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Newspaper
Filer Record
Location
Filer, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1919
Page
5
Local items include residents visiting Twin Falls and nearby towns. Mrs Ray Taylor and Mrs Gay Fisher are noted visitors. Hog shipments to Pocatello and family updates appear. Beet seed availability announced by Farmers Grain Milling Co and KE Tolman, Twin Falls agent.
The fair grounds invite public inspection and attendance with concessions, track activities, and a $25 prize for the champion Short Horn bull and a separate prize for the reserve cow or heifer. Ribbons from the Almeria Association accompany awards. Temporary grandstands and facilities will be provided for fans and exhibitors. Applications for concessions are being received as preparations proceed.
Manager Penny indicates he will organize two local ball teams for practice and to select a representative squad. Adams Produce Co with a baying force in the area will form a team to challenge the locals, signaling a good prospect for baseball activity.
At a Monday meeting of the District highway board in Denver Colorado Keller Iires. expressed willingness to assume the 360000 highway bonds at a premium of 5000. The bonds carry 6 percent interest. Twenty two bidders competed, and the board is praised for its success, with Twin Falls as the only district possibly doing better nearby.
Robert Yellewell of Adams Produce Co plans a branch at Filer with three crews and three filers preparing to haul 1000 tons of hay to Hansen Live Stock Co under contract to feed 7500 head. Hay shipped at eight cars per day using big trucks and trailers. each row has a cook house mounted on rocks. An extra truck and adler ordered for service.
An election likely set for May 3 will decide highway bonds totaling 860000. Support appears assured by strong approval in favor of progress and improved roads, with little expected opposition. Also notes Miss Lola Thompson is quite ill.
A letter urges a general clean-up and paint-up week for Filert Whe boys returning home to find brighter, neater surroundings. It calls on volunteers to join a campaign, noting plenty of work and a desire for cleanliness and brightness around home.
Delmar Tucker misjudged a road and sped, colliding with a trail cop near Fi ler straits. Police judge fined him $10 for speeding on a public thoroughfare, noting the danger and cost to law.
The Rural High School notes cover the senior banner reading Class 19, a typewriting test where Lillian Graybill set a 41 wpm average, and upcoming tests by L. Smith Typewriting Co. A class play aims to debut in about three weeks, with a luncheon for seniors hosted by domestic science students. The school plans district declamatory representation, a spring watering trough by manual training, and a visit from State Superintendent Miss Ethel Redfield. Reserved seats are 50 cents at Majestic Pharmacy in Twin Falls.
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