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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
ONE WIDOW GOT
PINCHED

A couple of years ago there was a
widow in the northern part of the
county who married and did not re-
port her marriage or change of name
to the officers, and went on accept.
ing her pension warrant. When they
got to know about it, she was sum-
moned to appear before the probate
court to answer to obtaining money
under false pretenses. She had &C
cepted $45 of that kind of money,
and Judge Goode required her to
pay it all back and fined her $25 and
costs, which made total of $SO.40.
This office has exposed the widows
who drew pension money or relief
money which they used to buy, to
build, to entertain men at midnight,
to buy silk hose, dancing slippers,
life-size dolls, tropical fruits, ball
dresses, ribbons and the Lord knows
what all. We declared that we did
it to save the wasting of tax money,
to carry out honest government, to
give fair play, to save the very poor
tax payers from the unfair burden,
and to make it possible to give more
aid to those who really needed it,
but alas, there have been and are,
widows who point out We editor as
stingy, :. heard-hearted, miserly, UNI
sympathetic enemy of the poor and
the distressed, who is against rem
dering any aid to the downtrodden
and whose old newspaper ought to
be stopped by all good citizens.
That makes good many people
wonder what kind of an old scandal
sheet we publish and that makes
the widows down on it, and they bor-
row copy or two to find something
or dry farming or raising skunks,
and thereby we get another subscrib-
er. 1t pays to advertise!
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
FRANCE AND


The gift of France to America
the one supreme gift that no Ameri-
can forget, was encouragement in the
exhausting fight that set our nation
on its own feet. 1t was not so much
the men and ships, by the aid of
which Washington brought the war
to a successful close, as it was the
recognition of world power. We
then sought the moral support Of
France as France sought ours during
the great war of recent years.
One hundred years after our war
of the revolution the people of
France. old and young, rich and
poor, the great and the humble, sub
scribed to fund which was to erect
in New York harbor that splendid
symbol of free country, the Statue
of Liberty. When our soldiers sailed
for France in 1917 and 1918 that
huge figure with torch held high was
the last object which held their gaze.
1t typified all that they were leav-
ing behind and all they were going
away to fight for. And all thru the
dreary, long months abroad they in
cessantly talked Of the happy day
when once more their eyes should be-
hold the Statue Of Liberty. They
used to say, and they meant it, that
if they ever got back home again
the statue would never see their faces
again unless she made an about face.
So now the people Of America are
going to make return gift to
France By erecting on the Marine riv-
er great statue concentrating the
wonderful stand the poilus made
when they stopped the Hun advance.
On that spot they placed their bod
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17

les between the democratic world
and autocracy.
The subscription is largely to come
from the children. A limit Of 10 or
Is cents will be placed upon their
individual portions and the giving Of
this small amount for such a purpose
will have an educative value far
greater than its intrinsic worth. They
were too young to help in the titan
ic struggle, but now they can have q
share in placing monument to the
men of all nations who gave the SUI
;preme limit for France and free gov
ernment.s eTrn IF. C. X.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
Free Like Salvation.

A good many of these poor people
who receive public money in one
form or another, think that public
money rains down from out the skies
as mama did among the children of
Israel, or as the water flowed because
Moses tapped the rock, but recent
Investigations show that some of
this public money is filched from the
pockets of corporations, profiteers
and members of the kept press"
1t has also come to light that many
people pay taxes who are only we'll
TODD or who are owners of a great
deal of property like this modern
Moses of Utah whose surname is
Childs.
In addition to all that, it has been
found that a good many poor people
pay people who have only
one bread-winner in the family, and
many members to be fed and cloth
ed during these days of high cost,
ETC., and it makes our stingy heart
bleed to know that so many dry
farmers and other farmers who are
not so dry, have to dig up their hard
earned money to supply money to a
mixed lot of widows and near-wid-
ows, only part of whom are really in
need of it. A good many people in
this county have borrowed money to
pay their share of the taxes, and
many others are wearing their old
clothes and thin underwear because
it took all their money to pay the
taxes. 1t is out of such slender purs:
es as these that large part of this
Widows e pension, money. is drawn,
and the editor Of this little sheet
again raises his voice against the
law and the system that permits it.
System Is Wrong.
But the law will never be repeal
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
Fordson Tractor
In the Movies

