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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
UPPER PRESTO


Pearl Monson spent the past week
in Idaho Falls. She is taking a
course in dressmaking.
Miss Bula Dowell from Blackfoot
is visiting at the Tolmie home.
Mr.. Whitworth, Mr.. Davis and
families went to the hills one day
last week.
Bessie Winterbottom of Basalt is
working at the home of Mrs. E. w.
Hansen.
Mrs. K. Yoshida is still quite ill.
Mrs. R. H. Teeples was in Shelley
Saturday.
Richard and Dave Dye and Peter
Hansen returned from the hills Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Higley, MI.
and Mrs. A. E. Sibbett, Mr.. and Mrs.
Orson Landon, Mrs. R. P. Hansen
and families were Sunday guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Han
sen.
H. G. Berlin and B. D. Hansen
took a load of sheep camp supplies
up to the hills for R. P. Hansen and
B. D. Hansen.
Mrs. E. w. Hansen, Alvin and Mrs.
Sibbett motored to Blackfoot Mon
day.
Chissie Hansen and Rubon Teeples
went to the hills Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Hansen, Mr..
and Mrs. Alvin Sibbett, Peter Han
sen, Samuel and Ida Sibbett and Bes-
sic Winterbottom motored to Shelley
Monday night, attended a show and
then took a long ride over the foot
hills and back.
Upper Presto school is out and the
teachers, Miss Hannah Tolmie and
Miss Helen Morrell, entertained the
on the lawn at the Tolmie
home. They played games, had lunch
and report a very enjoyable time.
The teachers yer very patient this
year, had an orderly school and the
children were sorry when it ended.
Mrs. Ed Johnston and Mrs. Frank
attended the school party.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
MAKES
A RECORD PULL

One of Hy Aliens transfer drays
loaded to the guards with rubbish
had fallen through the surface
ground into an old cess-pool off the
alley just behind his office the 9TH
er day, and the efforts Of four strong
horses could not lift it up again. All
of Hy's horses and all of Hy's men
having despaired of rescuing the
wagon, they let l.. e. Van Patten
hook on his L%iberty-Six touring car,
with a short chain. The engine
hummed a moment, the wheels grip
ped the alley pavement, the sunken
wagon gave a mighty heave and.
quickly climbed out to solid ground.
1t was an unexpected stunt for a
high-class touring car to do, but
proved to be a valuable demonstra-
ton of its pulling power.
A local branch sales office to han
die the Liberty-Six touring car will
be established in Blackfoot, and
NJ. Van Patten, who is manager Of
the Salt Lake Auto & Garage COM
pany, distributors of the Liberty-Six,
to be in Blackfoot looking
for some responsible agents to take
of sales here.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
PINGREE


Reuben G. Miller, president of the
Pingree Land & Townsite company,
was here from Salt Lake last week.
The drawing on the Pingree town
site will take place at Pingree on
June 5. 1t is anticipated that a
large crowd will be in attendance.
Mrs. Adrian Grimaud and children
have returned to the ranch for the
summer.
P. c. Felstead was compelled to
go to Lava Hot Springs because of a
severe attack of inflammatory rheu-
matism.
E. N. Day made a trip to Mackay
recently.
Wade Quissenberry has bought a
new Ford.
A prominent gentleman of this
community has purchased a new Ford
and it is said that the siren sounds
like wedding BELLS"
H. A. Lowe, the watermaster of
the Aberdeen-Springfield canal, was
a guest at the hotel Monday.
William Graham has leased the
Graham ranch.
Water was turned into the canal
Monday.
w. o. Bales and F. P. Bales have
purchased a new Ford.
A, w. Stewart has gone east for
the summer to visit with relatives.
Professor G.. w. Robins returned
home from California Monday. He
was accompanied by his father and
mother, who will visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Robins during the summer.
Adrian Grimaud has purchased a
new Buick Six touring car |
Miss Alice Fay has returned home
for the summe vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Knodle and Mr..
and Mrs. Smith motored to Blackfoot
recently in Mr.. Knodle's new Chew
car.
Mrs. Charles Wickstrum and chill
1ren were visiting old friends at Pin
gree and also attended the Sunday
school picnic. They will live near
Rockford.
c. A. Swope has bought forty
acres west of town and is clearing
md blowing it preparatory for grain.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
RIVERSIDE INFRINGEMENT

