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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-09
MAYORS PROCLAMATION

That, whereas, the supply of Goa
is so restricted that DR.. Harry A
Garfield, United States fuel admin
istrator, has ordered that coal shall
be used only for essential purposes
and has further declared what are
essential purposes, and the order il
which such purposes shall have pre-
ference, this being as follows:
A. Railroads.
B. Army and navy and other gov
ernmental departments.
G. State and county departments
D. Public utilities, including
newspaper plants.
E. Retail dealers. E. including
retail dealers supplying coal for ho-
tells, rooming5 houses, stores, shops
Offices and other general domestic
purposes, limiting the mount to be
supplied for any of these classes to
only such an amount as is found nec-
essary for their immediate neces-
stiles.
And whereas, the said national
fuel administrator has further di-
rected that the state, county and
municipal authorities shall take
charge of and supervise the distribu-
tion of the coal supply within their
respective Jurisdictions,
Now, therefore, l, N. J. Thorsten-
berg, as mayor of the City of Black
foot, in accordance with the order of
said national fuel administrator, and
in order to carry out the require
ments of such administration in con-
serving the supply Of coal, and to
limit it's use to the essential require
ments Of the City of Blackfoot and
vicinity, do hereby order and direct
that until further notice is given of
the withdrawal or modification Of
this order, that all retail stores,
shops and other places of business
essential to the carrying on of the
ordinary business of the community
be supplies with sufficient coal to cp-
crate their respective places of busi-
ness from the hours of 10 a. m. to
p. m. during week days only, ex-
cept that on Saturday this time shall
be extended until the hour of p. m.
Public garages having Cars for
care and storage shall receive only
such an amount of fuel as may be
necessary to protect the property in
their care from loss or destruction.
Hotels, rooming and boarding
houses, restaurants and other places
of like character shall receive such a
supply of coal from any availa BILE
source as may be necessary for the
comfort of their guests or patrons,
limited to the shortest hours neces
sary for carrying on their business.
Private families shall be entitled
to such an amount as is necessary to
the reasonable needs.
In all cases where any Of the
above classes are found to be using
a quantity of coal in excess of the
requirements as above specified, re-
tail dealers are directed to withhold
fuel out of the available
supply, and any person, corporation
or business that shall demand or re-
ceive quantity Of coal in excess of
their reasonable requirements as
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-09

mile or less between Snake rive,
bridge and the city limits, not men,
tioning the approach to the bridge
and 1t is very creditable piece o1
grade-not finished, of, course, but
good while it lasts, and it may last
good while. He says he has read
our old newspaper reports from time
to time, and he wonders where all
the new roads are that we have told
about. He knows of one mile of
good road, and lot of alleged road
torn up all summer and fall and
unfit to get over with car or We
hicle or a load. ! Where is this "A
miles of road heretofore reported
upon? Can man get over it with
a vehicle? Is it true that we have
invested 100000 in equipment, and
why did we do it? Was it wise?
County Getting Fleeced
Mr.. Starkweather said that men
have been working on the roads who
are no good. He has tried lot of
them and fired them because they
were absolutely no good. They hire
out to the county and go along and
draw their pay and get by. Is the
county justified in hiring failures
and paying them fifteen dollars a
day? Well, ten dollars a day, then?
Well, what do they pay these fellows
working on the road? Don't men
get ten dollars day working with
teams? Don't the drivers of motor
trucks get exorbitant salaries? What,
do they work for 1925 month?
Will men drive trucks for so little
money? Perhaps the county can
hire men for less than he can, and
perhaps the county can get men to
work, but until he is Shown" he
will think the county is getting the
worst of 1t. Oh, of course, a man
can always move away if he doesn't
approve of what is going on where
he lives. That privilege is always
open tda man. 1t might be we'll to
wait tin spring and ride out in the
editors car and view these alleged
roads that the paper tells about. He
would not care to tackle them with
his own car, but he would agree to
ride with the editor on invitation!
Would the party get back the same
day? Well, it might be all right.
He hoped it. would, and he would
wait and take chance.
MIR. Stone is Feeling Good
Superintendent Stone said satur-
day that the grading was still pro-
Continued on page seven
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Two Trains Daily
North and South

