The Nezperce herald., January 23, 1919, Image 8

About The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957

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OVERCOATS AT
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About 50 Men's, Young Men's and Boys'
Overcoats at prices that prevailed two and
three years ago to be closed out Saturday
at just one half their former prices. You
will find in this stock some of the best ma
terial to be found anywhere and the prices
are just one half of what you would have
paid three years ago. See this line while
we have your size.
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REMNANTS
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We still have a good assortment of rem
nants left on the big remnant table in the
front of the store. Many good values are
in this lot and quite a saving can be made
by looking through this line.
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We're Both Losers if
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MOST POWERFUL OF ENGINES
One That Ha* Recently Been Con
structed Is a Triumph for Talent
of Electricians.
. The world's most powerful electric
engine has been completed in an
American shop and soon will go into
service on an American railway. It
has a capacity of 7,000 horsepower,
tyhich is 50 per cent greater than the
largest electric engine used in the
West,
This monster, capable of exerting
as much power as a string of trolley
cars more than half a mile long,
draws its current from a wire no big
ger than that used by a trolley car,
or about the size of a lead pencil.
This is made possible by the use of
the high voltage alternating current
system.
It is built in one unit. There are
two trucks, each having six driving
wheels six feet in diameter. On each
truck are mounted two powerful
electric motors taking current from
the trolley wire and supplying me
chanical power through a gear wheel
to the drivers. The total weight is
360 tons, length 76 feet. Although
this weight is compact the engine is
said to be much easier on the track
and roadbed than a steam locomo
tive because the weight is cushioned
and the running gear is perfectly
balanced for all speeds.
The control has been applied to
such perfection that power can be
exerted gradually so as to enable the
engine to start a train without jerk
and the of 20 miles
per hour with a heavy train in about
•two minutes.
BIG FRENCH ORDNANCE BASE
Arrferican Expeditionary Forces Con
structing City Which Will Cost
Many Millions of Dollars.
For use by the American expedi
tionary forces in France there is at
present under construction a huge
ordnance base which will cost
$25,000,000, says Popular Science
Monthly. It will include many
storehouses, shop buildings, maga
zines and a large store of machine
tool equipment. Repair plants on a
large scale for guns, carriages, small
arms and machine guns, horse and
infantry equipment are provided
for; also reloading plant for artil
lery cartridge cases, carpenter
shops and other auxiliary buildings.
A force of 450 officers and 16,000
men is needed to maintain the base,
and about half of this force has been
obtained through a special recruit
ing campaign instituted by the ord
nance base bureau.
WATER POWER.
Yeast—Have you any water pow
er in your town?
Crimsonbeak—Oh, yes.
"And has it been developed?
"Well, they're trying to make the
old town bone dry, if that's what
you mean.
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WHERE IT IS DARK.
Mr. Myles—Does your wife still
love the opera ?
Mr. Styles—Indeed, yes.
"But in these war times when it is
so dark in New York, what does she
do?"
"Oh, there are the movies, you
know."
VERY UNUSUAL.
"I see a bill recently passed con
gress without a dissenting vote.
"What of it ?"
"I didn't suppose it possible to
propose a bill so reasonable that
everybody would vote for it."—Lou
isville Courier-Journal.
AHEAD OF THE STYLES.
"My wife is so far ahead of the
styles that things are getting a trifle
uncomfortable for her."
"How's that ?"
She has to wear a straw hat in
January and a fur hat in July."—
Kansas City Journal.
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FLAG FOR HUBBY.
My wife has just made a valuable
discovery.
How's that ?"
Findè she can utilize her
furs for winter wear."—Kansas City
J ournal.
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A MIXED AFFAIR.
"It seems that the central powers'
rushes are always stopped on
river."
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SOLDIER'S MOTHER
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By DOROTHY DOUGLAS.
(Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
She was middle-aged and pretty and
Robert Dowling had watched her ever
since he had settled himself In Ms
comfortable Pullman «eat In the great
station. He was certain that she was
somebody's mother, for It was the
striking resemblance to his own moth
er that had at first attracted his atten
Now the train was sidetracked
"somewhere In the middle West," In
order to give righj of way to loads of
coal and trainload after trainload of
At last the young man summoned
the temerity to go over and speak,
"Do you mind my sitting down by
you?" he asked, leaning over the sweet
face and looking into the lovely blue
eyes so like his own dear mother's In
expression.
Mrs. Pemberton moved toward the
window and smiled a wonderful smile
at the young man. "There Is nothing
at this moment that would please me
more," she said. "It is for a boy just
a little younger than you that I am
anxiously traveling to get a sight of,"
she said.
foodstuffs being speeded on their way
to the soldier boys across the sea.
"Oh—then I was right. I knew you
were somebody's mother. My own
mother was much like you. Is your
boy In—in the service, perhaps?
"Indeed he is," the woman answered
And he is on his way across
proudly.
country now or one of thè trucks of
the commissary department. There
was a good chance of *ny seeing him in
Detroit If our train had gone through
and-—" her voice trembled a little,
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sumed—"and I have made this long
trip on that one chance of seeing him
before he sails for the other side."
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rapidly formed questions. Then, ex
fusing himself for a short time and
Dowling left word at one or two
points that he found out the commis
sary corps had to touch and then he
sought out a country backman, who
took him back to the siding In a one
horse sleigh.
Arrived in Detroit, Robert took Mrs.
promising to return, he left.
He found the conductor and ascer
tained the distance from the station
he knew to be not very far away, and
then he started out, in bad weather
and snow-bound roads, to find It.