A five reel feature film will be
shown at the Isis theater Saturday
demonstrating the Fordson tractor.
The show is given under the auspices
of the Bills Auto company. The film
shows the Fordson tractor in action
under actual farm conditions.
A Mack Sonnet comedy will also be
shown. sast IT'S Af5@f.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17

Our paper has been so terribly
kept" we hope our Miss Christensen,
who keeps our books and receives all
the money and spends it keeping the
employees paid and the materials paid
for and the power trust paid for their
dingy old lights, and the telephone
octopus paid for the talk, privilege,
we wish she would come to, the Of
flee and slave for a few evenings
after supper to get out report of
where all our money comes from.
We might find that we are getting
into the near-respectable class our
selves.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
Local Boys Enlist
In Eighth Engineers

Robert M. Brinton and Wayne c.
Stultz of Blackfoot enlisted the fore
part of the week at Pocatello for
three years service in the eighth en-
gineers. They will be sent to Ell
Paso, Texas to join their regiment.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
OSTEOPATHs IN CLINIC

The monthly meeting and clinic Of
osteopaths of eastern Idaho will be
held at Pocatello on Friday afternoon
and evening, March 10. -
Drs. Mcfarland and Sloan of
Blackfoot will attend, and the editor
of The Idaho Republican will be
there by special invitation of the
association.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17

good thing IL it could be rightly ad-
ministered, and we have at various
and sundry times furnished our
readers with proof that it cannot be
rightly administered under our pres
ent political system and with human
nature constituted as it is. We have
brought it to the attention of our
readers that a large percentage of
the widows do not look upon it as
aims, but as something they have
coming by reason of the fact that
they have survived husband, and it
is looked upon as a triumph to re-
ceive it, rather than as something
to be accepted in humility and with
gratitude to the people who furnish
it. 49,, 80.
We have said before, and We re-
peat it, that such large percentage
of widows. take these views of aid,
that the act authorizing its payment
ought to be repealed, because it is
largely misapplied aid, and large
number of the widows who receive
such aid are not such good citizens
as they were before they received it.
We have pointed out! the fact that
widows living with husbands are not
eligible to receive pensions, and that
many Of them apply for and receive
help as indigents, and then some of
them spend the money for Injuries,
and because we have opposed the re-
peated allowance of money or orders
for merchandise to people who do
that way, we have gained the repu-
tation of being opposed to helping
the poor. And this is partly correct
inasmuch as we are opposed to help
ing the crooked and immoral poor.
When they show their ability to ex-
pend their allowance for useful
things which they need, and when
they show their ability to act out
consistent and moderately moral
lives about like other people who
have a struggle for existence, then
we approve of helping them by the
use Of public money.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
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PRETTY GOOD SHOWING
AT AMERICAN FALLS

The American Falls Press, one of
the cleanest Of all the progressive
local papers Of Idaho, and one that
has worked in season and out of sea-
son for the betterment OF agriculture
In that locality, wasslatelya held up. to
reproach by an Idaho paper and
branded as member of the kept
press, ~ because. it published matter
to help the drive of the United Amer
leans to get people to study the con-
stitution of the United States and
take more interest in getting back
to our original American principles
of government
Editor Terrence Of the Press re-
viewed his books to see if his paper
was really kept" by the timber
trust, the power trust, the mining
trust, and the rest of the trusts, and
he found that only about II per cent
of his. income could be traced to the
power company, the telephone COM
pany and to timber business, proba-
bly, handed in by the department of
forestry warning campers to be care
full to put out their fires. He found
that "A per cent of his business came
from individuals about town for COM
mercial advertising, % per cent
from legal notices such as lawyers
notices, sheriff's sales and probat
ing of estates, etc., and 10 per cent
from farmers notices of estray, can
al notices and sale ads.
The American Falls Press is prob
ably fair average of the country
newspaper, and it is probably about
as good and about as corrupt and
as badly bribed as the rest of the To-
cal papers, so when it published its
report of how it gets it's living, it was
of interest to the public in general.
We reprint it herewith for the infor-
nation of our readers who are sup
posed to be much abused, terribly be-
nighted, and fed up on distorted
news that poisons their minds.
Pct,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
ELKs RETURN

