Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-11-23
PRESS CLUB MEETING.
Editors Of Eastern Idaho Press Club
Hold Pleasant and Profitable
Meeting at Twin Falls,

Meeting at Twin Falls,
The third meeting of the Eastern
Idaho Press Club, held at TWIN
Falls last Sunday and Monday was
a most enjoyable and profitable one
to those who attended.
The visiting editors arrived at
Twin Falls Sunday at $3.50 p. m.
They were welcomed at the depot by
Fraser of the News, Eastman of the
Times and committee of business
men and escorted to the Perrine
hotel. After luncheon, a business
session of the club was held, during
which many subjects of interest to
the newspaper fraternity were dis
cussed. The question OF amending
existing laws and the enactment of
new laws for the benefit of the press
was gone oyer thoroughly. A num-
Der of valuable suggestions along
this line were made by Mr.. Picotte
of the Haley Times, who is one of
the old newspaper men of southern
Idaho.
By Investigation it was found that
Idaho is away behind the other wes-
tern states in regard to laws that
are beneficial to the press, and a
united effort will be made by the
club to have number of the sug-
gestions discussed at the meeting,
enacted into laws at the coming
session of the legislature.
-Four new members were added to
the club, and the next meeting place
was fixed at St Anthony on MAY
90, 1907.
Monday morning, with Mayor
Hamilton and Editors Fraser and
Eastman officiating as chaperons.
the members of the club and the
ladies present were driven to the
famous blue lakes and Shoshone
falls. This trip of itself repaid the
visiting editors many fold for the
time spent away from their business
We have read many glowing der
criptions of the beauty and grandeur
of these two places and after view :
ing them we can truly say that no
word painter has yet done justice to
them. They can and should be
classed among the wonders of the
world and now that they are only
five miles distant from the railroad
they will annually be viewed by
hundreds who. have heard of their
wondrous beauty.
At the falls the party enjoyed
the unique experience of seeing the
falls with but very little water
going over the preciplce. This was
due to the fact that the headgatet
of the great Miner dam, across the
river some distance above the falls,
were shut down for the purpose OF
filling the government reservoir on
the Minidoka tract. Therefore all
the water that was going over She
falls comes from a number oil
springs below the dam, making 8
stream about as large as Montpelier
creek is at present. 1t was indeed
a novel experience to be able Il
walk out on the rocks over two
thirds the way across the river bee
at that point and stand on the brini
of the precipice over which tn
water makes plunge of 2l2 feet
Returning to the Magic City 0
Twin Falls Monday evening, tn
D members of the club were guests a
a banquet given by the Commercia
club, while the lady visitors wer'
entertained in the parlors of Hote
Perrlne by some of the ladies d
:, , the city.
The visitors left at 8:30 Tuesda
: morning for their respective homes
and all expressed words of prais
for the royal manner in which the
had been entertained by the citizen
of that new but growing and bus
. ling city.