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The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
GET-ACQUAINTED MEETING

Honorable irwin E. Rockwell, pres
ident Of the Idaho State Board Of
Education. accompanied by his friend.
Mr.. Jack Donovan, motored down
from Bellevue Tuesday evening to be
with the students at Gooding College
in the get-acquainted meeting, whicn
was held at the College chapel.
Besides the address given by Mr.
Rockwell, games were played, musi-
cal number rendered and watermelon
served. Wednesday the incoming
trains were met, and the new stu
dents assigned to their rooms, and on
Thursday the first assembly was held.
Among the names included on the
preliminary enrolment are: Bernice
Kirkpatrick, Harold Koenig, and
Kenneth Mann of Hansen; Nancy
Reese and Olene Wilson, Blackfoot:
Bernice Gorby, Everett Gorby, Irwin
Farris, Glenns Ferry; George M.
Biggs and Edison Deal, Nampa; Isa-
bella Carter, Ogden, Utah; Buna Nc
Grew, New Pine Creek, Oregon; Car
roll Miller, Deitrick, Idaho; Sadie
Nesbit, Pocatello; Blanche Otto, FIJI
er; Ellen Martin, Rock Springs, Wy
oming; Dorothy Sims Of Kuna Pearl
Cordray, Kimberly; Amy Moreland,
Allene Lee, Howard Quigley and HI
ram Fry, Jerome; Helen Clifford, Ella
Nilsson, Rev. Floyd X. Riley, Mrs.
Floyd X. Riley, Ruth Eaton and Am
erette Eaton, Wendell; Wayne Bene-
dict, Erma Young, Harriet Throck-
morton, and Charles Glendinning, Ru-
pert; Helen Stearns, Cora Baggs,
Donald G. Claycomb and Alice Carl
son, Twin Falls; Harold Roberts,
Warren Roberts, Phyllis Evans, HUI
bert Evans, Chas. D. Tenney. Vestor
Velarde, Eva Larsen, Mrs. Edgar A.
Pollock, Hartzell Buckner, Hope
Lurlene Eastabrook, Mir
lam Cheney, Marguerite Robinson.
Edna Robinson, D. A. Hiles, John
Mildred Mulkey, and Vera
Toone, Gooding; Albert Scott, Mary
White, Dallas Nc Neill, Thomas Og-
den, and Helen Wright, Boise; Wilma
Robinson and Salome Robinson, Ash
ton; Einar Nelson and Will Isaacs,
American Falls.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
GOOD REPORT

State Treasurer Dan F. Banks may
take a pardonable pride in the sta
tistics regarding his office contained
in the official report of the state aud
itor showing the expenditures Of all
state departments for the first SIX
months of the biennium.
The report places the total expen-
ditures of the state treasurer's office
for the first quarter to be $6,O09.14
This sum is the lowest since he has
occupied his office, each year finding
a substantial reduction in cost to the
people.
The total expenditures Of this office
for the corresponding period Of 1921
were $S,959.73 and for the year 1922,
$6,351.39.
The earning of the office for the
first quarter were s41,436.OS; for the
month of July, IS, S,127.47. and for Aug
ust, $S,573.O3.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
MORE PUNCH; LESS PESSMISM

1t happened to be a celebration Of
an Idaho-Ohio society, but the moral
attaches to any people from the older
states or those who have been here
so long they have forgotten all about
their native states. Anyway, a Boise
paper tells the story of an address
on that particular occasion in which
the speaker told the Buckeyes among
other things:
Ohio was not made great and pros
porous by our forebears through sluk-
ing in the tent, folding their hands,
whining, complaining and snarling.
Not much. They laid the foundations
and those following then completed
them and built substantial, beautf-
full, enduring superstructure.
I'm Idaho today we need more Of
that same spirit of confidence in our
selves, of faith in our community,
our state and our nation.
1--WE are getting ourselves nowhere
by fault-flnding, by carping criticism.
1t takes too much of time that should
be devoted to work. We can't build
on chickering's. We only tear down.
Let's have more punch and less pess-
imism."
That's pretty good advice. Out
here In Idaho we really have had,
during the pioneering stages, not yet
completed at that, advantages over
many olde states.
We have marvellous transportation
systems, wonderful communicating
systems, such as the telephone; We
have electric power for lights and
the propulsion Of machinery, facili-
ties for ntercommunication and other
things those older builders knew not
and the lack Of which greatly handi-
capped their efforts at state building.
What Is there here to cry aboutf
What here to seriously complain
about? What here, especially, to
cuss about? It's one of the best
states in the Union for its population
It has institutions and utilities Of
which we should all feel proud. It's
LII right. Some of us may be wrong.
We ought to try to get as good as
idaho is and we will certainly be
}. X.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
FREE TRIP TO CHICAGO

