Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-08-23
From the Pocatello Daily Tribune Of
Monday, August 10, 1907

Monuay, August ~, 13UI.D
The first day Of the sixth quarterly |
meeting of the Eastern Idaho Press |
club in this city yesterday was |
brilliant success. While the attend |
ance was not so large as had been an
heipated, still the representation of |
the newspaper workers of the ten
counties covered by the club was
fairly complete. Forty-eight men and
women from Montpelier to Mountain
home and from Ashton to Bull were
present, to attend the meeting and to
partaloe of the boundless hospitality
of the Gate City and of American
Falls.
The larger part of the delegates ar
rived Saturday night from the north
on the Yellowstone limited train.
Others came in from the east on No.
and No. 9, Saturday evening, The
remainder arrived on No. 10 from the
east yesterday forenoon and on No.
from the west. They we're met at
the depot by a reception committee
and escorted to the Bannock hotel,
where club headquarters were estab-
hshed.
The program of entertainment Of
the visiting editors and their wives
was carried on to the letter. The
first feature was a trip by special
train to American Falls at 1890. The
train consisted Of baggage car, a
day coach, and the service car of Su-
perintendent Olmstead of the Idaho
division of the Short Line, who went
with the excursion, accompanied by
Superintendent Stevenson of the Mon
tana division. The forty-eight club
members who made the trip we're sup
pemented by about 40 prominent Po-
catello citizens with their wives The
run TO the Falls was made in fast
time. the Power City depot being
reached at ITO A reception COM
mittee headed by Ben Howell and l..
l.. Evans met the train and escorted
the exeursionists to the American
Falls opera house, where the wives Of
the members of the Power City Com
mercial club had spread one Of the
finest banquet lunches ever served in
Idaho. Two long tables were loaded
with good things, and the stage of the
opera house was heaped with exhibits
of dry farm products, in the way of
fruits. grasses, vegetables, wool, etc.
An attractive feature was live
sheep, happy inside huge crate. An
immense trout, % inches long, was
hanked by a big box of smaller fish
of the same variety. Timothy, seven
feet tall, grown by X. /. Houtz, near
Rockland; magnificent oats grown on
the dry farm of j. w. Davis near the
Power City, wheat from the dry farm
at Rockland of C. A. Warner; plums
and prunes grown without irrigation
in Snake river orchards; potatoes OF
record breaking size, raised without
water; mammoth beets and turnips
grown on non-irrigated tracts ada
cent to the Power City-these were
some of the interesting exhibits which
attracted the attention of the editors
and caused wonderment.
When the Pocabello visitors had
eaten their fill from the groaning ban
anet boards, which were presided ovel
bv bevy of the prettiest girls II
southeastern Idaho, First Vice Presi
dent e. A. Strong of the Press club
arose to introduce Hon. James Il
Wallis Of Rexburg, who in a stirring
speech of appreciation Of the hospital
ity of the people Of American Falls
formally extended to the Power Cit.
Commercial club a hearty vote 0
thanks. Major Fred E. Reed re
sponded to vociferous calls for
speech and in his happiest vein calle.
attention of the editors to the growt
and development and progress an
prosperity of American Falls and th
immense country Immediately SUI
rounding it. Hon. james Fl. Brad
followed with characteristic speed
in which he told some interestin
facts concerning the immense powe
plant at American Falls owned b
the company of which he is the heaa
Colonel Avery C. Moore OF Coer
d'Alene spoke eloquently Of the ma
velous development that has attende
upon the irrigation Of the arid soutl
east. Three cheers and tiger for An
eriean Falls wound mp the occasion
The visitors were then eseorte
across the river to the American FaI
power plants. Sixty thousand hor
mower are here available for manufa
turing purposes, for heat and Hgh
Cursnt : transmitted % Pesatall
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