Thursday, January 2, 1930
FEDERAL FARM ACT MEETING IS PLANNED
A.L. Ozburn, member of the organization committee for
south-eastern Idaho through which the provisions of the federal farm act will be
brought to the people of this section, advises us that there will be a meeting
of Caribou county farmers Monday, January 13, at the court house, at which time
representatives of the federal farm board and other members of the district
committee will be present to explain the provisions of the act which must be
complied with before the farmers may be able to reap the full benefits therefrom.
The meeting is scheduled to commence at 1 o'clock.
Mr. Ozburn was named to represent Caribou county on this
organization committee at a meeting of some seventy-five representative farmers
from thirteen of the southeastern counties of Idaho, held Thursday, December 12,
in the Elks hall at Pocatello. J.W. Webster was chairman of the meeting and
George A. Hoopes of Rexburg was secretary.
J.r. Howard, representative of the Federal Farm board,
explained that, to take advantages of the federal farm act, it was necessary, as
a first preliminary, that a co-operative must be in harmony with the
Capper-Volstead act of 1912 and locals must b formed at convenient centers to
deal with the farmers. The locals will connect up with regional organizations
and the regionals in turn will deal with the National Grain Growers association,
which is already organized and functioning.
Money will be advanced by the Federal Farm board to locals
for the purpose of either building, buying or renting warehousing and marketing
facilities, the amount so loaned not to exceed 80 per cent of the cost. The
board will also lend money to farmers on the security of their grain, the amount
to be optional with the board and interest not to exceed 4 per cent.
Representation on the board of directors of the National
Grain Growers association would be apportioned to the various districts on the
basis of the number of bushels of grain marketed.
G.P. Mix of Moscow, state organizer for the North Pacific
Grain Growers Cooperative association, spoke of the need of cooperation on the
part of the farmers and gave an account of the organization of the association
he represented. He also read and discussed, clause by clause, the marketing
contract the farmers will be expected to sign.
The following compose the committee appointed to formulate
plans and method of procedure necessary to organize the farmers of this section:
Mose Christensen of Malad, Oneida county; Lorenzo Jensen of Rexburg, Teton
County; F.S. Parkinson of Rexburg, Madison county; Wm. Corbett of Grace, Bannock
county; Malden Later of Ririe, Bonneville and Jefferson counties; Jesse W. Wade
of American Falls, Power county; Wm. Schulberg of Preston, Franklin county; H.B.
Heinerdingri Cassia county; Lew Felt of Blackfoot, Bingham county; A.L. Ozburn
of Soda Springs, Caribou county; J.W. Murray of Garland, Utah, Boxelder county,
Utah.
This committee, with J.W. Webster as chairman and George A.
Hoopes as secretary, went into executive session and, after thorough discussion
of all phases of the subject with Messrs. Howard and Mix, brought back to the
body of the house a recommendation that they favored organization and also that
a permanent committee representative of the counties there represented be
appointed to assist in the formation of local cooperatives. In accordance with
this recommendation, the temporary committee was made permanent, with Mr.
Webster and Mr. Hoopes as chairman and secretary, respectively.
M.I.A. CONJOINT PROGRAM
The following program has been arranged for M.I.A. conjoint
meeting Sunday evening, January 5:
New Year poem, Norma Nielson
Piano solo, Bertha Anderson
Vocal solo, Wm. T. Lloyd
New Year thoughts, Supt. Geo. M. Likeness
"M" Men quartet, A. Ira Cox in charge
Whistling solo, Mrs. Edith Hayes.
The public is invited.
MEADOWVILLE
Bud Rice and famly and Wm. O. Albiston and family were dinner guests at the R.S. Hawker home Christmas Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Gates and son Artell were business visitors to Bancroft Thursday.
Mrs. Grant Cummins and children were dinner guests at the gates home Sunday.
