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BLACKFOOT, BINGHAM COUNTY, IDAHO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1905.
VOL 2. NO. 6.
PER YEAR.
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You See We Know what we are Talking About
When we Speak of the Big Bingham County Fair
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.Our man-with-a-pcncil has been out scouring the country on his bike, and asking people what they are planning to do the third week in September, and most of them are planning to be at the Blackfoot
Fair, wearing their newly polished thinkers.
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You see it is apparent to everybody that Idaho is putting aside its knee pants and sailor waist, and is standing up to have the measures taken for pantaloons and frock coals so-to-speak, and they are read
in the exhibits at the fair. They know it doesn t pay to shut their eyes to what is going
ing the signs of the times carefully in the newspapers and waiting for the chance to read the more substantial signs to be found i
world where each one of us is such a small influence, and folks who have worked hard all summer are going to take a few days to rest and study at the fair.
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Secretary Stufflebeam reports that many applications are coming to him for entries of race horses, shows and other amusement features and next week we will tell you who and what has engaged to
The Republican office is receiving matter and machinery to be used in the Daily Republican, and since we talked to you we have bought a $250.00 stereotyping outfit to enable us to get out illustrations
quick and good. We are going to publish in the Daily, a series of articles on the last fights of the red men in this valley, giving statements from living witnesses who know all the circumstances.
There will also appear in the Daily, a continued story in five chapters, written by Don of Root Hog, entitled, "ON WESTERN SHORES" and covering events dating from our recent national expan
sion on the west, down to the last day of the fair. Events which you were a part of; characters who were once your chums or neighbors, and who have gone forth in the world to act out queer dramas heretofore
known to you. Blackfoot is already famous for her men and women, and when the fair is over you will not need to go back in history to the stories of Carthage and the Moors, to read of characters which were clothed
with the charm of honest effort, lead in strange lands and divers places by the hand of fate or the accidents of the times.
We are going to send the Daily to any address for the week for 25 cents, and by sending a lot of them to your friends in other states you will help to advertise Blackfoot and Idaho.
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INSTITUTES AND EDUCATION.
A Shot at John Doe and You. Prin
cipally You.
With each recurring month of June
-comes the college boy and the sweet girl
graduate, thinking they know—O! so
much! But in reality, knowing, O! so lit
tle, and unable to make any practical
use even of that.
July brings its vacations and summer
schools, and August its applications (for
jobs, commonly called positions) and the
annual institutes.
The work of the institute goes on
apace, and half of the teachers or pros
pective teachers are carefully avoiding
anything which might reveal their lack
•of understanding,
which many of them place in the way of
progress and happiness, is in not trying
to get acquainted with their fellows and
the people in general.
They live in their books. The com
munity in which they are spending the
week or the month, so full of opportun
ity, holds but little which they care for.
They shut their eyes upon it.
Only one teacher out of several reads
the local paper and cultivates a personal
acquaintance with the men and women
-of the community who move barriers
and do things. The teachers seldom
•'let down the bars" and never "take the
.shingle off the roof."
The school year opens with a tenden
cy to bring the teacher in touch with
the whole community where she teaches,
but the public is hard to please. Sug
gestions come; complaints are filed, and.
censure is added to complaint. Earnest
effort is checked, enthusiasm is damp
ened and ardent spirit which was push
ing good work, recoils upon itself and, in
a sense, barricades itself from those it
should mingle with the most those
whom the teacher's tact should meet
and place itself on a level with. An
honored level.
It is an old saying that teaching un
tits the teacher for business, and this is
true. The business man learns to yield.
The teacher learns to carry her point.
She learns to do this in school, and
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presently she is doing it out of school,
and people make allowance for it be
cause she is a teacher. But the public
is to blame for this because the public
does not go half way, where teachers
and public are concerned.
But this is getting almost personal.
We don't care. The public seldom does
its part by the teachers, except in dol
lars and cents, and there is another
phase of life in the field of education.
The place where all are lacking is along
lines of personal sacrifice and mutual
co-ope ration.
Next Monday is election day, and a
good time to turn a new leaf in these
matters. Will you turn it? It may be a
very busy day for you, but the busier
you are, the more evidence of your real
worth if you make a personal sacrifice
and attend the school election to use
influence for better educational
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work; not for better work in the school
alone, but in the community at large.
Have no fear of your neighbors not up
holding you in your suggestions in this
direction, for they too have been wishing
for something better, and could not de
fine that feeling and put it into form.
If you live in a town or village, one
thing which has come to your attention,
is that many people whose children at
tend school, find fault with existing con
ditions at school, but do not associate
with the teachers and school officers in
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Talking
trying to have things better,
among the neighbors and making them
dissatisfied with the management, and
offering no remedy is a detriment great
er than the thing you complain of.
