Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-09-17
COUNTY FAIR
IS GIVEN UP
Enthusiasm is Cooled by Endeavors to
Manipulate Organization Which
Was First Effected
BIGGER FAIR PLANS NEXT YEAR
Commissioners Of County Disfavor Pres
ent Organization Schemes


We're allowed to enter into the work
of organizing a Boundary county
fair association there will be no
display this fall of the products of
the Kootenai Valley and other rich
districts of Boundary county.
The first steps towards preparing
for a fair this year were taken at a
meeting of business men and citizens
of the community at well adver-
tised public gathering held Thurs
day night, August Goth. Everyone
was anxious to have county fair
and enthusiasm marked the perfect
ing of an organization when A. j.
Kent was elected president; w. P.
Mahoney, first vice president; T. j..
Jones, second vice president; J. w.
Reid, treasurer, and c. w. King,
secretary. Each officer was named
the unanimous choice of the meeting.
After the meeting the newly elected
officers selected members of the va
rious committees.
Full reports of the meeting were
published in all the papers of Bon
nesr Ferry and it was the general
impression that the effort to organ
ize a fair association had been sue
cessful. Matters drifted along how
ever for several days when President
Kent announced, according to a To-
cal paper, that the fair organization
was not legally complete and that it
could not receive an appropriation
from the county commissioners until
it had become an incorporated asso-
citation. The interview credits Mr..
Kent with having stated that new
directors had been named for the pro-
posed Incorporated association and
mentions the new directors as being
A. j. Kent, c. D. Simonds, F. A.
Shultis, w. d. Baxter, w. t. James,
A. c. Moore and Tom Nicholson.
The president of the board of di-
rectors elected at the public mass
meeting was the only member of
that board named on the proposed
new board.
To a great many of those inter-
ested in the success of the proposed
fair it seemed strange that it had
not been considered proper for the
board of directors elected by the
people in an open and public meet
ing to perfect an incorporation if
such a corporation was deemed nee
essary. 1t seemed strange that the
only person elected on the original
board of directors was the only one
to be named on the new board
especially when the proposed new
organization was being engineered
by that person.
j. w. Reid, treasurer of the or
iginal board of directors, queried Mr.
Kent as to why new board of di-
rectors was named in the proposed
articles of incorporation. Mr.. Kent
finally admitted that he was opposed
to working on the board as long as
C. w. King was a member of it.
Said he had no objection to any
other member Of the board, although
he had neglected to name any of
the other old directors for the in
corporated organization.
The president of the fair asso-
citation was willing to hazard the
chances of a successful fair organ
ization and delay its complete organ
ization merely on account of his ami
mostly towards one member of the
board although he had plenty of OPP
portunity at the public mass meeting
mentioned heretofore to utter pro-
test against that members election
or to make another nomination.
The impression was created, wher
the facts became known, that the
proposition of Incorporating a faii
organization was a one-man affair
Naturally the enthusiasm for a fail
under such circumstances became
lukewarm.
Finally, Tuesday, the county com.
missioners were asked to appropriate
$500 for the county fair. The com.
missioners did not feel that they
We're justified in making. such an ap
preparation at this late date although
they said they would consider APP
propriating about $3.50. Commission
er Deyoe said yesterday in an in
terview with the Herald that he con
sidered the fair proposition as pre-
sented to the board of county com
missioners a one-man affair and thai
an appropriation of county money