MASONS AND STAR INSTALL OFFICERS
A joint installation of officers for the year 1930 was
held by the Masonic fraternity and the Order of the Eastern Star Friday,
December 20 at the I.O.O.F. hall in Soda Springs. Numbers on the program
included opening by the Eastern Star, a patriotic reading and a short history of
the order, after which installation of the following Star officers was proceeded
with: worthy matron, Mrs. Agnes Tipton; worthy patron, Paul E. Lotz; associate
matron, Mrs. Mabel L. Rosa; associate patron, Leon B. Rosa; secretary, Mrs.
Leona Mae Lotz; treasurer, Mrs. Leora B. Butler; conductress, Mrs. Gertrude
Minty; associate conductress, Mrs. Stella Smedley; marshal, Mrs. Lila Lallatin;
chaplain, Mrs. Ethel Meek; Adah, Mrs. Pearl Tiger; Ruth, Mrs. Lydia Finch;
Esther, Mrs. Viola Lauritson; Martha, Mrs. Martha Reed; Electa, Mrs. Susie
Small; organist, Mrs. Bernice Pickren; warder, Mrs. Mary Corrigan; sentinel,
Charles B. Wilson.
The following officers of the Masons were also installed:
Worshipful master, Charles G. Fulton; senior warden, Rene J. Coppard; junior
warden, Budd Weaver; treasurer, E.W. Largilliere; secretary, John A. Minty;
chaplain, Charles B. Wilson; marshal, Paul E. Lotz; senior deacon, Henry Van
Slooten; junior deacon, John W. Lauritson; senior steward, Lowell H. Merriam;
junior steward, Jeston R. Reynolds; tyler, Max W. Snell.
After installation Paul E. Lotz was presented with a past
patron's charm and Leon B. Rosa with a past master's ring. Presentation of the
past matron's jewel to Mrs. Lillie Christensen was made by mail as she had moved
to California.
After all ceremonies, a bounteous turkey banquet was served
under the direction of the ladies.
NEWS ABOUT TOWN
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Davis and family spent the holiday week at Pocatello.
Rev. and Mrs. J.I. Culick and sons of Idaho Falls were guests at the Homer Woodall home New Year day.
Mrs. J. Wallace Woodall and two sons, Johnny and Joe, spent the latter part of the holidays with relatives in Blackfoot.
A rather furious swirling of snow visited Soda early New Year day but the storm finally rested at just a flurry of an inch or so of beautiful white and the weather status which has thus far characterized our winter season.
The teachers are all back at their duties after spending the holidays east, west, north and south and the college students are preparing to resume their work at the various schools beginning next Monday, when most of the institutions of higher learning resume work.
Leonard Vaughn, who suffered the greatest amount of damage in Sodas Christmas day fire when his jewelry store entailed a loss of something like $4000, partially covered by insurance, is re-opening for business Saturday morning in the Schmidt building, across the street from the court house. As a preliminary to putting in an entirely new stock of goods, he is advertising a fire sale of smoke and water damaged articles beginning Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock, promising some real bargains in dishes, jewelry, etc., to those attending.
The Soda high school basketball teams are playing the Thatcher teams on the local floor Friday evening.
T.W. Horsley, president of the Idaho State Assessors association, leaves Saturday for Boise to preside at the annual meeting. Mrs. Horsley will accompany him.
BOYS OF MEADOWVILLE DISCUSS LAMB CLUB WORK
Monday evening the boys of the Meadowville school met at
the home of Joe Oleson to spend a special evening and talk over the prospect of
a lamb club. The boys attending were Farris and Aha Gates, Junior Hussey, Frank
Cummins, Bud Linch and Joe Oleson. County Agent I.M.C. Anderson met with
the boys and gave them a good talk on club work. Gene Chester and Joseph
Lallatin of Soda were also present.
It was decided to have a meeting Friday, January 10, to elect
officers. This meeting will be held at Oleson's and all boys who are interested
in club work are urged to be present. After eating ice cream and cake the boys
went to their homes, all enthused over club work.
