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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
NOW PACIFIC SYSTEM.

At 1900 O'Clock last Thursday
night the Nezperce Telephone COM
pany became part of the Pacific Tel
ephone & Telegraph Co. in fact. The
office of the local company on Main
street. has been made the exchange
headquarters of the new owners and
long distance and local service has
been continued right on without a
hitch. Such changes in construction
as may be necessary to bring the two
plants (both companies have been op-
Grating in this field for long time)
into the compass of one win be made
at as early date as possible.
For taking care of the local ex-
change and service, Miss Violet Smith,
formerly local operator for the Pacific
system, has been appointed agent and
Mrs. VIM. Henke, who has served the
Nezperce company for many years as
bookkeeper and operator at this place,
was appointed day operator, and Les
ter Ransom, night operator.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
FORMER NEzPERCE BOY BADLY
BURNED.

Allen Ramey was severely burned
about the arms and legs Sunday af-
ternoon at clock when he exploded
gasoline, which he was using to clean
his automobile at the Jeffreys- Murphy
company's garage. Mr.. Ramsey had
his car on the wash rack and was pre-
pairing the machine for painting.
The flames quickly spread over his
arms and legs and burned quite deeply
into the flesh. He was taken to the
Idanha pharmacy where first aid was
given and was then removed to the
st. Joseph hospital. 1t was stated last
evening the burns are quite serious
and very painful but it is not believed
his condition is in any-wise critical.
The car was enveloped in flames
and was badly damaged. The fire de-
partment was called and the fire was
reduced with chemicals and water. The
storage room was filled with smoke
but the damage sustained by the gar
age is slight.-Lewiston Tribune.
Allen is the son of Chas Ramey,
who was formerly in the garage bust
ness in Nezperce. The young man has
many friends on the prairie who learn
with regret of his distressing mishap.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21

E. Scott, formerly the receiver of
the defunct State Bank of Kamiah
and at present liquidating agent of
the banking department of Idaho,
spent few days here this week look
ing after the affairs of the old bank.
At the Commercial Club luncheon yes
terday Mr.. Scott stated that the af-
fairs of this bank are about ready to
be liquidated but the payment of a
dividend is held up awaiting the Su-
preme Court Is decision in the Ft. Mis-
cry highway case, and few other
minor matters of litigation.
Mr.. Scott spent several days last
week in Nezperce on matters connect
ed with the liquidation of the Union
State Bank. During his visit he made
an offer to the county for the pur-
chase of the Union State Bank IS
building, in which the county offices
have been quartered since the build
ing was built. The block, which con
tains the Shoemaker store and the
bank on the first floor and the county
offices on the second, cost about $50,
600, but it is offered to the county for
10000, which Mr.. Scott thinks is
very attractive price. The county
now pays $4,000 year rental, the
amount including also heat, and jani-
tor service. He offers to make the
payments easy, if the county so
wishes.
The offer surely looks like fine
chance for Lewis county to obtain a
splendid building at very low figure.
A separate building, such as is usually
put up for court house, could not
be built for much less than $4,000 or
100000, and the block in question
will be suitable quarters for this coun
ty for many years. The matter will
be given consideration by the county
board at its next meeting.
Mr.. Scott received warm greeting
from his many personal friends in
Kamiah and reports his family as well
and enjoying life in their suburban
home at the state capital. He went
to Kooskia yesterday, expecting to
start back home from there.-Kamiah
Progress.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21

such a plan is admirable if it could
succeed in linking nations together in
a lasting peace. And it has succeeded,
far better than even Wilson, himself
expected. The designer of this doeu-
ment, if he had done nothing else, has
done enough to mark himself as one
of the great outstanding figures in
history. He has done something that
was never before thought possible.
Five-sixths of the nations of the
world saw the wonderful possibilities
of such league and adopted it. But
the author of this plans own country,
the country that should have been
back of him rejected it.
Alexander united the world by un-
iting few unorganized nations by
force. Wilson united the world, ma
tions with stable, organized govern.
ments, not by force, but by the great
ness of his ideas. Alexander's world
fell to pieces at his death, yet history
says that Alexander was great man.
Wilson Is work win live as long as the
world stands. He will be remembered
for uniting millions of people in ever
lasting peace by the sheer wonderful
ness of his ideas and activities
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
All the way Through.

