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MILLINERY ! MILLINERY ! UNDER CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT^ The VOGUE MILLINER. Y has decided to close out the Entire Stock Nothing Reserved—for the next THIRTY DAYS. Never Before in Caldwell has there been New, Up-to-Date Millinery at such Prices IN PERSONAL ITEMS AND SOCIAL All hats in the house at exceedingly low prices during our 30-day sale— come in and examine the bargains.— The Vogue Millinery. m9-30 Ed Miller spent a day in Emmett last week. Miss Finney entertained last even ing at dinner in honor to the Senior class of the College. This evening the Academic department will be the guests of honor. C. M. Hill of Boise, general town site promter at Homedale, spent Sat urday with a large party of Minneso ta investors in Homedale, who are looking over southern Idaho with a view to future investments. Mrs. Bloillier and daughter have gone on an extended visit to Florida. Mrs. Maud Stone spent Friday in Boise, the guest of Mrs. D. D..Wil liams. Mr. and Mrs. Williams start next week for an extended trip abroad to be gone a year or more. The Middleton Epworth League met at fhe Harsall home Tuesday evening and elected the following of ficers to serve during the year: Pres ident, Maurine Hadsall; 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th vice presidents being Muriel Mofoerly, Pearl Shaffer, Ethel Bixbv and Mary Hamaker; secretary Mar tha Klein; treasurer, Edith Temple. The stereopticon lecture.on China, which was biven at the Presbyterian dhurch Sunday evening by Mr. Chas. Hawkes, was much enjo-ed by all present. The pictures were unusually good ones. All the newest shapes and styles in Spring hats are to be sacrificed during or 30-day sale—you can find just the hat to suit you if you come early.— The Vogue Millinery. m9-30 FOR RENT—Housekeeping suite with bath.—422 Dearborn nvl6-tf At the Bungalow Friday and Satur day, "Pride of the South," a three reel feature production. One of these quaint Southern draimas. "Her Beau" and "On His Wedding Day," two good comedies. Sumer normals will be held at Lew iston, Albion and Pocatello. For a time we thought that the College of Idaho would hold a normal for the teachers in this part oi the state, but the_ faculty have decided that they can't aford to bring in the talent that the teachers have been used to in the Boise normals and so have given up the plan entirely. The summer nor mals lhave been supported by state ap priations. This year the legislature failed to make an appropriation for that purpose. The eighth grade wrote on May ex amination oil Thursday, Friday and Saturda" of last week. An efforts is being made to get the papers grad ed earlv so that each school may know , the standing of its eighth grade pupils before it closes Many schools throughout the county are planning to have commencement exercises at which the certificates will be pre sented. Miss Daisy Beatty and Miss Cora B. Bean are assisting the county superintendent to grade the papers. The city schools: Caldwell. Namna, Payette and Emmett were made inde pendent districts of class A by the last legislature, which amended the law so that a school aving 20 teachers, now belongs to class A. They can now make out their course of studv adopt text books and arrange for the pro motion of their eighth grade pupils into high schools, independent of the state. Payette was the only one of these that took tlie state 8th grade ex amination in May The Young Peoples' Bridge club met Friday evening with Miss Piatt, the only outside guests being Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Ross and Mr. and Mrs Fred Boyes. Mrs. Reniherg of Seattle, arrived Sunday evening to stay with her sis ter, Mrs. Cook, whose husband is critically ill at the Canyon hospital. Although Mr. Cook is in a very weak ened condition he and Mrs Cook will leave for-his home in Indiana Thtirs Miss Steinman and Mi«« Campbell of Parma, were in Caldwell on busi ness Saturday. Mrs. L. F. C,aines is expecting her sister, Mrs Tda Green and daughter of Iowa, to spend the summer with her. The large stock of Spring Hats in the city to be sold during our 30-day sale—all inust go. Come early in or der to insure the best selection.— Tir Vogue MilUpery. m9-30 day evening being accompanied as far as Cheyenne by Mrs. Spurgeon. Mrs. Remberg will remain in Cald well a few days as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. F| Beale. The Aid society of the Presbyterian church had a most delightful meeting Wednesday afternoon at the Commu nity House. The ladies have recently fitted up a most complete kitchen with new range, tables, sink and cupboards, months for weddings and sHowers the omnths for weddings and showers the ladies gave themselves a kitchen shower at this meeting, thus filling the cupboards full of new and useful kitchen utensils. As this was also Pioneer day a number of the early day workers were present, making the meeting in general a most delightful one. A new school district has been farmed from a part of the territory that belonged to the Middleton dis trict. This district will have a hard time financially for a few years as there is but little taxable property in it, but the people are very anxious for a school as their children cannot walk to Middleton. The directors are plan ning to bring tWe lumber from the mountains for the school house which is to be built by donation. O. C. Robinson of Central Park, was at the court house Saturday on school business. Mrs. Stanford, principal of the Lone Star school, helped grade 8th "rade papers Saturday. Now is the time to get your hats cheap. Thé Vogue Millinery Parlors are having a sale. m9-30 Twenty-five schools in this county are now closed. A few were foTC to close before their term was col pleted because of a shortage of fun Last week Sunny Slope called a meeting for the purpose of talking over the advisabliity of bonding the district in order to enlarge their school building. They were very disappointed when they found that the law had been so changed that they only bond to the amount of four per cent oif tlheir assessed valuation. This would only give them about $400. The Ladies' Aid which helned very materiall" in putting up the first buiding, volunteered their services to help lift any debt the trustees should incur in adding to the school. Al though t'h'ere is much complaint about high taxes, the returns from the school elections which were held in uy :À.sl BN ai» Anniversary Sale Now on, every day a bargain day. Since this sale began, we have put