Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-09-29
BARBECUE DINNER
A SATURDAY FEATURE
Red Letter Sales Celebra ton
Draws a Crowd and Is a
Success.

ed by the business men OF Grants
Pass, and which opened this Thursday
and continues for the remainder OF
the week, has every indication of be.
ing among the biggest events ever held
in Grants Pass, and If Jupiter Pluvius
shuts off on his sky irrigatin for TO.
morrow the events will yet be an affair
of which the city may we'll be proud.
The rain which started in Sunday and
has continued with more or less fire..
quency for the week has prevented
the large attendance that otherwise
would have come to the city from all
sections Of Suothern Oregon.
A series Of amusement features
were arranged for each day and not.
withstanding the inclement weather
the events for Thursday and Friday
were carried out as will be those Of
Saturday.
The sports Of Thursday opened at 10
O'Clock with quarter mile running
race, three horses entering. The start
was made in front Of the Courier
office, G street, finishing near the pine
needle factory. After some jockeying
the horses were off and spirited race
ensued in which 10 Russell's horse
won. Turrin second and TN. Par.
ker third.
The afternoon fun started off with
the creased pig, which had been
haved and its body annointed with
liberal quantities Of lard. The pig
was given 30 foot start and off they
went. The pig did some stunts at
lodging and finally led noisy chase
toward tho pine needle factory. Sew
real people had their hands on the
porker but it WAS finally captured
by ]. r. Wells, who fell ON the pig
and "suri ouDded" it. Wells prefer.
red coin to the ownership Of the pig
so it was purchased and will be liber-
ated again Saturday, remaining the
property of the person who captures it.
The creased POLE kept the crowd in
good humor for half an hour or more
while the small boys made frantic
attempts to gain the prize for reaching
the top. A NUMBER Of the boys were
given a start of several feet but as
con as the support was removed they
i'm mmediatelv descended Finally
20 ung Kenneth Barkley reached the
top and was awarded the $3.50 prize.
This was increased to So. 80 by the sd.
dition of nickles and dimes from the
bystanders.
The ball game between the business
and professional men was source OF
great entertainment to the bystanders
and was enjoyed to extent by the
players themselves, even though they
knew their over exeited muscles must
pay the penalty on the morrow The
game was exciting at times but too
much one-sided, the professional men
playing like professionals from the
start. The score stood 30 to in favor
of tie professional men.
Thursdays program closed with
concert by band made up of former
members of the Grants Pass Cornet
Band. The boys, though not in regu-
lar practice, played with snap and
vigor and their selections were greatly
enjoyed by the large crowd Which
gathered on Sixth street, where the
concert was given.
The track events commenced the por-
gram Friday and we're very interest.
ing. The winners were as follows:
100 yard dash, Albert Coe; 440 yard
dash, John Bratton 16-mile run, Al.
bert Coe running broad jump, John
Bratton M feet; high jump, +. c.
Palmer, feet inches. A tug Of
war between team of married men
and singls men was won by the Ben.
edicts, who pulled the young men,
after a hard contest, out of action.
The Dark Town fire department bri.
gade gave an exhibition drill during
the forenoon that was side. splitting
to the oDiookers in the mirth they pro-
voked in their frantic efforts to put
out u roaring fire that was rapidly
consuming large structure made of
dry goods boxes which had been
erected on the railroad grounds east OF
the depot The violent ringing of the
city fire bell and the screeching of To-
comotlve whistles gave the alarm Of a
big fire and promptly the Dark Town
brigade rushed up Sixth street to the
hydrant nearest the fire where their
dump cart stoppC and spilled out hose
and fiermen in one big mixup Their
steam fire engine proceeded to the fire,
and the heroic work of the engineers
to keep up steam and the gallant ef.
forts of the firemen in operating their
spray pump kept the crowd so deeply
interested that the hosemen were
overlooked until the hose had been
laid and water turned on, but more
on the spectators and fremen than on
the fire The takeoffs on the blunders
that are too often made by volunteer
fremen were ludricrous in the sx-
treme, aud the Darky firemen were
given cheer for the fun they had
afforded the crowd.
The Saturday events will be all
highly interesting, and a leading fta-
ture will be the big barbecue dinner,
the meat for which has been in roast
ing for the past "a hours, at u pit on
the grounds. A band concert in the
evening will close the days pleasure
events.
Frank Mowers returned Monda'
from a weeks vacation which he spent