The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-02-13
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, wants to. Main street has also pros
4, pered as it had never hoped to be-
fore.
1t was such a man as we have de.
scribed, who sat on the board of di.
rectors of the fair with the others in
! 1906 and. 1907, and gave them the
value Of his vision and his counsel to
forward the enterprise.
Loved Horse Races
| w. H. SCOTT was druggist, who
got lot of joy out of the fair. He
took keen interest in the sports and
races. He was member of the
board of directors most of the time
from 1906 to 1911, and from the
time the plans began to terminate
in midsummer till the fair was all
over, Mr. Scott was looking to the
fair with ever-increasing enthusiasm.
1t gave him something wholesome to
be interested in besides putting up
prescriptions, and it did him good.
He did his share of putting life and
pep into the fair. The last two or
three years of his life, Mr.. Scott was
In business at Pocatello. He died at
Blackfoot about the year 1915.
A Shrewd Investor
l.. M. CAPPS was member of the
board most Of the time from 1907
to 1919. He usually had charge of
agricultural matters, this being in
line with the enterprises in which
Mr.. Capps has always worked and in
vested his money. He was one of
the pioneer farmers of the county.
and is now operating fiourishing
mill that was generally headed for
the bankruptcy courts until he took
the management. He sometimes
buys farm or a piece of city prop
erty, and he generally builds house
or barn or improves the property
in some substantial way so it
renders a greater service to the COM
munity and goes to paying returns
on the investment. Mr.. Caps is a
man who weighs values carefully,
analyses every situation, and invari-
ably diagnoses the case so well that
he points out way to make it
financial success. Many a piece of
property that has been a dead in
vestment, would, under his hands,
ecome greater investment by the
addition of capital, and then the
whole thing would become vitalizad
and profitable. Mr.. Caps could &C
cumulate fortune out of the waste
and losses that other. people would
tramp under foot without knowing
their values. He has served in vari-
Gus political positions, from mayor
up and from state representative
down, and narrowly missed being the
state treasurer in recent years. I
Never Turned the Tide
A. G. ROBERT was in the milling
business in Blackfoot, and served on
the board of directors in 1907. In
1909 he went into the real estate
business, had fine office, advertised
rather extensively, and slowly went
broke as the overhead expenses
emptied the treasury. He probably
did not get at the business right, for
he scarcely ever made any deals. |
Some men can talk real estate or
insurance and work up considerable
interest, but never quite close deal.
They haYe all the expense incident
to completed deal but never quite !
secure the prize. 1t is like the ship |
that sails the seas and never quite |
reaches port. No matter how much |
rich goods there is on the manifest,
if it never reaches port they are lost. |
About the year 1912 Mr. Robert |.
moved to Butte, Mont, and later |
went to Salt Lake City According |
to information that has reached us
he has not been in close touch with |
success.
Worked Long and Hard
JAMES DUCKWORTH took up his
residence in BlackfoOt about the year
1908, invested some money in the
fair and served as president for
eleven years. He is one of those
busy bodies who is always punctual
in keeping his engagements, is al
ways on time at meetings, and is
always patient with those who are
late. If he went to the office of the
fair for meeting and found less
than a quorum present, he would be-
gin calling up the absent ones on the
phone, and if their wives reported
gone to meeting of the fair" he
would go out and make the circuit
of the pool halls, find some of them
engaged In game, ask them how
soon they would join the others at
the meeting, take them at their work
and be sweet about it, and then wait I
for them to arrive. He trained the
board members for teamwork and Sc
cured 1t. If two or three of them
got into an argument as to how i'm
portant the horse races were and
took up much of the evening settl-
ing the difference between tweedle-
dee and tweedle-dum, he would give
them time to arrive at conclusions
and then get them down to progress
again. Mr.. Duckworth was one of
several who would lay aside their
own business before the fair opened,
and work for it alone till it was all
over and everything disposed of.
They would rise early in the morn
ing and 60 at it, work all day, eat a
"hot-dog" occasionally during the
day, grab an evening meal Of the
same kind at some point by the curb
and then hold an evening session
lasting till near midnight. They
made 1t rule that they had to get
enough fun out of it to compensate
for their time and work or they lost,
for not cent of the money they
handled went to them. They even
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