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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24
HOW TO IMPROVE
LOCAL, BUSINESS s.

Business is very quiet In Blackfoot
these days, but it is said to- be not
nearly so quiet as in some of the
other towns up and down the valley.
Just little business would look
good to the people now who open
their. stores in the morning and close
them at night without having made
many sales. ASf2
If the local business people were
loyal to the local town trade, bust
ness would be quite bit better than
it is. If all the home people traded
with each other and did not send any
towns, business would be much bet
ter than it is. A few nights ago at
a meeting of the Retail Merchants
association a resolution was passed
saying they did not approve of the
business methods of local hotel
having all of it's groceries shipped
in from another town when mer-
chants of Blackfoot were dealing in
the same kind of goods and the same
brands. A copy of that resolution
was sent to the keeper of the house
to be forwarded to the owners and
managers of the institution,
After this resolution had been ap-
proved and adopted the men sitting
around the table looked at one an
other and began to get closer home
in their analysis One of them half
serious and half joking laid his
hand on the shoulder of another man
and said, Mr.. you represent bust
ness that is selling goods in this
town out of which houses and homes
are built and were it not for the
people living here who deal with
you, you would be out Of business. |
sell insurance, but your firm buys~all
of its insurance out of town, in fact
buys all in another state, in a state
where they do not pay any taxes in.
Idaho and their fire insurance be-
patronage of your customers belongs
in Blackfoot. You shouldn't expect
to get the trade of the people of this
community when you send your bust
ness to another community
The gentleman addressed in that
manner plead guilty and said that
he had already taken the matter up
with those who are responsible for it
and is trying to arrange to place his
insurance with a Blackfoot insur-
ance company, thereby getting in
line to deserve the home trade.
At one sitting of the Retail Mer
chants association one of the men
complained that the school teachers
and school officers are not so very
loyal to the home merchants and
that they go away a good deal to
trade. Others remarked that that
was true to some extent, but prob
ably not true of teachers and school
people any more than anyone else
and then he reminded the first
speaker that he himself had been
known to send away for carloads of !
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24
THE TIMES ARE CHANG
ING EVER

A man looking over the situation
a few days ago commented on the
fact that few years ago men were
trading their farms for garages and
going into the automobile business or
the repair business He said that it
was easy to get farm a few years
ago if one just had garge to trade
for it; the garage business was look
ing SO prosperous in those days and
now the situation has changed. He
said that anybody could get a gar
age now days if they have something
to trade for it. The tools are idle;
the house isn't paying; there are
plenty of cars to repair, but people
are not pushing to get the repairs
done like they once did. They used
to, fguratively, stand in line and
| fight for turn to get their car re-
paired so they could get it out and
get it going again; now the cars are
in storage and the battery is in the
basement. People have found out
a great deal about what it costs a
mile to operate car; they used to
run their cars as if they were OPP
Grated by perpetual motion and no
expense bill attached, no repair bill
to be expected and no depreciation
to be expected. Now they have found
out that gasoline costs 81 cents
gallon and repairs all cost money
plus, and that depreciation comes
sure and swift. He said he thought
it would be good thing to start a
livery stable now, perhaps a livery
stable would be one of the most pop
ular lines of business that we shall
have for the next year or two, while
people have so thoroly impressed
upon them the fact that it costs
money to operate car
He. said he was quite impressed
with the fact that a few years ago
the county assessor drove around the
country in rig that cost him 81 a
day and now he drives in an auto
mobile that costs from $40 to SIS a
day.
While one deputy goes out and
rides around the country at from $40
to SIS day in his car, another
deputy gets horse and buggy and
puts in his expense bill for $3.50 a
day for livery. Men have different
ideas and the man who is breeding
around in an automobile may fancy
he Is doing great deal for his
country while the man driving with
little old horse and buggy at $3.50
day may be doing more in the way
of getting more property listed on
the assessment roll. 1t is the old
story of the hare and the tortoise
lived over again in Bingham county.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24

