The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-06-29
FLASHLIGHTS
INSURANCE RATES ON Ell

TRIO TRUCKS are 25 per cent les
than on gasoline trucks. This fac
was emphasized at the electric trucl
show held recently in the exhibition
rooms of the New York Edison com
pany. The same reduction in insur
ance rates is allowed on garages
housing electric trucks.
! TWENTY-FIVE GAS ILLUMINEI
SCHOOLS in Washington, D. c., ar,
to have complete electric lighting sys
tens installed during the summer
This improvement has been brougnl
about through the earnest efforts oil
the Parents and Teachers association
which has been pleading for some
time for the best lighting for chill
dren's eyes. At present only forty-two
of the city schools are lighted wholly
or in part by electricity, eighty-six
being otherwise illumined. School
buildings that have evening classes
will be given first consideration in the
matter Of electric illumination.
WITH EVERYONE GRUMBLING
about the high cost of living 1t should
not be forgotten that there is one
commodity that has gone down in
price rather than up. According to
the United States Bureau of Labor,
the cost Of electricity shows a reduc-
ton of "a per cent compared with its
cost during the last half Of 1914.
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ACCORDING TO CHARLES p.
pull the electric wires
ont Of our civilization TODAY and our
world would look like seive."
NOBODY TODAY or ever can fix
the limits to which the use Of cleo
tricity may co." says the Wizard Of
the General Electric. I'VE can say
only that It will go as far as human
need for energy goes. Electricity Is
energy and energy is the basis Of CIV
Ilization."
ARE YOU AN ELECTRICAL FISH
1RMAN? II not, all you need in or
Ter to class yourself in this category
s the new artificial minnow, which is
made luminous by electricity and er-
'embles wriggling worm when cast
INTO the water. It is reputed to at
ract fish day or night. Fine wires
'rotect the bait from breakage and an
lectric battery supplies the current.
"HOW CONTRARY THINGS ARE'
avs Girard: when you drive over an
sphalt street you are riding upon the
odies Of countless animals. They /
erished in order that you might en-
~ a smooth road. When you drive
l your car you are being pulled along
OF by animals, but by vegetables.
sphalt comes from animal fats and
etroleum for gasoline from vegetable
It. When you settle yourself in your
asy chair at home and turn on the !
eading light above your head you
re seeing by the force of energy
in a filament and not by
flame"
DOES MORE THAN {
IGHT YOUR HOME at night. It t
cans your home, it launders your f
othes. 1t makes it possible for You a
communicate with friends miles a
way at any moment; it boils your f
,ffee; it toasts your bread; it cooks a
III any sort Of food; it washes your a
shes; it can keep your refrigerator n
Id it's contents colder than any ice h
IN keep it; it can heat your home in b
e winter and cool it in the summer; s
transports you back and forth TO r
DIRK every day-and all this be-
luse of stored energy, running thru o
few miles Of slender wire. To reap !,
| the benefits of electricity in the q
,me the house should be so wired y
at this wonderful servant is ready .
the touch of switch to do all the ;.
SKIS desired. :,