A trip to Chicago is being offered
as prize to the champion girl club
member Of Idaho. Any club member
may compete for this prize regard
less of the kind of work they are
doing.
A trip to Chicago, to the Interna-
tional Livestock Exposition, is being
offered by the Armour Packing Com
pany as a prize to the state pig club
champion.
Details regarding these special
premiums and the method of grad
ing may be secured at the Farm Bu-
reau Office.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA

Mr.. Tub Boyle, the genial dance
promoter of Blackfoot, has secured
the famous Kinney Brothers Hawai-
ian Orchestra for his three dances
during fair week. He has also Sc
cured the Progress Hall, the largest
and best dance hall in Blackfoot
The Kinney Brothers played in Black
foot once before this summer, and
their return will be greeted with de-
light by both the dancers and spec
tators..
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
TRUCKS ON HIGHWAYS

The unrestricted and uncontrolled
use of trucks and passenger stages
on Idaho highways has caused added
wonderment at the action Of the last
legislature in refusing to pass the
bill designed to place such CONNER
cial auto business under the public
utilities commission, In other words,
making 1t franchised business. The
bill provided a tax on such enter
prises and set up certain regulations.
The principal objection was that IL
would create monopoly Of trucking.
which, 1t was pointed out, would be
no more the case than as to rail-
roads controlled as to service and
rates by the commission. Moreover.
there was nothing in the bill to cause
interference with individual haulage,
the measure being confined to COM
mercial hauling on the state high
ways.
Undoubtedly the next legislature
will revive the measure and place
this business under the public util-
tiles commission.
The automobile dealers of the state
were supposed to be divided on the
subject, 1t being stated that some OF
them opposed the measure because It
might interfere somewhat with truck
sales. A canvass made by the Idaho
Automotive Trades Association indi-
Gates this is not the case. The auto
dealers of the state are broad minded
men, concerned in the upbuilding OF
their state, and not disposed to inter-
pose as an obstacle some small per-
sonal gain. Leading men in the bust
ness all over the state favor such
law for the protection OF the high
ways and In order to make 1t possible
for those legitimately engaged in the
business Of hauling freight and pass
engers to be protected against the In
.ermittent transportation that makes
t next to impossible for any one 10
make a profit and that, therefore, in
erferes seriously with the sale and,
What is more important to the dealer,
With the payment for trucks and
,usses.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
MARRIED AT IDAHO FALLS

D. w. Christensen and Miss Elva
Nelson were married Saturday even
ing at p. m. at Idaho Falls, Bishop
Dinwoody officiating, i They left Mon
day morning fos Baker, Oregon,
where they will spend the winter.
The young, couple will make their
home in Oregon,
The bride war formsxly employed
at the Meroahtile, where
she {Sf several years, and
was we'll known and loved by great
many people in this vicinity. Black
foot will feel her loss greatly, but all
extend congratulations and very best
wishes for much happiness to the
young couple. stfl
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
FOUR MILES OF PAVEMENT
COMPLETED.

J. M. Hartong, of the Mcguire Paw
ing Co., reports that four miles of the
new bitulithic pavement on the Fort
Hall reservation road of the Yellow
stone highway is now ready for trav-
ell. 1t is necessary to make short
detour at the southern end of the
pavement, east Of the Oregon Short
Line railway which runs parellel with,
it. This detour is undergoing repairs
at the present time. At the northern
end Of the road, until the bridge over
the Blackfoot river is completed, trav-
ell will detour east at the river to
Shilling avenue, then north to the
business district of Blackfoot. The
entire pavement is to be completed
about November 1st.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
NEW CHUTEs

