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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
Short History of the
County of Bingham
Was Reviewed

The officers of the commercial
club arranged for a stenographic re-
port Of the tax meeting held Mon
day evening, and part of it is here
with submitted. There was such
large attendance that there was not
room for them in the commercial
club rooms and they went to the
Court House and used the court
room. e. M. Kennedy presided, and
the following are the remarks and
addresses:
Kennedy-The purpose of this
meeting tonight was to discuss the
taxes and so we thought we would
meet and try to make some sugges-
tions or make some plans whereby
we could form conclusions Of our
own by comparisons, so Mr.. Trego
has been appointed to 80 back vari-
Gus years and see whether or not
our salaries are excessive to what
they were In years when farm prod
ucts were practically, the same price
as they are today. Now We have
with us before We call on Mr.. Trego,
the mayor Of Blackfoot, Mr.. Peck,
perhaps he can give us q talk on
1t, II he will come forward we would
like to hear q few remarks from him.
Peck-I didn't come over here to-
night to speak, /, expected to be
listener, and to endeavor, to gain
some information whereby we might
in some way handle the affairs Of
the city. better than in the past, as
we have no doubt done our share of
making mistakes. I think I can
speak the wishes Of the county COM
missioners, as we'll as for the city
counsel in saying that we would only
be too glad to have the public give
us some light whereby we might
handle the public affairs with less
expense account than at the present
time. However in attempting
thing Of this kind there. are a good
many things to consider. When the
present city counsel took over the
government last spring l had the
Continued on page eight
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
Interesting As Well As
Profitable Address
Is Delivered

At the farmers meeting Monday
afternoon at the Orpheum theatre
Representatives of the university ex-
tension department and the Oregon
Short Line made short talks on their
work Of spreading information to
help for better agriculture, and they
were followed by Farmer Smith, who
spoke for ninety minutes, and COM
manded close attention.
There were 10 people in the
house at the opening OF the meeting
and they fled in by ten and twenties
until there was full house Of about
400 people.
The trend of Mr.. Smiths talk was
to the effect that the family on the
farm got along best and have the
most comforts and luxuries II they
diversity their farming; II they raise
mixed crops and some garden and
fruits, and have cows and pigs and
live out OF the garden and the cellar
rather than out Of paper sacks and
tin cans. He gave It % his observa-
tion thru . period of forty years Of
close observation at nrst hand among
the farmers that those who run to
one crop or to -two-orsthree products
are idle part of the year, they have
only one or two pay days. their soil
gets poorer all the time, and they
seldom or never have q bank ac-
count.
He said it was an unfailing sign,
that a family having no garden or
orchard or pigs and cows, they have
q poor table, no matter how much ex-
pense they lavish upon 1t, and that
the family that claim they do not
have time to bother with garden and
hens and cows is a family that owe
grocery bill or do not have much
on the table or both. When he finds
a man who says he does not bother
to raise Strawberries and that he
can buy them cheaper than he can
raise them, he knows he is very close
to a family that don't have them,
but who kid themselves with the
" Continued on page four
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
STENOCRAPHIC REPORT OF THE MEETING
Held MONDAY EVENING; TAXES DISCUSSED
OFFICER LOSES MOTHER

George H. Fisher Of the state in
surance department was passing thru
from Boise to Rexburg Monday
morning to hear the evidence in a
death claim, and when he stepped
of the train at Rexburg he was in
formed that his aged mother, who
lives at Rigby, had just died of heart
failure. She had been preparing to
have George with her for supper that
evening and to stay over night at
her little home, and after his train
passed Rigby the end came.
Mr.. Fisher walked into the court
room and heard evidence all day and
caught the next train back where
the corpse lay. He said 1t was
hard day for him.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
ELECT OFFICERS or
!. COMMERCIAL CLUB u
Annual Report Givel
by Secretary Thurs
day Evening

