Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-08-23
tfrom the Pocatello Daily Tribune of
Monday, August 10. 1907

AoAuoy, August IL, lSUI)
The first day of the sixth quarterl,
meeting of the Eastern Idaho Pres,
club IN this city yesterday was /
brilliant success. While the attend
ance was not 50 large as had been an.
tlcipated, still the representation oil
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
partake 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.
z and No. 8, Saturday evening. The
remainder arrived on No. 10 from the
east yesterday forenoon and on No.
from the west They were met at
the depot by reception committee
and escorted to the Bannock hotel,
where club headquarters were estab-
ished.
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 80. The
train consisted of a baggage car, a
day coach, and the service car Of Su-
- ha he
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 were sup
plemented by about 40 prominent Po-
catello citizens with their wives. The |
run to the Falls was made III 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 excursionists 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 we're 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, 26 inches long, was
fanked by big box of smaller fish
of the same variety. Timothy, seven
feet tall, grown by K. /. Houtz, near
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 .
sent to the Power City these were 7
some of the interesting exhibits which
attracted the attention of the editors
md caused wonderment. q
When the Pocatello visitors had r
eaten their fill from the grooming ban s
luet boards, which were presided over
" bevy of the prettiest girls in :,
southeastern Idaho, First Vice Presi- =
lent E. A. Strong of the Press club, .
rose to introduce Hon. James 81. !
Wallis of Rexburg, who in stirring
peech of appreciation of the hospital
tv of the people of American Falls,
ormallv extended to the Power City W
Commercial club a hearty vote of el
hanks. Major Fred R. Reed re- W
ponded to vociferous calls for a m
peech and in his happiest vein called :
ttention of the editors to the growth
nd development and progress and
prosperity of American Falls and the
immense country Immediately sur
ounding it. Hon. James Fl. Brady
ollowed with a characteristic speech,
4 which he told some interesting
acts concerning the immense power
liant at American Falls owned by
he company of which he is the head.
olonel Avery C. Moore of Occur
'Alenc spoke eloquently of the mar
elous development that has attended
pon the irrigation of the arid south
ast. Three cheers and tiger for Am
rican Falls wound up the occasion
The visitors were then escorted
cross the river to the American Falls
over plants. Sixty thousand horse
over are here available for manufac-
ring purposes, for heat and light.
urrent il transmitted to Pocatelo,
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