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Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15
BOXES FOR MAIL

Some who objects to the postoffice depart
ments recent ruling that persons who wish their mail
delivered to them must provide suitable containers for
it at their addresses, sent the following combination
kck-query to his daily newspaper:
"A letter with clearly typed address to physi-
clan in return envelope mailed in the city, postmark-
ed January %, delivered in the city February 3.
Mail deposited in apartment boxes and bells rung.
Parcel post package thrown from side walk in
rain into entrance of apartment building by driver and
no bell rung.
81 am interested to hear for the kind of
delivery service here recorded"
1t is hardly likely that the absence of bel-ringng
caused the delay in delivery in the first instance Once
the carriers hands, letters rather promptly de-
vered The carrier has quite enough of load in his
bag without carrying the same letters about with him
for week undelivered. In the second case the tale
seems unfinished Were the contents of the package
injured not received? If not where is there any de-
lay inefficency?
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15
TOM SIMS SAYS

1t might help if we worried less
about what we are after here and
more about what we are hereafter.
Another couple that should not be
divorced is hot cakes and syrup.
America S birth rate is declining.
We have too many people who think
we have too many people.
The biggest liar we know is 4
bootlegger claiming his stuff came
out of King Tut s tomb.
Pennsylvania legislator wants n
law against stunt flying by aviators.
Leave them alone and the law of
gravitation will get them.
The ship subsidy failed, but we
evidently have hip subsidy.
Just think of the cold cash you
save on ice every winter.
woman wants Dut lllIic mere w
low her ankles.
Roasted peanuts are not always
what they Are cracked up to be.
San Francisco man who has been
living in a boiler II years should be
hard boiled by this time.
When it comes to writing letters
home the motto Of too many men is
Eventually, why now!'
Robbers are getting thick in De-
troit. One was so thick he expect
ed {. teacher to have money
Only thing you can tell by some
clocks is wnat time II ISM
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15

ira hair ribbons. SO that when
Susie went, to pay for her ribbon
she had to- buy-oh, dozen yards
or more.
"I think / had better give the
hair ribbons to you all i'll one
piece said the little mousie clerk
in the store. 81 II give you roll
OF red ribbon. You can carry that
easier and your mother can cut 1t
up into the right lengths for you
and the other girls
THANK you,' said Susie polite
ly, and soon she was on her way
home with the roll of red ribbon
wrapped in paper. But, just rs you
would have done. Susie could not
help stopping on the way to open
the package and look at the red
ribbon.
"Oh. it's too sweet for any
thing, sighed Susie. And just
then the March wind blew an extra
hard puff, lifted the roll OF ribbon
out of Susie S paws and carried it
away, just like Tommie' 3 kite.
"Oh, my ribbon! My ribbon!'
cried poor Susie. Luckily she kept
hold Of one end of the ribbon, but
the wind blew the roll of it away,
unreeiing it as it went along, and
soon Susie saw floating out from
her, a long red streamer. How it
fluttered in the March wind!
"Oh, | must try to wind it up! y
said Susie. u hope the ribbons
won't be spoiled. -
And just then along hopped Tn
Gle Wiggily. He saw the red rib
bon fluttering from Susie's paws
and asked her what had happened.
And when she told him the bunny
rabbit said:
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15

Don't cry, Susie, I'll help you
wind up the ribbon on my rhenma-
tism crutch, and it will be all
right So Uncle Wiggily began to
help the little rabbit girl wind the
red ribbon OH his crutch, and just
then, all of sudden, out from be-
hind q bush jumped the Woozie
Wolf bowling:
81 want ears to nibble! But
Uncle Wiggily, with a big roll of
red ribbon sprang at the Wolf, calf
ing;
".Run away if You don't want
vour nose burned!' And the Wolf,
seeing the fluttering red ribbon,
thought it was fire that would
scorch him and away he ran, howl
ing:
"sOh. don't burn my nose! Don't
nurb my nose!'
"Ha! Hail. laughed Uncle Wig
oily az he wound up on his crutch
the last of the fluttering red rib
bon, .'we fooled the Wolf, Susie! 2
And SO they had, so it is good
thing the wind blew the ribbon,
making it look like fire; wasn't 1t!
Then Susie's mother cut the long
roll into short lengths, making HAIR
ribbons for Susie and her friends,
and this is the end of the story.
But if the cough drop doesn't fall
off the bath room shelf while it's
watching the alarm clock clean its
teeth, II tel lyou next about Uncle
Wiggily and the carpet sweeper.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tel! OF
Imperial Valley for This Date
in Past Years
TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO
March Is, 1902.

