Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-09-04
$500 Per Year

been so guided by mans hand that irri-
CATION has solved the problem OF these
once arid lands.
When possible settlers go into a new
country, the man watches carefully the
soil, the water supply, the appearance Of
the other mans stock-and it is we'll he
does, but,-because she knows that these
vital questions will be answered for her,
the woman turns her eyes toward other
and very different things. She studies,
first OF all, the faces OF the women she
sees. Do they look 80 careworn and
tired that they We lost their JOY in Lying,
then the possible woman settler begins to
think and she reasons this way. ''The
husband boosts the country and the
crops, but the wife's face is the real
booster. Is she or is she not happy
whether alfalfa brings one ton or six
tons per acre? Does she look frayed out
or has she little life left to arrange her
hair becomingly?" Hard-headed land
boosters may smile, but their wives are
often the true barometers of the towns
success.
But the women of Jerome are happy
and they are very much alive. 1t doesn't
need the path of the Woman Civic Club
to prove this, though this stands as a
good proof of their activity but their is a
genuineness to their welcome and sin
cerity in their friendliness that ought to
bring in as many settlers as the boosting
of their good husbands. All of these
women have gone without the luxuries,
and some of the necessities, that they
have known, to help build up this new
country.
As a complete stranger, and one wholly
unbiased, l walked the streets of Jerome.
| went into the stores and saw well
equipped shelves, found not the usual
Heterogeneous country postofice, but
compact business Office where loiterers
were absent. / looked up the church
buildings. l saw your good school. l
tasted the we'll made mixtures of your
soda fountains, / saw your well built
dance hall, read the good newspapers,
/ found the enterprising five and 10 cent
store and the moving picture show. L
tested the merits of your excellent hotel,
and / saw the Ladies Home Journal,
New Idea and McCall's dress patterns
were each and separately sold in town.
| watched men enter buildings on the
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did not see them come out, no, not for a
good amount of time that could have
been spent in getting more land ready for
the prolific alfalfa. l noticed the segre-
CATION of the hard and soft drinks-and
was told that the former stayed on one
side of the street. But they didn't
doubt if some of them could have told
: which was the left side. l have yet to be
: convinced that in an agricultural com.
munity the size of Jerome, that wei
! town is necessary. l have yet to believe
that stores, other than the saloons them
selves, profit by an exchange of mor'
% money, and am convinced that wha
: was said to me by one OF your JEROME
% citizens is true of others. Il have fou
z boys. l came here when it was dry-bu
I, parents would hesitate now before the,
brought growing families here"
le Some day may make my home IL
'r Jerome. If do, know shall live IL
Y an enterprising community daily making
ie history, one which the government ha
. recognized in establishing so valuable al
ne experimental station in its midst. \
ro longer "Just Mere Place" on Idaho
rs map, but to quote remark overhear
ds on the train, and in the prevailing Sian
ke "Jerome is sure some place"
as Louise NJ. Sergeant.