Show V RIGBY BOOMING RiGHT ALONG f Idaho City Where All Is Hurry and Club Flourishing B BANQUET GIVEN RECENTLY a b j CHeS MA MADE E OF UNUSUAL MERIT s Special ial to The Herald Rigby Ida March standing the prediction of the local k who seem to be in every I the Rigby Commercial tub club is still flourIshing This fact was demonstrated to all those who have a short life Ufe to the organ by the large and enjoyable banquet given giyen by the club the other ight in the large hall hail on the second floor of M T Pecks new building While RIgby is a small town and the membership of the Commercial club is only about sixty guests invited from St Anthony Sugar City and Rexburg were profuse in their praise as to the preparations and hugeness of the affair One hundred and thirty sat down to the banquet board which was spread wIth all the delicacies known to the art with fruits arid aid cut flow ars ts in profusion Ten young ladies ind young men presided over by a cur during this falls faUs election It Is th the here that if of the m middle adl towns of the Ole county make a fight for th county seat s at it cannot but result In St StAnthony StAnthony Anthony keeping the prize If Sugar City and Rexburg would pull together It is conceded that the removal could b accomplished but each of thee e towns would rather do most anything tl an to see its antagonist secure a victory over It I IThe The St Anthony people undertook in inthe inthe the last election to carry a bond issue of to build a court house in their town hoping thereby to prevent the removal of the seat of county gov government The county officials durIng the campaign afterward pledged them themselves selves selve to use of this money for forthe forthe the purpose stated This aroused the suspicion of the people for they said Why did they want the larger amount if was sufficient The proposition was de defeated Accommodations Are Poor Fremont county occupies small mall lurn lum lumber her ber shacks for its offices which is a reproach to any county containIng over oyer population and is as rich as this county which leads the state in these respects But the periodical over the county seat removal has prevented this in the past Sugar City of course has a number of wealthy capitalists interested in that town and it Is believed they will offer a site and sufficIent money to Induce the people to vote to remove the coun county county ty seat to that enterprising burg Some suggest If this be done the peo people pie ought to take the matter into court courton on the ground that it is wholesale bribery by purchasing the peoples franchise Sugar City Is also making an effort to have the proposed branch road of the Oregon Short Line to Teton Basin take off from that town There is n nOw w a spur beet road running west from this place seven or eight miles Another matter that figures in the above proposition is the dIvision of or creation of a new county out of the north part of ingham and the south I j f T e Thor en 51 4 i Senan PEg C 6 S I i 1 Pu i V N i iL c e eN rant 7 4 L y yount N I I IU Li U co v P 7 Prospect I I Ako s Z r 1 head waitress looked after every wish of the During the progress progress ress of the feast Bishop George A Cordon presIdent of the club pre presided presided sided over the tables as toast master and the following gentlemen responded to toasts J W Jones editor of the Rigby Star The Future M T Peck Our Old Cabin Home George GeorgeE E Hill HilI jr Our New Railroads C CW Cw W Poole Keep Your Eye on RIgby Eli McEntire of Rexburg talked on his thriving town G W cashier of the First Na National National bank of St Antho Anthony y responded to the toast Why Is St Anthony so Modest F P Roberts talked on Local Lights promising us electric lights in the near future A Rexburg orchestra and several vocal vocalists vocalists and Instrumentalists delighted the audience with their music After the banquet which took place on the large stage those present re repaired repaired paired to the main floor and indulged in the festive dance to the great en enjoyment enjoyment of all present The hall haIl was beautifully decorated in the clubs and white Everybody In town is wearing the buttons recently gotten out by the club which has a pIcture of a wheel with the following words thereon Rigby the Hub Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel Push The club has also recently had made a map showing s central in this valley with some six sixteen sixteen teen towns surrounding it hence the characterization Rigby the Hub This map is being printed on the back backof of all letter heads and envelopes used by the club members business men and people of these parts The boom the club is producing in behalf of Rigby is certaInly commendable and cannot help but be a groat factor in inthe inthe the growth and development of an anI vicinity C County Seat Fight Delegations of citizens have recently been bee in Rigby interviewing the lead as to how they proposed to toUne toline line Une up on the fight already precipitated precipitated to remove the county seat from St Anthony tf to either Sugar City or Both these placer are t lug g to possess this long coveted Rexburg citizens feel they are entitled to it by reason of beIng the largest and the pioneer town in the county while Sugar City inhabitants which Is large largel l I dominated by the sugar factory people say they have invested m more le lewan wan than in the erection of their factory branch railroads town im etc ete and therefore they should receive some consideration It appe appears rs that Rigby and the tributary country In this part of Fremont county hold the balance of power for which whichever ever way they vote the proposition will Ill doubtless go hence these solid soUci touR tous interviews The Rigby people say ft t is too early yet et to manifest their feelings They wo would ld prefer to wait and see what shape the fight assumes later on between those who will have to do the real scrapping and then throw their influence where It will do doffie dohe he most mos good Both Rexburg and Sugar CIty have flied filed notice with the aUthorities stating they will at to remove the county seat as astEd Jated tEd The great battle over this J 1 l fu has been fought over two or three times heretofore will oc oct I t ern em part of Fremont counties which Idaho Falls is pushing with a vIew of having that town made the county seat of the new county Some claim that the upper part of the county would be willing to give the southern part of Fremont county to Idaho Falls if that Would help them out in return This would it is claimed rid the St StA StAnthony A Anthony thony end of the county from those most likely to vote for Rexburg as the county seat and thus so weaken the latter town that they could never hope to win in such a fight Rigby and vicinity seems seems to be the bone of contention Idaho Falls b alls wants the support of Fremont Premont legisla legislator legislators tors tor in the next legislature to vote for fora n a new county The beginning of this I fight so early in the season means that a battle royal will wUl be fOUght out outon outon on this removal ot of the county seat of Fremont Premont county and the creating of a new county from this and Bing Bingham Bingham ham counties during this falls faUs cam cain campaign The opening guns have been fired and war declared With new transcontinental railroads building down the South Fork of the Snake river toward Rigby from Wyo Wyoming Wyoming ming this town cannot be blamed for having ambitions similar to the other towns ot of the valley AU All ot of citizens have their shoulders to the wheel el and are pushing for their own locality any they claim they will be heard from when the fight commences They occupy the position of the bal balance balance ance wheel in this controversy We have more snow in this valley now than any of the oldest settlers recollect at any previous time during March It is believed Snake rIver will be higher this season than for many years Everybody will have an abundance of Irrigating water |