The eighth grade commencement
exercises of the Riverside school
We're held in the hall May 10, with
Principal Melvin Ison presiding. The
valedictory was given by Edwin
Homer and the salutatory by Rubon
Parks. The program was exception
ally fine and was enjoyed by a large
crowd. The graduates are Edward
Cannon, May Parks, Florence Chris
Jensen, Ruben Parks, Theresa Kir-
win, Ethel Taylor, Alton Cobbley,
Gladys Bitton and frankie Halver-
son,
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two plows with 1t or two spring-tooth
harrows. He also used it to pull a
ROLLER and leveler at the same time
and in ten hours he rolled and level
ed forty acres of land. They operate
1t day and night sometimes and &C
complish a great deal in a short time.
One man does the work Of eight
horses and two drivers. Mr. Cope
has done a lot of grading on his land.
He has $50 sheep and It's lambs and
175 cattle. He lost twenty-five sheep
when they were feeding on timothy
hay.
E. N. Day lives near the Virden
beet dump and sold $4,000 worth of
potatoes last year from fifteen acres.
He sold one carload at Mackay re-
Gently at 5 cents a pound, and was
not ashamed to take the money. He
has about twenty acres of potatoes,
forty or fifty of grain and some pas
ture. He recently bought 100 acres
of J. H. Early for $50 an acre and
considered it a good buy. 1t had a
water right and was fenced.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
THE CUB SAYS
FARMS GOING WESTWARD-PRI.
VATE EXPERIMENTAL FARM
MANY SIGNS OF PROGRESS
TRACTOR DOING DAY AND
MAKES GOOD-LARGE ACRE
AGE UNDER CULTIVATION.

M. M. Farmer has been putting in
ven acres of potatoes on the Mont
gomery acreage lear the Parkinson's
addition to Blackfoot.
Guy and Cecil Sage each has a
Case tractor outfit for blowing at the
Sage farms west of Shelley. Guy had
1870 acres of winter wheat killed by
the hard winter and he sowed it
again in the spring.
Frank Hall lives on a farm fourteen
and a half miles west of Blackfoot on
the Rockford Limited highway. This
road is a continuation of Bridge street
from Blackfoot, and is limited to the
westward extension this spring. The
western terminus of the road is at the
dry farm of Charles Courtney, and it
ends at his stable door which faces
the rising sun. From Rockford west
ward the road leads among the dry
farms, and they have been limited in
production by the newness of the
land, the lack of. systematic summer
following and the dryness of the eli
mate. With each succeeding year the
limits of the road r changed by
being extended farther west. But to
return to Mr.. Hall and his farm, he
has a well 1O4 feet deep with plenty
of good water. He has eight acres of
oats and is preparing to sow some
winter wheat.
W. w. Stephens lives on the Rock
ford Limited and has 100 acres of
Marquis wheat.
William Thorpe has fifty acres of
pretty good winter wheat, and some
potatoes.
w. S. Rumble lost forty acres of
winter wheat and sowed the land
again in the spring.
A. G. Rumble has leased his place
to his father and is working for the
sugar company.
w. B. Rumble is clearing forty
acres of sage with the sage puller.
He uses four horses on it, and having
no hay he works one team in the
forenoon and another in the after
noon.
John Northdurff lost twenty-five
acres of winter wheat and sowed
again in the spring. He has seventy
acres of grain altogether. The folks
in the community want a new school
at a point neal Walter Johnson's
farm to accommodate about twenty
children who live within a couple of
miles of that center. The people liv-
ing farther west want a new school
west of the Taber-Springfield road or
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

