The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-30
FAIR ASSOCIATION
ANNALS REVIEWED
Short Sketches of Men
Who Labored for Its
Success.
CHAPTER THREE
Successes and Sorrows


1rofino, in north Idaho. where he !,
the medical superintendent ~ n.
Northern Idaho asylum. DR.. Giyens
philosophy is that we must take
thlngs as they come, and his caree,
III ldaho has been marked with botl
success and reverses. He accumu
lated comfortable fortune and had
the bulk of it I. invested in timbe,
iands and a couple of banks, Then
came the forest fires of 1901 and
the disturbed financial conditions in
ldaho resulting from failures and
partial failures in irrigation projects
ana these things wiped out the
GlVens fortune by series of blows
mat fell so rapidly it proved the old
adage, "Misfortunes never come
singiy. In the midst if it. Mrs
Givens was taken suddenly iii. and
passed into the great silence. and
father and sons had to face tbeir
other calamities in the hours that
were already darkest A brave and
| courageous struggle was to be ex-
pected or the doctor and in this he
| measured up to expectations.
Career Cut Short
w. B. ELDREDGE was in business
In Blackfoot as part of the Brown
h1dredge, Furniture company, and
was one of the popular men of the
town, well known thru southern
Idaho. Thoughtful men predicted
LOT MIN great future, and they were
glad to have him numbered among
the residents and in the business
circles of Blackfoot. But in The
summer of 1905 he was taken with
an illness from which he never re-
covered and he passed out at about
the end of July.
Worked Too Hard
c. E. KINNEY engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits in Blackfoot for many
years and was active in matters con-
nected with the fair and the sugar
industry. He invested in whatever
promised to further their develop
ment, and worked to the limit of his
ability and capacity. 1t is proba bly,
safe to say that he worked too hard
and took too little recreation, for he
developed an affiiction that closed
his business careee by slow stages
and finally ended his life, in the
year 1912.
A Great Hustler ~
F., E. DeKAY is spending the
spending the winter in California
with Mrs. DeKay. He has always
been a very active man in business,
politics and the work of the fair. He
would set aside his ownsbusiness and
go out to the fairgrounds in mid
summer and begin planning for the
September events, and travel over
the county for days at time attend
ing to the preliminaries, getting ad-
vertising for the premium lists, in
ducing men to bring in. exhibits, and
lining up everybody he could to
make this years fair the biggest and
best. He would go to fairs all UP
and down the intermountain country
to study them and to bring back re-
ports of what made or hindered sue
cess at other fairs, and the directors
took advantage of his observations
in making engagements for attrac-
lions for Blackfoot. DeKay was a
worker. He would sit in the direct
ors' meeting half the night and be
out at sunrise carrying out the plans
made the night before. He was the
big chief when it came to clearing
the fairgrounds in the forenoon pre-
paratory to collecting admissions at
the gate. Tramps and buns might
give other. men the slip, but not De-
Kay. He has served as sheriff Of his
home county, and as warden of the
state penitentiary, made snug
fortune on ranch at Tyhee, rode
good horses and good automobiles,
and generally got his share Of fun
out of life.
Did Not Dodge Danger
T. R. JOINS is resident of
Blackfoot at the present time, tho
for several years he was in business
at Mackay. He had an active part
in the building of the American Falls
canal and in the colonizing Of the
tract. He took number of con-
tracts for construction work, and
one of the last of the big contracts
was let to him at figure that car
ried a mistaken estimate. Every
yard of earth and rock in the job cost
him little more to move than he
got out Of it. When he discovered
his mistake he went over the whole
situation and saw that in the total
1t would break him. If he threw UP
the job he would still have some
property left. 4. he went on and full
filed his contract he would be strip
ped Of almost everything. It was
one of those occasions in mans life
that brings moral struggle and
constitutes Golgotha. Any way he
managed it there would be embar-
easements and somebody would have
to be disappointed. He decided to
Ego thru" according to the wording
of his obligations, and work to keep
the losses down as low as he could
and to embarrass as few as he could
When the great task was done, he
was done and went out to start
all over again, at an age when the
keen edge and the bounce have been
extracted from a mans activities.
He served as county commissioner
with w. III. Stufflebeam and T. J.
Bennett when some, good roads and
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