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ENTERTAINED AT KENSINGTON
AMERICAN IDEALS
CASH AND CREDIT
SUNK IN NEW ERA
By United States Senator Reed Smoot
of Utah.
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"America's task is not over; her
world-work still remains to be done.
A great national. In fact a great Inter
national duty, still confronts the Ameri
can people. The cash and the credit
of the American people must be used
to finish paying for this war and to
pay for financing the peace that Is here
in part and which is now in process of
completion and confirmation in Paris,
where under the leadership of our
great President our country is imbed
ding American ideals and American
principles into the very foundation of
a new and a better world.
"No American who loves his fcoun
try and who loves humanity and Jus
tioe and right can regard his sacrifices
at an end or his duty done. We must
pay for those things we bought or con
tracted for to make our army powerful
and to give our soldier boys the best
care possible. We must bring these
boys home and restore them to useful
occupations in civil life. We must re
habilitate the wounded, and train them
and fit them for useful occupations—
not for making of nicknacks, but for
men's work, which men can do in
spite of loss of limbs or other perma
nent injury. We must stand by our
associates in the war against Germany
and do our complete duty by them and
by the stricken peoples of those coun
tries who suffered under German
hands.
Must Finish Work.
"To do our national duty every man,
woman and child In America must
make every reasonable sacrifice. The
great work we have done and are doing
Is worthy of every sacrifice. Our sol
diers have not died merely that we
mlgLt be safe from German domina
tion; they died for much more than
that. They died for American prin
ciples, world justice and world liberty,
and that a better world should result
from their sacrifice. We Americ|n
people must finish their work.
"Money is a great essential for the
proper performance >of America's duty
and this money must be furnished by
the American people. They simply
lend it to their government which gives
them in exchange securities of unim
peachable value bearing a fair rate of
Interest Through the Liberty Loan
A*d through'the War Savings Stamps
rthe United States offers every citizen,
however small his or her means and
however small his or her earning ca
pacity, the opportunity to have a part
in N the nation's great task. It Is a
mighty poor American, In my opinion,
who lets this opportunity pass, who
leaves to others the sacrifice, and the
glory of America's mission."
TO THE WOUNDED
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This is our homage when you pass
us by:
Not the crude pitying stare you
, dread, but this—
Averted eyes, and conquered tears,
and pangs
Of helpless love . . . You do not
know how brave
We also are, not stretching out our
hands,
gladdened with pity, to the stranger
faces
That whitely pass us, needing us so
much I
Oh, boy with deep bright eyes and
crippled foot,
Oh, soldier with the face made old
with war,
We promise you, by every wound
you bear,
A nation's homage and a nation's
help,
And all its grateful hearts, your
eager friends!
Sulamlth Ish-KIshor, In the "New
York Times."
Mrs. L. M .Capps very delightfully
entertained the ladies of the Royal
Neighbor kensington at her home
Friday afternoon.
In spite of the inclement weather
and the afternoon blizzard a goodly
number of ladies were present and
the afternoon passed pleasantly. The
hostess served very nice refresh
ments.
HEPWORTHS RE.
CEIVE SAD LETTER
The family of J. E. Hepworth of
Blackfoot have received notice from
the graves registration service of the
United States army, of the location
of the grave of their son Corporal
L. Hepworth who died in service on
September 29, 1918.
The letter states that the body was
buried in the Commune of Gesnes,
Meuse. France and that in due time
a photograph of the immediate land
scape will reach the faAnily.
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DANCE HALL OPENED
The opening dance at the former
| Buitcane hall Friday night given
1 by the Bush orchestra, who will op
erate that pleasure resort in the fu
ture was a social success in every
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e ' er attending a dance here this
was^very'fine 1 ^ 686111 ^ ^ mUSi °
Mrs . M . £ S oth suggested the
uame ' Aloa" for the new dance hall
and that was accepted as being the
most appropriate,
One of the largest crowds
SHELLEY'S NEW POST OFFICE
Shelley is moving its post office
from Main street to Broadway. The
new building was erected by Moore,
Johnson and Bennett. The Boyle
hardware store is in one part and
Uncle Sam in the other.
The public will probably be glad
of this change, for the old building
was one that was small and dingy.
The workers in the post office will
feel like they are getting out of jail
into a palace.
