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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-08-15
ttafys ExportA

italian motor car exports showed a
falling of for the first six months Of
1918, compared with the correspond.
ing period Of the two preceding years
From January l to June 80, 1918, q
total Of 1855 lorries and touring cars
were exported. having a value Of ap-
proximately f1,4o0,OOo, compared with
4,148 vehicles in 1917 and 2,731 in
1915. The number Of touring cars
exported during the first six months
Of 1918 was 72S, this constituting .
record, for the figures Of the two pre-
eeding years were "a ~ oo0. -
anneffVnlR
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-08-15
Bb.54i i;;XS ORDERING
HAND CRENADES
over $4,000 Children In Fifth z strlct
viii Ee Routing Enemy, Waste,
During Summer Months

Richmond. Va.-According TO tie
drad Banks in the Fifth Federal Re-
serve District have ordered supplies
II hand grenade penny savings banks
that are to be used by the children for
summer savings The total number
cf hand grenades that have been or
}ered exceeds $4,000
The plan of the hand grenade bank
originated in the Treasury Depart
..ent and the banks are being dis
tT!buted In this district by the War
Lam Organization here. Every school
aid under the age OF seventeen years
may, by applying at the local bank, re
ceive one Of these hand grenade
nennv-hanks as a loan for the vaca-
tion period II, during the summer
enough money is saved to purchase
one OF more War Savings Stamps the
bank becomes the property Of the
chiId
The banks are made out OF real hand
grenades that were to have been used
against the Huns. With percussion
cap and high explosive removed and
slots cut to receive and take out coins.
they are now doing service against
10 enemy, waste, as banks for saw
tnSs
School officials all over the district
are enthusiastic about the plan, as
hey feel that it will not only keep
alive but strengthen the thrift deals
that already have been implanted in
the minds Of the children.
j H Binford assistant superinten-
dent Of public schools here, has en-,
dorsed the scheme, in a recent lettn~
expressing the hope that all me banks
n the district would cooperate by get
ing supplies Of the hand grenades. as
re school children ara enthusiastic
about securing them
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-08-15
"Conqress CATERS" Again.

There has been very decided re-
vival of the old congress gaiter," with
fits elastic insert at the sides, which
were very generally worn more thar
a century ago The explanation rests
in the fact that American shoes ere
now being extensively worn by the
natives of Japan. The more rapid
adoption of the Western styles of lace
and button shoes is made difficult by
the native custom that requires that
shoes be removed before a person en-.
ters home or inn. In some cases il
Is even required that the shoes be re-
moved, or at least covered with cloth
protectors. before entering shops, the
alters and similar public buildings
This custom has led to the quite gen.
eral adoption Of the old-fashioned but
convenient congress" boot by those
who wear occidental footwear durins
business hours.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-08-15
All In Soma Dav

One Gay at Southern camp one ~
me negro soldiers was showing ME r
service pin With three stars which hs
hlways carried in his pocket asked
MN who the relatives were and he re
piled: Zone Is TO- maself an the othea
two Is TO- ma brudders: one IL going
to enlist an the other II in tbs nsn.
dram
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-08-15
COMIC OPERA
ISLE OF DREAMS"
AT CHAUTAUOUA

One of the big
HFce Inc Isle CT dreams cast by
eosun and speca will
- ~ NNN0
me Isle or Dreams relates the
lineage III seHcl OF Of
lhe search
the natives make Of the
Inns pay is u {" clever lines
search for the bird Dreams In rho oo,o,
little bird told e
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-08-15
While Food Is Short.