General Manager w. F. Holt and
chief engineer, j. H. Mathews OF
the Imperial and Gulf Railroad
company arrived from Los Angeles
last night having driven from I'm,
perial junction over the proposed
route fer the ROAD.
Mrs. Arthur Edgar arrived in
Imperial Sunday TO join her hus-
band, bringing her five-months-old
baby with her. The Edgars will
make their permanent home in the
valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15
TEN YEARS AGO

A. H. Griswold who has been
coming to Imperial Valley as n
commercial traveller for seven years
and owns land here, has at last
come to FL Centre to wake his
from Cotton and taken up his resi-
dence at 42G Held avenue.
II. l.. Fulton of Brawley will be-
gin the erection in that city of a
24.room apartment house IN the
immediate future, the plans having
been drawn and approved.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY AND SUSIE'S
RIRR0N

Mother, I need new hair rib
bon,'' said Susie, the rabbit girl,
to Mrs. Littletail one morning. 81 d
like nice, new, red hair ribbon
"Very well, SUSIE said Mrs.
Littletail. "This is a fine day,
there is no school and you may go
down to the five and six cent store
and buy yourself new ribbon" "
"Oh, ioy!' cried Susie, and she
clapped her paws in glee. . You are
80 good to me, mother!'. and she
kissed her mother right between the
ears, which is always the best place
to kiss q rabbit.
Soon Susie was hopping on her
way to the store. 1t was a bright,
sunshiny day--a trifle too much
wind, perhaps, but one must expect
that in March. As Susie was pass
ing the home of Mrs. Wibblewoble,
the lady duck, Mrs. Wibblewobble
called:
"Where are you going, Susie, my
dear? -
II am going to the store to get
myself new hair ribbon,' an
swered Susie.
.'Then / wish you'd get one each
for Lulu and Alice,', quacked the
lady duck They need new rib
hons, and here is the money. Bring
them red ones
Just the color | am going to
get for myself said Susie.
She hoped on little farther
and Mrs. Wagtail, the goat lady,
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15

1t is a singular fact of all the murderers who have
been tried and convicted in Imperial county since the
beginning only two have paid the extreme penalty Is
il not about time the law being little dras
tically applied?
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15

One thing worse than have job
as wife is working in II laundry
where every day is wash day.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15

The Imperial Valley Press is delivered to city s"p''re
at is cents week; SIS cents month; 5000 per year ny
carrier BY mail any address in Imperial and adjoining
counties s5.Go per year: six months $3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-15
'oh,py riAbbon!''c !''cried poor
S1ISio

finding out what the rabbit girl
was going after, said:
II wish you'd bring Mamie a
hair ribbon. She wants red
one.'
"Just what I am going to get
for myself, and for Lulu and Alice
Wibblewobble laughed Susie, ~
will get one for Mamie, also.'
Well, to make d long story short,
before Susie had reached the hair
ribbon store half a dozen of the
animal ladies seeing her, had asked
the rabbit child to bring some ex-
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
INCOME TAX FACTS. NO. 1.

Revenue officers are visiting every
county in the United States to aid
taxpayers in the preparation of their
income tax returns for the year 1922
Information concerning the date OF
their arrival and the location of their
offices may be obtained by writing the
collector of internal revenue for the
district in which the taxpayer lives.
Forms for filing returns of individ-
ual net income for the year 1872 are
being sent to taxpayers who fled re-
turns for the year 1921. Failure to
receive form, however, does not re-
lieve the taxpayer of his obligation
to file a return and pay the tax on
time, on or before March Is, 1928
The forms, 1O40A for filing returns
of net income $4,000 and less and 1O4O
for filing returns Of net income in
excess of $4,000, may be obtained
from collectors Of internal revenue
and deputy collectors.
Returns are required of every sim
gle person whose net income for l922
was $1,000 or more or whose gross
income was $4,000 or more and OF
every married person whose net in
come was $4,000 or more or whose
gross income was $4,000 or more.
Careful study of the instructions ON
the forms will greatly aid in making
q. correct return.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
GETTING A LINE ON
f'4tf LINE OF BINGHAM

