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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
Youngsters Enter I
tain Crowd at Bout
Monday Evening

On Monday night the sport fans
at Blackfoot held forth at the Ameri-
can Legion hall with Abe Caplin
matched with Henry Jones, the
Provo boy, and some good prelimin-
aries.
Lowe and Wilford engaged in four
rounds of boxing and it was draw,
with broken nose for Lowe. Wright
and Red Smith gave fifteen-minute
exhibition and then followed two
small boys, aged five and seven years,
who pulled on their little gloves and
put on an exhibition that was a
scream from start to finish. They
were the sons Of Mr.. Lowe Of More
land, and he had evidently given
them some fine training, acting, per-
haps, on Roosevelt's advice, Buy
your kid a punching bag and teach
him how to use it," They did all
the fine maneuvers that older ones
do, and were so cute about them that
they kept the house in an uproar.
When it came to the main event,
Caplin and Jones went to the mat
in a wrestling match and in fourteen
and half minutes one fall was re-
corded on Caplin, but following that,
Jones suffered a broken bone in his
arm and forfeited to Caplin.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
FARM BUREAU MEETING

A general meeting was held at
the Farm Bureau office Friday, Feb.
10, to outline program of work
for the Farm Bureau in Bingham
county for the coming year.
The communities were represented
by their leaders and constructive
program was outlined.
Among the activities to be carried
on thruout the county we're:
Potato improvement, thru seed
plots and seed certificatoin.
Grain Standardization.
Poultry improvement.
Dairy improvement.
Pasture improvement.
Boys and girls club work.
Control Of sparrows, rabbits,
ground squirrels, gophers, alfalfa
weevil and grasshoppers
The Farm Bureau believes in de-
veloping specialized industries, in
different localities of the, county,
adapted to them, such as red, white
and alsike clover seed production,
certified potato seed production,
certified small grain production;
having a cooperative organization
to handle each product.
The Farm Bureau is maintained
for the benefit of the farmer, so get
behind the organization and make
1t work for you.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
Farmer Smith Will
Lecture In Black
foot Next Monday

Farmer G. l.. Smith will address
the high school students next Mon
day at from 1890 until 12 o'clock.
A 2 o'clock he will address the
public at the Orpheum theatre, talk
ing on the subject of better farming
and better country homes. Mr..
Smith does not advocate that the
farmers shall work harder, hut that
they shall plan more carefully and
raise more of some of the things
that are best and most delicious and
most neglected on the new farms and
ranches, and thereby secure many
more of the comforts of life.
For long time Mr.. Smith has
been in the employ Of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation company,
travelling over the northwest and ad-
vising people about better farming.
Last fall the Union Pacific borrowed
Mr.. Smith to talk to the people in
their territory, and now he Oregon
Short Line has borrowed him from
The Union Pacific, and he is spend
Ing ten days in the upper Snake
river valley commencing Monday,
Feb. 20, and ending at Aberdeen on
March 4.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
City Council are
Working on a New
Garbage System

The city council are working or
q new garbage ordinance that will
be ready to present for the consid.
Grafton Of the public soon. They are
also objecting to taking the pas
senger train of of the Mackay
branch.
Professional bookbinders were en-
ployed to repair the books at the
library and put new backs on several
hundred volumes that need 1t. The
new binding does not bear the title
OF the book, and somebody that is
handy at lettering has to be en-
pioyed to put them on, SO the titles
can be read as the book rests on the
shelf.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
Former .Blackfoot
Boy is Engaged in
Business in Germany

Boyd Bumgarner, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Bumgarner, now Of
Nampa, but formerly of Blackfoot,
is in business at Wiesbaden, Ger
many, as local manager for the In
ternational Harvester company.
Mr.. Bumgarner married beauti-
full French girl and brought her to
Idaho, and after a year they re-
turned to France to make their home
near Bordeaux. The harvester COM
pany put him in charge of the Wies-
baden branch and now we have the
American boy and the French girl
settling down in the enemy's coun-
try and soliciting their business.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
ASYLUM WILL TRY
SCIENTIFIC FARMER
University At Moscow
Asked To Supply y
II. . Right Man

