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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
NURSE AT WORK
IN THE SCHOOLS
Miss Edith Countryman
Giving Nursing Dem
onstrations Here

The children of the schools Of
Blackfoot are having the services OF
Miss Edith Countryman, director of
nursing for the tuberculosis assOcia-
ton of Boise, Idaho, and school
nursing demonstration is being put
on in the schools. One of the duties
of the nurse is weighing and measur-
ing each child inspected. Red stars
are given those who are within one
pound of normal weight, and the
pupil considers this marked distinc-
ton. Those who do not come up to
the standard are advised in regard to
the proper diet and more children
are anxious for their bowl Of oat-
meal than ever before for they do
not care to have their playmates bal
ancing the scales at the normal
weight when they are from five to
ten pounds below par.
Miss Countryman makes notes Of
the nourishment taken by the pupil
and says the reason for the malnuti-
tious child is principally faulty food.
Not that the children of Blackfoot
do not have the food they should,
but they are either not eating it
properly or they are sometimes given
the wrong kind of food to build the
child up. The principal diet of the
children this past week for breakfast
has been the old familiar tune Of hot
cakes and coffee. The boys and girls
who have been sticking to the Health
Crusade chores are the ones who
have stopped the coffee and tea
habit.
Appropriate Monthly Gain
Every child who attends school is
to be weighed monthly from now on
by their teacher and a class room
record Is to be kept. The school is in
possession Of two pair Of very up-to-
date scales for this purpose. The
average gain of. the school child is
approximately half pound month.
The malnourished child should gain
more than this in order to reach the
average weight for his age and
height. If he is not gaining at the
normal rate the parent should know
the reason why. The following rea-
Continued on page four
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
CHIROPRACTOR'S
ANNOUNCEMENT

P. G. Whistler and wife announce
the opening of their offices in the
Palace Drug Store building for treat
ment by the drugless methods, in
Guiding chiropractic, hydrotherapy
and electrotherapy.
Mr.. Whistler took a couse In
hydrotherapy and electrotherapy at
the Battle Creek sanitarium in 1902
3 and during the influenza epidemic
of two years ago they were practic-
ing in Rexburg. having constantly all
they could care for and did not lose
an influenza case. Mr.. Whistler states
that they made a standing offer to
forfeit 800 to anyone taking adjust
ment with them during the epidemic,
who took the disease at all after
treatment started.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
BONNEVILLE HAS
new COURTHOUSE
Expensive Structure
Built for Display In
stead of Efficiency

Bonneville county is just celebrat-
ing the competitor of their new court
house. 1t is good looking build
ing, quite expensive, substantial in
construction and a credit to the
county. 1t will leave good impress
sion with visitors if they are not of
the critical sort and should be good
advertisement to the county and the
Snake river valley. AS an economic
affair, as an investment, as a prac-
tical and useful thing, 1t is subject
to some criticism, but it is probably
what the people of Bonneville county
want.
Our criticism would be that it is
unduly expensive and unduly ex-
pensive to operate. It is built on
the plans that capitol buildings are
usually built on, with center dome
and a great vacant space under the
dome that is good only for promen-
ade.
The building stands on an eminence
overlooking Snake river, the ground
being somewhat higher at front than
it is at the rear. As one approaches
it he thinks it is one story build
ing with a good basement. II
viewed from either side or the rear
it looks like a two story building.
If one considers it two story build
ing then the ground floor is some
what underground at the front, but
on a level with the surroundings at
the rear and Sides It Is proper
toned for three story building, but
for lack of front they did not build
the third story.
The building was designed to be
three stories high and it was thought
it could be erected at cost of $780,
900. The question was submitted to
the taxpayers and they voted down
the bonds. They then submitted an
other proposition for bonding and
the people voted in favor of the
bonds. The third story was left off
and they erected the building, but
did not have funds enough to COM
plete it.
Z All of the offices are large and
beautiful, some of them seemingly
Continued on page 8
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
H. G. TAvEY GOES EAsT