Members Of the local lodge of Elks
returned from Mackay Tuesday,
where they attended a three day ses-
sion fthe lodge. They report q
most pleasant time and a warm
reception.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
Another One Complaining


Only few days ago a woman at
Aberdeen got the probate Judge on
the long distance telephone and said
that she had been q widow for near
ly a year now and that she was not
getting any pension yet. She prob
ably thinks that it is an endurance
contest and that if ,-she waits long
enough she will get hers. She SEEM
ed to be reproaching the judge be
cause he had not boxed up some mon
ey and sent it to her as reward of,
merit for OUTLYING her husband and
waiting so long without kicking up
any fuss. A judgeis not supposed to
go out over the county sitting or adj
,vertising for persons entitled to PEN
'sions. If they are really in need
they will probably make application
for aid and submit their claims for
consideration instead of wiring a
kick to the court house because the
money has not arrived before it was
asked for or before the court knew
she was in existence.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
Draws Pension Again.

On the 1st of February, 1920, an
other warrant for $50 was mailed to
her at Blackfoot, and it has not been
returned, payment has not been de-
clined, and she has not notified the
officers of her marriage. The infer
ence is that she is not grateful to the
people of Idaho who so faithfully
provided her with cash after her
husbands death, and up. to the time
when she married this wealthy Mr..
Childs, Moses by name. The infer
ence is that she is not only willing to
accept 1ms under the polite name
of pension while she has no income
and is living with well-to-do re1a-
tives, but she is willing to keep right
on accepting it after her marriage to
a man, who as she says, has great
deal of property.
We Told You So.
We have heretofore expressed our
belief that a widows pension is q
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17

During the disqualification period
the twenty-five Red Cross eanteens
in the northwest gave $4,000 news
papers to service men.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
MAKES MONEY ON
A POOR SPUD CROP

Forest Trego had fourteen acres of
potatoes last year that yielded only
sixty sacks to the acre. He sold part
Of the crop recently at 1915 per
hundred, and cleaned up the balance
last week at IS. This, gave his a
total Of $685. or about $3.50 per
4
acre. "a 4-,%- N. ~ .&ssea%3 r
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
ANOTHER WIDOW SPOILED
BY THE PENSION j, ~

S. E. Roundy and family moved
into Idaho and made their home. AZ
ter two or three years Mr. Roundy
died of influenza on October ~,
1918, at Blackfoot. and on iDecem-
Der I, 1918, the name Of Cassie d.
Roundy was placed on the" county
pay roll to receive q widows pen
sion Of $25 per month. On the 4th
of September, 1919, her allowance
was raised from $25 month to $50
a month at her request because she
said she needed more money to
clothe the children for school.
On the 5th of December, 1919, she
stated to. a reporter Of the Idaho
Republican that she was about
to be married to Moses Childs OF
Springville. Utah, and she introduced
Mr.. Childs. She further stated that
she was very happy and had very
bright prospects, as Mr.. Childs was
a fine man and owned great deal OF
property. They were then on their
way to be married in the. Salt Lake
temple, according to Mrs. Roundy,
and we have no information that
their plans miscarried. ..
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17

ed. There is not legislature that
would have the courage to repeal 1t
for fear somebody would say about
them just what some people have
said about We editor when we have
objected to the results the law brings.
The average candidate is afraid to
express his real opinions about such
matters, and it took us ten years to
repeal or modify fool law which we
call the direct primary. A candidate
would be afraid of losing the votes
of "a hundred widows in his county
even if he knew he was going to gain
five hundred by declaring he would
vote to repeal the law. IT lis easy
to get laws enacted that are a mis-
take, but it is very difficult to get
them repealed. Just because, OF pol
itics. ''-i eru
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17
MarTies But Draws Pension.