The decision recently arrived at by
the commissioners and people of the
Fem Highway district, between Cot
tonwood and Grangeville in idaho
county, to hold an election on the
question of bonding the district in the
sum of $4,000 for the construction of
the North and South highway through
that district, evidently means the sup
plying of the missing link in this
trunk highway. A like bond election
in the Fem district was defeated two
years ago, owing to local misunder-
standings, and since that time the
North and South highway, except the
section between Cottonwood and
Grangeville, has been pretty well fin
ished from Lewiston to New Meadows.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
COMMUNITY EuLoGIzEs WILSON
Citizens Packed Church Last Sunday
Night and Heard Fine Memorial
Program. Miss Milier's
Address.

| All faiths and political creeds were
represented in the large audience
which assembled at the Community
church in this city last Sunday night
in respectful memory of the late Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson. Whatever had
been the feeling of these people to-
ward the great man while he was max
ing world history, there was none here
but heard with feelings of respect and
gratitude his name and work lauded
in song and story.
The program. which carried num-
Der of addresses, was seasoned with
appropriate instrumental and vocal
selections, beautifully climaxed with
the song, Somewhere the Sun Is
Shining sung by Mrs. Terry and
Miss Terry.
A. R. Fike presided. The service
was opened with America" sung by
the assembly. Then, after invoking
Divine blessing, Mr.. Fike announced
the following program, in which each
participant did good credit to his
part:
Selection by the American Legion
Band.
Address, "The Box Peace Plan, =
by Bayard Martin.
Piano solo by Miss Ivy Billups.
Address, another phase of 'sThe Box
Peace Plan," Harold Cook
Selection by the Legion Band.
: Address, uPresident Wilson'S Place
in World History" by Miss Marjorie
Miller. (This address was comprehen
sive, well delivered and is so repre-
sentative of the sentiment of the
meeting that it is published, follow
ing this program, in its entirety.)
Piano solo, Miss Mabel Rowe.
Address, nfwilson the Statesman, =
Attorney L. t. Abbott.
Selection by the Legion Band.
Address, Wilson, the Public Ser
vant,o Attorney G. G. Pennell.
Vocal duet, Somewhere the Sun Is
Mrs. Terry, Miss Terry.
Address, Wilson, the Christian,
Rev. j. A. Hoffman.
The audience stood and heads were
bowed in solemn respect while the
band played "The Star spangled Ban
1er'
The benediction was pronounced by
Rev. Hoffman.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21

Threshing with it's trimmings, and
other general farm labor, have in
creased 80 3-5 per cent.
M. D. DeMoude, the pioneer drug
gist at Nezperce, gives us figures
showing that drugs have increased 35
to 40 per cent.
The Star Hardware CO., Craigmont.
points. out that general hardware has
increased so to so per cent.
Shoemaker's, general merchandise,
Nezperce, gives the prices on sugar,
for the 1905-14 period, 1915 per hun
dred; 1928, $1,000; an increase of 100
per cent. On other grocery items the
increase is about so per cent.
Last, but not least--taxes From
the records of the Lewis county audi
tor we find that the average yearly
taxes for the 19O5-14 period were
$138.246.90. For 1923 they totaled
$239, 1884. An increase of $100, ,941.-
A, or 73 per cent.
The combined total figures of all
tne ABOVE named arJ1cleS snow an In
crease for 1928 over the leO5-14 per
iod of II As per cent.
The wheat figures covering the
same time show an increase of only
12 per cent, leaving a difference
against the farm product of SO AS
per cent.
The u. S. Census Bureau, whose
figures are not questioned, tell us that
the people of this country paid in
taxes in 1922 the sum of 81, 7,433, $780,
300. OF this vast amount, $3,204 49,
900 went to the national government
and $4,228, ,948,000 went to the states.
This was almost five times the amount
Of taxes collected in 1912. Do you
wonder at our local increased
1 hereby certify that the foregoing
s true in intent.
Yours for better service,
0. A. Roupe.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
washington Birthday Ball Saturday
Night.

