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6 TheColfaxGazette BRAMWELL BROB., Publishers Office in Pioneer Block. .Phone 14 Established In 1877. Entered at the Colfax postofnee as second class mail matter. Subscription Rates in Advance: ONB YEAR. 11.50. SIX MONTHS, 75c. 1 AI'GIST 11. If this or some earlier date appears on your address tag you are thereby notified that the time for which your subscription was paid has expired, and renewal is solicited. Official Paper of the City of Colfax. Official Paper of Whitman County. 0.-W. R. * N. TIME CARD. To Spokane 8:05 a.m. 2:00 p.m. To Pendleton ...10:16a.m. 9:30 p.m. To Portland .... 12:10 a.m. From Moscow ... 8:00 a.m. 4:35 p.m. To Moscow 10r45 a. m. 5:00 p.m. S. & I. TIMR CARD. Lt. Colfax.7:3o a.m. 12:10 p.m. 4:05 p.m. ah Colfax. .. 11 a.m. 3:35 p.m. 9:05 p.m. THANKSGIVING. President Taft has designated the last day of this month to be observ ed as a day of thanks in the United States. It is less than forty years since the observance of Thanksgiv ing day became general in this coun try. Prior to that time its observ ance was popular in New England. The first Thanksgiving observed in America was in October, 1621, when the Pilgrim fathers gathered their first crop. It lasted several days and the Indians joined in the festival and contributed a part of the game. Days of Thanksgiving were named by the governors of dif ferent colonies on special occasions, such as the arrival of a ship or thf breaking up of a drouth, and thetw were mostly held in the fall of the year, either in October or November. and finally the Thanksgiving in th^ New England states became a cus tom. There was a general Thanks giving for peace in 1784 at the close of the Revolutionary war and Wash ington, by request of Congress, rec ommended one in 178 8 to celebrate the adoption of the constitution. Another in 181 r> celebrated the ter mination of the war of 1m 2 in our < ountry. <JOOI> XATI Ui:i> CAMPAIGN. The city election, which is less than two weeks away, is one of the leading topics of conversation these days. While friends of the different candidates are working hard, the best of feeling prevails. Mayor Wein berg and Councilman Tifft, both can didates for the mayorship, are not forgetful of their present duties and at the meeting of the city council Monday night were earnestly engaged in harmonious conversation over pro posed improvements for the city. Every candidate named on the two tickets is a clean upright citizen and there is little chance for "mud sling ing" should anyone he so disposed in his or her enthusiasm for a favorite. The rivalry in several instances is keen but friendly. SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTION. The question which will come be fore the voters of school district No. 1 on Saturday is a question of dol'ars and cents. Warrants aggregating sixty odd thousand dollars are out standing against ihe district ami these warrants are drawing seven and eight per cent interest. Taxpayers who would like to .see the warrants leplaced by bonds drawing four and one-half or five per cent interest should not fail to vote at the speci il school election and by their vote rati fy and validate the indebtedness. The change from the warrant to the bond plan will mean a saving of $2,200 a year in interest alone and will consequently mean a lower tax levy next year. UP TO THK PEOPLE. If you are not satisfied with th > manner in which your city is being conducted, the remedy lies at th,' polls. There are always plenty of good men willing to take on the re sponsibility of "'running tbe govern ment," and you can do your share toward getting them into office. The future of any city depends en tirely upon its own people, not the ones who live in other places, and our town ten years hence will be exactly what its people make. WELCOMK, TKACH KHS. Coif ax extends a hearty welcome to the 375 visitors who will be in this city next week to attend the an nual institute held for the teachers of Whitman county. The session is short, lasting only three days, but the city teachers and the town peo ple will endeavor to make the stay of the visitors pleasant. Aside from home influence there Is no one in closer touch with the younger generation than the public school teacher. A load of responsi bility is always thrust upon them. Their efforts are often misunderstoo-l by both pupils and parents. Still the teacher goes on firmly endeavoring to do what he or she believes is right. It is this class of people assembled from every city, town and countiy district of the county who will be tho guests of Colfax next week. It is to them we extend greeting. THK SPECIAL SESSION. A conference has been called to meet at Tacoma beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning of December ij for the purpose of assembling and presenting to the governor resolu tions and petitions tor a special ses sion of the legislature for the purpose of enacting a presidential preference primary law. The conference will also take such other action as may be deemed advisable regarding the selection of presidential candidates or of