The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-03-16
|CKFOOT MERCHANTS
ULD

De The Blackfoot merchants SHOULD
~ low that they are losing a grea
tiHlkd of trade from people in the bacl
Efricts by not letting them know
y that they have as fine goods and il
na almost as great variety as can b.
sofound in other cities down the lin
,Ww,swhere they go for a visit and to d,
leone shopping. Blackfoot show PEG
~ pie should let it be known just hoy
angood the amusements are in here S.
oolpeople will unfool themselves abou
Lohaving to go to Pocatello and Sal
~ Lake to see and hear something
Is worth while.
y There are many people living il
=, the Lost river country, Challis ant
", Pahsimeroi, who are not informe,
Vithru the papers at Arco, Mackay an,
Z changes hat have been in all thes
y things in Blackfoot. Too many o
them think of Blackfoot as a tow
y of freighters and stage coaches be
I cause they have seen so little of i
during the years when it was bein,
rebuilt and modernized. There arr
many people who have the habit O
going out somewhere once or twic,
year to where they can get thei
feet on some pavements and spent
their money for few days gettinf
in touch with modern things. Fol
weeks before such trips they keel
saying to themselves, when I 81
: to Salt Lake I will get me new
! suit" when I go to Salt Lake
|: will get" and they mention any
number of articles that are carried
in Blackfoot and at as fine bargain!
as they can get anywhere, but the
people do not know it,
Blackfoot has been handicapped al
to hotels, and that has been a dis
couraging feature about getting peo
pie to stop here, but that difficulty
ig about to be overcome. There are
people living out along the Aberdeen
branch and at other nearby towns
who would like to run in on Satur
day afternoon and brush elbows with
the crowds Saturday evening and dc
some trading. They would like tt
get into nice hotel where the ser.
vice is first class. They would like
to get up Sunday morning and not
have any chores to do, and just stroll
about and enjoy the view of clean
streets and pretty lawns and flowers
and ringing of the bells calling peo-
pie to worship; they would attend
the morning services and enjoy them
keenly, and perhaps the same per-
sons would go to the ball game in
the afternoon and feel that the day
had been filled with the things that
were an uplift to them. The amuse.
ments of Saturday evening, the fine
Sunday rest and its recreation fol
which they were hungry, the chance
to spend some money with friends
and acquaintance and feel that they
were Eat their own home or near
home, and that all these modern
things were coming to them, would
give them new faith in the state OF
their adoption and give them new
enthusiasm for their undertakings
on the great plains or their home
valleys. 1t would be quite the re.
verse of a long trip into another
state at great expense, and to come
home to Idaho feeling that all the
fine things were away off in some
other state and that perhaps they
had made mistake when they came
they had better sell out and 60
where they and their children can
have advantages such as they have
just been feasting upon.
6lackfoot people could we'll afford
to make united effort to spread in
formation regarding their town to
the people in the back districts as
well as to be sending out literature
to the folks in the other direction
who may wish to find back districts
in which to locate.
For the information of those who
are not well informed permit us to
say that out at Arco is a newspaper
called The Advertiser, that covers
well that territory. At Mackay is
The Miner with large circulation.
At Challis is The Silver Messenger,
and at Aberdeen, The Times, and at
Shelley, The Pioneer, all pioneering
or mining or advertising in their own
particular way, and constituting
good advertising mediums thru
which the Blackfoot business houses
could we'll afford to do a seasons
advertising and see what results
they can obtain. 1t will take nothing
away from Arco, for instance, to
spend some money with their news
paper to inform people in that coun-
try that they do not have to go all
the way to Salt Lake City to find
the things they usually buy there.
AS the Blackfoot people help to build
up newspaper service at Arco they
have just one more live booster for
Blackfoot, and any one who picks up
copy of that paper must see at
once that it's news columns help to
bring Blackfoot and its people and
institutions before the public in it's
regular work. The same is true of
each of the other papers mentioned,
and our home people should take an
even start with the greater hotel SER
vice in their home town and get busy
pulling for the trade that has been
going thru town to other places.