The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-03-08
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one dog at least.
Hotel Sign: s. II. O.

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one dog at least.
Hotel Sign: S. II. O.
Telephone kept ringing all even
ing. DO you know where somebod
can get a room? Hotel crowded
Have to find place for a few more.
Last one | knew about was fillet
yesterday" "All right, goodbye.
The conversation was monotonousl.
| regular.
Lots of local color. Heard abou
one old codger who came down from
the hills with a string of dogs-jus
dogs, unframed, hopeless. Expected
to run in the race. Got kidded 81
much he took his sled-to the carpen
ter for repairs and asked him to hole
1t until after the race. Then sale
in answer to those who demanded
to know why he hadn't entered, thai
he couldn't go in unless the sled was
finished.
Nighttime. Prettier bedroom out
fit than I have. Hardwood floors
Walnut bed with cane inserts. Won
derful sleeping air. Just the same
not much chance to sleep Crowds
of serenaders, moonshine variety,
parading the streets. Dogs bowling
all night General hubbub. Too
much excitement to sleep. Fell into
fitful slumber about gray dawn and
slept until o'clock.
Breakfast a la Backwoods =,
Breakfast conversation all about
the man who rented the room but
didn't come home all night. Every
body asked why. Everybody knew
why. Oranges, pulverized sugar,
electric toaster = nothing back
woodsy about breakfast. But out
the window one could see the crowds
going by. Men and dogs, dogs and
men.
A little girl hurrying after the
morning milk, sliding along in the
crisp freezing air, hands bare, muff
tucked under her arm, hair tucked
up under stocking cap.
Spent half the morning dressing
for the race I had high boots ar
hiking outfit, but l spilled my wooden
socks back in the grip when | saw
he other girls putting on silk stock
ngs, high-heeled pumps and that
sort of thing.
Down town in the big sled. Crowds |
already very thick. Bunch of travel |
ng men in straw hats and purple |
les just ending an all-night carousal.
Betting stands all along the street.
announcing the odds.
3allyhooers yelling, Put a dollar on
our favorite driver. Three to one
N Tud Kent. Think of it."
Main Street "Verboten''
Main street wired off. Had to
uck under the wires every time you
yanted to cross. Wires were lined
nth people hours before the race.
Dung folks clamboring on top of the
One building carried the name of
I. G. Moore, real estate" and re-
linded me was in the home terri
Try of Idaho's governor.
Big placards in all the stores said,
Welcome. Come in and get warm"
iscovered the warmth available was =
eternal and internal.
Hot dog stands. Colorful costumes
,miniscent of rodeos, checked !
oolen shirts and riding breeches
ong side women dressed in the very
test in knickerbockers, silk-wool
use and oxfords. Eskimo customes,
ilored suits, ordinary everyday .
othes, a regular sartorial hodge +
'dge. 7
Chicken dinner at the Utility +
lb'-served like church dinner +,
what was formerly a pool hall.
ing, long tables running the length :.
the building. AS soon as you sat
wn someone appeared from no Il
lere and put before you plate
ed with creamed chicken and
lshed potatoes and asked you what ia
Id of pie you wanted. You wanted
non. Lemon, all out. You took :.
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Touch of Frontier Life n
Across the table a lumberman O.
IN the tall timber in mackinaw M
l stubby beard, eating with his va
lie. Fur cap on the wall behind is
Town characters doing tricks after in
ner. Togo Manning's snowshoe ar
ice. Four moving picture photog- re
hers and squad of minor pho OF
raphers shooting them fr' fir,
Band playing HLa Paloma, "s"Stars We
Stripes Forever" Under the
lble Eagle" fitfully. Dancing in no
streets, noon to 1 eo'clock. :. pr
hen the races, starting with the wi
events, funniest of all. Each do
had dog and a sled. Used them Iik
go to school, to carry mothers yo
ceries. Any kind of dog, no diff me-
nee. A dozen kid teams to a va
}. One-dog teams that would COZ
to fight each other and roll the ms
|, off the sleds. One youngster SO
ry at his dog he, bawled. Two ~
IFS jumped off sleds and raced on s Sb.
ad, disguised. n 81,
Dogs, AL sizes ana Anus del
ig race at 2 O'Clock. Teams wo
ted four minutes apart. Dogs bui