The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-28
A County Fair

ask that all their taxes be reduced.
The board looked them over and re-
piled that if they could not get tax
money out of such men as they were,
where in the world would they get
any money at all. and the request
for reductions was denied forth
with.
Thereupon M. o. Monroe stated
that they wanted to have a fair and
that they wanted the county to take
over and appoint board of nine
men and operate under supervision
of the commissioners. The way to
raise the money was to levy tax as
provided for in sections 3437 and
343S, levying not more than one mill
annually. The property is valued now
at s10,150, and it is necessary to ex-
pend $4,000 for improvements this
year. Before they started in to fl
nance the fair they wanted to know
whether they could DEPEND upon the
county to take it over at any stage
of the work and assume the added
cost for improvements.
A. Word With the Bark On
Somebody asked what tax of
one mill would raise in the total,
and Miss huth Hilliard, the COM
misioners' clerk, stated that it would
raise between sixteen and seventeen
thousand dollars year. The board
was not all present, and the COM
mittee were told that it would not
be convenient to give an answer
right now. Mr.. Sundquist spoke UP
plainly and said, 1--WE need the an
swer and the money right now. There
are only sixty days left in which
to get up a fair and that is none
too much The board woke up
and decided to telephone to Aber-
deem and talk it over with Colonel
Fugate, the third member of the
board.
Silks for the Starving
AS the reporter went out he re-
membered having heard some talk
about a Mrs. Conklin getting an Or
der from the county last fall for
goods to keep the wolf from the door
when she was destitute, and had
bought a pair of expensive shoes
and silk dress at the Brown-Hart
company's the first thing. Wonder
ing whether this was just some more
SANDER or the truth, he went to the
vouchers for January, 1920, and
found the bill Of the Brown-Hart
company attached to an order from
the county clerk, saying to the
Brown-Hart company to let Mrs,
Conklin have merchandise to the
amount of $25. And she had bought
one pair of shoes, $S.75; and a silk
dress, s15.75; total, $24.50. And
when the bill came n, Of course the
beard had no choice but to ray it.
That left so cents to be invested
in food Or something else to wear,
but the reporter was so stunned at
the first two items he did not look
further to see what she got for the
other SO cents. For that piece of
carelessness he ought to be sent
back to finish the job.
Consulting Mr.. Tavey, manager OF
the Brown-Hart company, about the
affair, Mr.. Tavey said he reramher-
ed the incident very we'll. The wom-
an owed the store some money, when
she presented the order for goods,
and he asked her if she could not
apply part of that on goods she had
already obtained, and she said she
could not She then asked for shoes
and was shown coarse working shoes
and she did not want them. She Sc
lected finer ones. She then selected
the cheap silk dress and he advised
her that that was no way for a poor
person to spend her money. The
silk dress was not serviceable, and
person in her station had more
need for warm clothes than for
snowy ones. But she was obstinate
and said she wanted the silk dress
and she got it. Mr.. Tavey reported
the incident by phone to the county
clerk and he asked to have the bill
show that it was silk dress, and
it was so itemiZed.
Will Buy the Fair Grounds
When the board reached conclu-
sion regarding the fair grounds, 1t
was that they would buy the prop
erty for $10,150 and levy a half mill
tax this year, making one payment
after the 1920 taxes come in and
the other payment year from that
time. 1t is expected that the i'm
provements made within the next few
weeks will bring the bill up to about
and the assessed valuation
in the county is seventeen million,
so the board desires to raise about
$500 this year and as much next
year. If your property has true
value of a thousand dollars, your
share of the fair grounds tax this
year will be so cents. For each
thousand dollars worth of property
that you own you may expect to pay
so cents fair tax this year, and an
equal amount next year.
This sale of the fairgrounds is, of
oro1;,,oi porv opd oil cOndi-