The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-10-04

er and be more to each other by rea-
son of this little gathering tonight.
| think we should get together more
frequently than we do, and not wait
for somebody to complete his arrange
ments to leave us permatly before we
meet to get better &C quainted. The
way we have, been doing here at
Blackfoot, it seems like putting a pre-
MUM on leaving town to just have
this thing happen when we are losing
a member of, the community whom
we have learned to love and esteem.
Nobody can get any recognition eX-
cept at the expense of closing up his
business and moving away. We have
with us this evening one of our busi-
ness men who has gone so. far as to
make the bluff Of leaving on two or
three occasions, but we have never
had any social affair over it and he is
| still with us. He has recently made
|
as to get out big posters and hire
| men to distribute them and in var
ious ways he has advertised that he
is going out of business tho he is still
shopping around here. | will ask Mr..
Biethan to rise and give an account
of himself.
Mr.. Biethan-"Our toast master
seems to have an unusual amount of
sarcasm in stock tonight, and is very
generous in his distribution of it. |
am glad to be with you this evening
tho have not the gift of CAB like our
worthy toast master who is always
breaking out in new place. | am
glad ofya chance, tho, to express my
appreciation Of Dr. Mitchell and his
work as a physician, and to repeat
what has already been said, that our
loss is Weser's gain"
Ryan-"Referring again to our
guest | will say that he has had
good chaperoons during his stay at
Blackfoot, and his spiritual welfare
has been carefully looked after. 1t
has been divided into two shifts, Rev.
Chamberlaine taking the day shift,
and myself the night shift. | will ask
Mr.. Chamberlain to tell us how the
record stands.
Mr. Chamberlaine-"Mr. Toast
Master, and gentlemen, | esteem it a
great privilege to be with you here
tonight and to mingle with you in
that close relation of man to man
where we are free to express our
selves to each other without stint,
and to know each other in that closer |
relation that men so much enjoy, and |
that it is so strengthening and help
full to us in the daily walks of life. |
! always enjoy getting close to west
ern men, and on this occasion while
] meet men from my old state of
Virginia, and behold some of these
old cane-bottom chairs from the sun
ny South, greatly enjoy the occasion.
| want to say for DR.. Mitchell that /
esteem him for his worth and nobil-
ity of character, and l wish him ev-
cry success in his new surroundings.
His record here stands unimpeached
and clean, as | am sure it will be
wherever he goes. | thank you gen.
Ryan, will say that my report
as to the night shift, is clear, so far
as it goes, but l have not always
followed the Doctor into all the al
leys. However, we have others with
US this evening who are not divines,
but who by reason of their occupa-
ton are possessed of gizzards, and in
order to get an all round report |
shall call on a man who deals in coal
and lumber and by reason of his as
sociations with trusts has ceased to
be human. | refer, gentlemen, to Mr..
Lewis lockwood of the Weeter Lum-
Der Company
Mr.. lockwood well Mr.. Toast
Master, and gentlemen, this is too
much. Of course coal dealer and
lumber dealer has to take it from all
sides, but my former humaninstincts
,ome to the surface this evening to
mpel me to say that within the past
year | have come to know DR.. Nit
hell more closely than | did before,
md | am sincere in saying that we
suffer a loss in his leaving am
grateful to DR.. Hoover for giving us .
his pleasant evening"" {
Ryan-''A former speaker has said
he Doctors record here is clear, but .
Is we have one that knows every ,
,ody's record, | will let him speak
or us all and say whether it is or ,
lot. The banker knows things that ,
he rest of us do not, and if a man
,ets into scrape, the banker, next 9
Q the lawyer, is called upon to help ;
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