1 Now and then a governor picks out
some solon he wishes to honor or re-
ward, and appoints him to something
1t is rare occurrence for a state
convention of hard headed farmers to
choose one and elect him to office
right in the midst of a legislative
session. That is what the state farm
bureau federation did the other day
elected Line of Bingham president
The federation struck pay dirt that
time. The gentleman from Bingham
will have its program humming in
short order.
! Who is this Line and what is his
line? Ladies and gentlemen, he is the
world champion at growing Grimm
alfalfa seed-that's a fact. At his
/ farms over in the Springfield-Sterl
section near Blackfoot he produces
more seed to the acre, and more
! pounds to each season, of the high
est quality, and cleaned in the largest
plant of it's kind ever installed by an
| Individual, than any farmer in the
universe.
| He started farming in 1910 or 1911,
so nearly broke that he and his fam
lily were only two jumps ahead of the
wolf He's no millionaire now, but he
has about 1900 acres Of irrigated land
in the Upper Snake valley, goodly
portion of which is growing the prec-
ious little seeds afore mentioned.
Mr.. Line Is a native of Tennessee.
He went into the mercantile business
in Texas at the age Of %, acquired
some business experience and a wife
and three children, and came to Ida
no in 1905 He located first at Am
erican Falls, spending year or two
in merchandising before finding the
farm he wanted.-Capital News.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
STAKE CONFERENCE.

The regular quarterly conference
of the Blackfoot Stake will convene
in the Tabernacle February 18th and
18th. There will be a special priest
hood meeting held Saturday morning
at $3.50, to which all members holding
the priesthood are invited to attend.
The visiting authorities from Salt
Lake City will be present at this
meeting and will have special instruc-
tions for the priesthood. The Relief
Society," the Y. l.. M. l. A. and the Pri-
mary Association will also hold meet
ings at $3.50 Saturday morning, and
all sister are invited to attend either
of these meetings.
There will be regular conference
session at 2 o'clock Saturday after
noon; 10 o'clock Sunday morning, and
1t 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. There
will also be Sunday evening session
1nder the direction of the Conjoint
VI. l. A. Officers.
Owing to the special features Of
his conference, large attendance
s expected, SO come early and get
,Ood seat
The tabernacle will be warm. 2l-a2
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
PAST NOBLE GRAND ENTERTAIN,

On Tuesday evening the 30th, the
l. O. O. F. hall was a scene OF mer-
riment when the members Of the Past
Noble Grand Club entertained for
their husbands and families.
At seven o'lock the grand march
was led to the banquet room by the
President of the club, and sixty guests
were seated at the banquet table,
which was beautifully decorated with
carnations and ferns and groaning
with good things to eat.
The evening was spent with var
ious games of amusement, and clev-
er little drama by Misses Blanche
Snider and Flora Srmons, which was
very much appreciated by all. Every
one departed at late hour, proclaim
ing it the jolliest evening of the sea-
SON.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
|BLACKFOOT WOMAN TAKES
YCHNIN WHILE IN
FIT OF DESPONDENCY

Mrs Temp Hopkins died at thu
ranch home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Anton<
Nelson in Swan Valley Tuesday after.
noon as the result of strychnine pois.
lived but a short time after drinking
the poison, and although at first she
J refused medical attention, later ex-
pressed sorrow for her act and lust
before death came, she asked to live.
Dependency is given as the cause
of the suicide.
The strychnine was kept on the
ranch for the purpose Of destroying
ground squirrels, and although Mrs.
Hopkins was seen to empty a portion
Of the poison into small bottle. It
was not believed that she contemplate
ed suicide until she suddenly produced
the bottle Tuesday at noon, and before
they realized her intention, drank the
contents in the presence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson.
Mrs. Hopkins was the wife Of Temp
Hopkins, Of this city, where the fam
lily make their home. At the time of
her death, Mrs. Hopkins was visiting
relatives and friends in. Swan Valley.
She ID survived BY husband and sew
eral children also two brothers, John
and Joe Martin Of Swan Valley, and
one sister, Mrs. George Butler who
resides in Swan! Valley "a
The body was brought to Rlackfoot,
where funeral services and fntermentl
were held. ... Il
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
BINGHAM COUNTY III
MEMORIAL COMMISSION

