmett Bows Open Garage.

Donald Rose and Earl Newman
both former Emmett boys have gone
into business for themselves and open
ed up garage in Boise at 10th and
Main. The building was formerly oc-
cupied by H. C. Wilson, and built for
garage purposes. The firm will put
in modern repair equipment and be
TO do first class work.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

Prof. Aldrich's weakness, not un-
common one, by the way, was the be-
lief that he could sing He knew music
thoroughly and could play seven or
eight different instruments. But he
had not the slightest suggestion of a
voice and the free and easy musical
standards of the community were
powerless to endow him with one.
But Prof. Aldrich always sang at pub
lie entertainments. His favorite Sc
lection was the "Marseillaise." In
the 20 or 80 years the community
knew him intimately, he must have
sung the "Marseillaise" to it on more
than one hundred occasions. In time
everybody came to know it was the
national anthem of France. Many
American communities were less
strongly fortified in knowledge at the
beginning of the late war.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Pumping Pint Tor South Side.

Announcement was also made that
the board had under consideration the
establishment of pumping plant to
raise water from the Cooperative
canal to water 1000 acres on the lower
end of the South Side canal. The
plant would be located near the bridge
over the Coop. canal on the Caldwell
road. Two kinds of motor power are
being considered-gasoline engine
and electric motor Many favor the
latter, as it would mean the building
of a power line along the slope and
thus provide power for other pumping
plants to irrigate valuable fruit lands
above the Canyon canal.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Injured in Pearl Mine.

William Kloth was severely injured
at Pearl Wednesday by an explosion
in the mine in which he was working.
He was blasting some holes in the
mine and the dynamite exploded be-
fore he was able to get out of the
shaft. One leg was badly lacerated,
a rock the size of fist being imbed-
ded in it, and he was shot full of lit
tie rocks. He was brought to the
Hewitson hospital where it is thought
he will recover.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Twin "Cants7

We've had twin cucumbers, twin ap-
Piles and twin prunes, but F,'oden Dog
ranch is the first to announce a twin
.cantaloupe. Young Junior Knowles,
who is an embryo melon dealer, hand
ed it in as an addition to The 1ndex's
AGRICULTURAL curiosity shop. Each C
the twins are normal size
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
OLD APPLES AND NEW

(. The anomaly of last years ap- Q
@ Piles and this seasons fruit, side /:
(: by side in the Boise market has o
9 been noticed this week, says .
!. The Statesman. At Falk's gro ::
9 cery, Winesaps, in fine condition, @
q. picked last fall, were selling side y
g by side with Transparents, June .
Q and Red Astrachan apples pick o
+. ed this week. Speaking of this .
9 condition H. J. McGirr said: o
" For three years we have new Q
. er had a day without apples, o
. The Winesaps keep splendidly in .
9 cold storage. Last year we sold g
. the last August 1, and this year o
{: August H." o
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
WORK TO START BLACK
CANYON DAM
Drill Outfit Being Unloaded on
Site-Preliminary Work to
be Done This Fall.

