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Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #30

The Adams County Leader
Published Every Friday by the Council Publishing Company.
Eighty-nine per cent of the stock of the above company
is owned by F.H. Michaelson.
F. H. Michaelson Editor and Manager

March 10, 1922
THOUGHTS ON THINGS

In the last issue of the Payette Lakes Star, our brother publisher Mark Bates says that the publisher of this paper is the only person in Council whom he does not like, and gives as a reason that we have never placed him on our exchange list. Brother Bates charitably admits that he has no acquaintance with us. Cheer up, man. Things might be worse. Chances are that if you did know us you would like us a darned sight less. He complains that we have never sent The Leader to his desk. Again, brother, your lack of knowledge provoketh wrongful wrath. Our neglect was due to a spirit of mercy rather than discourtesy. The altitude is high at McCall and somebody once told us you are fat. We were reluctant to place undue strain either upon your intelligence or heart. In order to get even with you we this day place your name on our exchange list.

May 23, 1924
A WRONG HUNCH

The Adams County Leader seems peeved because a Boise paper wants a road from that place to McCall. The Leader shouldn’t get that way. McCall boosted the north and south highway, and is still doing so. Geometry teaches us that the straight line is the shortest line between two points, and the Payette highway, which is as much a part of the system as the north and south highway, is the shorter distance by half than the other. Why shouldn’t we cooperate and make a loop line? And why should the Leader get sore because McCall is coming into its own? We are all up here together, and McCall is sitting on the top. Payette Lake Star

The Star has gathered the wrong hunch on this thing. The Leader is neither sore nor peeved, least of all against McCall, nor because McCall wants a road. It has distinctly said that when the present road is completed and there are any funds available for such an enterprise, McCall should have our support here in building its road to Boise. But just now the Leader is considering the people of southwestern Idaho and of northern Idaho, who by far outnumber the people of McCall and environs, and are in much more dire need of a road. People of northern Idaho have even gone so far as to threaten to withdraw from the state and form an independent government if some means of furnishing them connection with the seat of government and the other half of the state is not provided. Ever since the state was formed, one-half of it has been obliged to travel 500 miles or more through three states to reach the state capital or visit friends in other parts of Idaho. Some may think this has gone on so long that people have grown to like it, but the Leader is not one of these. In fact, if there were now money to build a road to a pleasure resort made available, and none to finish the road connecting the two segments of Idaho, the Leader is inclined to believe the people up there would be justified in breaking away from a state which showed such a complete disregard for their interests. It is not, brother, that we think less of McCall, but that we think of the entire state more. The north and south highway still has a link missing—like a chain, it is very largely useless till that link is supplied. The people generally know these facts and all reasonable men are demanding the same as this paper is demanding.

August 24, 1925
STAR DEAD

After eight years of effort in trying to give McCall a good local newspaper, Mark Bates, who some say is one of the best newspapermen in Idaho, has quit cold and has stopped publication of the Payette Lake Star, because of lack of local support. McCall is now without a newspaper of any kind. Considering the mounting prices of printing supplies which enter into the cost of publishing a newspaper, it is one of the miracles of the age how so many country papers are managing to hang on. The Leader is very sorry to see old Mark drop by the wayside, because he has put in many of the best years of his life trying to boost the Payette lakes section and deserves a better fate. But he has done the only thing possible under the circumstances in closing up. Some of us may be forced to follow his example before local business men in the different sections wake up to their responsibilities.

LOCAL ITEMS, 1922
For Sale - One full-blooded silver-laced Wyandotte rooster. Mrs. Lester McMahan, Fruitvale.

You do things that are worth while, don’t you? Why don’t you advertise your business, then? Isn’t your business worthwhile? If not, advertise it for sale.

Albert McDowell has received word that his bid was accepted for the four-year contract of carrying mail from here to Cambridge.

Pure Seed Pays – Alfalfa, red clover, timothy, blue grass and white clover seed at Cool-Donnelly Co.

The Leader has no desire to be finicky about this election thing, but this paper will support no man for public office who owes more than eleven years back subscription on his county bugle. We have arranged for extra clerk hire and everything, so are not afraid of any rush on the bank.

August 18, 1922
WHEN –

When dry farming has stopped and every man has a silo and a bunch of livestock—
When the Council valley is criss-crossed by irrigation ditches flowing each one full of
mountain water—
When Idaho fields grow Idaho corn, fed to Idaho hogs, as Iowa corn is being fed to Iowa hogs—
When $20 farmland is converted into $500 orchard tracts—
When the population of Adams County is counted in thousands instead of hundreds—
When the P. & I. N. railroad discovers that Council is more than a just a way station to be sucked dry and the shell thrown away—
When a thousand beautiful orchards replace the half dozen now existing—
When these things have all been brought to pass, as they can very easily be, then Adams County will become the garden spot of Idaho, and Idaho the garden spot of the earth.

There is nothing here set down which is impossible or even difficult of accomplishment. Their consummation means comfort and prosperity and better living and more wealth for many who are now struggling and in some cases unhappy. And in the meantime, the great need is water—water and industry. Give us these and all the others will follow easily and naturally. Think it over.

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #29

CONCERNING A PLACE NAMED HELL

Last week in hurriedly scribbling some comment relative to itch, we used the word “hell,” and one of our readers has mentioned to us that to use the word seemed rough. Neighbor, so is the itch; and this being thus, the word served the exact purpose of emphasis for which we intended it. In its use we had no thought of profanity. We doubt that there is anything in scripture that even remotely infers that one should deify either the devil or his place of abode. To us, hell is just a place; and we used the word in the same sense that one might mention Boise, or perhaps, to be more exact, Weiser, for instance. Unless we insist upon our right to a use of fitting words, the time may come when one will be asked to speak of Council, too, with bated breath. So far as we can determine, there is not particular reason why we should evade familiarity with the word “hell.” Any institution that can stand the test of time and, according to much well-grounded opinion, is enjoying a near-monopoly of business is worthy of consideration.

If a lot of “us folks” had reason to believe that we would eventually reside in California, there to participate in a great and perpetual reunion of old-time friends, we might even be expected to write for advance information in regard to climate and hotel accommodations. Somehow, we would rather like to know whether trout caught from the river Styx come ready-cooked from the stream and if it is necessary for one to use asbestos gloves when baiting a hook. Not that we are especially interested or expect to move from Council at any near date, but because we believe that, with ourself as well as many of our fellows, a degree of precautionary familiarity is not altogether inadvisable. Anyway, fellers, let’s not worry. Perhaps, after all, the first thousand years will be the hottest.

February 10, 1922
A FARMER’S OPINION

Friend Editor:
There is quite a bit of discussion going the rounds, not only here in Council but all over the country, concerning the subject of supplying something warm for the school children at the noon lunch. I have six children going to the Council school and they have a mile and a half to go. They must take their lunches or go without. Several times this winter their lunches have been frozen as hard as bricks before the children reached the schoolhouse. Then the lunches were placed in the hall until dinnertime. This did not improve them any.

Now, some persons will say that they didn’t have a warm lunch when they went to school—and that they didn’t starve, either. Neither did I have warm lunches when I went to school, and I am surely none the better for it. Education is not made up entirely of book learning. The children could be taught to serve a cup of hot soup respectfully, and the knowledge would not come amiss to them in later years.

This serving of a cup of hot soup at the noon hour could be done at little cost to parents. All material could be donated in small quantities. Say that on each week those who are interested send in their supplies so there may be a stock on hand from which to draw. Some can spare one thing, some another. Even a bucket of water and an onion will make hot soup that is better than nothing.
Yours for school lunches,
H. M. Purnell

February 17, 1922
REAL WEALTH

After all, perhaps real wealth may be best measured by the amount of wholesome joy one is able to get out of life—his friends and all else that he likes constitute his riches; his malice and all he hates bespeak his poverty. On this basis of reasoning one should be more rich and happy living in Council than if he lived in on Broadway and owned three silk-lined limousines; for there, according to our observation, the world is largely artificial—and, what is more, a holiday is mostly racket rather than peaceful mountain streams with an occasional trout to bid one welcome to the wilds. Gee whiz, June, hurry on your way.

February 17, 1922
THOUGHTS ON THINGS

The world is much more interested in people who try to do things worth while than it is in people who content themselves with merely trying to explain why things worth while can not be done. Perhaps every step of progress since the time when man swung from the limbs of trees and gathered his wives with a war club was made over the carping criticism of unthinking pessimists.

As an illustration, we can recall the time when to quite a number of persons, the Mesa and Council orchards, now the county’s greatest individual asset, were considered a joke. It is safe to assume that an attempted advancement of any other project of equal merit would meet with an equal amount of skepticism on the part of persons who pass judgment without first informing themselves. Somehow we can imagine that even the tallest pine on Council Mountain once had its troubles. One can draw a mental picture of it when it was but a shrub, and the chipmunk, hopping from bush to bush, looked down upon it with contempt for its effort at trying to become a tree.

