The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-23

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the annJal bus ness meet. of the
Eastern Idaho Press Club. The Re-
corder furnished the pres dent for
the Club, and the editor had to go,
even if it had not been a pleasure.
The neat meeting is to be held at
Twin Fails, next June, when the
ladies will go too, and they will
spend two or three days in one OF
the biggest meetings ever held in
the organization.
The good people of Pocatello had
been specifically requested to keep
hands off," for this occasion, and
to let the boys meet for a plain
business session with no social func-
tions whatever. But they would
MT do it! The local newspaper men
and Theodore Turner almost foun-
dered the visitors by the good things
lnos served in their honor. The
banquet at the Bannock hotel was
Ie4l-y and truly a dream. Three
or four Of the members were accom-
panied by their wives, and the la
dies were well cared for at the Ac-
ademy during the day. But in the
main it was a business session SOC
ly and the time WIS devoted to news
paper work and to plans Tor public
ity for Idaho, the br n II 6 of more
people and better prosperity, and
other good citizenship pro- rositions.
One of tie interesting events OF
the day was the talk by Mayor Theo'
dore Turner on Good Roads. Mr.
Turner is one of the members of the
State Highway Comm ssion, and he
was able to present many valuable
ideas on the question of good
roads. Prof. Miller, of the Kansas
State Agricultural colleee, was in
Pol ate 10 as ore of The lecturers
before tie t~achers' institute in SIS
sion thsle this week, and as he had
4cr may ye.rs ben an editor in
Aans S, he w s invited 10 address
the club on the Agri, ultural Exten-
sion work which he is now lead
ing in his sate. He is capital
talke1, and a man who ought to
be as valuable to Kansas as Prof.
Olin is to Idaho.
The Reso.der ed tor stirred up
a good many questions when, in
one of the many talks given in the
he tod what had been
done in RiChfield and vicinity in
the way of improvements, when
there were only ESQ inhabitants in
town. "What?" "What?" WHAT"
said the editors who have been
reading the Re- order: why, we
you had at least 500 to
1000 people from the way you write
Of your town." was the quite gener-
ii comment. The Recorder never
aimed to mislead any one by tell
ng, or intimat 'ng, that there was
L large popu lation in Richfield; but
80 many have round it impossible to
believe that a town so small could
nave SO many of the really fine
.hines that are usually monopo1ze
oy the cities-mi.es Of concrete side
walks, ideal water works, park, |
;prinkled streets, cary closing, cleo
ric lights, good roads districts,
;ohools with manual training and
lom, ste science and agriculture,
public halls, women clubs, rest
ooms, local fairs and permanent !
displays of produ, ts-that it was |
luite natural mis- axe to believe |
hat the lo,ulat on is larger tnan it
eally is. But it is very interest
ng indeed, to note with what res
'ect the outside people note the |
tory of all tn good things in
little rLral community. There isn't
mother town in Idano that has SO
many public improvements along
hese lines, IS Rlchfle-d. Tne little
tories that the Recorder has been
,utting out about what this COM
nunity is doing, are bearing the
inest kind of fruit; for many a
ommun ty, s-eing what Is done
ere, on far less money than they
ould a.se and spend, Is waking up
o the possibilities, and Idaho is
ikely to see m~ny a progressive
nade SO partly by the example set
y Richfield- and published broad
asst through the Recorders Efforts
'rof Miller, the Kansas farm lee
lrer m ntiCned above, expects to
AIRY tn ory back to his state as
ne Of tie 4insst examples he has
yer known OF how to keep the boys
nd girs on the farm, and how to