The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-08-15

night at eleven thrifty, just getting
settled down for good nap, a vigor-
Gus rap on the door announced that a
| woman was in distress. She is one OF
the leading women in tn estate, the
Wlte OF popular minister now rcsid-
ing, in Boise. Her ten year old son
mad imposed upon his leave of alb
sence, which ran out at p m, and
this late hour was unbearable for his
mother. We used our phone literally,
and l walked to the brink Of the river
Where he might have gone swimming.
Midnight came and went. We then
hooked up the flivver and came over
to the city, proper. The mother held
her nerves down as much as any
mother could, but they were getting a
good start. After hasty drive
through the Caldwell streets and
visits to the prominent places that
happened to be open, we CHANGED
the phone in the Saratoga and there
learned that the lad had just turned
in safe and sound I presume he was
committed to the guard house for a
few days and that he will be more
careful hereafter. This ought to teach
us that little boys just must come
home when they are told to come, and
that it is not every time Joy ride that
is being pulled off when you see a car
making these late journeys about
town, although it is safe to say that
these cars that wander about with but
little lamps on them after ten in the
evening and folks in them that are not
Our own folks and the storm curtains
up when the evenings are so hot you
can hardly breathe, are not always
looking for little boys who happen to
forget and stay out late.
| Not in Need.
"S | was goin' long" woman
stopped us and said some new
/ corners were strangers to the city and
that the wife was in need We drove
the flivver over to see about it. They
were strangers indeed but not in need
The husband was getting wages
enough to keep five families like his
This ought to teach US that you can
never tell just how people are getting
also teaches us that Caldwell is one of
the kindliest places on earth, for no
indication of distress or sorrow or
pain can long show itself without en-
listing the sympathies of those who
have humanitarian interest.
| Tom Hitson called up Caldwell and
said he had hundreds of sacks of good
potatoes that anybody could have if
they would come and pick them up
where his rapid-fire gatherers miss
them. A man ought to be able to pick
up rs sacks of these spuds in day
and sell them the next day for $500.
That isn't so bad That makes me
think however that Deer Flat ground
is producing $500 to $500 per acre
again this year. Oughts an ought and
a figger is a figger that makes that
land worth pretty good deal. When
a man can raise a whole lot, like that,
sell heap give away considerable,
let a right smart go to waste and use
tolerable quantity, its better than
we used to do back in Arkansaw
What's in Church?
"S | was goin' long a man said
whats the good of the church, any
way? It don't do nobody no good, NO
time" 1t don't, hah? When little
Bess died, what institution sang
ASLEEP in Jesus?" When ma died
and the children wept their little
hearts out, to what institution did you
go to get some man to say few
words about the resurrection and the
mortal soul? You did not go to the
Jockey club, to the Commercial club
to the Lodge, to the skating rink or
movie. You did not go to the dancing
master nor the ball game manager, but
you went to the Church. You know |
am telling the truth. Every reader OF
this note knows am telling the truth
When the red blood is coursing
through the veins of man and he is
making more money than he ever had
before and he thinks he sees the use
Ilessness of the church, he might forget
and want to know whats the good
of the church any how" but you just
wait until death is feeling for the
cords of his own heart and that Of
some dear child or his loving wife
and all that rubbish disappears and he
wants the church to come to them
with its tenderness and certainties. W.
newspaper folks may not go to church
as much as we would if we had more
time and better opportunity, but the
church certainly does have the las
word when it comes to closing gu
this mortal history Of ours.
Of Good Sized Luck.
as I was comm long" a Parm;
car with two men and two women il
it, was rounding the curve at Canyon
where the Black Canyon work is goins
on, and struck the bank of new sof
dust in the road where the curve i
; hardest and sharpest There was
splutter and a fog and a shrek o
two and that car was plumb slam ban.
bottom side up, the top smashed t.
flinterines and the sides to shivers
and not a soul hurt bit Couldn't d,
it again in month Of the same stunts
Those Parma people arc lucky any
how. Some of them went there fe,
! years ago and started that little plac
! as a little burg and today it is surel
!. one of the up-to-datest business place
: in Idaho. Why, the stores carry stoc
enough to satisfy the most fastidiou.
/. They have Bible glass of men dow
; there of bout hundred and its
: safe bet that not three in the bunc