The management of the Blackfoo,
asylum has concluded to put 9
scientific farmer in charge of all
the farming and sock on he place
and have applied to the university
at Moscow to supply them with the
right kind Of man.
The management of the institution
have reached the conclusion that
scientific farming is more profitable
than ordinary farming, and that the
state ought to employ that kind Of
a farmer. The university at Moscow
has been preaching the doctrin for
many years that ecientific farming
is more practicable and more profit
able and that they turn out scien-
ific farmers at that institution. Every
time the legislature meets the uni
versity sends strong lobby down to
Boise to ask for larger appropria-
tions for everything connected with
the institution, including the agri-
cultural extension work and the
teaching of scientific farming. They
claim they turn out farmers that ac-
complish such wonderful results that
1t Is a profitable thing for the state
to keep on turning them out. At
this time this other department Of
the state government is taking them
at their word and at their
own estimate of themselves and are
asking them to supply the asylum
with that kind Of a farmer. They
have left it entirely to the univer-
sity to make the selection and to
send the man down who will make
good and the whole responsibility
Is going to be his. He will have
farm Of some $50 acres under culti-
vation with plenty of water, herd
Of stock, plenty of horses and help
to operate the farm and it will all
be up to him. An inventory will be
.aken Of everything that he is re-
'ponsible for, he will be charged with |
everything that is expended in his |
enterprise and he will be given |
credit with everything that he pro-
luces and we shall find out whether |
he asylum farm is a profitable thing |
% operate or not. We shall also
ind whether the university can live
Up to its claims concerning the abili-
les of the young fellows 1t makes
nto practical scientific farmers. We
lave not yet been Informed as to
Who the gentleman is, If he has been
elected or who will be selected, but
he matter has been under consid-
,ration for some time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
Former Blackfoot
Man Engaged In
Lumber Business

w. H. Scott and wife are located
at number 6437 Sixty-third street,
S. e. Portland, and Mr.. Scott has
formed q business engagement in the
lumber business with he Minor Lum-
Der company, that specializes in rail-
road and car materials and has Of
fees in New York, Chicago, Phila-
delphia, Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. 5,,
The SCOTS operated a farm near
Pingree during the war and re-
sponded to the big urge to raise more
Of everything, but they got tired of
bucking a losing game in the big
readjustments, and he spent a couple
of seasons in the oil fields of Wyom-
ing and hen went to the coast. x
Mr.. Scott says the. lumber busi-
ness is new to him, but he Is enjoy
ing his work and making a compre-
hensive study of the business.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
Weise Gets Pension J.,
for Minor Injuries
Received in the War

The United States veteran bureau
OF Seattle informs us that a pension
has been granted to John B. Wiese
OF Blackfoot on account of his hav-
Ing been disabled in the war.
The pension granted is placed at
$8 a month, and 1894 back COM
pensation. The letter does not state
whether the $S.94 is a total or a
monhly allowance to be paid up from
the time he was disabled.
Announcement is also made that
one millions dollars day is going
into the hands of former service men
or their dependents.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
government, they do not get counted

government, they do not get counted
| at all.
Last week it was known that the
commissioners would be in session
Monday, and that they would heal
any one who wanted to speak on the
fair, and many country people said
they were going to gather up some
Of their neighbors and come in
advise the commissioners to hold 9
fair this year. Not one Of them
came, and the board very properly
concluded that nobody iii the country
wanted fair this year, but that
some people In the country wanted
It closed for the year, for they had
said so. '9.'' ~. 1.
For several weeks an agitation has
been going on regarding the pro-
posed expenditure OF, $4,000 for
road work this year on tsie combina-
ton plan with state and federal gov
sernnaents, but so far as w can learn,
nobody from the country has taken
any part in the jobsof trying to solve
the problem of where To build this
new road. A few people in the
country have said they ala not want
TO see Blackfoot set anything in road
construction. because. they said,
Blackfoot was always hogging
things. Those people have not sug-
gesteds any place where they want
the road work done, so the net re-
suit Of their influence would be to
put it as far from the county seat
as possible, and this will probably
be done. The fact of the matter is
that Blackfoot received very much
less than it's share of the bond
money a couple Of years ago and
gave the country the benefit Of 1t,
but men who have been talking as
quoted above, either do not know the
facts or are embittered over some
thing and seek to do what harm they
can. The matter Of road work or
The location of the next new road
will be discussed at Mondays meet
ng, and people from the country are
cordially invited to be present and
% take part in the discussion Of all !
Iusstions, A year ago, Wapello was
ne only live commercial club In the
country on road questions, and Wa
'ello will probably be the only COM
nunity represented at the Monday
Meeting.
q The commercial club rooms are
yer the Pearson Grocery store, and
he entrance is at the side of the
uilding on Broadway. Go up the
road stairway and enter the first
oor on the right in the hall. The
Meeting begins at s o'clock and for
his occasion everybody is as well
ONE as the president and the men,
ers of the culb.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
MEETING Held AT
ABERDEEN MONDAY
200 People Gather To
1 Discuss Program
For Year

