The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-02-18


pleted seven brick blocks on Main
street and two are under way Rey-
nolds Brothers have completed COX
12O automobile garage, having every
convenience. The Filler Hardware
company have built two-story store
building, and will complete the front
half of it in the spring. J. W. Tanner,
editor of the Filler Journal, has en-
pleted a brick block containing the
post office, of which w. p. Shinr is
postmaster; an excellent room used
for a bakery, lunch room and conaec-
tionery; and a modern theatre, Which
is the pride of Filler This theatre is
40 IT. long, has a large stage, dressing
rooms, is heated by hot air, well ven
tilated, and the indirect lighting sys-
TEN is used The Snyder Hardware
and c. A. Love Mercantile company
both have new homes on Main street.
The foundation has all been laid for a
12O-foot garage to be erected by e.
B. Ripley Work is progressing rap
idly on the f. c. Graves building,
which will contain two well equipped
offices.
Corner lots have been purchased by
BEEN & Hammerquist within the lire
limit for the erection in the spring OF
a large auto display room, and service
station n jackson has made arrange
ments for the installation of plate
glass front in the Blakely property on
Yakima avenue, where he will open
bakery Immediately. Residences are
being erected constantly but the de-
mand is invariably greater than the
supply. New homes are to be erected
at once by John Blass and S. d. Tay-
lor J. w Tanner is converting three
former store buildings into two mod
ern bungalows. AS a proof of the de-
mand for lots, there are remaining in
the possession of the Filler Townsite
company only ten unsold residence
lots. However, there are several acre
plots still on the market in the john
son, Munyon, and Mattson Additions
to Filler.
Three churches were built in Filler
during 1915, which together with the
fine edifices of the Methodists and
Mennonites, gives Filler five resident
churches, with two parochial schools,
besides the large public school. There
| is a growing demand for another
school building, and the question is
now being agitated regarding the
erecting of a high schol building the
coming season.
Eleven instructors are employed in
the public schools at present. The
high school has an enrolment of over
hundred, and the courses are parti-
cularly broad in their scope, including
the usaul subjects supplemented with
agriculture, and an advanced domestic
l., 20
Quirement The noon hour lunches
prevail here, and substantial lunch is
served at 10 cents. The student body
are alive in athletic lines, issue 9
monthly paper, and an annual, The
File"
Filler boasts over four miles of wide
cement sidewalks, a 24-hour electric
light and heat service, with So stree
arcs; $4,000 municipality owned
water system, with an unceasing wa
ter supply from a deep well SIS fee
deep, located 90 feet above the leve
of the city. Excellent water pressure
is thereby gained for fire protection
A well-equipped fire company. will
hose carts and fire fighting parapher
MALTA keep fire danger and Insurance.
rates at a minimum. The fire build
ing limit also keeps the standard o
building up. and eliminates possible
, disaster.
The Farmers Mutual Telephon
! company, as its name indicates, is
, cooperative concern having over 8
! miles of system, reaching into Good
ing county on the north covering L
miles of Snake river canyon valley
connecting with Glover six miles t
the southwest, and goes ten miles Z
the southeast.
One of the features of the $500
Mays ranch lying on Snake river di
! rectly north of Filler, is a large pri
? vate fish hatchery, calculated to sup
/ ply trout for the Salt Lake markets
The cool, pure water of Magyar
2 Springs are diverted into concrete wa
: terways built in six levels for tn
: different aged fish. The fish ar
) hatcked from the embryo in two spe
2 cial buildings. $4,000 trout were rails
ed here last season
Then there is the Gem State Chees
factory. built in 1915. that buys mil
; from the dairymen, giving in return
: Cummings, cheese, and checks,
2 Filler has five lodges, two women
! clubs, and the commercial club, know
as the Farmers and Merchants Com
! mercial association. with J. w. Tan
/ ner, president, and Elmer e. Hsal
: secretary Practically every bushes
= and profession is represented i
E Filler. Important assets are a flou
/ mill, wagon box factory. planning mil
and alfalfa meal mill Most every stat
r and nation are represented in File