August 18, 1922
NOTICE TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF ADAMS COUNTY
All schoolhouses, before school opens in the autumn, shall be entirely cleansed. The cleansing shall consist of scrubbing the floors, and thoroughly washing windows and woodwork, including desks and seats, dry sweeping being absolutely prohibited.

Schoolhouses and outhouses should be rendered free from all defacing and obscene marks, and kept clean and sanitary at all times. Inside toilets, when provided, shall be efficient in every particular; when these are not available, good fly-tight well-ventilated outhouses for the sexes, placed at least fifty feet apart, with screens or shields in front of each, shall be provided. All schoolhouses shall be supplied with pure drinking water and the water supply shall be from driven well or other approved sources. Whenever it is practicable, sanitary drinking fountains shall be provided; if not, covered tanks or coolers shall be furnished—buckets and all open water receptacles, common drinking cups being condemned and forbidden. The above is taken from Sections VI and VII of State Board of Regulations.

Respectfully,
O. M. Hubbard, County Superintendent

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #28

LOCAL ITEMS, 1920 – 1921

To most of us this spring, sunshine is one thing that remains free, the Standard Oil

Company not having found a means of monopoly.

Council Creamery - We Manufacture the Best Ice Cream. This creamery is an Adams county institution, established primarily for the benefit of Adams county people. Its success is your safety.

The mutual mud throwing in the national campaign has commenced rather early to get the best results. Like a fried egg, slander must be fed hot off the skillet if it is to be swallowed by other than thoughtless people. If permitted long-time exposure, neither will be gulped down without salt.

The best buy yet – a combination Westinghouse toaster and stove, $11 – Adams County
Light and Power Company.

For sale- Full-blood Lincoln buck lamb. John Ingram.

We call to mind that for months Uncle Sam has been sending out warnings to prevent owners of Liberty Bonds from being victimized out of their savings. These warnings make special reference to oil-stock and other get-rich-quick concerns that have gathered in millions through the sale of fake offerings.

Bring Us Eggs – 60 cents a dozen in trade. Council Grocery.

Dr. M. D. Fleming, optometrist, will be in Council on Saturday and Sunday, September 25 and 26, and in New Meadows on Monday, September 27.

Come in and let us explain why the Dodge is, above all others, the car you need. The Addington Auto Company, Council, Idaho

Notice to Public: To all whom this may concern: My wife has left my bed and board and from this date I will not be responsible for any debts she may contract. Wm. Pappa

Last Saturday evening, twenty members of the local Odd Fellows’ lodge went to Cambridge in autos, and visited the I. O. O. F. lodge at that place, and, incidentally, conferred the Second degree on four candidates for the Cambridge lodge. After the lodge work had been completed, the Cambridge brothers set up a feast such as a king might envy, to which everybody did ample justice, especially the Council members. In fact, they did so well that Bro. G. of Cambridge called Bro. W. of Council aside and told him that he could quit eating any time he wanted to, all of which brought no relief for Cambridge.

Meats - Fresh and Cured - at prices somewhat lower than conditions may seem to warrant. Council Meat Market F. E. Weed, Proprietor

Council Grocery Company – You cannot miss the place—just across the street, east of post office.

June 10, 1921
THE BURTENSHAW FUNERAL

The almost unanimous participation of the local public in the Edward Burtenshaw funeral held here last Friday, together with the numberless manifestations of sympathy and reverence will, we imagine, long be kindly remembered by the relatives of the deceased soldier. Most of us realized that of our boys who went to France some would almost surely fail to return. Just who would fall was a problem to be determined by that mysterious thing called fate. As the boys departed to take up their work in the great struggle, one felt that each was his boy—not in blood but in spirit, in the cause for which he fought and in the sacrifices he was asked to make. The war brought us all closer together, and to the public in general it will be long comforting to recall that the spirit of unity remains deep down in the hearts of all. While other boys from this county were also lost, the body of Edward is the only one thus far brought home for burial.

April 15, 1921
UNSIGNED LETTERS

We are in receipt of an unsigned communication, for publication, which begins with the statement that “all men are liars” and then in a spirit of bravery like that of a puppy which barks from behind a fence, attempts to particularize over our shoulders. We recall having previously stated that it is a policy of this paper to refrain from publication of anonymous communications of any character. Since unsigned letters continue to come, we would call to mind that, with particular reference to the one just received, a citizen who would abuse his neighbor over the shoulders of a little skinny county editor is as short of courage as he is long on nerve. Neighbor, if you feel that you should abuse some person, it would be better if you go to him direct rather than ask that another peddle your spleen for you. If you must spill your disposition, hang your coat on a fence, look up your man and say your say. You may not look quite natural when through with the job, but you’ll at least feel less like a coyote. It would perhaps be better for the community and for yourself if, when you feel a spell of cussedness coming on, you count a hundred before starting to abuse a neighbor.

March 11, 1921
SUNDAY THOUGHTS BY A BUSY FELLOW

Recently, while on the street, we heard one of our good neighbors who had been using some rather strong profanity at a time when one of our local preachers was standing near, make the statement, “Gee, I didn’t see the Parson when I was saying that.” All of which seems to indicate a faulty method of reasoning. Without a thought of disrespect to the ministry it would seem that if one is going to cuss at all there could scarcely be a better place to “let go” than in the presence of a preacher, rather than in the presence of children who may be impressed by bad example. Seems to us that swearing in the presence of a preacher would be a little like breaking one’s leg in the presence of a doctor. One would at least be near help if he felt that he needed it. Better, far better, to be careful of one’s language near little folks. It is to be assumed that a preacher can hear bad words without being in the least corrupted. Otherwise he is working on the wrong job.

But we advance this thought merely to call to mind that most of us too often regulate our conduct on a basis to avoid criticism rather than with regard to a common-sense view of right and wrong. Anyway, if one wants to “cuss” it would seem that there are two places in particular where ha can do so with reasonable propriety—either when he is alone or with a preacher, the reason being that in either event he will harm only himself. However, since we have invited our local pastors to go fishing with us this spring, we will mention, to allay possible apprehension, that we’ll do our best at “holdin’ in” even though our last spoon hook gets caught and we lose our entire d—d—arned line.

March 18, 1921
WHY NOT?

Why not be full of fun and humor at home—like the folks in the movie pictures are? We imagine that when a man comes home tired from work it would be restful to pick up a custard pie and slam it is the faces of the wife and children, a la movie comedy. Many people who attend movies laugh at such things—and so do we—and, through their approval, ask that they may be presented with regularity. If there is a guest in the house to spend the evening, empty a bucket of scrub water over his head. This will cause much laughter from the family and will make the guest feel perfectly at home. Then throw a few plates at everybody in sight. If this does not provoke enough humor, try flooding the house with water so that each person may float about the room on a piece of furniture, using a broom for a paddle a la Charlie Chaplin. People laugh at such things when shown at a movie comedy, so why would it not be the proper procedure at home?

October 7, 1921
HAVALIN CHINA FREE
Commencing October 3, we will give absolutely free with each and every twenty dollars’ worth of merchandise for cash, one beautiful Havalin China Cup and Saucer. Concentrate your buying and you will be surprised how quickly you get a full set. Purchases from any of our departments apply, so, ladies, bring in your husbands and boys and supply their wants as well as your own, and carry away this beautiful ware.
W. T. Lampkin, Department Store, Council, Idaho
October 7, 1921

COUNTY SCHOOL HEALTH REPORT

There was a meeting of the executive committee of the Adams County Red Cross held at the court house on Tuesday afternoon, at which time Miss Annie Duncan, the county school health nurse, rendered a report of her month’s work among the school children of this county. The figures resulting from her investigations are very similar to those found in the average rural community, and, while they are unpleasant to contemplate, furnish food for needed reflection. In fact, it is up to our people to think—and think seriously—in regard to this problem if the defects found are to be actually corrected. Otherwise, the community must face evidence of laxity in health control. Miss Duncan’s report covered examination of 258 pupils, representing various neighborhoods of the county, and showed as follows:

One percent mentally defective.
Two percent tuberculous, now or in the past.
Four percent have defective hearing.
Ten percent have defective eyesight.
Twenty-two percent, diseased tonsils or adenoids.
Thirty-nine percent have defective teeth and three percent of these have diseased gums.
Thirty-nine percent are anywhere from seven to twenty percent underweight.
Four percent have various forms of skin disease.

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #26

The Adams County Leader
Published Every Friday by the Council Publishing Company.
Eighty-nine per cent of the stock of the above company
is owned by F.H. Michaelson.
F. H. Michaelson Editor and Manager

September 5, 1919
DON’T DO IT

As a result of the disastrous fire season this summer, and as further precaution against the starting of other fires, the secretary of agriculture has for the month of September extended a regulation, heretofore applying only in California, making it unlawful to build a camp fire in the national forests of Idaho and Washington without a permit from a forest officer. Violation of the order subjects an offender to a fine of up to $5,000 or ten months in a tomb of reflection, or both.