NORTH IDAHOANS GET HEAVY SENTENCES
Seven principal defendants in The Mullan "whisky rebellion
case" Tuesday appeared before Federal Judge J. Stanley Webster at Coeur d'Alene
and said that they considered an appeal from their convictions would be hopeless
and were sentenced to prison.
Mayor Arthur Harwood of Mullan, four village trustees, Chief
of Police F.O. Welch and Policeman H. Murphy, those who appeared, had been
sentenced Tuesday morning, following conviction with seventeen others of
conspiracy to violate the prohibition act. Some of them will serve terms in the
county jail and for others the judge ordered commitments to McNeil Island
federal prison.
"I consider an appeal hopeless," said Welch. "I worked my
best for the city, and never accepted a dime of graft money. I will begin
serving my time in the penitentiary." His allusion was to the defense contention
that, although the city accepted "donations" from saloon-keepers and proprietors
of various vicious resorts, the money was used for legitimate civic purposes.
The government retorted in the trial that Mullan merely licensed liquor and
vice.
Sheriff R.E. Weniger and his deputy, Charles Bloom, are still
out on $5000 bonds. The attorney general of Idaho had expressed an intention of
removing the Shoshone county officers and the Mullan officers from their
positions if they did not resign.
"I am still sheriff of Shoshone county," Weniger said
Tuesday.
Before Chief Welch appeared to be committed to prison, Mullan
citizens were reported raising a $3000 appeal bond for him.
The sentences included:
Sheriff Weniger, two years in federal prison and $1000 fine;
Deputy Sheriff Charles Bloom, fifteen months; Chief of Police Welch, fifteen
months; Policeman Murphy, a year and a day; Mayor Harwood, eighteen months and
$1000 fine; George Houston, trustee, fifteen months; Henry Foss, trustee, ten
months; Charles Ristau, trustee, ten months; John Wheatley, trustee, fifteen
months.
Judge Webster condemned bitterly the conditions prevailing at
the little mining town of Mullan during the "license system." He spoke of the
difficulty a good housewife would have in raising children there when "the
officers responsible for upholding the law were themselves breaking it."
"Why, a good woman could not go down the principal block
without seeing whisky houses, gambling houses and disorderly houses," said Judge
Webster.
"Does that advance the welfare of any municipality? Is it a
display of the public spirit of good men?"
He was alluding to the defense contention that the mining
town had always been "wide open" and that defendants thought the impoverished
village treasury might as well derive some benefit from license fees. The
defendants emphasized that none of them took personal graft, but they licenses
liquor and vice "for the good of the town," as taxes would not meet expenses.
Women who testified they were allowed to sell liquor in
vicious resorts by payment of licenses were shown mercy by the court. Two of
them were supporting families or invalid husbands. One had consumption. Judge
Webster fined Mona McDonald and Agnes West $1 each and sentenced Bertha Strom to
serve one day in jail, saying "I can readily see that you are ill. Jail is no
place for you."
After sentences were imposed the seven defendants appeared
again before the court, saying it was "hopeless" for them to appeal, and that
they were ready to being serving sentences. They included all the Mullan
trustees, the chief of police and the policeman. Judge Webster signed papers
committing them to prison.
Attorney General W.D. Gillis also announced Tuesday that the state would
proceed immediately to remove Sheriff R.E. Weniger of Shoshone county and
convicted Mullan City officials from office whether they resigned or not.
Upon being informed that prison sentences and fines had been
met--d out to officials in the "Mullan Rum rebellion" case, the attorney general
said he would demand their resignations as soon as he could get in touch
with them and if they refused to resign summary proceedings would be started
against them. This would result in their facing removal proceedings within
twenty days after they were cited to appear. Any appeal the officials may make
from the decision will not affect the state's plan to removed them from office,
Gillis said.
Summary proceedings provide for officers charged with
malfeasance or nonfeasance in office being called before the court within five
days of the time information is filed against them. After evidence is taken, not
more than fifteen days are permitted by law to elapse before decision of the
court is given.
©Shauna Williams