The Emmett index. [volume], October 20, 1921, Image 2

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ur. or disgust at the w«y the gam.
earn. out. Y- In spit. °
ment, tax revision snarls, the troubles
of disarmament, the Irish question
wars and rumors of wars, the Fatty i
Arbuckle caae, or that one nearer
home, tha "aerie»'' is "the series" and
th# game remains "tha game."
CURRENT COMMENT
■ytS, that —ma old bunch of fanat
1 I— bung awmBd Tha Index office
ev —7 day during tha world's series.
Ufa was too abort to wait for the
—stag paper to eon— In. They Just
had to know who the batteries were,
what old'Babe Both waa doing and
the Giants had got Carl
whether Nehf
had tea skill to outwit the Yanks.
At a beat 1 o'clock in the aftemooi
each day tha fane on the ranches in
the country Hereabout knocked off
from work long enough to telephone
far the eeore, and even the fellow« up
at Sweet and down at Falk —lied up
to toons how tha battle waa going.
And on— to a while a woman's voico
would get on the line with the old
familiar queetion, "How's the —ore?"
Aad then, when school let out, a
long string of gangly boys would file
in front of The Index windows to read
tha bulletin and manifest their pi—s
wh teh a r
Mays'a
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'THU dispatches the other day tell
4 of Secretary Hoover going fish
ing. WXth his problems of feeding
and healing a ml »or de red world, the
secretary may quote distinguished
pre—dents for going flaking,
up your troubles in your old kit bag,"
Pack
waa tha advi— of tho war ballad. Tho
fish bosket and tha bait box are good
ptoses to ate— one's oomptox— to
tla— at pease. And — to the gun
toils aa, Jute baton tha imawrtal ra
abeut him aad farro w ed hia
■ate at
te Bfigatetea HM Hia a xp nd Kl o*»
mmvv or fos|iinkf m knbium
"1— proved Methods of Du*
treettoe
horning HydrsusHe Rasas," yea ries hia
brain and palls apon his fertile mind,
grabs a fishing pole and a —n of bait
and hikes for the white—p waters of
the North Fork. Blessed ia the man
who invented fishing and bunting.
^HEN the question
com— up, it is well enough to re
member that the former service men
who were disabled and really needed
financial help have not fard so badly.
The director of the war veteran's bu
reau is authority for the statement
that the government has already paid
more than 28 million dollars in insur
of soldier bonus
Our Eye
Glass Service
to all iochwriv». It is rendered
— a* to embrace both Improve
ment to vision and improvement
in personal appearance. After
aa expert examination of the
eye*, we take into consideration
Ike meatetog that will beet har
meat comfortable.
This servi— theogh high class
to net Wgk priced.
R*y G. Newcomer
_
=?
•un» Mm h «*
in trsiün« making a Mat
at araond U müiieu doOnra the Ae
abled men hare received. This
They
nothing more than right
«hoe Id ha adequately provided far,
and net ona af than should ba altowad
to »offer far n——sittoa, or for the
dunce to again become —If «u»tain
tog. But, to the maantima, th* men
who war* not impaired by thair war
—rvi— calf wait far a more propitious
time to thf country's finance* for
whatever adjustment at their compen
sation may be due them. The service
themselves doubtless coincide in
this sentiment.
TRITT do you not nvail yourself of
" the opportunity to be of service
to the —use of public morals by satir
ising the rolUd-stocklng-ha—-knees
fad—alas, so unhappily prevalent
among otherwise perfectly rsepact
able girls? You certainly do not lack
courage.—Sent in by "An Old Fash
ioned woman."
There you are I it has been put up
to us at last. But the deli—to flat
tery of that last sentence do— not
—tch ns. We deny being courageous
In feet, we ere the original human
rabbit in our relation to many
thing». And we are no reformer.
Time was whan wa thought we ware.
Thera was e time when we made a
newspaper campaign against all sorts
of things of a reform nature. But
people refused to take us seriously
and nil wa got out or it wa» the
equine laugh. When th* fair sex be
gan wearing 'em rolled we took the
matter under consideration. We like
to roach a conclusion deliberately. We
studied over the matter and after con
side— ble observation, aided by s few
ocular demonstrations by daughter
Just home from college and such other
observations as a windy day on'Main
lmpreMed ()n 0 '.., mim J. we
rt>achBd the concIu . ion that rolled
hoae ia a matter of personal prefer
ence, and that bare kneea are not of
fensive to the aesthetic sen»«, If they
are clean.
^ND now as to the immorality: Pri
marily, immorality is a state of
mind. While we offer no encourage
ment to the rolled-hose fad, it looka
foolish to set the stamp of approval
on bare legs and dr—a above the
k'neee for school girls below the Sixth
grade and at the same time to set the
manner of dressing girls from the
Sixth grade on. Aa to immorality, we
off— tho following postulate: The
morality — immorality of girls to the
re ac tion of thair homo training. And
allow — another postulate: No giri
who to brought up und— a strict ad
ministration of tho social conventions
ever go— wrong. It to tha uncoaven
tioaal aad uncha p er oaa d giri who do—
things to hor hates, to —pant at kor
Maura.
