The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-05-12
THE CUB SAYS

The state highway between the
sugar factory and Whitten's ranch
south of Wapello has been graded
lately and is likely to be In bad con-
dition for weeks Persons wishing to
avoid 1t can do so on leaving Black
foot for the north by taking the lane
leading east above the stock yards
and coming into the main road at
Wapello, or by taking the river road
at the sugar factory crossing the
Porterville bridge and returning to
the state highway just above Firth.
The road on the west side of the
river is hard and smooth.
The road ON the west side from
the Firth bridge up the river has
heavy sand in places and people with
cars will have some trouble. There
is a belt between west Firth and
Woodville where the farms are roll
ing and the roads not very good. In
Woodville community nearly every
farmer has a good barn or wind
mill or both. Most of them are
using great care in getting the soil
in prime condition to form a good
seed bed.
Charlie Anderson has been having
his basement remodeled and a water
system installed in his house. He
has removed many Of the larger trees
and worked them up into stovewood
during the winter He has also re-
modelled his lawn and garden in some
respects. Mr.. Anderson raises the
Duroc Jersey hogs and has rood hog
houses and modern conveniences for
feeding and watering them. He and
his father-in-law, Andrew Burkman,
engage in raising the same kind of
hogs and have their buildings and
water systems arranged very much
alike. Mr.. Burkman has built for
his road district a road drag in two
sections with slanting arms to do
the leveling, so that the loose dirt
automatically goes into the holes and
toward the middle of the road, thus
keeping it in form to drain at all
times. The drag has been tested on
the roads in the district with very
gratifying results. 1t has decided
advantage over the split log, in be-
ing longer, so it does not sink into
the short low places, but drops loose
earth into them. The cutting sur
face of the arms are faced with
metal.
Wapello is burg of several
houses and wants more. E. e. Scott
has just established a blacksmith
snop there this spring and says there
is need for about five new houses.
Ben Muir. the merchant of Wapello,
has been i'll for the past month with
a stitch in his back The burg has
become a more important place this
spring by reason of it being the juno
ton of the state highway where all
we'll informed drivers switch to or
from the main line.
Firth is one of the big little ship
ping points in the county They do
business in car lots there and the
wholesaler or consumer can get close
to the producers by getting in touch
with O. L. Andrus for potatoes; Milo
Andrus for porKers; and various
other persons and firms for other
produce. Milo Andrus shipped seven
car loads of swine last week and the
casual observer would NOT think
there had been seven cars of hogs
in the whole country, but that same
trick can be turned many times with
out thinning out the local hog popu-
lation too much. Firth has some
times shipped cabbage in car lots;
onions in large shipments; hay and
grain almost in trainloads; and so
little stir do they make about 1t that
one has to stand around and count
the cars and observe the fox trot of
the chief actors to see just what they
are up to. One object they have Is
to load the cars quickly and the
other is to escape the demurrage, for
Firth figures efficiency to marked
degree. "Out of the field and into
Pocaloo" in one day is a slogan with
them, "Pocaloo" being pet name
for The Gate City of Idaho, from
whence thru trains can be had to
tide-water ON the west, with big
ships loading for the orient, or to
chicago and all factory points east.
Firth may look like simple little
town, but it isn't SO simple as 1t
might be. There is another slogan
hat works as we'll as the one we
quoted. From factory to Firth in
! week." isn't to be despised and
with a fire-proof store, no rent to
pay. no city expenses or city taxes
70 meet, the man of general mer-
chandise with his system of early
Using and keeping open while after
supper, keeps his customers happy
and laughs at both the city dealer
and the mail order house, for he has
he advantages Of both and but few
If their troubles. Now that the pub
ic are coming to understand the adj
1antages of keeping their money at
nome, the former crouch of the cross
roads storekeeper has widened into
/ smile. He locates his store at
SWITCH starts to do all his'own work,
gets busy, takes his son or son-in-law
INTO partnership with him, both work
Early and late. take beauty maps dur
ng the middle of the day and grow /
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