The Idaho Republican. [volume], March 18, 1919, Page 4, Image 4

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THE IDAHO REPUBLICAN
SEMI-WEEKLY
Published every Tuesday and Friday
BYRD TREGO, Editor and Proprietor
Entered at the postoffice at Black
foot, Idaho, as second-class matter.
Subscription price -*$3.00 per Year
When the Com
missioners Sat Down
They First Agreed to Distribute
the New Road Among all
the Districts
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IN PROPORTION TO VALUATION
The first thing the comriiissioners
of Bingham county agreed upon be
fore taking a single step looking to
wards bonding the county for good
roads was to divide the road con
struction and improvements among
the thre^ commissioners' districts in
proportion to the assessed valuation.
Every District Gets Some
The second thing they agreed to
was that so far as it was possible for
them to do so, they would divide
road construction and improvement
among the respective road districts
in proportion to their assessed valua
tion.
Bonding for the Farmers
The third matter they agreed upon
|vas that the first road work was to
be expended where the traffic was
heaviest, and especially where the
hauling of produce would best be
served by It. The money is to be
expended primarily for the interest
and advantage of the farmer, mak
ing roads between his farm and the
loading stations and between the
farm and the trading centers, and tp
carry the heaviest, swiftest and most
congested travel and traffic of what
ever kind wherever it is found within
the county.
Pay in Ten Years
. The terms of the loan or bond is
sue are that the repayment of the
debt begins in ten years after date
of issue of the bonds, and one-tenth
shall be repaid each year thereafter
for ten years. The rate of interest
shall not be more than 6 per cent.
None on the Yellowstone Highway
None of the money derived from
the sale of bonds will be expended
on the Yellowstone highway. There
will be $75,000 of state money for
use in improving the state highway
and Bingham county has to put up
part of that in straight taxes whether
we want to or not. If this money
is not expended on the state high
way it cannot be used at all in this
county.
If we should defeat the bond issue
we could not take one cent of the
state money for any other roads than
the state highway, and if we approve
the bond issue, the money derived
from the sale of bonds will all be
used on other roads than the state
highway.
Doing This for the Country
People who have been planning to
vote against the bonds for fear it
would be used on the road between
Idaho Falls and Ft. Hall would waste
their votes, for it would not have
any effect on that matter in any
event. It is purely a question of
bonding to get money to build roads
among the farms or refusing to bond
for that purpose. It is a question of
making the people in the towns put
up money to build roads in the
country, and letting the people in
the towns pave their streets at their
own expense or travel in the mud
and dust. When streets are paved
in town, the cost of paving is charged
against the abutting property, but
when roads are paved or crowned in
the country, it is charged against
the whole public, including the town
people.
Railroad Wants to Pay
The railroad company pays 14 per
cent of the taxes in Bingham county
and it has no vote on the bond ques
tion, but the company wants to see
the bond election carry, and they
want to pay their share of the ex
pense. They do not haul their loads
on wagon roads at all, but their
patrons do, and when farmers can
not haul between their farms and the
loading stations, the railroad com
pany cannot load and unload cars,
and they lose money by having their
cars standing idle on the sidings
waiting for weather and roads.
County Clerk Says
County Clerk F. M. Fisher has
been making eareful computations of
the taxes on each thousand dollars
of valuatoin for the next ten and
twenty years, and has reached the
conclusion that the taxes will be just
the same whether we bond or not,
but the r,oads will be better if we
bond. The particular levy for bonds
will be 52 cents on each thousand
dollars of assessed valuation in 1919,
and will increase to 80 cents per
flOOO the tenth year. The eleventh
year it will jump to $1.80 per thou
sand and will then decline until the
debt is cancelled the twentieth year.
No Money Idle
The plan is to authorize the com
missioners to borrow $600,000, but
they propose to receive only $200,
000 a year for three years so it will
not be laying idle while they are
building. If they tried to use it all
the first year, they would be likely
to waste some, and they will take
time to do it carefully, and yet have
no large sums on interest and Idle.
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JORGENSEN IMPROVES STORE
George M. Jorgensen has installed
this week a new ice-window counter
in his grocery, which consists of a
display counter for the use of perish
able vegetables and meats with
ammonia pipes to keep the tempera
ture of the store from coming inside
the counter._
BAR ROADS, BROKEN ARM,
no doctor.
