The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-03-12
D. F. KELLER HEARD FROM.


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ID. f. KELLER HEARD FROM.
D. F. Keller well known in this
locality until recent years, writes
from his home in Montana and de-
scribes a trip last June that may be
Of interest.
Livingston, Montana,
Feb. %, 1907.
My Dear Byrd:
Enclosed find money order for 50,
being for paper for another year.
1t seems to me that people over in
Riverside should speak once in a
while. ! never see anything from
that point in paper.
/ believe it would be Interesting
to some of the old timers to remind
them of things that happened twenty
years ago. Yourself and brother,
when little, coming with your mother
to our old log schoolhouse across
from Laliberty homestead, speaking
kind words to us all, old and young.
believe also had something to say
about naming the different roads at
that time, the more familiar ones be-
ing the ones travelled by myself in
hauling cedar wood. / shall never
forget it. Rush to cedars at day
light 10 or Is miles, rush back to
town and sell same for SIS or more.
never did sell a load of cedar for
less than So. I could never be cut
In prices. can see now in my
minds eye some people who wanted
to give me less. I remember once
laid around Blackfoot all day to
sell load Of wood for four dollars
and as turned around Curtis come
to take 1t home, a certain man
stopped me and showed three big
silver dollars and said: "Keeler,
take that wood over to my back
yard. My answer, no sir, not for SO.
| kept on going towards the west,
crossed the bridge, where I met Mr.
Bunting, he he stopped and asked
where | was going My answer was
home. / cannot get my price and
don't propose to work for nothing
What is your price," Four dollars
Take that back to town, dump in
my yard, go to store and get your
money" This, I believe was one of
the happiest moments of my life.
After doing SO and receiving the big
81 lost another one-half hour in
looking UP the fellow with the So
to show him my big four. l don
believe he has ever spoken to me
since. Well, going back to the diff
ferent streets, we had Lava avenue,
River street, Mudville Lane and the
cross roads, at this point, is where
we all met and filled our pipes and
had little gossip, cigarettes at that
time was not known in that part of
the country, as years rolled by, /
noticed great changes, people were
awful poor at that time. On going
home last year I shall never forget
my feeling as | neared Idaho Falls
coming south, seeing a few fruit
trees in bloom, creeping sensation
of JOY went through me as I came
nearer to Blackfoot, could not keep
quiet. / wanted to tell everyone |
lived at Blackfoot or five miles |
across the river at Riverside. On
getting home my first thought was
to see how our three-year-o looked
He looked pretty good. Myself and |
Mr.. Walker, neighbor hooked him
up to his long shaft cart and broke
him to drive. When ready to return
to Livingston, instead of coming by
the cars, hooked up the colt to new
cart, new harness, new whip, bun
die of bedding, a pup four weeks old |
and a rifle, box of cartridges and |
matches and ten days rations, and I
started north on trip / shall never
forget, first day out, stopped at