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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
LEGAL NOTICE

In the Probate Court Of Bingham
county, state of Idaho.
In the matter of the estate of
Mary Ann Wasley, deceased.
Notice of time and place set for
hearing petition for probate of will
and for the issuance of letters of
administration with the will annexed
thereon.
Notice is hereby given, that a
petition for the probate of the will
of Mary ann Wasley, deceased, and
for the issuance of letters of admin
istration with the will annexed
thereon to Gregory Jones, has been
filed in this court, and that Friday,
the 31st day of October, 1924, at 10
O'Clock in the forenoon of said day
at the court room of said court, at
the court house in the city of Black
foot, Bingham county, state of Ida
no, have been set as the time and
place for the hearing of said petit
ton, when and where any person in
the same, and show cause, if any
they have, why said petition should
not be granted.
Said will is written, signed by the
testatrix, and attested by two sub
scribing witnesses.
Dated this 18th day of October,
1924.
(SeaD j. E. Good,
Judge of the probate court of
Bingham co nty, Idaho, and clerk
thereof.
adv. 42-43-44
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
BUSINESS WOMEN's TRIUMPH

The business and professional
women of Blackfoot have scored an
other triumph by putting on an en-
tertainment known as the Minstrel
Frolic. They had two purposes in
mind, to raise money to carry on
some laudable work for the good of
others, and to give the public a
| frOlic they would relish and remem-
Der with pleasure. They succeeded
in both. The undertaking netted
them $4,000 and full houses attest
ed the success of the fun-making
They set their mark to make $500
but two stormy nights coming at the
time of the show probably cut down
the attendance from a packed house
to full house.
The play was put on under the
management of neutrality-suspicious.
company of Fostoria, Ohio, with Mr..
Harry Baker directing, and right
well did he manage everything and
everybody through all the trials of
assignments and training, as we'll as
in settling up the business affairs
under the contract. The committee
representing the club women are
generous in expressions of apprecia-
ton of his gentlemanly conduct
throughout and of his generosity in
classifying the expenses and taking
on and paying really more of them
than the contract required of his
company.
There were about fifty local peo-
pie in the show, under the leadership
of Judge ]. H. Andersen, the fun
maker. T n Neutrality-suspicious.
company supplied much more
scenery than there was room for on
the stage, and the young people |
drafted to perform the various parts !
acquitted themselves with credit
Blackfoot is proud of its perform |
ers, and proud of it's business and |
women. They have !
themselves in a num-
Der of undertakings here and at I
and people here are
hoping they will retain the promin
ence and leadership already gained
in the state. 1t is always a source
If satisfaction to the public to know
that an organization or a firm al
ways makes success of anything
hey undertake. So long as they
nave no failures to their credit and
ire doing good in every project, the
people accept each new undertaking
Is being we'll planned, and they are
'eady to respond by doing just what
uch organization asks of them. In
his instance the business houses of
he town were asked for a definite
mount of advertising, not too much,
md they responded. The club is
he most grateful bunch in town
low, and if the Chamber of Com
nerce should ask the club for some
ervice they are capable of render
ng, they would probably rise up en-
nasse in their willingness to do their
art. n
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
Thief Couldn't Resist
Kinney's Bargain Offer

