The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-02
A FUNNY RESCUE

Speaking of life preservers, and
coming to the rescue, and one thing
and another, a funny thing happened
down at Twin Falls when it was a
village. A good many funny things
happened, but this one that the story
tells about was just little different
II it hadn't been different we should
have told you long ago, and If we
keep it many years longer it is liable
to spoil.
You know Twin Falls was founded
by bunch of boosters, and it took
boosting to keep it from collapsing.
Everybody was supposed to know
everybody else and to make the best
of every bad situation and be cheer
full about it Don't forget that line,
Everybody was supposed to make
the best of every bad situation and
be cheerful about it,
The biggest boosters on the tract,
the men who were really big in every
way, were running about in khaki
suits and wearing big clumsy boots.
A man like Major Reed, for instance,
who was everybody's friend and who
had only to meet you once and re-
ceive a nod, to be your friend and
comrade ever after, and to help you
in every way he could. Well, we'll
drop Major Reed for the present!
Out there on those great plains,
the wind sometimes blew. Indeed
it seemed sometimes that 1t seldom
let up. Sand flew and dust covered
everything. If anything was stand
ing around it blew over. When the
sage was cleared off and the ground
plowed, it made matters worse.
Enough of that!
Not many adventures came to
town." yet everybody was expected
to accept things as an adventure.
Men and women who never saw each
other before, would nod and 60 to
talking and tell each other who they
were and where they were from, and
then go on discussing the local prob
lens as if they had always known
each other and expected always to
be neighbors. Pals already!
Now and then some individual
would come to town Sand not mix
much. They would be shocked al
being talked to by a person who had
not been formally introduced by
someone who had known them both
since grandfather courted grand
mother. They usually went out on
the next stage or soon. One such
remained. She was stenographer
She had position. She was un-
married, but old enough. Exit old
maid!
Forgot to mention that there was
no sewer system at Twin Falls when
the site was discovered. Neiher was
there any toilet attached. OF course
there were large sage bushes, but
they were insufficient and passing
People had to build. They did build
here and there, little structures that
required no blueprints, but each one
had a door. 'Nuff sed!
| Out at Cape Nome when 10000
people were dumped on a smooth
barren beach and the feet of steam.
ers vanished on the horizon, an old
man drove four long stakes
stretched burlap around it, arranged
a seat, and went to selling admission
tickets made from shoe box. II
paid SO we'll he kept right on erect.
ing other buildings like it and cut.
ting other shoe boxes into admission
tickets. There were from 10000 tC
$1,000 people coming and going all
summer, and in the fall he came
back to civilization with all the
money he wanted. People handed
it to him.
| Rut RI got hack IN Twin Falls
one day the wind blew, and in an
unusually hard gust, toilet Blew
over. A slight screech told that it
was occupied at the moment. 1t
was a west wind, and the door was
on the east. The party inside had