The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-05-05
THE NEXT TINE YOU COME TC

TOWN
The last thing which the city of
Moscow would desire to do would be
to discourage farmers from coming
to town. Moscow wants to be hospit-
able. 1t wants to do everything in it's
power to make out-of-town shoppers
comfortable and to provide convent
ences in order that shopping may be
robbed Of tedium and hardships and
made real pleasure
But the outof-town shopper has
some obligations to discharge also.
Farmers who come to Moscow to trade
drive Into city that is, in the down
town section, well-paved and we'll
kept It is the obvious duty of the
farmer not to follow any practice
which will be detrimental to the ap-
pearance of the city Farmers have
no right to violate prescribed usage
in the city just because the same rules
do not obtain in the country.
The most striking matter is that
which relates TO the care of horses
while their owners are in town to sell
produce and buy supplies.
In the country it is all right to
hitch team wherever post or tree
can be found conveniently at hand In
town this is not the case.
Take for example the habit some
farmers have of hitching their teams
to shade trees. People who maintain
parkings and choice shade trees are
not over-fond of having pair Of
farm horses paw up the turf and chew
off the bark during all the time the
owner is in the stores or talking on
the street corner. In the city no
farmer has any right whatever to
hitch team to a tree. The trees are
all private property and intended for
decoration, not for hitching posts.
Neither is Main street or nearby
streets the place in which to hitch
horses and leave them stand for
hours at a time. No farmer has a
right to make a feed-yard CT stable
of Main street or of any of the bust
ness streets adjoining. Washington I
street IS made a hideous sight at times
by the rows of farm-wagons with |
horses feeding from the back Of the I
wagons and blocking traffic So is
Fourth street. So is Fifth. Sixth street
between Main and Washington is
disgrace to any community. The city
can not maintain an expensive street
force to scrub up after
dozen or two farmers have made
public feed yard of zone of the best
streets The city force can not keep
,arting off scattered grain, hay, and
,ffaI because farmer will not patron
re q feed-yard.
We are informed that accommoda-
ions at feed stable for a pair OF
lorses can be secured in Moscow for
fifteen cents, if the farmer brings along
eed from his farm. Suppose the
,harge is 25 cents. That will not
break up any Palouse farmer We
lave vet to hear of the first Palouse
armer that is not prospecting; and we
hink it is not too much to ask every
me of them to take their teams d.
.ectly to a feed-stable and leave them
here until the homeward trip is be-
,un.
Farmers are pretty apt to forget
how much benefit they derive
rom the city The favors are not all
n one side by any means. Farmers
ell their garden truck in town. Tn "
ell their eggs, their butter, their
ream: and they get mighty good
rices for everything, too They sell
heir grain here and they get good
honey for that, too.
Furthermore, when they come :
pend their money Moscow gives
Lrmers the chance to examine the
,st merchandise manufactured 500
reasonable prices and displayed by
telligent, courteous, and honest
erchants. Farmers are in luck to