). according to the new schedule of
train service north of Pocatello,
which is published in this issue on
page eight, 'Blackfoot has now two
trains north and two south each day,
one to Butte and one to st. Anthony
and Ashton.
Trains are being taken from the
schedules in every part of the coun-
try in an effort to stave off the
threatened failure of the national
ccal supply. Mayor Thorstenberg's
proclamation, also in this issue, ask
ing that stores and business houses
retrict their buiness hours to those
between 10 and 5 each day, reflects
the extent to which the danger is
felt here.
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herein outlined, upon such fact be-
ing brought to the attention of any
dealer, shall be denied further sup
ply, and in case any purchaser or
dealer shall violate any of the regu-
lations as herein prescribed, such
violation will be reported to the
proper department of the national
fuel administration, with recon-
mendation that any further amount
of coal out Of the available supply
shall be refused to such person so
such regulations.
G Dated at Blackfoot, Idaho, this
eighth day of December, 1919.
N. J. THORsTENBERG,
adv. 21a-1
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-09
OFFICIALS ROASTED AND PRAISED
in CONTINUED BOND ROAD SCANDAL
Motor Truck Drivers Criticised. Men Differ
AS to Value of Road Work. Contract
Work is Favored
GRADING WORK GOES MERRILY ALONG

George H. Smith ,Jr., lives neal
Riverside, and he says he has read
our road reports and the advertising
published by the county commission.
ers, and that it is good. BUT
Mr.. Smith says, "the drivers OF
trucks in the employ of the county
and under the direction of Superin-
tendent Stone are driving in the ruts
more than anybody with their loads
of road material
Superintendent Stone says the
trucks loaded with earth and rock
always make ruts where the roadbed
is soft, and that they spread their
travel over the whole roadbed as
much as they can, and that where it
will not hold up the trucks they
finally have to go thru somewhere,
ruts or no ruts, but that all the driv-
ers have orders to keep out of the
ruts wherever it is possible to do so
on new grades. On the old grades
or where there is no road built, they
have taken the easiest way to get
thru with their loads.
Starkweather Expresses Himself
F. A. Starkweather lives at the
Pratt ranch between Snake river
bridge and Moreland, and he-i is very
much impressed with the thought
that Bingham county has not man
aged its road work with sense and
discretion such as would be exercised
hy h a rd- 10 1A1 0F nnvip s,,
building roads. He expressed the
belief that we had paid two dollars
and up for each dollars worth of
road work accomplished. He said
the work should have been let by
contract to some big outfit like the
Utah Construction company, who
have plenty Of all kinds of equip
ment, and who put men in charge of
the work who absolutely get it done.
They have some rough-necks for
foremen, and any man who does not
get right in and work faithfully gets
shown or gets fired. This thing of
hiring local help and letting them
go along in happy go-lucky man
ner at their work, Mr.. Starkweather
does not think is the way to get
roads built. He saw an old man
working on a stretch of road out
somewhere beyond Moreland, and he
was not moving much dirt, and he
was leaving it in Jumps and not an
even grade. Mr.. Starkweather did
not approve.
Stirring Things Up -
Mr.. Starkweather says the only
piece of new road he has seen is the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-09
AN ECHO OF
THE LONG AGO
Big Colony in Snake
River Valley Comes
to Grief
A VALLEY NAMED

