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Wqt 38tetfyn Stejmhlf am Official Paper of City and County Vol. XV. No. 36 BLACKFOOT, BINGHAM COUNTY, IDAHO. FRIDAY7TMARCH 21, 1919 $3 a Year NEW VIEWS OF HOME AFTER FRENCH LIFE Idaho and all Her Grow ing Cities Look Good to Returned Soldier FUTURE IS GLOWING * This is the story of a stone that rolled in the huge American tidal wave across the sea, and is now glad to be back in the moss of Idaho again. A good think looks better the farther away one blows or rolls, and the following remarkable facts worth shouting from all Idaho's housetops and towers, in the view of at least one returning soldier who has been priviiiged to see enough of Europe to now see more in Idaho. Firstly, Idaho is one of the United States, and tile United States is world leader—not because of Mr. Wilson's points and principles—but because our people have had the op portunity to develop as have no othe'' people in the world. Our fathers were an ambitious race; nature fur nished a generous fertility; and good luck gave us lots of room. In get ting products out of the soil our men learned the secrets of success; it was a character building task, mind grew with the body, which was sturdy to begin with. Boise is the capital city of Idaho. It is in the southwestern part of the state, and therefore not handy <o all parts, but wnen you go to it you find a worth-while place. It is a clean, up-and-doing little capital, and very properly the^-center of state business activities. It is a place for head offices, and has a fine oapi tol building for the governor to work in. It has a commercial club that is steadily boosting Idaho products in the world's markets, a club that is a team of Boise's merchants and business men who have buried the hatchets of competition and are reaping rewards for it. All Idaho is reaping, and will reap more. A Capital City These things are true of our capi tal; dt has doubled in population every ten years for several decades; it has a municipal employment bureau, muncipal band, and a strong commercial club; it has an abun dance of hot mineral water and of the large natatoriums in America; it's climate is ideal, temperature ranging from 49 to 100 the year round; there is very little wind and a bracing fresh atmostphere; very near it are the snowy mountains, and in the mountains one of the highest reclamation dams in the world, the Arrowrock dam; Boise is the distributing center for southern Idaho. & seem a The one Leadership in Dairying Southwestern Idaho is a natural dairy country, with its long days, plenty of fresh springs and mild weather, and so th© Boise Commer cial club boosts that industry. A stock show held in Boise February 10 demonstrated that Idaho is reach ing out for leadership in dairying, as noted in the Northwest Milk Dealer and Producer magazine for March, 1919. Idaho is busy fixing a high standard for pure butter, while Europe is getting along on oleomar garine. Wealth of Ores Idaho's mineral scarcely touched; They are chiefly gold, silver, lead, copper and zinc. Idaho has produced about $700,000, 000 worth of ores; $37,000,000 in 1915. mining industries, but they are show ing signs of new life already. A single gold lode sixty miles south of Boise produced $20,000,000 in gold and silver, taught us to juggle with big figures, so we hand them out.) This lode was at Silver City. The Boise basin is a famous placer country, having put out $300,000, 000 worth of gold itself. Central Idaho holds forth the tempting promise of untold wealth, only guessed at, and still rather inacces resources are The war quieted down our (The war has (Continued on Page Eight.) Orpheum Theatre FRIDAY-SATURDAY The screen's newest favorite BERT LYTEL MONDAY-TUESDAY LOUIS BENNISION in In "THE SPENDER »» "OH, JOHNNY" The romance of a smiling gun man. A star you'll like as well as Fairbanks. Pathe News. Tuesday Matinee FATTY ARBUCKLE in "GOOD-NIGHT NURSE" Saturday Matinee .... ( ; :• > ■ . ! 4 • ifi fe Mi S *V, ' •5.v: I } x-r * Ss|| ■V v ■ i i i f| I I i ••sggsare- sair ~v. if— 'TT i .•**< *** Mi : Hia u PS 5 - §§§1 : : ; The Eccles hotel was sufficiently interested in good roads, to put up $50 for the best letter on the ad imntages to the farlner, and the let ter that wins the money will be pub lished in our special edition which comes out next week. The Eccles'interests are throwing their influence always on the aide of progress and substantial develop ment. The hotel is one of the heavy tax payers of the county, and if any one had a valid reason for objecting to increasing the taxes to build roads down around Aberdeen and up about Shelley and Goshen, and out to Snake river bridge, the Eccles would prob ably be among them. The fact that they are willing to pay their share, and willing to hang up a substantial purse just to get people to study the problem, indicates that they think every earnest thinker ?n the subject must find reasons to justify voting for the bond issue. $50 would be lost. As the time of election approaches, the winner will have the $50 and the thinkers will be in favor of making the bond election unanimous. Otherwise the V PRIZE AWARDED FOR BEST LETTER ON HOW BETTER ROADS MAKE TAXPAYING EASIER Mrs. L. E. Spalding, Stenographer at Local Land Office, Makes Effort and Carries off Honors and Coin TWENTY-TWO LETTERS WERE SENT IN City Campaign Opens With Interest Evident Interesting Issues of the Campaign Will be Outlined in Our , Next Issue MASS MEETING WEDNESDAY EVE All persons interested in the gov ernment and development of the City of Blackfoot, whether residents within the city limits or not, are invited to assemble at the court house at 8 o'clock Wednesday even ing, March 26 to discuss matters of interest and to offer suggestions as to how we can best make the city a better place to live and to better serve in its sphere of usefulness. It will be proper at that time, tff adopt resolutions if the audience bo desires, and to declare their wishes. It