NO MENDING
On the fifteenth of March James
Buchanan and one of the Rich boys
inadvertently tried to move some hay
along the public highway down below
Pingree and got stuck in the mud.
That was all right, for they could
dig out again, which they did. Pro
ceeding on their way on the foolish
assumption that they could do the
same thing again at each place where
they mired down, they finally got
into a section of roadbed that was
like a good many of our voters used
to be—one-sided.
At this section of the road they
promptly upset and Mr. Buchanan
was thrown violently to earth, wtflch
in itself was all right for it was soft,
but there was an obstacle lying!
across the landscape and he had the
bad luck to play whip-crack with one
arm across it, and the bone was
fractured.
An attempt was made to get a
doctor, but by the time they got to
a telephone they were convinced that
no doctor could get down there from
Blackfoot or up there from Aber
deen and the doctors had all been
out along the mud bath far enough
to know that it was a vain hope.
They finally remembered that the
Oregon Short Line had a hand car
at Pingree. They remembered that
railroads are kind to the settlers
along their lines now, and that they
go about doing good when there is
sickness or an accident, as witness
many other occasions, but we digress.
Buchanan
was thumping. They transported
him to Pingree and put him on the
handcar and pumped it to the county
seat on the steel rails, arriving there
the day after the accident, all prom
ising to vote for the road bonds, and
to steal back and repeat if there
was any chance.
suffering and that arm
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ASSISTANT EDITOR HOME
Fremont Kutnewsky returned to
Blackfoot Sunday afternoon, after a
very pleasant visit in Boise with his
parents and sisters. He expected to
meet his brother Lieutenant Donald
Kutnewsky there and have a - little
visit with him before returning, but
the brother was still at Fort Logan,
awaiting demobilization orders so
they did not get to see each other.
Mr. Kutnewsky took up his work
as assistant editor at the Republican
office Monday morning.
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STATE CLUB LEADER HERE
Mrs. Richardson, the state club
leader for boys' and girls' clubs, was
in Blackfoot the last of the week
looking after club affairs.
Mrs. Richardson reports the club
work progressing very nicely and
that about 250 reports have already
been turned in from this community
and it is expected that 150 more will
be ready soon.
Mrs. Richardson went to Pocatello
Friday afternoon, but will return to
Blackfoot in a few days to give more
attention to this work.
WHOSE HORSES ARE THESE?
One white faced sorrel gelding.
9 years old, shod in front, branded
M on right shoulder: one gray, 9
years old, no brands visible.
Are at George A. Goodwin's at
Riverside, Blackfoot Route 2 and
unless called for by owner will be
sold at sheriff's sale on Friday the
eighteenth day of April, 1919.
GEORGE A. GOODWIN,
\ Constable.
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Dated March 17, 1919.
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BROTHERS HOME FROM FRANCE
Three Burkman boys, sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Burkman of Firth
are home with honorable discharges
from army duties, all of whom
served across the water. Joel left
Blackfoot on the eleventh of Feb.
1918 and after a short time train
ing in camps of the United States he
was sent to France and got into
active service almost at once. He
was one of the boys that helped so
much in the Argonne Forest battle.
He was wounded slightly nine dif
ferent times, the two most serious
being a machine gun shell wound
in the left shoulder and the loss of
his right fore finger. He arrived
in Blackfoot Thursday, March 13
and is glad to be at home with his
parents and many friends at Firth.
Walter left jpst a week prior to
his brother Joel and trained with the
145th field artillery, battery A, In
the states and in France. He ar
rived in Blackfoot January 28.
The third brother, Sergeant Al
bert departed from Blackfoot Avgust
20„ 1917 and was sent to France
soon after, where he served as ma
chine gun instructor for the 147th
battalion. He returned to his home
January 11,
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SOLDIERS IN AND OUT
T. 'J. Christensen of the 318th
engineers, returned Friday to his
home at Firth with an honorable dis
charge in his pocket. Christensen
spent nine months in France and was
wounded in the Argonne just as he
was entering the field.
L. W. Chandler, of the base hospi.
tal corps at Fort Riley, Kan., re
turned to duty Monday, after spend
ing last week with his family at
Springfield, the H. W. Chandler
family.