materials that he was not dealing in,
but that his neigh bors were dealing
in, thereby setting bad example by
sending business out of town that
should have been kept in the town.
Another man woke up on the subject
and said he had not thought of these
things cutting SO much figure. as
they do. He had noticed that mem
bers of his family and especially his
wife delighted to trade in towns up
and down the line rather than in her
home town, where he was making
his living in business. He said that
if he had to depend for his trade
upon the people of other towns and
other states he would have no bust
ness and that his wife had often
made the remark that she does not
buy anything in Blackfoot if she
can help it, He said he had never
lectured her on the subject and he
did not like to ,do it, but that prin-
ciple that she was putting into prac-
tice, if applied to his business would
ruin it and*rlin him, and it was to
the same extent damaging all the
businesses of the. town. 2z
Another man remarked that he
would not let his wife trade in any
other town than Blackfoot even if
she wanted to. Some one asked him
what he would do if she did buy
goods in other towns. What would
he do if she came home with new
coat on that she had bought at Po-
cateno or Idaho Falls or Firth if she
cared to buy it there, and he replied,
II would just say to her, Mother,
you don't look good to me in that, |
don't like you when you wear clothes
that you bought outside of your
home town. and | would continue
to bawl her out every time she put
it on and would soon have her
trained so that she would not put
it on any more and he continued,
Il had occasion to spend half day
in a neighboring town not long ago
and j spent considerable of that
time in a ready-to-Wear store where
the manager said on one afternoon
Of the week before, he had sold $500
worth Of goods to Blackfoot women.
Looking over his goods l found that
this store had no better prices than
the Blackfoot merchants, but the
Blackfoot women. some OF them
wives of Blackfoot merchants and
business men, walk in and seem to
have a perfect enjoyment while shop
ping in the outside town and spend
ing their money freely in the town
that does not contribute to their own
local success. They simply like to
trade somewhere else better than at
home. They like to get clothes out of
stock of goods that their neighDors
have not looked over and become
familiar with. They like to "get some
thing ON their neighbors. II it cost
$40 more to get O. coat from some
other town that was just little dif-
ferent from any that was in stock
in their home town they would feel
as if they were getting their moneys
worth. In times like these that extra
$40 is needed in the home town. II
all the $40 transactions and all the
larger transactions that take money
away from Blackfoot were confined
to the home town it would make
business pretty good these days and
many man who is out of employ
ment would have job at good
wages; many girl who is laid off
because there is nothing for her to
do would have a job selling goods;
many a farmer who can not sell his
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24
BLACKFOOT WINS
FIVE SUCCESSIVE YEARS

For the past five years Blackfoot
men have been winning the grand
championship for fat lambs at the
intermountain fat stock show and
now Frank Starkweather Is the pos
SCISSOR Of another big loving cup. a
trophy of the W innings of the Janu-
ary show.
Our winnings began five years ago
when Mike Barclay won for two sue
cessive years on fat lambs and for
the last three years F. A. Stark
weather has been carrying of the
grand championship cups. Three of
the cups are now on exhibit at the
First National bank, the newest one
standing about % inches in height,
made of silver and beautifully en-
graved.
These honors coming for FIVE years
IN succession to Blackfoot have at
tracted great attention to the Snake
river valley as . place for feeding
livestock.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24
last date for that formalitv nassed

last date for that formality passed
and we have been one year behind in
the payment of our having all the
while. The people who are paving
paving tax now before the arrival
Of the paving are doing all right, but
owing to these unfortunate circum-
stances they do not get the use of
the paving quite as soon as they
would otherwise have done.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24

