The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-07-21
BIG CELEBRATION
ON SELLERS CREEK
Pioneer Day Will Be
Observed in Real
Pioneer Style

All the Willow creek country is to
assemble on Monday the twenty-fifth
at James Christensen ranch on Sell
lers creek thirty-fOur miles from
Blackfoot for a picnic and jolly good
time, making day Of it. 1t is up in
the stock country, where the cowboy
is king and the stockmen and rough
riders will be there with the horses
that jump high and light hard.
There will be boating on the reser-
voir and fun among the pines and
the quaking aspen trees.
People in the valley, who want to
see the upper valley and get the
breath of the range with its sod and
brush, a Whit Of the breezes from
the creeks and boys and beaver dams
with water cress and peppermint and
wild Strawberries hiding in the high
slopes, should get the jitney in good
order with clean spark plugs and
pulling power up to normal and
make a day of it. Take plenty of
muc-a-muc in your baskets, go in by
one road and out by the other and
make great circuit and be glad.
Everybody up there is going to be
glad to see you and will be glad you
were at the seeing.
Go in via Wolverine If you like and
come out via the road leading over
the ridge to Ammon or idaho Falls.
The ride thru the canyon will be
treat, the grades will be little
sleeper as you near the summit, and
if you have Ford or one with equal
pulling power you may have to do
little pushing on two or three of the
steepest grades, but you will get up
all right because everybody gets up
that has their car in good working
condition and somebody to jump out
and push in pinch. If you go in by
the other road and come back via
Wolverine the climbing will not be
quite so steep. No matter which way
you go, take plenty Of time to climb
the hills. Don't gI( in hurry and
heat your engine. Stop and put in
cool water at an occasional creek
crossing while the folks enjoy the
scenery, keep the old machine cool
and be content to plug along on low
gear till you get on top, and then
keep it in low gear or intermediate
on all the steep places coming down.
Dn't try to hold it with your brakes
and have them hot and wearing out
unnecessarily. You can control your
car beautifully going down if you
will only set 1t in low and take plenty
of time. That enables the folks to
see the scenery and that is what you
60 for and not to lose control of the
car and ditch them.
When Mr.. Christensen was county
commissioner he built road over
the summit in response to a big
popular demand for a short cut to
Willow creek SO people could get
thru by short cut to trade in the
valley and we want you to go over
his road and see what he built. 1t is
your road and your money is paying
for it and it is time for everybody
that can go to do so and pass their
own judgment on the work. While
you are over there in the highlands
pick out summer home for your
self. You can go via the Blackfoot
reservoir If you wish and come home
via the Lincoln creek summit or the
Putnam summit and down Ross
Fork to FIT. Hall. The muddy places
are pretty well dried out and the
dusty places are not yet so dusty as
they are going to be, so this is just
about the best part Of the season to
go up and get the breath of the stock
country. 5S-2