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The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15

estimate 455,OOO,OOO bushels; produc-
ton last year final estimate) 655,-
045000 bushels.
Spring Wheat-State August l
forecast 6,41O,O0O bushels; production
last year final estimate) 7,420,000
bushels. United States August l
forecast 1879 100000 bushels; produc-
ton last year final estimate) 956, AGO.,
600 bushels.
Oats-State: August 1 forecast, A.,
100000 bushels; production last year
final estimate) 15,745,000 bushels.
United States: August l forecast, l.
270,O0O,O00 bushels; production last
year (final estimate) 1,540, 1862, 900
bushels.
Barley-State: August 1 forecast,
100000 bushels production last year
final estimate) 7,736O00 bushels.
United States: August l forecast,
195,000,000 bushels; production last
year (final estimate) 237 ,099,00 bush
els. -
Potatoes-State: August l forecast,
100000 bushels; production last year
final estimate) 100000 bushels.
United States; August l forecast 1884,
100000 bushels; production last year
final estimate) S591O9,OOO bushels.
Hay-State: August 1 forecast, l.
10000 tons; production last year
(final estimate) 1.S2S,000 tons. United
States: August forecast, S4,600,00C
tons; production last year (final esti-
mate) S5,225,O0O tons.
Pasture-State: August l condition
90 compared with the ten-year aver
age of "a. United States: August
condition, S6.9 compared with the ten.
year average of SIG.
Apples-State: August l forecast
900 barrels; production last yeal
final estimate) $4,000 barrels. Unit
ed States: August 1 forecast, 71,6O0,
600 barrels; production last year Gin
al estimate) 76,670,000 barrels.
Prices-The first price given below
is the average on August 1 this year
and the second the average on Angus
l last year. State: Wheat 81 and s.
cents per bushel. Corn 81 and 70
Oats Al and AZ. Potatoes 100 and 100
Hay $3.50 and $3.50 per ton. Eggs 2.
and 23 cents per dozen. United States
Wheat LOT and 1865 cents per bushel
Corn 79.4 and 1873 cents. Oats 40.1 ant
asa cents. Potatoes 95.4 and S.;
cents. Hay 5000 and SHOP per ton
Cotton 1876 and 81 cents per pound
Eggs POT and 40 cents per dozen.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15
To the Citizens Of the City of Twin
Falls.

To the Citizens Of the City of Twin
Falls:
Because of the reckless statements
made by uniformed and misinformed
persons concerning the city water sup
ply, and the natural uneasinesS there
by caused in the mind Of the public
for which there Is no real foundation
and believing that such statements,
unless the true situation is disclosed,
will work a further unmerited injury
to the city of Twin Falls, the city
council at the regular meeting of Mon
nv. August 7th, 1916, instructed the
mayor to prepare and have published
a statement of the facts, and in &C
cordance with such instruction, l sub
nit the following statement:
Foreign Substances In the Water.
For a number of years there has
been cause for complaint concerning
the finding of fish and other sub
stances in the water supply, particu-
larly during the summer months.
When the city assumed the manage
ment Of the system, April l, 1916
every effort was made to discover the
cause and to remedy it. The water
supply came entirely through the res
\ervoir, and it was impossible to drain
+ Che reservoir without cutting off the
water from the city for an unknown
period. Before any steps could be
taken to cure the trouble, a means OF
keeping up the supply of water had to
be provided and on Monday the goth
day of June, 1916, six weeks after the
city obtained control, and the probable
trouble located, the council instructed
the waterworks inspector to procure
the necessary pipe to carry the sup
ply around the reservoir, to install the
same, drain the reservoir, clean II
thoroughly and to make such provision
as would prevent recurrence of the
reason for the complaints. The pro-
curing Of the pipe, digging the trench
es, laying the pipe, draining the res
eryoir and cleaning consumed time
but heavy force of men was employ
ed and every means taken to expedite
the work.
Screen Found Damaged.
When the reservoir was drained II
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15

