Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-05-29

yards should De PROVIDED Win
watering places and lights, the lat
ter for the convenience of those
who come to town at nights. And
if necessary, walks should be laid
from the streets or alleys leading to
the hitching yards SO that the
places will be accessible for the
farmers and their wives in muddy
weather.
Montpelier has long sustained the
distinction of being the commercial
center of Bear Lake valley and the
Examiner, for one, would regret ex-
ceedingly to see anything done by
the city administration or any num-
Der Of business men which would
tend to deprive this city of the dis
tinction it has SO long held as a
trading center.
The order removing the hitching
posts from Main street was made
by the city conncil and that body
alone has the power to revoke the
order.
The Examiner trusts that the
farmers of the county will give the
new order a fair and impartial trial
before they consider the proposition
of withdrawing their trade from the
city.
We are glad the Ovid farmer has
expressed himself on the question,
and in this connection we will say
that the columns of the Examiner
are open to any one who may wish
to express his views on the question.
The free and, open discussion, thru
the press, Of any question which
affects the interests of a town or
the farming communities cannot
help but do good, and the Examiner
invites further expressions from the
merchants and farmers on this
question.
The Ovid farmer writes as fol
lows:
To the honorable mayor and coun-
ell of Montpelier:
We, the farmers, strongly protest
your action in regard to hitching
posts aud the privilege of hitchinF
i our teams on the business streets
of your little city. This means yo'
! are forbidding farmers front doc
privileges-trying to force US to tn,
back door, but 1t will be front doc
, prices. This means We must tie on
2 teams around the edge OF town, car
ry our produce in, do our trading an,
a carry our goods out.
You only have one open alley i
the business part of town and onl
; one cross street wide enough for tw
e teams to pass. tits true, Main stree
il will now make nice autopike, will
y out any farmers in their work cloth'
and no teams or wagons in the wal
= IL it had not been for the farmers an
u their teams, the merchants woul
q not now be able to own automobile
in have time for JOY rides and the pri'
~ ilege of front door trading.
The new order means that whe
iu the women 60 to town alone, as the
10 often do, they are forced to tie the
ed horses in the pieces of alleys al
le other out of the way places, whi
- are full of old tin cans and all ma
ner of rubbish, and which are u
M fit and unsafe places for any wom
to enter, and gods are liable to
ne stolen. Will you be the first to he
or the ladies get their teams out of
20 blockaded alley, when it is nude
g: or will you be on che auto pike eniC
- ing a ride?
Oh, you saw that you will perr
hitchfng weights. Well what y
,us hitching in this way amount to "
nts a half broke or high lifed tea
y when an auto or motor cycle goes
'.s In many instances It would ms
lne the the destruction OF vehicles. q
the the probable killing of horses 4
err people.
do A weight may be all right for
.ac+ old broken down delivery horse,
no reasonable farmer will trust
team that way. We hope all
axe farmers and store keepers will I
ind, issue with you on this question.
To yon insist upon putting the farm
TO this inconvenience, when t
come 10 do n few hours trad
I'm many of them will find 1t more {
Is IN venient to buy the bulk Iof t
and. merchandise from the mail 0
h a houses in the east
= A WEST SIDE FARMF
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