The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-03-02
WILLIAMSBURG

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east end of Bannock county repor1
the snow two and half feet deep
and is what they call mild winter
They have dance once week
aance till half past IL, have big
supper and then dance till morning
After daylight they get breakfast anG
eat and go home and rest up fol
the next one.
They had a hard times dance last
week and J. w. Wood was awarded
the prize for the mail carictor,'
says our informant, and Bessie Stoor
for the best 'femail carictor." 1t was
said to be very hard times" make
up used by each of them, and ].
w. wiped his nose on his sleeve and
performed other acts of economic
simplicity said to be all right, and
indicated that even ones nose can
go some.
Williamsburg has organized a
brass band with Roy Stoor director.
lney say he doesn't do as many an
tics as Cirrcillo when directing an
overture, but it fills the bill very
we'll, and Williamsburg is satisfied.
He has in the band Leroy Olson,
Earl Woods, Frank Woods and Mat
Stoor, and a number Of urchins look
ing on.
Leroy Olson, besides being a men,
Der of the band, is the sole owner,
master and director of a band of
sheep. The band isn't large, but the
price of wool is quoted at AZ cents,
and Leroy is gaining money by not
having very many of them to feed
during the hay famine, and will be
losing millions as soon as grass
comes, because he will not have
enough sheep to eat all the grass
off of the surrounding mountains. He
is in line accordingly for congratula-
lions and condolences, and it is hop
ed that Leroy will survive.
J. w. Wood is getting out lumber
for a mansion to be built during the
summer The blueprints call for 25,-
900 feet of lumber, and he is &C
cordingly making prints in the snow
trying to accumulate that amount be-
fore the coming of the chinook and
the inevitable soft places in the quag
mires that the road traverses. Then,
too, the sap rises as spring ap-
proaches. making timber heavy to
handle, so Joe has double reasons
for hurrying up the canyon often
while the frost is on the timber and
the sled is on the top. Frank Woods
has plans and specifications for a
new barn to be erected when the
are ringing. He plans
it that way and specifies 10000 feet
of native logs, go the clearance
of ships for the barred zone or the
congestion of railroad traffic on all
seaboards brings him no anxiety ex-
cept as to the nails for the door
casing and he swears he can use
wooden pins for that if need be. His
neighbor has brace and bit and
he has draw-shave of his own.
Our correspondent says they have
a superexuberance of health or words
to that effect, and are relieved of
all worry regarding microbes, para
sites and malnutrition, whatever that
Is. He says that if there is any new
disease breaking out among the New
York physicians the people OF Will
iamsburg are not expecting to catch
It, and if the suffragetts and reform
ers are waiting on the president with
about votes for women
Or three meals for a quarter, Will
iamsburg isn't worried; it has
enough and to spare, and pine gum
'or all occasions to take the place
If pepsin and California fruit.
If Williamsburg and its resources
ire not sufficiently on the map it
should be, for Burton l.. French
worked for something like nine years
o get an appropriation thru congress
o pay one Mr.. Williams for team
lire carrying the mail to and fro
between the center of population and
soda Springs, 20 miles distant, in the
,ear 1904 or thereabouts. The mea-
ure is still pending in congress or
vas recently, tho the pressure upon
t has been somewhat relieved by
he energies on the border and the
var in Europe.
During the temporary interruption
Il the Williamsburg measure before
he national controllers of the pork
,arrel, ]. w Wood will act as sec
etary Of the commercial club and
publicity league. and all correspond
nee relative to unoccupied tracts
n the public domain that might be
should be addressed to
w Woods williamsburg Idaho