New chutes have been provided at
the fair grounds this year, which will
bring the horses and steers right out
from under the grand stand An
other feature that will be appreciated
by the spectators is the removing
from the arena Of everybody but six
people. Heretofore it has been diff
cult for the people in the grand stand
to see with the arena filled with peo-
pie.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
ARRESTED FOR SHOOT.
ING BEFORE SUNRISE

R. G. Rupp, John Rupp, J. D. Rupp,
J. Roubidoux and F.. S. Charley all OF
Pocatello were arranged in the Pro-
bate Court, before Judge Good on a
charge of attempting to kill migratory
birds at time more than half hour
before sunrise. They entered pleas
Of not guilty and a trial was set for
Friday, September 21st, at ten o'clock
They were admitted to bail Of $4,000
each
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
GOLD MEDAL PRIZES

The Union. Stock Yards Of Ogden
are giving Gold Medal Prizes to the
winners in the judging team at the
Southeastern Idaho Roundup Dairy
Show, and Junior Club Fair next
week. ~The medals will be displayed
in theS Christ Jewelry store window
on Saturday.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
MARRIED

Miss Genevieve Just, daughter of
Mrs. Frank Just and Delbert Fields
of Idaho Falls, were married at Rex
burg. Wednesday afternoon, 8 j., The
young couple are spending their hon
eymoon in Yellowstone Park. IoUpon
their return, they will make. their
home in Idaho Falls. -" ~
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
REDUCED RATES FOR
THE FAIR VISITORS

A one-half fare rate has been grant
ed for the Southeastern Idaho Fair
on all raidroad lines as follows:
Lines from Victor, Ashton, Dubois,
Mackay, Pegram, Weston, Minidoka
and all intermediate points.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
WAR DANCE

Next Tuesday evening the Indians
will give an exhibition War Dance in
front of the Grand Stand at the fair
grounds. No admission at the gates.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
TAX LEVIES FOR 1928
SHOW DECREASE
BlackfOOt Idaho

BlackfOot,. Idaho
The following tax. levies for State
and County purposes. for the year
1923, to be applied upon each 800
valuation of the ASSESSED property,
were made by the Board Of County
Commissioners Of Bingham County.
We give also, for comparison, the
levies made for 1922.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21
BUCKING FORD

The, bucking Ford that promises to
be 3 real attraction at the fair next
weeksw4l be displayed on the streets
of Blackf6ot on Saturday afternoon.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21

IOCdI TeuuCCIUH III IeVy IUT <y"qU
and County purposes for 1928 Is .51
cents per 500 valuation.
- The County Auditor has been noti-
fed that the State Board Of Equaliza-
ton made the following raises in the
assessed valuation of Bin 6 h m
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-09-21

Common and range horses 3U per cent
Notwithstanding this unwarranted
raise by the State Board we believe
the taxes in general will show de-.
cline. The Board of Commissioners
considered seriously reducing the
general school levy below, 1922, but
the school Boards tfrsome- instances
made the request that this levy be
left at s1.OO owing to- the fact that
hey are compelled to go the limit IN
their special levy also, in order 10
meet the necessary requirements of
their district.
This levy as compared with 1922
shows a reduction Of little over 1S
per cent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
Where Lincoln Found His Phrase.

The expression in President Lin
coins Gettysburg speech, govern
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people, is a literary gem which
for several cnturies had passed un-
noticed until thus used by him, an ex-
change says.
In the preface Of the first complete
translation of the Bible in the English
language known as the Wycliffe Bible,
there is the following: THE Bible is
for the government of the people, by
the people and for the people" The
date of this is, according to Encyclo-
pedia Britannica, about 1882, but cam
not be later than the time of Wycliffe's
death in 1884 This same authority
credits him with being ''the founder
of English prose literature" This
same expression from the Standard
dictionary, under the word govern
ment."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
OUTSIDE AID BAN MAKES
MERCHANTS CUT SPACE
(Pra. du Chen Courier)

