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♦ \ American Falls Press Heading Ho on) X V MERIC AN FALLS. POWER COIN TY. IDAHO. FRIDAY, alNE 27. UM». NrXBER 41. VOLUME XIX. W EVERGREEN HIGHWAY OFFICIAL ASKS LOCAL BOOSTERS' SUPPORT a. FIELD SECRETARY C. A. COLLINS SEEKING TO STIMULATE TOUR IST TRAVEL BY COOPERATION FROM AMERICAN FALLS MEN. WANT FREE AUTO CAMP BUILT Prompt Mapping and Sign-Posting of Route Will Make It National High way and Will Bring Government Aid. The Evergreen National Highway association is sending its field secre tary, C. A. Collins of Tacoma over the entire length of the Evergréen highway to consult with the business men in each locality and map ar.d log the road as he travels from station to station. Mr. Collins was in Am erican Falls Wednesday to interest people and get all the cities along the route to cooperate. Mr. Collins' work is to interest peo ple to travel, primarily, as he says, but chiefly, by that travel to benefit all the towns along the route and make it possible to get new Investors and business men into those towns, by interesting them as they travel through. As he travels from town to town he has been posting the road signs of the Evergreen highway, which will be noticed now along the highway on both sides of American Falls. He is also preparing maps showing the exact route, logs of the trip in miles for the benefit of auto i8ts, and collecting, circulars from every community to be distributed by central headquarters to all the big auto clubs who can direct travel along this highway and through these towns. Asks Cmninunities to Boost. The Evergreen Highway assycia ■k-n aims to have a local associa ^lunty served by this national artery. Mr. Collins presented the ideals of the association to a number of busi ness men during his short stay here Wednesday, and pointed out the pos sibilities and benefits which might be derived from big tourist travel. To stimulate this travel, he said, the community must get out and boost and work for good roads, and coop crate with the main office in putting signs and sharing advertising cam ' One of the biggest means of stim- i ulating tourist interest is the estab-1 paigne. Payette. i jllshment of an auto camp. Boise and Weiser have each erected free auto camps already. They are added attractions to stop in a town because of the free auto camping grounds offered. Mr. Collins spoke of the Townsend bill which is now before congress and is practically assured of passage. By that bill, the government will match dollar for dollar every bit of money put into a national highway by the states. The proposition for the towns along the Evergreen highway then is to boost that highway and advertise it widely, so that the government will recognize this route as the natural national highway to the coast in pre ference to any other. The state of Idaho has already started to begin work on the Whltebird canyon part of the highway which will link north ern and southern highways for the first time by direct route. Soecess of Old Trails Highway. Illustrating the business possibili ties which might accrue from the designation of this route as a nation al highway. Mr. Collins gave some thentic figures on increasing , tourist travel along the National Old j Trails highway from Kansas City to | au the (Continued on page 8.1 LKTTERS WILL COST ONLY TWO CENTS AFTER TUESDAY Tuesday, July 1, is the day sèt when all first class postage reverts to the rates existing before the war emergency bill passed raising letters to three cents and postal cards to two A recent act or congress, as a pan of the program to bring the oountry back to a normal basis, re established the old Vtwo cent letter rate and one cent posîSl rate. All other postage rates, except the first class, have remained unchanged. Chief among those still unchanged is the rate on mailing of and magazines. N cents. Mary Franklin McIntyre was fined I.., and costs last Saturday for use of protanitv and vulgar expressions) .ml* public thoroughfare. Sentence! was later suspended and she was re - easel on a promise of good behavior. newspapers SENTENCE SUSPENDED. W ATCH THE BIG EIGHT FRO» PRESS BULLETIN BOARO The Press has arranged to receive ('•■tailed account of the big Wiilard Dempsey fight in Toledo. July 4th. round by round. The bulletins will bo shown on the bulletin board in the Schwarz pool hall a week from today as they come in over the wire. The fight is scheduled for 3 p. m. in To ledo and the