Everybody is invited to the Wash
ington Birthday ball at the Fraternal
Hall Saturday night. This will be a
real treat for all who wish to dance
or hear good music. The Kennedy
five-piece orchestra will play. Dance
tickets, ST.; light lunch, 25 cents a
plate.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
Friday Postoffice Holiday

Tomorrow is Washington Is Birth
day. The postoffice win be closed,
until the usual hour for the evening
mail, and the rural carriers viii have
a holiday. The banks and county Of
fices viii also be closed.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
r,ewigtom,g First Auto Show.

Lewiston first auto show will be
given in the lobby of the Lewis Clark
hotel on Feb. 90 and March |. On
account of the limited space, it will
be necessary to confine this show to
closed ears, but a display of IS cars
will be made and full line of acces-
sories will also be shown.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
WHAT YOUR BUsHEL
OF WHEAT WILL BUY
}. A. Roupe Assemblies Figures to
show Its Purchasing Power Be-
fore the War and Now.


%of the things the farmer has to sci
and the manufactured articles h,
must buy is demanding very serious
all over the country, anf
SO. A. Roupe, a well known local farm
6er, has gone to considerable trouble tx
gather facts and figures showing what
fhe prairie farmer is up against. Mr.
Roupe gives the public the benefit OF
his research in the following article:
Dear Editor The Herald:
The prices quoted below cover the
period from 1905 to 1914 (pre-war)
md the year 1913.
The following wheat quotations
aNere furnished me by the national
Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
g ashington, d. c.:
Kansas City wheat market
Average price 1905 $o93 6-1o
u y :" 1923 .-..-...-- Ito $40
ehicago wheat market
average price 1905 '14--.----- 5000 4-10
4SS 1870 ----- 1.lO S-1O
Minneapolis wheat market
average price 1905 'l4--.--.$1.OO 2-lO
y 1923 --.-.. 1.25 5-10
q The above are the only markets
&prnished. Therefore, in order to OBJ
|2Rin our Portland markets I would sug
lest that you look over your daily
arket reports for the last season and
2ou will find that Portland averages
kht around IA cents below the Chi
&eo market. We cannot use the
Notations of Baart wheat as we do
"a raise that variety.
Using this basis of IA cents lower
IA Portland, you will find the market
fere as follows:
4erage price 1905 '14--$0.s5 40
% - 1928 .-----.-- 1.02 7-10l
Readers must bear in mind that L
~ figuring all commodities on a basis
IS the Nezperce-our county sfat-
4nrket.
4 Our Nezperce railroad, which start
"a operation about the middle of the
1908 IA period furnishes, think, a
Eair comparison of rates for the en-
dIe period, and / am reliably inform
" that the rate to Portland was IL
|ents. Therefore, the Nezperce mar
KITS on wheat were:
lverage price 1906 '14---.-$0.6s 40
- 1923 ..--- .76 4-10 /
II rather looks like my figures run
/ trifle high for our local 1923 mar
Eet; but we don t wish to be discour-
&ing, so let's keep on the safe side
n the ledger.
You will please note that our pres
|nt local price on the 1928 crop is only
= per cent higher than the average
NJ 1906 IA.
Now, as to what we buy: I quote
0Q prices from the most reliable
INNS in Lewis county, operating prac-
INAlly since 1905.
these on farm machinery from the
XII Hardware & Implement Co.,
{fxigmont:
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21

The big sale of the goods salvaged
from w. F. Bickett's store, after the
recent fire through which that insti-
tuition went, will start Friday.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21

The boys and girls basket ball
teams of the Nezperce High School
will go to Reubens to play like teams
there Saturday night.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21

Tn the clothing price for the two
sriods we find a difference Of $685.
!, or an increase of 80 9-10 per cent.
For threshing prices, we get the fol
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21


VOTES PRESENT
TIONAL CONGRESS- DEPRESSED
FARM CONDITIONS, EVIDENTLY
DEPRESSION
LESSON.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
1928
$66.5o
$500

fuel and lumber shows difference
4 $4,000, or an increase for 1923 of
20 per cent.
From the Carlson Toggery, Nez-
zee, we get the following figures on
airing annareJ.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21

lowing figures from VIM shoekley,
who has been in the business here
long time:
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
$555.0O
$s67.25

You can readily see that it required
>337.75, or 56A per cent, more CAPT
~ to purchase the above named ar
fte1es in 1923 than during the period
ef 19O5-'14
As to harness: Figures from A. R.
Eke's harness store, Nezperce:
Average 1905'14 1928
Harness $41.O0 $66.5o
"a difference of $25.50, or an in
1ease in 1923 of 62 Is per cent
As to lumber: Figures from the
Rfairie Lumber Co., Nezperce.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04