MalTies But Draws Pension.
Mrs. Roundy's pension warrant for
November, 1919, was due to have
reached her just before they start
ed on this trip. On the 1st of jan
uary, another pension warrant for
$50 was mailed to her at Blackfoot,
Idaho, the pension clerk having no
knowledge of her marriage and hav-
ing no control over pensions, or au-
thority to do anything but issue the
warrants till the order was counter
manded. The January warrant has
not been returned to the auditors
office, and the inference is that the
letter containing the warrant would
20 as usual to the home of her rela-
tives who live near Blackfoot, and
they would forward it to her at
Springville. She did not return it to
the officers of this county and did
not notify them of her marriage. She
left no forwarding order with the
postoffice at Blackfoot.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-17

But the law will never be repeal.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-09-22

Thelma Dolliver is home from ,ho
Claremont. where she has been am.
ployed.
Addie Brown and Agnes Ward ara
teaching at Otter Creek.
Margaret Dolliyer is teaching a,
Cranberry Isles.
MIR. aud Mrs Harry GRAY. WIN
have been with Mrs. r E. Newman
the past three weeks. lef, SATURDAY
Tor their home In RoSbury. Mas.
Mr.. and AIRS. Dudley Doliyer .pert
the weekend at Oak Point
Milton Deliver is home from
Hnll,s Cove. where he was emrIaged
during the summer.
Mrs. Lucy King left Sapfemhar e
FOR her winter home in Daavars
Mass. She made the trip hv automo-
bile with her daughter and son. Mr.
and Mrs. George Parker. and Grand.
children, Harold and Mildred.
John Ward, jr,. who has been
home three weeks. has returned to
Boston.
John Ward has been entertaining
nephew from Scotland.
Frances Moore visited her brother
Willis at Mckinley last week.
Herbert Stanley is making repairs
on his house.
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BE:E:CHAM'S
where, Mn u Sale of Any
In boxes, AW Medicinsin
Toe, Use - - N~ the World


Schooner Charlie & Willie. en-
route from Boston and VinalhaYen to
Sullivan. called at Mackerel Cove one
day this week. and Capt L. F. Rob
bins and Mr. and Mrs. w. B. Hall
came ashore to visit friends and for
medical attention.
Miss Louise Gambler has left for
Hartsdala \ Y.
Mrs. Eml.e Cavalier has returned
to New York
Schooner Charles Webster, with
lumber from Stonington, anchored off
Trask S rent and RATED the lumber
ashore It win be used by Emery
Joyce in building the Hatch bunga-
lows.
Mrs, Olive Walker of RockIand and
Mrs. George Wallace of Bath have
been VISITING their father, John E.
Stanley
Mr.. ana Irs. S. I. Carpenter OF
Sharon ., are at their cottage
Levi Torrey of Tenants Harbor has
been in town arranging for transfer
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IIarnoine

Mrs. Herbert Smith has -
Boston TO meet her husband 70
comes from Cuba Who
Mrs. Ernest L, Hodsti.
daughter Ruth. OF Matfana, and
are guests OF G. Nj. Stratton ana ,-ss'''
j. r. Patriquin, wife and dante NE
nave returned to their home In Ss.gr
than. Mass. III wal
Mrs. Mary Coolidge is VISITING e.,
Gouldsboro. 'ins In
party of eight from skowbea.
and Madison were recent grol san
Mrs. Jane Grindle. ''S OF
Miss Mary Olsen and Miss Vs.,
Davis are at Bar Harbor 'o'a
Eliphalet Pettee of Seal H.,
has been doing carpenter worr 1 su
Henry Crane. Aor
Howard Hodgkins is visitf,. :.
parents. CHARLES Hodgkins and wifa
Miss Helen Monson of Bucks NJ
Dor and Miss Mildred Leland ,at-
guests OF Charles Hodgkins ana ,,. @le
In spite Of the rain on election 5u',
sixty-nine women of I.amoine LAY LAY
cised their privilege of VOTING ar
mobiles brought them from ~ ~
mote parts of the town. II is VOL,
OF note that the first woman n ~.
her vote was Mrs. Laura A Aps,Is s'
aged eighty-four years. Preyio"s H.
election, the republican women W W
the town had organized at nae,isa
presided over by Mrs. George HseaIs
thy of Bar Harhor. Mrs. Harria,
Hodgkins was chosen chairmar ~
this committee. She spent WonaS y,
at the polls, proving herself an abls
assistant to those who desired anv
aid. II is her decided opinion tbat
no woman need hesitate to go m
voting place, for that day proved that
only the most courteous treafmsT,
was rendered them by their fellow
voters
Sept. 20.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-09-22

