The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-25

up to say Keep off the grass" Tha
was all right in the capitol grounds
but not on base ball diamond or
foot ball field. He had gone GU
among the people of his community
and consulted them as to buying the
fair grounds for the use of the whole
J county and he had not said anythine
to them about flowers and grass and
keeping off the grass and sitting
back and looking at it, He had told
them it was for everybody to use
1t was to be place of sports, a
place to let 'em buck; a place for
rough and tumble. He was not in
favor of keeping it in such condition
that it might hurt the grounds to
do as you pleased on them.
Jim Boyle was for a place for
sports right now while we are yet
alive and wanting sports and games.
He was not for bikes and broken
legs and unnecessary accidents.
Flowers were all right at the front
fence, but a good smooth, hard play
ground was needed. Most of these
speakers were vigorously applauded.
Nearly everybody in the house
| took crack at the matter and they
were for good old-fashioned sports.
Ira Taylor suggested the heavy ex-
pense of building a siphon under the
race track to conduct the water thru
for irrigation, and said it would fake
two or three years to get the ground
settled hard about the siphoY so it
would not be springy and different
from the rest of the race course.
When everybody else had spoken,
Chairman Kennedy asked Trego if he
had anything to add to what he had
already said on the subject and Trego
got up and said he just wanted to
make Acknowledgement of his oval
luping' and to say that he was now
in favor of bare ground. The house
applauded these remarks noisily
and there were EXPLANATIONS of
Good sport!' and Hell do"
Airplane Landing Field
A communication was read show
ing that the war department at
Sacramento asks about getting
landing field at Blackfoot for air
planes, and a committee of Byrd
Trego and Ted Enlow were appointed
to examine the fields near Blackfoot
to see if one could be found free from
bikes for length of 1900 feet and
500 feet wide, the long way to be in
the direction of the prevailing winds.
Deep Rotary Flowing
Byrd Trego PASSED some literature
aroNnd showing some of the wonders
of Moon valley, the new proposed ma
tional park in the lavabeds between
Blackfoot and Haley and also passed
out pictures of a new invention, a
rotary pillow that pulverizes the
ground two feet deep in belt fifteen
feet wide and has seeder attach
ment so that field can be plowed, har-
rowed and seeded all at one sweep
across the tract and leave it all in
perfect condition and not footprint
nor hoof mark on it. Forty acres
! day can be treated with one ma
chine and the inventor claims it costs
ess than plaws, tractors, horses, har-
'ows and seeders Of the type that are
)eing used now, and that it gets
greater yield due to the perfect seed
Jed, conservation of moisture and it
,eing all done in a moment and no !
'hance for evaporation of moisture
'etween blowing and narrowing and
eeding. He had letter from the
inventor inviting banks and Com
nercial clubs to send representatives
0 demonstration to be held soon at
IAN Jose, California.
The club decided that it could not
end anyone for the demonstration,
ut authorized the secretary to write
0 the inventor asking him to ship
machine to Blackfoot for a demon
tration for the people of the Snake
liver valley and the club will do all
4 its power to get the people of this
alley to attend the demonstration.
Park to PARK Highway
Delegates were selected to attend
re park-to-park highway meeting at
laho Falls the twenty-eighth of
pril to do some planning and to
elect delegates for the tri-state
leeting to be held at Salt Lake City
June. Il. M. Kennedy, P. GIL
ohnston and w. F. Bergman were
elected.
Some Booster Folders
A committee was appointed some
me ago to prepare material for
sscriptive folder to be used in an
vering inquiries as to what kind of
place BlackfOOt is and what kind
q country surrounds it, and this
lder material was read and ap-
owed and ordered printed for use.
Mail Order Man
C. S. Gimmell, hailing from Salt
AXE City, asked for thirty minutes
talk to the meeting earlier in the
ening on the subject of trading out
town or out of your own commun-
7, and the damages It does to a COM