a bigger re uction on all ladies Suits and coats than was first« intended, and we now have on sale— A Large Lot of Coats Reduced tö 99.7 S These coats were formerly in value to $18.00 A great many of your friends and neighbors have avafled themselves ofihe opportune bargains in spring goods and will tell you, this sale is not» misrepresented in any way. . All overstocked^ departments are being relieved and new bargains added every day to the already large list of unusual price reductions. W. C. HUNTER ai April prove that the people do not want to cripple the schools in order to lower the taxes. They have voted very generously spcial taxes in nearly all the districts. Miss Annette McGregor spent Sun day with her sister in Boise. The higher grades of Lincoln school will lhave their annual picnic at Curtis park on Thursday evening. E. G. Lee of Wilder, spent Sunday in Caldwell. Little Robert Devereaux had the misfortune to run a nail in his hand making it impossible for him to at tend school. For thirty days the Vogue will sell any hat in the house at less than you ever saw them before. Come early and get the best selection. m9-30 An automobile party from Boise called at the residence of Rev. D. B. Titus last Sunday after noon, where two of the company, Mr. Haokon Jacobson and Miss Alma Olsen, were united in marriage. Mr. Jacobson is doing the cabinet work on the capitol building. Mrs. L. Lampton Evans and daugh ter, Miss Evans, national organizers for the Draper Mother's Club, ar rived in Caldwell the first of the week to assist the ladies in starting a club here. The club takes up the work of the Twentietilil Century Self-culture association, of which Dr. Anderw Sloan Draper,commissioner of educa tion of the state of New York, is the activé head." Mrs Evans and daughter expects to work with the ladies' clubs and clergy of the city. The teachers of the schools will also be invited to take part in the work and tlheir experience will be of great assistance. The pur pose of the organization is to better the standard ,i^f citizenship through the early training in the home. In addition to the course of study it prescribes for motheç»! the organiza tion aims to help in child welfare and civic work. Among its objects may be found tflne intention to look after the wayward and neglected child, to see that the curfew law is enforced and to keep children from running the streets at night and frequenting un desirable places. It concerns itsel; .with the condition of public places and thoroughfares, with beautifying the parks and sdhool grounds and sim ilar lines of'activity. Wherever the welfare of the child is involved., there the club finds its work. Mrs. H. W. Dorman visited in Boise several days last week. W. P. Kelleher left Monday for Jor dan Valley on a week's business trip. C. W. Harkisdn of Boise was a Caldwell visitor Sunday. Miss Genevieve Flynn spent Satur day in Boise. Hon. J. M. Thompson spent Mon day and Thursday in Boise on busi ness before the supreme court. • Iiss Helen Coston of Boise, Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star, was in the city Tuesday, the guest, of Mrs. Ed Adam. Miss Adelaide Harris of Hailey, who is visiting in the city, has been quite ill the last few days. Mrs. Frank Steunenberg and chil dren have returned home from Walla Walla, where they spent the school year. A damonstration of the types of dairy cows was given before the agri cultural class of the high school Mon day morning by Prof. Ireland, the field expert of Canyon County FORWARD CLUB MEETING TUESDAY AFTERNOON Postmaster Horn says that the gen erat delivery window at the post office i will be open Decoration Day, May 30 1 from 9 a. m. to 10:30 a. m. At the meeting of the Forward club held Tuesday afternoon in the club rooms, the annual reports of the offi cers and committees were made as this meeting closed the club year. Four new members were added to the list, making the present membership 97. Five delegates were elected to represent the Second district Federa tion to be held in Weiser in June. These delegates were Mesdames Kyle, Holt, Handy, Boyes and Rob erts. Committees were appointed to take charge of the various foods to be served at the cafeteria Friday noon and evening of this week for the cem etery benefit. The club voted to con tinue its meetings through the sum mer. The program for the afternoon was in charge of the Library commit tee. A very excellent and interesting paper on the education of the Indians was read by Mrs. March, giving her personal experiences in that line. Na tive costumes and pictures were shown which added much to the interest. Af ter tfhie program light refreshments were served. A pleasant feature of the occasion was that of welcoming the new president, Mrs. Emma E. Stone, when the toast was extended her by the members, led by the retir ing president, Mrs. C. T. Hawkes. A lari-e crowd was present and the af ternoon thoroughly enjoyed. BAPTIST SOCIAL A social evening was enjoyed at the Baptist church last Wednesday in honor of the new pastor. Rev. Geo. R. Varney. A large crowd was pres ent and excellent refreshments were served. The program for the evening was as follows: Two vocal duets—Myra McDonald and Lucile Robinson. Piano solo—Helen Lovejoy. Reading—Daphne Gowen. Mandolin solo—Mr. Kingsbury. By request Mrs. Deitrichi repeated the reading given at the Matron's contest. What Becomes of Your MONEY Ever wonder where your last month's salary went! There is no way to tell where every penny goes—a way that will show you where you are spending too much and will prevent your paying the same bill twice, through error. And its any easy way, too— On the first day of each month every check you have drawn on your account with this bank is returned to you, also a statement showing how much money you deposited with us during • the month and just how much you have spent—and the checks always show to wtiom you have paid the money—and by looking over the checks you can easily note the ones that are unnecessary—and you'll be saving all the time. Suppose you open your account to day—begm to cut off the useless expense NOW. First National Bank CALDWELL IDAHO Chapter F. P. E. O. met at the home of Mrs. J. T. Hay on Monday evening. After the business meeting the members were highly entertained by listening to the reading of an origi nal story by Miss Georgia McFarland, the subject being, A Desperate Chance. As this story dealt with life in Idaho, it was doubly interesting. Mrs. W. L. Porter of Denver came Monday to spend the summer ^ith her husband, the bee man.