The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-06-30

We got into Portland Sunday evening
and are stopping at the Berg Hotel. We
asked Miss Berg where we could hear a
good sermon and she directed us to 60
to the Congregational church just a
block down the street, and said we would
hear something rich and original, which
we certainly did. Portland has just had
an election touching on some moral
questions, and the minister took up
some of the ethics of politics and bust
ness. He drew the lines sharply, used
just little language that might fairly
be called slang, and clinched every point
with laugh from the congregation.
Cousin Susie said that the minister was
a jewel, and when we got back we hunt
ed up Miss Berg to tell her that she is a
lady and scholar, for directing us to 60
where she did. We wanted to square
the account with her by taking her with
us to the exposition this afternoon, but
the way things turned out she couldn't
leave the office. We had the time of our
life out there today, and spent part of
the evening on the Trail. There is big
placer gold mine in operation, showing
how they operate in the Klondyke, and
that was revelation to Cousin Sue.
She made fun of the job of shoveling the
gravel into the through" as she called it
and while they were making the clean
up she couldn't see the philosophy Of
brushing the sand and pebbles around
in the current the way they did till she
discovered the. patch of gold exposed at
the upper part of the heap and then she
got excited. She acted like the "Chec-
halkers" up north when they witness a
cleanup on Anvil Creek or any other
place where they shovel up lot of the
real stuff and set it out to one side in a
gold pan. Her comments on the clean
up were the biggest hit of the evening
for me.
I'll write again tomorrow night if any
thing good shows up. I'd never do for a
detective e-I cant keep anything to my
self.
Don.
Dear Bill and Sue: This thing is like
going to school and not having to study
any. 1t is all recitation and demonstra-
ton, and you don't have to recite unless
you want to. Besides that you can take
your choice of subjects every hour of the
day or night, SO it is just one round of
pleasure. It's mighty, different from 60
ing to the old district school at "Frog
Pond" where we had to sit on the front
seat and let our feet hang over till every |
body else recited and then we came up
with primer in hand too bashful to stand
in front of the school without turning as
red as beet. It's wonder we ever
learned enough to say "scat," but they
are carrying on school here in Port
land that is making the commonplace
citizen of today, the peer of the "high-
muc "a MUGS" of the days of Jefferson.
Before going to the fairgrounds this
morning we took walk down town
Cousin Sue wanted to do a little shop
ping and while we were there we called
on Willis Duniway who has big print
ing house at the corner of Front and
and Alder streets. Cousin Sue has
great liking for journalism 81 / introduc-
ed her to Miss Gardner, the editor of the
Lewis and Clark Journal, and they had
a time of their own while l visited with
Duniway. He says there are SO print
ing houses in Portland, and some of them
are big ones. His ranks fifth in size.
He says they are all organized into an
that they have scale of
prices and rules for the protection of the
printers and pablo, and that the print