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SOPHOMORES ENTERTAIN
Sixteen members of the sophomore
class at the high school, under the
able supervision of Miss Graham,
entertained at tlje chapel period Fri
day with a very humorous negro
minstrel, consisting of negro melo
dies, Jokes and a brief farse.
The preformers consisted of Wal
lace Stultz, Clifford Royce, Cowell
Davis, Wayne Thoreson, Verle Benz
ley, Leo McCarty, ..lton Reay, George
Ridd, Josephine Caster, Margaret
Johnson, Helen Stultz, Merle Ridd,
Freda Bond, Alberta Goodwin,
Martha Van Orden and Mary Dunn.
Each part was well taken and
everyone enjoyed the hour of recrea
tion.
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London's Sea Gull Visitors.
Londqn'9 winter visitors, the sea
gulls, have arrived particularly early
this year. Never slnCe the hard win
ter of 1895 first Impelled them high
up the river, and into hitherto un
known regions of parks and private
gardens, have the birds omitted to
make their yearly call to the Serpen
tine and Kensington gardens' round,
pond. On the river, of course, the
gulls, single or in flights, have been
regular habitues for many years, per
haps centuries. Feeding the gulls
from the bridges is a favorite occu
pation for many a Londoner, or rath
er it used to be, for now the feeding
of birds is forbidden, on the ground
of waste, by the defense of the realm
regulations. The gulls will have to
shift for themselves this winter, and
Londoners' reputation for hospitality
will suffer accordingly in the bird
world?—Christian Science Monitor.
Beaten To It
"Germany, confessing her wicked
ness and protesting her repentance,
reminds me of a rascally fortune hunt
er," said the director of military aero
nautics, General Kenly.
"This fortune hunter was describing
his pursuit of a Pittsburg heiress.
"'In proposing,' said his listener,
•you ought to have told her, George,
that you were unworthy of her. That
bait seldom falls.'
"The fortune hunter gave a gloomy
laugh.
" Tea, I was going to tell her that,'
he said, 'but she told it to me first' "
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This splendid service with the super-style and value of
Stetson and
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ROWLES-MACK CO
Good Clothes
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VILLAGE OF FIRTH
IS NOW ORGANIZED
Permanent Commercial
Club Will Work
for Firth
FIRTH ON THE MAP
Firth has come into its own. The
town is here but no one knew it.
Henceforth, it will be on the map in
plain view.
On Thursday, February 27 a ma
jority of the live business men in
and around Firth met and tempo-!
rarily organized and appointed a
committee to draft by-laws. There
was much good spirit and interest
manifested.
On Wednesday, March 5 another
meeting was held and by-laws ap
proved. A permanent organization
known as the Firth Commercial club
was affected with the following
gentlemen chosen as officers for the
ensuing year:
President, H. J. Slayton; vice
president William M. Dye, secretary
F. H. TCubicek; treasurer, J. ,T.
Foster; finance committee G. J.
Wernette, J. C. Wiedman and A. L.
Fisher.
A banquet has been decided upon
nd promises to be of real merit and
substantial benefit to those who at
tend.
The club was organized for the
purpose of extending the industrial,
business and social interests of Firth
and its surrounding territory.
That there is no lack of boosting
spirit has already been evidenced,
it has merely been latent. We be
lieve it will increase as the value of
harmony and co-operation are more
clearly recognized. How can any
community progress without a band
ing for a common cause by its pro
gressive citizens?
Firth has as great an opportunity
for healthful advancement and
growth as any town along the line
or elsewhere. Why not avail our
selves of it? What good is a town
if it has no greater ambition than to
sit back and let well enough alone;
to be satisfied with itself, to be a
back number, to be less than it now
Is, twenty years hence?
To develop a town is to develop
the community surrounding it, for
if a town can supply the needs of
those in and around it and thus suc
cessfully compete with Its neighbors
It will get more business. Conse
quently, every business in that town
will grow and be benefited.
Now that we have started let us
keep moving In a steady gait, and
all go together. Its not your town,
its you, your town's O .K.
Yours for
greater and happier
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FTrth.
cleaner,
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FRESHMEN INITIATION
it is a custom at the high school
each season to Initiate the freshman
class, and the Initiation exercises of
this season took place at the high
school Friday evening.
