The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-04-16
GOVERNOR ALEXANDER
TO VISIT KENDR|Ck

Now that the people are up and
thinking of the future of Kendrick
and talking about electing new
council and have placed two tickets
in the field. Keep the good work
going. This town has been asleep
for the past ten years and has just
commenced to wake up. Now we
would ask that in this awakening
that you wake up on the right side
of the bed and come forth with a
good taste in your mouth and the
right kind of a smile on your face
and in your mind you have the
thought of making a better country
by making better town. If you
will only stop and think, your town,
located on the railroad, speaks vol
umes to the traveller. His first
thought when he goes through a
town is, Is that representative of
the surrounding conutry, or not?
If the town shows up with a clean,
prosperous look he will know the
country around it is prosperous.
But this is then thought, if the
country looks like the town, and the
town is unclean and rough looking
the farming country is the same.
Now, Good People of Kendrick, the
Gazette is not trying to run your
business, it is instead, trying to
help make business for you. We
have been in this Office for over
three years and although we feel at
times like quitting the job of trying
to make better town, yet we
strive on to the end we all like to
attain, and that is success; and in
this success we gain what everyone
wants, pleasures in life. These
pleasures, to US. are to see clean,
sanitary, prosperous and live little
city Of Kendrick, the Hub of the
famous Potlatch country, the coun-
try known all over the world as be-
ing the best of farming districts.
If the farmer will stop and think
that the kind of town on the rail
road has considerable to do with
the price of his land he will also
strive to do his part to make a bet.
ter town of Kendrick by doing his
business here. The move toward
better conditions has already begun
In the first place E. P. Atchison has
placed cement walks around his
residence and is levelling the street
around the place, making it pleas
ant home as we'll as beautifing the
part of town in which he lives
Then coming on down the street
you find the Ellis brothers spending
considerable money reconstructine
their parents residence, placing
concrete walks around the yard ane
new foundations under the house
and adding new fencing. Then il
to be found a concrete walk being
placed in front of the Farmers
Bank with the contract let for con
crete walks in front of the Guy Ho
tel, Postoffice and Gazette offic'
which will be done shortly.
On down the street it is reported
that new concrete walk will b.
built soon in front of the Kendricl
State Bank. In the upper residen
part of town l. B. Becky is givlnl
his lots and house a treat to tn
most severe cleaning up and at tn
same time beautifying the plac
) by placing trees and shrubbery in tn
yard. N. B. Long has been doin
considerable work on his place
Glenn Porter has been doing a larg
amount of work on his home. l
the west end of town James Emmet
has painted his residence and o
down the street you will find other
starting the work of cleaning VI
So much for that goes to show ths
l the old town has been born again
and has begun to awaken. Th
Mayor j. F. Brown and the cit
e Council have joined with the Cover
a or in making this week Clean-Ul
; week, from April IL to 17th. Apr
I 16 and 18th teams will be furnishe
by the city to haul off all dirt ar
rubbish piled out where it can
$ got at. Now, the Governor of Idal
II having made this week the clean I
T week, and that he is in the Nor
e part of the state, he has notifi'
y the Mayor that on or about Mi
y first he will spend day in tn
u city. Let US go to work and she
ID him that the town has been clean
4 up and his orders and wishes ha
T. been carried out. Notice will
e given when he will be here. Anoth
: thing that confronts the Citizens
L this Potlatch country is the ia
T. that we must have roads and col
e. mittee of the City Council al
others have been designated as
Committee to go. to Moscow a
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