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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
ROUNDUP AT HENRY
AUGUST II, Il, l3
Hard Surfaced Track,
Big Grandstand
Many Riders

Henry, Idaho, is putting on its
second annual roundup August IL.
12 and 13 under the leadership of
Walter Hogan, chairman; James
Chester, secretary, both OF Henry
post office and Claude B. Going, Bill
Larkins and Elmer Williams, men,
bers of the committee.
Henry is in the stock country ly-
ing in a high mountain valley north
of Soda Springs and at the upper or
eastern end of the Blackfott reser-
voir, where two arms Of the lake ex-
tend back in depressions against
the range, leaving peninsula ex-
tending into the lake with groves
and springs and great meadows be-
tween. Scores of sprins rising In
one locality bearing mineral water.
have built up mound of thirty or
forty acres on which trees grow to
deck the place and furnish delight
full camping places for the merry
makers at the roundup. To the
westward for twenty miles the reser-
voir sparkles in the sun and at even
ing myriads of water fowls sport
upon the bosom of the lake as the
sun sinks to rest. Back in the range
just above Henry Is low divide con-
Meeting with Grays Lake, and a
canal cut thru the divide allows part
of the waters of Grays Lake to flow
into the Blackfoot reservoir. 1t is
part of the plan of the government
and the Greater Fort Hall Project,
to utilize the waters of both valleys
via the Blackfoot river and thus in
crease the water supply in the Port
Neuf valley, the Buckskin basin
above Ft. Hall, Lincoln valley east
of Blackfoot, Presto Bench, the res
ervation and Machaud flats between
Pocatello and American Falls, max
ing new empire with Henry, in the
center of the stock country and also
the center of the water supply.
The race track laid out in 1921 Is
to be improved this year with some
Lhard surface, and the grandstand Is
being enlarged. More corralls and
chutes are built. Three wells are
being sunk on the roundup grounds
and eating accommodations greatly
increased over last year. Citizens OF
the community are taking an inter-
est in the undertaking and are CIV
Continued on page eight
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
UNMASKED men
ROB RICBY BANK
Escape in Lexington Car
Take to Brush
One Caught II

At lis O'Clock Thursday, two un-
masked young men entered the JEFF
ferson County National Bank OF
Rigby and held up the cashier, John
Adams and his assistant, Claude
Hawkins. They bound them and put
them into the vault from which the
bound men sent out burglar alarm
with an apparatus installed there for
that purpose. The burglars escaped
with about $500 in gold and cur
rency, in big red Lexington car.
Sheriff Lufkin and Marshall Newt
Adams of Rigby Immediately got on
their trail. They notified Sheriff
Obey and Deputy Jack Empey, OF
Idaho Falls and they tried to cut
them off at Iona, but were held UP
by a bad culvert and arrived there
about five minutes after the bandits
had passed thru. Sheriff Obey fol-
lowed close on their heels until they
were forced to abandon their cal
near Soda Springs and take to the
brush, leaving about 500 of the
$4,000 taken. Sheriff Simmons
Deputy Sheriff Ezell and I. H. White
of Blackfoot were notified and
Joined in the search.
1t was then getting dark and II
was decided to wait until daylight
and the posses returned to Soda
Springs, where all trains were
watched. A man was noticed climb
ing onto the train headed for Mont
pelier and the authorities there were
notified. Billy Finkler was taker
from the train and brought back te
Soda Springs. He denied that ne
knew anything about the ROBBERY, but
was identified by Mr.. Adams and
his assistant Of Rigby, by his voice
and features.
Officers are still searching for the
other man, who is thought to be
Sacksie, or as he is known around
Rigby, "Swede Reed" The officers
say that man who saw the car gt
by on the Soda Springs highway wal
acquainted with him and identified
him as the other man who helped iI
the robbery.
Both young men were from Idaho
Fails and have served in the peni
tentiary before.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
GOVERNMENT AIDS
DUBOIS PROJECT
Ask Aid of Bingham
Butte, Fremont and
Madison Counties