delegates from Washington to national conventions for the nomina tion of candidates for president and vice president. Every since the last legislature ad journed there has been a constant popping up of someone who wants an extra session called for one pur pose or another, but always for one purpose only. First it was for high way legislation and nothing else. Now it is for a presidential primary law and nothing else. What will it be next? So far the governor has been backed up in every instance by the taxpayers in his re fusal to call the special session. The people who foot the bills know that we are getting laws fast enough :>y the regular process without the extra session. The backers of the move for the special session are a few pol iticians who are dependent on legis lative and political activity lor their livelihood. ELECTION ECHOES. The sentiment expressed by lead ing newspapers in all parts of the country following the recent election is extremely interesting as an indi cator of the trend of affairs for 1912. (From Detroit Free Press.) On the whole, the off-year elections in the states are distinctly encourag ing to the president and his party. The tide that carried the Democrats into power last fall gives signs of spent force. Certainly it is not flow ing with the surprising strength of 1910, and by next summer it may be found receding. If Tuesday's re turns inspire the Republicans with hope and determination to go in ana fight they will be most timely. The party has been suffering from apathy and needs just such a fillip for Its spirits. It evidently has much better than a mere fighting chance in 1912. (From Portland Oregonian.) On the whole, the election may be said to indicate clearly that the Re publicans are in vastly better situa tion before the country than they were a year ago. (From St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) Taking the states which voted as ? whole, it is evident that the coun try's lurch to the Democracy in 1910 was only a temporary freak. As Speaker Clark truthfully remarked on the day after election, it was a Republican defeat and not a Demo cratic victory. Hundreds of thous ands of Republicans stayed away from the polls, and thus the Demo crats were permitted to squeeze Into power in congress. Apparently this apathy and nique has ended, and Re publicans are rallying again for the:r ticket. The line-up shows that \9l.'. is likely to be a good year for the Re publican party. 'Fioin the Baltimore Star.) If any conclusion is to be drawn from the broadcast results of the elections, if is that the so-called "in ;surgent" tendencies in the Republi ! can party have about come to the | terminus, and that voters the coun try over are shrinking from the radi cal tendencies which, in the congres sional elections last year, resulted in returning a Democratic majority to the house of representatives. ( From the Dcs Moines Capital. > Surveying the political map as a whole there is very little in election returns to endanger enthusiasm or hope either in the Democratic or in surgent Republican ranks. It looks as though those forces reached high tide in the congressional elections of one year ago, and that the nation at large is halting and indisposed to take any further risk in that direc tion. i From the Minneapolis Journal.) The lesson to be drawn from these elections is that party names are worrh much less than ever, while per sonal performance in office is of the highest importance. If the two par ties are to draw any conclusion at all. it must be that they are put on their j good behavior. Neither has a mon-1 opoly of the votes and neither will be i accepted on mere splurge. They must work for the people or be re jected. COLFAX GAZETTE, COLFAX, WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 24, 1911. From government statistics it ap-1 pears that thirty years ago less than 4 per cent of the butter made in this j country was of creamery manufac-I ture. In 1890, IS per cent of the butter marketed came from these factories. Ten years later the cream eries were making 30 per cent. Of the two billion pounds of butter made in 1909, the creameries turned our 625,000,000 pounds. The value of their products increased from |25, --750,000 to $274,500,000 in the thirty years. Everett has adopted the single tax plan in so far as the law will permit. It is a matter of doubt whether the single tax theory can be adopted to Washington conditions without radi cai constitutional amendments. The Everett experiment, which is the firs'. in the state, probably will take the question into the courts and before the state taxing authorities where it may be threshed out, and the way shown toward the real solution of the problem. Judge Wilson R. Gay told a prison er in his court that every man ought to have something to work for, and v he couldn't get a wife, to get a canary bird or a dog. That's wholesome ad vice, and the observance of the latter part of it would save trouble for a whole lot of women. Red-headed, white-bodied and blue tailed, a new variety of poultry bursts upon the startled view of the world. A man in California