Corporal W. L. Robinson, who has
been with friends in Blackfoot since
completing his army service and will
take up work with the railroad water
service, went to Twin Falls Monday
to spend the week with his relatives
there.
Ruben M. Oakden of Irwin, Idaho,
with his aunt Mrs. R. M .Poole of
Idaho Falls, and her mother Mrs. M.
A. Tanner, are here for a few days'
visit with Joseph Tanner at Thomas.
Ruben recently received his honor
able discharge from the army and is
doing a bit of calling before settling
down to the new life.
Sergeant F .F .Call of Chester
field, who was with the 70th infantry,
Camp Funston, Kan., is visiting in
Blackfoot with J. H. Anderson. Call
managed to get to France by going
with an advanced school detachment,
but along with the other million or
so, arrived too late for the fighting.
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PROF.'ROBERT T. BLAIR
The musicians and all music lov
ers of Blackfoot are to receive a
special treat next Friday evening,
March 21, at which time the faculty
of the music department of Pocatello
Technical Institute will appear in
recital at the high school auditor
ium.
This trio, composed of Miss
Geneiveve Gilbert, soprano, Prof.
Robert T. Blair, tenor and violinist
and Prof. James Campbell, pianist,
favored the high school assembly
with a short program a few weeks
ago, and all visitors who were pres
ent at that time are anticipating the
reappearance of these artists with
Wheat Disease Spread
ing in Southern Idaho
Prompt Action of Farmers Neces
sary to Prevent Spread of
Loose Smut
A NEW DISEASE IN IDAHO
Loose smut, a serious wheat
disease, is rapidly gaining a foothold
in Southern Idaho. The seriousness
of this disease is shown by losses
caused in other states. In one county
alone, in Indiana in 1918, this
disease caused a loss of more than,
100,000 bushels of wheat. ^Loose
smut must not be confused with
b unt or stinking smut. The spores
of stinking smut are found on the
outside of the wheat grains, conse
quently treatment by formaldehyde
or copper sulfate kills these spores.
For stinking smut, the following
formaldehyde treatment is most gen
erally used:
1. Clean seed thoroly with fan
ning mill and half fill sacks with
cleaned grain, tying end securely.
* 2. Pour one pound (pint) of a 40
per cent solution of formaldehyde
into a barrel or receptacle contain
ing forty gallons of water,
thoroly.
3. Dip in formaldehyde solution
for 10 minutes, inverting sack at end
of first five minutes to make sure
that entire surface of each kernel is
wet.
Mix
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4. Drain sacks well, allowing ex
cess to run back into barrel.
5. Spread sacks out to dry. Grain
can be drilled following morning.
It may be drilled after draining well
providing the seed bed is in a moist
condition and allowance is made to
plant enough more of the partially
swelled grain to get a full seeding.
•6. Disinfect the drill with some
of the above formaldehyde solution
before the seed is placed in the box.
Loose smut of wheat will be first
recognized in the field by noting that
in place of the normal wheat grains,
there appear masses of black powder
(spores) on the ends of fine white
threads.
This black powder is blown to the
healthy plants and infects internally
the developing seed. No spores oc
cur on the outside of the wheat grain,
consequently the external formalde
hyde or copper sulfate treatment has
no effect. A treatment js necessary
that will penetrate to the Inside of
the grain, kill the disease and at the
same time not injure the germinating
power of the wheat seed. Such re
sults are secured by the use of the
modified Jensen hot water treat
ment as follows:
The grain is first soaked in cold
water for a period of four or five
hours; next, it ls treated in water
having a temperature of 129 degree
F for 10 minutes. If the tempera
ture of the water is much higher, or
if the grain is treated for a longer
period, the germination power of the
grain is injured. Lower tempera
tures do not kill the smut fungus.
After the grain ls treated it can be
drilled after draining well, providing
the seel bed is in a moist condition
and allowance is made to plant
enough more of the partially swelled
grain to get a full seeding.
This treatment requires such care
ful handling that It is best to get In
touch with your county agent, and
If possible, arrange for a central
treating station.
as much eagerness as the students.
Profs. Blair and Campbell have
been associated with the school at
Pocatello for a number of years and
the excellence of their work is well
kndwn in all musical circles of
Idaho.