1t seemed to be, the Masters voice
Who stood amidst us there,
AS they sang and spoke, He blessed
US all
While the message floated thru the
air.
The program again continued
After a lovely lunch at noon,
With testimonials in song and word
Which ended all too soon
A happy day we'd spent
With folks from far and near,
Tho I'd never seen before
To me, were friends so dear.
"Now did I change my mind?"
| seem to hear you question,
Eyes! l found a Wide Awake Com
munity
With a group of happy Christians. "
And now. while sitting here alone
My thoughts drift back that way
To the happy moments with those
folks
On that glad Children's day.
And tho | may not meet
These friends on earth any more,
hope and prayer is this
To meet on the Golden Shore.
Where united We shall always be
While forever we may sing
And praise the precious Lamb of
God,
Who paid for all our sin.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04

of the house irrigation committee,
and in this connection is visiting all
projects in the state this summer.
Following his visit in the western
part of the state Mr.. Leavitt next
week will go over the Toole county
irrigation district near Shelby and
later attend a conference of super
intendents of Montana Indian reser-
vations, at Browning. While on the
Blackfeet reservation he will con-
tinue a study started last year of
farming methods instituted by Su-
pe~rintendent F. C. Campbell.
Returns available here indicate
that Congressman Leavitt in the
primaries received a considerably
greater vote than the combined totals
of his republican opponent and the
two candidates for the democratic
nomination.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04
SCHOOLS OVERCROWDED AND
MORE PUPILS IN HIGH SCHOOL

Mrs. l.. A. Moss.)
The illustration of smashing the
stills ought to symbolic the smash
ing of lawlessness, but it does not,
in many cases. The liquor element
backs the ex-bartender for office, to
the exclusion of the honest temper
ance man. If only we could get the
honest mar to qualify. The ex-bar-
tender, when elected, appoints as
subordinates men like himself.
Here in Washington, this year, we
elect state officers, and judges for
the superior court and county com
~missioners. Two years hence, we
will elect u county officers.
Since prohibition, which we had in
this state long before national pro
hibition was enacted, we have had
time to note the increased prosperity,
efficiency in business in every line,
and the improved conditions in fam
lies whose wage earners formerly
wasted their weekly wage in the
saloon.
Our schools are ~overcrowded and
many pupils are now able to finish
high school.
Men from the logging camps used
to take a two hundred dollar check
and go to town for a few days, COM
ing back to camp with, perhaps, only
a pair of overalls and a pair of shoes
to show for a couple of months
wages-the saloon-keepers and the
brothels had all the rest.
This went on year after year,
while the saloon held sway over u
beautiful state. Many are now buy
ing, or building, their own homes.
Before we had prohibition, it was
of no use to urge a mar who was
unable to keep up his rent to buy
a home; now, thousands W cars
and homes.
A mar who did not believe in pro-
hibition and never voted for it, told
me he used to watch the beer drink
ers, who worked on buildings and
discovered that the Temperance"
men could work on the high parts
of these structures but those who
drank would refuse to attempt it.
Now, he is convinced that prohibi-
ton, for many other reasons, is the
best for workmen.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04
FINNISH ATHLETE
A TEETOTALER

The victor in the 10000 meters
flat race final at the Stade de Colon
hes. Paris, the Finlander, Ritola,
who beat the world record, accom-
plishing his 10 kilometers in so min
utes, % is seconds, is an advocate
Of total abstinence, says the Inter
national Bureau Against Alcoholism.
This is what he said on the subject
of alcohol and sport in an interview
published some months ago:
Before I began to compete, I
used to smoke and occasionally took
alcoholic beverages; but, when I be-
gan to train as a runner, I soon saw
chat Z should have to give up both
if [ wished to obtain good results.
Accordingly, from the outset of my
training / abandoned tobacco and
alcohol; for, in my opinion, their use
infallibly prevents one becoming a
first class athlete"
The Swedish runner, Wide, who
came in second in the same race, is
likewise an abstainer.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04
A Happy ChiIdren's Day.
(By Luella Nygaard, J
L. NJ.