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Pemberton to her hotel and hurried on
to make his own business calls.
shall come back tonight and I hope to
have word of the wandering soldier
boys by that time," he said, as he left
her.
Late that afternoon the mother's
eyes were getting weary for a sight
of her son, when she saw Robert Dow
ling hurrying into the hotel foyer, ap-1
parently looking for some one.
"Oh," he breathed, nervously, "here
you are." He said it half In relief, half
in distress.
Mrs. Pemberton scrutinized his ex-1
g 0 ^h t 0 m ak ( e t 0 e hlm m ° ment ; I
"The big trucks, two of them, went |
pression. "What Is it, boy?"
"First—your son Is all right. I'm
over an embankment Just outside of
the city and one or two men were bad- |
ly hurt. Your son was on one of the
overturned trucks and Is a bit shaken
up and looking for you in his room at
the hospital. Shall I take you right to
him?"
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In less than ten minutes they were
In a taxicab on their way to the hos
pital, and when once Robert saw the
lovely little woman grasped warmly
In the arms of her big son as he sat
straight up in bed, bandaged head and
all, he turned to go out of the room.
As he stood In the door he was face
to face with the only girl who had ever
made any difference In his life—Helen
Worden.
"Helen—Helen," he gasped as he
saw her uniform. "You—" But before
he could finish he had sunk slowly to
the floor.
"Bobs—oh, Bobs," the little nurse
breathed as she bent over him. Then
the doctor came and Robert Dowling
was quickly restored to himself.
"No soldier life for this young man,"
laughed the doctor, when Robert was
all right. "He has a heart that can't
stand any sort of shock." Helen had
explained a few things to the doctor
In the brief time in which they were
trying to restore Robert to normal.
"Oh—and I thought he was a—a
coward," she whispered. "That Is why
we—we are not married today. I broke
our engagement because he would not
Join up and he would not tell me why.
He thought I should have known that
he would If he could." !
Meantime, Mrs. Pemberton and her
son had been anxiously waiting to hear
from the room Into which they had
carried Robert. j
• At last Jack Pemberton's nurse and
Mrs. Pemberton's train companion
came Into the tiny room hand In hand.
"Well—I'll be—" I
"Careful, Jack," remonstrated Mrs.
Pemberton. 1
Helen Worden blushed wonderfully
and explained everything. |
"So you see you got your reward for
being kind to an old lady," laughed
Mrs. Pemberton. i
Only Cause for Regret.
Jack—I hear Smith broke a chair
over his wife last night.
Mabel—Yes, but he Is sorry for it
this morning.
Jack—Well, I am glad to hear he
Is sorry.
Mabel—Yes, he Is very sorry. It was
a new chair,—London Tlt-Blts.
GRAIN GROWER MEETING
K. X Leth, field agronomist for
University Extension Department,
give n demonstration in wheat
at the Fraternal hall on Saturda
noon at 2 p. m. This is an i
the
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import
matter to this community and the
lie and the farmers in particular
asked to be present. The
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Representative Curtis Browni
t j,j s C0UIlt y j, as b een pi ace( j (m
" n P 0lta "*. comm * tté ? a m tlu " *°»er
hou8e and 18 recognized as one of tl e
e,| ergetic members of the majority dele
Ration in the legislature. He is looj,
iug carefully after the interests of h; 8
constituency and only asks for his p^.
pie to make their wants known, that
he may not overlook anything while •
Boise,
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meeting .j,
ree for all and for the benefit of tW
interested in grain- raising,
at 2 o'clock.
•Saturday
Browning's Committees.'
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He is a member of the following coni
nrittees:
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Military and Indian affai
horticul
ture and agriculture; federal relation*
emigration, labor and statistics.
OSTRICHES ON MENU. "
The food administration in Ari
zona has permitted J. E. Cogdell
manager of one of the largest ostrich
f arms j n America, situated
p hoeni Ariz to gla ht gf
K ow)
lr( s ar ® ln excellent condition
f° r eating. They will be dressed and
neu
placed on the market at 15 cents i
for this action.
pound. These 800 ostriches repre- I
sent 25,000 pounds of dressed meat I
The war is responsible in two
place Mr. Cogdell would
think 0 f slaughtering his beautiful I
never
. birds, the progeny of those imported 1
several } eat s ago from Africa, but ;3S
| the fact that the war has put
the festive ostrich plume more or less if
out of business. In the second place -S
the war shortage of meat is respoasi- J
ble for the issuance of the order per- 'f
mitting the slaughter and sale. Aid
then it comes to pass that Arizona 3
or part of her populace at least, is 3
preparing to celebrate "Ostrich day." M
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MADE IN GERMANY.
Irate Lady—This clothesline as I s
bought last night you said was a all- J
British line,
Shopkeeper—Yes, madam.
Irate Lady—Well, it's broke twice, I
and let me washing down. A 'Indra
burg line I calls it.—London Tit-, 1 ?!
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BASEBALL BATTERY.
ture a battery and were repulsed
with heavy losses.
"Yes, they'll never get that bat- M
tery. Best southpaw and best catch- %
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er in the trench league. —Lou» j
"I hear the Germans tried to cap
ville Courier-Journal.
Watch out for thif big entertainment jm
at the school house Friday evening.!
Jan. 31.
A big time at the school house Fri sa
Jan. -31. Kveryboiiv't I
day evening,
going.
Hot
Drinks!
We are serving
Hot Chocolate
Hot Coffee, Nec-j
tar, etc.
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