The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-06-17
THIRTEENTH OF JUNE
The Joyous Anniversary of the Birth
of a Powerful Organ
ization.

ization.
Report Of Interesting Contests
The Belt Mountain Miners Union
Celebrates.
Despite the unpleasant weather of
last Tuesday the Miners Union celebra-
ton was II success. The committees
had left nothing undone that would i'm
prove the program and an almost lavish
hand had been used in distributing
prizes in the different contests. At
10:3O the parade was ordered into line
end the march and counter march of
Main street was made, terminating at
the Paske hall where the speaking was
arranged to take place. The procession
marched in order as follows:
Neihart Cornet Band.
Belt Mountain Miners union.
knights of Labor.
The parade was attended with all the
unpleasantness of a driving storm
Once at the hall the chairman, President
Bernier, entered the stand, and introduce
ed the speakers of the day-William A.
Wilson, Esq, John Gieske and and M
E. Lennon, each of whom spoke upon
issues with which unions have to deal
At the conclusion of each speech the
Neihart Cornet band gave an appropriate
and we'll rendered selection.
After dinner the procession was form.
ed as before and the march was con.
Quoted to the field of sports, the GROUND
occupied by the Neihart Rod and Cur
club. Here a suitable and commodious
structure, like an amphi-theatre hat
been erected capable of seating 20(
people in such a way that all gould OBJ
tain a good view of the drilling match
A band stand had also been built. The
drilling match lasted aboutan hour
! with results as follows:
CONTESTANTS. line INCHES
Glen Owen Florence. 81 fl,
Andrew Ray
| John Blewett .,
Fred Cow '""' S'i-''
5 5asn MsRsy no"''o". 81 81
Charles Murch Moultou. 90 81,
| Charles Blake
The rock was Pinto granite, the hard
| est to be found in this district. TIN
third team mentioned was so unfortun.
ate as to break two drills and was thu
handicapped throughout the contest.
A foot race was run by boys under IL
in which John Sweeney took first priz
and George Tierney second.
H. M. Wilson, James Kyle and Jane
Cleary competed in the fat mans race
Three times the cruel judges made Will
son and Cleary run to break a tie. The,
finally divided the money.
A barrel of fun was the tug-of-war
Two teams were organized by miner
from the Gait and Moulton. William
Cragg as captain who is al old tug-of
war mar organized the Gait force as fol
lows: Anderson, PAUL, Kennedy, Garner
Link, Cow, D. Sullivan, T. Sullivan
Owen and P. Rush. The Moulton team
headed by Jack Mullen was manned a
follows: Dwight, T~egtmeyer, Mac
Master, Beaton, Eckley, Mcdonald
Quirk, Scott, Ray and Hughes. Tn
Gait took the prize in two contests.
A lively shooting match took place il
the afternoon, in which the contestant
showed good craftsmanship. out of
possible fifty the score of the contestant
stands as follows:
P. MCGOWAN.
George Gum ....... A!
Robert Perry
J. w. Howard. ...3
F. H. Lewis. q
G. MCGOWAN. 81
J. B. Phelps. 81
F. E. Sprague. %
H. j. Wackerlin q
G. A.. Mclean. 2
The first four took prizes in their re
spective orders.
Great was the dance at night, whicI
was led out by a grand march from tn
Neihart Cornet band. About $50 COUP
les were present and the fun lasted al
night. An elegant supper was served a
the Hotel Judge which showed our friend
William Tierney and T. J. Curran t
have paramount ability in their particu
lar line.
Miss Mollie Stark received the highes
number of votes as the most popula
young lady and was awarded the watcl