Work will begin within few day:
on the dam at Black Canyon, five
miles northeast of Emmett, according
to information received a few days
ago from Project Engineer j. B. Bono
of the reclamation office in Boise, anc
verified today by The Index in an in
terview with Mr.. Bond.
Men and machinery are to be plac-
ed in the field to bore test holes or
the site of that structure. A diamond
drin will be used. Bids for the work
were opened today by the reclamation
officials in Boise, but as the figures
submitted were not satisfactory, the
bids were rejected and new bids call
ed for. The specifications call for
seven holes, not deeper than 100 feet,
to be drilled, four of them in the bed
of the river. Mr.. Bond stated this
afternoon that the rejection of the
bids would entail a delay of only a
few days.
Test holes are designed to prove the
nature of the foundation for the dam,
the amount of excavation necessary
and the cost of construction of the
dam sub-structure.
The above is indeed chaering news.
The announcement was hailed with
joy here because it is believed the step
insures the construction of the dam
and that further work will be prose-
cuted as rapidly as fundsbecome avail
able to do the work. The most GER
tain bond to insure completion of this
noject is the investment of money In
It. That is exactly what this move
ment portends- Because of lack of
funds the work may lag for time,
but it will never be abandoned.
The reclamation officials plan to
complete the preliminary work this
fall and winter and thus be prepared
to push construction when funds be-
come available. The opposition of
President Harding to the enactment
of the Smith McNary irrigation bill
does not affect such projects as the
Black Canyon, as many at first sup
posed. Funds for this project come
from another source. Commenting
on this feature the Idaho Reclamation
Association says;
"While it is entirely probable that
the presidents attitude, taken, as
stated, on economic grounds. and not
because of opposition to reclamation
development, ends the high hope of
enactment at this time of the McNary
Smith bill," this statement says, 1--WE
know that there are funds available
that can be used to materially aid re-
construction in Idaho. These
are buried funds arising from war
iety of sources such as unused appro- |
priations, proceeds from land sales,
ETC., that amount to a large sum.
''The Idaho Reclamation association
is doing everything possible to have
these buried funds disentombed and
applied. The money is there. and has
been located in more or less. obscure
accounts, and there are several mil
lion dollars of it. We are insisting
On its being applied, and we shall be
persistent, on behalf of
IDAHO"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
MARRIED

A marriage license was issued this
to Arthur NJ Hammock and
Jessie M. Peterson, both of Emmett.
Immediately after securing the license
the young couple boarded the Under
ground railroad train to Judge Haag's
office and were by him joined firm
~ in Wedlock.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Tax Levy Is Iq Mills.

The school board at their last meet
ing fixed the tax levy for this year
at 10 mills. Sixteen mills are for the
general fund and mills for bond in
terest.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Says Statements Are Not True.

John Parr takes exceptions to state
ments made in last weeks Index that
he was running his automobile at high
speed and without lights when he ran
into a horse being ridden by James
Kesgard. He declares he was running
at a moderate speed and had lights
burning.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Melon Season Wears End.

The Gem Fruit Union expects this
week will close the melon season for
them. Melons are going out of that
institution this week at the rate of
five carloads day. With the close
Of the melon season, the decks will be
cleared for prunes. Packing of this
fruit will start August 25.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
BOX FACTORY at Meadows.

r. E. Shaw, Of the Michigan-Idaho
Lumber Company, has leased mill
at New Meadows for the purpose of
manufacturing fruit boxes. He went
there last week with new equipment
for the mill, and took with him Sup
erintendent Grill, Dwight Shaw and
Charles Shieber. The plant will be
operated for a couple of months.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
SCHOOL ELECTION
SEPT. E
Two Trustees to be Elected to Succeed
Hayes and Knox.

The annual school election will be
held Tuesday, Sept. 6. The polling
place will be the City Hall, and the
polls will be open from 1 to o'clock
in the afternoon. Two trustees are
to be elected for three years to sue
ceed Douglass Knox and E. K. Hayes,
whose terms expire.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
Tuition Charges.

Students from outside the district
will be charged tuition Of $12 per
month. This amount is fixed by the
state board of education and is based
upon the cost per capita to the district
of those attending in the district.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

Prof. Aldrich is long since dead.
Even then his hair and beard were
white and he must have been along
way down the hill on the other side
of GO. He was a Massachusetts man,
and those of US who, in after years,
came to proper appreciation Of his
talents, still wonder as to the nature
of the upheaval that uprooted him
from his native soil and set him down
on Middle Western prairie. He
farmed little in haphazard sort of
way and had few pupils in music
some on the cottage organ, few on
the violin and, occasionally, one in
vocal methods. But in those days in
the prairie country there was less
demand for culture than there was
for bread and butter-and the real
business Of his life was playing for
country dances.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18
A FIDDLER OF BYGONE
YEARS
Moulton Bros Music Recalls
"reminiscences of An Ar
fist of Boyhood Days.

