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Show THE PRESS-CU'-UETI- ... . .vy : A AGRICULTURAL ANT OF TEXAS Creatures Are Regular Farmer and Their Homea Are Marvela of Skill and Strength. , Texas has many varieties of the ant family. Out on the "Llano Estacado," or Staked Plain, they are bo numerous that their hills look like the billows of a rolling sea. One of the most powerful and for-midable Insects in the Southwest Is the agricultural ant of Texas, observes a naturalist These busy creatures are regular farmers, and their homes are marvels of 'architectural skill end strength. v Think of a house from 12 to 15 feet high, built by a little ant, and which Is so strong and well supported that cattle and buffaloes can walk over It and yet not crush in this wonderful dome. It is said that If a horse, in pro-portion to his else, could leap as far as a flea, that in one Jump be would go clear around the world. Now, If a man constructed a house according to the same proportions of an ant's domicile, it would be more than a mile hlch. ; . . These agricultural ants, next to a bee, are the most industrious crea-tures on earth. They sow, reap and garner Just like farmers, and during! the warm season lay by sufficient store lor winter's use. . iiiNGHAM BRlfcFS Mrs. A. C. Cole, of Garfield, spent last week in Blugham with hor hus-band. "While here she assisted him in filling out a great number of ques-tional blanks. . Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Meyers spent Sunday in Provo with friends. Clarence Bates, manager of the Monarch theatre, was taken to a, hos-pital at Salt iLake this week for treat-ment 'i Robert Askew, of Salt Lake, waa a week-en- d visitor la Bingham. He .came up Saturday to have charge of the installation of officers in the Eagle's lodge. 1A. O. Gabrielson, of Rlverton, for-merly a member of the town board of Ingham, spent Sunday here visit-ing IM. L. James Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson, of Colorado, spent the week-en- d here with Rev. and Mrs. Thomas J. Tramel while enroute home from Camp Kear-ney, where they spent the holidays with their son, who is In the training camp, , ,. , Mrs. John C. Green and son return-ed home Tuesday from Denver, where they spent thrt weeks visiting Mr. Green's people. , - John F. oisenvwho has. been a rest- - dent of Bingham for the past seven years, and who has been employed as a mechanic at the Utah Copper com-pany, left last week for Chicago, 'where be has a position. , Mr. Olsen Is, a .splendid young man and during his stay iaere.made many friends who will ' regret that be has decided to leave the camp. Eefore coming here Mr. Olsen was a faculty member of a business college in Texas. : A IBIngham local of the National Letter Carriers' association has been organized with R. I. Farrell president, and John Treloar secretary and treas-urer. ' ' 'J " ' A round table conference of the Voung People's . Society, and the Sun-day school workers was held yester-day evening in the apartments of Rev! ThOB. J. Tramel at Vienna No. 6. ' Mrs. Harry Nobles , has returned from New York, where she spent the past three months with relatives. She said that the sugar shortage was very noticeable there. At the eating plac-es the boarders are only allowed to have one small cube at a meal. A family is not allowed to purchase more than a half pound of sugar a day and this purchase must be made from the regular grccer. Sugar Is not sold to strangers. It is arranged so that one cannot get more than the regular allowance. Miss Jennie Branch has returned from Salt Lake, where she underwent a .course of treatment for a throat trouble. ; She is now fully recovered and has resumed her duties at the Butte Cafe. - William Davidson, who spent the holidays with relatives in 'Montana, has returned home and has accepted a position with the Utah Copper com-pany. ' v. Mrs. ,Wan waring entertained a few friends Sunday evening at , cards, Present wereMr. and Mrs. Caenahan, Mr. and Mrs: Bachman, Mr. and Mrs. ' ' ' ' ' Garnett.'" Mr. and Mrs. James Garnett visited in Salt lake last week, r . ... 'Mrs Joseph Kemp entertained at dinner Thursday of last week in hon6r of Mrs! J. T. nynn. ' ;''! Attorney A. C. Cole spent several days during the past week in . Salt Lake on professional business.. (..