H. c. Tavey, manager of the
Brown-Hart company, il on his way
east to attend the national conven-
tion of retail merchants and the ma
tional convention of silk manufactur-
ers which meets in NeV York next
week.
Mr.. Tavey is making this trip
partly to study market conditions to
get the right idea of whit to buy,
but more especially to study the con-
ditions of supply and demand, manu-
featuring and finance and tfensDor-
tation conditions, which when dnder-
stood give a pretty good foundation
for solving the merchandising prob
lens.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
HENRY FORD IS
MADE DEFENDANT
in LIBEL SUIT
$5,00O,000 Damages
Asked for Publication
in Dearborn
Independent

The praecipe in a $5,000,0O dam
age suit against Henry Ford and his
paper, the Dearborn Independent,
was filed in circuit cour by Morris
Gest, theatrical producer, who al
legged an article in the Independent
on January 22 contained "libelous,
slanderous and false statements
concerning Mr.. Gest and certain
stage productions he had handled.
The article mentioned in the suit was
said to have attacked "Aphrodite"
and mecca" in particular, terming
them the most salacious spectacles
ever shown in America"
The article which was alleged to
have been libelous was quoted in the
praecipe. It asserted that the Ameri-
can stage was "under the influence
and control of a group of former
bootblacks, newsboys, ticket specula-
tors, prize-ring habitues and Bowery
characters"
After saying "Mr. Gest stalks be-
fore his fellow Jews as the most sue
cessful producer of the year." the
quoted article declared that Mr.. Gest
was not great producer, but a
"great panderer to a public whose
taste he has been no mean factor in
debasing." Gest, it said, sold news
papers in Boston and in 1906 was a
member "of a notorious gang Of
ticket speculators, who were the bane
of the public"
"There is nothing in Gest's charac-
ter to indicate that he would ever
contribute anything to the theaters'
best interest,"" the article said, and
also declared that "the story 81
Morris Gest is the last one inP the
world to use as a success story of
the type Of immigrant boy who be-
came great theatrical producer
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
ENGINEERS GIVE
ESTIMATE ON new
WATER SYSTEM
Cotton & Wilson of
Idaho Falls Lay
Plans Before
Council
STOP FIRE MENACE
Increased Pressure and
Lower Insurance
Rates Will Result

The city council had a long sitting
on Tuesday evening and did not ad-
journ until after midnight. They
went thru the routine business acted
on the bills and then took up con-
sideration of the engineers report
on the proposed new water system.
The engineers are Cotton & Wilson
of Idaho Falls and the report makes
quite a book with maps and blue
prints inserted. They have estimated
for a new system to be laid, accord
ing to the blue prints it would take
considerable space to describe, the
cost of the new system being esti-
mated at $4,000 If they use the
thin steel pipes or $243,OO0 If they
use the heavier cast iron pipes. They
say that with the installation of the
new system 1t will reduce the rate
for fire insurance from II per cent
to 20 per cent and give fire protec-
tion to greater scope as we'll as an
improved protection because Of the
improvedor increased pressure or
volume of the water. For example,
in some tests made in the present
system show that when they open
one tap to throw water on fire they
could maintain pressure of forty
bounds, but when second tap was
opened the pressure fell to three or
four pounds. Under the new system
they could maintain pressure of
eighty pounds for as much as six
pounds working simultaneously.
The present system shows a net
profit of about $500 month serving
the few people that 1t is capable Of
serving. The new system is made to
supply population double the pres
ent size or 10000 people which it is
expected to reach within the next
ten years. The estimates contem-
plate the use Of two deep wells with
large pumps and steal tank ntnty
feet high for storing 100000 gallons
of water.
Their estimates indicate that the
new system would practically take
care of itself by a steadily increasing
revenue that would eventually retire
the bonds. 1t would mean simply
that the city loans its credit by issu-
ing bonds to get money to build the
system while the increasing revenues
from the system would pay the oper-
ating expenses and gradually pay of
the bonded Indebtedness. 1t would
give pure water and deliver it under
pressure to large numbers of fam
lilies who do not now have any water
service at all and make the city much
safer in regard to the fire menace.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
SPECIAL COM
MERCIAL CLUB MEETING

