The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-09-12
FESTIVAL DRAWS
LARGE GATHERING
Day Opened With Fine
Parade of Service
Men and Floats
ROUNDUP SPORTS

homecoming opened With monster
parade made up of service men
marching, veterans of other wars,
and the war mothers carried in autos,
followed by munition trucks to the
number OF half dozen, and mer-
chants floats in long procession.
The men in the marching column
made an inspiring spectacle, the
more appreciated because for two
years people in this county have read
and heard of the stream of khahi-
clad men" being viewed by the
people of other cities and foreign
lands, but no such scene has been
available here till this occasion. And
yet, with fine body, of our men
moving noiselessly thru the packed
streets, people did not cheer nor even
applaud. 1t was not any mark of
lack OF appreciation, but rather,
mark of sincerity and of .captivation
coupled with the crudeness that goes
with so many of our public demon
strations. 1t was said last year when
the town turned out to see the men
off to war that it was too solemn an
occasion for sheers or applause, and
that perhaps that was the reason
there was little or none. But on the
occasion of the celebration of their
homecoming, the apologists for the
have to admit that there
is something crude as we'll as sincere
in the expression or lack of express
sion of crowds in Blackfoot lined up
to witness action by somebody else.
The ammunition trucks mentioned
were sent by the government to
Boise for the use of the state, and
six OF them were sent ITO Bingham
county be remodeled and used for
for road work. They
were not labeled, and but few in the
crowds knew that they were in a
sense, trophies of war, not booty
AIKEN from the enemy, but our own
make distributed for use in the pur.
suits of peace.
Floats representing the Red Cross,
hronged with little children robed
n white and Red Cross nurse, Miss
Vera Bentley; pure white float pre-
,ared by the local American Legion,
lonoring the boys of our county who
,aid the supreme sacrifice either in
,attle or at training camps, carried
wenty golden stars, each one for a
departed comrade and in the back
round bore the scripture, Greater
love Hath No Man Than This"
n the foreground stood the goddess
f Lierty, Miss Ora Rogers, guarded
y a soldier, Harry Clark and a
ailor, Hogan Boice; the farm
ureau car with trailer
Daded with farm products. Nc
'lellan's paint, shop on wheels;
score or more of boy scouts
n an ammunition truck labeled
Americans future; help us grow"
he Blackfoot Harness sshop with the
My team and harness drawing hay
ack upon' which. was little pony
nd rig, tagged, 1--WE are needed
et," were some of the conspicuous
oats among the many that were
eautiful and appropriate.
The Indian Parade
The Indian section of the parade
,llowed the rest, and was probably
le most beautiful one they ever put
n in Blackfoot. There were thirty
adams in native costume, brilliantly
ouCChcu Will lcdJHSTS anu D6dQ6
nd robes ornamented with elk-teeth.
ONE of the women wore garments
ecked with hundreds Of dollars
orth of elk-teeth, and others wore
'naments made of shells that were
Some of them had their
ipooses on beautifully ornamented
)ards fastened to the horns ftheir
lddles. 1t was the most imposing
ene ever witnessed here of the
ally native people in native cos
ines created from natures re-
'urces, and the Whole population ia
stly proud of its Indian friends.
The program at the court house
as presided over by Senator w. A.
be, with addresses by Senator L.
Thomas, Charles Harris, c. M.
ardine, and formersattorney general
H. Peterson, with music by Mrs.
H. Dygert, Mr.. Jackson, the
!artette and the audience filled the
ne till 1890.
The assemblage at the fairgrounds
IS the largest ever gathered there
cepting the day when Roosevelt
oke in 1912. People coming out
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