A Bin la another teat# haa— hor
**-Ate- - -- —m ékte
ftftlui it hli wiktaf tiikty ^n
with his motorcar. This to ate a earn
altbea fh this ia perhaps, the first
that it has lall toward tha legal
parting oè married folks. Tha habit
of trying to improve on the automo
bile manufacturer grew with tho rise
of tho —r. Owners whose passion
for mechanics had been Inhibited for
years found On outlet for it ot last.
Dawn, sundown, Sundays and holi
days found the tinker tinkering. For
every hour he drove he tinkered 12.
Cautious girls will say to applicanta
for their hand:
let our automobile run as the maker
intended it to or are you one of those
tireless tinkers?"
ri—,
time
Are you content to
^ WRITER goes laboriously thru
several pages of a popular wom
an's magazine explaining "How to
Get Married on $211 a Week ami Eat."
The woods are full of people who are
married and have children, who are
living on $25 a week, and not only
eat, but seem to have a pretty good
time out of life. As a rule, it is the
bald-headed barber who advises one
how to keep the hair beautiful and
luxuriant.
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TALES OF TOWN
If every woman could do what she
wished to do, who would wash the
dishes?
AAA
Arbuckle will probably have to »hip
his laundry home to his stepmother
after the lawyers get through with
him.
• « •
Your appendix may be entirely
leas to you—but gosh! think how it
may hely a poor struggling doctor
some day'
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Our guess is that acst year the
mighty Babe Ruth will begin te slip,
and that be won't make mare than
58 home runs in the season.
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If one American dollar will bay
100 German marks and one German
mark will boy 800 Russian râble»; no
won der food is beyond price in Russia
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One thing we ha— yet tee pleas
art to m » s woman »weeping vp
r«to
th# tody to the v
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The pro f «— e r» who „Weighed the
earth a few y—up ago, before the
buainesa t te p re e ei on eet to, ahooM
weifh it again. There ie a suspicion
that it haa tote.
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Harry Laadar to in Haw York and
—ya nobody baa off— ad htoi a drink
yte. Whether ha menu that aa a
ir as a hint—
ha means?
tribute to
well, what do too
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A North Carolina mountaineer
runs his flivver with eondicker, pre
ferring it to gasoline. We would be
afraid it would make the machine
climb a tree or get on a railroad
track and fight a mogul angine.
BBB
The woman who to on trial for the
murder of her fourth husband was at
one time a dimplsd infant that a
mother loved, fondled and protected.
When the gate on— clangs, it opens
to the enchanted realm of
no more
innocen—.
AAA
"The husband that lies to his wife
la wholly depraved," aays a preacher.
Not in every instance. As a rule, we
think, when a husband Haa to hla wife
he n impelled not so much by deprav
ity aa by an exagge—ted notion of
the law of — If-preeervation.
• A' •
Job waa a noble, patient, God fear
ing man, and it ia but natural that
parents should be glad to name a
son for him, but how to the name of
Moses dH the Hunter family of Chi
to think of it? Couldn't
cago come
they fore—e » time like this and how
of Job Hunter
painful the name
would look in print?
A O A
The keen-eyed shopper looked
at the meat displayed on the butch
er's stall for some minutes, and then
exclaimed:
ton ?"
replied the butcher," the sheep was
born in New Zealand. But, madam,
he added in triumph, "it is of Amer
Is that American mut
Well, aa a matter of fact,"
ican parents.
AAA
On entering a postoffice to send a
registerred letter to hereon in Ch.inn
old German woman found that
she had forgotten hia address,
told the clerk of her predicament. |
"Aeh, it sounds like an auto some
vay," she told him. "Toot-toot?" he
an
She
I
asked. She shook her head. He then
turned to hia mas latent. "Joe,
inquired, "what notoe do— an auto- !
mobile made?" "Honk-honk," was
tha reply. "Aeh, dote it," —id the 1
woman and wagt away as Halted.
AAA
"Talking about dry towns, haw» you
been in L—veuworth, Kan.?"
:
he
ever
naked tha commercial traveler in th*
hotel lobby. "No? Well, that's a
dry town f— you, all right" "They
can't —Q Hquar at all the—?" sated
a bystander. "Only If you ten boon
by a note," said tha dr
have only oao snake ia the
bfttea
"Soy
day, after standing <*> Hne tor nearly
kalf a day, it was too tired to bite."
AAA
had b— n a servant to hie heoaa. Bo
tog interested in her welfare, ho said,
to hor: "Why, aren't you married]
yet?" "No, elr." "Well, I thought]
you would have been married before
the —id. I
Two!" he
Oh, no, sir,
now."