There will be special meeting of
the Blackfoot Commercial club this
Thursday evening and the men OF
Blackfoot and vicinity are all in
vited to be present. A discussion OF
the plans for the year 1921 will be
in order and every man with an idea
which he wishes to present or any
recommendation will be welcome.
It is also in the nature of get
acquainted and get together and the
younger men of the town especially
are invited to be present. The men
who are in business for themselves;
the men who are in business for the
other fellow; the men who hope to be
in business; the men who have the
welfare and development of the COM
munity at heart are all cordially in
vited to be present.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03

Bingham county was the last one
in the state to allow its warrants to
sink below par in the present finan-
cial disturbance. For many years
the banks have been favoring the
county warrants, keeping them at
good investment or not and one year
par whether they were regarded as a
ago conditions seemed to justify
dropping below par, but the banks
hoped to protect the public credit
further and thruout the year 1920
they kept taking all warrants as pre-
sented, paying 100 cents on the dol
lar. Last fall considerable money
was expended for Improvements on
the fair grounds, all worth the
money, but it rgeatly exceeds the
amount of outstanding warrants and
the local banks acting under a mis-
understanding Of when they were
likely to be redeemed, cashed them
at par as they were presented and
overloaded and are carrying more Of
the county burden than they feel that
they can afford to. County warrants
pay Z per cent interest while cash is
worth 10 per cent here and in almost
any direction from here money is
loaning for more than 10 per cent.
1t is loaning at IL per cent in Salt
Lake City; it is loaning at II per
cent in New York and local bankers
say there is no place in the Union
where they can sell the county war
rants, either of this or any other
county, without accepting a heavy
discount. Ready money is the thing
that all financial and commercial in
stitutions are seeking and making
sacrifices to get. The Federal Re-
serve Bank is not taking on county
warrants. Warrants of this state are
said to be selling in Boise at 80 cents
on the dollar and warrants Of most
Of the counties range from 80 cents
to 95 cents on the dollar. We are
informed that the banks in Poca-
tello are not handling the Bannock
county warrants excepting as an ac-
commidation to their depositors and
customers and then they discount
them from per cent to 10 per cent.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
Another Drive Coming
SUPERINTENDENT OF RES
ERVATION ASSUMES DUTIES

William Donnor, an old-time resi-
dent of Pocatello andNfor ten years
assistant to Major A. VI. Caldwell
when he was superintendent of the
Fort Hall Indian reservation, arrived
in the city Saturday to BECOME gov
ernment agent at the SAME station.
Donnor has only recently received
the appointment to take the place
made vacant by the resignation of
Superintendent Aschmeyer; He has
been connected with the construction
division Of the Indian sertice.
The appointment Of kMr. Donnor
meets with the approval Of old citi-
zens here and they state that the new
chief is very capabN in his admins
tration of affairs
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
LOOKING FOR MOST
VIRTUOUS GIRL

. Probably the most harassed
. official in France today Is
. Mayor Tejuter of the Sixteenth
. Paris ward, who is charged
: under a bequest with the
: awarding of $4,000 to "the
. most virtuous girl in the dis
: trict."
: Heirs of the donor, Nine.
. Pauline Wattine, lost their suit
. when they contested in court
. December 81 that the bequest
. should annulled on the ground
: that no mayor could properly
: adjudicate in such a matter.
. The district town hall is now
. besieged daily by aspiring
. mothers with daughters of all
. ages, sizes and degrees of
: beauty.
. The prize must be awarded
. within a month.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
WILLIE DENIES HE
SWALLOWED SERPENT

). Willie Johnson of Failfield I
: denies that he has swallowed q
: snake. Also authorities at the
: Tennessee company hospital In :
: a statement back up Willie.
: The snake story has been
. current several days. 1t reached
: Birmingham today. 1t was said :
: that while playing with his dog
: while his mother was attending :
: a political meeting, the child
: had swallowed q snake, and
. that he had been rushed to the :
: hospital where operations had
!. been performed in an effort to :
!. capture the reptile. So pre- :
. sistent was the report that the :
: hospital was swamped with
: telephone calls and it was :
!. forced to formally deny today :
: that Willie had swallowed a
! snake.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA

