The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-06-14
CALDWELL.


and after all the jokes have been taker
about our big stories concering thi.
country, it will be still admitted b,
the worst of knockers and kickers tina
Caldwell is certainly ideally situated
The capital to the east with it,
twenty five thousand souls, Nampa ;
little south of east with her five thou
sand, Emmett to the north with hel
three thousand, Parma to the north
west with her seven hundred, Notu:
little further to the west with her vii
lage dimensions and splendid farming
region, Payette little further to the
northwest with her four thousand and
all the contiguous territory combin-
ing to give Caldwell an abiding bust
ness and growing influence.
Caldwell manages to keep corps of
splendid preachers who are second to
none in the state. In their varied
fields of labor in the city, every stone
is turned and every row hoed.
Our educators are among the best
to be employed. The grammer schools
are among the best to be found any
where, the high school takes a rank
ing basis and the college comes in with
her advanced opportunities.
Our physicians lead their proffes
sion.
Our stores are up-to-date and pre-
pared to compete with any body's
store any where in the state, for price
and quality.
Our public men, with rare excep-
tons, are up to snuff and on duty for
the good they can do the common
wealth in this region. @
Our electric car service is splendid
and our steam cars get around to us
soon after they leave the stations next
to US.
Our telephone girls, earn their sal
airy and do their best to plug up calls
as soon as possible.
The clerks in the stores are gener-
ally genial and accommodating.
The livery stables and garages will
give us our moneys worth.
The street lights give light and the
water works give water.
The milk vendors keep their pro-
duct pretty clean and the bakers keep
nearly all dirt out of their bread. The
strawberry box bottoms are trifle
nearer where they aught to be this
year and the merchants are slow to
put our names on the dead head list.
I A few subscribers are paying up and
the job work PROPOSITION is steadily |
on the lookup The business men
generally let the home papers do their
printing, and the street sweepers do
the job in the best way.
The first crop of mosquitoes was
not half so pesticating as in some
former years and the sassafras season
closed with but few fatalities.
Old Sol has not been able this time
to lick up all the moisture that has
been waited our way from the sea to-
ward the setting sun and we have had
several splendid showers which made
the Missourians and the Iowans feel
at home among us and that is worth
good deal
Several paper rail roads have been
built across our townsite during the
year, car loads of paper rail road div
isions have been thrown at us from
Dan to Beersheba, all of them finding
lodging.
The big government reservoir filed
according to Hoyle and the famous
Boise river has plodded along with
her torrent safely within her banks,
and the spud crop never looked bet
ter.
Several of the young people will be
married in this month and start on
their way rejoicing and the names of
few candidates are being wormed
out of their possessors and the voice
OF the bull frog is heard in the land.
To the west vast farming region
IS taking form and color. For fifteen
miles distant there can be no better
territory, Up and down all the area
Tor thirty miles nearly every FIVE acres
is to be cultivated within three wears
and the young orchards are making
splendid growths. Ten thousand per-
sons will be needed each year after
another ten years to harvest the fruit |
that is now headed our way Ranchers
generally have stopped writing back
east to their wife's folks for money.
and the home stead starvation period
has closed.
Alfalfa is going to be five fifty and
SIX dollars this fall and mich cows
are going higher than ever before
while the horse is looking lin cors;d