At recent meeting held at the
Court House commission was form
ed consisting of Coanty Commission
ers, w. T. England, Nels Miller and
John r. Williams, D. P. Brill, Com
mander Of Stewart Hoover Post No.
|23; Frank Dovark, Commander Of
Aberdeen Post No. SO, and J. F. Yiter,
representing Commander Edell of
Shelley Post OF the American Legion.
The commission has taken the name
Of Bingham County Memorial Com
mission" with w. T. England as
chairman and D. P. Brill as secretary.
Some time ago a meeting was held at
the Court House with the commits
sioners for the purpose of securing
their consent to appropriate 100000
for which the state would furnish an
additional $1,000.00 for the purpose
of erecting suitable memorial in
honor of the men who made the su-
preme sacrifice. Word was received
from the State Auditor that 1t would
be necessary for commission to be
formed, location secured and plans
anu SpcCluCdLlOub lOI d DuIIuluk sent
to the state department. At this
time one site has been offered, that
being by Mrs. F. c. Parkinson, who
offers the lot on North Broadway, just
north Of the Blackfoot Hospital. I'm
less the requirements are fulfilled by
March 18th the money set aside for
this purpose by the state will be turn
ed back into the General Fund, so it
Is up to every person In Bingham
County to get behind this movement
and put it across. The Legion Posts
1T Shelley and Aberdeen are doing |
in their power to support |
he movment and they feel that as |
3lackfoot is the county seat 1t would
be the logical location Of
he memorial. This building can I
'nly be erected when every individual
n Bingham County does their part
oward completing the plans end
Hedging their support toward thiA
movement, which -Till provide a
which will not only be a me-
norial to those who gave their lives
ut will furnish a much needed COM
1unity building for community pur-
oses in Blackfoot.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
Highway Dept. Reorgani&ed


to 45 cents for teams and from SO to
621a cents for foremen.
The number Of districts in the state
has been cut from seven to four in
order to save all possible expense.
This reduction to four districts will
really be in effect reduction to three
districts because No. district, which
is the home district, will be admins
tered from the Boise Office and the
District Engineers will handle the
maintenance for this, district.
The highway employees on the pay
roll February 1st are as follows: Dis
trict No. 1, Pocatello, 4; District No.
2, Idaho Falls, 2; District No. 3, ShO-
shone, 2; District No. 4, Boise, S; Dis
trict No. 5, Challis, Q; District No. 8,
Lewiston, 13; District No. Z. Couer-
d'Alene, z; Boise Office, accounting
and clerks, S; stenographer 1; drafts
men and computers 8; Bridge Depart
ment Q; Chief Clerk /; Blue Printer
/; Total 40.
One District Engineer in each of
Districts No. 2, 5, and will only be
on the payroll for the next ten or
fifteen days. They are being held for
that period in order to properly effect
the transfer of the office records and
to avoid mixing them up. In Dis
,trict No. two residency men will
possibly be released by the end Of the
month, at which time the entire statf
would be reduced to "A or As employ
ees, unless extraordinary mainten-
ance or emergency due to weather
should arise, in which
event the necessary help to properly
care for the situation would have to
be employed for such time only as
was absolutely necessary.
The disestablishment Of the Dis
trict offices at Challis, Idaho Falls
and Coeur d'Alene will be completed
not later than February 18th. Twen-
ty-three of the forty-nine employees |
retained are employed on actual con.
,tructive work, there being at this |
late twenty-one construction jobs up
IN which work is actively prosecuted. |
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09

Commander d. P. Brill announces
that about $115 was cleared on the
dance which was given by the Am
erican Legion two weeks ago. At the
present time the post Is divided into
two teams on a membership drive.
To date the membership has increas-
ed $50 per cent over last year, and
the local post has received word from
headquarters to the effect that they
are leading throughout the state IN
the drive. On February 14th the los
ing team will furnish q feed and pro-
gram to the winners. This Will be
served by the members of the auxil-
larry.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
CALDWELL STUDY SENT ,s
TO Reform SCHOOL

