The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-03-03

spectiyely, and have q record for
good stock and high yields Of crops.
There are 30 many Merrill families
we have to identify them In some
way, and they are sometimes spoken
of as Merrill & Sons. Merrill Is the
elderly gentleman with whiskers and
spectacles, who usually rides bull
In the stock parade at the county
fair. He was pretty good looking in
his day and the boys all take after
their daddy.
A Soldier-Farmer
Mr.. Goodpasture lives on the other
lane, farther south, but he has q
dry farm away up in the hills where
June is one month of Joy. We have
forgotten for the moment whether
his initials are T. B. or whether that
is his brother. The boys call him
"Dode," and he is such fine fell
low we like to address him the same
way. When Idaho had q national
guard Dode was an officer in the
army. When it disbanded he gave
up his command. If some foreign
foe should 60 to acting up and at
tempt landing, Dode would be
there.
A Man of Money
But we are flooding the matri-
monial market with farmers; per-
haps you want professional men.
There Is B. H. Pennington, the saw
ings teller at the First National
bank. He is trim looking, dapper
young fellow and well known. He
goes early to work, early to lunch
and works hard till evening. He
likes to be ort with the boys. but
is better pleased when he is out with
a girl He is fond of social affairs,
likes everybody we'll enough and for
anything we know he may be en-
gagged.
A Man More Mature
Would you like a man not SO
young? There is H. F. Hoffman, the
tailor, fine looking, enterprising, a
good business man who likes to at
tend to work and business, and we
are guessing, would make a nice
home if he just had somebody to
plan with him. He doesn't know
we are printing this about him, SO
how can he head it of! That's the
deuce of having newspaper in town.
1t has to say something about some
body and, of course, one has to be a
good sport and pretend that he
doesn't mind it much.
Won Literary Fame
Marian Jackson, son of Mrs. M.
A. Jackson, of Taber and formerly Of
Aberdeen, is one of Bingham
county's promising young men who
has won fame as a contributor to
the literary wealth of this state. He
has just been awarded the honors
for writing the best article on who
should be Idaho's next governor. The
contest was conducted by The Gem
State Rural, of Caldwell, who gave
ten dollars for the best article on
that subject. and invited everybody
in Idaho to contest for it. The mat
ter was brought especially to the at
tention of the newspaper men and
politicians, and Mrs. Jackson, view
ing the matter from the quiet of the
desert and the dry farm, coming in
contact with few If any of the states
leading statesmen, carries off the
honors.
Marian is tall, drak, good looking,
well educated and indus-but we
don't want to heap all the honors
on one man. Girls you might write
him and be assured of a fine CORES
pondence while you are waiting for
the snow to go off; he is a good pen
man and-but there we go again
we just can't help saying nice things
about people.
A Jeweler Brunette
Blackfoot has a jeweler, fYho is a
brunette and his hair is cbrly. He
has worked and travelled, had ex-
perience in business and always sue
ceeded, has been much in society and