Evening star., 1909-08-31

set in frames of flowers and foliage
Notwithstanding the fact that this is the
arid belt and was 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 O'Clock in the evening you will have
an opportunity of seeing a large ma jority
Of the voting population of Twin Falls
with garden hose, in hand irrigating their
front door yards.
The business blocks are almost entire
~ of brick. The earlier ones. which were
built OF wood. are being rapidly replaced.
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 APP
plicants 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 ba1 at night they had il fin
ished and We're working on the ba, L.
Every town has a fine hotel Ii is con-
sldered the most effective sort of an ad-
yertiSement, and there is a good deal of
rivalry in that line. You will hear
people from different towns engaged in
heated disputes as to the respective merits
of their hotels, and ! do not believe any
similar area in the world has so many
good ones. There are two one-hundred-
thousand-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.JGO people, with a hotel, which
claims to be the best between St Louis
and San Francisco. The building cost
$500. and the cook receives a salary of
S125 a 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
were certain that another would not
spring up in it's place. 1t is a neatly
kept place. and the walls are ornamented
with notices. reading as follows:
Don't Make a Beast of Yourself BY
Spending Your Money for Whisky"
Before You Spend Your Money for
Whisky Remember that it is Needed by
the Dear Wife and Babies at Home
If the Baby Needs Shoes, Buy Them
Before You Take a Drink
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 in il
now IL 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