The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-10-20
EDITOR GIBsON'S JOKES

Editor w. F. Gibson, of the FIRE.
mont County News, told his readers
,, last week Of the expected visit of the
Press club to their town, and did IL
in that mild extravaganza that can
roll only from the pen of Gibson.
He is one of those fellows who are
cut out to wear good clothes. Glib
son is fine looking fellow when
dressed up, but of most ordinary ap-
pearance If dressed in a more ordin-
airy way. He shines fairly well as
writer, but when he takes the floor
at convention he looks born lead
er and tighter. The larger his audi-
ence the more beautifully ne presents
his subjects and the finer the trim
mings."
The little article copied below is
a sample of his expression, but 1t
was just an ordinary effort. He did
not think he was saying anything in
particular. Just making few OBJ
servations.
1.-THE Eastern Idaho Press club will
be in st. Anthony Sunday and Mon
day for one of it's famous sessions.
1t is four years since the editors met
in St. Anthony and there are many
new faces in the club now, with some
of the old familiars missing. There
Is quite bunch of the old fellows,
however, who will be recognized b.
the natives.
Secretary Jones, who is landmark
at numerous places along the trail
travelled by the club since it was
first organized, says he has requests
for tickets from forty members. AS
some usually get cold feet, and others
are swamped by flood of subscrlp-
ton money, or get stuck for their
poll tax, the full num- err rarely at
tend-or the number who do attend
are rarely full, as you prefer to looh
at it. Anyway, it is anticipated tina:
over thirty Will be present. This
doesn't include Joel Priest of the
Short Line, who counts round abou:
II or IS, according to circumstances.
According to schedule the bunch
will arrive here sunday at 11:45.
The afternoon will be devoted to
business-rhat is to say, discussing
schemes for getting less money for
more work in order to compete with
the mail order printshops in Iowa
and Missouri. At night they will
be soothed by fine concert in the
| Tabernacle, after which new MEM
bers will be "hazed" by being taken
to convenient spot where their feet
IAN be inserted in a bucket of germ
desLi oyer-ie., type-wash.
III any business is transacted Mon
day it will be after the police have
quelled a riot Editors who insist
OH working that day will be loakei
in the padded cell at the Jail along
with their work The others, the
weather permitting, will be taken on
an automobile tour of the grandest
>odatry on earth.
1T is expected that Secretary
Jones will want to stay in town and
work, 4but he will get fooled. joel
Priest, who has an insane idea that
Fremont county is solely grain anu
fishing and hunting country, will be
tied and taken-if he won't go
otherwise-to places where apples
lay in heaps on the ground in Fire.
mont orchards, too numerous to mar
ket. Priest thinks fruit only grows
down in the hot countries around
Pocatello, Hagerman and Twin Falls
The other editors are expected to be
tractable.
"a banquet will follow the trip,
those refusing to eat being taken to
the hospital. BY the time the BAN
quet is over, Mr. Priests conveyance
will be ready to be attached to the
sodthbound train and take the fell
lows home.
There may be papers read and
speeches made at different points
along the program, but such inter-
ruptions are not likely to be serious.
Some thousands of st. Anthony
people will be present with the GLAD
hand, anyway.
| For many moons there has ex-
listed in the club an unwritten law to
the effect that at certain meetings
of the organization the ladies ana
the babies are not expected to be
present, but that law at present
riting is not servicable-being bad
" cracked. The ladies and the babies
attend, same as ever, and they will
De at st. Anthony with the big folks
and will be entertained. For, be it
known, that the average editor who
,'aises HI and puts prop under 1t
IN politics and business down town,
! is ut meek little lambkin at home"