During the summer months one can
sit on the front porch in our neigh
borhod and hear what to US are en-
trancing strains Of music-such old
familiar melodies of 80 years ago as
"The Irish Washerwoman," "The
Campbells Are Coming" Turkey in
DE Straw" "Arkansaw Traveller"
"Moneymusk," and others, played on
the violin by Moulton brothers, "Cub"
and "Bony." We enjoy many of the
so-called classical selections and we
marvel at the wonderful music the
great artists produce; but to US the
concert the Moultons give most every
evening, as the shadows fall and dusk
creeps on, is sweeter thar the crea-
tion of the great master, because they
bring back memories of boyhood days.
AS we sit and listen we dream dreams
of the long ago, and we wonder what
has become of the boys and girls of
the prtorie country of Kansas, who
danced all night until broad day
light" Them was the days.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

We have referred to Prof. Aldrich
as fiddler, the title by which he was
known in the neighborhood. The
neighborhood did not know then, per-
haps it never knew, that the man was
born artist and violinist of rare
skill. That was apparent when, on
the occasion of a social evening, the
fiddler discarded the banal dance mu-
sic of the period and played what he
chose. The names of Strauss, Grieg,
Schubert and others, whose compost
tions the Prof. played for relaxation,
meant nothing to his audience. 1t
only knew they were the signal for
the onslaughter of a torrent of vary
ing moods and emotions. Later, with
the passing of the years and the
spread of culture in the prairie coun-
try, some of them realized they had
known master of the bow.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

Prof. Aldrich was one of the
strange, unusual types in the incon-
gruous mass which settled the prai-
rie country. A gentle, kindly man
with the soul of an artist and the
touch Of a master, his latter years
were as utterly lost to him as is the
novice at sea in an open boat.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

Morley Aldrich was the fiddler of
our neighborhood. Aldrich's orches-
ira, which consisted of violin and a
''bull' fiddle, played at nearly all the
dances in the country roundabout, just
as did the Moulton Brothers orches-
ira in Pottawatomie county, some so
miles south of where we lived as a
boy. One could hire Prof. Aldrich's
orchestra for SO, and in addition to
furnishing the music, the Prof. call
ed OFF, the figures in the square
dances without extra charge. Fid-
dlers could be hired for less money.
Music might be had for as little as
$1.50 the evening. And there were
no union rules, no time and half or
double time for overtime. Dancing
began around o'clock in the evening
and continued until everybody was
tired out. In the late spring and
early fall months the guests frequent
ly drove home to the accompaniment
of a prairie sunrise. Prof. Aldrich
was considered the best fiddler of the
lot and he played for all the quality
dances.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

. . . . . . . . . . % . . . . .
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

o o o o o @ . @ o o o @ o o o . o
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-18

!. . 5 I. /. . ) /. . 3 ) 3 . .
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-01-28
SOLDIER BONUS BILL
INTRODUCED IN HOUSE

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 25.-The
House to-day passed on third read
ing the bill providing for the election
of tie city judge of Memphis by the
people, and also the measure pro-
viding for the compensation of the
Shelby County High School Board.
The soldier bonus bill calling for
a State bond issue of $40. 100000 for
the payment of equalized compensa-
ton to World War veterans of the
State has been introduced in the
Lower House of the Legislature. 1t
was presented by Representatives
Mcdonald, Smith, Lowe, Shea, Gailor
and WEIGH.
Petitions were presented in the
House from the citizens CT Putnam,
Rutherford, Williamson and Bradley
Counties, protesting against the pas
sage of Sunday blue laws.
A joint resolution by DR.. o. S.
Hauk, of Sullivan, relative to 1egis-
latiVe recess, was taken up under
Suspension of the rules. The resolu-
from Feb. IL to Feb. 28 Representa-
tive Weldon, of Henry County, offer
ed an amendment to make a recess
from Feb. to March /. The We'll
don amendment was tabled.
Tie House adopted the resolution.
House resolution No. 10, by
Me5srs. Register and Boyers, relative
to 1.-THE advance guard of Tennessee
crooks" and their alleged attempts
to secure certain remuneration "for
services not rendered" was consid-
cred and referred to the sanitation
committee.
In the Senate Mr.. Harder and Mr..
McGugin introduced memorials re-
lating to the passage of Senate Bill
No. So, relating to Sabbath observ
ance.
Mes5rs. Patton, Roague and 9TH
ers introduced a resolution asking
for tie appointment of joint COM
mittee of seven to visit and report
on conditions at the Tennessee Con-
federate Soldiers Home and asked for
consent to suspend the
rules for immediate action. Motion
amended by Mr. Fuller to read that
If committee found conditions bad,
they seek to disclose the causes.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-01-28
The Commercial, Union City, Tenn.
FRIDAY. JANUARY %, 1921.
Il Am the Farmer

