Evening star., 1909-08-31

/ set in frames of flowers and foliage.
| Notwithstanding the fact that this is the
arid belt, and was a desert a few years
| ago, there is good deal of rivalry
| among home owners about their lawns
| and gardens. If you will walk about town
at Z O'Clock in the evening YOU will have
| an opportunity of seeing a large ma ajorty
| OF the voting population of Twin Falls
| with garden nose. in hand irrigating their
front door yards.
| The business blocks are almost entire
| ly of brick. The earlier ones. which were
| built of wood, are being rapidly repla ced.
! Brick is cheaper than lumber down here
now one million dollars worth of brick
/ buildings in the business section of the
| town are now in process of erection.
! Every house. every storeroom and Office
| room is occupied. Several residences are
/ offered for sale, but none for rent. The
| only advertisements of this sort are
| houses. store and office rooms wanted"
and when new business block is an
| nounced the owner is besieged with ap-
p4cantS for space.
! The rapid manner of building was il
| Illustrated by a stage driver. who said:
When drove by here yesterday morn
| ing they was starting on the house. When
| ] come ba k at night they had il fin
| ished and were working the ba; L."
| Every town has fine hotel 1t is con-
| Sidered the most effective sort of an ad-
vertisement and there is good deal of
! rivalry in that line. You will hear
| heated disputes as to the respective merits
/ of their hotels, and i do not believe any
| similar area in the world has so many
good ones. There are two one-hundred-
| thousa md dollar hotels in Twin Falls
both of them of handsome architectural
designs. and are fitted up with private
baths. telephones, electric light and every
! modern novelty. At one they not only
/ light but heat the house, and run the
kitchen and laundry by electricity.
Two Years Ago a Sheep Ranch.
| The town of Gooding on the north
side of the Snake river, in 1907 was a
sheep ranch. belonging to Frank r. Good
| ing, who was Governor of Idaho at the
time of the Stunenburg trial. Ii now
| has 1,5oO people. with a hotel, which
claims TO be the best between st. Louis
| and San Francisco. The building cost
5000. and the cook receives a salary of
Sl2o month. Nearly every room has a
private bath, and an orchestra plays
| through the dinner hour every evening
| EVERY town has newspaper. and the
| editors are mostly eastern men. from
| Chicago, New York and Boston.
| There is one saloon in the town of
Jerome, which displays the only liquor
| license ever issued in that community and
would be abolished today if the people
| We're certain that another would not
| spring up in its place 1t is a neatly
kept place. and the walls are ornamented
with notices. reading as follows:
| Don't Make Beast of Yourself BY
| Spending Your Money for Whisky
Before You Spend Your Money for
! Whisky Remember that il is Needed by
| the Dear Wife and Babies at Home
/ If the Baby Needs Shoes Buy Them
| Before You Take a Drink
| 1.-The Man Who Spends His Money
| for Liquor Throws it Away"
These are the sentiments of the bar
! tender. but it must be explained that he
| has never had much experience in the
| saloon business. He would not he i'm II
| now If he did not believe with the late
Bishop Potter that a certain proportion
of every community will drink anyhow
and that true philanthropy will furnish
| them pure liquor and attractive surround
'ings. DIR. Higgins. the proprietor of this