Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-04-20
News Notes From Over the Tract
Coppdale.

see by the last weeks News that the
writer of the Jonathan Valley news is on
the job with his hammer. Ii couldn't
write enough news for paper without
finding fault with the other fellows work
would do what they did with his bro
ther for writing poetry(O You can't
sell horse by advertising his blemishes.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw
stones.
Everybody turned ont to the picnic
last Sunday, and all report fine time
The day was made to order for the affair
We sincerely hope that the ones that
started such outings will continue with
oftener.
Guy |. Towle, manager OF the Towle
Land Co., has convinced Mr.. j. Harry
Letsche, OF Pittsburg Pa, that it does
not pay for spectators to let their land
lie idle, as the payments, interest, and
maintenance fee should be offset 10y i'm
provements, making the land here
profitable investment, even for specula-
tors, instead OF setback, which is
surely he case where no improvements
are made. Unimproved land is Il set
back for the owner rs well as for the
country at large. Mr. Letsche owns 100
acres Of very fine land in Jonathan Val
ley, and has appointed Mr.. Towle as
manager, to improve the same, work
having already been started. Mr. Letsche
and family were on the tract two years
ago and he was at that time deeply i'm
pressed with the possibilities, his idea
being alfalfa and orchard.
About ten took part in electing a school
trustee for the Coppdale school district
No. SO, last Saturday evening and Mr.
Al. w. Lickley was elected for term OF
three years. Mr.. Al. Dewhirst also ran
for the same Office but Mr.. Lickley car
ried the office by a 6 to ) vote. The
proposition to levy tax on the district
this year was killed by an eight to two
vote.
We haven't heard any thing from the
east end of the valley for some time.
Come on boys, give an account of your
selves.
The main road from Jerome to Sho-
shone Falls, via Coppdale, is one mile
east of j. B. VanWagner's ranch past
the Coppdale school house Ii J. c.
the second would have looked this up
when he was up in Shoshoue, on the
jury(?) he would mt have used his ham
mer so freely. If one would rather take
the road that the "knocker" mentioned
that passes his ranch, you had better
carry rock crusher, to remove the
rocks from your path, a grubber to down
the sagebrush, and a compass to tell
where you are.
letter received from some OF the set
tiers OF Jonathan Valley reads as fol-
lows: "If the citizens of Jerome. in
passing through Jonathan Valley, en-
countered such shabby treatment as we
OF the Valley are compelled to encounter,
in passing over a certain stretch of road
located in the southeast corner of town,
we feel sure there would be fewer pleas
ure trips to Shoshone Falls. The culverts
south OF the Jaycox residence are notice
able for their absence, and when one APP
pears it is so high that the road leads
around it, people evidently preferring to
go through the ditch. Already accidents
are reaching the ear OF the writer. And
the speed of walk struck one OF the
bumps hard enough to dislocate the seat,
throwing the occupants to the bottom OF
the wagon box, and one Ga young LADY,
received 2 severe wrench in the back
which kept her in bed for short time.
Such things do not happen in Jonathan
Valley, and we of the Valley Use this
road almost exclusively. When it comes
to hauling lumber and other heavy loads
it's a common saying that after we get
out OF town it will be easy hauling. -
Where is the street commissioner?
WILLIE LIVE.