Harry Kinney of the Kinney Mer.
camille company got out a lot of bills
last week announcing a special bar
gain festival starting this week with
the announced purpose of adding
1000 new customers to their list OF
patrons. The first one to respond
to the advertisement arrived early
Monday morning and Harry is hop
ing that the next 999 won't be of the
same kind. AS an index to the bar
gain opportunities to be found in
side the store, Fred Simons, man
ager of the clothing department,
\ had placed three new style winter
overcoats In the window, each mark
ed with the special bargain price.
The first bargain hunting customer
arrived Monday morning several
hours before regular opening time,
in fact about 2 o'clock in the morn
ing as near as Night Policeman
Clark can figure it, and after look
ing over the window display decided
that the quality, style and price of
one OF the coats, marked $3.50 in
plain figures, made 1t good buy.
But the customer was either without
the price or was afraid If he waited
until the store opened somebody
WOulQ DedC MIN TO IL. Here was q
situation that demanded quick &C
ton. The longer he looked the
more he was impressed with the
style and texture of that particular
coat and the greater became his in
ability to resist it's appeal He re-
tired to the alley, provided himself
with good sized rock and proceed
ing on the theory that "a fair ex-
change is no robbery" heaved the
rock through the big plate glass
window and took in exchange the
overcoat. The other coats and sew
eral sweaters in the window were
not disturbed. The rock was about !
the size of large watermelon or
small Idaho potato, and was found
inside the window after the robbery
was discovered.
The management of the store has
announced that further demonstra-
tions of such undue eagerness on the
part of the shoppers to avail them
selves of the bargain offerings will
necessitate a return to regular
prices. The cost of replacing the
window will be about 800.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
SEEING BLACKFOOT FROM
THE HEAVENS IN AIRPLANE

A number of local people went ur
In airplanes this week and had a new
and inspiring view of the town. The
service was furnished by Texaco Oil
companys men, who have a fleet of
airships operating in the territory
where they have service stations
The airships use the Texaco oil and
gas, and they drew supplies from
J. ]. Boyles Gasoiltire stations on
North Main and South Broadway.
Mr.. Boyle has been away for some
time and Mrs. Boyle manages the
business.
The pilots who came here were
Fred Lund and Thomas Thompson;
Glen Honberger, mechanician, and
c. G. Casey, manager. Their head
quarters are Houston, Texas, and
Blackfoot was the thirteenth town
where they put on a flying cam
paign carrying passengers. Mrs.
Boyle was the thirteenth baby in her
fathers family, and it happened that
she went up in the air on the thir-
teenth of October. She took her
little son, Jack, age twelve, with her
on her first trip, and just made a
again and took all the dips and nose
knew what a beautiful place Black
foot was until she viewed it from
the heavens while gliding around in
great circles high enough to see the
rivers along with the rest of the
landscape.
A passenger is strapped into the
seat, though Mr.. Lund said it was
not necessary; the suction holds one
fast to the seat and holds tighter
when they dip and dive. The sue
ton is so great that if one turns to
look back it lifts the eyehds and dis
turbs the breath, but while looking |
ahead it is just like riding at high |
speed in car.
When the ship starts off the
ground 1t is like the start of an auto
and in climbing one feels the ma
terial resistance of the air as the
motor forces the wings against it.
In the long climb upwards it gives
one feeling of ambition, desire to
do, to see, to venture for the reward
of the new scenes and the greater
ones opening and coming closer as
one rises to greater sweeps of vision.
The town draws as if 1t were shrink
ing; the houses and trees became
dwarfed; cows look the size of little
pigs but retain their sharp outline.
Automobiles look just like the toy
autos in the stores and people in the
streets become pigmies, all retaining
their sharp outlines.
The city blocks, the streets, the
little farms and the larger ones with
fields and pastures, Snake river a
foot wide and the Blackfoot a silver
ribbon, the foothills closer and more
friendly and the big desert and lava
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
WILL TAKE A CENSUS

The United States will take cen.
sus between the ten-year periods
now, and work will begin the 18th
of November.
E. J. Fjelsted has been appointed
director of the census for the east
ern district of Idaho, comprising
about fifteen counties, and will have
eighty-six enumerators under his
direction. He opens an office at Po-
catello on the goth of October, and
will be engaging enumerators.
Miss Matte Waters of the Farm
Bureau office will go to the Poca-
tello office and Miss Frederick Bar
rette will take Miss Waters place at
the Farm Bureau office.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
DEATH OF ALEX. DANSKIN

