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rllbimc VOL.37. . NO. 51 THE CALDWELL TRIBUNE, FRIPA Y, JUNE 18, 1920 SEMI-WEEKLY, $3.00 PER YEAR, 1ST DISPOSE T WEREJOWNED Council Calls For Bids On $23,000 Issue Under Handi cap of Public's Misguided Disapproval Confronted with the obligation of paying 7 per cent for deficiency warrants at Caldwell banks on money that the city has spent for items not cared for in last year's budget land for refunding outstand ing bonded obligations, the city council at an adjourned meeting Wednesday evening voted to ad vertise for sale approximately 123,000 worth of general obliga tion bonds. It was these bonds that were submitted to Caldwell taxpayers Tuesday for approval that they might be sold to better advantage Through some mis taken notion, taxpayers refushed to support the bonds and now they must be sold under the hand icap of popular disapproval. With the bond market in its present un stable condition the issue is not expected to be sold to good ad vantage, particularly" in view of the bond election result. Accord ing to city councilmen, they must be sold, however, no matter what prices are offered for them. C. J. Wescott was appointed by Mayor Grant Ward io fill the vacancy on the council occasioned by the res ignation of Joe Dickens. Mr. West cott was present at the council meet ing and immediately took up his duties He also spent several hours at the city hall Thursday morning familiar izing himself with the routine work. He was appointed as a member of the standing committee on roads. Introduce 1921 Budget An ordinance was passed declaring an intention to pave the city hall vi cinity and three alleys in the post office bloçk, the Methodist church block and the block east of the city hall. T. E. Buckner and Presley Home appeared before the council to request that an extension of the city sewer system be made to the pew state Odd Fellows home. The matter was re ferred to the water works committee and the city attorney for investiga tion. About two blocks of extension will be required to serve the build ing. The budget for next year's city government was submitted. About $85,000 is estimated as necessary to conduct the work for 1921. % Bids were also asked on the bonds for paving district No. 4 and sewer districe No. 6. The council will meet again Mon day evening. RELATIVE OF CALDWELL PASTOR KILLED IN WRECK In the recent catastrophe occurring June 9, on the N. Y. Central, Mr. Walter J. Quill, of Syracuse, N. Y., who is a brother-in-law of Rev. A. F. White of this city, lost his life. Mr. Quill was the founder of the Dodge ( and Quill Washing machine Co., lo cated at East Water Street, Syracuse, since 1877. When the firm becamc the Syracuse Washing Machine Cor poration three wears ago he becamc a director and saleman and was on a business trip to Worcester, Mass, when the collision occurred. Rev. White will visit his sister oil his east ern trip. TOURIST PARK CONTINUES TO ATTRACT VISITORS The tourist camp at Memorial park is continually taxed to capacity, ac cording to William Bischoff, park ten der. Thursday a party of six left for California and the facilities for caring Jpr automobile travelers were still comfortably 'Ailed. Ever since the roads were opened to automobile traf fic, the park has never been without guests. People from California, Penn sylvania and other distant points have been represented. Those who have taken advantage of the camping facilities at Memorial park this month include W. J. Tid well of Wellington, Utah; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hanks and Mrs. Anna F ronwalt of Bujley; S Costello of Napa, California; Elmer Barnes of Scott City, Kansas; N. J. B. Betts and W. H. Betts of San Diego, California; A. H. Anderson and J. Cotello, Pay ette; Guy Stone and family of Col burn, Colorado; Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Ferguson of Toppenish, Washington, enroute to Salt Lake; C. E. Strong, Burley; Charles Hoppe, Delta, Colora do; Mrs. Bertha Reavis, Velda Liv ingston and Thelma Reavis, enroute to Modest, Illinois, and S. V. Todd and a party of six enroute ''to Los Angeles from Woodlawn, Pennsylva PARMA MAN SHIES DAT INTO ARENA J... E... KERRICK.. ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR STATE SENATORSHIP J. E. Kerrick of Parma, answering the appeal of his many friends in this section of the county, Thursday shied his hat into the ring as a Republican candidate for the state senatorship. Mr. Kerrick, who is by no means ^ politician, was not anxious to enter the political arena and only the in sistance of those who are familiar with his ability, finally induced him to announce his candidacy. Mr. Kerrick served in the last legis lature as a Republican senator from Canyon county where he wsis identi fied with some of the best work done at the state capital. He also has two terms as county commissioner to his crçdit Thus far, no county candidates are in the field. Not much time remains to file nominations. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holgate left Wednesday for Fallon, Nevada, where they will make their future home. Mr. Holgate recently purchased property there. WHAT THE LEGION ASKED k k A I 4 GAS PIPE CHICKEN PERCH The New American Legion Home WHAT THE LEGION GOT P.E.0s. GATHER III FORCE HERE Thiriy-Five Visiting Delegates Accomplish Big Things At Convention The P. E. O. Sisterhood met in an nual conclave in Caldwell this week, opening three days' convention Mon day evening and closing Wednesday afternoon. The delegates, thirty-five in number, were housed in Finney Hall, the girls' dormitory of the College of Bdaho, where Mrs. Paul Murphy, as hostess and mother filled this dual office with a grac and ease born of long prac tice in her work among the girls of C. of I. The building from basement to third floor, was beautifully decorat ed with flowers, the color scheme of yellow and white, P. E. O. colors, being cleverly carried out with mar guerites in the spacious parlors where the business sessions were held. Miss Katherine Mann, formerly of this city, now of Emmett, presided over the convention with a dignity and grace which merited the perfect har mony which marked its every delib eration. The program, replete with splendid addresses and papers of special inter est to the Sisterhood, was pleasantly relieved and varied by musical num ber», and humerous readings and- re flected truly the high standards of P. E. O. in the individual, in the family, in church and in state. That the public was bared from listening to the discussions of some of the vital present day problems was the pub lic's misfortune. ne of the largest things undertaken by the Sisterhood at large, was rais ing the educational fund to $100,000. (Continued on last page) TOURJSTRICT Grading Methods To Be Taught Idaho Producers of Wealth Boise, Ida., June 17.—Grain grad ing schools are being conducted by B. F. Sheehan, field agronomist of the University Idaho extension division, in cooperation with the county farm bureaus, on the following schedule June 16, Weiser, June 17, Midvale; June 18, Payette; June 19, Parma June 21, Wilder; June 22, Nampa; June 23, Meridian; June 24, Gooding; June 25, Wednell; July 1, Jerome; July 2, Filer; July 3, Kimberly. Dates for similar schools in the up per Snake river valley are to be an ounced later. Schools in North Idaho are to be held by Professors R. K. Bonnett and H. W. Hulbert of the farm crops de partment of the university. "Idaho's wheat business is one of her greatset industries," says a state ment by Mr. Sheehan, explaining the function of theje schools. "We pro duce annually approximately 18,000 bushels. This means a value of about $26,000,000. Yet the farmers are grow ing that crop without much attention being given to the condition?- under which it is to bemarketed. The mar keting question is a big one, and one that should be of interest to every wheat grower in the state. Follow Federal Standard* "Recently the federal wheat stand ards were adopted by the state depart ment of agriculture. These standards are to govern the sale and purchase of all wheat this coming year. The old system of basing the price upon the average of the crop in any commu nity is a thing of the past.. "The standards are established upon the actual commercial value of tin various grades. The percentage of dockage, inseparable foreign matter, the moisture content, the damage if any, mixture with other classes of wheat and the test weight per bushel are all factors which determine the commercial value of any lot of wheac. This places a premium upon high qual ity wheat and a price is received for the inferior grades which they war rant. Good farming receives the bene fit. Grades discourage the production of mixed or otherwise low grade grain and are a benefit to the farming class as a whole. Also Protects Dealers "From the standpoint of the dealer, grades gives him an absolute standard upon which to buy and sell.. They are a protection to him when mak ing interstate shipments and place his activities upon a sound basis. "In many sections of Idaho the standards are not understood. Farm ers in general are not familiar with the standards. Many dealers do not in terpret them properly and the larg.' percentage of dealers are net equipped with the necessary apparatus to arrive accurately at grades. . ' "In order that these conditions may become overcome, demonstrations have been arranged through the var ious county farm bureaus. The stan dards and regulations will be taken up in detail. A fully equipped grad ing laboratory will be installed. "Far mers should make every effort to at tend one of these demonstrations. For them to learn how this grain should be graded, is a-business propo sition and their knowledge of the stan dards may be of real cash value to them." VOTERS OPPOSE Both Legion Building and Re funding Issue Meet Tax payers Displeasure Caldwell voters Tuesday downed both the American Legion proposal for a $95,000 combined Legion and community center building and an other bonding proposal for an amount somewhat in excess of $23,000 design ed to retire present deficiency war rants drawing 7 per cent interest at Caldwell banks. In spite of the poor bond market the belief is held that bonds could be obtained at less cost to the taxpayers that this interest rate Only in one ward, the first, did the Le gion