The Idaho Republican. [volume], March 21, 1919, Image 1

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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The reasons for
ar
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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