lOIdl Nv
Mr.. Murdoch presented no bills
for expense of meals nor anything
but mileage, and apparently went
afoot part of one day assessing near
home. His work was all in s. and
3 S. 80.
e. T. MalcOm's Expense
We have already published Mr..
MalcOm's expense for assessing /
north 81, where he worked four days
driving out and back each day dis
lance of about 20 miles each way to
and from his work.
The expense account for January
shows trips by rail to Idaho Falls
and Soda Springs and one round trip
to Boise to attend the assessors con-
vention. On such trips the county
officers by common consent charge
as expense the railroad fare, Pull
man and hotel expense, making in
Mr.. Malcom's case $34.74.
The July expense one auto trip to
Idaho Falls to assessor Crowley and
in mountains to get personal prop
erty July 10, IA, Is ....147 miles
June 8. Assessing Thomas 10 miles
June 10. Assessing Wood
vile ..........-......42 miles
June Is. Assessing s. IS 16 miles
June 16. Assessing s. IS FL miles
June II. Assessing 2 s. IS
and finishing 2 s. SO ....-.22 miles
June 10. Assessing, finish
ing s. IS ............11 miles
July z. At Riverside and
Moreland getting indus
trial statistics ..............15 miles
July 8. At Aberdeen, Sterl-
ing, Springfield, getting
industrial statistics ........8S miles
July 8. At Shelley and
Firth getting industrial
oIdIioIlCo --..-----.--------.-------5o miles
The August expense account
shows express, kilograms, one round
trip to Boise $4S.55; one round trip
to Salt Lake City $24.35, not show
ing the purpose of the trip and 1875
miles auto travel for which we found
no record of trips. The largest
months auto travel was June, 992
miles $19S.40, heretofore listed.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24
w. II. Young Accounts

w. R. Young did some assessing
in the Goshen country and his
voucher for March calls for twenty
four days at $500 a day $3.50 and
twenty-four days with horse and
buggy at $3.50 day $4,000 and
$3.50 for meals. lodging, horse feed
and railroad fare. His voucher does
not show where he assessed or how
much he assessed, tho there are
records that do.
His February voucher calls for
eight days work at S. day, 5 days
livery at $3.50 and 1929 for ex-
penses, total 5000.
The reports in the assessors office
show that he assessed TIP. 1 S.,
ranges 81 and 80 east 1 So. 81, l
S. 50.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24

c. p. Pawling's Accounts
Feb. to March 8, is days at
$500 ......... 90
He assessed township 1 north, 80,
81, 80 and .33. 2 north 80, south
80, 2 south 80 and 1 south 80.
ID. j. MurdOck's Accounts
April Z to May IS. seven days$35.00
107 miles auto travel ............ 21.40
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24

May 20. Driving from
Blackfoot to Mcdonald
vile and vicinity and as
sessing TIP. 2 s., r. IS
and then driving to Aber-
deem Xxx
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-03
"DE DUCKS" AND
FARM PRODUCTS

An Iowa farmer recently sold his
corn, and the very same day applied
to his local banker for a loan where
with to tide himself over lean per.
iod.
But" the banker said, 81 do not I'M
derstand why you should want to Dor
row money when you have just shipp-
ed your corn What did you do with
the money!"
de ducks got it," replied the far
mer.
What do you mean by de ducks?''
Well" the farmer explained, Il
shipped the car to market and sold
it for 50 cents a bushel They de
duck freight, that left 81 cents; de
duck l per cent commission, that left
! 80 cents; de duck elevator charges.
that left q cents; de duck husking
that left Is cents; de duck hauling
that left cents; de duck the hired
mans wages from that and you're a
4 darn sight better farmer than / am
if you can find any thing left"
This farmer may slightly have ex
aggerated his case, but its main de-
tails are unquestionably represents
tive of marketing conditions gener-
ally with relation to the sale of farm
products. There is far too much ode
duck" to leave the farmer a reason
able profit on his labor, that Of his
help and on his investment in land.
seed and implements. This condition
applies to all farmers, but it is the
small man with limited acreage and
still more limited resources who feels
the pinch the most.
t Railroad freight rates constitute the
chief item Of the "de duck" list These
/ are very much too high to permit
. Of easy access to the markets, com
polling the farmer to accept what
ever price may be offered at the point
closest to him. But there are others
5 deductions that eat up most Of what
is left after the railroads have gotten
theirs. The commission man, the
elevator man, the man who handles
: the shipment and a host of others
whose interest in the farmers crop
is only indirect take their toll from
j his check before it reaches him.
Thereafter he has to figure out
what, if anything. is left after he pays
: the bank, the implement man, the
seed merchant, the fertilizer man, his
hired help, and allowed something for
: his own living and that of his family
!, At present prices he has a real task
j.. in mathematics to discover the re-
5 mains of his labor in the shape Of
profits. It is only when prices are In
ordinately high that the small farmer
: has a chance, and these occasions
d are so far aprt as always to leave
i him on the ragged edge. If he makes
a profit this year he will have to
9, spend IT to get by the next. and 50 on
st through the weary years Of his life
Is it then any wonder that so many
O farmers are deserving the avocatior
Ol of agriculture for the more produc
!" tive fields OF labor in the cities? Ant
the "de ducks" are as this Iowan test
8 fled, largely responsible.-Beaumon
Enterprise.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-03
La. Cattle to go to Mexico