September 5, 1919
FIRST OF ITS KIND

On Sunday a local fisherman caught a carp in the Weiser River below town, probably the first fish of that species ever taken up from the river in these parts. It is presumed that the water scarcity of the lower country has caused the carp to follow the riverbed upwards in the hope of finding a wet spot; or, mayhap, the one caught had been trailing Sunday’s excursion train with intent to steal bait from the amateur anglers thereon.

July 4, 1919
SALMON CAUGHT IN WEISER RIVER

While fishing in the Weiser River just below town last Sunday, Pat Adams caught a salmon trout that weighed eight pounds, the biggest reported this season. He used light tackle and spent about an hour at the task of landing the beauty. While the job was a good one, it was really rather mean of Pat because he knew that the publisher of this prevaricator was wading the river from Fruitvale down in order to get that fish cornered near the bridge so we would not need to carry it all the way. Just when we had the trout hungry and tired, Pat dropped down to the bridge and grabbed it on a fly hook.

December 19, 1919
CONCERNING COUNCIL’S SCHOOL BOND ELECTION

There will be a school bond election at Council tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon. It is up to the people of District No. 25 to DO SOMETHING. What are you going to do?

Since practically all citizens are familiar with the unmodern condition of Council school buildings and their inadequacy to the community’s present and prospective needs, we venture into no discussion of the subject farther than to suggest that each citizen take an interest in the election at least to the extent of voting his, or her, convictions. We have sufficient faith in the intelligence and intent of our neighbors to believe that their combined judgment, whatever individual preference may be, will be sound if an approximately full vote is recorded.

That Council must, in justice to itself, improve the physical facilities of its schools goes without saying. We suggest that if there are persons who are in doubt as to the merit of the plans proposed, they go direct to the office of the Clerk of the Board and ask to see the plans and specifications. Any conclusion based upon random street rumor may later prove to have been poorly founded. Hence, neighbor, if you are willing to assist in providing adequate school quarters for your children, get out and record your convictions. If you consider school equipment a needless luxury, you will be privileged to vote in the negative.

March 21, 1919
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS

I am going to recount an incident that occurred here more than twenty years ago, and I trust it will tend to make those who criticize our roads and transportation facilities more appreciative and contented with what we now have.

In the good old days of long ago, before the advent of the railroad, we were under the necessity of transporting all our goods and machinery form Weiser by wagon, a distance of sixty miles; and such roads! No bridges, no grading, and in the spring, no bottom to any of it. Always at about this time of year, it became the painful duty of someone to go after a load of freight; and you can imagine what kind of sport it would be.

The time of which I speak was an exceedingly rainy year, and in March the roads were in such condition as would mire a “saddle blanket.” It was while this state of affairs was on that Frank Shelton, now at Bear, Idaho, pulled into the Valley. Frank was a teamster and freighter, and a good one; and although he had no load, he had nevertheless dragged the axle all the way from Weiser. His opinion of the roads registered zero, and he decided to express himself, and further stated that there was no team of four horses in the Valley that could pull one ton without getting stuck and requiring assistance to get out of the thousand and one mud holes.

This notorious explosion of Frank’s was made in the one little store that Council then boasted of, owned by John O. Peters and Isaac McMahan. The official freighter for Peters & McMahan was Olaf Sorenson, who was known as the best teamster in the country, and who owned a four-horse team that would pull anything loose at one end. Peters stated that he was satisfied that Sorenson could bring a ton through; Shelton thought differently and said he would bet one hundred dollars that no four-horse team could do it. Peters’ faith in Sorenson was such that he at once “plunked down” the one hundred dollars and the bet was on.

Next day they started for Weiser—Isaac McCMahan, Olaf Sorenson, Frank Shelton and a few others, to see the fun. Shelton insisted that the lines be taken from Sorenson and given to McCMahan, although McCMahan was unacquainted with the team, but it was finally arranged that he would drive. Now, “Mack” was to pull one ton from Weiser to Council and was not to take more than three pulls in any one place. Well, you should have seen the fun! If ever a team covered itself with glory, it was on this occasion. The roads were almost impassable; time and again both axles were dragging in mud and it would look like it was all off; but after three days of heart-breaking work “Mack” made it thorough and won the bet. I doubt if any other team in the county could have done it.

Such were the conditions then. Compare them to those of today. Nevertheless, we all had good times—going to dances and spelling schools—and did not think much of it.

M. P. Gifford

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #25

December 27, 1918
SAYS HE WAS VICTIM OF A PUT-UP JOB
In the December 13 issue of the Leader, we mentioned that Jim Failmos, formerly of Council and now of Weiser, had been placed under arrest on a charge of boot-legging, and, further, that additional trouble awaited him in the nature of a complaint that he had taken minor girls to Huntington, Oregon, on a joy ride. Since Huntington is out of the state, this too is under some circumstances a crime. We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. Failmos which gives his version of the matter. While our assertion as to the complaint against him was correct, it is possible that our comment placed him in an unfair light. Thus it is that we cheerfully give space to his letter which follows.

Editor Adams County Leader, Council, Idaho
Dear Sir:
In answer to the item headed "Why, Jim?" appearing in your paper on December 13, I wish to say that I was starting out to take the gentleman referred to in the said item to Huntington, Oregon, on important business when the girls spoken of asked if they might ride home with me, which I gave them permission to do. As we neared their home, the girls insisted that we take them for a ride about town, but owing to our necessary hurry we hesitated about doing so; however, after their insistent urging we consented and took them for a ride during which time we tried to impress upon the girls' minds my friend's urgent need of going to Huntington, but the girls only begged to ride longer, which we would not permit; so, contrary to the item published before, the girls insisted on going to Huntington which we protested against, but after stopping the car several times and asking the girls to get out which they refused to do as they said they must see a certain party at Huntington in order to obtain money to take them to Caldwell the next day, I finally consented to take them on the grounds that two of them were married, the third being a sister to one of the other two.

After arriving in Huntington I had some trouble in finding a place to take gas for my machine during which time I was approached by a stranger offering to sell me some whiskey which, at first, I told him I had no use for as I did not indulge in drinking it, but after thinking it might come in handy for medicinal purposes bought one pint. After getting gasoline I hunted up the girls and told them I was ready to return to Weiser, but they informed me they would take the train from there to Caldwell so I returned home alone. Getting to Weiser early in the morning, I put up my car and went to bed. I was awakened later in the day by the county sheriff, accompanied by the stranger who had sold me the liquor, with the excuse of searching my house for some auto tire tubes which they claimed I had stolen. The liquor was all they found, which they took possession of, putting me under arrest and starting a charge against me for bootlegging, all of which, I believe, is a put-up job.

Jim Failmos.

September 5, 1919
TO CONSUMERS OF ELECTRICITY

Owing to the unusual scarcity of water for this time of year, we are operating under voltage, particularly in the mornings. We believe that inside of a week we will have this trouble taken care of, as we will soon complete new construction work that is now being done at the power plant.
In the meantime we ask that users of electric stoves be careful as possible in turning off their stoves when not in use and use them as little as possible in the forenoons. The power users such as the elevators and mills must be taken care of first, and where we find that the use of electric stoves is being abused by carelessly leaving them on when not in use, we will either cut them off or put them on a meter, at the option of the consumer. We particularly warn stove users that the rate given them is for cooking purposes and not for heating, and if at any future time we find stoves turned on for this purpose, or turned on when not in use, we will be compelled to take the above measures.

When an electric stove consumer feels that he is not getting his money’s worth out of his stove, he is at liberty to cut it off, and thus give some other user better service.
Adams County Light and Power Company

March 28, 1919
TO THE PEOPLE OF ADAMS COUNTY:
I have decide to resign as president of the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railway, and in this terminating of an association which has entirely occupied the best sixteen years of life and resulted in my almost complete physical breakdown, it seems fitting to address a few words of farewell and appreciation to the people and communities I have tried to serve, and whose good will and sympathetic cooperation made possible the great development that has been accomplished.
Much has been accomplished. The wilderness has literally been made to “blossom like the rose,” and the entire district is now on the very threshold of its ultimate and fullest destiny. In 1903, the railroad was only 60 miles long, ending at Council. I have built three extensions: to Glendale, to Evergreen, and finally to New Meadows, thus opening up and making accessible all of Washington and Adams counties.

In November 1917, while at work in my office, I suffered a severe stroke of paralysis which for two months all but destroyed my sight, made my right arm and leg useless and seriously affected my vocal organs, but through this I kept in close and intimate touch with my work, and, against the positive orders of my physician shortly resumed all of my many active duties until in September 1918 I had to resign the position of general manager.

It is needless to say that it is with deep grief and infinite regret that I disassociate myself from what has been almost literally my life work, abandon my home and hearth in one of the loveliest valleys on earth, and leave the locality in which my children were born and where we had hoped to end our days, surrounded by a prosperous commonwealth, happy in having achieved the maximum of possible development, in which I might feel that I had a part.