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A little over a quarter Of a
century ago, back in the early
nineties, we have forgotten, which
year, colony Of 13O families came
to an unhappy end on the broad
plains of the upper Snake river val
ley in a manner SO tragic that its
history is seldom mentioned because
OF the discouraging effect it might
have upon other settlers, and the
further reason that one has to tell
OF the monumental blunder that
ended the experiment.
In the summer of 1892, we'll say,
maybe it was year earlier or later,
a Swiss-German named Gerber, took
trip to the Yellowstone park in
western America, and went in via
Beaver canyon and the west en-
trance, taking the stage ride across
the, beautiful Camas meadows in
midsummer when all nature was at
its best.
He was much impressed with the
verdure of the meadows that
stretched away to the base of the
mountains on the north, and reached
out into the great plain as far as the
eye could reach to the southwark.
He knew something of irrigation in
Egypt and Palestine, and had visited
in Utah, and he fell to making COM
parisons between the .Camas meadow
land deep with grass, and the great
plain lying to the eastward, reach
ing to Shotgun creek, and the
mountain spur to the northward
from St. Anthony. If it were only
irrigated it would be equally pro-
ductive, and he compared it to the
Swiss valleys, and pictured the pros
perity of a Swiss colony with their
f1ocks in the mountains in summer
and down in the valley in winter
that was the way it was done in
Switzerland. At the approach of
storm the animals were brought
down into the valleys, and little
hay kept them thru the winter.
Here the mountains were high and
beautiful, and surely the descent
into the great valley meant security
for the winter.
After visiting the park he took
time to go over the tract and study
it closely. He visited the land office
at Blackfoot and found that it was
open to settlement. Any citizen or
anyone having merely declared his
intention to become a citizen could
have it for the taking, be he man or
be he woman. Ye Gods He and
his people would take it all! And
he hurried away to Switzerland to
make all the arrangements to imi-
tate William Penn and James
Oglethorpe and all the others, and
he did, especially the others.
There is an unwritten rule among
people in western America that it is
worth while to spend a twelve,
month in locality before advising
ones friends about coming, and
what to bring when they come. Ger
ber neglected that little task. He
assumed that the winters were like
Switzerland-the summers. were
SMITHSONIAN.
There was much preparation in
Switzerland, and much stuff and
plunder were shipped across the
Continued on page six
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Red Cross Seals

Red Cross seals may be bought at
the following business houses in
Blackfoot:
Pearson grocery. .\
Racket Store.
Brown Hart Company.
Seeger Bundle Company
Golden Rule store.
Hayes Gift Shop.
Palace Drug Store.
Dustin's Pharmacy.
Powers Pharmacy.
D. w. Stanrod & Co.
First National Bank.
Blackfoot City Bank.
The Toggery.
Every stamp used adds to the am
munition of the great society that
fights tuberculosis. Steadily this
great society is driving from the
earth the menace of the White
Plague.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-09
BUREAU OF FAIRS
IS DISCONTINUED
Tangle of State Fair
Matters Referred
to State Board
WORK SUSPENDED

O. P. Hendershot, director of the
state bureau of fairs, together with,
the entire personnel of his bureaug
was Friday relieved from further
duty by Miles Cannon, state commits
sioner of agriculture.
Conflicts of jurisdiction between
the department of agriculture and
the State Fair of Idaho corporation,
in the limelight for some time, were
given as the reason for the summary
act of the commissioner.
"Mr. Hendershot has been acting
in the capacity of director of fairs"
said the commissioner in explana-
tion, "but, as such, has not reported
to this department in such a man
ner and such form as would place
the department in position to ac-
count to Governor Davis for the ex-
penditure of any moneys, save and
except the appropriations for the re-
spective fairs, nor does this bureau
represent the department as contem-
plated in the state fair contract or
in any manner which gives the de-
partment supervisory control over
the state fair%of Idaho, its manage.
ment, or in any detail connected
Herewith.
Why Scalps Are Taken
"In order to safeguard the inter-
ests of all concerned, / have con-
cluded to suspend the activities Of
the bureau of fairs and to relieve
all appointees and en-
ployes of said bureau until such time
Continued on page six
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Stirring Things Up
Mr.. Starkweather says the only
piece of new road he has seen is the
The Washington herald., 1919-03-09
DEATH DEF|ED,
MENACES HERO
Doughboy Laughed at Bull
lets and Gas, Faces
End by Disease.