RANT manners to talk while
you're eatin'." said Miss Brown.
NO. answered Miss Jones; "ap'
VIII food scarce like 1t is, faint good
judgment, either."-LOndon Ansvera
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-08-15

A season Ticker costing $3.50
will admit 10 all the lectures and
exhibitions OF The Chautauqua.
They are transferable and can be
used by anyone. TO use single
tickets purchased al the gate
would cost S4.85.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
George Hertert
Died in Spain

Word was received by Mrs. Eu-
genia Spaabauer Of the death of her
only brother, George Hertert, of U.
S. n, who died in Spain, at the age
of twenty-one years. Death came to
the young man after an operation for
appendicitis.
Mr.. Hertert enlisted in the navy
in 1914 and was in a training school
at San Francisco four months. He
was then transferred to U. S. S. New
Orleans, which with five other bat
tleships, started on a tour around the
world. In 1916 he was again trans
ferred to the u S. S. Pittsburg,
where he remained until he was re-
moved to a hospital in Spain. The
Pittsburg was in the dangerous
waters all during the war and about
month ago she came form the
Brazilian waters to the United
States and at once started for two
years work in Germany. In a letter
to home folks about a month ago,
Mr.. Hetert said, II am going to help
in Germany for two years and then
| think I've done my duty"
The young man is mourned by an
aged father living in Spokane, Wash.
and eight sisters One sister, Mrs.
Y. A. Bidinger of Blackfoot pre-
ceeded her brother to the grave eight
months, having been victim OF the
influenza last fall
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
South is Opposed
to Woman Suffrage

WASHINGTON, July.-Now that
the new Republican house and senate
have passed the constitutional
amendment granting the suffrage to
women on the same conditions as to
men, it is feared that the house will
be temporarily lost in the rock ribbed
Southern states.
In Georgia test vote on accepting
a test vote ratification revealed a
81 to IL majority against it. In the
house the proportion Is said to be
much greater. In Alabama they suf-
fragists have made spirited fight,
but poll has shown that twenty
seven our of thirty-five are against
the amendment. The Virginia legis-
lature meets in August and 1t Is
feared that conservative opinion
there, which has steadily voted the
Democratic ticket since the days OF
Andrew Jackson, and which has long
advocated the grandfather clause by
which negroes have been excluded
from the ballot, will exercise it's au-
thority and reject the amendment.
In the remainder Of the southern
states are to be found, according to
the claims of the Democratic MEM
bers of the house and senate from
there, who have so persistentiy
fought the suffrage amendment In
congress, the votes to prevent rati-
ficatiOn.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Commercial Club
on Road Improvement

At its Monday noon luncheon the
board of governors Of the Blackfoot
commercial club started it's influence
in three different directions in the
good roads movement.
The Sam Rich road, east of Black
foot, which had been reported de-
fective, and found to need improve
ment upon examination, was dis
cussed and the sum of $1,000 agreed
on as sufficient to repair and make
passable the road for the present.
asked to expend this amount on the
road. ~
1t was agreed by vote to send a
delegate to the meeting of CONNER
cial club presidents and good road
boosters at the Grand Canyon Hotel
in the Yellowstone National Park
August s and 8, which has for it's
object the tying together of national
parks and monuments with system
Of highways, working in harmony
with the national park service.
r. G. Bills, chairman of the county
board of commissioners, was selected
as this delegate.
A vote of endorsement was given
by 1the board to senate bill 1909,
which provides for the creation of a
federal highway commission and the
establishment Of national system of
highways.
The advisibility of organizing or
having organized home building
and loan association was discussed
by the members present, and they
found themselves in favor of such a
move, which would provide the
means to persons without ready
capital for buying property and
building homes in the city.
A general meeting of the club
membership is to be called soon for
the purpose of arranging for COM
plete organization to take in, it is
hoped, 800 members.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Commissioners Con-
sidering Road Matters

The county commissioners met OIL
Monday afternoon and went over
matters pertaining to road contracts
and accounts. Delegates from Sterl-
ing and Grandview discussed with
them the petition for change of the
road a mile north of where it was
originally laid out across the wet
lands west of Sterling. The most
tonnage of crops lies on the proposed
new route, and il the change Is
made it leaves the town of Sterling
off the main highway nearly a mile
and does not carry out the original
plan of having the best road pass
thru the towns. Col. Fugate said
he could not change it without the
approval of the state engineer, and
it was finally agreed that decision
should be left with that officer or
his assistant, who was thought to
be at Pocatello. 1t is reported that
this agreement was cancelled by
phone, after the Sterling men had
gone home and held conference
with other people interested in get
ting the change made.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
City Paving Matter
To Come To Vote

