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Personal. Member of Big Advertising Co. in Idaho. B. E. Critchfleld of the well known Long-Critchfield Company of Chica go. was in the city the first part of thé month, sizing up the situation Mr. Critchfleld expressed as here. tonishment at the stocks of merchan dise kept by the Caldwell merchants and declared that he had never seen its equal in a town of this size. Having an opportunity to see the surrounding country, that is being covered by the Government reclama tion project, now approaching com pletion here, he expressed great in terest in the same and said there could be no doubt about the future of the country. bought 160 acres of land on the Twin Falls North Side tract, near Wendall, and has in view planting 40 acres in winter apples. However, he will probably subdue the tract first by other crops, among which will likely be a seeding to clover. This will be turned under in the course of a couple years and the or chard planted. close observer and therefore has not failed to note the standing of Idaho in the Eastern markets. Mr. Critchfleld Mr. Critchleld is a Prominent New Hampshire Agricul turist Visits Idaho. Hon. Chas. Hoyt, who is in Idaho establishing granges, is and has been for 11 years a member of the New Hampshire State Board of Agricul ture and also secretary of the State Fair Asscoiation. He is likewise something of a far mer having a thousand acres of land in the Granite State. On his home farm Mr. Hoyt has about a thousand sugar maple trees which, however, he did not tap last year, owing to the unsatisfactory labor that he would have been compelled to em ploy. The trees yield about 2 pounds of finished sugar to the tree and the product is in good demand. Mr. Hoyt says that considerable dairying is done in New Hampshire, but that one of the most profitable sources of revenue for the country folks is the summer boarder. Wisconsin Men Buy Farms. Amos Miller and Mr. Maier, of Mukwonago, Wisconsin, were in town this month looking up farm lands. Both bought near Greenleaf, about 7 miles west of Caldwell, close to the line of the Golden Gate Railway. Mr. Miller is a cousin of Charles Dugdale, the dairy farmer of this place. Both gentlemen were well pleased with Idaho. Charles Gibson, late of aKnsas, has purchased thru the Caldwell Real Estate Company, a 5 -acre tract in small fruit, owned by Thomas Waite, west of the city. Mr. Gibson will cultivate fruits and vegetables. The price paid for the tract was $1800. F. E. Parke recently arrived here from Oklah. He is located near Star and "will grow grass, clover, etc., and do general farming. J. C. Mayhugh, a former Kansas farmer, is now a homesteader near Greenleaf, in this county. He is getting a development under way and will do diversified farming as soon as irrigation water reaches him. Mr. Mayhugh says new farmers in Idaho bave a good deal to learn nad hence acvd the Gem State Rural. - Race Meet and Horse Show. Payette is to have a two days' rac ing matinee meet June 5th and 6 th in connection with a local horse show. ! A nice race program has been pre-, pared with purses ranging from $ 5 to $150. Premiums are to be given for horses and colts of different ages and classes. The meet is to be under the direction of the Payette Driving Club. H. W. Dorman of this place has been chosen secretary of the Boise Payette Fruit Growers' Union, to suc ceed C. C. Eiffe, who resigned owing to his plan to go to Germany for an indefinite time. Mr, Dorman has a nice commercial orchard and is a good man for the position. National organizer Hoyt writes from Spokane that a grange was or Rathdrum, Kootenai Co., with 17 ganized on Friday, May 22, near charter members. The name will be Georgetown Grange. Prospects are good for several more granges in that part of the State the coming fall. Mr. Hoyt and wife left on the 2 4th for return to their home in New Hampshire. They made many friends during the few weeks they were in our State w r ho will be glad , j to see them again. ^+++++4+4 , +++4 M H , +++++ t H*4 , +4 , 4 M H , 4 , ++++++4*+4*+++++++++4 , 4 , ++4 , ++4 , 4 , 4 , 4 , +++4 , 4 , 44 , 4 , 4 , 4 , +4 M l , +4 , 4 , +444 , +t + + 4* 4* + X + 4* 4* + 4* 4 4* 4 X 4 4* 4 * 4* 4 4* 4* 4* 4 4* * l T 4* + 4 * 4 * 4* 4 - T Î 4 * 4 - HARDWARE A, GROCERIES X * 4* 4 * 4 X 4* DON'T FORGET 4 X 4 4 4 - J 4* + 4 , 4* 4* + 4* * 4. 4 . 4* J 4. 4* 4, ^ 4. 4* 4. + ^ 4. 4* X THAT WE BOTH LOSE MONEY WHEN YOU DON'T TRADE WITH 4 - + 4 * 4 * X 4 DOAN &. HAY CO,. LTD. X 4 - 4 - X + CALDWELL, IDAHO 4* 4* 4* * ♦ WE SELL GOODS RIGHT, THAT'S WHY X 4 - X * ♦ X X + 4 - 4 * I 4* X I .. 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