The "freshies" as a whole were
fine sports and took the pranks all
in good spirit. It all furnished much
amusement to the other three classes
who forgot for the time being .that
they had once been made to shfflB'
likewise, In their freshirtan year. '
DOING SOMETHING
FOR SOLDIER BOYS
North Dakota Doing
. Definite Things
for Soldiers
GREAT CONTRAST
\ to the soldiers and of the debt that
; their country owes them, it has re
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: " alned wlth North Dakota t0 take
j definite action along substantial
j lines,
While lawmakers of congress and
of forty-seven states in the Union
j have been talking of their gratitude
Other states have taken some form
of action. Idaho, for instance, has
passed a resolution asking the war
department for some captured Ger
man cannon, to be recast into medals
for the soldiers. Colorado legislators
have persented a bill to give soldiers
pick and shovel jobs on the state
roads at $1.00 a day, provided they
would sign for a definite period of
enlistment.
In striking contrast~with this sort
of action North Dakota ha sprovided
for a payment of $25 a month for
of action North Dakota has provided
and navy of the United States or of
the allies, for each month spent in
such service during the great war.
This payment 'is to be used either
as a first payment on a city or farm
home for the soldier or for his edu
cation, so that he may be able to fill
a better job. Adjutant General
Angus Fraser is charged with the
administration of the act.
What this act will mean to the re
turned soldiers of North Dakota,
taken in connection with the home
builders act, can be illustrated by the
case of any Individual soldier.
Take Ben Mooney for instance.
Mooney is a North Dakota home
steader. When the call to duty
came for him two years ago he dis
posed of his property in Grant
county. After a short time in camp
he went overseas. He was-In the
battle of Cantigny, one of tin fiercest
of the war and there he lost his left
arm. He was invalided home and
given an honorable discharge. In the
course of time he will get a me
chanical arm from the government.
He also will get some government
compensation for his injury, but not
enough to let him live the rest of
his life at ease. Besides, Mooney
is not the kind of a man who would
want to pose as a professional hero.
He wants to work and make a good
living for himself.—Non-partisan
(N. D.) Leader.
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SOLDIERS TO RECORD PAPERS
At a meeting of the executive
board of the Bingham county Red
Cross chapter Wednesday evening,
resolutions were passed, recommend
ing that all discharged soldiers have
their discharge certificates recorded
at the office of the county recorder.
The Red Cross will pay the ex-,
penses of such recording for soldiers
who are sent to Mrs. Nell Boyle,
chairman of the home service de
partment for discharge certificates.
SELECTING TYPES
OF GOOD HIGHWAYS
The selection of a proper type of
highway is an engineering problem'
and not a political game. Therefore,
it is a matter to be handled strfctly
by men lon^ trained for that pur
pose, and not by those whose main
experience in life has been along
other lines, wherein friendships and
personal regards, rather than ruth
less adherence to scientific principles
oftimes are governing factors
Surveys must be made; not only
for lines and grades and materials
deposits, but for traffic—the number
and kinds of vehicles using the ex
isting highways, their loads and
speeds, length of haul, sub-soil con
ditions and what not. Complete and
accurate data must be obtained.
Then, when all conditions pertaining
to the improvement are known—and
only then—should a type of highway
be adopted to fit those conditions,
which is known
satisfactorily fit like conditions else
where. There must be no guess
work favoritism or prejudice gov
erning the selection process, but
rather cold-blooded, accurate and
uncompromising engineering prin
ciples.
The common error in county bond
issues is to fix the sum to be voted
upon and then to demand an ex
horbitant mileage. Such a policy
cannot evidently be followed with
out much loss to the tax-payers.
Quality and not quantity is essential
for true economy.
It is also manifestly poor policy
to construct an expensive, or rela
tively long-lived road surface upon
a short-lived foundation, or at least
on one of doubtful stability; for of
what avail are the otherwise good
properties of any but a lasting and
solid foundation? So, no matter
what type of highway may be deter
mined upon by the commissioners
of Bingham county, or by any others
who have to do with such matters,
the kind of base or foundation of
which the highway is in reality an
integral part, will be given, the
closest scrutiny by those persons who
must pay the bills.
Let us profit by the experience of
others and permit certainty and per
manency to be our guide in solving
the highway problems before us.
