The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-03-03

the country folks and the people in |
the surrounding towns would get the |
habit of attending. The service has
been wisely placed at an hour when |
nothing else will interfere. The pro-
gram reads we'll with those of our
older cities in the east, where artists
are more likely to be found When
the Hired Man tries to sing, he makes
poor out about it. He strikes the
wall with his notes and if it is too
slow, he glides up to it; if he is too
high he slides down to it. In fact, he
has about quit all efforts that make it
necessary to slide, but he does know
when some body is making good, and
that is just what takes place in these
recitals. If it is master making good
they charge dollar at the door. not
so many would get to hear, but it
would not be too much. Remember
your soul would get something from
one of these recitals, and you ought
to take it over there and give it a
show.
The Hired Man read the other day
where young woman in Kansas made
100000 last year catching grass-hop-
pers for chicken feed. She sold the
dried article to the stores and they
sold it to chicken raisers. This part
of Idaho is going to have hopper
storm this year that will be no small
affair. Why don't somebody write
back to Kansas farm journal and
find out how this girl managed it? l
think that two men could carry a
piece of cheese cloth ten feet wide and
a hundred feet long, through field of
grain or alfalfa. and SC manage it as
to scare nearly all the hoppers so
they would fly into the sack. Just how
the device would have to be made the
| Hired Man cannot say at the present,
but that could be figured out readily:
In field pestered with swarms of
hoppers two men ought to catch SOU
pounds in day. They ought to be
worth two cents pound easy enough,
| and might be worth five cents. The
| damage daily from 500 pounds of hop
pers would be another dollar. Eggs
from hens fed on hoppers might have
little more pep" in them than we
| are used to, but then anything a
chicken won't eat is unmentionable,
anyhow, they are certainly the filthiest
clean thing we have.
There is a difference, so says the
Hired Man. If you go to drawing
and there expect to get set OF hne
dishes by happening to have the lucky
number which you got by purchasing
the small quantity of medicine, and
while you are getting ready for the
drawing, some one draws out your
pocket-book and skillfully tucks il
away in her garments and thereafter
calls it her own, while you 60 without
all the nice things your three dollars
were to buy, you have really been tc
a drawing any way. You wouldn''
think unless you stopped to do it, that
in this quiet almost Quarker-like lit
tie city, we had folks who were geo
graphically blind. not knowing the diff
ference between their own pocket:
and those of another in close proxi
nifty. Then you would not suppose
that little matter like taking chance!
on getting dishes for small percen
of their worth would so intoxicatt
folks that they would become entire
ly oblivious to what was going or
around them, would you? Of course
in an elite gathering like we have a
these dish drawings, no body woult
ever once suppose that those happ,
faces and smiling eyes and cherr!
souls could have one in their mids
.. who had not on the wedding carmen
of honesty. All, we'll, may be she will
bring back your money. Next time
spend your money first.
Some of the folks from Kansas ant
, Iowa, and Illinois, who came out t.
, Idaho principally because they wer
; scared out by those tremendou
, thunder storms, and secondly becaus
they were made to believe that w
never have any snow here to amour
to anything. and thirdly, because the.
G understood that we have whole drove
of fat hogs running around hunting
v for somebody to butcher them. an
S fourthly because they heard that al
3 a man needs to do to get good team
4 is to borrow horse to ride and
e rope and branding iron and go int
:. the hills and catch what he want
d among all those find wild ones, ar
{ going to be surprised, SO guesses tn
h Hired Man, about the first OF Apr
= when big gray clouds will form i
the mountains on either side OF us an
begin to chase one another acros
lour valleys, dropping bombs every cit
! block and Earring the very foundation
of things with mutterings and groar
ings. This is the year, you know to
new things to take place in Idaho.
Don't you miss John Downey. VIII
has ianitored the corner buildings
Main and Seventh for several years
Q The old man didn't amount to much
I the commonwealth. but he was on
! He could sweep floor well. and h
could make fire burn in furnac
; We didn't expect very much OF HIN
and he knew it. He had a very ie
friends and limited acquaintancc
No body outside of the Commerce;
bank folks really knew how the oil
man was getting on. When the ca
came for him to close out his earthl
affairs rapidly and try-out the Ian
over the river. no body much was II
terested enough to take care or So
ond thought, but the officials OF II
Commercial bank never forgot hi
and never permitted neglect to gra
Die with him in his final battle. b