The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-09-15
VAMPA Will Hold
BIG CELEBRATION
,,pa PREPARING FOR GREAT
HARVEST FESTIVAL FOR
LAST PART OF MONTH

IA offered by the Enterprisinl
City a Few Miles from CALDWELL
An Enthusiasm that Cannot Be
DOWned.
We read in our esteemed contem,
oOraries, the Nampa Leader-HeralG
mi the Nampa Record that the
Dusiness men Of that city are en-
husiastiCally at work preparing fol
harvest festival. The harvest fes-
iyaI is scheduled to take place on
Friday and Saturday, September 2S
md 20. According to the reports,
will be a great occasion. Splen-
lid prizes and premiums have been
provided and two great days they
viii be. The people of Caldwell
hOuld go up en- masse on one of
hsse days. 1t wouldn't hurt to go
Thursday and stay over night. Nam
a Is noted for her hospitality and
here is little doubt but that the two
lays celebration and festival will ex-
iced all past efforts.
When you stop to think about it
ampa possesses some admirable
uslitiss and great many magnifi-
snt men. Nampa does things when
great many other towns are be-
amning their hard luck. It's Just
lampa's way. Somehow or other
he has gathered into the fold a
lunch Of men and women who real
do things. For about twenty
ears 1t has been the private opinion
every man, woman and child in
Caldwell, Boise and other envious
owns that Nampa was on her last
egs and slated to go fuzzy in about a
fy Nampa hasn't gone fuzzy yet
md the present indications are that
be catastrophe has been indefinitely
Ostponed.
Old timers like Sebree, Cooper,
sham, Blatchley and Dan Campbell
enember some of the stunts that
tampa pulled of In her early his
oFy, As a child Nampa was up to
nterprsing tricks and she has lost
one Of her enterprise. Caldwell
nee undertook to build q railroad
} Boise. That railroad was to
ave put a crimp in Nampa, SO it
as thought. While Caldwell was
CURING 1t all out. Col. w. H. Dewey
as suddenly seized with tic doul-
Oreux In the right eyelid. Mr.. ].
AcGee understood a sly wink or
To that Col. Dewey could not re-
ieSs' They moved to Nampa over
lgat and within IL hours construc-
On work was in progress on the
uaao Central, whose termini were
fAmpa on the one side and Boise on |
le other and Caldwell out in the
Ou' 1t was the same with the su-
n factory, brewery, feeble-minded |
fNum and about everything else
at Nampa ever wanted. She cor
iied enterprises, business houses
~ people as easily as an apple |
llplins. Everything is duck soup
b Nampa.
We opine that things will continue
'ne same old way for a little |
nile yet. Dewey, a worthy sue
F'sOr to his father; Partridge and
'Aeys' both OF them, father Major
D. and son, Col. @. r.; helped,
Iusu and assisted by Burkland,
'uness" Hill and Felsheim. too,
'e no Idea of throwing up the
IOase at the present time. And
~ 'nem are such men as Sherman,
VISIT Walling, Lockman with his
I'"ery' Estabrook and two dozen
'4eis' not to mention Bunk, Hage-
"Hu hVe thousand others, boost
ana booming things all the time.
say that these gentlemen have
'uea' and never have had the
~ OF stopping at this stage OF the
D'e We rather imagine that they
\ Just getting warmed up for the
~ We anticipate few more
aS "S IN the near future In which
t ta' Nampa will be greatly inter
AL this is beside tho question,
~ weeks from today the harvest
''Sl Will be in full sway at Nam
TWO days will be devoted to
'Dra''ng the harvest. II bShooves
peopie of Caldwell to attend the
\ '.s''on' 1t will do them no harm
.ney might imbihe q little of
NAmpa spirit without damage to
snselves.