William Lee Ryan, whose home is
at 22u North Capitol street. did not
sacrifice his life for the cauge of his
country. but he suffered about every
thing else as a soldier in France.
Today Ryan lies at the point Of
death in an army hospital at Spartan
burg. s. c., from double pneumonia
II is the second time since he became
soldier, eighteen months ago, that
this disease has overtaken him. on
the first occasion he was I'll more
than six weeks in a base hospital in
France.
But this is not all. Ryan was
wounded once and gassed once, while
in action on the Argonne front, and
this incapacitated him for a month
or more. He missed death half a
dozen times by remarkably close mar
gins.
Three different times German bull
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lets pierced his steel helmet His
canteen saved him once when II
stopped q bullet
Peculiarly Gassed.
He was gassed in a most peculiar
manner when a bullet severed the
tube that connects the nose with the
oxygen tank Of his gas mask.
Ryan's real troubles began with
being gassed. This mfsfOrtuDe was
followed by an attack Of the FLU"
which resplted In pneumonia. A
short time after being discharged
from the hospital Ryan boarded a
transport for the United States, and
had only set foot on his native soil
when the second attack OF pneu-
monia began.
In normal physical condition.
Ryan Is a man OF 10 pounds. Dur
ing his FIRST case OF pneumonia, his
weight dropped 20 ninety-six pounds
and he was Informed by an army
physician that he had less flesh in
proportion TO the size Of his skele-
ton than any man the doctor had
ever seen who was alive.
Ryan Is 20 years old. Hts parents
are Mr.. and Mrs. UzeIla Ryan. who
live at the North Capitol street ad-
dress.
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Clarendon.

An important meeting of the school
eommittee, headed by Mr.. Hendley.
chairman. made a thorough inspec-
ton OF sanitary conditions at the
flartgldOn School Monday, being
shown through the building by Prof.
Fletcher Kemp. superintendent OF Al
sxandria County schools, with the re-
suit that several radical improve
ments will be recommended affecting
the building. among them being the
provision OF modern school furniture,
new shades and a general overhaoaing
OF the toilets. Prof. Kemp impressed
the committee with the earnestness
of his endeavors along school lines,
and stated that one of the haI-dicaps
was that funds were diverted from
one ma agisterial district to another, be-
ing apportioned according to school
attendance. Mr.. keefer, Of the COM
raittee, was designated to see that
ire escapes were provided for the
structure. and the principal promised
regular fire drills.
The Patrons League is making an
earnest effort to improve the condi-
ton OF the schools, and is alive and
really doing things. and needs the CO.
operation OF every parent a meet
log was held Thursday at the school
building. at which parents became ac-
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sided over by Chairman Hendley. OF
the school committee OF the Claren-
don Citizens Association, and re-
marks were made by Messrs. Taylor.
Keefer and others pledging the sup
port Of the association toward
school betterments. The Patrons
League now comprises over sixty
members. and assessments were
made for new window shades and
other improvements in the school,
new desks and a nucleus toward the
shade fund being promised by the
school authorities. the balance to be
donated by the Citizens Association.
Mr.. Keefer furnished 1000 drink
ing cups together with a quantity
of paper towels in behalf of the
Citizens Association and reported
the fire escape authorized by the
school board was on its way.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-09
MEN RATE CHEVRONS
AS TRANSPORT DOCKS
34Sth Infantry Completes Sis
Months Service on Landing.

New York. March S.-If the trans
port Chicago had been just little
bit speedier. the men Of the 34sth
Infantry would not have been en-
titled to wear the overseas chevron.
Their six months of foreign service
was up last night. AS the steamer
came up the bay this morning they
were busy sewing siagle gold stripes
on their left sleeves.
The transport Plattsburg also ar
rived here today. The Plattsburg
carried 2,325 men, including num-
Der of casual companies. Forty-ninth
Aero Squadron. detachment of Fifth
Machine Gun Battalion. and three
convalescent dctachments.
On the Chicago were 1000 men, in
cluding the Thirty-eighth Infantry.
field and staff. Headquarters and
Supply companies. Headquarters
First and Third battalions. Sanitary
Detachment. Companies A. B. c, D.
f, F. and I.
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Avoid Indigestion
By Simple Rule
If You Eat Fried Food, You Follow
With a Stuarfs Dyspepsia Tab
let, Then You Won't Have
lndigeston-Be Sure
to Do This.