Alexander Danskin died at his
home at Alhambra, California in the
latter part of September at the age
of 81 years. Mr.. Danskin was a ma
tive of Canada, who came to the
Boise basin to engage in gold min
ing in the sixties, later became a
resident of Boise, and lived for some
time at Blackfoot. He was one OF
the promoters of the Danskin ditch
in this county, and became bankrupt
in the undertaking. He commenced
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16

it in 1886, to furnish water for min
ing along the bluffs in the Pingree
country as well as for irrigation in
the country nearer Blackfoot. After
his failure some of the settlers kept
the enterprise alive until it could be
financed, and Mr.. Danskin moved to
California in 1900, living for years
on North Broadway.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
LOCAL NEWS

Fire insurance, Beebe, phone 100
Walter Jacobs left Sunday for
Chicago, and was accompanied as
far as PocatellO by the Misses Hazel
Diversion and Ona Frazier.
Mrs. M. N. Austin and daughter,
Billy Jane, returned the first of the
week from six weeks visit with
her parents at Topeka, Kansas.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
SERVE SENTENCE HERE

Following plea of guilty to a
charge of violating the federal pro-
hibition law, Alex. Cameron was
sentenced by Judge F. S. Dietrich at
Pocatello this week to pay fine OF
$500 and serve four months in the
Bingham county jail. Harry Smith
also plead guilty and was fined 5000
and sentenced to serve four months
in the Bingham county jail.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16
FARM LOANS

The season Of heavy refin-
ancing in connection with farm
loans is now here. Why not
do little figuring and see IL
you cannot refinance your
mortgage on a better basis.
Do not wait until the snow
flies, when it will be impossible
to intelligently examine your
place.
Begin now and have 1t ap-
praised while travelling is
good. Then your worries will
be over. Your money will be
ready for you when you need
it. Do not wait until the last
hour of grace.
L believe my many years of
experience in the farm loan
business, together with my
strong connections, will enable
me to serve You as well as any
one. Few If any can equal my
service.
j. A. STEWART
BlackfOOt - Idaho
Hopkins Building
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-16

Alex Campbell, the Democratic
candidate for secretary of state, was
in Blackfoot Thursday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
COLLECTORS WARN
 INCOME TAX PAYERS
Saturday Last Day Allowed For Settlement Of Quarterly Dues

Income taxes have been reduced, but the penalty for failure to pay on schedule time still remains.
 Local tax officials issued this warn ing Tuesday as a result of the slow manner in which Birmingham taxpay- CTS are meeting their installments. Sat urday is the last day allowed for the quarterly settlement, and reports Tues day showed that only a small percent age of the taxpayers had made their returns. '.>
 Unwillinginess to pay their install ments before Congress had definitely decided on the tax reduction bill is believed to have caused the slowness in payments. Now that the measure has gone into effect all income tax payers have been given full informa- tion regarding its provisions, however, and there is no reason why they should not pay promptly, officials said Tues day.
 Providing the taxpayer has paid his first quarterly installment, the amount of this quarters tax is reduced just half the previous amount, it was stat ed, thus making the proper reduction for both quarters.
 Of those who have paid their taxes, a majority are paying the full years amount this quarter because of the re- ductiOn, collectors report. No official announcement has been received by To- cal officials regarding the manner in which the amount of reduction is to be refunded to those who paid the full tax in March.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
RUNNER RETURNS
 $l5,OOO IN BONDS
Tale Of Kidnapping Told LOui-
 siana Authorities By Lebish

MORGAN CITY, La, June 1O.- William Lebish, p, messenger for a brokerage concern in New York, walked 900 worth of negotiable bonds, and told of how he was kidnapped by bandits in the Metropolis week or ten days ago and how he had managed to recover the loot.
 Lebish had been sent by his em- ployer to a bank to deliver $2O0,0OO worth of bonds and return with $45, 900 worth in exchange. He was kid naped by an elderly man on the return trip, he told authorities, and forced into an automobile and a short time later was drugged. He remembered nothing further until this forenoon when his captor dumped him out of the car into a swamp, 12 miles east of here.
 Lebish said he recovered his senses a short time before he was put out of the car and that when he told the kidnaper the bonds were not negotia- ble, they were returned to him.
 Upon his arrival here Lebish de- livered the bonds to a bank for safe keeping and wired his employer in New York.
 Authorities in the meantime com municated with New York police and were informed the youth was wanted there. It also was learned from New York that the brokerage firm claimed it had recovered $3,000 worth of the missing bonds which would leave $42,- 900 unaccounted for, but Lebish de- livered to the bank here $45,000 in securities. The youth was held for New York authorities who started an officer south to return him to that city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
TUCKER ELECTROCUTED BY LIVE WIRE Death Is Instantaneous While At Work I'm
 West End

