The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-28
Program for the Fourth

The American Legion of Bingham
county will be host to the people on
the Fourth of July, and will manage
the celebration turnout. All the
people of the county are invited and
urged to participate in this event,
and in addition to delegations from
points, Pocatello will send up good
many people.
The street parade will be at ten
in the morning and the sports and
fireworks at the Fair Grounds in the
afternoon and evening.
The dairy exhibit sent in by the
Oregon Short Line and the Wiscon-
sin dairymen will be on special
train standing on the siding in the
center of town at sunrise in the
morning and will remain until ten
o'clock a. M, when it will leave for
especially the members of the boys
and girls clubs and all young people
expecting to engage in such work,
are urged to come early and see this
exhibit and talk with the men in
charge They are mostly Wisconsin
men and experts in dairy stock, and
of the county and learn something Of
their plans as well as to show the
different kinds of purebred animals
and explain how to select good ami
mails, how to care for them and how
to make them profitable.
The parade promises to be thel
greatest pageant ever put on in
Blackfoot, the various commercial
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promised to put in floats and march
ing units. The patriotic address
will be at the grand stand in the fair
grounds, and after dinner come the
ball game, the foot races, the novelty
races, the Indian races, and in the
evening a splendid display of fire.
works the most modern and beauti-
full. Chemistry has been making
great strides in recent years and the
new creations in fireworks resulting
from it are marvellous.
All these things are free, the ex-
pense being paid by the business
houses, and the work being done by
the American Legion and the various
organizations that have responded to
the call to make this the banner
celebration of recent years. In these
and had less amusementS and recrea-
ton than usual, the American Legion
and the Blackfoot business men
have determined that 1t shall be
made up for as much as possible by
the completeness of the celebration.
People who bring basket dinners
will find ample room in the fair
ground and the city park, to spread
at witt irI
friends. Everybody making such
use of the grounds is requested not
to leave scraps or waste of any kind
meal is served, but to replace such
things in their baskets and leave
the grounds as neat as may be.
and people will add to the comfort
and convenience Of all, by not vast
ing the water on the grounds and
thus making muddy spots and soft
ening the ground so that grass will
be easily trodden out.
The use of fireworks, crackers and
other noisy, dangerous means Of
merrymaking is forbidden in the
crowds and where there is anythingl
that may burn easily Those Who'll
out where they will not disturb
others and where there is nothingl
to burn and no autos.
The usual precautions about care
full driving, both on the roads and
this one day of the year that is given
Thoughtful to protect others, and not
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driving Is done on the roads,
Of the driver II possible and enter
the sheriff's Office, phone SOB, and
cepting them as promptly as pos
5ible.
Articles lost and found should be
delivered or reported at Legion head
quarters at the secretary's office by
to the fair grounds. Children should
be shown the place and instructed
that IL they get lost from COM
panions, they should go there and
wait, and those hunting for lost ones
should report there often. Notes or
can be left there by those
body who may call there.
Anyone receiving injuries should
90 to headquarters for first aid or
'or messenger service IL physician
IS needed Children who receive
slight injuries, cuts, burns or bruises,
even tho they do not seem serious
should go at once to headquarters
and apply for first aid service and !
,hus make sure that no further !
harm follows from neglect. The
Legion men and boy scouts will
handle all those things and there
will be no charge for it any more
han if it was regular army oper-
atoms. ~
Be a guest of the Legion for
lay. adv 25-26 :
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