near it, and they have enough chill
dren for a school. For the present
they are in Thomas district and there
is a dearth of money to build new
school houses and operate.
Mr.. Hatcliff lives near the cross
ing of the Rockford Limited and the
l'aDer-Springfield road, midway be-
tween the two latter towns. He plant
ed a number of trees and three of
them were set in holes where he had
dug clear thru the hardpan and then
filled in with top soil. These three
lived and the others seem to be prac-
tically all dead. He has twenty-six
acres of winter wheat. twenty-five of
spring wheat and twenty-five acres OF
rye.
John Belcher lives at a point TWEEN
ty miles west of Blackfoot on the
Rockford Limited, and has twenty
acres in wheat, oats and barley. He
is conducting an experimental farm
for that community and has n acre
of potatoes, two kinds of beans and
seven kinds of corn. His son James
has a bird house that he built and
put up soon after settling on the
claim, and he hardly mad gotten 1t
nailed up till a couple of bluebirds
claimed it. Mr.. Belcher reports that
they had about three and a half feet
of snow last winter, and it seemed
sufficient. Mr.. Belcher reports the
loss of one Of his three work horses
this spring. People in his commun-
ity want the proposed new school at
a point near Thomas Collins corner,
nine miles north of Springfield and
a mile and a half west. They report
twenty-six pupils now ready for the
school. The families named are Bel
cher, Sage, Coatney, Anderson, Null,
Jones, Davis, Wallace, three Webb
families, two Mitchell families, Hat
cliff, Hartong, Shinn, Lamb and Col
Inns.
w. S. Sage, formerly of Shelley, is
located on his dry farm near the wes-
tern terminus of the Rockford Limit
ed. He has a we'll 161 feet deep.
Clifford Null lives west of the Sage
place and e. G. Anderson lives at
the twenty-one-mile point. He has
been on his claim two years and has
thirty-five acres in fall wheat.
SudllCo COul CLCy O"uR LuC COl LII
nails of the Rockford Limited, yards,
trackage, docks and water front.
The water front consists of a well
173 feet deep, operated by mar pow
err. He has twenty acres of grain and
his place is the last chance for a
Miss Alberta M. Coleman has 800
acres of land a little south of the
Limited, and has twenty acres of win
.er wheat that is looking good. Miss
Coleman came here from Omaha and
las spent one winter on the claim.
l.. E Jones was one of the bache-
or claimants living north of the Linn
ted, and he merged his interests
With a good-looking lady claimant to
he S outward. Congratulations
lave hardly ceased over the merger,
md Mr.. and Mrs. Jones are happy.
Bradford Davis has recently
in a caravan consisting of
,wo wagons, a buggy, a drill and
barbed wire and posts. He is !
his claim and some crops.
M. c, Webb is n of the Webb ,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
CENTERVILLE

Mrs. Joe Tressl was quite ill last
week, but is improving now
Mrs. Henry Farnsworth, who has
been quite sick is improving.
Mrs. R. S. Kelly will leave this
week for P~ocatello for a short visit
with her daughter, who is sick.
Cyrus Farnsworth and wife were
both on the sick list last week.
Mrs. H. SEVERN was a Blackfoot
visitor one day this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E. Haynes and
and c. B. Haynes were guests
at the William Gray home at McDon-
aldville last Sunday.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
ASYLUM ATTENDANTS DANCE.

DR.. and Mrs. Pike entertained the
attendants of the asylum at an in
formal dance Tuesday evening; there
were besides quite a number of the
young people of the town present.
The hall was attractively decorated
with flags and other things suggest
i've of patriotism. During the even
ing punch was served from a table
on which were artistically arranged
many sprays Of spring blossoms.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
HORSES LOsT-$25 REWARD

One 1eebitten gray gelding, weighs
about 1900, branded in (combined)
on left hip; n buckskin gelding
weighs about 700, blaze face, black
main and tail, n hind foot white,
branded with something similar to
q pitch fork on left hip.
Disappeared from my place south
east Of Springfield, April Is. L. M.
Lovern, Springfield, Idaho. ad. Att
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
ST'RAYED

There has been at my place, two
miles east and one-half mile south
of Wapello, since the first of Feb
ruary, one two-year-old bay mare
with OK on left thigh. Owner may
same by paying for feed and
advertising.
J. G. HEATON,
adv. 37tf Blackfoot, Idaho, r. 8.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

Idaho has eighteen counties and
does anybody know of five sections of
school land in each of these counties
that will sell at public auction for
$40 per acre, yea for IS per acre?
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

George Holbrook and Robert and
Ralph Osborn, who have been sick
with feveg since their return from
Soda Springs and the Portneuf, are
still quite sick but are not considered
dangerously so.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
COUNTY
THIRTY YEARS AGO
September 7, 1889.

