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The Blackfoot OptimistOFFICIAL PAPER OF BLACKFQPT CITY AND BINGHAM CO., IDA.

VOL. IX. NO. 13 BLACKFOOT, BINGHAM COUNTY, IDAHO, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 24 ,1916 $2j00 PER YEAR

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CHARLEY HARRIS DINED

P ay e tte , Feb. 19.—Charles E. H arris ,

g ran d chancellor o f K n igh ts o f P y th ­

ias, v isited th e P ay e tte P y th ian s

T hursday evening when the fifty-first

P y th ia n ann iversary , which came on

th e 19th o f th is month, w as ce lebrated in the na tu re o f a reception fo r the g rand chancellor a t the home o f M r. and M rs. W. C. S tu rdevan t, lO.'iO Cen­tr a l avenue. Besides th e local K n igh ts and P y th ia n S isters a rep resen ta tive of the W eiser K n igh ts and some local in v ited guests w ere p resent.

A splendidly appoin ted d inner was served a t 7:30. A tto rney K enw ard was m aster o f ceremonies. M ayor V enable welcomed, the g rand chancellor, who m ade an app rop ria te and in stru c tiv e response. T oasts w ere responded to by alm ost all present. The affair was one o f the nicest in th e social w ay th a t P a y e tte has had th is year.—C apital News.

Farewell Party

A very p re tty p arty w as given W ed­nesday evening a t th e home o f the P ark inson ’s in honor o f F red Heese, who goes on a mission on the 4th of M arch. The evening w as spen t m p lay ­ing gam es and dancing, a f te r which a d a in ty lunch was served. Among those p resen t w ere: E rnest Scanell, R obert R obbins, Tacher A llred, John Chapm an, F loyd M cDonald, George H eese, Lucile E vans, Leonore Jo rd an , Ida Chapm an, A nna Heese, M ary T anner, Lym an T anner and P h illip Buckland.

Children Injured

Tuesday m orning th e delivery horse and wagon o f th e B lackfoot Pack ing com pany ran aw ay and came near do ­ing g rea t bodily in ju ry . P au l S m ith ’s l i t t le boy and g irl w ere rid ing a t r i ­cycle on Bridge s tree t near th e K inney M ercan tile com pany, when the runaw ay horse collided w ith them. The little ch ildren w ere knocked down and run over, and qu ite badly bruised, the b o y ’s in ju ries being th e most serious, and caused him to vom it blood. Their tricycle was badly dam aged.

Club Entertains

The H elping H and Club en terta ined th e ir husbands and fam ilies la s t F riday evening a t th e home o f H. S. Peck. A bout fo rty persons w ere p resent, and th e evening w as spent in music and gam es, a f te r w hich a pa la tab le lunch­eon w as served.

F o r Sale or T rade

Carload of good work horses th a t a re all broke and gen tle and in good condition. They are for sale or trad e fo r w ar horses. Apply a t th e Fail- grounds .or th e Commercial H otel for particu lars.

SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY

M r. A leck Y ounie, p residen t o f the

F irs t N ationak bank, an« th e F a rm e rs ’

M illing com pany, reached th e seventy-

fifth m ilestone in l i f e ’s journey last

Tuesday (W ash ing ton ’s b irth d ay ),

which w as ce lebrated by a surprise

b irthday p a rty a t the home of his dau ­

g h te r, M rs. E . M. K ennedy. Among th e m any p leasan t fea tu res of the party

w as a cake w ith seventy-five candles.

M r. Younie, who is a n a tiv e of Quebec,

Canada, arid th e fa th e r of th ree ch ild ­ren and n ine grandchildren , is s till ac tiv e and hea rty , and capable o f doing as much w ork as most men not ha lf h is age.

AT LAST OVERTAKEN

W. L. W est, one o f th e alleged ca ttle rustle rs who broke ja il abou t a year ago and shot F erd inand F aek re ll in the leg for try in g to cap tu re him, w as a r ­rested la st week by th e S a lt L ake City au tho ritie s who notified th e sheriff’s o f ­fice of th e ir cap tu re. L ast S atu rday Sheriff Simmons brough t him back to his old quarters in th e ’ B ingham coun­ty ja il w here he w ill be a ca refu lly en ­te rta in ed guest. H e w ill be charged w ith an a ttem p t to com m it m urder, and possibly w ith th e crim e o f ja il-b reak ­ing.

THE “ NEW YORK WORLD’S’’COMMENT ON WELSH SINOERS

Sylvester Rowling, musical c ritic of th e New York Even ing W orld has the follow ing to say o f th e concert given by “ The Gwent W elsh M ale S in g ers ’ ’ in Aeolian H all of New York C ity :

The G w ent Welsh M ale S ingers scor­ed an toher success la st n igh t a t Aeol­ian H all. A large audience enjoyed th e ir lovely singing and dem anded sev ­era l ex tra num bers. The nam e G went is W elsh for M onm outhshire, th e coun­ty in W ales from which th e singers come.