will be proper to nominate per sons to be voted upon for city of ficials at the election to be held on the twenty-second of April, but only residents of th e city will be eligible to vote on such subjects at the meet ing. In the next issue of this paper, which goes to the public on Monady evening, we shall outline what we consider the most important matters needing attention, and the larger undertakings that are now knocking like opportunity at the gates of the city. The mass meeting will be pected to endorse or reject those matters to crystalize public opinion and get the issues squarely before ex A letter signed L. E. Spalding," short, sweet, clear and to the point, a plain statement of some stern facts that we all ought to have thought of, was on the top of the pile when the contest letters were graded by two readers in the Republican office Thursday morning, and a check for $50 was made to her. Twenty-two letters were sent in, and at 10 o'clock the reading and judging commenced. All of them were good, but some were better. Each of them scored good points. No attention was paid to the names of the writers and when they were sifted and placed in order to merit, with the best one on the top, they read down thru the pile L. E. Spald ing, M. Kinney, Ruth Ragan, F. A. Starkweather, Mrs. Charles Kirch ner, Mrs. M. E. Soth, C. A. Swope, F. H. Kubicek, Wayne M. Braley, E. Pearson, Mrs. Orson Manwaring, Mrs. H. V. Chandler, L. G. Wells, Marion Clinger, Mrs. O. R. Maas, A. J. Snyder, Mrs. H. E. Hollowell, J. H. Perdue, Mrs. S. England, W. F. Merritt, Miss Gladys England, R. F. Bailey. All of them were good. The best points of all of them will be combined in one article for pub lication in the special edition, fol lowing the one that drew the prize. The letters were read in an hour and a half, and Mrs. George Thompson, the bookkeeper in the Republican office, took the $50.00 check and de livered it to Mrs. Spalding at the land office at 11.45. She glanced at it and said, "Why what's this for, honey?" And then seeing the mark on the corner, "Prize letter." she exclaimed, "Oh, did I win it?" Then the land office force gath ered around and offered congratula tions to their stenographer and agreed that it would be agreeable to them to have somebody come over from the Republican office every day if they brought that much joy. •K E. A. JOHNSON UNIMPROVED E. A. Johnson, assocltaed with the Blackfoot Water Works company, is very low at his home on Stout avenue this Thursday morning. He has been in a critical condi tion, suffering from a stroke of pa ralysis _ for several weeks and his condition does not seem to be im proving. -I BLACKFOOT MAN AT FIRTH C. M. Allen, a former butcher man of Blackfoot, is doing a nice business in his meat market at Firth, just opened about a month ago. He deals in fresh and cured meats and finds trade very lively. The building will be completed -next week and then Mr. Allen will have more room to handle his trade. COMMISSIONERS MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTENTIONS IN MAHER OF BOND ELECTION Tell Tax Payers What They Propose to do With the Bond Money. Gravel Roads Distributed Over Whole County According to Valuation ABSOLUTELY NO FAVORISM ALLOWED The county commissioners held special meeting on Wednesday after noon to go over their correspondence and to consult further about road and bond matters, on Thursday to examine some native materials in the county that they could.not get to and inspect for and mud sooner. They informed that they are going to give us in formation of their plans as fast as they decide upon them, so the people may know. They expect to have quite a batch of information for pub lication in our next issue . Som, ol the matter, the commte sloners have definitely decided is that they will use the materials lying ™ Se8t -J?. th ,? roads t0 be Improved. ni" ? hape tbeir plans 80 the home people can have as much of as poB8ib,e ' They want to see the money expended so we shall have a dollar's worth of ™5 8 . ,or every hundred cents ex pended, and so that when the bond money is expended, the people of this county will have the .roads and most of the money. The money cir culating among our home people will be easily available for use in repying the debt. a They went out snow us Will Hire Home Folks No High-salaried Men They propose to expend the money in the three commissioners' districts in proportion to the assessed valua tion of the district, and in the road districts on the same basis as nearly as they can. They propose to have a practical man for road superin tendent in each commissioner's dis trict to look after road construction instead of having many road seers to do it. Spend No Money for Tourists They do not propose to expend any of this bond money on the Yel lowstone highway extending from Ft. Hall northward toward Idaho Falls. That is to be handled with state funds under direction of the state highway commission and none of our bond money is to be used by them. No Money Spent for the Towns They propose to make a good hard surfaced road from Snake river bridge west of Blackfoot, up to the city limits, and ask the city govern ment to connect it up with the pres ent pavement at the expense of the city. They propose to improve the state highway as already outlined but only partly built, from Snake river bridge down to the south line of the county below Aberdeen, and to build feeders to it and between the farms and loading stations and leading from the farms to the beet dumps and trading points. over Use Fine Gravel Liberally It is their intention to make the first improvements and roads where the most travel and hauling comes. They expect to use gravel in great quantities—not wash, gravel that will not stay in place, not the slick gravel that comes to the surface all the time, not river gravel that has to be put thru the expensive process of crushing, but native gravel that is fine and rough and' contains native cement or that w ll mix with dirt and clay and make a permanent wearing surface. They are investi gating gravel deposits, and ar© go ing to have prospect holes dug in the Goshen gravel bench to determine !E« "'."U! " ul ment. The government analnf lit shows 116 parts cement to the . 