President Taylor and Secretary
Wheeler are working like Trojans to
make the fair of 1889 the browning
exhibition of the association.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

1t is rumored that the postoffice
Will be removed first of next week to
the building formerly occupied by
Mrs. Holbrook.
school has started and the new
principal takes hold of his work with
the proper spirit and with the en-
couragement that should be accord
ed him will be successful. There are
~ pupils in the intermediate grades.
AZ IN the primary department and 23
IN the advanced grades.
Notice: There will be a meeting of
the stockholders of Bingham County
irrlgatlng company, held at the court
house in Blackfoot, Saturday, Sep
TENDER IA. Signed, G. A. Robethan,
president.
j. w. Keeny and Mr.. VIM, late
bookkeeper for Mrs. J, M. Bennett.
Will open a grocery store at Pocatel-
10 by the first of October.
Mrs. Garlitz is visiting in Pocatello,
the guest of Mrs, w. C. johnson.
Mrs. ]. w. Clark was summoned
the bedside of her husband. who ia
very ill at Anaconda.
Moscow has voted $4,000 for wa
ter works. Can't Blackfoot catch on
that kind of enterprise?
Bill Johnson has returned from the
camp of Clayton, Custer coun-
ty, and will look after his brick bust
ness house now in process Of con-
struction.
Miss Lulu Sill left Sunday morning
Gentle valley, where she will
have charge of a school for several
months.
Mrs. Written of California, who
las been spending a few weeks here
visiting her brother, P. B. Fox, left
or home Tuesday morning.
The constitution of Idaho is about
our times as long os the constitu-
ion of the United States. Thomas
Jefferson vas not the leading spirit in
he Idaho convention; he is dead you
NOW.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

When the Boston Dip company, To-
cal talent, were thru with their per-
formance at Hopkins hall Friday
evening, B. s. Holbrook entertained
the members at a watermelon festi-
val,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

Today, Saturday, the people Of this
school district will be called upon to
vote a special tax of 10 mills for
school purposes. Two weeks ago
this tax was voted down and by such
a majority as not to be misunder-
stood or misinterpreted. To vote
down the tax again today means only
a two months school for the scho-
last1c year. Can Blackfoot afford
this? No, and everybody says no,
but what is to be done?
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

Harry Curtis has found it necess-
airy on account of increasing business
to secure the services of another tin
ner. ~
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01
September IA, 1889.

A large delegation of Blackfoot and
Pocatello Odd Fellows went up to
Eagle Rock Sunday to attend the
funeral of c. W. Burgess.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

George Hafer is building a two
story residence for himself in the
southern part of town.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

1T is rumored that the postoffice
Will be removed first of next week to
the building formerly occupied by
Mrs. HolbrOok.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

The constitution of Idaho is about
four times as long os the constitu-
tion of the United States. Thomas
Jefferson was not the leading spirit in
the Idaho convention; he is dead you
know,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-01

Mrs. Written of California, who
has been spending a few weeks here
visiting her brother, P. B. Fox, left
for home Tuesday morning
New Britain herald., 1917-09-21
BOY SCOUT
 NEWS

At a meeting of the Scout officials held Tuesday evening, September Is. the following men were appointed to serve on the athletic committee, Scout Executive Dwight Skinner. Scoutmas- ter Marshall Cook, and Assistant Scoutmaster Robert Voight. At meeting of this committee held in the Scout Office Thursday, September 2o. the following plans for football lea gue were made. All games will pc played at Walnut Hill park and there will be two games played each Satur- day. Any Scout who is not in good standing in his troop will not be al- lowed to play. No Scout weighing over 125 pounds will be eligible to play. The average weight of the team must not be over 120 pounds. The league will open Saturday, October 6, at that time troop will play troop 10. and troop 12 will play troop IA. The first game will start at 2:3o Eacn Scoutmaster is requested to hand Tn to the eScout office as soon as possl- ble the names of Scouts in their troop that are eligible to play and tnelr weight Assistant Scoutmaster Ropert Voight has been appointed head coach and will be glad to help any troop that needs llS SerVlCeS. CCOuI COll- missioner E. W. Pelton, Scout !IXecu- tive Dwight Skinner. Sceutmasters Marshall Cook. Harry Bonney, Fred Firnhaber, Robert Voight, Well Will Hams and Birmingham Schurr, natur- alist at the New Britain Institute will leave the city Saturday for an over night hike up in the Walcott noun tain.
 Troop 9--The Scoutmaster took some of the members of troop on a hike Sunday afternoon. Next Sunday they are planning to have another hike, leaving the Baptist church at 800 o'clock and taking supper with them. The evening meal will be eaten around a camp fire somewhere in America. All members of troop 9 are requested to be present at the meeting next Friday night when the rules for the patrol contest will be an- nounced.
 Troop 12-The regular meeting of troop 12 was held Tuesday evening at 700. The Scoutmaster gave an inter- esting talk of his trip through the West. Saturday afternoon at 200 l there twill be football practice at Wal | nut Hill park. All Scouts should be at the meeting next Tuesday, Septem Der 25 as new patrols will be formed
New Britain herald., 1917-09-21
TRIED TO BUY WITNESS.
Mrs. Smith Tells of Bribery Attempt
 By Oxnlan

