The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-09
Idaho Exhibit Feature
atNational Dairy Show

the crowds at the National Oall
Show at Milwaukee according
Miss Grace Peck, who was one I
the carload of delegates from Id
no. The big show opened on Sa
urday the 9th of September, b,
Sunday the 28th was the first da
the crowds overlooked things, mos
1y Milwaukee people, who shut u
shop and went to see the cows an
COW products. The Idahoans wer
organized for team work to sift tn
crowds and devote their time an
literature to those who showed a.
interest in Idaho and its resources
OF this kind they found about rs
or 800 that day, and in making
comparisons of the swarms abou
the different booths, the crowds a
the Idaho booth were two to tire,
times as large as at the others
There were two reasons for tt
was a pretty booth; there were rea
products of superior quality to b.
seen; twenty people wearing the
Idaho badge radiated in and out
leading the interested ones right
up to the trough, so-to-speak, sc
they might drink If they would
and they were not slow to drink In
the pictures both by snapshots and
time exposures The delegates be-
ing labeled and each label bearing
an invitation to talk and ask ques-
lions about Idaho, was novelty,
and as they circulated in the
crowds there seemed to be more
Idahoans than there really were.
The presence of so many delegates
from state so far distant; the
large Intersection booth arrayed
with the products of such wide
scope from Payette fruits to timo-
thy from the highlands of the Te-
ton valley and representatives from
dozen different attitudes and
climates, all talking for Idaho in
general and prepared to give them
definite information regarding any
locality in circuit of five hundred
miles up and down one valley con-
stituted an attention-getter whether
they really wanted Idaho or not.
These Idahoans had an unselfish
way of Offering homeseekers a
choice of 80 much of the earth 1t
had a fascination for folks OF the
Badger state. With vast areas like
Southern Idaho to point to, with its
variety of climates and resources,
it's pure seeds, its clean rich pro-
ducts and records of high yield
and samples on exhibit, these Ida
hoans assured the visitors there is
plenty of room in Idaho, any part OF
Idaho they prefer, and homeseek-
ers cannot miss it by going to any
Consider what you wish
to engage in" says the delegate,
what kind of climate you like,
what crops or stock you want to
raise, and we will refer you to the
locality that is best for that. There
il plenty of room everywhere In
Idaho, and we want more neigh
Dors. You have fifty thousand
more people living right here in
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whole state of Idaho, so you see OPP
)ortunity is wide open and beckon-
ng to you. We are the coming
larry state of the Union. We pro-
luce dairy feeds in more abund-
nee and more cheaply than in any
'ther state. We have the champion
Mich cow of the world, Segis
'ieterje Prospect, bred and raised
t Meridian, Idaho, and now on ex-
ibit over there among the worlds
nest cows. Be sure to see her.
he is almost human and can do al
lost anything but talk"
While a delegate is giving that
me of talk to one person a crowd
athers around and interest wakes
arm over a dozen angles of the !
ubject. The presence of the I
'orld's champion COW directs atten- ;
on to the Idaho booth, and the
resence of the Idaho booth directs
to the worlds champion
,w. Each of the twenty dele t
ates boosts for any and all other {
'calitieS as we'll as his own, so the {
good words for each
,ction mount high.
The Union Pacific Railways rep I
singled out Miss Grace {
eek, the secretary of the Blackfoot {
hamber of Commerce, and put on
Or an additional badge that read, I
Miss Idaho" and escorted her
,out among the worlds famous1 G
ock, pausing frequently at the q
all of the worlds champion cow, t
SO an Idahoan, and exhibiting the r
70 together, a beautiful COW and a I
ZACH. of a woman, each manifesting c
fine affection for the other. and t
aking picture that possessed a
mpelling interest. An invitation c
20 over and see the Idaho booth e
Is then easily remembered and +
ted upon. The fact that Miss r
aho was the only person besides @
9 keeper who was privileged to S
proach the famous COW, added to
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