The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-08-31


OTHER IS PLEDGED FOR NEXT
YEAR OVER $500 COLLECTION
FOR RED CROSS.
Salmon has had its greatest intel
Iectual treat in what has been afford
ed by six full days of Chautauaua
which came TO an end yesterday
evening. From beginning to end the
entertainment was complete and
gratifying success. There was com.
mendatiOn in Salmon for the enter.
Prise from the very inception of the
entertainment early in the year. for
everybody knows that Salmon is
alert and progressive and alive to ap-
preciate good things. Still none was
so optimistic as to let himself think
that our first ChautauQua would
prove quite SO popular as it proved.
The superintendent on the grounO
throughout the engagement here, Mr..
Hoyis, said ON Wednesday evening
that Salmon enthusiasm in support.
ing its ChautauQua had far surpassed
that of any other town on the entire
circuit, which included cities of
many times the Salmon population
too. You people did the surprising
thing of selling thirteen hundred dol.
lars worth of tickets in a few hours
and exceeded your guarantee of ff-
teen hundred dollars in these sales
within few hours more" he said
from the platform at the meeting
called for the purpose of considering
the signing OF an engagement for
next years event of the same kind.
The pledge of so persons was the re-
Quirement and nearly twice that
many leading citizens crOwdede up
to sign their names to the contract
at the request of President A. w.
Pipes, who previously in the meeting
had called for a rising vote of en-.
dOrsement OF Chautauqua when ey-
cry person present in the throng
stood up.
I'VE are more than pleased with
our ChautauQua," declared the pres
ident. 1T has been a great thing for.
the town and the community. Every
feature has been fully up to our high
expectations. The one or two changes
In the program were necessary in the
exigencies of war times, when many
Of the men, / believe no less than
twenty eight in the entire circuit
toTces, haRe~boen drafted for mill
taFy service. The organization as we
know from what we have heard from
this platform in the splendid patri
Otic efforts OF speakers and lecturers
would contain no slackers in It's
forces. We feel mighty glad to have
had such people amongst US and y0Nr
action insures their coming again.
Data AMn Ga
The community of Salmon has not
been stirred in many a day as J. C.
herbsman. one of the ChautauQna
lecturers. stirred 1t last Sunday even
ing when he took the platform to
talk on DRY Bones" The lecturer
said he had been looking around
town for an hour or two only, having
arrived on the scene in the afternoon
after long automobile ride from
klgby during the night and morning
before. He came, however, with
trained newspaper eyes and ears op-
en- What he saw and heard made up
tne topics he proceeded TO discuss
when he opened up and got a-going
On the stage.
After commenting upon the great
natural beauty of Salmon making it
What he declared to be the prettiest
httle city anywhere to be found west
OF the Mississippi river, he just as
strongly condemned what man has
eonspicuOusly left undone to enhance
hat beauty. In his bill of particulars
u this regard he alluded to the pres
ent unkempt condition of Island
park, where he said, future Chautau-
was should by all means be held as
NE picturesque beauty spot within
me corporate limits. Here the un-
aerorush and many Of the trees
should give way to paths and grassy
bots and park benches. At one end
q the island there should be a bath
As resort with equipment not neces-
sAnly expensive but attractive. Here
sandreds OF people would resort in
= summer season and the baths
would make Salmon famous. The
sseaker thought ii would be entirely
PRACTICAL also that the hot water al
0rued at the Salmon mineral springs
alsht be Diped into the city to pro
~as the bathing season at this re-
oFI The speaker said there were
Wy bones" in q city council that
soaid not take hold OF an improve
neat so manifeStly TO the advantage
The moral and material welfare OF
ne city as this.
The speaker condemned in un'
assured terms the lack Of public
saht that has been shown, as he ds'
JARED. In the present unkempt con
Snon Of the public school grounds
lae city. he said, ought to be proud
furnish water for the growth oi
sass and trees on these grounds, 10
Ahge them from their present des'
~ waste, just as the county fur
Saes water to keep the courthouse
sounds in living green He though,
nonsense to say this thing coulo
be done without interference
on the utilities commission. The
SeAker alluded to the train service
abominable," and spoke perhaps
4aFisedly Of the demise OF the ous
ss mems association. He seemed
- TO be laboriRg under the beliei
Salmon has no fair from the
- that there are indeed no ran
As4nds here while as a matter Ol