1000, and anything containing fiftv parts or more is aroeptable for haad roads If the whole heneh nt mS! kind! that wm make quUe a °di££ ence in how they will plan things They do not intend to Extend anv railroad nor install a steam shovel to justify it. There are other gravel deposits in the county which "hev are investigating Bosses Must Work Too _. The commissioners do not take kindly to the idea of having a high priced engineer to look after the road-building of the county and let him have assistant engineers, and then have foremen in actual charge of construction working by blue prints. They say they have seen so much of that on the Yellowstone highway, and have seen the main block of the money absorbed year after year by the high-priced fellows riding back and forth, and so little road made at such great expense, the county has been "stung" so certainly every time there was anything doing by them, they are sick and tired of it, and propose to build roads by process that will move earth and gravel into roadbeds. They say there are no engineering problems to be solved here on this flat country. That what we want is construction gangs with somebody in charge wearing overalls and working some. Men who can and will set culverts low enough and build them long enough and wide enough to conform to the general plan and never have to tear them out. They want to built cement culverts large and deep and strong, get the grades in correct form, the curves and turns right, and then ap ply the gravel for wearing surface. They hope to get things in shape so all the farmers of the county can turn out next fall and spend the winter hauling grarel to sp-isai on the roads in their own communities under direction of practical men in ce Continued on page four MERCHANTS ASKED TO ATTEND LECTURE Beneficial and Interest ing Lecture at High School March 25 MOTION PICTURES 4^. Merchants and salespeople of this city are manifesting great "interest in the retail merchandising lecture which is being brought here by the local merchants, and which will be shown free of charge Tuesdav night, .March 25, at 8 o'clock, in the high "school auditorium. The lecture, which will be given thru the courtesy of The National Cash Register com pany, Dayton, Ohio, contains the re sults of that concern's experiences in dealing with merchants in all parts of the world and is the most compre hensive lecture of its character the road today. G.- W .Sulley, expert lecturer, will tell by means of stereopticon slides and motion pictures the causes of failure in retail business, and ex plain some of the latest methods of storekeeping. One of the features of the lecture will be that part de voted to newspaper advertising. The writing of newspaper advertisements, their value to the retail merchant, and the necessity for advertising continually will be taken up and ex plained in detail. In a like manner the question of window display, de livery problems, perfection of a store organization, and other interesting topics will be discussed. In addition, the tli-ee reel Es sanay feature film, "Troubles of a Merchant, and How to Stop Them," will be given for the first time in this city. This film was prepared for The National Cash Register com pany at a cost of $30,000 and has been shown before on commercial bodies, conventions and other organ izations from coast to coast. It is declared to be the best exposition of the troubles of the average retail' merchant ever'givem In an interesting manner the film tells the story of Mr. White, a grocer, who has been brought to the verge of bankruptcy thru out-of-date business methods, his lack of success become apparent as the film unfolds the story. His clerks were indifferent, his goods ranged in a poor manner, his system thoroly disorganized. Other troubles also beset him, and as a consequence, the grocer was in despair. But one day a change came in his career, and by the installation of modern busi ness methods, he became prosperous. The manner in which he turned the tide in his favor will prove an in teresting and educational story to everyone. Much enthusiasm has been created * in other cities where the lecture has been gvien, and it is expected that a capacity audience will greet it in this city. All merchants and sales- people are invited to attend. * The reasons for ar - — Drive for Old Clothing Opens Next Monday More Old Clothes Needed Sufferers in European Countries for NOTHING FOB CENTRAL POWERS There is a drive coming the twenty-fourth of March for used clothing for the destitute of Europe. All suffering ones are to be benefited except the central powers. No Ger mans or their sympathizers are to get one single stitch of it. It is true that we gathered every thing last fall, that since thfen the flu made many needy, and we were called upon once more to clothe the Mexicans. However, If we go over our closets and wardwrobes another time there will probabaly be some thing each of us can spare and the need really is great. No opportunity has been given those people to earn money for their industries are de stroyed and they are only approach ing the season to raise a crop. So we must be doing our best to clothe them for another season anyway. Probably half the wearing qualities of garments are used before we con tribute them, then many of the fam ilies are living in such crude make shift quarters there is no opportunity to care for clothing, it does not jast so long. ' Mrs. J. O. Morgan has the matter in charge and requests you to be prompt that she may dispose of the matter. Home duties demand her attention. 7 % Seven per cent money on irri gated farms in Bingham, Butte and Custer counties. SEE PARKINSON REALTY & INVESTMENT CO. Blackfoot, Idaho