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If you live in a rural district you have
noticed that the school house is not re
spected. Nobody feels the pride m it
which they should. Decorations are
scanty, and are damaged or destroyed
every time there is a session of terpi
score, sometimes called dancing or edu
cation of the heels. If dancing is per
mitted in the school house it should be
conducted by responsible persons who
will see that school property is respected
and not destroyed. They should see
that the influences at this social affair
are good and elevating. Letting hood
lums have possession, to stack seats and
stoves and other furniture like so much
alfalfa and use the yard for a beer gar
den is not within thd scope of our defini
tion of good influences. The teacher
who is made of the right stuff will take
a stand on these matters, and if the
school board does not stand pat, she will
lose-her job, but there will be another
job waiting at a better salary, and well
we know she can use the salary.
"All just government derives its
authority from the consent of the gov
erned," and this is one of the instances
where the movement should start with
the people.
Next Monday afternoon is the time
set apart for school election and when
you rise Monday morning, have your
mind made up that you will attend the
election and make yourself and your
convictions felt. When you enter the
school yard, most of those who are there
will be holding a social session or a farm
ers' institute. Talking of everything
but school matters, telling how very
busy they are at home, and yet wasting
valuable time in idle talk. That gives
you a better chance to exert your in
fluence, and it is also evidence of the
lack of public interest in school matters
and the lack of public character. But
you can build up these things. You and
Smith and Brown and the teacher. Sup
pose you talk to them about it!
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The State Fair.
The Inter Mountain Fair at Boise
opens on Monday, September 25th and
closes Saturday, September 30th. The
fare from Blackfoot for the round trip
will be 810.85. The conditions for ship
ment of products for exhibit will be as
follows:
All freight will be charged full tariff
rates going, except on fruit, grain and
vegetables, the freight charges will be
refunded on presentation of a certifi
cate from the secretary of the fair that
such shipments have been placed on
exhibition.
■ On return of freight, no change of
ownership having taken place, and
with proper evidence of its having
been on exhibition, it will be carried
free at owner's risk.
Race horses wiU be charged both
ways, but sulkies and harness may be
loaded without extra charge.
General admission to the fair is 25
and 50 cents.
Applications for entries of exhibits
must be made to secretary W. F. Dolan
not later than September 25th.
W. T. Harris, of Blackfoot. is assist
ant superintendent of the division of
farm products.
Club Announcements.
There will be a business meeting of
the Current Event Club at 2:00 p. m. at
the home of M rs. W. E. Barnhart next
Monday, the 4th. Also a business meet
ing of the V. I. S. at 4:00 o'clock at the
same place. All are requested to be
present at both meetings.
THE FAIR
Our Boise Correspondent.
From a'.l indications the crowd of
Idaho people in Portland on "Idaho
Day," September 7th, will be greater
in number and much more representa
tive of the state at large than have
been the crowds for other states which
have held celebrations at the Lewis &
Clark Imposition It is expected that
on that date there will be at least three
thousand people from Idaho in Port
land who will participate in the exer
cises. Lewis & Clark Exposition clubs
are being organized in all of the towns
of the state. M. A. Kurtz, of Nampa
and Thomas Kirby of Peck, have been
out in the different parts of the state
for the past ten days organizing these
clubs and report that in almost every
town that they have visited the people
have shown an anxiety to make Idaho
Day in Portland the Wanner state day
of the Fair's season.
Letters received from the Hon. It. W.
McWride, Executive Commissioner from
Idaho in Portland, bring information
that both the O. R. &. N., and the
Northern Pacific Ry. Co. have offered
to run excursion trains from all points
in north Idaho, on August 5th, land
ing tlie crowds in Portland by after
noon of the following day. Roth com
panies have made a round trip rate,
and from some points is considerably
less than one cent a mile rate.
Mr. McWride reports that the pro
gram of exercises on Idaho Day has
been practically determined. As at
present arranged there will be a pro
cession formed of the Idaho excursion
ists at one o'clock on September 7th,
which will march about the Exposi
tion grounds, headed by the Idaho
State Wand, the Lewiston Wand, and
the Exposition Administration Wand.
At half past two in the afternoon the
regular Idaho Day exercises will be
held in the New York Pavilion which
is very close to the Idaho Wuilding.
President H. W. (Joode, of the Exposi
tion Commission will deliver an ad
dress of welcome on behalf of the
Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition.
Governor Gooding will respond. Ad
dresses will also be made by Senator
Heyborn and Congressman French of
Idaho, and by Governor Chamberlin of
Oregon. A number of musical selec
tions will be included in the program.
Immediately after the exercises a re
ception to Governor Gooding will be
held in the Idaho Wuilding, to which
the Exposition officials and a number
of distinguished citizens of Portland,
the Evecutive Commissioners from
each of the states and the officials of
the Pacific coast states will be invited.