Caldwell Study, an Indian boy. was
sent to the reform school Monday
morning by Probate Judge j. e. Good.
Caldwell, who was named after one
of the attendants on the reservation,
has been before the courts several
times in the past, and has given the
Indian police as well as the sheriff 8
office some little trouble. A few
years ago he was confined in the
County jail, and one afternoon while
the sheriff's office were out to the
County Fair Caldwell tried his hand
at filing the lock off the Jail door.
The return of Sheriff Simmons from
the fair prevented hrm from finishing
the job.
Deputy Sheriff Ezell took the boy
to st. Anthony Monday afternoon.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
DOES BINGHAM
COUNTY NEED A
TAX P A Y T. r s.
LEAGUE?
CHAPTER II

The first chapter in this
box space had it's desired re-
suit in getting information
from the people as to what
they would like to have in
the way OF live news. The
first request to come to us
and one that we believe
would be to the best inter
ests of every taxpayer in the
County, is the call for the
publication of the 1922 Per-
sonal Tax Roll. We believe
the publication Of this roll
will have a decided effect on
the future assessments. 1t
will show who was assessed
and who was not, who was
low and VINO was high. It
will give to the people Of the
county the chance to see just
what this roll that we have
heard so much about and
never seen looks like in
black and white. The cooy-
ing from the records of this
large roll will require some
time, as well as considerable
labor on the part of the News
force, to put out this list as
free from errors as is hui
manly possible, but we are
willing to tackle the job II
our readers feel like they
would like to have this in
formation. II you are inter-
ested and want to see it pub
lished we would like to hear
you say so. Shall we start?
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09

Boise, Idaho.-Reduced to the low
est possible number of employees re-
quired to carry on actual maintenance
work and construction now under way
the State Highway Department began
operations Thursday morning with a
list of only 49 employees on the pay
roll. This reorganization was car
ried out under instructions from Gov
ernor, C. c. Moore who on January
3rd asked for the resignation Of all
employees in the highway department
| in order that the highway expense
might be cut to only that work alb
solutely necessary to maintain roads
already built and carry out contracts
now under way
In addition to the 40 employees on
the highway work, nine men will be
retained in the Motor Transport Sec
ltion, where the materials and sup
plies received from the U. 8. Govern
ment are taken care or This force
together with two in the general Of
fee make total of go employees. On
December 31st there were 12O en-
ployees. The reduction cutting out
100 employees.
This reorganization slashes ap-
proximately $4,000 from the monthly
payroll. On January 1st the total
payroll, including Motor Transport
Section was .$29,3S3.97. The estimat-
ed payroll for the month of Febrll-
ary will not exceed 100000
In making the Reorganization Gov
ernor Moore has abolished the office
of Director of Highways at salary
of $1,000 per year and this work will
be carried on in the future under the
direction of the Commissioner of Pub
lie Works. Col. D. P. Olson, who has
filled this position for the past four
years, retired from the office We'd
nesday.
Further changes in the department
include reduction of wages of men
employed in maintenance to scale
which will not exceed the scale paid
BY contractors for the same class of
labor, which is approximately from
10 to so cents per hour for labor, 30 |
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
LEGISLATURE PASSES
PRIMARY BILL

The House Of Representatives pass
ed House Bill No. 40, the Republican
Primary Measure by the overwhelm-
ing majority of 46 to 10. Democrats,
Republicans and Progressives stood
behind the bill as they had pledged
they would before election. There
were many ardent speakers for the
bill and few that opposed it. Over
an hours time was consumed in the
reading Of the bill Tuesday morning.
the vote being taken in the afternoon.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
ROOSTER EATS 3S3 KERNELS.

The rooster at the Beachy Shoe
Company last Saturday, ate 383 kerr
were:
Lady: Mrs. Jack Parker and Mrs.
Tomlinson each guessed 379 and tied
for the prize. The prize was the
choice Of any pair of shoes in the
store. The ladies decided to pay half
price and each select pair Of shoes.
Gent: Lee Meyer, of Moreland, was
the lucky gentleman. His guess was
381, and is entitled to his choice OF
any pair Of gentleman's shoes in the
store.
Some 800 guesses were entered.