The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-02-14

being done and get employment and
live in and help support those COM
munities. The people of this county
are not at fault for 1t any more than
are the printers of this county. The
people and the printers have CO.
operated in the process of destroying
the printing industry in Bingham
county, and neither the people nor
the printers could apply the remedy
alone It Is as II q house was afire
and somebody is needed on top with
water, and the bystanders were all
willing to 90 up II only there was
good ladder. Somebody has got to
supply the ladder, and in this case
1t Is a modern press and thousand
or fifteen hundred dollars worth of
mats that are needed.
The weeks payments at The Re-
publican office are:
Display advertising ----.,.---$13s.86
Job printing ---.--------------- 67.25
Le8als ZS.VV
Subscriptions ------.--------------- 1O1-4S
Total ......$237.1s|
Up to this week everybody that
put in a guess on these things re-
ceived either 81 or -. Last week
the total of cash prizes was IS. This
week is was SIG with IS limit. All
votes that did not come within IS of
he mark were counted out according |
to the terms announced last Thurs
day There were eighteen guesses |
this week and only one came within |
the IS limit. That one was j. NJ |
McKie, of route 8, the man who has |
won four dollars from US every |
in this month and seems |
to be lucky as we'll as cheerful |
sport. Mrs. McKie won 81 last
week, but this time she missed it.
The rs per cent of printing house
and an equal amount from
the editors ranch account we're duly |
deposited on Thursday afternoon,
raising the Better Type Fund to
1851 and the Better Printing
Fund to $417.02. There was $12 Of
Tered in prizes that was not won by
anybody, and that was deposited in
the fund, raising 1t again, to
$4,000. The SIG of prize money
was set aside to be useful to some
body, and as only 81 of 1t was won
according to the rules Of the game
we had to get rid of it, and rid"
we did.
The money set aside for next
weeks prizes is 1872, and II some of
you folks don't win it we will put
It into one of the funds to be spent
Tor the new equipment, so you had
better get busy on the guesses. Here
ire the rules of the guessing for
1ext Thursday, Feb. 21:
Four 81 prizes will be given for
guessing closest to the income of the
office on the same terms as this
week.
Four other 81 prizes will be given
or closest guess named below:
Guess what we're the expenses of
rhe Republican office for last week,
February 1 to inclusive. All
,uesses that do not come within IS
will be thrown out and the one get
ing closest will receive the money.
n summing up these expenses, take
recount of the money paid out for
he week and then make allowance
or one fifty-second part Of years
axes, light, heat, power. insurance.
depreciation and donations for
harities or public undertakings.
'otal it all, and II anybody wins we
will publish the weeks accounts.
you might want it to enable you to
uess closer at later date when the
rizes are larger.
l have recently been visited by
alesmen for the two kinds of type
asting machines we use and for the
rms that sell movable type and
ave made out three orders for ma
erials, hoping that by March 5
'ould feel justified in signing all a
hree of them. Four dollar prizes
ill be given to those that guess
Iosest on Ludlow mats, linotype
lats and movable type, with the IS
nit. While you are studying these
her things you might be getting
eady to make a guess on which of
lie three presses 1 will feel justified
| buying as indicated by the amount
[ payments coming in.
To be continued h
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