sons having care of children shall in
struct them, or cause them to be in
structed, in reading writing, spelling,
English grammar, geography and
arithmetic. In such districts, every
parent, guardian, or other person hav-
ing charge of any child between the
ages of eight (S) and eighteen QS)
years, shall send such child to a pub
lie, private or parochial school for the
entire school year during which the
public schools are in session in such
district; provided, however that this
chapter shall not apply to children
over fourteen (14) years of age, where
such child shall have completed the
eighth (Sth) grade, or may be eligible
to enter any high school in such dis
tricts, or where its help is necessary
for its own use or its parents support,
or where for good cause shown it
would be for the best interest Of such
child to be relieved from the prOvl-
sions of this chapter; provided, fur
Their, that if a reputable physician
within the district shall certify in
writing that the child's bodily or men
tai condition does not permit its at
tendance at school, such child shall be
exempt during such period of disabil-
ity from the requirements of this
chapter. 1t shall be the duty of the
superintendent of the school district.
if there be such superintendent, and If
not then the county superintendent OF
schools, to hear and determine all ap-
plications of children desiring. for any
of the causes mentioned here, to be
exempted from the provisions of this
chapter, and if upon such application
such superintendent hearing the same
shall be of the opinion that such child
for any reason is entitled to be ex-
empted as aforesaid then such super
intedent shall issue a written permit
to such child, stating therein his rea-
son for such exemption. An appeal
may be taken from the decision Of
such superintendent so passing upon
such application to the probate court
of the county in which such district
lies, upon such child making such APP
plication and filing the same with the
clerk or judge of said court, within ten
days after its refusal by such superin-
tendent, for which no fee to exceed
the sum of one dollar Isl 00) shall be
charged, and the decision of the pro-
bate court shall be final An applica-
ton for release from the provisions Of
this chapter shall not be renewed Of
tener than once in three months
BERTHA NOEL.
County superintendent.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15
CROP ESTIMATES SHOW
A GREAT IMPROVEMENT
Hay and Potato Crops VIII Be Unus-
ually Large-Prices Are Showing
Upward Tendency.

The improvement in the estimates
of the hay crop over the estimates of
a month ago in the summary of the
government crop report is striking,
since, instead of being considerably
smaller in this state than last year, as
the first estimate indicated, it will
evidently be much larger. The potato
crop is now expected to be nearly a
million bushels above the crop of 1915
Prices too are generally better. The
summary of agriculture, is as follows;
Winter Wheat-State: Preliminary
estimate $4,000 bushels; production
last year final estimate), 11.310,000
bushels. United States: Preliminary
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15

was found that the screen over the
outtake was punctured and otherwise
in a state of bad repair. This condi-
ton was remedied by installing a
double screen system set in concrete,
which will effectually prevent the en-
trance of foreign matter into our
mains, and is soundly constructed for
permanent service. Photographs show
ing the old screen and the hole
through which fish gained entrance
to the mains and the new structure,
showing the double construction, were
taken, and are submitted as a part of
this report.
We have no records of when, if ever,
the reservoir was last cleaned, but its
condition indicated a very pressing
need for such treatment. The moss
and silt were carefully gathered into
piles and removed, and the reservoir
placed in thoroughly satisfactory con-
dition. Photographs of the reservoir
showing the floor after cleaning, were
taken and are submitted as part of
this report. The reservoir is now in
such condition, both as to cleanliness
and safeguards against the entrance
OF foreign substances into the mains,
as will make it free from bona fide
objection.
The COLONIZATION Plant.
To insure the city against an cpl
demic of water-borne diseases, the
council purchased and installed a
thoroughly up-to-date and efficient
chlorination plant, from which every
drop of water entering the city mains
is treated with chlorine gas Before
the purchase was made the chlorine
method was carefully investigated
and it was found that it was generally
accepted by waterworks experts, and
adopted in the most progressive cities
as safe, efficient and effective meth
cd of water treatment. 1t was also
found that it was practically impossi-
BILE to get sufficient chlorine gas into
the water, no matter how excessive The
amount, to cause the slightest unfavor-
able results, or even permit of its de-
lection by the most delicate of chemi.
cal tests thirty minutes after release
in the water. We are using an amount
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15


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The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15

"In all school districts of this state,
all parents, guardians and other per-
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15

of chlorine gas per million gallons of
water sufficient to insure the destruc-
ton of any germs that may be therein,
and some cities are continuously US
ing twice the amount we use, and
more, per million gallons of water
without the slightest unfavorable re-
suits.
After the chlorine treatment the wa
ter has to come through the mains
about two and one-half miles before
use, and long before that distance is
covered every possibility of danger
from the gas is eliminated.
Chlorine Changes In Form.
The reason for this is that the ac-
ton of chlorine gas upon the water is
to form new chemical combinations
with the salts it carries. 1t does not
remain free in the water; if it did, 1t
would be valueless. The process is
not one of poisoning" the germs, but
of their destruction by the nascent
oxygen released by the chemical re-
action. The salt which the chlorine
forms in the water are common salt,
such as is used on your table every
day, and others entirely harmless in
lutli udluIC, anu 81 oludll III dllOull
as to defy discovery The chlorine
process is simply an insurance against
the presence in our water of any dis
ease germs; as such it is invaluable
to the water user. The gas is fed to
the mains through highly specialized
apparatus, which does not require the
services of an expert" and which, if
set to maximum daily demand and al
lowed to run there, would only result
in a waste of chlorine, without rem
dering the water harmful in the least
degree. Any statements concerning
the danger" of the chlorination pro-
cess as used by the city are founded
on ignorance, or willful and reckless
disregard of the facts.
Flushing the System.
Frequent flushings have been given
the system, without which the condi-
lions might have been more noticeable
than they were. With the hole in the
outtake screens, the flushings, while
drawing out the water from the mains,
simply served to draw in more foreign
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15
LEGAL PUBLICATION
COMPULSORY EDUCATION ACT.