San Francisco, Sept. 21.-Mrs. Els telle Smith, an important witness for the state in the bomb murder trials here of Thomas J. Mooney and oth- CTS, has been subpoeaned, it became known today. to testify against R. c. Oxman, now on trial for alleged sub ordination of perjury in connection with the Mooney case.
 Mrs. Smith recently charged in an affidavit that after the conviction of Mooney, who was sentenced to death, Oxman attempted to persuade her, by the promise of a sum of money, to give certain testimony against other defendants in the bomb cases.
 F. E. Rigall of Granville, Ill.,, testi- flying yesterday in the Oxman trial implicated District Attorney Charles Fickert and his chief assistant, Ed ward A. Cunha, in the alleged frame up"
New Britain herald., 1917-09-21

dent mood their conversation may have drifted to such an extent that Wise either showed her his razor or she knew he had it and she took 1t, slashed at him and he fled. where upon she made one desperate slash at her own throat and fell dying ill the road. the razor falling from her lifeless fingers only to be found a short time later within a few inches of her hand and many feet from the place where Wise, the supposed mur- derer, was grovelling on the ground.
 If this theory has any strength
 much of it is lost by the fact that apparently Wise has never intimated suicide but insists that he was the
 victim of another man.
 The decision of the authorities not
 to hold an autopsy on Mrs. Tobin's body continues to be food for talk around the streets. In the recent Taft taxi-cab murder. where the cause of death, a heavy calibre bullet wound at the base of the brain. was just as obvious as was this razor slash, an autopsy was held. In the
 Zebris and Gilmanaitis murders au-
 topsies were held despite the obvious ness of the cause of death. When Louis Saxon shot his wife and admit ted it an autopsy was held and at the time of the Booth street murder little over year ago an autopsy
 was held although there had been witnesses to the shooting
 Asked today concerning further de-
 velopments in an attempt to connect Wise with the Taft murder, the po- lice had no information to divulge,
 but it is not thought that they have any evidenve in support of such theory.
 The funeral of Mrs. Tobin was held
 this afternoon from the home of John J. Tobin, BIO Maple street, her father in-law Rev. Harry I. Bodley con- ducted the services, which were pri-
 vate ,and interment was in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-21
HEARS OF OLD FRIEND.

The board of health will meet this evening when, it is expected, some ac- tion will be taken to reconsider the acceptance of the resignation of Su- perintendent T. E. Reeks Although Dr. Reeks has already decided to ac- cept the position with the state health department he has said that he will reconsider and remain in New Britain should it appear that his services are needed here most and regarding this fact there is little doubt in the minds of those who have followed health de- partment affairs and noted the mas terful way in which he has conducted the office
New Britain herald., 1917-09-21

round them up and care for them. Major Rhinelander Waldo is reported as having remarked, when he saw a detail of sixty men hustled out to care for the mob of recruits, Gee, this must have been a great day in Connecticut"
 AS far as has been learned the New Britain delegation was among the most orderly, although in a spirit of fun they attempted to cut several cars loose from the special train en- route by pulling out the coupling pins. The men had been specially warned in reference to the use of intoxicants and when they left this city yester day morning every man was in per. feet condition, although it is known that there were several little brown bottles' scattered through the crowd.