Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 1, 1918, Page 2

MANUFACTURERS OF | UNION FLOUR i SHORTS, BRAN & ROLLED FEED t Our flour is warranted not to contain any acids or bleaching compound. Ses 'f] tion to do chopping of all kinds. i : : SER a a 2 A. O. class and The Ne’er "FRIDAY, FEB. High School Play “Oak Farm” We are in the market for FAT HOGS every Monday We are always in the market for your GRAIN AT HIGHEST PRICES. Farm Machinery Flying Dutchman Gang Plows, Monitor Drills, Disc Harrows, Drag Harrows, Flying Dutchman Manure Spreaders, Gas Engines, Fanning Mills, Wire Fencing, Farm Gates, U. S. Cream Separators. ALFALFA AND CLOVER SEED MARTIN, Mer. Dance after play do. Well” Our chopper is now working and we are in posi- Farmers Union Warehouse Company Saturday and Sunday the usual high entertaining pictures The last number of this stirring drama Tuesday. See it On Wednesday February 6th 9 reels and dance for benefit of band = The Orpheum 54 Eyeglass Service That Excels Dr, E. A. Schilling, I am very well satisfied jects are no longer hazy. they would be. Well pleased with them. My right eye, bit as good as the left one. “They have helped me out of difficult ‘places in my school, and there has been a marked improvement in the work. Giflord, Idahe, Jan. 28, °18. Cottonwood, Ida., DearSir:—Enclosed please find $10 for the glasses you fitted for me. with them as I can see so much better. Ob- They are so much plainer than I imagined Yours truly, which gave me trouble before, is ever In all, lam Miss Grace Herrick. E. A. SCHILLING, Jeweler Nuxoll Block—King street —Cottonwood | “Keep Off the Graes,” Is American En- AMERICAN SPIRIT ON FRENCH FRONT Yankee Push Shown by Sign. | boards Bearing Legends of Various Nature. ABODE OF LOVE” ONHUN HUT ginger’s Warning to Avoid Unex- ploded German Shell—France’s Tribute to Fallen Allies. Paris—Among all the legends that | appear on signboards at and near the front three plainly show the American | spirit newly at work, writes George T. | Bye. | The first of these I came across was | at a railroad siding that formerly had been part of the depot yards of a hustling little town, C——, now thor- | oughly obliterated. American en- | gineers were operating and maintain- | ing this division of the military rail- way, and at the siding a lean-to lunch- room has been propped up—the only structure to mark the former site of C——. This lunchroom, supplied by British commissariat, had a capacity of four customers, two standing and two seated on boxes. The agony of desolation of the prostrate town was cheerfully answered by a bold sign nailed to the side of the lunchroom: BOOST FOR C——! WATCH IT GROW! Not so far from this evidence of pulsating Yankee push we passed a Herman internment camp, a collection of black huts surrounded by several barbed wire. fences, the center one probably charged with electricity. This is the second stage of internment for Hun prisoners, the first being in wire cages at the trenches. More Americans were close by. On the front of one of these huts a hasty arm had clialked in white let- ters: “Abode of Love” must have been thé work of a Chicagoan. When I lived in Chicago several years ago cer- tain celebrated affinities were spend- ing “sweet seasons” in a little cottage on southern Lake Michigan, which they called “Abode of Love.” Along still another division of the military railway in American hands (I spent two days visiting our engineers at the front) we found a Missouri hu- morist making a sign for a Hittle fenced-off square already marked “Danger.” Within was a huge unex- ploded German shell that had descend- ed on too great a slant and had not | buried itself. Such shells and hun- | dreds of — just-waiting-to-be-slightly | moved bombs are found on the battle- fields near the front, where the labor battalions have not yet removed or ex- ploded them; and most of them are | fenced in, as I have described, and signed “Danger” or “Do Not Touch.” What our American engineer letter- ed on his cardboard for the big shell’s little park was: KEEP OFF THE GRASS. Will our boys still consider it a | pleasant pastime to devise wayside signs after they have lettered a few thousand of another sort . For exam- ple: “To the Memory of ——, One | of the Best Defenders of His Coun- | try and a Regular Man?” or “To Un- known. He Lost Life and Identifica- tion Tag at the Same Time, Yet His Comrades Know Him as Hero.” These