E. J. Nogues (Frenchy) leaves to-
night for months visit in Cali
fornia with his relatives living at
Salina.
Mr.. Nogues says he has worked
for a year without missing a shift
and thinks he is entitled to q lay-of.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
Moreland Rabbit
Drive Exterminates
Thousands of Pests

On Monday afternoon there was a
very successful rabbit drive two
miles and half northwest of More
land and 1883 of the big Jack rab-
bits were rounded up and killed. The
feat was accomplished in two
separate drives; the first one rounded
up 30S3 rabbits, the second one,
1900. In addition to this great
many were killed that were not
counted; this probably amounted to
a few hundred so that the total
amount of rabbits killed that day in
the two drives was, something more
than 5000.
Another Drive Coming
The next drive will be held mile
and half east of Moreland at
George Leavitt's place and will start
at II o'clock Saturday, Feb. 5.
Everybody is invited to attend and
farmers in that locality will consider
1t a special favor for people to come
out and help round up the pests.
They are doing a great deal Of dam
age~that would be done to growing
crops IN. the spring and summer if
they are not killed of.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
REAL ESTATE OFFICE MOVES

Pierce Egan has moved his real
estate office into the Hopkins build
ing on Broadway over the Toggery.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-06-23

gladly reduce the tax burden. But
after painstaling Investigation
they have found that they can not
operate the schools at their pres
ent standard unless substantially the
same sum is appropriated for the
coming year that was expended dur
ing the past year.
The Leader can without hesita-
ton approve the announcement Of
the board The schools must be
maintained at their present standard.
Upton county can not take a back
ward step in education. The adj
vanees allowed in teachers pay are
just and fair and for the present
they can not be disturbed without a
shortening Of the term or the loss of
many of the county's most capable
teachers. The Leader believes that
sound public sentiment will approve
the action of the county school board
and that the county court will make
provision for the maintenance of the
schools upon their present standard.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-06-23
TYSON TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR

A dispatch Of recent date from
Knoxville states that Gen. L. D.
Tyson, who commanded the 59th
brigade, will enter the race for the
Democratic nomination for governor
in 1922, says one who is posted in
political matters.
when will Gen. Tyson make his
announcement 2" he was asked.
"Well, | can not say the time or
how long, but it will be before many
days. His friends are now busy all
over the state in his behalf, When
he announces he will be in the race
to the finish. He is going in the race
to win He will have the solid sup
port Of East Tennessee in this fight.
They believe that he can redeem the
state from the G. o. P. AS a party
man he unties all factions that have
been existing.
"From all over the state Gen. Ty-
son has received letters urging him
to enter the race, first, because they
believe he will make the state an able
governor, and, second, because he
can unite the party and lead it to VIC
tory"
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-06-23
TRIBUTE TO BOOKS

Fewer finer tributes to books have
ever been paid to them than this Of
Henry Ward Beecher:
when, one by one, loving stu
dent has gathered from all depart
ments of human learning multitude
of books, they are not alabaster
vases filled with the sweetest per-
fume Of the human soul, they are
living creatures; they are compan-
ions; they have received the homage
Of our best hours. We have hung our
hearts upon them, as they sprang
from the noblest parts of their
authors, they are clothed with the
noblest associations of our own lives.
Nothing can give more serenity to
old age and so fortifies against in
yard or outward woes as collections
of good books. The young couple
who are wasting their income in a
mad effort to keep pace with all
that shifting fashion demand in
clothes could insure far greater hap
piness for the future by investing in
modest library as they 20 along"
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-06-23
q AM THE FARMER"