The boosters of the Dubois
country have for some time been
working hard to get recognition
from the government on the Dubois
Irrigation Project and have at last
succeeded The government is now
participating in the cost of the pro-
ject to the amount of one dollar to
every two put up by the community.
Under this arrangement the U. s.
reclamation crews are in the field
making a survey with $5400 to
work on and $2400 more will be
needed before it is finished to in
sure good results and to cover the
obligation completely. If this sur
vey proves the feasibility of the
route a definite means will be had
of restoring quick and lasting pros
perity in the various communities
involved. Clark county already has
appropriated thru its commissioners
$4,000, Jefferson $4,000 and Bon
neville $1,000. Besides there, the
prosperity resulting from the pro-
ject would cover Bingham, Butte,
Fremont and Madieon counties.
A million dollars would be ex-
pended in each of the later two
counties and the former two would
get a large extension of irrigation
development. The survey alone will
result in over $1,000 being spent in
each of these counties and in as
much as the benefits would be
mutual, the Clark county CONNER.
cial club asks the civic bodies OF
Arco, Blackfoot, Rexburg and St
Anthony If they will not have q dele
cation appear at the next meeting Of
their county commissioners and re-
quest that an appropriation Of $3.50
for each county be made to carry on
this work and help to complete the
allotment of $2400 which is now
lacking.
Briefly the project contemplates
canal thru Madison county and Ere
mont county towards the project K
the west. This canal is to handle
the surplus Jackson's Lake water o1
100000 acre feet or thereabouts. II
addition there is contemplated thu
construction of the Island Park res
ervoir with plan to furnish any ad
diti0nal water the old users in thu
upper Snake river valley may re
quire.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
DISPLAY OLD FLAG

An old American flag, owned by
G. w. Spaulding, which was used
during the Civil war, was displayed
on the war veterans float in the
parade on the Fourth of July in
Blackfoot.
Sixty-one years ago, Immediately
after the fall Of Fort Sumpter, Mr
Spaulding and his mother decided
to make an American flag for the
army. Instructions for the making
were given them by an army officer
and the work began. The flag when
finished was six feet long and three
feet wide and had thirty-one stars,
the number of states then in the
Union.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
MURRY VISITS BOYS

Friday and Saturday, July and 8
Mr.. Murry, district club leader for
southeastern Idaho and Max Field
baum, local leader, visited the young
club members in Thomas and More
land.
The majority of the boys are do
ing good work and show prospects
of excellent crops and of getting
some prizes at the fair this fall. All
of the Thomas boys are raising po-
tatoes and those in Moreland, pigs
Arrangements were made for a
club meeting at Thomas Wednesday
at 7.3O p. m. at the school house and
at Moreland Friday at 7.30 p. m
at the school house.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
FRIEDRICH BUCHANAN INJUREB

Fredrick Buchanan, principal OF
the Groveland school, was thrown
from a horse while leaving the
Kluckholn ranch, where he Is living,
for Blackfoot. He was carrying a
bundle which 1t is supposed fright
ened the horse and 1t threw him
while of his guard.
Mr.. buchanan was Knocked un-
conscious and when the doctor was
called it w&s found that he had con-
cussion o. the brain and the case
was very serious. Mr.. Buchanan's
brother from northern Idaho was
called and he arrived Wednesday.
DR.. !. o. Hampton is attending the
patient and 1t is thought that he will
recover.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
County Seat Suffers From Bad Canal Management

More hundred
and lack of hdon the spring OF them M
due other Part the trouble with the lawns that there % too h much snadf % a @
have the outlets their bitches into their lawns large enough let the water pass m daP 5
keeping from the and kills plant growth lhe % way Keep an %
to put
ground becomes hard and ls and the dies One trouble with ackfoo lawns
perfectly and the stands inches deep places while yet d
the bitches and the backs and wastes into
they seeded but become Lawns Bacoot have several knds OF
boy beard
Back the Snake valley have about 500 Of the most beautiful
in
his values and to demand for real have about 1o9 beautiful lawns the
the undertake make these 500 fine lawns this
the this column there will be an araee teng
j
the Boot Commercial club and all residents OF the community
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR HERE

c. G. Moore, lieutenant governor
and candidate for election to the p0-
sition of chief executive was in
Blackfoot Thursday, and spoke at
the Kiwanis club dinner at the Cot
tage hotel.
Mr.. Moore has been in the senate
number of terms and is one OF
Idaho's big progressive men. He has
a reputation for havng the courage
Of his convictions and is man who
says what he means and acts a con-
sistent part. His home is at St
Anthony, where he has been en-
gagged in farming and real estate
business for long time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
LEAVES FOR BOISE