For courtesies, co-operation, sympathy and good will expressed in many ways, I am indebted to so many people that this is the only means by which I can hope to reach them all. If I have helped you, I am glad; the knowledge is sufficient reward. If I have injured you, I am sorry. If I have failed in my duty in any way I regret it. My errors have been of the head and not of heart, and I leave with clean hands and a conscience that I have given the best that was in me to my work, to you, and to Idaho.

And now, wishing you every blessing, all good things and the happiness, prosperity and peace which should crown all honest endeavor, I say “good-bye.”

Col. E. M. Heigho

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #24

February 2, 1917
NO MONOPOLY ON THE AURORA BOREALIS SO FAR
One of our contemporaries finds consolation in the fact that in the high cost of things, no concern has obtained a monopoly on the Aurora Borealis. Since the Aurora usually displays its Borealis at a height of some sixty miles or more, it has been reasonably safe to date-- but, brother, with the advent of the flying machine, there’s no telling just how long before it will be selling for umpty cents a pound.

July 13, 1917
SQUIRREL BOUNTY
C.W. Holmes, Council, Idaho
Dear Sir: The bounty on squirrels will not be paid until after the first of next year, as funds will not be available until then. In the meantime, you may notify parties claiming bounty to save the tails. Full information will be sent you at an early date.
Yours truly, H. G. Bodle, State Veterinary
February 2, 1917

AS WEISER SEES IT: THE NORTH AND SOUTH HIGHWAY

The Weiser Commercial Club is, we note, keeping in close touch with developments in the North and South Highway situation in which Boise is working to have the route changed to go through Long Valley. Influential members of the club, armed with facts and figures that might be unfamiliar to members of the legislature who do not live in this part of the state, have been at Boise to assist in spreading among legislators a knowledge of true conditions. The people of Weiser believe that a clear presentation of facts is all that is needed to insure that the highway will be built through Council as previously planned. The Weiser American says:

“For fifty miles through Long Valley, the Boise-McCall link would be higher than the summit of the Weiser valley route. The lowest possible summit on the Boise-McCall route would be nearly a thousand feet higher. Regarding the distance, the mileage from Weiser to Lewiston is 50 miles less than from Boise to Lewiston, to say nothing of the easier grades and the lower altitude so important except perhaps for 60 days during the summer.

“It is also well to emphasize the fact that the Weiser valley route is the one selected by the previous commissioners after comparative surveys and later endorsed by the land board. By the Weiser valley route, the towns reached would be Nampa, Caldwell, Fruitland, New Plymouth, Weiser, Midvale, Cambridge, Council, Fruitvale, Starkey Hot Springs, Tamarack, New Meadows, and several smaller stations. These facts coupled with the further fact that the Boise-McCall road would pass through 30 miles of uninhabited canyon and then only touch small stations except Roseberry and McCall makes the Boise contention ridiculous.”

February 2, 1917
MARKET REPORT

Corrected weekly by L.J. Rainwater. The following quotations are the prices paid for produce by the Council merchants.

Eggs.……………………….. dozen 40 cents
Butter, creamery…………… pound 40 cents
Spuds………………………. pound 2 cents
Onions……………………… pound 3 cents
Cabbage …………………… pound 4 cents
Apples.……………………... box $1.00
White Beans………………...10 cents
Colored Beans………………8 cents
Squash……………………… pound 1 cent
Pop Corn…………………… pound 5 cents

February 2, 1917
IS IT PROFANE?

The use of the word “damn” in a government bulletin has brought a newspaper discussion as to whether it is to be considered profane and unsuited to polite society. Possibly if one were driving a pair of mules in a lonesome place and the off mule let its off foot and slammed one on the shin, the word, void of prefix, would be permissible. Personally, we are inclined to admit that we might chance it. But we suggest that if any person desires to put the questionable word to an acid test, he ask his mother, wife, or daughter to use it within his hearing. For instance, if Ma burns the biscuits, have her say, “damn the luck.” If your wife likes chocolates, have her say, “they’re damn good.” If a few such demonstrations do not convince you that the word in question is to be counted among American “cuss words” the editor of the Leader will admit that he is no philosopher.

February 2, 1917
ESTRAY NOTICE
Taken up about the first of January, one bay yearling filly with a small star in forehead, branded X on left shoulder. If not claimed and proved by owner, she will be sold according to law for cash on the 24th day of February 1917 at 10 o’clock a.m., at my place in Indian Valley, Idaho.
H.L. Joslin, Constable

LOCAL ITEMS, 1918-1919

COMFORT on the FARM

The last census report shows that there are more than six million farmhouses in the
United States and additional records of the same character show that a very large
proportion of these homes are supplied with running water. Certain of these investigations which had to do with farm home life showed that a great and unfair burden has been lifted from the shoulders of the wives and daughters of American farmers by the installation of farm water systems. I can install a perfectly satisfactory water system in your farm home at comparatively small cost to you. After you have used it you would not part with it at three times its cost. While in town, call and see me. Am prepared to quote you on anything in this and other plumbing lines.
Archie Poyner, Plumber, Council, Idaho

"Shubert" Paying Big Money For Coyote
Catch 'Em—Skin 'Em—Ship 'Em
We want all the Idaho furs you can ship,
Coyote, Lynx Cat, Muskrat and all other fur-bearers

GET A SHIPMENT OFF TODAY. YOU'LL BE MIGHTY GLAD YOU DID.

Do Your Lighting and Cooking The Clean, Economical, Sensible Way—By Electricity

A man may get tired of ordinary tobacco—but never of Real Gravely Chewing Plug.

Have you placed your order for millfeed? It's going fast and if you wait you may be too late. Telephone or write at once. Fred Cool.

The Girls' Canning Club met at the home of their instructor, Mrs. Andrew Hutchison, on Wednesday afternoon.

The report that is going around about Frank Haworth is only supposition, as he has not written any of his relatives the nature of his injuries; just said that he had been in the convalescent hospital in France since March and didn't say anything about the nature of his injuries either.

Several parties of camping tenters are in close proximity to the orchards, awaiting the opening of the fruit harvest. The fruit is good, wages are high, and help seems to be coming in sufficient quantities to make everything a success.

Mr. Bliss is at the home of Louis Annia. He is looking after orchard interests and adding to his packing shed so that when completed, the floor will be 24 x 66 feet.

Ripe Peaches Now Ready
Peaches 1 cent per pound
Bartlet Pears 5 cents per pound
Bring Your Baskets
The Mesa Orchards

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #23

World War I
[Here’s the conclusion of the World War I section of the Adams County Makes the News series]

August 30, 1918
LESTER LAYTON WRITES FROM HOSPITAL IN FRANCE
This week Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Baird received a letter from L. K. Layton. At the time of writing, the young man was in France. We reproduce the letter herewith and our readers will find it of interest.

July 30, 1918, France
Dear Ma and Daddy:
It has been a long time since I wrote you, but I have not had a chance to write many letters so forgive me this time. I am in a nice, big hospital. Did not get wounded badly, but it hurts a good deal just the same. A little hide is gone from my left arm just above the elbow. We have the nicest little French nurses. They just cannot be beat for nursing. I have for roommates two Frenchmen, wounded while fighting in the same sector that I was in. I am trying hard to learn French and they, in turn, are trying to learn English.

We are giving the Huns hell—and then some. I got a few before I got wounded. It just thrills you with a savage joy to get sight on one and then—bang! He just goes to sleep, because the old Springfield is right there when it comes to shooting. Daddy, we have to fight the Huns a good deal like you used to fight the Indians because they are so yellow that you can't see them in a batch of yellow flowers. The only thing they are good at is retreating, and they make an awful mess of that. There is only one time when they are good and that is when they are used for fertilizer.

Ma and Daddy, don't worry about me. Am feeling fine. Of course, I will be in the hospital for a few months, but I am getting along just fine and I hope this reaches you the same.

Lovingly,
Your Boy, L. K. Layton.

October 25, 1918
SCHOOLS CLOSE BY ORDER STATE BOARD

Last Saturday the State Board of Health issued an order closing all public and private schools of the state. Dr. Biwer, secretary of the State Board, stated in a telegram to county health officers and school officials that the action had become necessary because in various parts of the state, physicians had “unpatriotically refrained from reporting cases of epidemic influenza.”

The State Board has also suggested to District Court judges throughout the state that the prevention campaign would be aided if courts will voluntarily postpone hearings until the crest of the epidemic.

