The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-08-12
Richfield in a Nutshell
Little Stories of Real Life: Why They Do It, How
They Dc It, and What They Do With It.

Frank Thomas is the proudest kid
in town, he having landed the larg-
est trout caught in Little Wood river
this season. The fish weighed three
and half pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. S Knox and Mrs
and Mr.. w. S. Durnin and Miss Dur
min enjoyed a few days outing on
Big Wood river last Sunday and re-
port an enjoyable time
Mrs. j. Fowler and Mrs DR.. Will
liams left Friday for Spokane where
they will visit friends and attend the
Irrigation Congress. They expect to
be gone about two weeks
John Dodson was in the city Sat
urday on business. Mr.. Dodson had
just returned from Spokane and the
Occur d'Alene country where he had
been to register for the land draw
ing.
Miss Georgia Eveleth returned to
her home at Clear Lake, Wednesday
after weeks visit in this city She
was accompanied on her return by Miss
irene Mcmahon, who will visit a week
at that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. II. Buckley, Of
Gooding, were guests of the Richfed
Hotel, Tuesday night. Mr.. Buckley is
a heavy investor in Cooling property
and also has some valuable mining in
5erests above HALEY.
E. T. Barber, OF the Idaho Leader at
Cooling, and his sister, Mrs. King Of
Prior, Mo, visited the Recorder Office
Wednesday. Mr. Barber is interested
n the Recorder also, but had not seen
The plant, nor the building since the
iigging of the first foundation trench.
Manager C. H. Fitch of the Idaho r.
rigation Company, is in Spokane this
week, attending tho national irrigation
congress. Mr.. Fitch, who was fotsey
eral years with the government recla-
nation service, is one of the foremost
irrigationists Of the West, and stands
high in all these gatherings.
A team of horses hitched to a lum-
Der wagon ran away Sunday after
noon and took in the entire city and
if there was a street in town that the
team missed it was not their fault.
They were stopped in the north part
Of town without doing any damage.
Miss Luckey Of the First State
bank, is taking a vacation and left
Saturday evening for Boise. Her
place in the bank is being filled by
Miss Durnin, who viii on Miss Luck
ey's return accept a position with the
Richfield Real Estate & Insurance
Co.
S. G. Hamblet Of Bellevue, was in
the city Tuesday on business and while
here made the Recorder Office pleas
ant call. Mr.. Hamblet is wen pleased
with Richfield and vicinity and talks OF
moving his family here in the near fu-
ture. If he locates he viii engage in
some kind of business, but has not yet
decided on what it viii be.
L. j. Poteet and son Clarence re
turned Sunday from a sight seeing trip
to Nampa, Caldwell Emmett and 9th
err places in Idaho where land is selling
from $500 to $500 per acre and they are
much better satisfied with the Ricatield
tract than ever, since their return, as
they did not see any land in their tray
els, regardless OF price, that would
compare with the land on the Richfeld
tract and they are now well satisfied TO
stay here.
The dam across Little Wood river
that will turn the water Iato the
Dietrich canal is moving along rapid
ly and visit to the works viii con
vince the most skeptieal that when
it is completed it will hold vast
amount of water and when the flood
water is running the Irrigation com
pany will be able to store a vast
amount of water, to be used Tor irri-
eating the Dietrich tract
T. L. Picotte, Of the Wood River
came down the branch Sun
day night on his way TO the Grand
Army encampment at Salt Lake Mr.
Picotte was one Of the vast number
Of patriots who gave up their homes
to go forth for the Union, and he has
earned as much praise from a CRATE
fai nation IS any man who today
prospers under the United Govern
nent. From Salt Lake he viii so up
% Rigby, to attend the fail meeting
If the Eastern Idaho Press Club, Au-
gust Is and 1G.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Harmon, father
and mother of Mrs. Y. Y. Bower arriv-
ID in Richfeld last week from Phillips
)urg, Kansas, for visit with Mr. '
Bower and wife. Mr. Harmon, who is
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