Miss Gilbert has been with the
school only a few months, but by
her gracious manner, wonderful
voice and charming personality, has
endeared herself to all her audiences.
This group will appear under the
auspices of the senior class and will j
doubt furnish one of the finest
entertainments of the year.
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By Size Of Manure Pile
Ndw is the Proper Time tp Make
Cleaning of all Bams
and Sheds
MOST VALUABLE TO LAND
In such hot dry areas as are
found in Southern Idaho, the humus
or decaying organic matter, Is
burned out of the soil very rapidly.
The mineral plant food, altho abun
dant in these soils, is made available
only thru the action of bacteria lin
ing in decaying organic matter, such
as manure.
Without going into detail regard
ing the conservation of manure, the
composting of it ect., permit us to
suggest that right now the best thing
tQ do is to make a cleaning of all
sheds, barn lots and manure heaps.
Aside from the increased fertility
due to the manure, consider the fact
that there is nothing more disgust
ing, more conducive to the breeding
of flies, insects and disease—nothing
that makes every one wish to leave
the farm more than a fouk smelling
manure heap.
On the other hand, there is noth
ing that costs less and is worth more
than this same manure, providing it
is taken to the field between now and
the time spring work begins and is
evenly spread.
It has ever been true, that the
question of just how efficient a
farmer is, is answered by determin
ing whether the fertilizing by-pro
duct of his livestock remains around
his stables and bam lots to breed
trouble, or whether It goes to the
field to yield increased production.—
Idaho Technical Institute.
VISITED PARENTS
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C. M. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. F. Smith of the bakery, arrived
in Blackfoot from Provo the last of
the week and spent several days here
visiting his parents and friends.
He went on to Chicago, where he
will enter the Northwestern Medical
College and finish his course In
medicine.
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COMING HOME SOON
William H. Wells a Blackfoot sol
dier boy, who has been with the
twentieth infantry of the regular
army, and well known here, has been
discharged from army service and
will return to his home here In about
two weeks.
At the present time Mr. Wells is
employed In Salt Lake City.
Smnt Losses Being Reduced.
Twenty-five per cent more farm
ers in the U .S. treated seed to pre
vent cereal smuts in the 1918 spring
and fall seeding seasons than during
the previous year, according to an
estimate recently made by the U .8.
department of agriculture. The es
timated national loss due to smuts in
the 1918 crop was 25,600,000 bu A ,
shels of wheat; 110 , 000,000 bushels
of oats, and 6,000,000 bushels of j
barley. Minnesota and Nebraska to-1
gether lost during 1918 over 8,000,- |
000 bushels of wheat from stinking
smut alont, practically all of which
could have been prevented by a
simple treatment previous to Beed
in.—Idaho Technical Institute.
Again We Say
The enormous supplies of groceries that we purchased at one time
for our chain of stores, enables us to sell them to our customers
at prices that are an advantage to all housekeepers. Suffice it to
say that our prices are as low as can be and we are sure you will
be more than pleased with the quality and the results.
Save on your grocery bills and thus be better able to take care of
the road bonding question, which will be a material help to all.
Following are a few prices we are pleased to quote you on "every
day" groceries:
Swift's Premium hams per
pound .
Swift's Premium bacon per
pound ..
Swift's Picnic hams
pound ..
Cream cheese per pound
1 pound Schoolboy peanut
butter .
10 pound bucket dark Karo
syrup .
10 pound backet white Karo
syrup .
Log Cabin syrup, small size 25c
Log Cabin syrup, medium
size .
Libby's Chilli Con Came
.2 cans for 25c
4 ounce can oysters 15c or
.# 1.00
No. canned catsup pel
can .....
No. canned sauer kraut
.2 cans for 25c
Standard corn 15c per can or
7 cans for..
Blue Label corn per Can. *...20c
1 pound can tall pink salmon
par can ..
Royal, Dr. Price's or Shill
ing's baking powder per
....can ......
Creme Oil toilet soap 3 bars
for ...
Palmolive soap, per bar
Peet's special toilet soap per
bar.. j.....
Borax washing powder, per
package ...
Matches per box .. .
