The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-27


ten or twenty years from now 1t will
not make much difference" which,
by the way is only another way of
persuading himself that perhaps 1t
pays anyhow, to be Q public servant.
Time alone proves these things II
they are ever proven, and as we shut
out eyes and think over the long list
OF men who served as directors Of
the fair, We remember six who have
passed into the great silence. before
they had much opportunity to realize
their hopes and ambitions. They
pioneered and shaved for those of
us who have lived longer. We re-
member six who have failed in bust
ness and started life all over again
after having put their best years into
their undertakings. They served
and donated, and fought good fight
in the battle of business and went
down under foot and saw men march
over them, figuratiyely trampling
these PROSTATE forms, or perhaps,
stopping in the race to lend hand
to the one who was down.
Fifteen Rich Men
Contrasting with those who failed
in business we remember fifteen who
were eminently successful when they
became members of the board or
have become independently rich
since that or during their terms of
service and did it thru lines of
activity not connected with the fair.
Or these fifteen men we remember
seven who are big, broad-minded
generous fellows, doing their part
and more-the kind of men who
bought liberty bonds and gave freely
to the Red Cross and to all other de-
mands for aid. They are men who
enjoy their wealth by making SPLEEN
did use of 1t while they are yet alive.
They are the cream of the earth and
of business. We remember three
who are selfish and very close-so
close that we doubt il ever they en-
joy a genuine generous impulse in
which they felt thankful that they
had emans to carry out their gener-
Gus wish We remember four who
are very close and very useful in the
use of their wealth-men who invest
carefully and make every dollar do
full duty in service. We remember
nine who neither failed nor sue
ceeded, who neither went up nor
down the ladder of success and fame.
but who merely got along in the
world in the presence of pitfalls and
opportunities. We remember four
on whom the hand of fate fell
heavily and bowed their heads in a
sorrow too deep to be reviewed, three
of whom, to our knowledge have
picked up the thread of human eff
fort, vitalized it with splendid cour-
age and applied the salve of labor to
ease an aching heart and by that
means win their way back to grace
and the sunny side of life. We re-
call one or did not come to himself
could not or did not come to himself |
and take up the burden of climbing |
back up from the depths to which he
slipped, and, SO far as we can learn, |
languishes where even the OppOrtun-
ity of trying is denied him.
We VIII Tell You
1t is an interesting reyerie, this |
looking backward over the records OF |
men for twenty years when so much |
was happening. We want to tell you
about it, but not this time. We will |
wait and write it when the star of |
hope and faith shines fairly bright |
SO we can speak with confidence of |
every good record, and have a lapse
OF memory on certain unhappy
events connected with the lives of |
those who have had more than their /
share of burrows in their brows and
thorny places in their paths. Per-
haps the next issue will see the sub
ject continued with all their records /
printed in the same color of ink, and
the same size of type, and so far as
we shall indicate, all manly men
with shares of human weakness
which we shall omit to mention.
Here is the list of names
The Southeastern Idaho Fair as
ISOLATION, organized August IL, 1902
with directors as follows:
DR.. John w Owens, president.
W.. B. Eldredge.
C. e. Kinney.
f. e. DeKay.
T. r. Jones'
John s. Watson.
H. w. Kiefer.
George F. Gagon.
D. H. Biethan.
G. A. Robethan, secretary.
Directors 1908 /
w. D. Trego, president.
F. e. DeKay.
G.. A. Robethan.
G. H. Holbrook, treasurer.
e. M. Kennedy, vice-president.
w. d. Barnhart.
w. A. Rogers.
A. d. Quantrell.
John 8. Watson.
w. III. Stufflebeam, secretary.
Directors 1905 i
C. w. Bergman, president.
G. q. Kinney, vice-president.
G. H. Holbrook, treasurer.
DR.. J.1W. 'Givens.
John G.. Brown.
D. H. Biethan.