Last Monday. afternoon about 20(
stockholders of the Aberdeen-Spring
field Canal company gahered at the
Duncan theatre for the twelfth an
nual session to discuss the. company's
business program for the coming
year. 4
H. L. Lowe, chairman of the board
Of directors for the year Just past,
took the chair with I. J. Wenger act
ing as secretary. g. 80, /
The same problem that has come
before the stockholders at every ses-
sion for many years In different
forms, that of ditch capacity" oc-
cupied greater part Of the after
noon. The final outcome of the dis
cussion being that the mater was
turned over to the board of directors
with instruction that they appoint
q committee from their body to. con-
fer with their attorney and the at
torney for the old company and en-
deavor to reach a final settlement
without litigation If possible.
fOf vital issue to those present, was
the matter Of paying, the first In
stallment Of $4,000 on the Ameri-
can Falls dam. which was due last
February, but for which amount only
$3,766.66 has been paid. Realizing
the utter impossibiliy Of making
this payment at the present time or
even paying the interest, the stock
holders gave this important matter
much time and thought. @
The stockholders expressed their
desire to remain among the irriga-
tion tracts who are sharers in the
American Falls reservoir, but
dreaded adding more debt to their
already heavy load. During the dis
cussion, H. L. Lowe turned the chair
over to D. H. Blossom and took the
floor to explain that other companies,
who wished to take up this contract,
desired to know as soon as possible |
what the Aberdeen-Springfield COM
pany intended doing and were press
ing the board for decision. It was |
further explained that to date the |
government had not pressed the COM
pany for the first payment or the in
terest which had been promised at |
the annual meeting a year ago but
It would be impossible for the gov
ernment to finally decide whether or
not the dam could become a reality
Continued on page eight
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
New Ward House is
to be Erected in
Blackfoot Soon

The First ward meeting house was
nearly destroyed by fire a month
ago, and the insurance loss has been
adjusted at $4,000. The insurance
was carried by the Mormon church
thru it's insurance commission that
consolidates all its insurable prop
erty in the western states and lets
it to the lowest bidder among re-
sponsible insurance companies of
the United States. Last year the
Home Fire Insurance company of
Utah was the successful bidder and
church buildings in Idaho are in
sured to the amount of about a mil
lion and half dollars, this one that
burned being among them. The Salt
Lake temple is insured for $380,OOO
along with the other church property
in Utah.
Bishop Jeppson went to Salt Lake
recently to adjust the insurance and
to secure plans from the church
architects for. a new building. He
brought home a number of plans
for brick edifices, and the building
committee of this stake are consid-
ering them, and will make a selec-
ton.
Bishop Jeppson says. that what
ever is selected will be something
that will be credit to the commun-
ity, just as good and appropriate in
its way and size as the tabernacle
at Blackfoot, but of course, not
nearly so large. The location of the
new church has. not yet been def
nitely settled. They may sell the
wreck of the old building and the
lots, and build on a new site. Some
OF the, young people of the commun-
ity are already raising money to put
into the building fund.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
KENNEDY RETURNS
FROM WASHINGTON
Trying to Get Loans Of
d War Finance
III Money