Il am the provider for all man.
kind. Upon me every human being
constanatly depends.
"A world itself is builded upon my
toll, my products, my honesty.
Because of my industry, America,
my country, leads the world. Her
prosperity is maintained by me, her
great commerce is the work of my
good hands; her balance of trade
springs from the burrows of my farm
MY reaper brings food for to-day;
my pillow holds promise for tomor-
row.
I'm war l am absolute; in peace
am indispensable-my country's sur
est defense and constant reliance.
II am the very soul of America,
the hope of a race, the balance wheel
of civilization.
When prosper, men are happy;
when / fail, all the world suffers,
II live with nature, walk in the
green fields under the golden sun
light, out in the great alone where
brain and Drawn ana toll supply
mankind's primary need. And l try
to do my humble part to carry out
the great plan of God.
even the birds arc my compan-
ions; they greet me with symphony
at the new days dawn and chum
with me till the evening prayer is
said.
IF it were not for me the treasur-
les of the earth would remain recure-
ly locked; the granaries would be
useless frames; man himself would
be doomed speedily, to extinction or
decay.
Through me is produced the en-
ergy that maintains the spark of life.
II rise with the early dawn and re-
tire when the chores of the world
are done.
II am your true frienu.
81 am the farmer. James P. Nc
Donnell, Editor Waverly (Minn.)
Star Tribune.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-01-28
Boys, Bankers and Pigs.

Boys, bankers and purebred pigs
make a combination hard to beat
when it comes to making more pros
porous, live-at-home conditions on
the farm. That is the combination
that undertook last spring to improve
the situation in Upton County, Ten
nessee.
TnTee banks in Upton financed so
boys in order that they might pur-
chase the very best Hampshire gifts
| for pig club work. Even the most
optimistic among them did not have
clear conception of what their eff
forts would amount to.
! But all who attended the county
pig club contest in Covington last
November got. an idea of TIE scope
of work being done by the boys of
the county. 1t was clear cold day,
and the lad living 20 miles away had
to start early in order to set to Gov
ington by ten o'clock. But nearly
every club member in the county
came. 1t was in fact big day for
Gcvington, for no less than 400 peo-
pie were present.
When the club boys first ordered
their pigs from Illinois last Ju.n..ss
they weighed an average of 81
pounds each. At the end Of the con-
test November Is, they weighed an
average 1856. The feeulng period
lasted 112 days and during that time
tive pigs gained an average of 1873
pounds or one and two-tentns pounds |
per day. The smallest pig at the be-
ginning weighed 80 POUNDS. This
same pig at the close of the contest
weighed 210 pounds. The largest
pig in the show weighed 280 pounds
and yet it was only eight months
old.
This does not mean that the boys
simply fattened their pigs. Each ami
NAL was for breeding stock and was
fed balanced ration ration made
up as follows was advised by County
Agent Hollingsworth: Cracked corn
5 parts, wheat middlings parts, and
tankage 1 part. This has kept the
gifts growing and in good condition.
The club work was judged on the
following basis. Report 20 per cent,
daily gains Is per cent, cost of gain
25 per cent, and the animal exhibited
40 per cent. Milton Owen made
highest mark on report and on cost
If gains. Conrad Hawkins and Ken
her Taught tied for highest gains,
while Walter Phillips showed the
,est pig. Milton Owen won first
'rize $40.
More than $3.50 in prizes was do
ated by bankers and merchants and
he American Hampshire Breeders
Each boy returned home with his
lit, more proud of her imam ever. y
uring December all gifts large
nough were bred to purebred Hamp-
lire boars, and next year the boys
i'll raise largo filters or pigs.
Boys who are given advantages
Ike this are not very likely to leave
10 farm.