-,- . SRev. Father iK.' J. IM.' .wieatjesi 'of Salt Lake Oty, visited Father ' Diss Sunday afternoon. Father Wlentjes was formerly pastor of the Holy Ros-ary - congregation in this place, " but now has charge of a newly organises! parish in the city. ;; , .,. (1. ,Dr,. and (Mrs. Hugh , J, Ryan were guests of Attorney , and 'Mrs. R. R. Mackett in gait Lake City New .Year's eve. .. Mr. and Mrs. (Lavon Anderson have moved here from JLehi, and expect to make this their future home. Al. Laffer has resigned as druggist for W- - M. Woodrlng and gone to his home In Denver. He Is succeeded by William MoGraw, formerly of Magna. Joe Wells spent a pleasant time in Salt Lake Nfw Tear's day. Mrs. JBrooks. of Salt (Lake City, is visiting her daughter. iMrs. ). (Butte, of the Elmerton apartments. Mrs. Mary Klopensteln, of Carr Fork, was quite ill the past few days, but Is now recovering satisfactorily. Oie Jensen has resigned his position with .Tremelling, the clothier, and ac-cepted a similar position with S. J. Hayes. Messrs. Nehl and iSermon, two of Bingham's prominent young men, were sadly disappointed In failing to pass the phvnical examination for en- - trance Into the V. S. balloon observa-tion service. Nehl got a couple of shades mixed up on the color test, but feels it was more a trick of dire fate than anything e!e. and intends to se-cure another examination If possible, Uoy T'mmormnn writes from Wash-ington. IX C, lo the effect that he has been made a lieutenant In the naval reserve force, and has already entered uoon the coarse of preliminary train-ing. Pete Service, formerly of the'Citi-rens- ' State Hank, has sent a cable-gram to friends in this place to the ef-fect that lie has landed safely in France. He is enlisted in the quarter-master's dopartment. roinCcc nn n rnntimftllSTluldlbactej IbN j II j M ! itTfTiTTyTT'IJ 1 I Tor Infants antf Children. I '0 tph&iII l Mth.rs Know That . ; jlliyklij Genuine Castoria ; MlAvetabtei'; Always A : - . :50ai. UncraJ.NorloTIC ; UA All if ' : .1 tojS vjF 1 For Over -- tr -- "'Thirty Years r- - j'iSlQ 3 ' R ' Exact Copy of Wrapper. "- --" ts' -- MM Excursions are Peri-- v . odic and Incidental r - ;;, Service ' .tf .s Perpetual As conducted by ' jj The Union Pacific System eAlflfK aims to provide the highest H pn possible standards of service Q , 365 days a year. f Sj Eighty percent of the route T 11 . , . from Salt Lake City to Omaha is double tracked and auto-- ' :; ) matic block signal-protecte- d, and five high class, fast trains t. ::. ? , are daily at your commands. J City Ticket Office, l HOTEL UTAH, ; D Salt Lake City, Utah. Bj sj59jjs5SSBSS5B9fesBBBVSsB?BsaaaSS Dott't forget January 31st.' We expect you in Canyon Hall January 31st. WORK OF MOTHER NATURE Formation of Cube and Patterna, ei factly ..Symmetrical, Character-- ; ; IstJo of Gem-Stone- s. The original geometrician waa Moth-- er Nature.. Observe her work in the making of crystals. Each kind of gem-sto- ne crystallises on a certain pattern of Its own, perfectly symmetrical it. is the same way with metals when they form crystals, says a writer. ; If a cupful of salt and water b. al-lowed to evaporate' alowly in a tool place, the salt will take the form- of ever so many cubes, each one of tftem perfect , . ' 5 One mineral 1n crystallizing will in-variably take the shape of an octa-hedron, another of a dodecahedron. Yet another will assume the form, of a multitude of cubes, perhaps half an Inch on an edge, with a chip accurate- - ly cut off of each corner. It seems like a Joke. ' Gold and silver crystallize as cubes. A crystal of iron sulphide resembles In shnpe a wild rose. Water has Its own crystalline forms, like any other mineral. Ice, of course, Is a kind of rock s much a rock as granite but is remarkable for its low melting point. This is lucky for us, because this rock, in a molten condition, fur-nishes us with drink. postal sines SHUW BIG GAIN The postal savings at the Bingham post office, according to a report Just Issued by Postmaster C. IL. Country-man, has made a wonderful increane during the past year. There was on deDosit the: first of this year 1138,422, an increase of $3,664 over that of j Dcembei 1. There was on deposit at the pot office here Jan. fl, 1917. $77,964. Therefore, the increase during the past year was $60,458. This places Bingham high among the postal sav-ings offices In the United States. cWlth referenco to Utah, Binghanf stands second In the amount of Only Salt Lake City has e larger deposit, and If the present ratio of Increase keeps up by another year Bingham will most, likely sur-pas-t-the, metropolis.' MATT B100I.1 DIED HEREFR1DAY Matt (Bloom, a well known and high- -' . ly esteemed citizen of iBlngham, died j last Friday at his residence, No. lit. Carr Fork, of miner's consumption. ' .Mr, 'Bloom was a native of Finland, but for the past 22 years had been a' resident of Bingham, and was there- - , j fore one of the old timers. He was " well known as a miner and a one time was engaged in the mercantile business here, operating a grocery store. He was 46 years old and was a good useful man. ? In addition to the widow be is sor ' vived by the following children: Mrs.;, i C. W. (Harrison, San Francisco; Miss-es Esther, Vera, Jennie, Ruth an. Sylvia Bloom, and Clarence Bloom, s!; . The funeral service, held from th residence Tuesday afternoon, was conducted by "Rev. Thos. J. Tramel nnd from there the body was taken to Society hall, where the impressive Ceremony of the Odd Fellows was rendered by H. N. Standlsh. Mr. ' Bloom was a member in good standing . of this lodge. P ' The floral offerings were very bean-tlfu- L The interment was in the Bin-- , ham cemetery. , , ) I N 7 WarRestoring Kitchen to Its Pioneer Place as Center of the Home ! By RE. BARNARD """.