minneapolis, Minn.)
Twas during my travels thru the
west
That We were invited one day,
To attend a Sunday school program
To be held on Children's day.
So early in the morning we started
Before the clock struck eight,
And hurried over twenty miles
For fear of coming late.
On the way out there, my brother
Told of how happy I should be
To visit these kind prairie folk
Called, "The Wide Awake Commun-
ity."
eyes," said I, 81 suppose
What these folks here hold dear
Is dance, play cards and drink
Without a thought of fear"
ooh, no." he kindly did inform
"Right here I'm afraid you'll find
You're wrong, but wait and see,
1 know you'll change your mind"
At last as the ride was ending,
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04

In the distance We could see
A sc~hool-house small and lonely
Without a single tree.
As we reached the destination
We were greeted cordially,
And asked to step inside
Where the program was to be.
No church have they out there
So the school-house was used instead,
Where the program soon was opened
In prayer, by the superintendent, led.
He read a portion Of scripture
Bout the vineyard and workers
therein,
And pleaded with everyone present
To turn from the path of sin.
The workers who came in the morn
ing
Are the children, at an early age,
Who give their hearts to Jesus
And study the Bibles page.
But the workers who came so late
Must now shed bitter tears,
For they've wasted their lives for
Jesus
ana ruined Inelf DeICef years..
The children recited poems
And sang their songs for US,
About the Saviour who loves all sin
ners
And died on the cross for us.
Of how He lives, and calls today
For US to repent from sin,
"Come, open up your hardened hearts
And let the Saviour in"
First then, the peace you'll find
For which you long have sought,
And then at last! Your soul is free
the blood of Christ has bought.
And thus, the children sang and
spoke
So earnest and sincere,
While looking about in every eye
There shone a little tear.
Then too, there was a choir
Of happy girls and boys,
Yes, men and women too,
Who lifted up their voice.
They sang from depth of heart
thrilled us to the core,
ITO let the Saviour in
When knocking at the door"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04
Leavitt Speaks
On Irrigation.

GREAT FALLS, Aug. 3O.-Con-
gresham Scott Leavitt, who was re-
nominated in the republican prim-
aries Tuesday, has left to spend the
next week in northern and western
Montana on matters connected with
his congressional duties. Thursday
night he spoke at Kalispell at the
state convention of the Montana
Federation of Women's clubs on
"Our Reclamation Projects" Follow
ing that he made a tour of the Flat
head reclamation project, in COM
pany with water users and others in
terested. Mr.. Leavitt is a member
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04
Montana Indian
Show Coming

The Montana Indian Road Show
will be at the Liberty one day. Wed
nesday, September 10th. The per-
sonnet of this company is composed
Of Fort Peck Indians, that have lust
completed a circuit on one of the
large vaudeville circuits, and thew
come highly recommended. Part Of
the company consists of Mr.. and Mrs.
Burge and daughter, and Mrs. Burge
is the daughter of Mrs. Louise Kol-
.lenbaum, well known to the Indians
of this reservation.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04
1T is UP TO THE WOMEN,
SAYS U. s. SENATOR

"Women won the Eighteenth
Amendment without the vote" says
u. S. Senator Frank B. Willis. eff
they can not hold it now with the
vote, they will have %miserably failed
and disappointed those who fought
for the enfranchisement Of women.
The Eighteenth Amendment will stay
in the constitution and will be en-
forced if the women of America
want it. If they do not, it will fail.
But there can be no doubt where
American women stand on this ques-
ton
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04
Love, Business,
Storm Clouds
Understanding
By SHERWIN


90, 1924, Western Newspaper Union.)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04

An executive is a man who can
take a day off whenever he feels
like it without stopping the plant.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04

Peanut politicians always succeed
where other nuts are in the majority.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-09-04
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The Washington times., 1924-01-16
BERLIN POLICE WEAR
BULLET-PROOF ARMOR

BERLIN Jan. 16.-Bullet-proof
armor is becoming popular with the
Berlin police, especially in certain
tough sections of the city where
thieves operate. Six officers were
originally equipped with the protec'
tive armor, and one of these police
men had a remarkable experience
with a notorious criminal, who is a
crack pistol shot.
The criminal fired six shots at the
officer and was so amazed at the
lack of effect his shots had that he
surrendered without struggle. The
armor is worn under the uniform.