AT the meeting of the Blackf0Ot
Commercial club held Thursday
evening the secretary made his IN
nual report and new officers were
elected for the coming year. III II
The treasurer's report showed that
the club had done about $500 worth
of business during the year, not H.
cluding the cost Of special projects
such as baseball, teachers institute
and the great Ft. Hall project. The
officers a year ago took over the or
ganization with a small amount of
money in the treasury and bills all
paid, and they turned 1t over or will
turn 1t over to their successors in
about the same condition.
Wendell Gagon, treasurer for the
baseball club, reported it detail all
the financial transactions of the year
amounting to several thousnd dol
lars and showed that there was still
95 cents in the treasury, an unheard-
of thing in any previously made
baseball report, it was said.
Secretary's Annual Report
Since the third Of February, 1921,
and down to the sixteenth of Feb
ruary, 1922, the principal activities
of the Blackfoot Commercial club
have been as follows:
Early in the year the club decided
that, Blackfoot ought to retain a
membership in the base ball league
and appropriated 1925 to be used
for baseball purposes. Later in the
season the league ceased to function.
The officers were solicited to place
a $35 advertisement and write-up in
the publication issued by the Mon
tana Advertising Service company,
and the matter was published and
paid for.
A contract that had been entered
into with the American City bureau
for reorganizing the commercial club
and guiding us in getting larger
membership, was repudiated on ac-
count of the Misrepresentation that
had been made to secure the con-
tract, and because of the drastic
terms named. The drive which they
contracted to put on was Cancelled.
Early in the year it was ordered
that whale of a big sign" be
painted on the side of the building
showing the location Of the club
room, and this order was never car
ried out. H., st
The officers of the club put on a
membership drive and increased the
membership to 100 members, and
there are at the present time ninety,
five members paying their dues.
When the city council were con-
sidering the matter of building a
new waterworks and water system,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
BIG MEETING HELD
MONDAY EVENING
Much Information Was
Given; No Resolu-
ton Adopted

The meeting called by the COM
mercial club for Monday evening
filled the club rooms to over flowing
and they went to the Court House
and filled the court room. They sat
from about o'clock until midnight
and there was something doing all
the time. There was a grand mix
.ture of information and entertain
ment, history, facts, figures, repartee
and argument and even at that, most
of the fellows did not get a chance
to have their say. Most of them
sat thruout the evening and consid-
cred it an interesting affair, and
many of them said it was almost
too good a show to be put on free.
The fellows who got roasted or were
made the butt Of joke took it all
in good part and came back with
"a smile, and after the meeting ad-
journed people stood around in little
groups finishing of odds and ends.
1t was one of the meetings where
no resolution was adopted, and every
motion was voted down excepting
the motion to adjourn, and that was
not made until almost IL o'clock.
Some of the people who attended ex-
pressed the opinions next day that
1t was a better show than any they
had attended for long time, and
that il the club could stage another
program as full of interest as that
one they could collect the usual ad-
mission fee for good vaudevilles and
have a packed house. - AZ
Some people went to the meeting
expecting wages to be cut as a re-
suit, and others went expecting taxes
to be cut. Some even expected that
something was going to be advocated
looking to a reputation of present
tax levies, and one man said he
thought there was prospect of tax
payers getting refund.
Those who staged the meeting did
not expect to accomplish anything
more than to get few hundred peo-
pie to study the tax and financial
conditions confronting the commun-
ity, and secure better understand
ing of what needs to be done. So
long as people have SO many differ
ent ideas Of running the local gov
ernment as were shown at the meet
ing, there is need for more meetings
to spread information.
A mass meeting seldom accom-
plishes. anything sound for the rea-
son that when it is open for every
body to talk, the audience is tired
out by the time all the speakers have
their say. Then at a second meeting
the same people could get down to q
common understanding Of the prob
lens involved and agree on some
things that could be done to smooth
out the troubles. a1i< as
For the purpose Of further spread
ing the information that was given
out in the meeting, this paper is
publishing the report made by the
stenographer Of the commercial club,
IT ID left to the readers to Judge Of
what was bunk and what was sound.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
AGRICULTURAL LOAN
COMPANY IS FORMED
Expect To Be In Full
Operation By
March