At two sessions this week, on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings,
the city council passed resolution
of intention to pave the streets and
alleys of Blackfoot according to the
schedule formerly published, at a
total approximate ocst of $277, 900,
including laying of a new trunk line
of sewer pipes and all engineering.
August IL is the date set for pro-
tests, and if there are not sufficient
protests to. stop the bond election a
date for that will be set.
The preliminary estimates were
made and the resolution drawn up
by the John e. Price Bonding COM
pany of Seattle, Wash. In the mat
ter of possible need for petition
from property owners the bonding
company concurred with the city at
torney. There will be no need for
the petition because the proposed
district had not before ever been
bonded for improvements. Improve
ments had been made by the prop
erty owners independently.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
HAS BINGHAM COUNTY BEEN
GRATED In BUYING TRUCKS?
Trucks, Nails, Printed Matter and Other Supplies
Which Are Bought With Public Money
and Methods Are Discussed
FACTS SEPARATED FROM GUEssWoRK

There is considerable apprehension
among the people of Bingham county
over the rumors that there was some
graft or some unusual profit made by
local people in the purchase of trucks
secured for road construction.
There has been some reasonable
ground for such apprehension, and
the editor of The Republican, along
with others, has been in some doubt
over the matter and at times afraid
that county officials had compro--
missed themselves.
The editor Of this paper began
watching the question nearly year
ago, and because of statements still
being made that are known to be un-
just and based upon partial informa-
tion or mis-information, we have
recently taken the trouble to get all
the facts we could, and we take this
means of spreading them before the
public. If anyone has anything to
add to it, or any contradictions to
make, we shall be glad to hear them
and check up the proofs.
Going Away Back
In September, 1918, the county
commissioners considered buying two
Hall trucks of heavy caliber, and in
conference over the matter they were
undecided and listened to the advice
of the county clerk, who urged them
to buy and get started on road i'm
provement. Influenced by. his ad-
vice they gave the order for the Hall
trucks, and we believe this was done
without consulting any local dealers
to see if they had anything better to
offer, or to give them any opportunity
to sell the county the same trucks at
the same price and make dealers
profit or commission out of it. Local
dealers resented this land said also
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
A Few Spoonfuls
Snake River Water

A party of investigators went to
Jackson like reservoir Saturday to
see for themselves how the water
question stood and report to canal
owners. The party found that all
guages of the Jackson lake dam
were open and all the water that was
coming down would go in a single
irrigation dam. 1t was estimated
that the stored water would last till
about the second of August, after
which time there will be no hopes
of irrigation water for anybody. 1t
is understood that water rights have
receded down the scale until they
have passed the 1889 rights and will
be at the 1885 rights by the first Of
August.
This party was composed of James
Y. ung, D. H. Blossom, Michael Bar
clay, Jim Hull John England and
Lawrence Jorgensen.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
WATER STORAGE
aim OF MEETINGS
Farmers and Reclama-
ton Men of Valley
Plan Projects
MEET SATURDAY