building proposal carry by the re quired two-thirds vote while the sec ond proposal squeezed through with a bare majority of all votes cast and fell far short of thetwo-thirds neces sary to cary them. Vote Was Light Of a total registration of 1381, only 681 votes weer cast, less than 50 per cent of the registration. On the Mem orial proposal, 392 votes were cast in its favor and 289 taxpayers registered opposition. To carry "the Memorial building proposal on the basis of the vote cast, 578 votes were essential to its passage, the issue failing by 176 votes. On the refunding bond proposal, the vote was considerably lighter, due, probably to the fact that many voters, lacking understanding of the proposal, did not register an opinion on the mat ter. In favor of the funding bonds 274 votes were cast while 247 were opposed. According to wards, the vote stood. Memorial Building First Ward 85 42 Second Ward 207 172 Third Ward 100 75 392 Refunding Bonds First Ward 54 Second Ward 153 Third Ward 67 289 29 72 274 247 As soon as the result of the election became known, many taxpayers asked that immediate steps be taken to call another election ,this time simply for a Legion building without any effort to make a community proposition of it. They felt that it was misunder standing of the original plan more than anything else which contributed to its defeat and expressed the belief that if the matter were again sub mitted to the people in its true light, ■ that it would carry. THERE'S A BIG Caldwell Determines To Cele brate Fourth With Old Time Festivities Unanimous and enthusiastic approv al was given the proposal o the Cald well municipal band to celebrate the Fourth of July on Monday, July 5, Wednesday at luncheon when about 25 members of the Commercial Club heard H. W. Droman, band manager, outline his plan. Because of the fact that no towns, with the single excep tion of Middleton, within a radius of 200 miles are to celebrate the Fourth this year, the plan to observe Tnde pendennce anniversary day here met with instantaneous approval. Everything scheduled for the day will be under the direct supervision of the 25 members of the band. Fund.-, will be solicited this week to defray necessary expenses and the band mem bership assumes entire obligation for any deficit that may be incurred. Ac cording to Mr. Dorman, their is going to be no deficit , Keep Out Noisy Vendors Arrangements have already Ween made with the city council to keep all rescntatives of local mercantile es resentatives of local merchantable es tablishments, off the streets during that day. Applicants for hamburger or soda stands will be refused license3 unless they represent a Caldwell firm already in that business. No effort will be made to induce b usiness men to close their places of business July 5. This matter will ^e left entirely to the descretion of the individual business concerns. Among the features of the program as now arranged is a baseball game between Boise and Caldwell. Many Boise fans are expected down to wit ness the matinee since the two teams are evidently capable of putting up a first class and evenly contested bat tle. Arrange Good Program "Something doing" is promised for every minute of the day, beginning early Monday morning and continu ing until midnight. There will be a mammoth parade for which cash prizes will be given for the best dec orated car, cash prizes for car of old est pioneers, cash prizes for largest families in parade, cash prizes for outside school districts. The after noon amusement features will consist, of all kinds of races and baseball game. The morning exercises will be held at the Memorial park—prominent speakers and special musical features will be provided for the occasion. The afternoon amusement will be pulled off in the streets of Caldwell. An afternoon and evening dance will ■ be given with band concerts and band music galore. All places of amusement in the city —all restaurants, soft drink dispen sories and mercantile etsablishments will remain open .to care for the crowd that will attend. This is a new feature for Caldwell hut the band believes that the manv business houses of the city can help entertain the people. The band as sumes the responsiblity of this propos ed celebration. They and many of their friends will do the work and ex pect to pull off the best celebration ever given in Canyon county. TWO FORMER SOLDIERS WILL GO TO MOUNTAINS Roy Workman, a guest at the home of C. H. Turner, and Lee Turner are planning to leave shortly for Indian Meadow in Owyhee county where they will spend the summer in an effort to regain their health. Mr. Workman is from Chicago. He served in the Sixth Marines in France as a sergeant and a comrade of Lee Turner. Roth boys were gassed and are going to the Owyhees in an effort to regain their health. Ray Turner will accompany them. It is confidently believed that the bounteous mountain air will restore them the health and strength that they lost in defense of the country during the two years of service which they saw in France. George W. Williams purchased the Lem Harding cement plant this week. He will remodel the plant somewhat to handle any kind of cemetit bus iness.