You get ravenous when you smell
something frying. But you won't eat
IL because it hurts your stomach. But
after it take Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
lets. There will be no gas, no sour
risings. no lump in your throat. no
biiOusness, no dark brown taste in the
morning. And whenever you are trou-
hled, eat a tablet as soon as possible
and relief will come promptly. These
tablets correct the faults of weak or
oyerworked stomach: they do the
work while the stomach rests and re-
covers itself. Particularly effective
are they for banqueters and those
whose environment brings them in
contact with the rich food most apt
10 cause stomach arrangement Re
lief in these cases always brings the
glad smile. Get q box of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets. 80 cents, in any
drug store throughout the United
States and Canada-Adv.
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$4,000 Votes Extra

Special Ballot of 5000 extra votes will be
awarded each candidate who turns in $500 worth
of new subscriptions before Il p m. March D.
If you throw your energy into high speed and can
get two three times as much IN new subscriptions.
you will be given two or three Special Ballots.
The required amount will not have to be turned in
at time.
Do your best work now while your efforts count
the most. There will be no other time when you can
get as many votes on the subscriptions.
Get busy right now. Don't let time mark another
minute against your chances for success. Better call
at The Herald office All Eleventh street. or telephone
Main $780,
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A Word to the 1000 Class.

Many inquiries have been received from read
OF The Herald regarding the candidates who
have 1000 votes. Some OF readers want TO
help you with subscriptions but they sec that 1000
is not evidence OF your sincere desire win
prize They have the idea that il you trying
TO win, you would have more than 1000 votes.
Prove that you win by sending in
subscription that will place your name on
the list with 1000 votes. The highest candi-
dates standing in the list published another
page today shows a vote OF less than 5000.
Remember, your friends and supporters arc
watching your record from day 10 day. They are
anxious to see you win. Prove 10 them that YOU
in the winning ring.
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Neus
CLARENDON AND OTHER NEARBY CON-
MUNITIES PLAN MANY CIVIC ACTIVITIES

quainted with the teachers. The dues
are triyial-5o cents per year. Prof.
Kemp addressed the assemblage along
the lines Of school Improvement and
an Interesting and varied program
furnished by the school talent was
much enjoyed. Refreshments were
served by the cooking class of the
school.
The Future Citizens Association
held its semi-monthly meeting Mon
day. with President Tucker In the
chair and Secretary Sullivan assist
ing. A report OF finances was made
by Treasurer Miller, which made a
good showing, and the. membership
committee reported a rapid growth
of the organization. 1t was decided
to place rubbish cans at the station.
reading room and postoffice, and a
committee was formed to see that
a high sanitary condition OF the town
be maintained. 1t was decided to CO.
operate with the Clarendon Citizens
Association in securing new quarters,
containing a gymnasium. and the
Stove League got busy with the base
ball dope, a Junior team being in
the process of formation.
Chafsman R. II. ColIey, Of the
building committee for the new Town
Hall and Association Building, call
ed his committee for Monday night,
at which twenty-five members of the
committee were present. Mr.. Mason,
treasurer OF the Jacobs Transfer Com
pany. and owner of the Dixie Theater,
submitted plans for an SOxlo0- foot,
two-story concrete structure to be
erected at an estimated cost of s10,-
900. and it was decided to purchase
a site at the corner of Wilson boule-
ward and Grafton avenue, catacorner
from the Telephone Exchange. Ma
sonic Temple and railway station, as
being the most desirable location for
the building. 1t was decided to in
corporate the Clarendon Citizens As
sociation and float bonds to cover
cost of construction, sufficient leases
for store purposes being in hand to
guarantee a 20 per cent return on a
$4,000 investment. A committee COM
posed OF Messrs. Mason, Payne, Will
kins and Roberts, with Chairman Col
ley, is to take steps toward securing
the site and pushing completion of
the building, which will embrace a
modern theater. auditorium. dance
hall. and association rooms, the lower
structure being occupied by stores
and the two fire companies The
structure will be of reinforced con-
crete with tile trimmings and will
be fireproof.