Work of Selecting Is An
Engineering Problem
Not Political
SURVEYS NEEDED
to have
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ROYAL NEIGHBOR MEETING
The Royal Neighbors had a very
good attendance at their last regular
meeting Wednesday. One new mem
ber was admitted into the mysteries
of their camp.
After the business meeting cards
were enjoyed and a committee
served ice cream and cake.
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NEW LODGE MEMBERS
At the ( last meeting of Progress
Rebekah lodge, Mrs. Turner, Mrs.
Keckman and J. Hunter were ad
mitted to membership. After the
business session of the lodge the
members enjoyed a taffy pull.
CHANGES AT
BLACKFOOT ASYLUM
When Dr. Hoover took charge of
the asylum last week, Supervisor
Melson, Attendants Nathon Webb
and Samuel Collins and Cook Perkins
packed their belongings and de
parted.
Lewis Killion, the farmer, and J.
T. Burns the gardner had resigned
some time ago and arranged to
operate their own lands this year
and they remained long enough to
get their successors acquainted with
the work. L. J. Porter is the new
farmer and Frank Rossitter the new
gardner. Our intimation in the last
issue, that seeds and hotbeds had
not been arranged for spring growth
was not correct. The seeds were
ordered and on hand and March 15
I was the date fixed for making hot
j beds and starting the planting ,so
that work is progressing on time,
The fall plowing is done and ready
for early sowing,
MB. AND MRS. HENDRIE HOME
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Mr. and Mrs. C .F. Hendrie re
turned to Blackfoot Saturday even
ing from Salt Lake City, where Mr.
Hendrie reoeived treatment at the
Holy Cross hospital for several
weeks.
Mr. Hendrie is much improved and
stood the trip home very well. He
contemplates leaving in a week or
ten days with a sister Mrs. Farrar
for Berkley, Cal., where he will visit
and rest until his usual good strength
is completely regained.
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
Notice Is hereby given that a special
election will be held in Bingham
County, Idaho, in the several voting
precincts therein, on April l'i, 1919
at which election there will ha sub
mitted to the qualified electors of said
county, for their ratification or rejec
tion, the proposition of the issuance by
said county of its general negofiab o
coupon bonds in the sum of $600,000 for
the purpose of the construction of
roads and bridges in said county, which
said bonds shall be of the denomina
tion of $1000 each; shall bear Interest
at a rate of not. to exceed 6 per centum
per annum, payable on the first days
of January and July in each year, shall
be payable, both principal and interest,
at the office of the county treasurer,
or at such bank In the City of New
York, and shall bear such date as may
be designated by the board of county
commissioners, and shall be redeemed
in the following manner:
Ten per centum of the total amount
Issued to be paid ten (10) years from
the date of issue, and a like amount
annually thereafter until all of said
bonds are paid; all pursuant to a reso
lution deciding to bond the county as
aforesaid, adopted by the board of
county commissioners on Mwch 10 1919
In each voting precinct the ballot
box shall be open on said day of elec
J 1 " 0 ? 11 , °, clock in the forenoon
time th 0 e C po C ns ,n wili e c^ e e n,nS ' at Wh,ch
the
Bonds—Yeri, ' Bonds—No," and shall
instruction?*^ M th * top the
"If the voter desires to vote for the
Issue of bonds, he shall strike out
' the word (No.) If he desires to vote
the word (Yel!)" h ® 8ha " strlke out
The place of holding such election
be rf h ol?oVs h : e
Name or precinct
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Place of holding
TT,^ elec . tl0 " therein
High school building
Bla,ckfoot°No? 3^' C0Unt Yrv?n
PLM N °- 4 at
Groveland ii~~7 !-To, ho^e
Jameston at . " Sr'inoi
K" d t at .Moreland school hoult
RoseVI:"". PreSto gS«»>
Riverside at a-wlSS 1 J?? URe
pi r b at ..ocnool house
Shell pv at . Plngree school ho.ise
Sterling at . SQ??} house
Taber lit _..L"ZZT.^hool house
TraBton at . . School district No**?!
St . Roy w °"'« «nch
w&M at;;;;sie " or Vc c h3 P™
By s,?n r er e s r ° f
Aberdeen at
Basalt at ....
M- FISHER,
County Auditor.
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