General reports show that the epidemic is subsiding in the military camps of the country, but is on the increase among the civilian population. In Idaho the malady has continued to spread until nearly all parts of the state report contagion.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, cases reported from army camps total 283,331, with 14,153 deaths. This shows that America has lost more soldiers because of this disease than is shown in the lost of those killed and dying from wounds. Up to the last official report made public on the first of the week, the number killed was 9985, and those dead from wounds, 8460.
August 1, 1919

FRED COOL WRITES FROM FAR SIBERIA

This week E. S. Clapp and Dale Donnelly each received a letter from Fred Cool who left here several months ago to take up Red Cross work overseas. Mr. Cool is now stationed at Omsk, Siberia.

June 13
“We are here at last after having been twenty-four days on the road; had a fairly pleasant trip—at least, we are all alive. As an experience it was a success, although I can’t say that I would like to sign up to do this all the rest of my life. We arrived here this forenoon and as the telegram announcing our arrival was not received, the people here were not ready for us and we will stay on the train tonight. One of the men came on board this morning and told me to forget that I could run an auto, as I would probably be placed in charge of a warehouse, so will not have things as easy as I expected. Hope they do not expect too much, as I do not want to disappoint them. Have not been up town, but understand there are some 600,000 people there. Before the war it was a city of 100,000 inhabitants and one of the best towns in Siberia. The growth is probably due to war conditions and the fact that this is now the capital city. As far as I can see from the train it looks like many western towns around the railroad yards. Uptown it will no doubt be quite different. There are but few papers in this country and they are only one-sheet affairs printed in Russian. Those who can read the stuff tell me that the papers are of very little interest. We will get our first mail from home in about two weeks. It will be sixty days old by that time.”

June 18
“Several hundred wounded have just been brought in from the front, and as many as this hospital will hold were brought here. Most of them are young men and it is a sad sight to see them being carried in on stretchers or blankets or being helped along by ambulance men. We get no news, so have no idea how things are going at the front. I have been directed to take charge of the warehouse here and am now on duty. We are loading and unloading cars and loading trains for western hospitals. Will send out three trains this week. Have about twenty war prisoners to do the work and as we have nothing but our hands to work with we are all very busy. There is not a truck to be had and the men carry everything on their backs.”

In our mind’s eye we have a picture of the energetic Mr. Cool making those German prisoners step along some and we wonder if he boils ‘em out in sign language or just points his finger and says: “Get a move on.” The work that Mr. Cool has chosen is of the most practical humanitarian character, and he is to be congratulated upon the fact that his financial circumstances are such as will permit him to so devote his energies. May good luck attend him.

October 25, 1918
PREPARING SOLDIER CHRISTMAS PARCELS
Families of men in service abroad are eager to make Christmas overseas as merry as conditions permit. The War Department, realizing this, has decided that each man may receive from his family, a Christmas package of standard size and approximately standard contents.

To avoid any duplication and to make sure that each parcel is correctly addressed, a “Christmas Parcel Label” is now being issued to every man abroad. Every man abroad will mail his “Christmas Parcel Label” to some relative or friend who will be entitled to send him a parcel by complying with the conditions herein set forth.

The relative or friend who receives a “Christmas Parcel Label” from a man in the service overseas will go to the nearest chapter of the Red Cross and upon showing the “Christmas Parcel Label” will receive one carton, 3 x 4 x 9 inches in size. The carton may be filled with any combination of articles that fit in it and which are not barred from Christmas parcels by the Post Office Department.

November 29, 1918
LAST LETTER FROM EDWARD BURTENSHAW

Although messages of enquiry have been repeatedly sent to Washington during the week, no news throwing light upon the discrepancy between the message announcing the death of Edward Burtenshaw and the letters received from him under a later date has been obtained. While little hope can be held out that there is error, except as to date, in the message from the War Department, the fact that Mr. Burtenshaw on Tuesday evening received another letter from Edward, under date of October 21, while the message gave date of death as October 6, gives the grave matter a slight degree of hopeful uncertainty.

Mr. Burtenshaw has permitted us to publish the following letter, received from Edward on Wednesday evening. It will be noted that it bespeaks of mental and physical health and is strong in the spirit of hope and youth.

Army Candidate School, La Volbonne, France, October 21

Dear Mother and Dad:

Well, at last I will write and let you know I am still in the land of the living and will add right now that I am well and feel fine. It has been about three weeks since I wrote and that was a letter to Alice with a request that she forward it on to you as I had only enough paper from the Red Cross the write one short letter and was lucky to get even that as we had to draw straws to see who'd be the lucky one. At that time we had just come out of the front lines and expected to go back to rest billets for a few days. Instead, our Brigade was shot back in the line and we didn't get relieved until several days later. Finally, when we did come out, it was a continued move for several days as we had to walk back and it was raining all the time. This and other circumstances made it impossible to get a letter written, and even if I could have had the time, there wasn't an opportunity to have a letter mailed so I've just had to wait until the time presented itself to send you word.

We had just been out from the front three days when the order came detailing Sgt. Schiess and I to attend this school and so I've been going all the time. However, it is probable I am settled now from anywhere form one to three months, so probably will be able to write a little oftener. I received several letters from you, including the typewritten one and the one with the addresses in it, but am sorry to say I lost them so wish you would send them again as I didn't remember same.

Oh yes, I saw Vollie Zink up at the front. He is driving a motor truck; it was a pleasure to see him too. My battalion relieved his; he looks fine—you can tell his mother that Lee has a "bomb-proof job," so she needn't worry about him.

No, Mother Dear, the censor doesn't bother your letters. They are not opened from that side of the Atlantic. I enjoy them so much, too: they are always full of news. Just keep them up.

I am in a wonderful part of France. It is very beautiful here and is by far the best part I've been in yet. You can probably find it on the map and will say am near one of France's largest cities, Lyon, so I have a good place to visit. The camp we are in was an old French artillery camp and the barracks are very comfortable. It is all new yet but the prospects are fine. In coming here we came through miles of vineyards, and they are beautiful at this time of year. The country is not as devastated either and that helps the looks of things. We came through the valley of the ----------- and it is very picturesque, old villas and chateaus, just like the old oil paintings you've seen. There is the most wonderful moon shining out you ever heard of; doesn't look at all like it in the U.S. It is a regular "harvest moon" and about three times as large as any I ever saw before—that is, it appears that way; you'd think so too.

What do you think of the Boche paper? I thought I'd write on it as a kind of curio as it will make a good souvenir for you. Each sheet is an envelope and also the paper upon which the letter is written. I took it from a bunch of Boche junk and am glad now I did, as I didn’t get much of anything else.

Well, my dears, I must close for this time; the censor will cuss anyway but it's been so long I just had to spill. I'll tell you all about it after the war.

Best love and kisses,
As ever,
Edward C. Burtenshaw, 14th Co., A.C.S., A.E.F., La Valbonne, France

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #22

World War I

[The World War I section of the Adams County Makes the News series continues]

LETTER FROM DR. WHITEMAN

On the first of the week, the publisher of this paper received a personal letter from Dr. R.T. Whiteman, who enlisted in the service early last year and is now in charge of a field hospital on the French front. The letter is characteristic of the big, good-natured "Doc" and contains many things of interest. Although the regulations forbid an officer to write for publication, a fact to which Dr. Whiteman has called our attention, we assume that to quote portions of the letter is permissible. This we do on our own responsibility and without permission from the writer. Among other things he says:

"You will no doubt understand from previous experience that information on the very matters that will interest you most is strictly "taboo," so I will have to keep within the stipulated limitations. We have seen lots of territory, and our experiences have been many and varied—some pleasant, some otherwise; but most of them new and therefore interesting and of such nature as to be beneficial in more ways than one. These experiences have enabled us to get the other fellow's, the Frenchman's, viewpoint more completely than would otherwise be possible.

“As for our impressions of France and its people, I cannot say enough in its favor. It is a beautiful county, much like parts of Idaho, and the people have exerted themselves at every opportunity to make life pleasant for us—nothing is too good for the American boys, and the sole aim of the French as well ourselves is to win the war. Their economy and the completeness with which everything is utilized has taught us lessons that will go far toward making an impression when we get back home.

"We are all impressed with the natural politeness and gentle manners of the French people. This applies even among the commonest of them. Their natural courtesy is quite striking and we have been made to realize that in our ordinary life at home we have been negligent in the little courtesies that are observed here as a matter of habit. After becoming acquainted with these kindly, home-loving French people it is also easy for one to understand how it is they have fought so courageously to protect their homes from invasion by the Hun.

"Several of our boys are getting clippings from their home papers, which, I must say, are a source of more or less irritation. The subject of such clippings seems to be an arraignment of the American soldier abroad and, according to these papers, drunkenness, venereal diseases and debauchery in every form is about to prove the ruination of the U.S. Army. Since these assertions are very unfair to our army as a whole it is but fair that I mention in a general way that—as a doctor who is in a position to know these things—during my entire stay in France, in constant contact with large bodies of men, my observation has been that these evils are NOT as MUCH in evidence HERE as they were in camps of similar character at home and it is not too much to say that the American boy is SAFER right HERE than he is under similar circumstance in his own country. I do not infer that with our boys all is perfection, but they are a fine, manly lot and that criticism comes with poor grace from people at home, some of whom lack the backbone required to "get into the game", but who are extremely solicitous and critical on the sidelines—far removed from danger.

