Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-08-22

do not say that those newspaper
men who are meeting ON the lake to
day are setting beside Her in tine
twilight. ] 10 not undertake TO as
sert that they are incoming and com
muning. They are probably talking
shop to beat the band.
But they will be better fo~ t. And
their wives for while will be less
naggy. Above all, they will have
something new to tell their readers
about something very beautiful and
very valuable as state asset Bear
AXE. 1t may take them bit Of time
assimilate their experiences and
set down from a sort of high horse
,efore they can write eoherently
bout what they saw. But they will
10 it, and if they keep everlastingly
at it, perhaps in time the people of
the Gem state may come to n realiza-
lion that Bear lake is really. very
beautiful and will GO there To see for
themselves. When they DO, they will
70 again; they will tell their friends
tbout it and their friends will go
And in a little while we will hive
started fair little e-Ameriea~
First movement, which is consum-
nation decidedly desirable.
Most of the newspaper men and
their wives passed through pocateliO
on their way to Bear Lake last Sat
urday afternoon. They we're vel
coined at Montpelier by Charley
Wright and Mrs. Wright Of the Ex
uminer and entertained in way that
only Charles and the miasus know
The ping took ule bunch To
Paris. where the Bloomington band
played something about conqnering
heroes and hot times in the old town.
Bill Holmes of the Paris Post was
there with the glad hand and escort
ed the gang to the court house lava,
where a bevy Of Idaho Rosebnds
dbad. oh Laddie; those Mormon girls
are pretty!) served sandwiches and
coffee; scallopped potatoes, home
grown peas, home baked bread and
butter and cake. Bear Lake raspber-
ries, as luscious as the lips Of an
odalisque; and peaches and cream.
Then the gang were herded into
the Paris tabernacle, it being neces-
sary to rope and hog.tie some OF
the pencil pushers before they could
be gotten past the portals Of a
church The tabernacle il very
beautiful one, with its yauited roof,
spacious galleries, great choir loft,
pipe-organ and tremendous shell
shaped sounding board. Bill Holmes
dragged Charley Lisle Of the Rich
field Recorder, Charley Wright Of
the Examiner and couple Of Others
to the pulpit platform and they
looked about as comfortable and a
much at home as tumble bug on O
hot skillet. District Judge Bndge
was slated to deliver the address ot
welcome, but an accident to one Of
MS sons called him away 10 Logan
Charley Harris-Hon. Charles Har
ris of Montpelier-for % years ir
the newspaper game, but since re
! formed into a lawyer-handed out &
verbal welcome that was mighty cley
er and apropos. Mrs. Lottie Grojear
of Montpelier sang a solo in a de
] lightfullY sweet voice, and Mrs
] Laura Pugmire Of Paris rendered al
artistic piano solo. Then Charlie,
I1isle responded TO Charley Harris
| welcome in behalf Of the club, an.
just as he got warmed up and wa
: handing out the rounded periods il
Ia lavish way, the lights went out an,
a the meeting broke up.
I On string of autos the neWspape
: gang was loaded and in the twiligh
n the run was made 10 mil To Fis
t Haven on the lake shore. Here the
. bedded down for the night. after Al
b tending a dance in a cool payili0
: fronting on the lake. young folks b
n ing present from all over the coar
: try. Next morning a motor laune
d took the club members across I'll
lake to the Bear Lake hot spring
e for mueh=needed bath.
~ II was only a couple Of years az
+ that the Anderson brothers thre
n from Salt Lake, owners Of a bi
a ranch at Border. which marks II
IS Wyoming Idaho state line, bougi
ot the old Rich hot springs on Bear lal
"a and expended ten thousand re
3, lpiunks in fixing them up. They bui