Ine ldanO Agriculture Loan com
pany was formed at Pocatello, Feb
Is, with an authorized capital stock
of 100000 for the purpose of pro
viding farm loans to assist the agri
cultural interests Of the state to gel
back on their feet.
This makes it possible to obtain
for Idaho war finance corporation
advances to the maximum amount oi
$10,000,O0O, and is the one great
outstanding successful move for the
aid of the farmer of this state.
The capital stock of 100000
shares was valued at $40 each and
of the total, $4,000 was sub
scribed this morning. Representa-
tives of sixty banking institutions
gathered here yesterday to discuss
this project and the various counties
in southeastern Idaho were divided
into five zones as follows: No. /,
from Victor south and the upper
Snake River valley; No. 2, Bingham,
Bonneville, Butte, Custer and Lemhi
counties; No. 3, Bannock, Caribou,
Bear Lake, Franklin, Oneida and
Power counties; No. 4, Twin Falls,
Cassia and Minidoka counties, and
No. 5, Camas, Blaine, Gooding, Lin
coin and Jerome counties.
The following directors for the
corporation were named: Carl Val
entine, president of the First Ma
tional bank of Pocatello; Joe T.
Young of the Idaho Wholesale COM
pany of Pocatello; R. J. Comstock
of Rexburg, Frank Bergman of
Blackfoot, A. S. Stanger of Idaho
Falls, James Russell of Twin Falls
and George Wedgewood of Gooding.
Joe T. Young was chairman of the
meeting in Pocatello and Governor
D. W. Davis was one of the principal
speakers. The plan, as outlined for
the action of this relief corporation
by E. G. Bennett; secretary of the
war finance corporation agency for
Idaho, is as follows:
/. Capital subscribed by banking
and business interests sufficient to
commence business. This capital
shall be augmented BY each borrower
subscribing 10 per cent Of his loan
to capital stock. 4
2. Management of the company
shall be Independent of the bor-
rover, and to accomplish that a vot-
ing trust shall be created covering
the stock subscribed by borrower.
Securities Designated
8. Loans shall be made on chat
tells used to produce the crops and
the crops themselves. The initial
advance under the loan shall not ex-
.ceed the loan value of chattels,, and
there must be left remaining from
the fund an amount sufficient from
which to make advances for seeding
and planting of crops, midsummer
expenses and harvesting costs.
4. In addition to the usual board
of directors and executive committee,
there shall be in each zone or county
a local committee which shall make
recommendations to the loan COM
pany on all loans originating in their
districts.
The articles of Incorporation were
filed this morning and the company,
1T is expected will be in full opera
tiOn by March 1.-Pocatello Tribune.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
FATHERS AND SONS BANQUET

n Wednesday evening in the parlor
Of the Baptist church the Philathia
class gave banquet honoring the
fathers and sons. There was over
100 men and boys present. Mr..
Beachy gave toast to Sunday school
work; Mr.. l.. M. Capps on sons;
Wallace York on fathers; Enoch
Wilson and Van Capps on young
men and Max Smith to the boys in
the teen age; DR.. Jackson to the hos
tesses. A
The toasts as well as the banquet
were exceptionally good, and was en-
.joyed by everybody present.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
HORRIBLE AIRCRAFT DISASTER

The Roma, the largest semi-rigid
airship in the American navy was
wrecked Tuesday at Hampton Roads
by the filure of the rudder to work,
and the ship came in contact with
high. tension power lines that set it
aflre.
The, vessel was 41O feet long and
was filled with hydrogen gas that
took fire from the electric wires and
made an immense volume of fame
and heat that caused the death of
thirty-four men, eight were badly
injured and only three escaped un-
hurt.
The vessel was built in Italy at
a cost of more than $1,000,000, and
was equipped with many liberty mo-
tors and was making a test trip.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
FARMER SMITH AT
THE HIGH SCHOOL
Addressed Students and
Teachers Monday
Morning