Il am the provider for all man
kind Upon me every human being
constantly depends.
"A world itself is builded upon my
toll, my products, my honesty.
Because of my industry, America,
my country, leads the world. Her
prosperity is maintained by me; her
great commerce is the work of my
good hand; her balance of trade
springs from the burrows Of my farm.
"My reaper brings food for today;
my pillow holds promise for tomorrow.
I'm war | am absolute; in peace
am indispensable-my country's sur
est defense and constant reliance.
81 am the very soul of America,
the hope of the race, the balance
wheel of civilization.
when I prosper men are happy;
when / fail the whole world suffers.
Il live with nature, walk in the
green fields under the golden sunlight
out in the great alone, where brain
and Drawn and toll supply mankind's
primary need. And try to do my
humble part to carry out the great
plan Of God
even the birds are my compan-
ions; they greet me with symphony
at the new days dawn and chum
with me until the evening prayer is
said.
IF it were not for me the treas
uries Of the earth would remain Sc
curely locked, the granaries would be
useless frames; man himself would
be doomed to speedy extinction or
decay.
Through me is produced the en-
ergv that maintains the spark Of life.
II rise with the early dawn and re-
tire when the chores Of the world
are done.
Il am your friend
II am the farmer" Stuart Star.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-06-23
Very respectfully,
(1w) MRS ANNA R. CARY,
REMARKABLE STORY
TOLD BY A PRIESI

Anthony Gorek. priest Of an inn
poverished Polish parish at New
Chicago, India native of Germany
and under indictment in connection
with the theft of $1,0O0,0O0 at CEN
trail office in Toledo, Ohio, Febru-
airy II, related to a jury in the
United States district court how he
was brought into the plot by Wanda
Urbaytis, one of the Is defendants
now on trial.
Father Gorek, his voice choked
with emotion, explained how he spent
the money obtained from cashing one
Of the 81 900 bonds, declaring his
parishners were starving. He put
the money in the bank for their
needs, bought S55 worth of candles
for his church and distributed the
rest for expenses and necessities for
his parish. He paid three sisters
their monthly allowance Of S75 a
month, he said.
Rev. Gorek told the jury he buried
most of the $4,000 in stolen bonds
given him by Wanda Urbaytis, sent
ST 900 to his brother in Germany and
gave three to John Paulek, parish
Toner. He pointed Paulek out among
the defendants on trial.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-06-23
TO THE VOTERS OF Upton
COUNTY:

SINCE many of my friends and
former pupils have solicited me to
run for the office Of register of
Iipton county, | do hereby announce
myself as candidate for said Of
flee.
Women are fast coming to the
front and are being elected to inn
portant official positions in county
and state. Why should Upton
county women not do likewise?
/ have served the public as teacher
for the past So years and now / am
asking the support OF the voters Of
the county, and especially of my
boys and girls of whom there are
quite number.
assure you | shall appreciate
anything that you can do for me in
the way Of casting your vote for me
and soliciting others to do the same.
In case | am elected shall dis
charge the duties of office as faith
fully and conscientiously as it is in
my power to do.
On account Of being in school work
from August to May, | shall not be
able to canvas In person, therefore
/ am taking this opportunity to place
my name before you for register Of
Upton county
Very respectfully,
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-06-23
THE SCHOOL BUDGET

Members Of the county board Of
education have a very difficult task
in the making Of the school budget
this year. Under a very wise law
passed BY the last Legislature, the
board must make and submit this
budget 10 the July term Of the coun-
ty court, showing the amount Of
money that will be needed for the
operation Of the schools for the COM
ing year.
It will be recalled that last year
the board increased the pay Of the
teachers of the county schools, this
being done under the direction Of a
resolution unanimously adopted by
the county court. Without this i'm
crease It would have been utterly
impossible to have secured teachers
for the schools Of the county. No
one denies the necessity for adequate
compensation for teachers, the justice
of it being admitted by all. But
these are times Of depression. Taxes
are burdensome upon the people and
especially those Of the rural sec
tions. Every effort must be made
to reduce the tax burden, but the
schools must not be impaired. 1t
would be unthinkable to suggest a
cutting down of the term. Educa-
tion is the most important-the very
highest duty and obligation Of re-
public. The whole future welfare Of
the nation depends upon an intelli-
gent and educated citizenship. 1t
is money well spent when appropri-
ations are made fer an efficient pub
lie school system.
The members of the county board
Of education are farmers and busi-
ness men. They are familiar with
business conditions. They would