The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-30
A WATERWORKS JOKE

Men comparing notes as tt
whether it is cheaper to be on 8
meter or to pay according to the
water schedule brought up various
incidents, among which was the
following:
Mr.. Blank kept cow and paid
the schedule price of 25 cents a
month for water for the COW. When
the bills were made out he was
charged for Il COW, rs cents" and he
paid for the COW habitually and the
| billing clerk billed him for a cow
habitually and got the money. Every
body that kept cow paid that rate
for the privilege of having cow or
for the water for COW, either way
| one might think of it.
Finally Mr.. Blank moved into a
house of his own and kept on paying
water bills, but he had a meter put
in and water for all purposes passed
thru the meter and he paid accord
ing to the number of gallons used,
regardless of whether he drank it,
or used it for sprinkling or washing
the pavement or what not. When
he paid his water bills he just looked
at the total and paid that amount.
One day he read the items and one
line said, Il COW, rs cents Then
there was the item for the number
of gallons at the meter rate.
He applied to the billing clerk to
know why he had to pay twice for
the COW, once at the meter and once
on the fiat rate. The billing clerk
replied that everybody paid for
cow Mr.. Blank said he paid at the
meter. The clerk replied that rs
cents was the price for keeping a
cow in the town and everybody paid.
Mr.. Blank said that might be all
right, but that his COW drank
metered water and he paid at the
gallon rate once, and did they want
pay twice for the COW. The clerk
replied that the COW was within the
water district and was eligible to
payment of rs cents whether she !
drank thru his own pipes or thru his
neighbours, it made no difference
where she got the water, that had
been thrashed out and established
years ago; nobody could evade pay
ment of water bill by drawing it !
thru some other faucet or some other
pipe than the one at home and that
item must remain on the bill and
be paid.
Mr.. Blank said he had understood
that he was paying for water for the
COW and not for a pipe nor for the
privilege of existence for the cow
within the water district, but that his
bills showed that he had been paying
twice for the same drops of water.
IL
celled the COW item on the bill from
that time on
The Widows Express
One day when it was a serious
thing to be learning to drive
a car, Blackfoot lady had a new
car and found it quite a battle to
turn it around unless she could do
so by droving around block. If she
had to stop and back and do some
she would get confused
and have trouble.
One day she got three friends to
go for drive with her, and on
looking over the crowd they re-
marked that all of them were
They took the road up the
country paralleling the railroad and
the driver lady finally remarked that
they would have to go to Idaho Falls
and back because she could not turn
around in the road She got along
we'll enough until they crossed the
path of another party at street
corner in the residence district, and
he widows car lodged successfully,
out ran across the curb and the park
ing, crossed the sidewalk and ran
nto a yard and up by the porch
where the family sat. The driver
ady said not word, but worked the
wheel and wiggled her feet, turned
he car enough to miss the porch,
crossed the lawn and the sidewalk,
vent over the parking at the side,
Jumped the curb, went to the center
If the street and climbed upon a
strip of parking there and stopped.
Nobody had said word, nobody
moved an inch excepting the lady in
he front seat with the driver, and
The was down on her knees hunting
lmong the triggers for an emergency
Freak. They shut OF the power, set
he breaks, got out of the car and
vent to a restaurant seven blocks
way, got something to eat, walked
Jack to where the boat was
.nchored, got in and drove it home
n triumph.
The latest thing the safety first
'eople are spreading over the land is