The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-28

Keep off of the bank. Release the
clutch. Give it more juice. Pour
the juice to it. Keep 'er a going
Put on the brake. Hold it. Keep II
going"
Some AcrObatic Feats
When it was near the top where
the grade was not so steep it was
turned around to run it head first
again. Chairman Bond sat at the
steering gear and fumbled with the
levers. He had never driven a Ford
and felt a touch of curiosity about it.
The car was on a wedge of a bluff
between two convenient jumping-off
places with a smooth road leading
out on top of the table land. Some
body cranked the thing and Mr.. Bond
turned on the juice and started up
the road. All went we'll for a few
rods till there was a turn to be made
and the car at first failed to turn and
then jumped out of the road. Bond
turned it back and it jumped toward
the opposite brink. Bond got busy
trying to regulate the course of the
car and accidently turned on a full
blow of gas Editor Trego, who was
in the car, tried to cut off the gas
but was thrown out by the bucking.
He got aboard again enough to get
his hand on the brake and choke it
before it reached either of the two
cliffs it was jumping for. Mr.. Bond,
seeing that the engine was killed.
jumped off saying, What kind of a
crazy galute have you got here?" The
ment and began Investigating the
steering gear, and found a certain
rod had been jammed till it failed to
control. They got a handspike and
took the kink out of the rod and
apologized to the driver who couldn't
keep it in the road running up the
grade backwards. In the language
of the politicians, "the drivers stock
rose,' for who could steer a car
backwards up a dugway with a Grip
pld steering gear unless he could
out-tumble the tumble bug!
Much Territory, Few Families
Now folks, we have been speaking
of the territory of the highlanders.
1t is unique and full of things that
are different. Full of d~esolation and
wealth; full of possibilities and puz-
zles. Scored with deep ugly canyons
teeming with wonders and beauty if
you can read it. II you could take
the state of Rhode Island and set it
down on the highlands, there would
be room for it all, and there would
still be 600 square miles of border.
It has 1O4 homes in it that we know
about, and according to what infor-
nation WE could pick up on the trip
there's another 1O4 that we don't
know much about. We have figured
it out in a general way and find that
If an equal division was made of the
territory it would. give yer 8,000l
acres to each family, or about ID
square miles. According to advices
from the government experimental
farm at Aberdeen that is more than
they can farm properly.
Mail Once a Month
Some Of the folks go 80 miles for
their mail and would appreciate hay-1
ing rural delivery. Sometimes they
don't get their mail for a month, and
you needn't feel miffed If you write
to them and don't get a prompt reply.
A neighbor will come over the trail
some day and leave their letters with
some other neighbor who lives with
in six miles of your friend, and then
some time when he is down that way
be will drop in and ask how that big
battle came out at Verdun, and they
will tell him it hasn't come out. At
the same time they will hand him
letter and he will s%crutiniZe the
post mark to see if it was mailed this
season.
An Impression or Two
One little thing impressed us up
in the highlands. Yes tive Of them.
One was the need for a saddlehorse
and the other was the pluck and hero
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