epitaphs are British. Our troop -trains in France pass signboards familiar to every Ameri- can, among them the insistent ‘'re- minder of “57 Varieties” and the three malted milk cows. The biggest war sign is at the Butte de Warlencourt, on the Bapaume-Al- bert road. It has the dimensions of an American bill board and reads: “To | Be Kept Intact by the French Govern- | ment. Do not Disturb.” The butte, | a rocky cone. hillock, is surmounted by five crosses erected to the memory of | British troops who lost their lives by the thousands jn storming the butte in October, November and December, 1916. The big signboard is a moving | testimonial of the appreciation of the | French for their loyal ally’s sacrifices, | | ee | fat, will sustain life indefinitely. | flour to make leavened bread. fa ‘“‘The Most of the Best For the Least’’ TA ESSEE cr tsheaaral iedaaele ened y CORN WILL WIN DEMOCRACY’S WAR America’s Greatest Cereal Crop Is Now Moving to Market. MAINSTAY IN NATION’S CRISIS. Surplus Wheat of the United States Has Been Sent to Famine Threat- ened Europe, America’s great corn crop, exceed- ing 3,000,000,000 bushels, will save the world’s food situation, officials of the United States food adininistration be- Neve. Corn is the nation’s best food cereal, housewives are beginning to realize. It contains all the elements needed to keep the body in a state of health and when used according to the scores of tried recipes, especially when com- bined with an added portion of oil or In- dian warriors in colonial days lived on parched corn alone for many days at a time, and at Valley Forge parched corn was at times the sole ration of the Continental soldiers, Owing to transportation difficulties caused by the war the corn crop moved more slowly to market this year than ever before. Now, however, the cereal is reaching the millers and consumers. In the meantime the nation's surplus wheat has been sent to Europe. Today there are approximately 30 bushels of corn for every American, This quantity is greater by five bush- els than in former years, Corn has become the nation’s main- stay in the cfisis of war, Just as this cereal saved the first American colonists from famine on many occasions, just as it served as a staple food during the War of the Rev- olution and during the Civil War, King Corn has again come to the front in the nation’s battle with autocracy, Corn meal is finding greatly increas- ed use in the making of ordinary white bread. Hundreds of housewives and many of the larger bakers are mixing 20 per cent. corn meal with wheat This kind of a mixture is worked and baked | in the same recipes and with the same methods that apply to straight wheat bread. FEW WOMEN CAN CAN AS MRS. BRUN CAN CAN Hutchinson, Kan.—Mrs. Jack Brun of this city lays claim to being a strong ally of Herbert C. Hoover. She has put up 821 quarts of all kinds of fruits and vegetables. There is scarcely a vegetable or fruit she does not have in her stock. Besides, she has jellies and spices of al} kinds, and relishes and butters. All this work she has done in addition to her housework in caring for a family of four. | Corn bread—using corn meal entire- ly—is gaining a greater popularity than ever before. Housewives are coming to realize that every pound of | Wheat saved in America means a pound | of wheat released for shipment to the nations with which America is associ- | ated in the war. There are a score of corn products that today possess unusual importance for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet- ening corn cakes and buckwheat cakes and for use in the kitchen instead of granulated: sugar is one of the leading products made from corn. Corn oil, excellent for frying and for every other purpose filled by salad o'ls, is appearing on the market in large quantities, It comes from the germ of We Want Your Trade If good reliable goods, lowest possible prices, fair and square dealing, polite attention will get it, we can count on you for a customer. The Shortest Distance Between Two Points is “Long Distance” Long Distance Telephone Service Eliminates time. Binds city and country together. Saves the expense and inconvenience of travel. Broadens companionship. Conserves time ‘and energy. Unites producer and market. Enables one to send the right word to the right place at the right moment. Every Bell telephone is a long Distance Station. 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