The columns of a newspaper should
be open to all honest and legitimate
advertising. No one ever heard OF
a McGregor owner Of a public hall
refusing to rent the same to a man
from Prairie du Chen because the
Prairie du Chen man might say
something that would create greater
interest in his city.
When the Prairie du Chen mer-
chant sells an article he does not ask
the prospective purchaser if he is
from Waupon, Soldiers Grove or La
Crosse.
The readers OF newspaper are en-
titled to the messages from out Of
the city business places that may
seek their patronage. What right has
a publisher to tell his readers where
they shall spend their money. He
can show them that it is to their adj
vantage to patroniZe the local mer-
chant but further than this he cannot
go with propriety, the rest depends
upon the mental attitude of the pur-
chaser
1t is up to the local merchant to
show the community that it is to their
advantage to patronize him, that his
merchandise is just as reliable and
low priced as that of the large city
stores. We have found from exper-
fence where a newspaper refuses the
out-of-town advertising that the mer-
chants of that city cut down upon
their space and retrench upon their
advertising knowing that their COM
petitors cannot enter their trade ter
ritOry through the newspapers This
is detrimental to the very stores that
the publisher tries to favor as the in
dividual in time begins to realize that
his home town merchant is not ag-
gressive, has nothing special to offer
while the large stores of the cities fill
his daily papers with alluring offers
of sensational offerings and creative
craftsmanship.
The small city merchant that
adopts the big city merchants plan of
aggressive advertising is an asset to
the community, and furthermore he
has nothing to fear from the publicity
of the big" fellows from the large
cities
At one time in the distant past we
were of the opinion that all out of
town advertising should be refused in
the interest of community building.
We have dispensed with this ancient
idea the same as we have with the
hand newspaper press and the hand
set method of newspaper publishing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
SALVATION LASS

I've seen you in your bonnet blue
Flooding Gethsemane through and
through
In search of lambs that went astray
Down LIES tangled darking way.
The city's byways, haunts of sin
Mid stencil and heat and dust and din
Then like Gods miracle when you
pass
Sums bloom Elysian with flower and
grass.
Human husks besodden, in despair,
Reblossom meath your Wondrous care
Lift palsied hands your name to bless
While you in turn their cares caress.
I've seen you fold your mantle blue
Around a hungry wait or two
And in your sweet Madonna way
Teach little tots to kneel and pray.
Full many a stray and hungry brood
You've fed, kind one, with earthly
food;
o Salvation Lass O. the bonnet blue
The world and its poor rejoice in you.
Walter J. Healy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
HERE AND THERE

1t is always easy to get the goat of
dead duck.
A bright and shining light natural
ly doesn't like to be turned down
Wish plus Work equals Success.
Wish minus Work equals Nothing.
A lot of folks are doing the best
they can who haven't much to brag
about
It's all right to love everybody. It's
only when you specialize that you get
into trouble.
Its strange that nobody but a mil
lionaire ever rides in the Pullman
smoking cars.
More persons cry their lack of tall
ent from the housetops than hide their
lights under bushel.
Don't worry about the ice crop.
Warm winter weather can save
enough on fuel to pay $40 ton for
ice.
Did You ever notice that a good
many of the fellows who are dissatis-
fed with the nations constitution
haven't got much of their own left?
Now that Gar Will Hays, of the
movies, has pardoned and reinstated
FATTY" Arbuckle, how would it do for
Hays to see what he can do toward
the rehabilitation of the kaiser?
The Herald is more than pleased
with its subscribers and the way they
are coming in to renew for 1923. Peo-
pie appreciate a county paper that
lives up to it's opportunities and gives
them what they want in the way of a
home newspaper.
Copy-book maxims are always get
ting jolted. There is a man who says
it has been his life practice carefully
to figure out something he can't af-
ford to- do9and then do it and he al
ways seems to have more money than
almost anybody else.
Secretary Weeks shouldn't worry
because the nation spends more for
chewing gum than for military pre-
paration. If the other nations had
done likewise perhaps we would have
had no world war. If the kaiser had
chewed more gum and ratified his
sword less he might yet be ruling a
great nation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
Blowing Bubbles.

