Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-05-10
Truly a PhiIantropist.

Happily for Jerome she can num-
ber among her citizens many OF the
business men and others who are al
ways alert to do all within their
power, both financially and morally,
to enhance the welfare of the town
and its surroundings, and their liber-
ality is only limited to their financial
ability. Even the great Twin Falls
North Side Land & Water Co., which
has come In for great amount OF
criticism in times past, has under It's
present management, shown desire
to heartily cooperate with the cit-
zens and settlers in assisting to build
up the town and surrounding coun-
try.
Since the advent of Mr.. r. e.
Shepherd on the tract he has given
many practical illustrations of his
willingness to assist in any meritor-
ious undertaking, and many things
have been made possible with his as
sistance that would have otherwise
been failures
With the incoming of the new vii
lage board of trustees, various ques-
tions confronted them, which SEEM
ed difficult of solution. Several of the
streets need looking after, and espec-
tally Main street, and when this mat
ter was brought to the attention of
Mr. Shepherd, he promptly and most
heartily proffered the use of a stone
crusher, with engine and all equip
ments for its operation for the use OF
the village. without any cost what
ever Avenue d between Oak and
Elm street was crossed by a draw
which sadly interferred with the ap-
pearance of the street, and instead
of the citizens In that neighborhood
asking the village to grade the street
at quite an expense, trustee Ander-
son circulated a subscription paper
among his immediate neighbors, and
when Mr. Shepherds attention was
called to the matter a liberal dona-
tion was forthcoming from the COM
pany he represents, and as a result
the street now presents a boulevard
appearance. and the taxpayers have
been saved quite a sum.
Reference has heretofore been
made as to the prefer of trees to all
children of the tract who would
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valuable varieties of trees were or
dered by Mr.. Shepherd, and as the
supply was larger than the demand,
he finds he has many of these trees
left, and although quite a sum could
be realized from the sale of them, he
has kindly donated them to the vii
lage to be planted in the parks. The
village had designated a dumping
ground Just southwest of town. and
II was generally understood that the
land for this purpose belonged to
the town, but upon investigation by
the new board. II was found that the
title to the property was still in the
hands of the Company, but here
again our townsman showed the lib
erality of his company by giving the
village deed to the prop srty in
question. These are only instances
In which the liberality of the com
pany OF which Mr.. Shepherd repre-
sents is manifested. and there are
many more that might be mentioned
but as Mr.. Shepherd is not likely tC
thank us very heartily for heraldini
his philantrophy before the public
we refrain from mentioning any
others. but several OF the acts men
toned above coming in quick success
sion to each other. prompted us tC
call attention to them, and we bet
the pardon OF the gentleman for thi
reference.