wires should begin to hum with news of the battle about 11 a. m. the morning of the fourth. Optimism reigns in both camps of the heavyweight contenders in the world's championship bout .and fever in the east is running high over the possibilities in store for a good ring battle. Local fans will get the news hot off the wires and should know whether they have lost or won by the middle of the afternoon. Watch the Press next week for the exact time for the reports to arrive and get a good position in front of the bulletin board at Schwarz's. CHILDREN MAKE PLEA FOR CHANCE TO PLAY IN SPORTS FESTIVAL j ADVANTAGE MICH (SHOD 110» THEY COULD GAIN FROM SOME SYSTEM OF SPORTS AT CHAU-j CHAUTAUQUA FESTIVAL. BOY SCOUT COMMAND NEEDED Won Ul Be the Best Outlet for the Boys' Pep and Give Them a Chance to Make Leaders of Themselves and Get Healthful Exercise. i J I American Falls people were de lighted with the showing of the chil- ! dren in the sports and play festival given last Thursday on tlie* closing, night of the Chautauqua, under the I supervision of Miss Boyd, junior su- \ pervisor. Tlie boys' stunts, which j were under Miss Boyd's peisonal dl- i ruction, were particularly well re- | reived by the crowd which gathered | to watch the festival. Despite the fact that those stunts ! were the result of the first supervis- j ed training in American Falls, the ; boys carried off each of their stunts j in fine style and the crowd clapped heartily. The climax came when a picked number of boys staged spec tacular pyramid building, and showed what could be done if the boys here ' were provided with a supervised play i ground or a boy scouts organization, I Miss Boyd, in her lecture on Tues i flay afternoon of the Chautauqua, im is pressed it on her audience that Am erican Falls boasted no playground, no boy scouts, no athletic club, no Y. M. C. A., no baseball team, or no "old swimming pool." "So what are they going to do," she concluded, "if they want to i*n joy some healthful, whole some sports and play." sponded on the closing night showing how they were Interested In j athletic, games. Buslness Men Impressed. I One business man, after reading the article In the Press last week I covering the activities of the children J In the junior Chautauqua, Suggested | that a hoy scout organization should i be formed here. Ilf. said that the hoys, themselves, had shown' how much they would appreciate It. and that they only needed a little three tion along hoy scout lines to make [ leaders of The boys re-j by S of Following is a real occurrence. But it is only typical of thousands of others. A boy scoot entered the of-1 fiee of a business man of Mobile, Ala., and laying an application blank for , a Victory bond before him stated: j "Mister. I have come to | bond." to si-11 you a The. man hesitated, scratch-* ed his head, shuffled his feet and said. "Son, I have not decided how many | bonds I «ant, but er, well, if it will give you any encouragement I will take one from you." Tilt boj drew back and looked the man squarely in the eye and said: "Mister, 1 do not want any 'encouragement.' but your government needs the money, is the application. Sign up!" And before a largo group of busi -1 ness men this man later spoke proud ly of the boy's salesmanship and th< j fact that he had signed up. That's the spirit the boy scout pro gram puts into a boy. It is the spirit that caused Gener al John J. Pershing to write from tlie ! office of the commander in chief in "The boy scout movement has my unqualified approval." It is the spirit tbat caused T heo dore Roosevelt to declare: "The boy scout movement is distinctly an as as re the is I here , , I j j M «« «» our country for the develop-1 use ,m n ° e c ency, vir llty and good •'•**--n»..ip ' *•- Writ tost set nearly re 1 KonUnued or. page fei ' France: ■ + DECORATED FOR SAVING 57 YANKEES ♦ ♦ ♦ •fn. + , i'ystgss ♦ ♦ C ♦ ♦ ♦ \\ ♦ ♦ IP? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ •* ♦ ; *3 « + QV ♦ V: I Major General Lewis decora! lug Frederick Bernard, qun Norm aster In ihs j French navy, for having saved 57 Yank soldiers who were on bonid a vessel struck by a torpedo. Tlie American Distinguished Service medal was pinned on the breast of the sailor In the presence of an assemblage of American and French officers and men in Carls. MATCH MVKF.KS GET BUSY AS .hcnf hurries toward close F in hark .on Sea of Mat Four Coiipl riinony and Set Sail in tinerlciin Follow Soon, Falls Others P Rallier than allow the good old month of June to pass away without i coming up to its reputation as the J champion match-maker, four couples I from this county presented themselves for marriage licenses during tills last) week and embarked on the sou of j matrimony. One blushing couple al most, spoiled ait afternooo'a work for , Deputy Assessor Brown when they stepped nil to his window and asked | him for a license. ! I \ j i | | ! Merton - Minder. Jessie Merton, a chef, and Lydia 1 j Mjndor both of American Falls, slip-! ; d away t0 R„ I>er t last Wednesday j evening ' an(1 s ,, our ,. f j their license Thev were married In Rupert before their return to this city. vhere they will make their home. Andersen-»lit. Wilfred Ander son and Matilda Witt, both of Central. Idaho, came Into the I county court house Saturday to get their license. Judge R. O. Jones of ficiated at the wedding ceremony. Mr. Anderson is a nephew of Charles Johnson, superintendent of the pow er company In American Falls. I'riinhs-Kluck. ] j ing by Rev. Father Wagner. They left soon after on a honey moon trip | I to Yellowstone National park. j Mr. Prlinhs Is the son of George I Prlmbs of Pocatello, and Is a member J of the firm of Geo. Prlmbs and Bons, | printers and bookbinders. The young i couple expect to live in Pocatello on their return from their wedding trip, Monday afternoon. Ihe county clerk's office Issued another license to George W. Rhoads. Payette, and [ Bernice M. Bacon. Aberdeen, Rudolph Prlmbs. married to Tussle Mary Kluck, daugh ter of Frank Kluck. Sr., at 9:00 mass S In the Catholic church Monday morn Pocatello, was i Bacon. Aberdeen, them._ damage resulted. I least a year. Longs For Copies of "Press" and Fight with Reds; Puzzled On How to Spend Two Hundred Rubles | : Lawrence Bafts. American Falls Sol dier, Has Interesting Experience in Laud of the Bolshevik!. Soroka is up near the Arctic circle I in northwestern Russia where there ! (ll no | jff , -1 j ! except polar bears, Eakl- a , mos an( j a f ew straggling Bolshevik!, The days are all nights and the nights are all days in this land of ice and i snow. I'p there with a detachment j , of American doughboys, is Lawrence Watts of American Falls. He Is work ing a little with the rent of his com I pany to keep the Murnian railroads j open and is longing for three things, a letter from home, the last copies of j the PresB and a little excitement with | the Bolsheviki. He has two hundred ! rubles In his pocket v»ut doesn't know how to spend it, and ft is not strange when he doesn't have to buy grocer les. clothing or shoes and pay light and w , ter blUg FoUowtllg 1g , et . ^ b j g p ari , ntl Mr. and yfri. J. T. Watts of Amreican Falla; , ka Kuit , u MaJ 10. 1919 Mrs. Mar» Watts. American Falls. Ixar Mother — » eij. Motner. dear, there isjp.e UNIDENTIFIED MAN FOUND ON BANKS OF S\ \KE RIVER Discuter 0,1 Meherline Boil) of Mail Head About Kuiieh Six Months. t An unidentified man. who appeared to have been deud for about six months, was found last Friday after noon by sonic boys un Ihe baflk of the Snake river on John Uebcrllne's ranch, about six miles out of town. Harry Hager, tho undertaker, who buried the man In the sand near the if the man. K 1 |0 L say a description ,1<! '■''•** M Mian about sixty years old. Kray-haired, had on a blue juniper land b,ue overalls, had gray whisker» and looked to be bald. He was five f«*" 1 Hlx ln he, * ht " n<1 wel * hcd al>out 140 l«»""*s. When found, the body »as in a partly decomposed condition due to ,he ,on K ex Poaure in ihe wa ter. Sheriff George Hanson thinks It might be the body of the same man who was keen from the Aberdeen At that ferrybout three months ago. time, passengers 'on the boat saw a body floating by, and although a uu> ] torboat search of the river was made the next day, no truce could he found. .This unidentified man appeared to be a trapper or a miner. No means of Identification were possible. Kaum residence early Wednesday and | narrowly missed resulting In a dls j animus fire. The water was shut from the hot water tank during Ihe night and the steam generated by the ! FIRE NARROWLY AVERTED. neighbors for blocks around nearly wrecked the interior of the O. R. i An explosion that waked the heater caused an early morning ex plosion that jarred from the walls and severely fright II Ihe pictures ened Mrs. Baum and Miss Jessie Tor rance who Is staying at the Baum home. Quick action resulted In ex Mngulshlng tho fire before serious