Sir James Dewar, of London, age 80,
has only one interest in life now
soap bubbles According to a copy
righted dispatch in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, there is no man in the
world who knows more about bubbles
and their habits than Sir James. Bub-
bles are not playthings with him. but
things to which he has devoted three
years of research work. He has es-
tablished worlds records by the score
with soap bubbles. His finest creation
was bubble which lived for more
than a year. Scores were blown
which lived more than two months.
He has created bubbles SO thin they
were colorless. 1t takes about LOO
900 of them to make a single inch,
which exceeds the tenuity of Newton's
rings, hitherto thought to be the
worlds finest measurement.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
HOME MERCHANTS FIND
THAT ADVERTISING Pays

The Rustic management has recent
Y experienced very pleasant series
ii circumstances cOnee4 ming advertis-
ng. For one reason or another five
Inherent business concerns, who eith-
Ar. never, or rarely ever attempted to
advertise, have entered these columns
in an attempt to reach the public
mind and induce increased sales.
Every one of these five to whom we
refer, have testified to having obtain
ed encouraging response to their Ell
iorts In a majority of the cases they
nave obtained benefits surprisingly
beyond their somewhat skeptical ex-
pectations and are consequently more
chan just ordinarily pleased with the
results. Any business man ought to
be willing to utilize so we'll an estab
5ished business fact as legitimate
newspaper advertising. One thing the
{ichland Center merchant may be
misled in is the feeling that the local
newspaper arrangements feel that
they want to encourage the use of
their columns because they need the
patronage A glance at the advertis-
ing columns OF any Of these papers
will reveal that the greatest problem
the local newspaper Hdo - IllC az
comodation Of the advertisers, instead
of lacking for patrons. But our adj
monitions are based upon our inter
est in the community for it is only
through the most intensified cam
paigns of advertising that local mer
chants shall be able to defeat the win
ming away from them by mail order
houses, Of lot of patronage which
never should go away rom home.
There is absolutely no other grounds
for diversion of trade to mail order
stores than the failure of home mer
chants to let the customers know the
facts concerning bargains. The local
merchant and the mail order houses
that advertise, get the bulk of trade.
The home merchant who does not adj
vertise just gets what happens to miss
going to his competitor or to the mail
order. house.-Richland Rustic,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
A MASTER CRAFTSMAN

A Boston man who was spending his
vacation in small town in eastern
Maine entered the local barber shop
for shave. AS the barber worked he
made several slips of the razor, and
at each of these occasions he Eould
paste a small piece of paper over the
cut to stop the bleeding.
When he finally got through, the
man passed him a dollar, and as the
barber started for change remarked ::
Keep the change. 1t is worth a dol
lar to be shaved by so gifted a man.
Why, man, you are barber, a butch
er and a paper hanger. Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
EDUCATION NOT ADVANCING

In an address before the Merrill Ro-
airy Club, Chas. E. Doudna, a gradu-
ate Of the PlatteVille Normal, and now
resident of the State Teachers asso-
;lation said, 'fthe schools are being
licked upon for economy because the
children are the easiest to rob anu
hat unless education is paid for now
ne country will pay the price ten to
fifteen years hence with bolshevism
and anarchism." He held, however,
hat there was too much state domino
ion in schools and not enough local
freedom in the arrangement OF the
courses In his address to the Ro-
5arians he said that the most severe
raining of mind and body is needed
N the public schools and that the
right kind of training provided the
public will be willing to pay the price
and will not regret doing so.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-03
Making Another Resolution.

The reason New Years is good
time to make good resolutions lies noL
IN the actual but sentimental Ieellhg
mar complete page in life's book has
heen written and closed, and that an
other mage lies before us-White ana
blank Through the year we fill this
mage with good deeds and bad, acts or
selnshness and acts OF kindness, EVIL
dence Of honesty, hustle and tnrlft, or
a lrearv screed of laziness, cheating
~ various kinds and general worth
Iessness.
ONO Of the strangest and most UNI
accountable phenomena in human ma
tBre lies in the fact that Whlle the
leonard cannot change his Spots nor
the Ethiop his skim a man can change
his mental and moral attitude at any
time he so wills.
This change generally comes when
he quits lying to himself, sees his acts
az they really are and so modlhes AIS
life that he works complete trans
formation and becomes a positive,
constructive force for the benefit Of
himself and everybody else.
New Years is a good time to take
stock Just like the merchants take
inventory. If our storehouse con-
tains bad mental and moral habits,
inclination toward laziness, unwlii-
ingness to meet issues and solve them,
and a general stock of poor or no-ac-
count qualities, we can sweep house
set our faces to the light and work for
better things.
And fnalIy-remembe that no
man is whipped until he gives up Oh
dies This life is your own and the
only chance you will ever have. Make
it count.