W hile some of th e choruses w ere in W elsh fa r the g rea te r p a r t w ere in English, and adm irably sung they w ere too. The indiv idual voices w ere of ex ­cellen t quality and the choir disclosed splendid unison, fine precision and b a l­ance, clean cut a tta c k and delightfu l nuance-

This is the same organization which w ill appear a t H igh School Auditorium B lackfoot, Idaho, on the evening of Feb. 25th, w ith th e exception of the vacancies which w ere cap sod by the L usitan ia d isaste r in which several, of the singers and form er conductor Mr. George F . D avis, lost th e ir lives. Mr. David Johns, one of the most success­ful conductors in W ales succeeds Mr. Davis. An en tire new program is a fea tu re o f th e ir forthcom ing engage­ment.

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ARE ENTITLED TO PASSES

A person holding office o f p resid ­

en t o f a stak e of t.he Church o f Jesu s

C hrist of L a tte r-day S ain ts is a m in ­

is te r o f religion w ith in the m eaning of the law, nam ely, subdivision 3, sec­tion 16, chap ter 16, 1913 session laws, according to an opinion handed down from the office of th e a tto rn ey gen ­eral F riday . A ccording to th is, he is legally perm itted or elig ib le to receive free tran spo rta tion w ith in the s ta te of Idaho from a ra ilroad com pany. The

I to rney G eneral D unning in response to , an inquiry .

Qualified Minister ,I The opinion says:I “ I t is th e opinion of th is office th a t : a person holding office o f president o f a s take o f the Church o f Jesus

I C hrist o f L a tte r-day S a in ts is a m in­is te r of religion w ith in the meaning

^of said law.

DISCLAIMS NEWSPAPER INTEREST

The news item published in th is paper

on th e 10th inst., s ta tin g th a t the

Aberdeen Times had been sold and th a t

D. W. D avis o f A m erican F alls was one of the purchasers, and Commission­er F ugate of A berdeen, was another, seems to have been either a political canard, or the im agination of a Demo­cra tic ed itor. Col. F ugate of Aberdeen denied th is alleged g u ilt in connectionw ith th e reported new spaper sale be-

opinion was w ritten by A ssistan t A t- artic le was published, and nowa f te r the artic le has been w idely c ir ­cu lated by the new spapers o f th e sta te , fo r political purposes, no doubt, comes Air. D avis, the Republican farm er banker cand idate fo r governor, an<l em­phatica lly declares his innocence of the charge made ag a in st him. We know M r. D avis socially and com m ercially as a man o f unquestioned veracity , and when he says he is not in teres ted in

. , , . . . . th e A berdeen Times we know he isI “ Such olheer is regu larly ordained, I . , „ „ , „ ,, . . . .

, , not, and the refo re cheerfu lly publishis au thorized am t required to lecture . . ,

i. .u I- L his denial of the charge made against

Going on a Mission

or preach the doctrine o f the church and solemnize m arriages. Such offi- ’ cers are not paid a sa la ry , and it is ^our understand ing th a t such denoniiua- 1 tion does not have salaried preachers or m inisters.

“ I t is th e opinion o f th is office th a t a person duly ordained in his respec-

him by E d ito r Toner, M r. D avis fu r ­the r inform s us by phone th a t he has not got a dollar invested in th e news-

Fred II. H esse leaves oil the 4th of M arch fo r S candinavia on a mission for. th e L. D. S. Church, and expects to be gone betw een two and th ree years. He was born in B lackfoot tw en ty years ago, and for th e last tw o years has been a tru s ted tim e-keeper in th e local sugar fac to ry . The F irs t W ard Church w ill honor him w ith a farew ell p a rty next M onday. A large a ttendance and a good tim e is expected.

W ashington B irth d ay P a r ty

L ast S a tu rday evening Johnny P ow ­ers en te rta in ed the L 4 ’s and th e AI. B .’s a t his home w hich w as p a tr io ti ­cally decorated w ith th e S ta r and S tripes in honor of the F a th e r o f his Oonntrv.

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paper field o f Idaho, and does not in ­tend to have any such investm ent. I f th e charge made by his Republican guberna to ria l opponent and nam esake,

j th a t th e editors who sell th e ir ed itoria l tiv e church to officiate and adm inis- S|,a(.e is a t all true , we do not blam e te r, e ither w ith or w ithou t com pensa-1 any decent man from disow ning any tion , is a m in ister o f religion w ithin personal in te res t in liewspaperdoin— th e m eaning of such laws, even fol. his dear w ife ’s sake, a t least, though, in the in te rv a l between a[ poin tm ents, such person resorts t secular em ploym ent as a means of sul s isting him self and fam ily.

•People of B lackfoot who like to see a gooil d ram atic perform ance should not fa il to a tten d the p resentation of “ The A m azons" a t the H igh School A uditorium here next M onday n iah t. This high-class comedy dram a will be

P illion , Alont., Feb. 19.— A quarter of presented by th e Shelley High SchoolD ram atic company. This same company

a t Shellev recently and

T h ir ty C ent W ool

a million pounds of wool was con trac t­ed today a t 30 -cents or b e tte r by Bos­ton buyers. S enator E. O. Sehvay was th e first to con tract. This is the first wool sold in Alontana in 1916. h ighest price w as paid for wo Beaverhead country, the biggest region in th e sta te .