In the past two weeks, e. M Ken
nedy made trip to Washington,
New York, Pocatello, Boise, Elko,
New, then to Salt Lake. and went
to Boise Saturday night, all In the
interest OF an undertaking to secure
an arrangement for getting loans OF
war finance money. Men from all
the states in the union have been
trying and have all failed, but Mr..
Kennedy presented plan that was
different from any Of the rest, and
still entertains hopes of succeeding.
Mr.. Kennedy remained in Wash
ington for four days, and said they
were very busy days and full of op-
portunity to learn new angles Of the
situation confronting the country. If
sa% man had time to stop and listen
to what was going on IN hotel cor
riders and other public places he
could gain plenty OF information Of
various kinds, and all interesting.
Regarding the political situation,
he says there is lack of leadership
that Is noticeable, and an uncertainty
that everybody regrets. Wherever
anything is said about appropria-
points to delegations asking for ex-
points delegations asking for ex-
tensions of time on projects already
in operation and askes what is the
use to open new projects If the old
ones cannot pay their. obligations.
With Minidoka asking for extension
of time, American Falls wants ap-
to build dam, and one
blocks the other.
In New York and Washington, one
hears some talk about Cuban cane
sugar delivered in the United States !
at much less than we ever made it |
for, and they ask what is the use |
to try to sustain the beet sugar in
dustry If we can get cane sugar so |
cheap.
Mr.. Kennedy made the trip east |
in company with Ralph G.. Merit,
deputy director of the war finance
board, of San Francisco. The money
in the war finance funds comes from
The sale Of ships, and all kinds of
war materials that are being sold,
and the government has been trying
20 find some workable plan for loan
ing it to industries that have been
ruined by war conditions.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
COMMERCIAL CLUB WILL KEEP OPEN
HOUSE MONDAY NIGHT; PUBLIC INVITED
Broad Discussion of the Tax Problems and Living
'.. Expenses; Special Com
mittee at Work

Monday evening the commercial
club" will hold a general meeting
that Is to be attended by the mem
bership of the Retail Merchants as
sociation, the Rotary club and any
and all others interested in making
a review OF a situation that confronts
the whole country alike-the read
justment Of costs and wages In In
dustry and the readjustment Of
prices Of commodities produced.
Men have been appointed to speak
on different phases of these matters,
and they will make comparisons
covering different years. President
=. M. Kennedy Of the commercial
club stated at the meeting Of the
board few days ago that a crisis
has been reached and that It must
have the serious attention 5of all
thoughtful men. He says that ta1As
have scared so high that they have
commenced the confiscation az
property. and the conviction Il con-
stantly growing, that man cannnt
AFFORD to own property because the
taxes and upkeep and interest sor
the investment make it prohfbitiye.
Since the cost of government is t6o1
high 1t becomes the duty of all citi-
zens to analyze the situation, md
out what is wrong and undertake to
apply the remedy.
There is at the present time con-
siderable talk about the question OF |
whether or not the county commits
sioners should give up the fair or
go on with plans to put it on Ell
usual. A good many farmers anda
stockmen in discussing the matterJ
On the streets say they think it isi
? mistake not to hold a fair thiS4
year, but none of them 60 to thef
board of commissioners and tell4
hem that. When they tell it toI
In acquaintance on the street thatIi
ioes not count with the board. Com
missioner Williams says that many
men have come to him and advisedl
against having fair because taxes
ire so high. That kind OF stata-l
nent has some weight with the of-d
lcers, and If the men who want the
air do not want it enough to call
lp or go to the officers charged with
he responsibility, and say what they
hink, then there will be no fair
nd rightly so. The opinions of the ,
armers and stockmen of this county
re worth a great deal when they
re expressed at the right place, and
hey are regarded and respected ac- 4
ordingly, but when they are ex- j
ressed only as so much talk and {
OF delivered to any one charged {
nth the management of the local |
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
Secretary of the
State Farm Bureau
to Deliver Address

G. B. Ross, secretary Of the state
farm bureau, will address the farm
ers OF Bingham county in a series of
meetings beginning February 20.
He will discuss state and county ag-
ricultural problems. Come and
bring your friends.
Meetings will be held at the fol-
lowing places:
Shelley-Monday, p. m., theatre
building.
Firth-Monday, s p. m.
Pingree-Tuesday, p. m., school
house.
Riverside-Wednesday, 2. p. m.
hall.
Other meetings will be announced
later.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
RESPONSIBLE FOR
THEATRE COLLAPSE