From the School Laws of Idaho, En-
acted by the Eleventh Session OF the
Idaho Legislature, 191l-Secti0n 100,
Article XVII. of This Act
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15
NOTICE.

Dr. F. c. Beebe will return from his
vacation on September 1st-Adv.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-15

Subscribed for THE TIMES NOW
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

of the Weather counties of California
For this Georgia lands are much
cheaper than California lands.
There is certainly no need of ex-
planning the ease with which the fig
is produced. How many of us know the
abundance of the crop from a single
tree? And how many of us know how
universally the fig preserves and the
dried fig are used? For many, many
seasons the. fig has been considered
an important commercial necessity
and the crop of California alone. is
worth more than is the Georgia peach
crop.
Cordele has a man who is steadily
developing by far the largest honey
;rade in the state. He is already Geor-
gia's greatest producer. If we had
'hree or four farmers who studied fig
producing and made nothing but fig
preserves, there would be another pro-
luct of world wide demand and as sta
pie as honey or sugar. Our honey pro-
lucer grew into it gradually and the
'armer who is willing to try it purely
or profit, will find the common, lowly
ig one of the best paying food pro-
ducts on earth. 1t is as old as the
world and is still in great demand as
Il, healthful food product, for these are
times of new high records in the cost
If living.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13
A REAL BOOSTING MACHINE.

Plans are pretty well under way for
he organization of drum and bugle
made to get an organization of local
talent that will be tied to the commu-
nifty and of necessity part of the COM
muniy itself so that when the boosting
is done it will come from the depths
Of the boosters heart. That kind of
organization is being sought which
will be most appreciated by the rusty,
lazy old business men who have here
tofore only been able to see a dollar
no further away than the front door
Of ones own business establishment.
There are many other ways of en-
livening trade interests, but local
drum and bugle corps which the city
can easily afford and maintain is one
Of the greatest business assets the
community can have Such an organ
ization can do more to wake up a dead
town than any dozen other things. AS
long as there is such an organization
to march @and blow and beat the big
drums boosting will be of high order
and it will spread to every business
establishment in the community.
Those who are after this new boost
ing machine are going to get it with
but small cost and the work is not
going to be too long or tiresome for
he members of the corps. 1t is going
to be made up and managed by local
talent. with big fat man in the lead
as master. There is going to be great
coolies of fun and kind of big noise
that the sleepy old town dads will
like.
Saturday afternoon street parades
and evening concerts will make up
the home training and when we go to
show ourselves in other towns Cordele.
all this hustling, wide awake little
city,-will get millions and millions of
dollars worth of advertising that no.
body else on earth but the people OF
Cordele could ever deserve.
Those who are capable of serving
are already lining up for TIL ranks of
the organization and are eager for the
fun to start. The drum and bugle
corps will thrive where band could
rot exist and the former is a later
newer type of organization that never
fails to create enthusiasm at home and
great interest abroad
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13
PROFIT In A NEW FIELD.

OF course, everybody could not make
a living out of it if all the farms went
to this one crop, but here is new one
which is said already to have proven
marvellous success for its owners.
This is an S0-acre fig orchard. 1t is in
Alabama, near Robertsdale. 1t is what
has been termed the dream Of num-
Der of Chicago Investors. Two or
three weeks ago, $500 pounds of figs
had been preserved from this orchard
and this was said to have been but
the beginning. The good work of
gathering will go on till frost falls.
In southeast Alabama people are
said to be very much interested in the
success of this enterprise and some
of them are venturing slowly into en-
larging fig producing on I heir own
farms. 1t is not at all unlikely that
this will become a large agricultural
industry much like the fig producing
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

The race for Congress between
Judge Eugene Cox and Congressman
Park down around Triton, Moultrie,
Albany and other towns in the dis
trict is becoming the hottest one in
Georgia. And Judge Park is away in
Washington. The dipping vat question
has already been lost in the shuttle
when the Congressman comes home
we'll there is a likelihood that some
body will forget it is cotton picking
time.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

many business men and concerns who
will have to suffer. The business men
who would save himself should be
careful.
Flour is too high. 1t cannot remain
at the present figure. Sugar is away
above normal. Shoes are far beyond
their average prices. And SO will the
buyer find it in many cases. 1t is
line to exercise greatest care in all
lines.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