"Well, Mr. Mike, you are no doubt wondering as to the outcome, etc., and we can dispose of that in few words by saying that we are not READY to come home yet, and by saying that we do not like the idea of the folks at home talking about it so much. ACTION and PEACE talk will not mix, Mike, and any time taken up with peace prattle is time taken from the business at hand."

October 4, 1918
COLLECTING LINEN FOR SOLDIERS THIS WEEK

In accordance with instructions from Red Cross Headquarters, this week has been set apart as "Linen Shower Week" throughout America. Word from the Allied battle front states that hospitals are in urgent need of millions of bath towels, sheets, and other similar material. Instead of purchasing these products through commercial channels, which would necessitate delay, it has been planned to ask each family to contribute one article or a set of articles of household linen form their reserve stock.

Those in charge of the work say that the allotment for the Adams county chapter is not large and should be filled without difficulty. The call for this chapter is as follows:
50 bath towels, 19 x 38.
100 hand towels, 18 x 30.
70 handkerchiefs, 18 x 18.
5 napkins, 14 x 14.
30 sheets, 64 x 102.
The Junior Red Cross has charge of collecting the materials.

October 4, 1918
ARE YOU SAVING THEM?

We are requested to again call attention to the fact that the Government asks that all fruit pits—peach, plum, apricots, etc., be saved. That pits are old will not interfere with their value. They may be left at the Criss store.

October 4, 1918
MAY FEED LOW-GRADE WHEAT TO STOCK
Feeding wheat to livestock has been prohibited by the U.S. Food Administration for a year or more, but now, in view of the big 1918 wheat crop in the country, farmers may feed wheat to livestock under certain conditions. The food administration ruling recites that no wheat within hauling distance of market may be used for feeding, except on permit issued by the county food administrator. To obtain the permit, the man who wishes to feed the wheat to livestock must submit to the county food administrator a 2-pound sample of the grain in a cloth bag, and state the number of bushels needed for feeding, and to what animals it will be fed. If the wheat grades less than No. 3, a feeding permit may be issued.

October 25, 1918
FOOD ADMINISTRATION ISSUES NEW RULES

The Food Administration has issued a new set of rules for the serving of meals in all public eating places, the same having become effective on Monday of this week. These general orders prohibit the serving of any bread that does not contain at least twenty percent of flour substitutes, and of this Victory bread, no more than two ounces may be served to a patron at one meal; if no Victory bread is served, four ounces of other breads, such as corn bread, muffins, Boston brown bread etc. may be served.

No bread is to be served until after the first course is on the table, and no bread or toast may be served as a garniture. Bacon is also barred as a garniture, and only one meat may be served to one person at a meal. “Double” cream is banned. No sugar bowls will be allowed on the tables; a teaspoonful is the limit for a meal, and then only when asked for. No waste food may be burned, but all must be saved to feed animals or reduced to obtain fat.

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #21

World War I

[The next three installments of the Adams County Makes the News series contain material The Council Leader published regarding World War I]

July 16, 1915
INDIAN VALLEY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE MEETS

Mrs. A. J. Anderson was hostess Wednesday afternoon at her home one-half mile south of town to twenty-three members of the I.V.I.L. Honored guests were Mrs. Cole of California and Misses Elizabeth and Margaret McPherson of Boise. Roll call was responded to with a patriotic quotation or recitation, and the decorations were the National colors carried out very effectively. The color scheme was also carried out in the refreshments.

July 13, 1917
SOLDIER WRITES HOME

Mrs. Severson this week received a letter from her son Clifford Shultz who is serving in the navy and is one of the crew of the battleship South Dakota. The ship was somewhere in the Atlantic at the time the letter was written. Clifford stated that his health was good, but gave no information of a public character. At this time, great caution is being used to avoid giving out information that might be of a destructive character and this is probably the reason why the young man gave no account of his experiences.

November 16, 1917
TO ALL CITIZENS

The call of our nation for the relief of our soldier boys at the front is so urgent that at a meeting of our chapter—the Adams County Red Cross—held on Saturday evening November 10, a resolution was passed whereby it is necessary to raise the sum of five hundred dollars at once to be used in the purchase of materials for making dressings, bandages, and other supplies needed at the front.

The ladies of the Chapter are able and willing work to "do their bit" in helping to win the war, and it is now up to the people of Adams county to see to it that the necessary funds with which to carry on this most necessary work are provided. The National Headquarters is repeatedly demanding that the work be speeded up. Our just portion of the supplies needed is large and must be furnished at once.

Remember that some of our Adams county boys are already at the front fighting our fight, and that it is our duty as citizens to assist them in every possible way. We suggest that a collection be taken in every school district in the county to aid in this work; and we especially urge that every teacher act as a committee of one to solicit subscriptions to the end that the work may be carried on uninterruptedly. This appeal is made to every loyal man and woman in Adams county. Wounds will not wait: the dressings are needed now.

Adams County Chapter Red Cross
Josephine Michaelson and Mamie McClure, President

July 13, 1917
A CORRECTION

Last week in publishing a list of those who won prizes at the celebration on the Fourth, we stated that the prize for the best decorated auto was won by J.F. Lowe. While this was technically true, Mr. Lowe desires us to state that he merely furnished the car and that the prize went to the Red Cross. The car was decorated by a Red Cross committee consisting of Miss Brown, Miss Lowe, and Fred Schulz. Mrs. Hildebrand gave the Red Cross $5 to be used the parade and this fund was used in decoration the car in order to win the prize.

February 2, 1917
GENEROUS AMERICA

In at least some respects the American public can find much joy and grounds for self-glorification in small things. For two years Americans have been patting themselves upon their fat happy backs in the belief that our philanthropy has kept Belgium from starving. Now cold records stare this country in the face. We read that it has taken $250,000,000 to keep Belgium alive and that of this sum, we, the richest nation in the world, have given $12,000,000 in all. America has sold to other nations, at war prices, practically all of the $238,000,000 such countries have given to relieve stricken Belgium. Holland, about as large as an American cow pasture, has given more to Belgium than has the whole United States. We doubt that the foundation for this odious comparison is due to a lack of generosity of the part of the American people. More likely the showing is due to America’s great distance from the scene of suffering and a consequent lack of organized effort.

However, something about the situation reminds one of that very old but pertinent story of the rich man who sought admission to heaven because he had once given a nickel to a blind beggar. It will be recalled that St. Peter is reputed to have ordered a subordinate to return the nickel and tell the old miser to go to hell.

October 25, 1918
THE BATTLE WE ARE LOSING

Adams County, our county, has up to October 1, 1918, actually bought $22,704.79 in War Savings Securities, which is $5.15 per capita, making our rank thirty—or, in other words, we are just eleven points from the tail end of the tail end state of our group. Now, Mr. Leader of public opinion, Mr. man who controls the property, credit, and business of Adams County, what are you going to do about it?

Emmett Medley, County Director, War Savings Certificates
December 27, 1918

FROM THE COUNTY DIRECTOR OF WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

Some $31,000 in pledges has been obtained from the various solicitors in this county. The various solicitors returned an abstract of the pledge performances of their districts, showing each resident's performance, so we have a record of just what each individual has pledged to do. Therefore, when anyone has redeemed his pledge, he should mark the duplicate which he was given upon making the pledge "redeemed." Hand or forward it to the aforementioned holder of the original who will forward all pledges together with duplicates to this office, where they will be credited to each person as well as each school district in the county.

If any person who gave a pledge and circumstances are such that he cannot before the last of this year fulfill that pledge, in justice to himself, that person should so report to the solicitor who holds the original pledge, who will report the circumstances to this office and will so state on the record opposite his name. The person who has fulfilled his pledge is entitled to have his record clear on that point. The person who has the misfortune to be unable to fulfill his pledge has the right to have the reason set forth on the records.

Emmett Medley,
County Director, War Savings Securities, Adams County, Idaho
March 29, 1918

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #20

The Council Leader
Published Every Thursday by the Council Publishing Company
Fred Mullin, Editor

April 30, 1915
LITTLE VISITS WITH CITIZENS

While down at the depot one day last week we heard J.L. Griffith of Payette knocking the Council Valley as hard as he knew how in the presence of a homeseeker whom one of our real estate men was about to close a deal with. On coming up the street we were told that Mr. Griffith had been doing a lot of knocking which we did not hear. He was very imprudent to say the least. Mr. Griffith sells tombstones and he has practically a monopoly on the business in this part of the country, but such talk as he made on his last trip will certainly erect his business tombstone in this vicinity in short order. The people will not exert themselves to give their patronage to such knockers.