Farmer c. l.. Smith addressed 445
pupils and teachers at the High
School auditorium Monday morning
for fifty minutes and held their at
tention while he went down the line
Of opportunity with them. His ap-
peal was to make good use Of their
education, and not to 60 to school
for the purpose of making living
without work, but to enable them to
accomplish more when they work by
reason Of their education. His ad-
dress was interspersed with illustra-
tions and examples that drove home
the important points and lessons in
his talk.
Others were introduced for re-
marks or for the sake Of getting the
pupils acquainted with the men of
the company who are doing the i'm
portant work of today. Editor Trego
presided and introduced T. r. Cam
mack Of the university extension de-
partment of the state agricultural
work, who spoke for few minutes;
J. A. Reeves, the general freight
agent of the Oregon Short Line, was
present and his work was explained
briefly and he talked for a few min
utes regarding the moving of freight
between supply and demand; A. F.
Weston, the local freight agent, was
presented as was also Joel Priest,
the Industrial agent of the Short
Line; and r. A. Smith, supervisor
of agriculture for the Union Pacific
system, OF Omaha. 1t was a run
ming fire Of jokes and merriment be-
tween the school and the speakers,
and some farm literature was dis
tributed that was recommended as
having special value for boys who
are ambitious to do something we'll
in making things grow.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
DEATH OF MRS. CARSON

Mrs. Agatha Carson, aged seventy
three, died Saturday night at, tbs
residence Of her daughter, Mrs. Cecil
Martinell at Blackfoot. The remains
we're taken to Iona for burial Tues
day.
Mrs. Carson Is survived by i've
daughters and. two sons, Mrs. Henry
Hales Of Park City, Utah; Mrs. James
Just OF Presto, Idaho; Mrs. Agatha
Hoge, of Iona; Mrs. William Twitch-
ell and Mrs. Cecil Martinell OF
Blackfoot; Charles H. Carson of
Idaho Falls; and James Carson of
Kimball, Idaho.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
ASHTON DOG RACES

Two special trains passed up the
road for the Ashton dog races on
Wednesday, the fiftieth anniversary
of the discovery Of the Yellowstone
park.
Six teams contended for honors,
one being Miss Lydia Hunt, a girl
twenty years old, who made the run
of twenty-five miles but did not win.
Tud Kent, winner of the 1921 race
took first honors, William Kooch
second and George Pilcer third.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23

Miss Lena Babcock has accepted a
position as sales lady at the Seeger-
Bundle company.
Mrs. Hattie Johnson returned the
first of the week from q week at
Salt Lake CITY buying goods for her
millinery store.
N Lafe9 Parkins, who has an infec-
tion in the knee, was taken to the
hospital at Salt Lake Tuesday for
treatment. He was accompanied by
his mother.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
THE "CHIMES
OF NORMANDY" WEDNESDAY

The young people of the M. I. A.
presented the Chimes of Nor
mandy" in the basement Of the Tab
ernacle on Wednesday evening un-
der the management Of Mrs. James
Duckworth and Mrs. Belle George
Wood.
It was a comic opera, we'll put on
and quite spectacular, and those who
took part deserve much commenda-
ton for the way it was presented.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
MEETING AT SPRINGFIELD

The people of Springfield appealed
to the Short Line officials to let
Frank Smith talk to them on his way
back from Aberdeen on the fourth
of March, and they have arranged
to hold the train for at least one
hour on that day.
The train will arrive at Spring
field at 1890 and the audience is
to be at the school house and the
whole party will be scooted over to
the school house for a speech.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
TROOP THREE NOTES

Troop three left Saturday morn
ing at 8 o'clock on a skiing hike out
on the foot hills on the reservation.
Many of the boys said they had more
fun that day than they had ever
had before in their lives.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23

Y Mrs. o. w. Long Of Arco and Mrs
- C. Wrighter OF Lewiston were in
''lacpfoot Tuesday on their way to
tlmaha. Mrs, urighter went via
rutte, and Mrs. Long via Green
pfver ana planned to meet at desti-
nation. 9!sl't
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
STOCKMAN- RESIGNS