The Albany Herald opposes the bill
of Doris and Fakes which provides
a fee for the ordinaries out of whisky
shipments, on the ground that taxing
liquor shipments makes the state a
party to the traffic. Taxing shipments
is not half as bad as working the or
dinaries to death for nothing. Let the
drinking man pay the price. Maybe
when it comes high, he will quit. The
bill is a much needed measure and is
we'll on the way to become a law.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

Each whale carries about half ton
of whalebone about with him.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13
A. E. GRANT
Plumbing and Electrical Work.
Our armer
Friends

Have been kind enough to remember
us with fine patronage in former
seasons and we feel like we can say
that this is their expression of arprov-
al of our business methods. We are
better than ever prepared to do a large
warehouse business this fall. We
have cur new place in the Greer block
ready. 1t is large place with a new
concrete floor and we are making it an
ideal warehouse site.
We will be ready to take care of the
business of :. wide section and want
the cotton growers to remember u.s.
We appreciate fair dealing and courte-
Gus treatment too much not to know
what it means to the farmer. Our latch
string is always on the outside. Come
to see us. .~.-
u r. WhnnIor q ninkenn
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13
Senator Roscoe Pickett claims

Senator Roscoe Pickett claims to
have spent $4,000 in a political tour
which took him out four times on trips
in which he visited 120 counties in
Georgia He made this statement in
the legislature this week while dis
cussing the value of a state official
who draws a salary of $4,000 and has
to get his office by election. His col
leagues wanted to know how he spent
so much, but he would not answer
their questions.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

Georgia is nearly ready to put solic-
itors on salaries. The proposition has
had a rough time for number of
years, but it is now strongly support
ed and will likely become law. The
tax payers have been made to pay
dearly in many county where the
fees of solicitors have been drawn
lavishlf from the treasures.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13
DANGEROUS RELIGIOUS PREJU'
DiCES

OINEo
The Augusta Chronicle of late has
had much to say about modern reli-
gious prejudices that is important for
The reason that a great fight is being
waged on atholicism,-much of it
very unreasonable and unfair and of
"a type that the real citizen will not
sanction.
Last week the Guardians of Liber-
ty, an anti-catholic organization in Ma
con rendered barbecue to it's men,
bers and friends and at that celebra-
ton. one prominent educator and two
prominent protestant ministers spoke,
all, according to newspaper reports,
laying on the poor old catholic great
heaps of abuse.
Within a years time two anti-cath-
Ollie speakers have delivered them
selves of a great deal of unjust abuse
Of this sect in Cordele and every word
of it was aimed to stir the prejudices
of an unknowing. public. People who
know better will not listen moment
to such speakers, and people who care
to find out for themselves will agree
with those who say it is a great injus'
tice.
One of the leading protestant min
isters of Augusta, possibly one of the
most~eloquent ard forceful pulpit era.
ors in the south, last week told his
congregation of the folly of this per
sccution and referred to the anti-cath-
Ole legislation which is now pending
in the legislature as a dangerous
thing. He rightly claimed that per-
sccution for political reasons that
could destroy the catholics might in
turn destroy protestant church influ-
ences through legislation.
OF this the Augusta Chonicle says
ooh. that something might be
done to blot out this curse of Geor-
gia; this bitter, spiteful hatred of
our fellow men and women be-
cause they happen to worship
their God according to some other
creed and forms than our own.
What possible good can come OF
it? What satisfaction can there
be in it to any man or woman!
Surely. it will offer them nothing
when they must come face to face
with the end of all things and go
20 meet their God.
What will it avail any of us, on
that solemn day. to be able to say,
L hated him and prosecuted him
because he didn't belong to my
church and refused to worship as
| did? How much better it would
be to be able to say, 4 loved my
fellow man, and | respected him
for the allegiance that he render
ed TO the God of us all?' What
. matters it the route we take to
heaven-if we can but get there
in the end ."
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

Italy took Gorilla alive and twenty
thousand prisoners besides in a great
drive tn other day. This is the prize
of all prizes for this little enemy OF
the Teutons. The Italian armf is now
headed for the rich Triest country
which is apparently being abandoned
by the Austrian armies.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

With all the woods. afire and the can
didates still, burning the wind, the lar
ger cities of the state still have time
to scramble for the. land loan banks.
Some of them must have decidd that
this new something for nothing is
a good thing. If it's worth having, we
hope Macon gets one.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

Trouble is one of the most accom-
modating things in the world. 1t new
er lodges the fellow who is looking
f3r it,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

Wilson's horoscope outshines that of
Hughes, says news item. The pres
ident ought not to worry any more
about reelection.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-13

The price of gasoline has dropped
one cent per gallon in many of the
selling points. The city of Cordele
is large enough to deserve the cut
here and we have it.