"There's two waiting.
Why, you don't mean to
No, air. The
exclaimed.
marry two, do you?"
two that's waiting is the priest an'
me."
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Did this ever happen in your home?
"Oh, boo, hoo-ooo! t There are two
more cans of prunes getting moldy
on top. Ijist week it was the peach !
butter that had all to be cooked down !
again, and I suppose nex^ week it]
will be the cherries. I just —n't see '
what's the matter. I use<J all new [
lids and rings, and dipped ((he lids of]
some in paraffin. I just know it's >
that old cellar, so I do. Next year I
am not going to can a thing, so I'm
not! I'm getting tired of working
like a dog putting up fruit to have it
spoil, and have to throw it out, and
But the old man vyas gone.
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John Clay, of the well known live
stock commission firm of Chi—go,
who has often visited at the Andrew
Little ranch in Emmett, relates the
following story:
farm in Scotland, as was ray custom
each year, and when talking with the
old Scotchman who had been a part
of the farm organization ain— my
boyhood days, I noted that he wa* not
wearing the big fur cap with the
heavy ear flaps which he had always
worn in winter time. " 'Where is
your cap, Sandy?' I asked. "'Mi
cap, mon? Why, I ha no wore it
sin— the accident " 'Accident,* I
said. '1 had not heard of any acci
dent.' " 'Ah, yes. it was when Mc
Gregor —roe over an' we were oot
tmgither, an' he asked me to have e
drink—an' I dinna hear him.'"
I visited the old
Over a quarter of a million well
known men and women from differ
ent parts of the country have signed
written endorsements for Tan lac. H
T. Davis.
Batter wrappers at Index offi—.
Are You Throwing
Why not save ««ne ef your money by baying where yon
get Better Goods at Lower Prices?
We cany a Stock of better hardware and we invite
you to compare our prices with other goods and see
wherè you get full value for your money.
We have a full line of International Tillage and Cut
ting Implements and have a full line of repairs.
You want a machine that will do the work under all
conditions? All right, see us.
We are here to serve.
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Hawkins Hardware Co.
EMMETT, IDAHO
Foot suffering is needless!
s?;
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Let the Dr. SchoH
Foot Specialist
demonstrate to you
that you can gain
complete foot com -
' fort immediately
\
foot expert
A
coming to our store
Monday, Oct. 24
H« is ■ member of the ataff «f Dr. Wa.
SdtdL the recognized auth or i ty oa ail
troufaica, and ia here 1er the benefit of
B— patr—i and others. AB who come to
him wfll have their caaea carefully atodied
and will be adviaed how to sain
immediate relief and complete
foot comfort
No matter whether th* trouble ia corn*
c allou an , bunions, weak archiea» fiat foot,
cramping toes, "rheumatic" foot and leg
nains, weak ankles or something else. Dr.
Schof afoot Expert can demonstrate to you
on your own foot the proper cor*
t rective appliance to give relief
I and ultimate correction.
I Improve foot appearance
I Dr. Scholl's Appliances actually
I improve the grace and beauty of
" the feet. No oddly shaped shoes.
Wear the kind you like in per
fect comfort. Don't wait until
the last minute and maybe lose
your chance to get foot comfort.
M.
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Examination and advice free
We want evefyone with bother
some feet to take full advantage »
oKhis opportunity. Come in any
time while Dr. Scholl's Foot
Expert is here; heknowsjustwhat /arming of iuniam , Dr.
i, to be done and wiU tell you how
to have easy, comfortable feet Light, spring, camjonatu
Don't forget the dates—come in sure
Ta x
arch
trtnphtn the fallen
and ta prevent the
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STORES"
MAKE IT RIGHTi
Id— ta and Happln—e.
Lasting happiness results front
building id—Is lato concrete struc
tures that minister to human happl
— The material things of the world
have their worth, but even that de
pends upon the uses they are put ta
Many a log valuable for furniture
building has been used to fill swampy
places over which cord-wood was
hauled. And the some Is true of
Wcçls. To really count they mnst be
fitted to good ends. Joy comes from
projecting yourself Into the future uud
the welfare of the race.
HORSESHOEING
We are experts. We adapt
the shoe to the horse's
needs and the work he is to
do, whether for traveling
or pulling
McMillan & ricgs
Corner Grocery
Home of Good Eats"
Everything good to eat. Fresh green
vegetables all the time. Early Eureka
and Peachblow Seed Potatoes, D. M. Fer
ry, Northrop King, Lilly & Morse Seeds.
SO MANY TRADE HERE
SO MANY PHONE ORDERS
SO MANY MAIL ORDERS
SO MANY SEND BY FRIENDS
All goods have declined and our prices are Right.
Besides you get a special 5 per cent discount for
Spot Kash.
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W. W. WILKERSON, Proprietor
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Phone 160