Mike Barclay, who for ten and a
half years has been manager for
Austin brothers stock interests in
this part OF the country, has resigned
SO he can have more time to look
after his own herds. ~
James A. Hooper, assistant secre-
tary for the firm Of Austin brothers
was up from Salt Lake the first Of
the week to complete the transac.
tions and records. @sAs@si
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23

Mr.. and Mrs. "A. E.. Heasley were
W Arco the last OF the week attend
Fe.t5s3'. te tr,e ~ : :. ! ~: thasr dsughte-
to Mr.. o.. w. Putnam Of that place
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23

Van Gossett came over from Good
ing the first Of the week.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-03

The wampum makers purchase
CARLOAD OF conch and clam shells
for Is cents. delivered at Their
doors, and when a shell Of sufficient
thickness is selected It is broken
with hammer and chiscl into cubes
of about two inches in length and
onethird OF an inch square. The
piece of shell is then securely
wedged into a wise made of two
pieces OF wood. connected with a
hinge in the center. The jaws OF
the wise are opened and the shells
inserted. Then the wise is closed
tightly and held by pressure
against the grindstone. In this
manner, in a short time. the edges
of the shell are rounded, and then
the drill IS brought into use.
The workman sits at a three
legged table. the top OF which is
fashioned from the half of log,
the under side still retaining the
original bark covering. and afiX-
ing one end of the drill to play
freely in button on his jacket,
he next takes up whalebone bow,
similar to the kind used by jewel
ers, and. giving the cord a turn
about the spool on the drill, he
works the bow rapidly back and
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-03
Salute the Flag, But How?

The st. JohnSbury Caledonlan
calls attention to the very evident
fact that the average crowd either
knows or cares nothing about pay
ing respect to the American flag.
1t says:
If it is ignorance or carelessness
that causes men to omit this duty
to the flag, conditions are indeed
deplorable. A few eX-service men
in civilian clothes saluted from the
sidewalk as they used to in the
army-the regulation army salute.
This is wrong. When one is in civ
ilian clothes and the flag passes by,
he should simply halt, stand erect,
and removing the hat or cap, hold
it against the left shoulder.
This shows that at least a part
of the apparent disrespect is due
to uncertainty as to what is due
the colors as they pass, and, by the
way, while the contemporary
speaks with some authority on the
subject, it might be said in pallia-
ton of the failure of the ordinary
civilian to uncover that he has new
er been taught to do so.
In school we learned the flag
salute a very different thine from
the above formula. Service men
learned the military salute. All men
with a smattering of military in
formation or drill attempt some
sort of a salute. If this is all wrong
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-03
BY OSCAR p. AUSTIN.
Statistician, The National City Bank
of New York

During a Bolshevist labor dis
pute in Moscow recently some
printers, turning out paper money
for the Government, struck for
higher wages The strike was fin
ally settled by an agreement that
each printer should be entitled to
the amount of money he could
turn out in one hour each day,
printing the notes for himself not
higher in denomination than 500
rubles.
When, in comparison, we con-
slider how Uncle Sam manufac-
lures our money down in WASH
ington and at the several minis
and how carefully every penny is
guarded against loss this loose
method of money making in Rus
sia at present seems almost unbc-
lievable to good many Amer
leans.
A Private Mint
Yet it is a fact that at the pres
ent day a certain form of money
once widely current in America but
now quite unknown to most peo-
pie is manufactured in this coun-
try in just as free and easy a man
ner as anything the Bolshevists
might attempt Moreover, it is no
more counterfeit than the Russian
coinage. although our Government
has nothing to do with its produC-
ton and does not in any way rec
ognize it as specie.
Quite recently there was placed
on exhibition in the Bergen Coun-
ty, New Jersey, Historical Society
a private money making machine
which had been in use for nearly
one hundred years, no less than
four generations OF one family EN-
ploying it for extensive money
making purposes. With this an
nouncement the question naturally
arises: What are the operatives Of
Uncle Sans Secret Service doing