In the evening, besides the reception
in the Idaho Wuilding a dancing party
will be held in the New York Pavilion.
The Idaho Wuilding Hostesses will
serve light refreshments throughout
the afternoon and evening. Commis
sioner McWride has just done a very
graceful thing in inviting the ladies
who served the state in the capacity of
hostesses during the Fair season to
serve in a light capacity on Idaho
Day.
The effort to secure excursion rates
from points in South Idaho has not
yet met with success. It is believed,
however, that the Oregon Short line
will run an excursion train from Po
catello on the morning of September
5th, and that it is possible that a
slightly lower rate than the existing
one will be offered. Mr. McBride re
ports that the O. R. & N. Co. has in
formed him that they are willing to
give a round trip rate from Hunting
ton, of #10.00, for the "Idaho Week"
excursion; with a similar reduction on
the part of the Oregon Short Line a
round trip rate of about 813.00 will be
secured from Hoice with proportionate
rates from other points in the south
ern part of the state.
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Death of Jas. McTucker.
Jas. McTucker, commonly called
"Uncle Mack" died at Blackfoot. on Fri
day morning August 25th. He had been
suffering for some days with erysipelas,
and his death was altogether unexpect
ed. He died quietly as if sinking into
quiet slumber. The funeral was con
ducted from the Methodist church on
Sunday afternoon and a large number
of people especially old settlers attended.
Deceased was born in Philadelphia in
1829, and was in his 77th year. His
parents removed to Illinois during
his youth and he went to California in
'49 via The Horn. He crossed the plains
several times before the advent of the
railroad, and came to Idaho in the six
ties. He engaged in stockraising, and
for many years was boss farmer among
the Indians on the Shoshone and Ban
nock Reservation. He conducted a meat
market in Blackfoot for a quarter of a
century and retired from business about
three years ago.
Mr. McTucker never married and had
no relatives here. He was a man of
good habits, very charitable, and unas
suming about it. He had an aversion
to publicity of every kind, and when sub
scriptions were taken for some public
benefit, he generally gave with an open
hand, but would never permit his name
to go on the list.
In 1880 he was one of the three men
who rented a building near the present
site of the post office, for Mrs. S. F. Fer
ris to use for a Sunday School hall, and
was very active in establishing and sup
porting the public school, devoting
much time and frequently furnishing
the money to keep school going till the
tax money was available. He was the
friend of education at all times, and
ever ready to use his influence to induce
young people to attend school.
At taxpaying time he was often called
upon by old friends in need of a loan,
but his books do not show that they
were good about repaying. There is
some real estate belonging to the estate
which it is thought, will pay tho claims
against it, and leave matters about
balanced.
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The Baloon Ascension.
Prof. Mars gave a good exhibition
here last Saturday to a large gathering
of people. The instrument which he
carried in the flight into the sky indicat
ed that ho reached a hoighth of 3500
feet above the level of the valley. He
performed on the trapese from the time
he left the ground till he dropped and
made the descent with the parachute.
It worked well, and he landed unharm
ed near the Irving school house. When
the baloon started up the sail or rudder
was torn loose from its place so that he
was unable to govern the direction as
he usually does, but he used it to some
effect in tacking.
When the trapese and parachute were
loosened from the baloon it turned
slowly over till the opening was at the
upper end and the heated air and smoke
escaped. The baloon when new, weigh
ed 100 pounds, but it has gathered soot
and dirt till it weighs 280.
Secretary Stufflebeam is negotiating
with Prof. Mars to get him to attend the
fair and give a series of entertainments
in the aerial regions above the fair
grounds, and we will tell you later what
they are going to do.
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Teachers' Meeting.
The teachers of the Blackfoot schools
will hold their first meeting in the high
school room, at 4:30 p. m., Saturday,
Sept. 2.
This will be a very important meeting.
All teachers must be present.
Chas. Johnson, Supt.
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New Power Plant for Blackfoot.
An Ogden dispatch to the Deseret
News says: E. W. YVade returned this
morning from a trip to Blackfoot, Ida.,
where he has been since Sunday look
ing over a proposition relative to the
construction of a power plant on the
river, 17 miles out of Blackfoot, and an
equal distance from Idaho Falls. Al
though loth to talk, Mr. YVade admit
ted that he had been to Idaho to look
over the ground, and that the proposi
tion is already launched. The men
behind the project, he said, censisted
of Utah and Idaho capitalists, the
Idaho contingent being Christian Just
of Blackfoot. Mr, YVade did not care
to reveal the identity of the Utah men,
but stated positively that the new en
terprise was in no way connected with
the Utah Light & Railway company, of
which he is the Ogden representative,
and that none of the men in the com
pany named had anything to do with
his going to Blackfoot.
As to the project itself he said that
the river ran through a ravine of the
lava rock from 200 to 300 feet in height.
