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Show TWIN FALLS ANSWERS U. S. CALL WITH MONEY, MEN, FOOD AND LABOR Provides 700 Soldiers and Sailors; Contributes to All War Loans; Is Active for Red Cross; Produces Much Food, By JESSIE WARRINGTON. TWIN FA LLS, Idaho, Dec. 20. Twin Falls county, with all resources re-sources ready, has stood with listening list-ening ear a nd answered "Aye ! Aye:" to Uncle Ham's every call, with men. money, food, time and labor. And the women ha e done their "bit" w'Ah the men. This county of over 'JlO.ono irrigated and cultivated acres of land Is placing every resource at the command and de-manHs de-manHs of the country in this war-linie crisis. In population the county of Twin Palls is exceeded by a number of other counties (it hps only some C-VOO people ;i n-i other counties exceed It in a etna "cash on -hand," but in proportion to population and resources, Twin Fa 11k county stands in t he first ranks in the r matter of prompt and generous response . all calls issued by Uncle 8am. TP In the call for men the county answered generously at the very first, sending Into service two companies of national guard, some 2n0 of whom were from Twin Falls county, the others f rom surround in? counties. Alt hough zealous efforts have been made to ga ther complete da ta and figures regard ins? the men tailed into the various branches of service, the list, at best, is decidedly incomplete and only a low and conservative estimate is given. Men Enlisted. The number in t he regular army is about Sin men, and perhaps more. From six to a dozen or so registered for the navy. Some forty or fifty enlisted with the marines, including a large number of well known young men from Twin Falls. About twenty-five enli-atd in the aviation avia-tion corps from all over the county. Because of the large number who volunteered vol-unteered fmm the county, the draft took onb fifteen men. Dunns Novemhpr and the early part of Uccember up to the final date for enlistments, enlist-ments, scores made a ppli cation for the release of their names from the draft list and enlisted for service. One V. M. ("'. A. worker Is now in France In active work. No nurses have, gone from here as yet, but a number expect to be called. Forty-six men from Twin Falls enlisted in the medical corps. Ten or more enlisted in the engineering corps. About ten enlisted in the quartermasters' quartermas-ters' corps. A numb'-r of mn from over the county, including four well known men from Twin Falls, were accepted, in the officers' reserves. re-serves. Altnget her. Twin Falls county has furnished between 600 and 700 men for service In army, navy and other branches of war sen ice. Tn the general registration registra-tion in June. Twin Falls county registered regis-tered 1 200 men. Money Contributed. Twin Falls county has led the state in some of the "drives" for money. In the liist Y. M. C. A. drive S-.uO was given, W and Twin Falls was announced as second only to Portland. In the second drive" $12, "r-1.00 was given, or . a total of TL f l.Rtil .90. In the first Liberty loan $220,000 was subscribed. In the second Liberty loan SRTS.0OO was sirhscribed. or a total of $SI8,000. Probahlv the most thrilling and successful suc-cessful "drive" was the first Red Cross "J rive" in Twin Falls county. At the big meeting in Portland to plan the Campaign, Cam-paign, this countv was asked for S15.000 as its apportionment. The representatives from Twin Falls got together and re-nuesied re-nuesied that this amount be changed to $J.".00O. When this amount was announced an-nounced In the county upon the return of tiic representatives, there were some people peo-ple who expressed doubt that it would he raised. "They'll never do it!" said a small group of pessimists who always s;iy "they" instead of "we" when it comes io"reallv doing anything. Knt the campaign started . with great enthusiasm, after the county had been most thoroughiv and completely organized. In a rlav or two the 525.000 was raised. Th'? sum mounted higher and higher. It i:cpt on going until some marveled "Will .-. it .Hrlii't inn until it reached the sum of SS:.S7.". A splendid spirit and goodfellowship characterized the entire campaign. The sum of SltJi'O was raised at one time for the Belgian relief fund and a similar amount for the Jewish relief fund. These sums, with some $2 SO raised for 1 companv of Twin Falls and an even larger sum from Buhl for Q company total over S1.O0h.ihhi that Twin Falls county bus given in money since the call "io arms" come. , Red Cross Work. The Twin Falls .-hamer of the Red Cross has a membership of" approximately 4"U0 i'lijl has fifteen auxiliaries in the following follow-ing towns and communities: Filer. Pi erupt, er-upt, i.'urry. 1 lollister. Rogcrson. Hansen. Rock i reck. Kimherly, Community, Pleasant Pleas-ant View. Mazelton. Kden, CaslleforU and Fxcelsior. S,iiL:ical dicssinjzs classes meet every afternoon and evening, working under certified cer-tified inst ructors. Over ?2OO0 worth of t varn has been knitted for the soldiers and rsvi'ors and a score of workers are sewing 1 fj :iml makinu garments daily in special r looms in the new Methodist church. I'hHstmas packages numbering 376 were uiade and sent to Idaho boys and to Twin P Kalis boys now in France. Also, 225 fruit ca N-es- were made and included in some 4W of the Christmas packages. The approximate approxi-mate cost of the Christmas packages was Sbn. The Red Cross also sent SI 75 to lu- b'aho boys for refreshments when the bo' s left Poise for the training camp. Several hundred kits or comfort bans "ere a'so made bv the Red Cross for the Twin Falls county boys and two large hoe-s