The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23

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1 obtained q permit and went to
teaching and I had never been far
Their than the seventh grade in
school. My sister, older than l, was
offered q place in the village school
and she wrote to DR.. House and told
him she had taught school in Iowa
and was offered place here and
asked about o certificate or permit,
and sent the letter down by train.
The next train back brought q per-
NIT that read about like this: ITO
Whom Concerned: This will author
lie Miss Medora B. Trego to teach
/ in any of the schools Of Bingham
county, Idaho, until further notice."
|. BY the time that letter got back
Ito her she had already marshaled q
class in the frame building which l
believe constituted part Of the resi-
dence of the Sweet family and stands
east of the Baptist church and the
Central school. AS nearly as I can
remember she had In her class,
Charlie Bergman, Dickie Watson,
Henry Watson, Julia peck, Lit
Sagers, Lester Sill and some more,
and she was to receive all Of $50
a month salary. 1t cost 81 q day
1 to live at the only hotel and 1t con-
tanned q bar and express office as
we'll as meals and rooms, so she
went over and lived at the home of
the Rev. ]. p. Morris, who lived in
q little bit of house just east of
where DR.. Mitchell lives, south of
the Central school.
J, The officers needed some station
cry, and they got samples from the
nearest places and finally placed an
order with the Republican Printing
company of Omaha.
The board received q petition from
the people Of Cedar Buttes, which.
/ believe is where La Belle and
Menan are. asking that . Justice of
the peace be appointed for them, but
John Donaldson was down from that
part Of the valley and he assured
the board that there was not per-
son in those settlements who could
take the test oath, 80 they took no
acton on the petition. ~ 4.
! They received also a petition from
settlers In the vicinity. OF Battle
creek asking for. "a, bridge at the
Battle creek crossing, and suggested
that 1t could probably be built for
$3.50, and the board replied that
whenever the people Of that vicinity
wanted q. bridge bad enough to sub
NIT them q proposition to do GER
tain job of work for certain speci-
fic sum Of money, they would con-
slider it. You see it was bid to
the people there to build the bridge
on the $3.50 plan we have heard so
much about In recent years here.
!; The people of Blackfoot, always
alive to opportunities to make their
town a trade center, petitioned the
board at that early date to build a
wagon road from Blackfoot to the
gold mines of the Caribou country
and the board took no action. That
road has been talked of at times
thru all these years and couple
of years ago a road was built over
the range thru Wolverine that con-
meets with roads leading on into the
Caribou country. Now just think
what a mistake it would have been
. to build a wagon road of that kind
over. all those mountains at that
time to tap gold mines that pinched
out. s#&
They granted a license to some
body to operate a ferry across the
North Fork of Snake river at Twin
Buttes, between Market Lake and
1 Rexburg, and to charge IS cents
for a footman, rs cents for saddle
horse and Is cents for span of
horses and wagon; Is cents extra
for each extra span.
At the April meeting, w. N. .Shill-
ing informed the commissioners that
he was ready to hand them, a war
ranty deed for two acres of land for
a site for the court house, and they
went out and looked around and &C
cepted, whereupon, he executed the
deed. The next morning heard
some men in the bar room at the
hotel cussing the commissioners a
plenty for locating the court house
away out there in the sage brush
and sand dunes, so far from town
and so far from the saloons.
The board advertised for plans
for a court house and at later
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plans on the table, they made a close
study Of them and selected one that
came nearest to what they wanted,
and they made five changes In it.
They ordered that there should
be door connecting the basement
with the back yard direct.
They ordered that there should
be nine feet of space between the
floor of the Jail and basement and
the ceiling.
They ordered that on the ground
floor there should be eleven feet be-
tween the floor and the ceiling.
They ordered that on the second
floor there should be fourteen feet
between the floor and ceiling and
twenty feet between the floor and
the crown, there where the chanda-
liers are hung. @
They ordered that the size of the
building should be changed from
81 feet inches east and west to
&C feet inches, and that the other
dimension should be left as .indi-
Gated in the blueprints, 81 feet 6
inches. Hj4gG II
| With these FIVE changes, they adj
vertised for bids, in the Eagle Rock
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