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Show i Enrollment Increases. 1 Special to The Tribunp. ! BLACKFOOT, Idaho. Sept. 17. The , schools of Blackfoot opened last Monday j with an enrollment of nearly 1200. The j i high school has already enrolled more ; students than at the end of ihe second month of last year. There will be a rec- , ord attendance this year in all depart- i ments. but the high school, with 300 or j more students, is a record for a western town with a population of 3000. New teachers are being added to take care of ! the increase. The most agreeable feature fea-ture about the general situation is the ; fact that, despite the extra expense, the general prosperity of the community is j such that a 20 per cent decrease in school j taxes was possible for the coming year. |