The investigators at Washington,
D. e., have returned report that
the disaster at the Knickerbocker
theatre, when the roof collapsed and
killed a hundred people, was due to
faulty designing, faulty construction
and faulty inspection Of the roof.
and nine men have been arrested
and are being held while the grand
jury hears the evidence. 81
All theatres In the city are closed
pending inspections that shall prove
that they are not menace to the
public who enter them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
CAME IN ON skis

The Wallace brothers came in
from their ranch on Grave creek
Monday on skis, crossing the range
and covering the distance out to
BlackfOot in one day. f$4
The range is about 1000 feet high
and the snow lies very deep on the
high levels.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
DEATH OF MRS. SWAN BERG

Mrs. Swan Berg Of Rockford de-
parted this life at a hospital at Po-
catello Sunday evening, the twelfth
OF January, following surgical OPP
Grafton. She had been taken sud-
denly i'll on Saturday and was hur-
ried to the hospital. ,t,s ,r,l,
She leaves her husband and four
children. The funeral was cod-
Quoted from the Thomas meeting
house on Thursday afternoon, and
the remains were laid to. rest In the
Riverside Thomas cemetery.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
MONEY FOR FIT. HALL PROJECT

The house Monday passed the bill
appropriatiug $760,000 for the TT.
Hall project, 100000 of which is
to be made available at once. The
secretarv of the interior is to con-
tract with the settlers participating,
to enable them to secure the benefits
OF the water and to pay their proper
share of the cost.
The bill will now 60 to the senate,
and so far as we know, there is no
opposition to it.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
IRRIGATION MEETING
HELD AT POCATEL0
Some Prominent Men
Discuss American
Falls Project

Il To meet what is regarded as the
gravest crisis in the history Of Idaho,
a conference of representatives of ir-
rigation companies. and districts in
the Snake river valley was held in
PocatellO yesterday with state off,
cials, government reclamation off,
cials and men prominently identified
with the Idaho Reclamation associa-
tion. ,s s-.ss .E#5,
The object Of the conference was
to save the great American Falls
project. s#
| An agreement was reached to un-
dertake the formation Of a gigantic
district, for the purpose Of financing
the obligations Of irrigation COM
panies to the government in connec-
tion with the American Falls project,
and without interfering in any man
Ener with the present or future oper-
ating end Of any irrigation organiza-
tion.
The district will include all ter
riory embraced within these con-
tracts excepting sections already or
ganized as irrigation districts under
the laws of Idaho.
This means, II the results desired
may be obtained, that the whole
strength Of practically the entire
Snake river valley will be thrown
behind the financing OF the American
Falls project insofar as privately
owned lands are required to partici-
pate.
All Are Delinquent
Every company and district con-
tracing with the government in con-
nection with the American Falls en-
erprise is delinquent in It's payments.
due solely to general financial condi-
tions plus the low prices OF farm pro-
duce prevailing during the unusual
season Of 1921.
Secretary OF the Interior Fall re-
fused to approve the pivotal contract
with the power company, which gives
the government Its rights ON Snake
river water. unless these obligations
were met
This created an incompatible
crisis for Idaho, involving the aban-
donment Of the American Falls
project,
To meet 1t the Idaho Reclamation
association called the conference.
which held sessions afternoon and
'vening yesterday.
Various means Of financing were
discussed and 1t was finally agreed
Continued on page four
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
BLACKFOOT WINS
FROM POCATELLO

AT the basketball game between
Blackfoot and Pocatello at Pocatello
last Friday the Blackfoot girls won
by score Of nine to seven, and the
BlackfOot boys won by score OF
twenty-seven to nineteen.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-16
SETTLING THE INSURANCE.

Royal Jepson has. been at Salt
Lake City adjusting the stakes in
surance on the First ward meeting
house. that partly burned some time
ago. The loss was adjusted at
$4,000, and Mr.. Jepson says they
have not yet decided whether to re-
build it as meeting house or to
sell 1t for what. it is worth to be
used for oher purposes.