New Orleans, La, August Nv. r.
Perkins, director Of extension, L. W.
wilkinson, district agent. visited me
this week and we attended confer
ence Of the program committee for
the farm congress to be held in New
Orleans during September, writes w.
d. Clayton, county agent, Orleans par
ish. C. C. Chapman, beef cattle spe-
cialfst. l.. 8. o., also visited me and
we went to see a representative OF a
firm IN Mexico who wish to purchase
beef cattle. They viii purchase 6OV
cattle a month. Mr.. Chapman VIII
furnish these cattle through co-opera-
tive shipments by farmers.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-03
Club Melon Brings SIS

Franklinton, La, July Gone
watermelon was auctioned off for $S5,
reports ]. v. Rabb, county agent,
Washington parish, the money to be
used to pay the expenses Of club mem
bers attending the eighth annual
boys and girls short course at Louis
lana State University July % to Au'
gust 3. Other communities were visit
ed in interest OF club and organiza
ton work.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-03
smith works via oraanIzatIOns

Smith Works With Organizations
Baton Rouge, La. July 30.-G. G.
Smith. county agent, East Baton
Rouge parish, has done preliminary
work in organizing a truck growers
association in the north end Of his
territory. A car of raw rock phos-
phate has been ordered. Arrange
ments were completed far the farm
bureau program to be rendered at W.
r. Dodson's farm. The lespedeza
contract was read and discussed with
the farmers, but it was decided to
wait and get a copy of the contract
being prepared by Aaron sapiro. farm
lawyer, for the Arkansas lespedeza
growers.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-03
NOTICE

rnv. RESIDENT AND UNKNOWN DE-
liNoUENT TAXPAYERS. PARISH OF
81. LANDRY.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-03

opelOusas. La, July 50. 1921.
a, following named Non-Residents
Post Office Address is unknown,
Unknown owners, are hereby notified
lie State and Parish taxes on the
grsy described below, as per assess
= rolls for the year indicated, are now
md delinquent since january l, 1871,
IL same must be .izid with costs and
lss. or said property viii be sold ac-
sanv "a law
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-03

WARD NO. I
ggs2-UNKNOWN OWNERS.
: seres. Dupre. Same. GOdeau, ct ais
~ Total val $4,000.
SITE tax 40e, par, tax 65c, school tax
sul tar iOc, int 1sc. adv cost l.25. Total
Z lax soc, drainage tax 1.60, state vide
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
HARDING URGED
To JOIN BATTLE
ON ILLICIT RUM
Churches Unite in Plea for More
Aggressive Stand on Law
Enforcement.

Asking President Harding to take
a more decided stand on the liquor
question, the Methodist Board of
Temperance and Public Morals, the
Presbyterian Board of Temperance
and Moral Welfare. and the 1nterna.
tional Reform Bureau today pc
titioned the executive to appoint bet
ter officers to enforce the prohibition
law.
The letter was sent to the White
House by DIR. Wilbur f. Crafts, who
has Just returned from Pennsylvania
where the action was decided upon,
The ordinary bootlegger considers
fine as a mere matter of over
head expenses" according to the let
ter sent to the White House. What
is needed is more Jail sentences and
less fines, the letter says, and a
more aggressive stand on the part
Of the enforcement officers.
The strong hand of the Chief
Executive is needed at the present
time to make the enforcement of the
prohibition law a success, II is point
ed out. The President also is asked
to use his best efforts in having
the sale of wine and beer stopped
by action of Congress so that the
regulations recently drafted by the
Treasury Department will not &c
into effect.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
BRAND BUSY PREPARING
ADDRESSES FOR PARLEY

