The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-03
THOMAS

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I. H. Alfred is here from SPRING
field looking up some lost steers
that strayed from the Leach and Ber-
ryman ranch while the Leach fam
lily were stricken with the flu.
Joe M. Johnson of Pocatello, trav-
cling agent for the American Ex-
press company, arranged last week
by telephone with his old friends,
Paul H. Alfred, for the purchase of
eight fat geese to be distributed
among the employees of the COM
pany and for turkey for himself
and one for one of the boys who
preferred turkey to goose. Mr..
Johnson met Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
at the express office in Blackfoot on
Saturday to receive the birds and
when he laid a creamy fat goose by
the side of a turkey he said, 81 must
find some way to beat one of the
boys out of his goose so that I can
have one for myself, for the goose
looks better than the turkey to me-"
Mr.. Disher, agent at Blackfoot, was
one of the boys who secured a goose.
Paul H. Alfred was recently Of
fered good position with the Ex-
press Co. at Pocatello, but could not
leave at that time because crops
were not all gathered. Mr.. Alfred,
however, is expecting another call
at any time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Adams of
Blackfoot motored out to the Alfred
ranch on Sunday for a few hours
visit at the old home of Mrs. Adams.
Lafayette Parkin, who was out
during the past week in the interest
of the War Work Fund, reports that
the response among the people as g
whole was excellent.
D. J. Murdoch is in charge of
crew of teams that are working on
the American Falls Canal out at
the w. J. McCarty ranch.
Philips Bell and Milton Wood are
working On the American Falls canal.
Owing to the fact that the railroad
company was compelled to take off
the beet train there will be no beet
loading at the Thomas dump for
some time.
William wilkins is back finishing
his cropping. He was called to Mos
cow on account of the death of Mrs.
Wilkins, who died there from an at
tack of influenza contracted while
nursing her son, Charles, who was
in training there. The sympathy of
the community goes out to Mr.. Will
kins and the two children.
There are no new cases of influ-
enza in Thomas at this writing.
Paul H. Alfred is in receipt of a
letter from France, written by Nor
man Feldsted on Oct. 23. Norman
who has been with the Motorcycle
Corps in France for long, time, says
he is proud that he is the son of a
country that has done what Amer
lea has done for France, and all of
Europe. He says the French are an
industrious and economical people,
but with all free and courteous. He
and Tony Williams are still together.
They left here together.
There was little more hog
trouble in Thomas the other day.
1t appears that a man who moved
into our community about three
years ago set his face against an old
community custom of turning hogs
loose in the fall to salvage the waste
of the fields. He has an unenviable
of trouble with most of his
immediate neighbors.' Last winter
an old pioneer settler, noted for his
ability, volunteered to
take up a labor with this man. He
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by facts and figures showed him
how badly the nation needed hog
production and the tremendous
waste of the fields that could be
turped to account in this line. The
man said he admitted all this and
that the hog suffered no appreciate
amount of damage, but that he had
gone into the fight and that the hog
law was on his side and he did not
propose to lay down because it would
look like he was whipped. A neigh
Dor told the writer that only'for this
man he would have produced lots of
hogs during the war. Another told
him that in the midst Of the war he
was driven out of the hog business
by this man. Interested people of
our community as we'll as others, can
kill this obselet law and sweep it |
from the statute books, simply by
with Senator Lee. and
Robbins and Yor-
censor.
John Baker was up to the Alfred
ranch buying cabbage and carrots.
John says it is long time since he
was German, but he likes sauer
kraut.
Harold Hawkes. fine mare sus-
tanned broken leg recently and had
to be shot.
The family of James Jackson are
suffering with influenza.
Dan Jackson is reported wounded
on the western front during the
lighting in the latter part Of October.
NJ, Honnifar who left here with |