A Good O pere tta

The juven ile o pere tta “ P rec lo sa - given a t th e Isis th e a tre last night by a bevy of b righ t boj s and g irls uudei the d irection and instruc tion of Airs. Effa Duke w as well a ttended and very much appreciated by the audience. The little s ta rs displayed m arked ab ility and pains in th e ir tra in in g , and re ­flected much c red it on th e ir instructor, Mrs. Effa Duke.

p layed th e picscored a big h it, there not being a weak spot in the en tire cast. The pro-

The , duetion is under the personal direction at j nf Aliss M ary Spencer, one o f the

cool I Shelley school facu lty , who has a won­derfu l am ount of d ram atic ab ility . Ali who a tten d will be agreeably surprised a t th e com pleteness of th is presentation of a splendid dram a.

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PROPERTY BRINGS GOOD PRICE

Last S atu rday the resilience p roper­

ty on the southw est corner of Pacific

and Taylor s tree ts , which w as th e pro

perty o f W. E. B arn h a rt of Spokane, W ash., was sold fo r $6000, to M essrs. W. E. ami B. W. H opkins, th e well- known butchers. W hile most people seem to th ink th a t the p rice w as high for residence property , th e new owners do not agree w ith them and th in k the property which is soon destined to be ­come business property , was very rea ­sonable. The sale was made by J . II. M cDonald. M r. B arnhart, who is an ex-resident o f B laekfoot w here he was in the renl es ta te business w ith .1. H. M cDonald, bought th is property tw en ­ty-seven, years ago for $200, and i t has been a revenue produced ever since. The lot is 50x125, and the im prove­m ents consist o f a residence and barn.

I t is rum ored th a t th e H opkins b ro th ­ers will build an up-to-date m arket and cold sto rage p lan t on the property in the near fu tu re .

PYTHIAN MINSTREL

Numerous Would-BeSheriffs

The county political pot has suddenly commenced to boil quite strenuously. The sh eriff’s office seems to be a g rea t m agnet fo r office seekers, as there are about a ha lf dozen whose political am ­bition prom pts them to a desire to suc­ceed Sheriff Simmons, who we a re in ­formed is not seriously opposed to a second term . One o f the rumored a sp iran ts when in terv iew ed said, “ m aybe,’ ’ and ano ther denied th e ul- legation. All o f them seem to be quiet ly feeling th e public pulse as to th e ir chances of success. We have also been inform ed th a t one o f these would-be sheriffs again hails from Shelley, he is a Republican and his nam e is P acker. He is po litically inclined, and we be­lieve would tak e a long chance to reach to reach the sheriff’s salary . ;

On M arch 6 and 7, a t th e O rpheum the K. of P. Lodge are going to stage the real show of th e season. They have been w orking for abou t th ree weeks on a m instrel show under th e d irection of F. I). Turner, who is an old m instrel man.

They have gotten toge ther Black- fo o t’s best ta len t, am i you are assu r­ed ft m usical tre a t. Anyone who does not like to have a hearty laugh should s tay aw ay fo r th e local jokes o f t i n end men w ill sure m ake you laugh.

There are th ir ty people in th e oast, and an 8-piece o rchestra.

L a tes t songs, good dancing and a m arvel in special scenery.

P rices 50c and 75c. Get your seats early.

CLAINED THE PUBSE

The li ttle purse we found in the postoitiee several w eeks ago and ad v e r­tised fo r ow ner brough t fo rth several purse losers o ther than th e one ad v e r­tised . But last S atu rday J . H. A llred called and identified the purse in ques­tion and was fam iliar w ith its silver con ten ts and took the lost purse home w ith m anv th an k s to th e finder.

Coal Thieves Punished

Two Atexieans w ere before Judgo Doud la st Thursday and w ere fined $20 each, w hich they failed to pay and are now doing tim e in th e county jail- Tliey w ere caugh t in the ac t o f robbing a car by ra ilroad detectives, who seem to lie ever on the n le rt fo r cool tre ss ­passers.

Charity Ball.

The K ings D aughters w ill give th e ir nniiual ch a rity ball in P rogress H all next Tuesday, F eb ruary 29th. T ickets $1.00.

Orpheum Theatre |

Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 29, Mar. 1

“The Rosary”A Selig Red Seal Play in Seven Reels.

Written by Edward E. Rose from his wonderful stage drama.

It is as Good as Any Sermon

eThe Earning Power of Money

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Time deposits a re issued in conveni-eu t am ounts, la rge or small as desired,and m ature in m onths or a year.

T heir purchase perm its carefu l, in-te lligen t investm ent o f indiv idual funds by th is in stitu tio n , insures absolutesafe ty , a definite and lilu r:il ra te ofin te res t, am t a form of investm entth a t iB readily negotiable a t will.

( ’all today and we will nish fu rth e r inform ation .

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