By the construction of a canal some
1500 feet in length the plant could be
established without the work of build
ing a dam, and 1000-horsepower devel
oped. The force could be increased,
however, by the erecting of a dam. and
for each 40 feet in height being- added
the capacity of the plant would be in
creased 1000-horsepower,
horsepower plant, Mr. YVade believes,
will be constructed within a year. The
dam will depend solely on whether
there is a market for more electric
power. The scheme is to furnish light
and power to Idaho Falls and Bluck
foot.
Mr. YVade also examined several oth
er projects, but that outlined is the
only one on whieh he had any dctinitc
statement to make.
The cost of the project is estimated
at 8100.000. Capital News.
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Fruit at the Fair.
The report from the Fair iH to the ef
fect that Idaho fruit is commencing to
arrive. This is good. A fruit display,
and a tine one, is all we need at Portland,
to make the Idaho exhibit the most at
tractive on the grounds. Commissioner
Hannah says that our grain exhibit will
challenge the world, and all who have
seen it will agree with him. It is simply
wonderful, both as to quality and yield.
We have sent in bundles of wheat, to
gether with samples from the same field
of threshed grain, he says, that yielded
from 65 to 85 bushels to the acre, and
these figures taken from carefully meas
ured ground and grain. Oats running
from 80 to 125 bushels to the acre are
not uncommon in the Idaho exhibit
and the proof is with the specimens
shown.
Some Early Crawford i>eachcs that
are as fine as can be found anywhere,
have just been shipped, and the apples,
pears, prunes, plums, and other fruit
going in every day will convince visitors
to the Idaho building that there is no
such thing as an off year in the Gem
state, in the fruit industry.
Idaho beats the world on fruit. It's
fruit has taken the first prize at all the
recent expositions, and if the display at
the Portland ex|>osition is kept up, the
Gem state will once more carry off the
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Attention Germans!
On Sunday Sept. 3, at 2:30 p. m. llie
Rev. Herman H. Fleer of Ogden, will
conduct German service at the Method
ist Church at Blackfoot. All Germans
are especially invited to be present.
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A FRIENDLY FEELING.
Commercial Interests of Entire Pacific
States Region Cemented.
The Lewis and Clark Centennial Ex
position has done more than show the
resources of the great Northwest to the
world; it has cemented the interests of
the whole Pacific States Region and has
brought the people together as one great
family. There has never been a time in
the history of the coast when the people
have had such unusual opportunities of
meeting one anothor as at the great ex
position at Portland this year. Mer
chants from different cities have come
to know one another, and the meeting
has been of mutual advantage. All
classes of people have been brought to
gether and the man from the south
coast has met the man from the north
coast.
A movement is now on foot to crystal
lize this sentiment of good will and
operate umong the people of the Pacific ■
States into effective working organiza
tion for the benefit of the entire region.
More than a year ago it was projioaed by
Rufus P. Jennings, Executive Officer of
the California Promotion Committee, an
organization representing more than 150
Chambers of Commerce and develop
ment associations of like character in
California, that the commercial organi
zations of the entire Pacific States Re
gion should "get together." The Oregun
Development League, consisting of 44
Chambers of Commerce and Improve
ment Organizations in Oregon, took up
the movement. Then YVashington, Ida
ho, Utah, Nevuda and the territory of
Arizona followed suit. Asa result the
most important step in the history of
development work on the Pacific Coast
has been begun and an era of organiza
tion and effective co-operation between
the Pacific States will prevail. With
central association, consisting of the
state commercial organizations, which
are, in turn, composed of the local or
ganizations, when any of the Pacific
States desire a needful public improve
ment, all the other states through the
central organization will co-operate and
lend their moral support for the work to
be done. This will greatly fortify the
representatives of the Pacific States
Congress at Washington, who will be
glad to avail themselves of a united pub
lic sentiment upon the coast. In like
manner a campaign will be conducted
for large conventions for Pacific States
cities as well as an organized campaign
for publicity,
The movement gained great strength
through the excursions of the various
states to the exposition. Many of these
excursions were given under the auspices
of commercial bodies and in this way
the men actively engaged in this work
have come to know one another. The
largest excursion of this kind was that
given under the auspices of the California
Promotion Committee shortly after the
opening of the Fair. Representatives of
the Chambers of Commerce of the whole
State of California took part in the
event, and the result has been a steady
stream of visitors from the Golden State
to the banks of the Willamette.
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Oysters! Oysters!
The Grove City Market will be able
to supply you with fresh Oysters on Fri
day or Saturday Sept. 1 or 2. This will
be the first shipment of oysters to reach
Blackfoot.
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Nail Sale.
My stock of nails, in any size or quan
ity, while they last will be sold at 3J4
cents per II).
D. H. Biethan.