containing several hundred magazines maga-zines were gathered and shipped to them. Th Twentieth Centurv club. Business Women'- association and other women's uriMiiiz'U inns assisted with the packing of i lie l "hrist'nas boxes. F.vcrv auxiliary in the local chapter has done splendid work, nlthough they were fi-:;anl;ed onlv a few months ago. The Rock Creek aiiNiliarv endowed a bed In a bosp-1 ;t ' -ind 'he Filer auxiliary has a 'lo'.or kitchen endowed. Food Production. W'hilr mep a nd money have been cen-eio-isly piven from Twin Falls county. probably the greatest avenue for a real working patriotism is through food pro I"1 tlou. T lencp, much a t tent ion will b -'ven this phase of this county's part in 'ho great world struggle. Increased production of grain, sugar beets and livestock live-stock for next year for the war emergency ,lpmanus will be encouraged In everv way ilu-onghout the countv. l) the Twin Falls south side tra-t cronor there were IST.'iol acres under cub t i V'h t loci the past vea r. Seventy oars of r(1d a'sike and white clover were raised :,nd sbmnci. ?. 000,000 bushels of whea t "ere raised. I.SOO.ooo bushels of potatoes. -iw.iit.0 tons nf hav, fi.flOOmO nounds of cho. UO.ooa hnshels of beans, beef ' .--tie (i hfad. mutton. SO.ooo head. pork. l-''O. ..Ooead of dairv (!iltle. VN , RPOVe xvlth IS.ooit sacks of sugar. 'f-,l0n?orVA1ivr' ftimate of some of the Lm i Hnt1oir furnished to Uncle, war " 1 vounty to help win the the outrffrtJ VVl11 br 0 increase a;,nvo i' r nnH '"n of each of the sur ,Ul U.?,n,i aores f land wer in Pi into W tlSCar' bVl b" ''citrir-L thc '"ling vc;ir. Two JN I"-! ton or of a guarantee of and a share in the profits above ?o..t0. The factory is under the control of the goernment and all the sugar ir shipped to the government commission in Chicago. Toe a cerage tonnage per acre this voar was fourteen tons, hut some fields went as high as twenty and twentv-fivc tons. I Nearly S:,oo.000 was paid out to the farmers farm-ers for beets this season. Factory Is Erected. The beet sugar factory at Twin Falls was built by the Amalgamated Smrar company last year at a cost of $l.ooo.t00 and is the largest of the three factories owned in Idaho by this company. The home gardening campaign was carried car-ried on throughout the county. In nearly every town the vacant lots were planted to gardens and in Twin Falls foiiic sou vacant town lots were turned into gardens. gar-dens. The school children were organized inlo clubs with a total membership of about 600. In Twin Falls were the garden, potato, po-tato, poultry, corn, calf, pig. lamb, sewing, sew-ing, canning and baking clubs with a total membership of 10S5. The products of their labors were on displav at a big school fair in September in which there were 40 exhibits. The approximate value of the combined productions of the clubs was J.-.' 1. The work in these vocational clubs is to be extended throughout the county the coming year and given every encouragement. In the four public schools in Twin Falls this year are 1"27 boys and lifts girls or a total enrollment of 21C5. The total school census in the county 'is 7199. In the Twin Falls high school hangs a service serv-ice flag representing twenty-five high school boys who have gone to serve their country. Fruit Shipped. More than ?,no cars of fruit were shipped from the county this year, and, bad there been sufficient labor to gather the entire crop there would have been 600 cars of fruit sent from the project. The high school was closed for three weeks during the harvesting of the fruit crop and students stu-dents and teachers went into the orchards and packing houses, many of them earning earn-ing $1 and $5 per day.. Should L'nele Sa m .find it necessa ry to conscript automobiles Twin Falls county can furnish 2760 cars having an aggregate assessment of $44,522.55 and representing an approximate investment of from $950,-000 $950,-000 to SI, 000,000. This county leads the state in the number of aulos. It Sias one for every nine or ten people in the county. In this time of war Twin Falls is preparing pre-paring for peace and the building campaign cam-paign seems not to have been retarded in any way by war-time conditions. Residence permits to the value of $421,-850 $421,-850 were issued by the city clerk from January 1, 1P17. to December 15, 1917, and the number of homes constructed was 224. Permits for the construction of twenty-three twenty-three business blocks and warehouses have been issued to the value of S347.500. There were also constructed twelve miles of cement sidewalks, the contract price for which was $52,O0O Enjoy Progress. Twin Falls, while not having the commission com-mission form of government, is as nearly so as Is possible under the state law, while not adopting the Black law. Each alderman is chairman of a department and is directly responsible to the mayor for that department. Practically every town on the project has enjoyed the same progress, development develop-ment and spirit of patriotism that has characterized Twin Falls. The coming year promises to be a decidedly de-cidedly busy one, with war relief work and general growth. Considerable building build-ing is planned in each community. In Twin Falls work has been begun on the new $80,000 federal building;" a $50,000 county hospital is almost completed ; a $60,000 city hall is contemplated and in January a bond election will be held in regard to the reconstruction of the water works system at a cost of S75.000. "For Our Country and Our Allies'' will be the slogan of the people of Twin Falls county during the com tun year, as they bend every energy and resource to "Help Win the War.'-' |