February 26, 1915
THE GRUMBLER

Editor Leader:
If you want your county to improve, improve it. If you want to make your county lively, make it so. Don’t go to sleep, but get up and work for it and talk for it wherever you have a chance. If you have property, improve it. Paint your house, or if you can’t paint, give it a coat of whitewash. Make it look bright as if somebody was supposed to live there. Clean the road that passes your residence; also your yard, not only the front, but also the back yard. Make your surroundings pleasant and your property will be worth more on the market. If you are doing reasonably well, try and do better. Go and talk with your friends; give them your advice and theirs, and see if it will not be better.

Work for home interests. Trade at home; help your home dealers; keep your money at home as much as possible and it is likely to help you in return.

All successful counties have been made by property owners working together. Public improvements are an investment that pays. Don’t believe every scandalous rumor that is put into circulation concerning your fellow countrymen; crush the report in its infancy instead of throwing it out to the vicious newsmonger. Don’t waste your time on dirty quarrels and hold back your aid from good objects through spite, but work for some good and you will find yourself benefited.

Sunny Side, Indian Valley.

April 30, 1915
PRAISES OUR FRUIT

Whitely Bros., Council, Idaho
Gentlemen: This is to acknowledge receipt of a sample of apples that reached me through Mr. Freehafer, and we have never tasted anything like them in our lives, and if you can raise that kind at Council I would like to place my order for next year’s supply. I have a little boy 4 years old and when he bit into one he said, “Oh mama, just see the juice, let’s get more of them.” We certainly enjoyed them and wish to thank you for taking the trouble to send them.
Will H. Young, Boise

Editor’s Note: Mr. Young is the state bank examiner and the apples spoken of are the famous Council Valley “Delicious” variety.
January 29, 1916

SHEEP GRAZING BILL DEFEATED

Council Leader:
Will you please state through the columns of the Leader that House bill 36, which, had it passed, would have opened the cattle range to sheep grazing, was indefinitely postponed when it came up for the third reading in the House this morning, and which action finally disposes of the bill. The reason we desire to state through the leader the fact of this bill’s defeat is because we know that a great many cattlemen at home were much concerned for fear it would become a law, and we know they will be glad to learn that it was killed.
E.W. Bowman
J.I. Linder

February 5, 1915
WOULD SAVE FREE TRAVELING LIBRARY

Council Leader:
On January 15, the undersigned wrote to the Idaho Free Traveling Library commission at Boise requesting an application for a case of books for this place, and received reply to the effect that there was a move on foot to kill the commission.
Insofar as the state has gone to great expense in establishing the commission and purchasing books, and that the great need of the public in this line is good books such as the state furnishes, doesn’t it appear to you that this is a very unwise move?

There are a number of good reasons which are apparent to the average person why this commission should remain intact. Here are a few: the great initial expense has already been met; any community containing six responsible parties is allowed, upon application, a case of books; the transportation charges are paid by the state and no cost whatever is attached to the reading of these books; the case remains in each community for four months instead of thirty days as in some states.

The Goodrich live ones have formulated a petition to our representatives in Boise asking that this commission be retained, and it would be a good idea for every community to circulate one to the same effect and without delay. The wording need not be lengthy or flowery.

I cannot help but think that this expected move is due to some wild idea of our governor to curtail expenses, but if he is to strike at our educational factors, he should be met with strenuous opposition from everyone, politics not considered.

A Subscriber, Goodrich

February 5, 1915
THE EVERLASTING CROAKER
I am giving you for publication a few notes on croakers and faultfinders. It requires a keen discrimination to know just how large a piece of the mantle of charity should be thrown over the chronic croaker. Whether a croaker can help croaking is a question that puzzles me. A frog cannot sing; his throat is not built right; he can croak and that is all he can do; but the chronic has trained himself to be one at his will, so that he is a blight and a thorn in all places that he or she goes with croaking and fault finding.

I do not know but that there are some men and women who are so constructed that they can only croak, croak, and keep on that everlasting croaking, and instead of condemning them we ought to pity them.

A man who is miserable is certainly not a man to be envied and the croaker is most assuredly a miserable man. Croakers are probably the most numerous class of people on earth. It requires no special political or religious conviction to be a croaker or grouch; it requires no genius; it does not even need a common school education. It is one of the glorious privileges of idleness that you may grumble if you wish. Nobody wants to have anything to do with a gruff or a grouch. He soon becomes blear-eyed, lop-sided, pigeon-toed and lantern-jawed and puts or takes on all the horrible looks that a fiend in human form is liable to get.
No, you cannot be a grouch continually and be a decent man. He will at last imagine that people are shunning him, if there is any life left in his poor, grouchy soul, if he has one left that can be recognized as one, and as being shunned. It is a fact that all decent people do shun him, for he is a blight in society and a home destroyer. So it would be better for him and all concerned that he would quit for one week and give all a rest and see how pleasant it would be. Now smile, you son-of-a-gun, for one week.

Sunny Side, Indian Valley

LOCAL ITEMS, 1915

Why go hungry? The Overland Restaurant can feed you.

Don’t fail to clean your seed. We do the work right and at reasonable rates. Fred Cool.

Reduce the cost of living and escape the sweltering heat by taking meals at the Council Café. These are close times and every nickel you can save counts.

Mrs. John Clifton and son left yesterday morning for Midvale to attend the funeral of
Chas. Lakey’s baby. Mrs. Lakey is a daughter of Mrs. Clifton. The baby died from
whooping cough and mumps. Another of their children is dangerously ill.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NOTES
Next Sunday will be observed as Rally Day and there will be preaching both morning and evening. Everybody welcome and a special invitation is extended to the members of the
Methodist church.

There will be a prayer meeting on Thursday evening. Listen for the bell.

Last Sunday added another 100 to the attendance record at the Congregational church
Sunday school. Next Sunday is the last day of the contest.

INDIAN VALLEY
This section is being treated to a good rain and there was some frost Saturday night, but
owing to the cloudy morning Sunday we think it did very little damage. The early garden
is coming on now and lettuce and radishes will be plentiful in a few days.

Clyde Steward, Harry Ludwig and Ike Haworth started Friday to Caldwell with some horses and mules to attend the big horse sale.

Bruin will suffer now, as Fred Bailey and Joe Wilkerson have gone bear hunting.

D.K. Lindsay was out after the rain dragging the road from his place to town. We wish a few more of our neighbors had autos.

compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #19

The Council Leader
Published Every Thursday by the Council Publishing Company
Fred Mullin, Editor

LOCAL ITEMS, 1914

No Trespassing signs for 5 cents each at the Leader’s stall.

Big Horse Sale
Largest Horse Sale ever held in this part of the country at Hancock and Koontz livery barn in Council on Tuesday November 10, 1914.

Our price is your price. Everything must be sold. We are quitting the horse business.

Sixty Head of Horses: 8 head of broke mares, 1 with colt by side, 3 to 5 years old, weight from 1150 to 1450. 16 head of unbroken mares, 10 with colts by side, 3 to 9 years old, weight from 1050 to 1250. 4 yearling mules, good ones.

Furnish me with an Abstract of Title to your property and I will do the rest in 4 days time.
See me first, last, and all the time. D. W. Crouter, the money loaner, Cambridge, Idaho.

Soren Hanson returned last week from taking a car of hogs to Portland for Fred Cool.

Mrs. C.A. Martin on last Tuesday purchased Rev. Stover’s team of fine driving mares.   These are registered animals, young, and among the best in the county.

The new dotted-swiss half curtains at the windows of the primary room at the school add very much to its appearance. The parents of the children in this room made the improvement possible.

October 5, 1911
DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS
Several complaints have been made recently concerning the discharge of firearms within the city limits. We take it that the parties who so ignore the safety of residents of the town know that it is against the law to discharge firearms within the corporation limits. A due respect for the safety of fellow citizens is one of the elements of good citizenship.

April 18, 1912
NEW JAIL BEING BUILT
Sid Geddes secured the contract for building the new jail, to be used jointly by the county and the town. The new building is just south of the old jail and is being furnished with a modern steel cage recently purchased by the county and which to all appearances looks as though it would be as hard to get away from as death or the assessor.

The wild and woolly west is not what it used to be—the day of the “bad man” has passed—civilization reigns supreme and there is little business for a jail; but in case such a place is needed, it should be a structure that will hold the prisoner, and Adams County now has it.

January 31, 1913
WOW
A bomb exploded in the Meadows Valley this week! Prosecuting Attorney Dillon and Sheriff Weaver returned yesterday morning from the Meadows Valley and report five men pinched, charged with contributing to the illegal trafficking in intoxicating liquors. Those brought before Justice A. B. Lucas by the prosecutor were Veterinary Wm. Pogue and Druggist Bohanon of old town, and Drs. T. E. Martin and L. A. Harris and Druggist Webb of new town. All defendants waived preliminary examination.

