The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-15
Press Boysr Meeting.

Abe ttwenty tiWf newspaper men met
s.-&.,o Pals last Sunday for social
time, to adopt their bylaws, and elect
permanent officers for the club. Most
of them arrived on Saturday evening,
and on Sunday morning went out for
drives about the country to see the fine
farms, the sugar factory, and other
places of interest
Teams and automobiles were provided
by the local liverymen, and the COM
mercial club to show the visitors around
and in the afternoon the gentlemen held
a business session while their wives
were entertained at the home OF Mrs.
A. L.,Campbell. At five o'clock all We're
taken out to see the dam site of the new
power plant being built in Snake river
two miles below the city. In the eve
ming there was social and literary ses-
sion at the B. w. 4 Nj. Hall in which
members of the press and others joined
in entertaining, after which the press
was rendered a banquet at the jackson
Restaurant. This lasted until train
time, when most of the press folks left
for home.
About twenty newspapers were repre-
sented in the meeting by the twenty hive
men who became members OF the club
The personnel of the membership is as
follows:
Geo. Fraser, Twin Falls Times; Bert
P. Mill. Idaho Lalls Times; G. E. Wright
Montpelier Examiner: l.. Bush Liver
more, Gus Wallin, VIM. Wallin, Pocatel-
10 Tribune; Ernest n. Sumner, Henry
Gable, Idaho Falls Post; G. Q. Broxon,
Pocatello Advance; w. Peck, Malad Ad-
yocate: Clyde Z. Hanson, Malad Enter
prise. Byrd Trego, Trux. Talbot, Idaho
Republican: w. E. Wheeler, Idaho Falls
Register: w. f. Smith, Southern Idaho
Mail: w. G. Murphy Shoshone journal:
Oliver Christensen, Sugar City Times:
]. A. Wahlin, Paris Post: f. A. Strong,
Fremont County News Of st. Antho ~;
]. w. Jones, Rigby star; JOS. IL. Dewitt,
Soda Springs Chieftan; I. E. Plcotte,
Wood River Times; Theo. G. Sumner
Idaho Falls Post: w. B. Citizens, Shell
ley Independent: F. A. Adams, He! !burn
Review.
James III. Wallis of the Cache Valley
Times Of Prestoa sent a letter express
ing his regret that sickness prevented
him from attending. Wm. Wailln was
called away on account OF his brother
: in-law losing foot in railroad accl-
dent. and one or two others whose will
was good, failed to get there.
The officers of the club are W. n.
Wheeler, president, VIM. Wallin, vice.
pres, Geo. Fraser, End vice pres, Jos.
H. Dewitt, treasurer, J W. Jones sec.
The next meeting will be held at Soda
Springs the third Monday in August,
when copious notes will be taken on
Idanha Water, and the following week
il may be expected that thirty Idaho
newspapers will publish something con-
cerning it's merits, and that these articles
will be copied by something more or
less than 1900 papers published in other
states. While no bargains were made
it is quietly understood that the Novem-
ber meeting will be held at Twin Falls,
at which time an eminent electrician
will be in attendance to deliver an ad-
dress on the uses of electricity as ap-
piled to Snake River and the popula-
ton of the valley for the rext decade.
The press representatives will be shown
the cataracts, power plants, Blue Lakes
orchards, and the new empire which has
sprung up in the Twin Falls country in
a couple Of years under irrigation. and
as a business advantage to the country
at large the scribes will boost it through
the press when they 60 home.