has pro duced this strain and calls it the "patriot." Remains to be seen wheth er fine feathers will produce hue eggs. If someone would only get a bill : Through the legislature disfranchising j voters who fail to go to the polls without good excuse, the indifference j would be done away with. The secretary of the state grange says petitions for an extra session of the legislature are coming in very slowly. The taxpayers evidently are counting the cost. The Brooklyn Eagle thinks th^ governor of a state should always be a gentleman. Does the Eagle wish to pick a row with the suffragettes? Some men are like a laying hen: they set up a big cackling every time they do anything. While other states have a favorite son, Missouri has twins. PENAWAWA. Mrs. Howard Boissey has been quite ill the last few days with a spell of la grippe, but at present is much improved. S. M.Smith has been making some improvements about his home, hav ing made cement walks from th" house leading to each yard gate, plastering three up-stairs rooms of the house and remodeling and paint ing his barn. T. B. Rowell, rural route carrier, has two men digging a well for him. The Penawawa high school is now completed and was moved into Nov. 10. Miss Pearl McElhoe is principal and Emma Melvin primary teacher. A very interesting program was given Friday evening, November 10. Rev. E. H. Stayt, pastor of the Free Methodist church at Penawawa, has been accepted by the Missionary board as missionary to Santa Do mingo. The services of Rev. Stayt and wife, for the past IS months, have been very acceptable and they will be greatly missed from this place. C. W. Dull, who went to Alberta, | Canada, about three weeks ago, re turned home last week safe and i sound. I JOHN. A daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Al fred Swift near Diamond, November 13. A son, to Prof, and Mrs. T. F. Kabler at Steptoe, November 15. A daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lawson, November ltf. A son, to Mr. and Mrs. .... L. Nes bit, November 20. A daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Day, November 20. Marriage Licenses. George \V. Milam of Colfax and Mrs. Rose Burge of Brownsville, Ore gon, November 17. R. C. Franks and Hazel Kendell. both of Oakesdale, November 20. Peter Kaufmann and Mary Flaseh mann, both of Uniontown, Novem ber 22. ocott Koss and Mary Branson, both of Moscow, November 22. Moscow People Married. Miss Mary Branson and Scott Ross, both of Moscow, were married at th>?' court house in this city Wednesday. Rev. N. If. Jones of the Methodist church performed the ceremony. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets do not sicken or gripe, and may be taken with perfect safety by the most delicate woman or the youngest child. The old and feeble will also find them a most suitable remedy for aiding and strengthening their weakened digestion and for reg ulating the bowels. For sale by all | dealers. j Shirkey &. Glaser, graduate optic ians. Watch for our Add next week. Shirkey & Glaser. There is more catarrh in this section I or the country than all other diseases I put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable, for a great many years doctors pro-' nounced it a local disease and prescrib ed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constl ! tutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh , i Cure manufactured by F. .1. Cheney & ' Co., loledo, Ohio, is the only constitu ; tional cure on the market. It is taken i internally in doses from 10 drops to a ; teaspoonful. It acts directly on the ; i blood and mucous surfaces of the sya : tern. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO.. _.. . Toledo. Ohio. ! sold by Druff^ists, 73c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constl- i | pation. Try Schlitz beer at Monahan's. Pastime Theatre CORNER MAIN AND CANYON EXTRA ATTRACTION Commencing Monday Night The Great Lazern Co. MAGICIANS AND ENTERTAINERS A Big Hit Everywhere Admission, 10 and 20c WE MAKE MORTGAGE LOANS on Whitman County Lands Reasonable Rates—Xo Delays Mi:< liAM< V LOAN A TRUST CO. 105 Howard St. Spokane, Wash. Under Exchange Nat'!. Bank J. HUGH SHERFEY ATTORNEY AT LAW—Office, Room 3, i Pioneer block; probate practice a specialty. Phone 198. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. L. R. Redner A. K. Stunt Drs. STI'HT & REDNER Over Hamilton's Drug Store. Phone 229. Colfax, Wash. ims. ST. SI'UK & BALSIGER Office over Barroli's hardware store. Office hours, 9-12 a. m.: 1-f. p. m. Evening's and Sundays by appoint ment. Telephone 8 or The Elk Drug- Store, 51. Residence '2X2. COLPaX, WASHINGTX >X. !<!. K. HANNA. R. M. HANNA. j HANNA & MANNA ATTORNEYS AT LAW—Office: Bell inger building; General Practice, Civil and Criminal; Phone 9. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. R. J. SKATFE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office over Hamilton's drug store. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. Dr. IDA BRYSON OSTEOPATH —Graduate of the Ameri can School of Osteopathy, Kirksvllle, Mo. Located in Schmuck block, 320 Main street. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. CHARLES R. HILL ATTORNEY AT LAW. Waite block. Phone 81. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. R. L. McCROSKEY ATTORNEY AT LAW —Office over the First Savings & Trust Bank. Tele phone 24. COLFAX. WASHINGTON. G. A. CHAPMAN, D. D. S. DENTIST —Graduate Ohio College Den tal Surgery. Office, rooms 10 and 11 Ltppitt building. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. J. F. TIFFT, D. ML D. DENTIST —Parlors in Hamilton Block, j Phone 69. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. WM. A. INMAN ATTORNEY AT LAW—Will do alt kinds of legal business. Office, room 2, Pioneer block. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. j J. N. PICKRELL ATTORNEY AT LAW—Office In Fra ternity block. Rooms 4 and 5. COLFAX. WASHINGTON. C. F. VOORHEES ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT; LAW — Office: Room 1, Pioneer: Building. Phone 233. COLFAX. WASHINGTON. Dr. JOHN* BENSON IIOMOEOPaTHIC PHYSlClAN—Spec ialties: Chronic diseases and diseases of women and childre . Calls to any part of the county promptly answer ed. Office in Colfax Hardware bldg COLFAX. WASHINGTON. Dr. WM. CLAY CARDWELL : 'XYSKXAN AND SURGEON—Rooms 14 and 15 Llppitt building. Office Hours, 9 to 12, 1 to 5; Sunday, 10 to 13; evenings by appointment. Phones — Office, 151; residence 155. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. j Dr. W. B. PALAMOLNTAIN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON—Room* 1. j 2 and 3, Lippitt Building. Phones—l Office, 58; Residence, 154. Office • hours, 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 5:30 p. m. COLFAX. WASHINGTON. PATTIBON, STOTLER A PATTISON ATTORNEYS AT LAW—Office l» Fra ternity block. COLFAX. WASHINGTON. :| INSURANCE] :' In Standard Old Line Company ! H. E. FUNSTON *OtALU - - WAIHIftCTON < CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $240,000 THE COLFAX NATIONAL Was established by pioneers of the Palouse Country, thirty years ago, and is still owned by the same men. They took a chance and the bank, by its re sources, has assisted in the development of the country. We point with pride to the fact that men are still customers of the bank who started in when the bank was started thirty years ago. We are glad our treatment merits their contin uous patronage and will continue to serve them as well as we have done in the past. THE COLFAX NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $240,000 Public Confidence Ihe greatest assurance of safety which any bank can offer to its depositors is a directorate composed of men of integrity and ability. Men in whom the public has unlimited confidence. The directors who manage the affairs of this bank have proven their ability to siuceed in business life and during the past five years this bank, under their management, has grown steadily until at present it ranks among the strong institutions of the country. Our officers are as courteous as good, conservative banking will per mit and all business entrusted to us is handled carefully with promptness. We do a general BANKING BUSINESS both SAVINGS and COM MERCIAL. 4 per cent interest compounded seml-annoallj paid on Savings Deposits. Wo solicit jour banking business believing that it will be to your interest to BANK with a STRONG, growing institution. THE FARMERS STATE BANK COLFAX, WASHINGTON. P. B. STRAVENS. President, J. j. MILLER. Vice President, W. R. ANDERSON, Cashier, s. A. KIMBROUGH, Asst. Cashier. Total Resources over $500,000.00. DEPOSITARY FOR POSTAL SAVINGS FUNDS AND WHITMAN COUNTY FUNDS. Small Depositors Welcome The officers of the Colfax State Bank welcome small depositors, considering it not only right, but good busl nesa policy to give equal attention to small and large accounts. Many of our large depositors started as small ones. We have seen accounts grow steadily, and we are glad to say that we have helped our customers to in crease their business and deposits. The officers will be glad to talk over banking rela tions with you at any time, and pledge themselves to serve your interests faithfully whea you entrust your business t« this institution. COLFAX STATE BANK Colfax, Wash. Capital -... $ 50,000.00 -^sets -- - - 400,000.00 Surplus - ... 30,000.00 FIRST SAVINGS & TRUST BANK OF WHITMAN COUNTY Colfax, Washington In addition to . re B ular Banking business, is authorized to act: -I~pora° r tiaQSfer ageDtS °f States ' -^ieipalities »r Cor 2~pr°opertl Ye ** deP°SU °f tr"St moner3 ' securiti« "d personal o.—Under order or appointment of any court, to act as euardian rece ver or trustee of the estate of kny minor and may be a d^ pository of any moneys paid into court. 6.—To act as receiver of trustee of the estate of any pers.n irn association or corporation P«rs»n, arm, '■"ualdroiUr?." 11"68 °f the 6State °f IUnaUC8 ' idiOt8 ' and habit 10.—To act as assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditor, and collect coupons and interest on all manner of securities. We hare moneyto loan on Improred Farms, no commission, and no delay when title ,s approred, with liberal options of repayment. CALL AND SEE US BANK