-- ...... , ' The war has restored the kitchen to its pioneer importance as the ffl 'center of the home. . A woman jis rich or poor nowadays according to her kitchen economies ; a patriot or' a slacker according to her kitchen "activi-ties, i . For years kitchen work has been losing its importance in home mak-m- g. " Housewives have lost interest in. cooking and have found work in 'the liome. How many housewives will confess, "I love to make salads, but I loathe dishwashing?" Now comes war's necessities and all kitchen work; even conscientious dishwashing, becomes a patriotic service. Food A ' Administtor Hoover has told us over and over again how the little eav--7 ings in th3 kitchen multiplied by tho 20,000,000 kitchens in this country 'ill conserve enough food to feed our suffering allies. Many women who for years have been content to leave their kitchen iia charge of a servant rediscovered that it is sn interesting place during ih hours thev tut in canning and conserving food for winter's use. iYheyi see the drudgery of kitchen work through the clearer glasses and liealize as they have never done before that it is not the work but the way jtbe work is done that makes it a servile task. After all, the kitchen is i only a practical working laboratory in which the cook takes complex chemical compounds, uch as meat and flour, and turns them into other compounds which are transformed in the wonderful laboratory of the tody into heat and energy. . . ' ' To be able to prepare food in such a way that it is wholly satisfac-tory for the body's needs is more than an art ; it is a real science. Our war for democracy is reaching down into every home. It is rescuing us as a people from the depths of selfishness and carelessness into which w into kitchen and transforming it into a had fallen. It is reaching every place where labor becomes service and the simplest duty a definite con-tribution to the immense effort necessary to bring us victory. ' ' ' Homage Paid Joan of Arc Old and new were reunited when Orleans and New Orleans met In the fifteenth century hotel de vllle of the city on the Loire at the heart of France recently, says a Paris correspondent. The bicentenary of the new world city was the occasion of the United States delegates' visit. Homage was paid to Joan of Arc, the champion of the Me-dieval struggle for freedom. She was the subject of French and American speeches, and flowers and a bronze palm leaf were laid at the foot1 her statue. A pilgrimage, too, was made to the fort of Tourclles, so, fa-mous in the defense of the city by the maid. The events of those far-gon- e centuries served as a distant romantic background to the present struggle, in which the most recent figures to ap-pear on a crowded canvas are those of the United States soldiers on .the Flanders front. Side by side with, the mention of medieval names' and events were heard, fn the old halls of Orleans, those of President Wilson and ' th( battle of the Marne. FIRST REAL STORM HAS STRUCK BINGHAM AND STATE '.'' tammm ...,.'-- '.' It has been storming ia Bingham all week. Snow commenced to fall here Sunday. It' snowed most of the day Monday, some Tuesday and practical-ly all the time Wednesday. However, it has not been very cold. In fact the temperature was slightly above freez-ing iMonday and Tuesday, and much of the snow melted as It fell. The snow is not yet so deep but what the autos can run and H. MoCabe,'. local manager of the Star Stage !Llne, says that their cars still make the trips back and forth from the city without terious inconvenience. For the traf-fic, in the streets the wagons and bug-gies hare been' replaced by sleighs. BOUNDING UP THE QUEST- - I0NA1RE. DELIKQUEHTS V-- ..I , - ' t ' '.. ' - , , The coanty officers are now busy ; looking after those who failed to taks notice of the questionaires. To assist' the local deputies in doing this.' work." Deputy Sheriff William Ceyias, of Salt Lake, came here the first of the , week and, Is 'now busy looking np those on the delinquent list Ho stated Wednesday that tnera, were 400 on the delinquent list ia . Bingham and that it would take some', time to get them all in line.. He will probfbly be here a week or more to', aid deputies Edmonds and Jones la the work. The filling out of questlonalra-- f blanks has been a big Job here. There , were so many who were unable to do their own writing in this matter and then there were others who did not know how to fill out the blanks and had to have help. Therefore, the lawyers and other , professional men have been vory busy . for a number of weeks, and it seems that there is still muth work to be done along this line. Whon the officers begin to arrest the delinquents there will be a general clamor that they were not notified or that they failed to receive their ; blanks, and in many cases that will be rlpht. Jlowever, It Is necessary for the officers to get busy on the Job to remind the delinquents that there is no joke about the questionaire. ,1 Just as Easy. $ Two commercial travelers, while otf a train on the Oregon Electric railway, got Into an argument over the action of the