March 14, 1913
SHOT TO DEATH
“Word reached this office Friday morning that the Wayno Brothers of McCall shot to death Wm. Caldwell at his homestead on the South Fork of the Salmon, and about 30 miles from McCall in Idaho County. It seems that the Wayno boys were trapping on Caldwell’s land and Caldwell remonstrated with them, he having a gun in his hand and standing in his doorway. When the Wayno boys gave themselves up at McCall, it is said, they said they shot him three times, and that he fell back on the stove, it probably cremating him and burning the building, a fire being in the stove at the time. They, it is said, did not wait to find out what the results of the fire was, but hurried to McCall to give themselves up.”
Meadows Eagle

Bill Caldwell was a familiar figure in Long Valley country and had many acquaintances in this valley. He was in town here a few days last fall. He was a big, young, uncouth, whole-souled, bachelor mountaineer who would do anything for a man that treated him right. He had a good ranch on the South Fork, where he raised stock and trapped and hunted. There is evidently a mystery surrounds the killing. The Wayno story doesn’t listen good to us. Looks more like cold-blooded murder.

March 14, 1913
Marble Howard, a girl who had been about town for some time, on last Friday was committed in probate court to the state industrial school at St. Anthony. Mrs. Frank Weaver left Sunday morning with the girl to deliver her to the school.

March 17, 1914
STUNG
That’s what E.S. Clapp, L.J. Rainwater and Sam Criss thought Wednesday after an unknown woman had cashed checks with them and got away with the money, about $36. Later it developed that the woman was a Hornet Creek schoolboy—Harry Shearer—in very poorly arranged female attire.

Pursuit was immediately started and the boy was found at his home. He broke down and confessed, was brought to town, sentenced and turned loose under suspended sentence after he had reimbursed his victims. The fact came out that the boy had been reading a blood and thunder novel and had brooded over it until his daring was raised to the point of action and his downfall was the result.

There are many things understood around here that made the boy’s error deplorable and all were willing to be lenient with him. Upon advice of friends he is going back to school, to bravely live down his past, and show the other boys the error of his way and the futility of attempting such a rash act at this day and age.

You are on the right track now, Harry, and have a future before you by sticking to your manly resolution. Do not under any circumstances betray the confidence your friends have placed in you, and all will lend you their moral support to make a man of yourself.

We are very sorry that it has been made possible to chronicle the above and we only do it as a warning to other boys that transgressors of law must inevitably come to grief. Honesty is always the best policy.

January 29, 1915
R.M. Gibson and B.D. K. Davis were accused of mixing last Saturday, as the former had the back of his hand skinned and the latter was wearing a peeled nose. Mr. Davis claims a stick flew up and hit him and Mr. Gibson declares he fell down stairs, but we believe a jury would convict them of fighting on circumstantial evidence.

March 12, 1915
STRINGENT LAW
Senate bill No. 50, an amendment to the local option law, effective for dry territory, is the most drastic ever passed. It has been signed by the governor and will go into effect about the 20th of next month. By its provisions, no intoxication liquors in any quantity are allowed in dry territory for any purpose. A regular pharmacist may handle pure alcohol for certain purposes under a special permit from the probate court, and ministers may receive and have wine for sacramental purposes under a special permit. No provision is made for any other person, firm, association or corporation to transport, give, sell, drink, or have in his possession one single drop of intoxicating liquor. Heavy penalties are provided for any violations of the amendment.

May 7, 1915
VANDALISM
On last Monday night, someone thoughtlessly or intentionally ruined some of the new swings at the school grounds by twisting the steel cables into an irredeemable shape. If the act was thoughtless, the parties should explain and make good for the damage, and if it was malicious, they should be punished. The swings were put up out of money paid in by the whole district and anyone was at liberty to use them. The school board is hot on the trail of the parties who did the damage and hopes to bring them to justice.

August 27, 1915
PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES
Hancock & Koontz lost one of their fine big dray horses one night last week—an animal worth $250. There are some peculiar circumstances surrounding the incident that lead one to believe the horse met with foul play.

Compiled by Eberle Umbach

Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #18

The Council Leader
Published Every Thursday by the Council Publishing Company
Fred Mullin, Editor

March 13, 1914
TOO MUCH TAX

Editor Council Leader:

May I say a few words through your paper on the ever-present topic of conversation now—taxation?

What encouragement have the people of the great state of Idaho to be industrious today? especially the farming class. The more prosperous we try to make our ranches look, the more we do and try to get of this world’s goods, the higher the penalty of taxation. Think of it, fellow citizens: pay a penalty for trying to be thrifty and industrious. No man of honor or self-respect will object to paying his share of a reasonable sum for the support of our government, but when the people of Idaho are paying the enormous sum of $2,300,000 to run the state government per year, I ask: Is it reasonable? Only eight years ago, $700,000 did the state’s business, and $400,000 thirteen years ago. Isn’t it a question that there must be an extravagant leak somewhere?

Our county school superintendent had the nerve to get up in an open meeting of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union at our school house three weeks ago and declare that the only way he could see to lower the taxes in the state of Idaho was to get more taxable property, and I think he expected us hayseeds to believe it.

His talk to us was highly appreciated, except the way he tried to smooth over the tax situation, which carried little weight, especially with those who read and do their own thinking. And another thing. It makes us a little sore under the collar to have our county officials get up and tell us—we, the people who pay their salaries—that the only way to make farming pay is to increase the production of farm products, and burden our already overworked teachers with trying to organize “potato and poultry clubs” among our boys and girls, when we already have tons of potatoes and other products that we have no market for, and we can’t meet our honest obligations because we have no market for these products.

If only our county officials and business men who have the dear farmers’ interests so at heart would exert their energy and influence toward getting legislation to solve the distribution of farm products, to eliminate the drones who feed on the honey between the producers and consumers, their efforts would be greatly appreciated—because the thing that will bring about great development of the country school and farm community life, build better roads and secure efficiency in farm production is to secure just returns for the farmer. This can only be done by proper methods of marketing.

Then we can get our children interested in farming, and we will not need farm experts to do it either. It is like hitching the horse to the cart tail-end foremost to try to get our children interested in farming as long as they see conditions as they exist today. And don’t make us the joke of the age by trying to make the farmers believe that all their ills can be cured by greater production, and that we need a farm expert in each county to do it; another tax-eating parasite on the already over-burdened taxpaying people, for about the first thing an expert will tell us when he comes on our ranch is that we will need this piece of machinery and that particular piece of machinery (he will get a pull from an implement dealer as a side issue) to do scientific farming. A pretty huge joke on old corn-tossel, is it not? And this isn’t the end. When the assessor comes around, how he will sock the taxes on us for owning that machinery.

I am only voicing the opinions and sentiments of my fellowmen in this letter, and
do not wish to discourage progress, industry, or expertism, but would be glad, like others. to see a more common sense view taken on these matters which are agitating the people today, especially by those who are in position to help us.
W.F. Buchner
Pleasant View, Indian Valley, District No. 3
October 16, 1914

BOYS FINED FOR SMOKING

An incident has come to our attention regarding the use of tobacco by schoolboys, which we believe should be brought before the teachers and parents of the county. It is unique as far as we can learn as regards the administration of discipline in the schoolroom. It happened in the Goodrich school a week or so ago. Some of the large boys there were bothering the school by spitting tobacco juice on other children and by smoking. They were personally cautioned that the next offense would not be passed, and it wasn’t. A trial was given them, they were convicted and fined, and this money used to defray a few school expenses. Of course, they had their choice of paying the fine or losing a number of noons. If other teachers would touch the outlaws this way, they would soon be good.

October 16, 1914
PLENTY OF APPLES

Over 2,000 cars of fruit have been shipped by the North Pacific Fruit Distributors this season. This is just 21 days sooner than the 2,000 mark was reached last year. The figure is significant because it amounts to over half of the total fruit shipments made by that organization last year, which were 3,958 cars altogether, and the apple shipping period, by far the heavy end of season, has barely begun.

May 24, 1914
A LITERARY GEM

Mr. Fred Mullin,

Please do not lose sight of the fact that my subscription to your stand-pat, patent-inside and outside, boiler-plate impression has expired. Kill it! Pie it! Hell-box it! Any way to relieve me.

Respectfully,
Wm. M. Freeman

The above pus runs from a sore in the Meadows Valley that has been lanced—and he wants to represent us in the state legislature. In the meantime he can borrow his neighbor’s Leader and read it, thus performing his progressive economy.

Editor

May 24, 1914
MENDING WITHOUT SEWING

Here is a simple and efficacious way of mending a tear, three-cornered or otherwise, in an article of clothing:
Place the cloth flat on a table and smear a little white of a raw egg all around and over the tear on the reverse side. Now cut a piece of linen (a handkerchief will do) a little larger than the tear and place it over the rent so that it adheres to the white of egg. Then get a hot iron and simply press it, without ironing, over the linen. The linen will adhere firmly to the cloth and will not come off even if washed. The rent in the material will now be almost invisible on the outside, and the mending will last as long as the dress or suit.

compiled by Eberle Umbach

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