Frank Tucker, age 32, lineman for the Birmingham Electric company, was instantly killed when he dropped live wire carrying 2,50O volts, across his right arm while working on line at Hazelhurst station at P 80 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
 According to his working companions, Tucker had finished the, job on his pole and had descended to the ground to connect two live wires. He was holding one of the wires in his right hand and "skinning" it with the left when he turned to pick up the other wire The skinned end of the wire he was holding swung back and struck him on the arm above his rubber gloves. Death was instantaeous.
 Tucker is survived by his widow. Mrs. Frank Tucker, SPA Twenty street, south, and a brother. also of Bir- mingham. He had been an employe of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company for four years and when the company was changed to the Birmingham Electric company retined his position as an electrician.
 A preliminary investigation was made Tuesday afternoon by Coroner J. D. Russum and the body was turned over to Ridout pending funeral ar rangements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
WOMAN IS DEAD
 FROM INJURIES
 BY AUTOMOBILE
Mrs. Bula Stewart Struck While Crossing Road
 At Her Home

Mrs. Bula Stewart, R. +. D. 4, Bir- mingham, died at St. Vincent's hospital at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning, the result of injuries sustained several hours earlier when struck by. an auto mobile driven by. James P. Stone, Jr., 1213 Thirtieth street, north, as she was crossing the road leading to her home.
 According to Stone and his three companions Mrs. Stewart stepped from in front of her truck to open gate for her brother, J. l.. Pool, who was driv- ing. The driver was unable to see her until too late, he stated.
 Mrs. Stewart was removed to St. Vincent's hospital in Vices ambulance.
 Stone and his companions, after call ing the ambulance and seeing the wom- an to the hospital, went directly to police headquarters and gave up. After making repeEt of the accident the driver was released on q $400 sap- pearanee bond. Miss Christine Carson and her brother, Glenroy Carson, and Miss Elsie Benziger the other occu- pants of the car were listed as wit neSses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
JAZZ ERA NEAR END
 SAYS MAYOR DEVER
Gives Students New Method Of
 Gaining Political Success

CHICAGO, June 10.-A new method of achieving political success-"by strict and conscientious enforcement of, and compliance with the letter and spirit of the law"-was given by Mayor William B. Dever today in the com mencement address at the University of Chicago. More than 700 degrees were conferred by President Ernest Dewitt Burton at the 133rd convocatiOn.
 The jazz mad" era is approaching it's close, the mayor said. What he called disturbing symptom" how. ever, was the publicity that had been given him merely because he had per formed his plain and unavoidable duty" in enforcing the law.
 He said he wondered if one-fifth of the $4O,000,OO0 spent annually in the suppression of crime in Cook (Chicago) county were set aside to provide pre- ventive measures in the way of parks, playgrounds and organized athletics, such a constructive policy might not, aside from it's social and human value, provide for an even more efficient ,po- lice service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
GIRL SAILOR CASE
 BROUGHT TO HALT
Bluejackets Charged With Car
 rying Women On Warship

BREMERTON, Wash, June 1O.- A demand of defense attorney that the prosecution produce the woman in the case" brought halt yesterday in the general court martial here of IA bluejackets of the United States battle ship Arizona, charged with smuggling 19-year-old girl, dressed as a sailor, on board the ship atNew York city last April before the vessel sailed from San Diego, Cal This request was taken under advisement.
 The girls last name is unknown to prosecuting officers. The girl was dis covered with the fleet at Panama, Canal Zone, and put ashore May 12. Her first name was given as Made laine." It was disclosed shortly after the girl was put ashore that she de- sired to enter the movies, using that method as the best to get to Holly wood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
(By Associated Press.)

