The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-10-04

and I'll tell YOU said Fred m tell you among other reasons why
knew he was the head OF the family about the only thing
that made me He very fond of baseball And he used
come home from work and he up against
the wall the back yard and then he would pitch There
gloves those days When gloves
how that nobody thought nvenng any There
need enough for them John would stand and throw every
All had to do catch the ball if could it
lack him. used to have nues like that! Yes he
the head of the family all right"
John oson interest baseball has continued and he has added
thereto consuming interest in football football that brought
cur first interview Frontenac unexpected conclusion His
enthusiasm and his exact information about football hour
Of politics. and left him Fronenac still telling that hafbac
ought to be able hundred yards many seconds and
many fs of second Yet football of the governors later
acquisitions There football St Peter when he boy
He had learned football he has other things the
Of his expanding experience
Making Good a Clerk
John Jonsons first job when he went work with the ambition
supporting his mother and of educating his younger brother and
his younger sisters in grocery Then short time he
began work in drug He washed bottles in the sink and
put up temperance drinks the soda fountain incidentally
he carried book in his hands
Mr. Stark who kept general noticed the book He offered
John Johnson advance twenty dollars month John accepted
He began sleep the back part of the general and
there kind mprovsed bedroom after the had been
closed evening" he delivered oraons another clerk who
served as critic
John had begun supplement the education which
had come to an little schoohouse At first he did not know
what to read day Mr. J. c. Donahower put him the
right track John reading book of Importance and Mr.
Donaowe noticing this of time told him that he would give
him subscription the local library if he would read
books he Conquest Of Mexico The Conquest of Peru
Ivantoe John read them and Mr. Donahower him the
nnual subscription After that John paid the subscription him
self AT years he had become acquainted with all
the books library ST. Peter He also had come to know all
the people in the town.
All of earning enough money for the family and
he took By the time he twenty-five he sober
INDUSTRIOUS sefespecng widely admired citizen He had been
grocery clerk drug clerk and mekeepe for railway construc
ton company had shown particular knac enthusiasm
TOR business in the organization There had
been lust one great his life his fathers failure and he had
met that crisis simply successfully His curious character
kind of waiting expands only when the necessity OF
expansion comes after becoming the head of his family
with no particular thought of other matters except his reading and
his observation until unexpectedly there need of an editor on
the St. Peter Herald
H Popular Country Editor
Four wetodo Democrats then thought that John Johnson
would make editor they could think Of 1t character
stc incident in John onsons life He had written word
He acquired newspaper experience But these tour local
Democrats were quite that John Johnson would make the best
possible editor Why? Well John Johnson knew everybody and
he had made man of himself So the basis of his being
who knew human nature they made him editor.
He was successful editor His knowledge of human nature did
that for him. He had partner who managed the mechanical tea
TIRES of the paper Johnson tried learn anything about the
composing room the press Just he had not been par
cay in business so he not now particularly IN
sed in type presses His interest was In the people OF the
town. made the paper great success by just that habit OF beng
interested in people got all the because he knew just what
everybody was doing His forte in knowing that Andrew
utberg has accepted position with P W. Satoy that Pro
ess ler now has an The young gentleman arrived
Yesterday make stay with the family OF the
ofor but will probably long time before his services will
m Of av peciary value and For days last week St Peter
was without justice peace dentist couldn't get any
thing pulled during those two days.
The more one reads Of the life Of Governor John A. Johnson Of
Minnesota the more one wants From abject poverty