The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-07-23


Glad to get back to the little vii
lage.
After spending week at home
looking after the affairs of the busi-
ness, we were called upon Saturday
by DR.. Warner, District Superinten-
dent Of this district of the Methodist
church, and Rev. Craig, the local
minister of the same church, and
was invited to take a trip over the
great Potlatch ridge Sunday. The
two ministers thought they would
get us out in the country and show
us good time, so as usual never
allowing anything to pass us, especi-
ally when there is a good feed in
sight, we consented to accompany
them. So Sunday morning, DR..
Warner, Rev. Craig and wife and
our wife and self started out with
the editor at the wheel and the Bev.
Craig as guide at his side, but the
guide could think of nothing but,
Say that engine pulls but can beat
it with my Metz" so finally we land
ed on the top of the Potlatch ridge,
where we were an azed at the sight
presented to us. DR.. Warner, as he
has stated is Walla Walla booster,
but he has been converted and is
now a Potlatch booster. The DR..
had been preaching up the grade,
about the wonderful Walla Walla
country, so the others kept still,
knowing that once on top we could
play Missouri, and show him with
out trying to tell him. The grow
ing crops, of every description, were
in our way. Wheat, oats and other
small grains ripening, some being
harvested, while others not yet
ready. Soon the DR.. become to
realize the fact that he had got in
company with a party that were
also real boosters of the Potlatch
and we commenced to show him
what great country the Potlatch
was. Look as you may and you
can see nothing but growing grains,
beans and grasses. At about eleven
o'clock we arrived at Cavendish
where Sunday school had just closed
and the citizens were waiting for
the arrival of our party. At this
place DR.. Warner delivered a most
able sermon, in which he told his
hearers of the magnitude of God
and his wonderful works. Showed
them in their own land what he was
doing for them, by giving them
such land of plenty in which to
live and have their being. Then
he told them that in the Christian
life, how bright and wonderful it
was, if they would make it their
object of life, and that the four
elements coupled together, the home
schools, farms and church, what
wonders this world could accomplish.
After the services the DR.. and Rev.
Craig and wife went to the home Of
Mr.. Blackburn where they were roy
ally entertained with one of those
splendid meals which can only be had
on the farm. The editor and family
went~to the home of J. A. Carver,
where they also received the same
royal treatment. This meeting of
citizens of the different walks of
life is just the keynote to happiness,
both to the visitor and the guest,
mingling together, getting new ideas
and when the visit is ended you are
many times paid for your efforts of
making the trip. After eating of
these splendid repasts the party
made a hasty departure for Fair.
view schoolhouse where a large
crowd of people were waiting tc
hear DR.. Warner deliver another of
his wonderful sermons. We will
say here that the different points
visited did not get the same sermon
but each one got different one
but all were presented to the ear:
of each audience with the same
forcefulness and with all the elo
quence that was in the power of mar
to do. At Fairview the schoolhouse
was filled to its capacity with the
real brain and physical life of tht
community. The people of thi:
community are to be complimenteC
upon the manner of the conditions
of their section of the country
Their farms are up to the minute
lin eveny respect and it is easily seel
that they are set of industriou
people. After the services at thi
place the Rev. Craig thought h
would cut the trip short for us anC
send US home and he would take tn
) DIR. on to Southwick, but having
gone this far with them there wa
nothing doing, we were to finish tn
day in their company, for it is sci
dom that two preachers and a prin