damage resulted. I I am still at I : not much to tell you. Soroka. Kuasia and feeling flue. Well | I am ! to start w ith our boys are operating trains on the Munnan railway, not on the road. My duties are with I the battalion supply of cars. There ! is some excitement going on once In a while with the Bolshevik!. Borne of our boys here bad some excitement m the way of smoking things up. i Here where we are things are quiet. j This town was evacuated by the Bol shevlki before we came, but I hope f get a chance to have some fun be fore we leave Russia. I haven't had a chance to try my said Russian rifle There are sure out yet. We have a good camp, | the British huts. They are ! warm and nice. Twenty men to*the hut but the worst of the thing is w> are on English rations and tbey do not make much of a hit with^a Yank soldier. But for all that we are hav . ln g the experience and lots of It. and I guess we will have enough when we gel out of here, the jumping off place of the w/>rld. I can not begin to describe the peo isjp.e of lai* part of Russia. Tire wo ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + NEWS LETTERS WANTED. ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ The Press wants a corres pondent in every section of the county. A little time each week devoted .to a letter with all the nows of your commun ity will yield a good many dol lars in the period of a year. Besides the Press will get YOUR news and will give it to others. If you want to Join us in putting your community on the map in the official paper of Power county, write us a + + ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ 4> ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * letter and we will send you start « ♦ the maturiul that will you going. + ♦ ♦ ♦ *+♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦ CHAMPION PIG GROWER GETS FREE TRIP EAST Hoy or Girl Who Halses Best Pig In State »III Be Sent to Livestock Show in Chicago. Expenses to Be Prepaid. a to the a are of. A free trip to the International Livestock show %t Chicago next Do ccuihcr, with all expenses paid, will he given III«- champion boy or girl pig dub grower in the stale Mils year, by Armour 4i Co. Arrangements for this prize were made with Ihe exten sion division of the state university Friday by U. L. Noble of Armour's bureau of agriculture, who is spend ing several weeks In the Pacific northwest in the interests of Increas ed livestock production and improve ment in livestock quality. The boy and girl pig growers of Cower county have always been among the leaders In the slutc and now have their biggest opportunity to cash In on what they know about pig ruining. The extension division Friday an nounced Unit details concerning the Chicago prize trip could lie obtained by the writing of a letter to the "Stute Club Leader, Dotse, Idaho." Every bona fide member of a standard club who finishes the work and gives u complete record and an ufflduvlt ss to tlie rate of gain und the Cost of gain, Is eligible to enter the contest. The champion, on returning from the trip, will he required to write a story of from 200 to 400 words concerning his experiences. Better Livestock Urged. "While Idaho Is now well known for lu livestock production, every indi cation points to the production of bet ter quality livestock and more of It," said Mr. Noble Friday. "We are fos tering the production of quality live stock the country over, for the fol lowing reasons: Crops are more readily harvested with livestock : crops are more cheaply marketed ed with livestock ; soil fertility Is better maintain-d by livestock; farm man agement and labor are utilized to bet ter advantage the year around—tn short. It means more profit and pros perity to the producer, which Is ab solutely essential for the success of every Industry, Including our own. "It is to he regretted 1 liât the num ber of hogs in Idaho has decreased in the last twb years, as this class of livestock gives the producer a quick turnover—also the local crops are pairtlcularly adaptable for feeding hogs." When asked as to Ihe probable sta tus of the future hog marget, Mr. Noble said there probably would be no sharp decline in hog prices for ut I least a year. men do the same w ork as the men. They are a husky lot. Well, mother, 1 guess by now you ure having the best of weather at It sure has been cold here Be sure and have the Press ! home. j today, There Is nothing to j sent here to me. read up here round the Arctic circle. I got one letter from Mary since I I a mentioning you some money in this letter for some souven The one with f> on It Is five I have been here and one from you. RuNKlan irs, ! rubles, now worth 12 cents, with I on it Is a one ruble note and the one with 50 on It ts 50 kopecks, worth 5 cents in U. H. money. one with 20 on It is 20 kopecks« worth i 214 cents. I went to the pay officer oday and drew 200 rubles but I do The one not know what I am going to spend ! it for. . I will close with love to you and . all. Tell them all I an enjoying life j In north Russia. sian Ex. P. O., Murmansk, I be Your sou. HOT. LAWRENCE WATT«. 