The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-03
BULL EDITOR MAKES
DENIAL

statement OF Lle lOp-SIueu cCoHVAJ
being exercised down at Bull and the
editor of the newspaper there takes
an awful fall out of us because he
says we did not have things right al
/ all and then he goes further and
raises the dickens by calling us lot
of things which in his judgement will
probably help the matter some. He
asks in his paper If we are man
enough to tender an apology.
People of gentle birth generally
tender an apology when they find ii
is due whether it is demanded or not
provided however, that they can find
anybody worthy of rendering it tC
and it seems that Bull has not put
forth a representative yet who could
earn an apology unless spilling lot
of abuse would earn it.
Editor Hall adds some items to
the history of their undertakings
that we did not possess before. He
prints a picture of their new city
hall built in 1920 at cost of $780,
900 and prints floor plan of the
building which indicates that they
are operating municipal billiard
hall, a municipal reading room, a
municipal lounging room and two
committee rooms that take UP more
than half of the floor SPACE of the
building. This makes it all the more
interesting. Editor Hall says that
Bull is live town, and prosperous,
and it must be- we have heard that
having municipal water works was
indicative Of live town, but never
thought of municipal lounging hall
and municipal billiard hall being
evidence of it,
Mr.. Hall is new man at Bull
and may not have learned yet of the
various kinds of Indebtedness we had
in mind when we spoke so disastr-
ously. We were referring to their
school district debts, their municipal
debts, their highway district debts,
their irrigation district debts and all
the Indebtedness of the community
at large, but Editor Hall speaks only
of the debts owed by the city govern
ment and says he has consulted City
Treasurer Tom Fritcher and that
Tom tells him the Indebtedness of
the City of Bull. is only $495,000
made up Indebtedness for the city
hall and sewer and pavement invest
ments chiefly. The treasurer says
they have a sinking fund to take
care of the general Indebtedness and
that there are no past due warrants
against the city. The treasurer has
never been placed in position where
he could not pay Indebtedness as the
same came due. He speaks of one
bonded Indebtedness of 1921, 900 and
another of $274,000 and the infer
ence is that they have just got done
spending one of these amounts,
therefore one could hardly expect
that the trouble would have started
yet over warrants presented for pay
ment. We are mighty glad that
Bull has such bright prospects for
the future and such glorious pres
ent. Editor Hall says it is a good
live city and he ridicules our express
sion when we said Village of Bull. :"
He would have us know that a
community of 1900 people is not a
village, but city.
Inc edlLOf or this little paper has
been trying to train his reporters not
to speak of Blackfoot as This City,"
we have been telling them that we
did not approve of using that express
sion except in speaking of commun-
tiles that were large enough to be
entitled to be called city, but now
since Editor Hall has called us down
and informed us that Bull is city
and that the word village is highly
improper, we don't feel so much
Inundated when our own paper
speaks of little old Blackfoot as a
city.
lackfoot people can breathe
easier now for with a population OF
1890 and bonded Indebtedness of
about 100000 and proposal to
take on more Indebtedness for water
system and pavements some of them
have felt as if we were getting into
the reckless class; not so. Since
Editor Hall has spoken we know that
its all right and perfectly safe since
Bull with less than half the popua-
ton is only in debt little more than
twice that amount and is feeling
good about it. All hail the City of
Bull, the terminus of the Twin Falls
branch. Newspapers at Bull, Idaho
please copy
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