DR.. B. H. Hudson left Saturday
for Boise to attend meeting OF the
state dental board of which he is the
president. After week there he
will go on to Los Angeles to attend
the National Dental convention.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
BIG CONCERT FRI,
DAY AT CITY PARK
Proceeds to Go For
Swimming
Pool

The following program has been
arranged for the open air concert
Friday evening at 8 o'clock, which
the Camp Fire Girls are giving at
the city park for the benefit of the
swimming pool:
Opening number ........Reed Sextette
Short address ..........J. H. Andersen
Violin and cello duet ...........-......
Ronald and Glen Hammond
Vocal solo -.....-........Ann Burggraf
Piano solo ........-...Lorraine Seeger
Ladies chorus Under the
direction of Mrs. O. E. Buchanan
Violin solo Ronald Robbins
Dance ....-...............-.--....-..-.. bar
bara Holbrooke and Jean Collins
Vocal solo Mrs. Howard Henderson
Piano solo ............Clarice O'Neal
Quartette, calrinets -.........-..-.......
&C. A. Stout, Walter Patrie,
Charles Fisher, Leland Chapman
Reading Vivian Mcdonald
Ladies' quartette Mrs. s. w. Will
son, Mrs. M. N. Austin, Mrs. G.
E. Jackson, and Mrs. Ed Thoreson
Dance ..........................Ma Marie Dore
Piano solo Gladys Robbins
Solo ........................ Arthur
Violin solo ...ROnald Hammond
Camp Fire Girls quartette ...--.....
Lucille DeHart, Leona Bying- .
ton, Clarice O'Neal, Olene Wilson
Reading .................Sylvia Murphy
Piano solo ..Annis Hopkins
Vocal solo ............M Mrs. Leo Hood
(of PocatellO)
Reading Amelia Hansen
Reading with violin obligato ......
.........--...-1. AiarOld Dehay
Vocal solo .........-Mrs. M. N. Austin
Piano solo .............Alice Chubbuck
Camp Fire Girls chorus, closing
number.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
ANOTHER STILL TAKEN

ANOTHER STILL TAKEN
Sheriff Simmons and deputies af-
rested H. L. Malcom at Shelley
Thursday on the charge Of possess
ing a still in his home. He has been
taken to Pocatello, where his case
will be heard by U. s. Commissioner
Theodore Turner.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
WENT TO THE COAST

G.. A. Powell, Charles Wicks Sr.,
George Wicks and Edgar Capps left
Saturday for an auto trip into
Oregon.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13

Rev. and Mrs. Stringfellow and
family left Thursday, July 13, for q
two weeks trip thru the Yellow.
stone National Park.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
COMMISSIONERS AND
ENGINEER REPORT
Give Reasons W h y
Road Contract Was
Let Without Bids

The commissioners of Bingham
county let contract for some work
on the road to Lincoln creek and did
it without advertising for bids and
without asking for bids to be SUBJ
mitted without advertising in the
usual way. They have been criticised
for it and there were expressions of
dissatisfaction from men who
wanted to get road work or road
contracts and did not have any op-
portunity to bid on it. The matter
has been told and re-told until 1t
took on alarming proportions, and
the editor of this paper concluded
that II the alarming stories as told
were true, the people ought to know
it, and IL the reports were alto
gether false, it would be only simple
justice to the commissioners to hunt
up the facts and pass them to the
public. Accordingly we interviewed
the three commissioners and county
engineer, E. Milton Christenen, and
the following is their statements OF
the case:
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-13
The LINCOLN Creek Road

The Lincoln Creek Road
For many years the people Of
Blackfoot have been asking that a
better road be made to connect the
east end of Rich lane with the road
thru Lincoln valley and thus enable
Continued on page s
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-12
.SILAS JOHNSON
Is TRANSFERRED
Popular Pastor of Lee Street
Methodist Church Named
Pastor At Savannah

