The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-11

the pump handle and the rest, seems
to me like a dead loss that
helped to keep me poor. All the
chasing back and forth to the house
carrying buckets of water n way
and air the other way seems like a
dead loss. All the whooping up the
fire to heat the water in the tea
kettle or the boiler, the fuel used
and the time spent in waiting for it
to heat added to our delays and ex-
penses. 1t has been an interesting
road following up with these time
savers, and l suppose there are
plenty that we might as we'll
have if we just noticed them. |
have in mind one thing to supply the
milk COWS with water in winter
without giving them a chill. I in
tend to extend a pipe to the COW
stable and where it rises to the
drinking trough, l will put in a coil
or set Of coils or a radiator in a con-
crete chamber under ground, and
have it so l can keep a lighted
lantern or some kind of oil heater in
it, and have just enough heat to
take off the chill. l can line the con-
crete with sheet asbestos to hold the
heat and keep it from passing out
thru the cement and the ground.
I will have to do some experiment
ing to guage the amount of heat to
get the right temperature of water
in the COW trough. l think it will be
an advantage; all these other things
are; If I had to go back down the
line and do without these other con-
veniences and labor-savers to where
I used to be, I think it would be al
most like going to jail"
A Country Garage
j.. ". McKercher built the Rose
garage in 1921. It is 30x32 in size
with concrete floor and well
equipped.
N. A. Smith is on the Walter Jack
man place and lives in the old house.
His engagements will keep him
there thruout the He came
from Nebraska and is somewhat un-
settled in his plans, but is looking
about and studying the resources of
the country to see what he will tie
up with after this year.
From the Seat of War
Edward Lock and family came
from that part of Russia that was
over run by the armies in 1914 when
H%inderberg was slaughtering the
Russians in his big drive, and the
Car estimated that there were from
eight to eleven millions of his sub
jucts hiking across fields ahead OF
the advancing armies, and suffering
from cold and hunger and their
homes in flames behind them. Mr.
Lock came to America in 1913, leav-
ing his wife at home southwest OF
Moscow near the Polish frontier. He
came first to Canada, then to North
Dakota and sent money from Bis
marck in 1915 to pay her way to
America. She got passage when a
Russian and an American steamer
were putting out from Arcangel
lead by an i~ce-breaker in the
month of November, and they were
thirty-three days getting to New
York. They circled far north, where
there was no day and they had to
turn on the lights to see anything
when the clock and the calendar in:
Dictated day time. She joined her
husband at Bismarck and they
worked over two years in a hospital
there, and then they heard of the
government land near Blackfoot,
Idaho, where they could take a
homestead and dry farm it, and they
came to get some of it. When they
went out to look at it, north of Rose,
in the Big Bend country, they
noticed that most of the houses were
abandoned, and they concluded that
If the American settlers could not
make a living on the homesteads
they could not afford to spend any
time making the experiment, so they
got a job with Albert Gardner work
ing his beets; the next year they
worked Mr.. Muir's farm near More
land; the third year they were with
Uriah Taylor and the fourth year
with Walter Jackman, and this year
llcy dIO lCdolu5 CHO JdChludH pldCS
on the east side of the road and liv-
ing in the gray brick house.
Russian Woman's Story
Mrs. Locks given name is Agnes
and she has a sister Elnora, still IL
Russia. She says that in the day.
when she was theer the soldiers
would come along and take what
they wanted and go on. Then con
ditions grew worse all the time and
the soldiers treated the people with
greater cruelty and often shot the
men on sight or on slight provoca.
ton, and showed on regard for the
rights and feelings of the women
Her two brothers were in the Rus
sian army when she came to Americ;
and were in the divisions that were