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 10.- The formal campaign for election of Calvin Coolidge to, succeed himself in the White House slid off the po- liticaL ways here today when the 1924 republican national convention met, heard the keynote address of it's temporary chairman, did little necessary routine business, and ad- journed to convene tomorrow morn ing.
 The launching took place at Pub- lie hall, the huge civic auditorium of the city. Probably more than 12,- 900 persons witnessed the cere- monies and countless hundreds of thousands more heard what was said by radio.
 Few Lung Tests
 There was only a few occasions when chance came for the cOn, entlOn to test it's lung power One of these was when Temporary Chairman Theodore Burton trained his vocal batteries against the insurgent group within the party. He demanded that only tried and true republicans, who will stand united be elected to Congress and the delegates clustered just below him, roared approval. They climbed to their feet and eyes all over the hall cen. tered on the Wisconsin delegation, sit ting fast amid the tumult
 From the gallery rail above, the blazing white lights of the movie ap- paratus flared as the cameras began clicking away to make visual record of the scene. The torrent of dazzling light poured down on the heads of the Wisconsin men. Cries of stand up stand up!" rang on the floor, and from the gallery an enthusiast hurled down single shout of put 'em out!'
 Chairman Burton paused as the din swelled. Then his voice, multiplied many times in the amplifiers clustering high against the arched roof, boomed
 (Continued on Page TwO.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
LAF0LLEi1t MEN DEFY WHOLE CONVENTION
20 Year Illusion Broken
 By Death Bed Confession

they had stolen me from my rightful parents.
 ''She tried to tell me their name and where they lived, but was too weak, and before she was able to divulge the entire story she be- came unconscious and soon after ward died"
 In her confession the woman said that the young man was taken from his home in Birmingham between IS and 19 years ago. She was unable to recall the exact date, he said, but she declared that he was approxi- mately three or four years old at the time.
 The young man says he remembers nothing of any childhood days earlier than those in Los Angeles, and that until the woman's story had been told he had no suspicion that he was not their legitimate child.
 As soon as he learned the story he immediately left Los Angeles and came to Birmingham, he says, and is seeking aid in locating his parents. With scarcely a worthwhile clue on which to work, police are assisting him in the search, and he may be reached at police headquarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
FULL U. s. FLEET TO RE ASSEMBLED IN PACIFIC OCEAN
Maneuvers TO Be Held Near Hawaiian Islands
 Navy Announces

WASHINGTON, June .10.-The full American fleet, comprising both At lantic and Pacific divisions, will mo bilize and maneuver in the Pacific about the Hawaiian Islands this com ing winter and spring, the navy de- partment has announced.
 After the maneuvers in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands, the battle fleet composed of 12 first line fighting vessels, may go to Australia and New Zealand.
 Mobilization of the fleet will begin the first of the year. The major maneuvers will be held in the spring.
 Joint fleet maneuvers have not been held in the Pacific in several years. The annual exercises have taken place for the last few years in the Atlantic, and about the Panama Canal
 It had been planned originally to hold the past winters maneuvers off Ha- waii. but they were transferred to the West Indies. The navy depart ment has decided to carry out the plan this year. It has been under con sideration for some time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

A story of Birmingham kid naping' of more than 20 years ago, of being reared by his abductors and taught to believe they were his true parents, and of the shattering of the home foundations of a lifetime by the deathbed confession of dying woman, was related Tuesday after noon in The Age-Herald office.
 Reuben Johnson" as the young man calls himself-for he knows no other name than that given him by his pseudo-parents-believes he is about 9 years old. Three years ago the man he had been brought up to believe was his father died, and last week his mother" fell dangerously ill.
 On Friday, June 7--just before she died--the woman called him to her bedside and told him that he was Kidnapped when child and was not rightfully her son.
 ''She told me that I came from a well-to-do family in Birmingham" Johnson said Tuesday. "She said that she and her husband had been living in Birmingham and on the eve of the day they left for Los Angeles