Water users and reclamation
men of eastern Idaho principally
,'of Blackfoot and Idaho Falls, met
in Blackfoot Wednesday and dis
cussed the proposition Of storing
more water in the Snake river basin
for irrigation. The movement will
be continued at special meeting at
Idaho Falls to be called by John
Empey, president of the farmers pro-
tective association, for Saturday,
morning at 10 o'clock. Representa-
tives of all the main irrigation sys-
TENS of Bingham county are expected
to be present at that meeting.
The over-tone thru all the talk on
water shortage heard Wednesday was
a willingness to organize for some
large project to increase Irrigation
facilities in the Snake river valley.
The Mondell bill, and Secretary
Lanes alternate reclamation policies
were mentioned frequently, but as
one Blackfoot man put it: "We want
more water; we don't care by what
project, but we are ready to go after
it if it takes a general bond election
to raise the funds"
The proposition of getting a gov
ernment reservoir built at American
Falls, and thereby releasing surplus
waters of the Jackson lake reservoir,
came in for hopeful comment.
Some of the out of town men who
were here Wednesday for this meet
ing were John Empey, Idaho Falls,
president of the Farmers Protecs
tive association; G. Clyde Baldwin,
special deputy commissioner of
reclamation; Berry Dibble, project
manager for the Minidoka reclama-
tion project; Dan Martin, Idaho Falls
consulting engineer; J. H. Cotton,
Idaho Falls, construction engineer;
Farley Davis, Idaho Falls, director
in the Farmers Protective associa-
ton; Walter Pettinger and n. N.
Holm, representatives of the Ashton
st. Anthony Light C Power Co.; Mr..
Paulson, head of the geological Of
flee at Boise; C. H .Southworth, Ft.
Hall, U. S. reclamation engineer.
Chris Peterson, Louis Felt and j..
H. Andersen were leaders in the
move for the Blackfoot locality.
At the Idaho Falls meeting Satur-
day it is proposed to take definite
action for securing additional water
storage for this part of the valley,
either by purchase of rights in the
Jackson lake reservoir or the build
ing of Independent storage reservoirs.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
FOR
CARE OF CATTLE
Farm Bureau Agents Making Ar
rangements for Winter Range
for Idaho Sheep and Cattle
AGENT AS CLEARING HOUSE

BOISE, Idaho.-County agents in
livestock counties affected by the
dry weather are calling meetings of
livestock men and feed growers, with
a view to ascertaining how much hay
will be available and will be fed in
the several localities, so that they
may know how much stock will be
shipped out Of the state this season,
for pasture and range.
Three outlets are available for
this stock-the cutover lands of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
the pastures of Nebraska, Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Okla
homa and the ranges of Texas and
New Mexico.
Arrangements have been made by
the university extension division, in
corporations with other states and
with the federal government, by
which stockmen can place their feed
ers in this range and pasture by
communicating with their county
agent or with the extension division.
The county agent acts as clearing
house for his county; the extension
division acts as a clearing house for
the state and the several states have
a clearing house established at Bill
ings, Mont, thru cooperation of the
tates relation service, the animal
husbandry division, the bureau of
markets, the forestry service and the
extension divisions.
Stockmen's estimates indicate that
$4,000 head of cattle and and 500,-
900 sheep, in excess of normal ship
ments, will have to be shipped out
of the state this fall il there is no
rain. This excess is about 20 per
cent
Offers for actual purchase of 10,-
600 head of cattle are in the hands of
the extension division, and range and
pasture are available for half the
stock in the state, according to E. F.
Rinehart, field animal husbandman.
Range is available for 5000 cattle in
New Mexico and $4,000 in Texas, for
summer and winter, at IS cents to
I$1.50 per month. Nebraska has
pastures at $1.25 a month, with some
at $1,000. Many pastures and feed
lots are offereds
The promise is held out that live
stock so shipped will be returned free
of freight charge, as was done in the
case of Texas livestock last year.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Vocational Advisor
Coming to Blackfoot


H. R. Fulton, representing the
federal board for vocational educa-
tion, will be in Blackfoot on August
9. This will be of interest to dis
abled soldiers, sailors or marines,
or their relatives as it is the business
of Mr.. Fulton to advise with them
regarding their training for some vo-
cation. AS is generally known, the
government is retraining men In
jured in the service, who are voca-
tionally handicapped in order that
they may become self supporting.
Any man who has any reason to be-
lieve that he has been disabled from
a vocational standpoint, is urged to
call upon the government representa-
tive. Further information may be
obtained at the local Red Cross.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Little Girl Recover
ing From Operation

Little Rozella Proctor, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George X. Proctor of
North Blackfoot, was brought home
from the L. D. s. hospital in Salt
Lake City, Wednesday afternoon,
after ten weeks spent there, recover
ing from a serious operation upon
the spinal column, in an attempt to
remove paralysis caused from two
clots of blood on the spine.
The operation was of very
sensitive nature, but seems to be en-
tirely successful and in time the little
girl will have complete control OF
the lower limbs, which heretofore
have been useless. She Is but ten
years of age and that is point in
her favor as specialists think walk
ing will come to her more readily
than were she older. -
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
CROP REPORT OF
ROBBINS OPPOSED
South End of County Expects Heavy
Crop Loss On Account of
Shortage of Water
HEAT HAS BEEN DRAWBACK