1(J7 Co.. T. C., See. A.. North Rus Kuaaia Force*, via Base Bee 3. London. Eng. ' jiDECREED WATER RIGHTS MENACED IN BIG LAW SUIT Snake River Valley Land Company Would Obtain Water Rights of Aber deen Canal. CANAL WATER SHUT OFF Headgate Above Blackfoot Closed and Normal Flow Cone Shortage Is Only Temporary Says Baum. The water situation In the Aber deen-Sprltlgfield canal system took a n»w turn Monday when the Bunko Hiver Valley Land company filed suit to obtain the stored water tn Jack son's Lake from the decreel water users under the Carey Act. Bliould the plaintiff In the case succeed In winning the waterusers under tho Aberdeen-Bprlngfleld canal will lose a large proportion of Ihelr stored water and will suffer temporarily uiit.ll aid Is procured from the state allowing them their rights under their decree. The headgate to the Aberdeen Springfield canal was closed Monday and tin normal flow Iihh been coming Into tlie canal so that the wateruHora are temporarily without water. At torney O. R. Baum, counsel for the Aberdeen-Bprlngfleld Canal company went in Idaho Fulls Tuesday for the purpose of assisting In I,he case <vf the defendants. Upon study of the situation he learned Unit the situa tion was of such a nature that the success of the plulntIff in the suit would mean greater benefits to the local waterusers and In the hearing of. the case at Arco yesterday he as sisted the plaintiffs. Bliould the Hnake Hiver Valley Ijind company win the suit it will menu the Instftu Mon of a suit by Ihe Aberdcnn-8pring fleld Canal company to obtain the same water rights that will have been obtained by Ihe BnHke Hlvor Vnlley Land company. : Claims Stored »ater. The Hnake Hiver Valley lamd com pany Is making the contention to the stute against the decreed water us er:!. that all water In tlie river is normal flow and us such belongs to them and Is theirs by prior rights. The water In the river Is so low that stored water must he turned Into the river lo maintain the normal flow. This water must come from the stor ed rights of the decreed waterusers arid will Id- charged against them by the federal government but will be taken from the river ss normal flow by the Hnake River Valley Land com pany, should it win the case now be fore the court. Hlionid Ihe plaintiff win the suit, the Aberdeen Hprlugfleld ('anal com pany will Immediately enter suit uu der the same decree of the court, ask ing that the nortnHl flow In Ihe Ab erdeen-Hprlngfield canal he main tained from the stored water In the federal reservoir at Jackson's Lake. Should the court award Mi«' eaae to the plaintiff ihe Aberdeen-Bprlngfleld Canal company will Mina he doubly protected In the water It uses and the shortage In water will only he tem porary. The ault now Indore the court at Arco la regarded aa one of preaaing Interest at Ihe present time and haa taken a peculiar turn that haa at tracted practically every attorney and engineer In the Htate Interested In water rfghta and decrees. in of be ut at » AUDEN WILL GET OFFENDERS FISHERMEN BETTER GET BUSY Deputy Game Warden Frank Dah len bas issued bis final warning to those persons who are fishing with out a Itcenae. When interviewed Tuesday, he announced that he had given e very body enough chance to buy a fishing license. In view of the fact that they were a little late In be ing printed, but now that period of grace was up. He will leave next Week on u trip up the river and fishermen caught without a license will t>e severely prosecuted. He spent the latter part of last week on the same mission in Oneida county. Mr. Dahlen said tbat Indications were pointing also to the tact that some sage hens were being killed. The open season for sage neos does not commence until August 1C. to I I do life be ' locate permanently. Mr. and Mrs. Chaa. Kampf left Thursday for Burley where they may