Miss Ruth Lunt. who is employed
in a Waterville telephone exchange.
has been enjoying a vacation al home.
She returned To her duties Saturday.
Miss Doris Trask left last week to
enter Castine normal school Miss
Barbara Whitmore. classmate. also
enters at the fall term. Miss Pansy
Mayo resumes her course. and Miss
Bessie Clark. one of the teachers
there. who recently returned from the
summer school at Columbia univer-
sity, New York. makes up a quar-
rette from this place.
Miss Emma Gilley. who has been In
the employ of the Marshalls of Massa-
chusetts. left with them Saturday to
spend the winter in their home,
The summer schedule OF sermons
at the congregational church closed
on September / . with fine discourse
by DR.. NanDyke. a beautiful solo
was contributed by Mrs. Bringle.
with Mrs. Winnie Rich aceompanist.
On September 10. the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Olsen, resumed his preaching SER
vice. and outlined active work. ap-
pealing for hearty cooperation.
Schools Will open September 21.
pal belmont T. Dunbar OF Castine.
graduate OF Bowdoin. class of go:
| assistant. Miss Michaels: commercial
department, Robert +. Lane OF Au-
gusta. Mr. Lane is here for the sec
ond year. He has been employed at
Northeast Harbor through the sum-
mer
Election day passed quietly here.
A goodly number OF women availed
themselves OF the privilege of voting.
The first TO register and the first TO
vote was an experienced teacher and
lifelong advocate of woman suffrage.
Miss VI. A. Carroll. eighty-fye years
young, who has held residence here
all through the years. though in
teaching seventy or more schools. she
has lived for short periods in many
different towns Miss Katharine
Carroll. chairman of the woman's
town committee, and Mrs. Henry
Gray, served as assistant ballot
clerks
Sept. 20. SPRAY"
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Castine.

Mrs. Charles Devereux and son
Richard have returned to their home
in New York
Mrs Arthur Conner spent a few
days recently in town. returning Sun
day to her home in New York. ae-
companied by her son Arthur, who
has spent the season in North Cas-
tine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Conner of
Brewer spent the weekend here.
Prof. Arthur Gregory and family
have gone to North Berwick. where
Mr. Gregory is principaleof the high
school.
Capt. Layton Coombs and family
who have been occupying the Rea
house in Tarrantine street. have
moved to the home of Mrs. Charles
Devereux on Pleasant street, which
they have rented for the winter.
Mrs. Harry Richardson and son AL
bert have returned to Cambridge,
Mass.
Mrs. Warren HILBERT and daughter
Elizabeth, who have spent the season
in town, left Friday for Massachu-
sets.
The fall term of the Castine high
school and the grammar school COM
menced September IA. and the
normal school and model schools
September Is.
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of his former home in Atlantic to
Henry Saeger.
Capt William H. Burns has gone
to Deer Isle to visit Mr.. and Mrs. A
o. Gross.
Burleigh Staples and wife, and Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Page, all of Bath,
have been visiting in Minturn.
Mrs. Ida Dow, preacher, and Miss
Ruby Sweetser, singer. have been
holding meetings in the Advent
church.
Harold Joyce is attending Rock
land high school.
The consignment of surplus gov
eminent foodstuff arrived, and proyed
very attractive to the citizens. The
supply was quickly exhausted. It is
understood that another supply will
be ordered
a reward of S25 is offered by the
selectmen for information leading to
the apprehension and conviction of
persons assaulting a woman on the
nights of September and 9. between
the Baptist parsonage and the church
at Atlantic
The women of the island showed
considerable interest in the election.
Thirty women were registered and
twenty-seven voted Mrs Sadie S.
Gross and Mrs. Mary o. Trask we're
early at the polling place in l. o. o.
F. hall, waited for the opening Of the
voting, and cast the first votes.
There were seyenty-seven straight re-
publican votes and eleven straight
democratic.
Miss Stewart. Mr.. Jobbing and Al
yah Stinson, all of Boston. have left
the Ocean View hotel and gone to
their homes.
Carlyle Stockbridge recently Wis
tied his parents in Atlantic.
Rose Hill farm seems almost de-
serted. Most of the summer guests