automatic brake. It's the Inflation of the tube that stops the train," declared the first trav-eler. ' ' "Wrong, wrong V shouted the second. Ita the output of the exhaustion. So they wrangled for an hour. Then, when the train arrived at the station they agreed to submit the matter for settlement to the motormaa. That gen-tlema- n, leaning condescendingly from the door of his car, listened with an attentive frown to the two travelers' statement of their argument Then be smiled, shook his head, and said : wii fpnts. ve're both wrong about the working of the vacuum brake. Yet it's very simple and easy to under-stan- When we want to stop the train we Just turn this 'ere tap, and then we fill the pipe with vacuum." THE SHE HOTS ABE , fiEIIrt CALLS That it pays to advertise and that all the people in the camp read the lo-cal paper, is evidenced by the fact that the great majority of young men Who were menlloned in the Press-Bulleti- n last week as matrimonial possi-bilities have received a great number of proposals, letters, etc., from the fair maids. (Some of the boys have had such a multiplicity of propoHals that they hardly know how to act in the matter. K number have reported their good luck to this office and also expressed their appreciation for the publicity. One oarty said that last week's inane o fthc Press-fiulletl- was not only the most Interentlng, but was the moft widely read edition ever Issued. Kverybody in the camp and many out-side of it, he said, had to read that is-sue, because there was something In it everybody wanted to see. United States at War With Germany as Well as With the Kaiser By U. S. SENATOR WESLEY L JONES of Weihingtoo Let m not deceive ourselves as to with whom we are at war. We are not at war with the kaiser. We ere at war with Germany. Let us not depend upon the German people to overthrow their government repre--I judgment, we must conquer the German hv the kaiser. In my people and the German government before we will have a peace along the lines laid down now. . We must face the fact that the German people have stood by their government, as represented by the kaiser, as no people have stood by any bovernmont or its representatives before in the history of the world. They feel that existence. That is the problem they are fightinjf for their very their government and behind that we must meet- -a united people their representatives, who, ns a matter of fact, are really resentful that we should attempt to control and dictate to them in their internal affairs. battlefields of their choosing, not of ours. Our We mut fight this war on armies must he sent 3,000 miles away; they must be kept supplied witu munitions, clothing, food and It is a huge tnk. arms, It should not be minimised. If our people know v.hnt is before them they will bravely face it. That is the way that I look at this conflict. These are the conditions ' we' face' We cannot win the war by concealing the facts and dangers ; we cannot win it by bunding that we will win it. To win it will impure every ounce of man power, every ounce of money power, and every ounce of resource that wr people and this nation tan gi t together. MEXICAN SLACKERS MEXICAN SLACKERS ARRESTED Julio 'Maro, age 23. and Jorgiun Chatunz. age ?S. both iMexicans, were arrested at Highland Boy Tuesday night charge-- ! with being slackers. iBoth men declared their Innocence :pnd tntol that thv did not know of registration day; that they were wsv up in the mount-iin- s hording sheep, ;nnd that noiidy ever told them any-thing about It. They were brought to Jail here and latr turned over to the federal autbr orl.les. i snmnirji eil q pozjjd ajaw hi: H.qj jtiqi pius si 11 annBoin.I )ui suimi --ojl am ( p.anpujui ej.v liquqojd pun feunuioy puu Jioj) ijjnd an.1 0 U.WOUX. 9J-I- fe'pjq on-ii- '"l.L uon io yM.y aqi jo itidunntMX pi) eqj u uou.iii ou a ann au.voj; j.)OD am U..iH'i P'i'i tJol oi) jt upip l oj o,)ii,.i.tj.tj uj piuinttu.im m h.xio mil iu.mim.j. mow am ui DuunGiJ P!0 P3M!1 sueiuoa How It Generally Worka, After snylns. "I don't want to fine fault." the iivemKC man proci-ed- t' pleli a flaw. Coal Production In France. Recent figures of coul production in France, an industry of which the of the Loire, in the St. Etleiine consular district. Is an Im-portant producing center, with an an-nual output of over 3.000,000 tons, show nu Increase from l.soo.000 tons In November, 1!HG, to 2,W.(KHj tons In March, V.U7, says the Scientific Ameri-can, and a total Increase In production find importation of from 3.400.0UO tons In January. 1917, to over 4,000.000 tons in May. This gain was made pos-sible ly a readjustment of mine work-ers nnll a closer study of transporta-tion problems. The movement of coh! by motor lorries, In addition to other commodities by a fleet of heavy motor trucks purchased and operated by the city of St. Ktlenne, Is a recently Innu-Kiirnt-service, which has aided dis-tribution and relief of congestion ma-terially. Colombia's Share. Colombia Is Raid to be annexing a Inrge share of the castor oil trade for-merly held by India. |