The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-08-06
PRESS CLUB MEETS

PRESS CLUB MEETS
On Sunday morning, August 18th,
the Eastern Idaho Press Club mem
bers gather at Rigby and go out to
Heise Hot Springs to spend the day
in the water and the woods as they
may like. 1t is likely that all of
them will take their annual bath,
and some recreation in the woods.
On Monday they will return to
Rigby to hold their business session,
and from there go to Idaho Falls to
spend the evening. The Club of
Commerce is to entertain the gentle
men, and the Woman's Club or Viii
lage Improvement Society has some
thing In store for the ladies of the
party.
The newspaper men are improving
themselves and their service to the
public through these meetings held
three times year, and 1t is a COM
mon remark among the wholesale
houses that the publishing houses in
Idaho are putting in better plants,
undertaking greater things, and
"hitching to star" with a courage
that is not equaled in surrounding
states. S@
And yet some of the best men of
the craft are getting into other puf-
suits. Jas. H. Wallis of the Rexburg
Standard has been appointed Pure
Food Commissioner for Idaho, and
the way he has been going after peo-
pie who put up short weight butter
or receptions of any kind in food
stuffs Is reminder that his news
paper training fits him to pry into
everything and pull the string that
causes the public to take notice and
get in line. Mr.. Wallis is the presi-
dent Of the club, and the people of
the state will get more real service
through Mr.. Wallis as pure food CON-
missioner because all the publishers
know him, and will pass his pure food
bulletins on to the public the more
carefully just because 1t is Wallis
who asks it. The editors are the
scouts who guard the peoples fire.
sides anyhow, and the better the
character of the editors, the better
the guarding.
O. H. Barber, the editor of the
American Falls Press, has been ap-
pointed post master at the Power
City, and he still presides over the
destinies of the Press. Barber is one
of the consistent boosters for Idaho.
a hard worker and every inch man.
AT the last meeting of the club he
wrote the best set of resolutions ever
prepared on the injustice of the gov
eminent printery of stamped envel-
opes, and also made several short
speeches in the meetings that kept
the crowd roaring with laughter.
About the only thing the other edi-
tors don't like about Barber is that
he is too apt to be absent from their
e. 7. Barber is no relation to o. H. |
Barber and is younger looking man.
He was mistaken year ago for the
father of the older Barber, and there
is no end of merrinent about father
and son. A school teacher was E. r.
and since Twin Falls be- |
came famous he has made a small |
fortune in Carey land and real estate
business, and his partner, c. S. Lisle
has operated printing house at Sho-
shone, added one at Gooding, and
now another at a suburb of Gooding.
that sprang up over night. Barber
Is cheerful man and booster. Lisle
is the more sober side of the firm,
and let's his work speak for itself,
and 1t speaks Barber has recently
been appointed post master at Good
we suppose, to match
he achievements of the son.
Editor Strong, of the Fremont
County News heard the call of the
Wild or the call of the wheat field,
Ind is having very good time on
inc new farm which he developed
lear Ashton, the town that grows.
lie and father" Barber are living
Of editors who practice what
We all preach about making money on