SAVANNAH, Jan. IA tele-
gram received here this afternoon
states tha, B;skor Warren A Can
dler toGay named Rev. Silas Johnson
Of Lee Street churrh. Americas, to
be pastor of Trinity church in this
city. Rev. L. A. Harrell, of Tai
bottom, was named to succeed Rev.
johnson in his present charge.
The appointment followed a
conference of Bishop Gambler and
the members Of his cabinet at Val
dosta, the meeting having been call
ed to fill number of pastoral va
cancies.
Rev. johnson is we'll known in Sa-
vannah, where he frequently visited
during recent years, and announce
ment of his appointment as pastor
here is received with general salts
faction among Savannah Methodists
Trinity church is one of the leading
congregations of the city.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-12
Some Aspects of the
Farmers Problems
BY BERNARD M BARUCH
(Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly
(Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly
BY BERNARD M. BARUCH

the rest of the community. Rather
should we consider Agriculture in the
light of broad nationals policy. just
as we consider oil, coal, steel, dye
stuffs, and so forth, as sinews of ma
tional strength Our growing popnla-
ton and higher standard of living
demand increasing food supplies, and
more wool, cotton, hides, and the rest.
With the disappearance Of free or
cheap fertile land, additional acreage
and increased Yields can come only
from costly effort This we need not
expect FROM an impoverished or IN
happy rural population.
II will not do to take narrow view
Of the rural discomfort, or to appraise
Il from the standpoint of Yesterday.
This is peculiarly an age of tiux and
change and new deals. Because a
thing always has been so no longer
mems that Il is righteous, or always
shall be 50. More, perhaps, than ever
before, there is widespread feeling
that all human relations can be Inn
proved by taking thought. and that it
is not becoming for the reasoning ami
NAL to leave his destiny largely to
chance and natural incidence.
Prudent and orderly adjustment of
production ana distribution in accord
ance with consumption is recognized
as wise management in every business
bot that of farming. Yet, l venture
TO say, there is no other industry in
which it is so important to the pub
lic-to the city-dweller-that produc-
ton should be sure, steady, and IN
creasing, and that distribution should
be in proportion to the need. The IN
organized farmers naturally act blind
ly and impulsiyely and. in conse-
quence, surfeit and dearth, accompa-
MED by disconcerting price-yariations,
,harass the consumer. One year pota-
toes rot in the fields because Of excess
production, and there is a scarcity OF
the things that have been displaced
to make way for the expansion Of the
potato acreage next year the punish
ed farmers mass their fields on some
other crop, and potatoes enter the
class of luxuries and so on
Agriculture is the greatest and fun
damentally the most important of our
American industries. The cities are
but the branches of the tree of ma
tional life, the roots Of which go deep
~ into the land. We all flourish OF
decline with the farmer SO, when We
of the cities read Of the present uni
versal distress of the farmers, of 9
slump of six billion dollars in the farm
value of their crops in single year
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injury to themselves or the c0mmu-
nifty; but if the farmer restricts his
output, It is with disastrous cOnse-
quences, both to himself and to the
community.
The average farmer is busy with
production for the major part of the
year. and has nothing to sell. The
bulk of his output comes on the mar
ket at once. Because of lack of stor-
age facilities and OF financial support,
the farmer cannot carry his goods
through the year and dispose of them
as they are currently needed. In the
great majority of cases, farmers have
to entrust storage-in warehouses and
eleyators-and the financial carrying
Of their products to others.
Farm products are generally mar
keted at d time waen there is a con
aestion of both transportation and
fnance-when cars and money are
scarce The outcome, in many in
stances, is that the farmers not only
sell under pressure, and therefore al
a disadvantage, but are compelled tt
take further reductions in net returns
In order to meet the charges for thu
service of storing, transporting, flnanc
/ ing, and ultimate interchangeable
charges they claim, are often exces
siye. bear heavily on both consume
and producer, and are under the con
troll of those performing the services
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of their inability to meet mortgages or
10 pay current bills, and how, seeking
relief from their ills, they are plan
ming to form pools, inaugurate farm.
ers' strikes, and demand legislation
abolishing grain exchanges, private
cattle markets, and the like, we ought
not hastily to brand them as economic
heretics and highwaymen, and hurl at
them the charge of being seekers Of