ON BOARD LINER LAFAYETTE
AT SEA (via wireless), Nov. g.
Premier BRAND has begun the prepa'
ration Of the addresses he will make to
the Washington conference, but it is
understood France will advance on
concrete proposals.
The French premier will press the
hopes of the French people for future
peace. not only in the Pacific, but
throughout the world.
From a source close to the premier,
the belief is expressed Japan is the
only nation which will make definite
proposals regarding future policy in
the Pacific and China.
The weather is very rough and the
Lafayette has been badly battered in
high winds and high seas. Premier
BRAND being unable to spend much
time on the deck, has utilized the op
portunity TO confer with his colleagues
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
He Wants to Stay Here.
DAN r. HANNA, CLEVELAND
NEWS PUBLISHER, DEAD

CROTON ON HUDSON, ~. Y,
Nov. 3.-Dan r. Hanna, Of Cleveland.
son of the late Senator Marcus A.
Hanna, died at 3 a. m. today Of heert
trouble at his estate here.
Dan Hanna was publisher and pro-
prietor OF the Cleveland Leader and
News and was interested IN many OF
Cleveland's enterprises. GIe had been
married four times and was widely
known as sportsman, having n
wellknown stable.
Mr.. IIanna's marital adventure =
frequently gave him widosprcal pub.
licitv. II is ostima a that his set.
loments Ipon his former wives cost
him St,'o0, 900, having ocen divorce
from each of his four wives. He n
survived by several ohflArsn-
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
JOYCE MARITAL
TANG[E Up IN
COURT TUESDAY
Hinted in Chicago Peggy"
May Be Willing to Compromise,
Cutting Her Demands.

CHICAGO, Nov. 3.-Peggy Hop.
kins Joyce and her third husband,
James Stanley Joyce, the lumber
king. will go before Judge Joseph
SABBATH next Tuesday and tell how
their honeymoon ended on the rocks.
The date was set yesterday. Joyce
wants the marriage annulled. Peggy
wants a money settlement that will
give her the luxury "she learned TO
expect from Joyce"
Both sides have waived a jury
trial. Joyce is tired of the publicity
that made him appear gullible before
his friends.
Possibility of the case being st.
tied out of court loomed today whet1
Weymouth Kirkland, Peggy's attd'.
ney, requested permission to with,
draw his acceptance of Joyce's an.
swer to Peggy's cross.bill and sub.
stitute a complete reply.
When asked II an alimony com.
promise had been reached, Alfred
Austrian. representing Joyce, said
"All / will say regarding the case
will he said in court
When he appeared in court today
he toll Judge SABBATH:
Since Mrs. Joyce Is now receiv.
ing $1,000 a month temporary ali.
mony, we wish to dispose of the
case on its merits as soon as possi.
ble."
It Is said Joyce will recede from
his stand that Peggy must return
he 81 400 900 In Jewels he gave her
The pretty actress may not he SO
strenuous in pressing for fortune
because Of new evidence Joyces
sleuths gathered against her during
her last trip TO Europe.
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
GREECE REFUSED HUGE U. S.
LOAN PROMISED BY WILSON

Greece will not he granted any
further loans by the United States.
It was officially announced by the
Treasury Department today.
The Grecian government has been
advised that the present Administra-
tion does not feel authorized TO ad.
vance the 100000, 900 credit which
was promised by the previous Ad.
ministration, without special act
OF Congress.
Grccian representative who were
.cported to h" coming to- this country
~ seek this credit will he received.
but will not he given the loan they
desira. II WAS stated
The Washington times., 1921-11-03
N. Y. MILK DISPENSERS TO
PRESS "oPEN SHOP" WAR

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Despite ac-
ceptance by the 10000 striking milk
wagon drivers of Mayor Hylan's terms
Of mediation, distributors served
notice today of their intention of waR.
ing finish fight for the open shop"
Health Commissioner Copeland will
hold separate conferences with both
sides in the controversy today in an.
other attempt to effect a Conciliation.
The New York milk conference board
notified DR.. Copeland that II would
not accept arbitration.