The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-09
sCOTTY WRITES HOME


W. H. Scott, formerly Of Pingre'
and BlackfoOt, breaks out once in {
long while, and personal letter JUS
received at The Republican office IL
too good to keep SO we print 1t. i
Scotty is surprised he will probably
get over it, and the fun you have
reading it will balance matters
ways seemed to know that 1t re
quires something besides kicks and
compliments to run newspaper, and
he enclosed a check for s., with 9
notation in the lower corner saying
For 100 years subscription to
paper, account in past" Folks who
know what joker he is will feel as
sured that he is still himself The
item regarding the death of w. N.
Shilling is copied in this issue.
Portland, Ore, Aug. 6, 1928.
Mr.. and Mrs. Trego,
.Blackfoot, Idaho.
Dear Friends
l have been intending to drop you
a line for some time, but as you
kuOW, We ill nave Iudt Ouc pIouOm-
inant characteristic of delaying, till
tomorrow, the things we should do
today. l just noticed that an old
resident of Blackfoot passed out
yesterday, to the great beyond, Mr..
W. N. Shilling, who was one of your
towns early pioneers. Mrs. Scott
requested many times, this summer,
that | take her out to see him, but
thought that | was always SO busy |
did not have the time. She read his
interview and she thought that there
was something that was so sweet
about it that she would like to meet
him and bring a message of cheer
from his old home.
We get your paper every Monday,
and we enjoy reading in its columns
the many things our friends are do
ing at home It's like a great big
letter to us. am glad that you still
keep up your good efforts to keep
your readers informed Of the many
happenings that take place in the
county. | was very much interested
in the doings of the different farm
ers that you called upon this spring.
noticed they have the same diff
ticulties as in former years. | surely
appreciated the good advice that you
gave them in not undertaking too
much for the seasons work. | think
if there is one evil that the farmer
is guilty of, and myself included
when | was farming, is the fact that
he undertakes to cover too much ter
ritory during the summer and is
therefore compelled to neglect some
of his crops that means consider
able loss to him as we'll as tendency
to discourage.
If ] ever do go to the farm again,
will take time to live. | notice the
city jewellers do, and while some
times they are only few jumps
ahead of the sheriff as lot of them
confess (the truth of this statement
can't substantially yet they take
time for their week-ends and their
business goes on in the future Just
the same. They say they are bene-
fed by day off now and then and
l believe the farmer would be if he
could only bring himself to see it
that way. OH / know the many ex-
cuses and they are all such good
ones that even now l would not have
the heart to doubt them. l am con-
WINGED though that if the farmer
would farm less and farm it better
he would have better time and not
have so many sleepless nights. L
always noticed that it was that per-
sonal contract and interest in every
plant and animal that made it grow
and develop to be beautiful that |
nature intended it to be.
Portland has been city of mourn
ing the past few days, the flags were
all at half mask, on every street
corner and every place where groups
were gathered you could easily de-
tect that great sorrow had visited
them, you could hear many remarks
to the effect that the individual
could feel no worse had it been one
of his own dear friends and they
looked the part. Harding's visit to
this city made many friends for him
and the people had the first oppor-
tunity to really understand what a
big man they had in every respect
in their president. 1 had the pleas
ure to listen to his discourse and 1
will never forget. where he referred
to us as my countrymen, his tone