special privilege Rather, we Should
ask if their trouble IS not ours, and
see what can be done to improve the
situation. Purely from self-interest,
if for no higher motive, we should
help them All of US want to get back
permanently to "normalcy;;" but is ii
reasonable to hope for that condition
unless our greatest and most basic in
dustry can be put on Il sound and solid
permanent foundation? The farmers
are not entitled to special privileges
but are they not right in demanding
that they be placed on an equal foot
ing with the buyers of their products
and with other industries?
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The whole rural world Is in fer
ment of unrest, and there is an UNI
paralleled volume and intensity of de-
termined, If not angry, protest, and an
omin0us swarming of occupational con
ferences, interest groupings, political
movements and propaganda. SUCH Il
turmoil cannot but arrest our atten-
ton. Indeed, it demands our careful
study and examination. 1t Is not like
~ that six million aloof and ruggcdiy
independent men have come together
and banded themselves into active
unions, societies, farm bureaus, and so
forth, for no sufficient cause.
Investigation Of the subject concla-
sively proves that, While there is much
overstatement of grievances and mis-
conception of remedies, the farmers
are right in complaining Of wrongs
long endured, and right in holding that
it is feasible to relieve their ills with
benefit to the rest Of the community.
This being the case Of an industry
that contributes, in the raw material
form alone, about one-third Of the ma
tioAal annual wealth production and
is the means of livelihood of about 40
per cent of the population, it is OBJ
vious that She subject is one of grave
concern. Not only do the farmers
make up one-half of the nation, but
the well-being of the other half de-
pe2ds upon them.
So long as we have nations, wise
POLITICAL economy viii aim ut large
degree of national self-suiiiciencv and
self-containment. Rome fell when the
food supply was too far removed from
the belly. Like her, we shall destroy
our own agriculture and extend our
sources of food distantly and precari-
euSly, if we do not see to 1t that our
farmers are well and fairly paid for
their services. The farm gives the
nation men as well as food, Cities
derive their vitality and are forever
renewed from the country, but an inn
poverished countryside exports intelli-
gence and retains uninteiiigence.
Only the lower grades Of mentality
and character will remain on, or seek,
the farm, unless agriculture is capable
of being pursued with contentment and
adequate compensation. Hence, to en-
bitter and impoverish the farmer is,to
dry up and contaminate the vital
sources of the nation.
The war showed convincingly how
dependent the nation is on the full
productivity of the farms. Despite
herculean efforts, agricultural produc-
tion kept only few weeks or months
ahead of consumption, and that only
by increasing the acreage of certain
staple crops at the cost of reducing
that OF others. We ought not TO for
get that lesson when we ponder on
the farmers problems, They are truly
common problems, and. there should
be no attempt to deal with them as
If they were purely selfish
of clear-cut group anti
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PERJURY CHARGE
.'CAINST STEWART.
Colquitt County Police Chief At
tackled In Removal Petition
Filed With Commissioners

MOULTRIE, Jan. II. - Alleging
that j. 0. Stewart, chief Of the Col
quit county police force in the trial
of two different cases swore falsely
and eontending that he was an artiVe
participant in the lynching Of John
Henry Williams, a negro who was
chained to stump near Autreyville
las summer and burned to death, a
number of citizens of Colquitt coun-
ty, in a formal petition, have urged
the commissioners to remove the of
ficer.
Just what day the, commissioners
will hear the case is not known at
this time, but because of the gravity
of the charges it is generally assumed
here that an early date will be named.
The petition goes into great detail as
Ito Stewards alleged connection with
the lynching of Williams last June.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-12
THALEAN ACADEMY NOW
HAS $50 REGULAR PUPILS

R. A. Nicholson, one of the trus-
tees of Thalean Academy, was a
visitor in Americas today and while
here told of the splendid progress
now being mede by that school. Tha-
lean has reached high-water mark
Of $50 pupils in active attendance,
he says, which bears out the informa-
ton that schools all over the county
are better attended this session than
ever before. The rural population of
Sumter county is very proud of the
fine country schools maintained by
the board of education, the CONSOLE
dated schools being especially pro-
ductive of results wherever they have
been established
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-12

Ostrich was known to the ancients
as the "camel bird"