Chas Rich of the Rich precinct
south of Pingree, telephoned to the
Idaho Republican on Tuesday after
noon to say that he had read the
interview in that days issue Of The
Republican by Lewis Robbins and he
very emphatically resented it. He
said that Mr.. Robbins, to be represen-
tative of the things of the county
should have better working knowl-
edge of the conditions of the county
Mr.. Rich said that grain in the
Pingree country was not made, but
is shriveled. up and ruined 1t is
more like chaff than like grain and
all for the want of irrigation. The
second crop of hay is not made at
all and has little prospect of finishing
for the want of irrigation. The
gardens are drying up in most cases
and some people are carrying water
i'll buckets in an effort to save parts
of their gardens.
On the Rich ranch where they har-
vested two hundred tons of first crop
hay, Mr.. Rich thinks they will not
cut more than ten tons of second
crop. The beet crop Is SO badly
burned that most of it is beyond re-
demption.
Mr.. Rich says they have had a
small stream of water for only one
day in eight weeks. All the country
below Thomas and Rockford, Mr..
Rich says, is in just about the same
plight. Above Thomas, where they
have used the water belonging to
the Pingree country, they are in
better condition, as Mr.. Rich states.
He resents having Representative
Robbins tell of conditions in the
county unless he describes condi-
tions as they are in the different
parts of the county he represents.
He says that if Mr.. Robbins has not
made observations in the lower half
of the county, or that part below
Thomas, he is respectfully invited to
take trip down there and then
speak again on the subject. Mr.. Rich
advised the editor of The Republican
to go over the county and see for
himself, and publish his own G. ser
vations before spreading the report
thru his paper that all is well when
it is not.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01

that it would be difficult to get re-
pairs for the Hall trucks quickly be-
cause there was no branch house or
dealer nearer than Portland, Ore. or
the factory; that there was at that
time an agency in Boise, but that
they carried little or no stock of re-
pairs. The transaction was pretty
generally condemned on the ground
that the county should use trucks for
which repairs can be obtained
quickly, and on the ground that this
transaction was handled so that all
of the profits or commissions went
to Portland and none Of it, SO far as
is known, was retained in this
county. Further than that, there is
no dealer in Bingham county who can
be summoned for advice and help
when anything goes wrong with the
machines ,and every user of ma
chinery knows that this is an I'M
1portant service. If there is anyone
who doesn't know it, let him buy an
automobile that is not used nor
handled nor repairs kept for within
a thousand miles, and he will soon
be gathering information and ex-
perience that are, expensive.
The New Board
When the new board of commits
sioners considered getting complete
outfit of road machinery this year,
they tested the Hall trucks and de-
cided that they would rather have
soemthing not so heavy, and an ex-
change was made. They decided to
buy four more trucks, and the COM
lnissioners informed dealers in this
county that they were in the market
for trucks and that they preferred to
buy of local men, for the reasons
stated above. Commissioner James
Continued on page two
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Grover Fights
For His Liberty

z Attorney ]. H. Andersen, repre-
senting William D. Grover, Jr.,- who
is being held without bail in the
city Jail awaiting trial in the district
court on charge of first degree
murder for the killing of Joseph
Koury on July z, appealed in morn
ing and afternoon special sessions
before Judge Cowen Thursday for
the admittance Of his client to bail.
The answer of Judge Cowen had
not been made at the time Of going
to press Thursday afternoon.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-01
Membership Of Farm
Bureau is Increasing

Farm bureau membership in Idaho
has grown from 5000 to $4,000 in
the last three years. In 1920 men,
bership campaign is expected to bring
the roll up to 100000. There are 900
communities organized in thirty
eight farm bureaus, with 2100 COM
munity committeeman. In 1917
there were 5000 members. with 800
communities organized. IN sixteen
farm bureaus, with 600 community
committeeman. In 1918 there were
5000 members, with 500 commune
tiles organized, in thirty-two farm
bureaus with 1900 community COM
mitteemen.