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Show 'POTATO BREAKFAST' IS A HUGE SUCCESS Held in Celebration of Obtaining Ob-taining Beet Sugar Factory Fac-tory for Twin Falls. Special to The Tribune. TWJ.V FALLS, Idaho. Jan. 22. Two hundred and three, representative men from all over the Twin Falls tract, from as far north as Jerome and as far east as Burlev, attended the annual "Potato "Po-tato Breakfast'-' of the Twin Falls Commercial Com-mercial club last night. The affair was in the nature of a celebration over the coming of a large beet fuigar faetnrv to Twin Falls and of the general splendid prosperity of southern south-ern Idaho. The elaborate banquet, held in the Hotel JRogerson, opened at 9 o'clock in the evening and continued past midnight. Former Senator M. J. Sweelev acted as master of ceremonies. Fred (,'. Taylor, secretary of the Amal- . pa mated Sugar company, was principal speaker, giving a brief history of the beet sugar industry and its' achievements. achieve-ments. T ! e w a rm 1 y ' praised t h e T w i n Falls l 'oniineryinl cdub for its efforts in the campaign for securing thp factory fac-tory and rcmi nded thp r.-im Tiers that the'-y started the campaign in August, 10 V.i. and that by October, 1916, 'they would sec in operation in Twin Falls one of the ta rgest factories in tho northwest. north-west. After reviewing the record of development devel-opment since 1j47, when a (ferman scientist sci-entist fir-1 discovered that a beet carried car-ried a sugar in its juice ' ' of exact Iv the same properties as that of cane.'" Scorer nrv Taylor showed how- rulers of Kurope had given a;sisfauce to the infant in-fant industry. He. told of the founding of the first factories iu America in JS70 and the renewal of interest in the '!pi. Socrernrv Taylor called attention to the fact rhat Idaho nnw ranks fifth in starts i:i the production of beet sugar. su-gar. He showod that Idaho last year produced 370. nOo tons of beets, from which about 'J'J.'.'OO bags of sugar were made. However, the sugar companv official called attention to the fact that while 1 Ftaii cor.swir.rs 337,000 bags of sugar each year and Criii.nuo hags of thi? is home-made, Idaho ha practicallv reversed re-versed this percentage and use onlv Tfi.nOu bag of home-made sugar out of ;pjn,taiii lings cunsunied. In e.xi'iaiaing the reason for this sit uation, he said it was not because Utah was more loyal to its factories than Idaho, but that publicity campaigns in Utah had caused prejudices to be thrown aside, dissipating the old idea that beet sugar is inferior to cane. Excellent toasts were given by R. E. Shepherd of Jerome, Superintendent Hal G-. Blue and C. M. Booth. Music and clever "grilling" were special features fea-tures of entertainment. |