The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-05-22
COOD-ROADS
BOOSTERS
A HALF HOLIDAY MAY goth, 1918
MORNING
Every One Come Out and Join in
the Fun

IAANAAASA OA0 0So CA1t VIII U0 QKOVlUSu
Come out on the roads adjoinin
your own property and give a fe,
hours OF your time. 1t will materiall
assist In the general prosperity 9
yourself, your neighbor and you
county. Help stimulate a real inter
est in good roads, over which W.
must of necessity market this season
what bids fair to be, the most boun
teous harvest of crops this fair coun
ty has ever known.
Good-roads is the lode stone tina
attracts the homeseeker, that in
creascs land values, that means shor
and double hauls, the valuable "time
saver" to the farmer, the bushes,
and professional man, contentmen
Tor the old, and an incentive for ou]
sons and daughters to remain on thu
farm.
Bingham County, Idaho, is nov
known throughout the lnter-mountai1
states as the pioneer and home Of
good-roads," We have been the lead
ers in this splendid movement. which
was accomplished only, by reason O!
the general interest OF the farmer in
gOod-roads
sufficient to continue our good work
along these lines of general improve
mont and prosperity to the extent
of making our county the spot mos,
beautiful in southern Idaho.
Through our towns, villages, and
over our country roads we are all com
ing out on this one grand May morn.
ing and contribute our mite toward
identifying our homes.
No rocks, no ruts, no unsightly OBJ
structions are the passwords of ST
cess on this day-none will remain to
obstruct the road or mar the land
scape.
1t is possible, if each and everyone
do their part, that a boulevard will
extend past ones door by the follow
ing morning, Memorial Day.
Opportunity comes but seldom. Get
busy.
General Committee
The general committee will have
charge as follows:
]. T. Carruth, Blackfoot to Shelley
and roads leading east.
E. M Kennedy, Blackfoot to Fort
Hall and Forks of Blackfoot river.
A. D. Quantrell, Blackfoot to Pin
gree and Aberdeen.
Geo. F. Gagon, Blackfoot, Grove
land and Moreland
w. H. Stufflebeam, Blackfoot, Por-
vile to Firth.
Blackfoot-R. N. West, T. R. Jones,
Alex Younie, Volley Van Bramer. Gar
field Bond, E. T. Peck, Henry Sim
mons, R. E. Hansen, c. S. Beebe. G.
F. Hansbrough, L. P. Batway.
Blackfoot to Firth, EAST Side)-
VIM. M. Dye, L. j. Firth, Phillip
Thorstcnberg, Geo. Hall, Andrus &
Nelson, Kimball, c.. A. (Merkley, G.
Malm, Walter Bithell, Maroni Tucker,
J. A. Vaughn.
Blackfoot to Firth West Side)-
L. A. Felt, ]. G. Johnson, J. R. Ro-
bertson, J. G. Millick, Carl Nelson,
W. Taylor
Jacob Gushwa, Albert Gardner, U.
Shelley-Thomas J. Bennett, James
Jacobson. Thomas w. Shelley, John
w. Begun. Charles L. Hare, ]. L.
Moore. w. M. Christensen, VIM.
Twitchell, Chris Anderson.
Ross Fork and Between Rivers
F. E. DeKay, Ralph Dixie, Belo Ball,
r. A. Thompson, F. S. Stevens, John
Cotton, Charlie Clawson, w. E.
Hanson.
Groveland and Moreland-Adam
Yancey, S. G. Sessions, John Oborn,
Chas. Dahlman, Geo. Schumacher, J.
H. Augustin, John Bowker, G. E.
Conklin, Lewis S. Robbins, VIM. T.
England, VIM. S. Lindsay, G. w.
Hammond.
Blackfoot to Aberdeen-O. J. Cob
bley. P: c. Felsted, L. w. Van Akin,
J. M. Witheman, L. p. Adams, l..
D. Wilson. ]. w. Killian, John R.
Williams, D. J. Murdoch, H. C. C.
Rich. L. S. Caldwell. W. H. Scott,
Frank Bales, w. A. Edwards, Henry
Berg, Geo. Mclean, L. A. Nugent,
,Ihos. Hooper, R. A. Ward, E. w.
Harold, E. L. Davis, Mrs. Herb
Lowe, Fred Miller. C. P. Abercrom-
bic, F. E. Neff.
To the automobile owners Of Bling
ham County:
The Good Roads Committee, for
the Special Good Roads Day, May 29,
1913, kindly requests every automobile
owner of the County to turn out on
The above date from 7:3O a. m. till
noon, covering the territories as in
Heated below:
Blackfoot to Shelley, Main Road
J. T. Carruth, A. G. Heatley, F. C.
Christ, H. w. Mcdonald, L. P. Bat
way, c. v. Fisher. T. S. Dibble, Ben
Hansen, L. R. Thomas, N. j. Thors-
:enberg, Prescott Burrell, DR.. Simmons.
Blackfoot to Pingree via Groveland,
Riverside, Thomas and
Rich-A. D. Quantrell, DR.. Gee, Harry
Bennett. All Miller, Robert Boyd, N
F. Boyle, L. M. Caps, Kathryn Ryan,
J. H. Augustine, Geo. F. Gagon, L. r.
Aldrich, Chas. Bergman Jr., H. C. C.
Rich, Carl Anderson. Harry Bergman
Blackfoot to Fl. Hall including, Fork
If Rivers-E M. Kennedy, F. E. De-
Kay, Anna Kiefer, Chas w. Bergman
ST., j. c. Millick, T. H. Christy, DR..
Cooper, Montgomery Garage, c. F.
holden, F. c. Parkinson.
Blackfoot to Firth via Porterville-
". H. Stufflebeam, Harry Kinney, D.
i. Biethan, r. E. Hansen, F. w.
Bergman, DR.. Mitchell, John G. Brow
Dr.. F. H. Poole.
Would like each driver or owner to
AXE all of his garden rakes and sho-