We have a full stock of Sunkist
oranges, prices range from
.25c to 60c per dozen
Sunkist lemons per dozen..35c
.40c
.55c
7 cans for .
per
30c
.25c
33c
.30c
$ 1.00
.90c
.# 1.00
...20c
.50c
10 bars Crystal White soap 59c
Mothers Wheat Hearts per
package
No. 5 box soda crackers .70c
No. 1 size pork and beans, 10c
No. 2 size pork and beans ....15e
No. 2ft size pork and beans 25c
1 pound can plum and apple
Jam.
% pound Hershey's cocoa ....23c
Campbell's assorted soup
.2 cans for 25c
;.......45c
.25c
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18c
10c
.5c
..5c
.5c
.2 cans for 25c
Skaggs
SHELLEY
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Miss Clara Bolder went to Salt
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j Lake City last Wednesday to spend
a few days with friends,
Miss Fern Mickelson was a Poca
tello visitor last Wednesday.
Mrs. J. L. Moore and Miss Goldie
White went to Blackfoot Thursday
j afternoon and returned on the even
ing train.
Bert Wilson of Idaho Falls was
in town last Wednesday being one
•of the auctioneers at the sale of
Clarence Mitchell held here in town.
\v. S. Wright was clerk at the sale.
M. P. Bates of Idaho Falls was in
town Wednesday on business.
Miss Hazel Sheppard left for Salt
Lake City last Wednesday, where
she expects to get a position with
the Utah-Idaho Sugar company.
Shelley Ponds
.Shelley has quite a number of
small ponds around on the streets
this spring, all that is needed now ls
for the Shelley gun club to turn loose
a bunch of wild ducks and have a
shooting match right on the busi
ness streets of the town. There was
a sign put up near one pond stating
"No shooting or fishing allowed."
It would be a good idea for the pro
gressive citizens and the city council
to get together and devise some good
system of. drainage for the business
streets of the town, especially. Of
course to install a good drainage
system would cost money, but what
is money for anyway. This town has
a bright future, let's prepare now for
that future.
The Shelley basket ball team went
to Rigby last Friday afternoon to
play the high school team there. The
out come of the game will be pub
lished later.
Lester Norris was an Idaho Falls
visitor one day last week on business.
William Seitert was in Idaho Falls
last week on business.
Public Auction Sale
at
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A. Grimaud Place
Three miles south-east of Pingree at 10.30
o'clock
FRIDAY, MARCH 21,1919
Free lunch at noon
SIXTY HEAD OF CATTLE
Mostly all Durhams; some extra good milk
cows
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TWENTY HEAD OF HORSES
Good work horses and some colts also
hogs
some
TERMS AS USUAL
Don't forget the day and date
A. GRIMAUD, Owner
N. E. Montgomery, Auct. J. B DeHart, Clerk
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E. E. Price of the Price grocery
here has sold his store in Idaho Falls
4 and will now use all of his time in
building up his business at Shelley,
which is now good. Mr. Price sees
a great future in our little city and
wishes to share in that future. Shel
ley welcomes any new honest busi
ness Enterprise.
Attend the revival meetings at the
M. E. church held by Rev. Ervin,
they are something different and in
teresting as well as educational.
Everybody welcome.
Why not consider the question of
paving Main street now? Its not a
very respectable looking street
especially this kind of weather.
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Don't forget that Bingham county
in ls goihg to have some 'good roads,
RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE
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Whereas it has pleased the Divine
Father to remove from among us our
esteemed neighbor, O. F .Smith, who
departed this life at Blackfoot, Idhao
on the third day of March, A ,D„
1919.
Whereas Neighbor Smith was a
man of noble character, true to his
neighbors and friends, and a faith
ful member of our beloved order
Blackfoot Camp No. 693, Woodman
of the World, therefore, be it
Resolved that we extend to his
family our most sincere sympathy
in this, the sad hour of their be
reavement.
Resolved, that as a mark of our re
spect to his memory, the charter of
our camp be draped in mourning for
thirty days, that these resolutions be
spread upon the minutes of our
camp and a copy be sent the family
of our deceased neighbor and the
Blackfoot newspapers for publica
tion.
Blackfoot Camp No. 693, Wood
man of the World.
J. H. BOND,
W. C. THOMPSON,
JAMES KETCHUM.
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