Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-10-16
GOOD time
AT SMOKER
Bonners Ferry Citizens Do Honor to
Major Reed, Lieut.. Gov. Taylor
and Rep. Conner Tuesday
OLD BITTERNESS IS FORGOTTEN
Standpoint Guests Pledge Themselves
For County Division

ohC Vi lhC iionl hai hiOhiohS
get together" meetings ever held
in Boomers Ferry was attended by
a representative gathering of bust
ness men and citizens Tuesday
evening at the Idaho hotel, the
affair having been arranged in hon
or of Major Fred R. Reed, of
Boise, State Commissioner of I'M
migration, Labor and Statistics and
Executive Commissioner for Idaho
to the Panama Pacific International
Exposition, Lieutenant Governor
Herman H. Taylor, of Standpoint,
and Representative A. H. Conner,
of Standpoint.
w. B, Hawkins acted as toast
master and first introduced Mr..
Conner who told of his favoring
the present plans of the division of
Bonner county and why he had OPP
posed the movement two years ago.
Along this line Mr.. Conner spoke
for Mr.. Taylor as we'll as himself
when he said that when county di-
vision was brought up two years
ago he felt that it was his duty to
abide by the wishes of his consti
tuents in Standpoint who were then
bitterly opposed to division. This
feeling has changed to a very great
extent and both he and Mr.. Tay-
lor now feel that the north end of
Bonner county has just reason to
want division. Mr.. Conner also
congratulated the people of Bon
ners upon securing company of
the Idaho National Guard and
urged that the people here give the
company their united support,
Lieutenant Governor Taylor was
brilliant and earnest in brief ad-
dress in which he pledged himself
to county division, spoke of his
reasons for opposing division two
years ago and gave sound, logical
advice upon how to proceed in the
effort to secure division. 1t is
probable that the Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor was never heard in a public
address to better advantage. Two
years ago Mr.. Taylor attended a
similar gathering in this city,
which by the way was also given
in honor of Major Reed, and at a
time when the feeling over the part
Mr.. Taylor took against county
division was particularly bitter. To
say the least, Mr.. Taylor was mer-
cilessly snubbed. The meeting of
Tuesday night was arranged, to a
great extent for the purpose of
showing to Mr.. Taylor and to his
friends over the state, that this sec
ton now bears him no animosity
and that it is willing to work with
him for the common welfare of the
entire county and state. This feel
ing was also we'll demonstrated in
the vote given Mr.. Taylor in this
district at the primary election.
Major Reed, in his address, inn
pressed his audience with the fact
that he is and has been heart and
soul in earnest in his endeavors to
work for the state of Idaho. His
address was a straight from the
shoulder talk that won for him
many friends here. He told of his
work for Idaho in preparing the
state exhibit for the Panama Expo
sition and of his work in trying to
build up the interests of Idaho.
He told of the influences which
tended to keep the state from prog
ress and urged united and concen-
trated effort on the part of every
citizen to overcome these infu-
ences.
The speaker urged that public
officials be given loyal support I'M
til it was proven that they were
grafters ard dishonest regardless of
whether they belonged to the re-