Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-05-31
GRAND TWO DAY. JULY
A AND 5, CELEBRATION
Mountain Home Will do the Handsome,
Hanging up $1,000 in Prize
Purses,

The committee appointed by the
Commercial club at its meeting
Friday evening to arrange for
Fourth OF July celebration, whose
names are mentioned in the pro-
ceedings of that meeting, lost no
time in getting to work, and plans
have been adopted to make of it the
most notable event of the kind ever
attempted in the state.
The first thing to do, of course,
was to raise the necessary funds.
These gentlemen went out in a
bunch and didn't do a thing to the
business men of this town. They
report that they found this to be an
unusually easy and pleasant task,
for with scarcely an exception the
contributions were chcerfully made !;
likewise, they were liberal. Up to
last evening about 5000 had been
subscribed and Chief sof Police
Boyd, who has charge of the mon
cy, says that more is coming in.
About 5000 more is needed. The
above amount does not include 5000
given by the Western Sugar Beet
company as a special purse for the
trotting race on the fifth, nor ]. H.
CARROTS donation of 500, to be re-
allied from the sale of grand stand
seats for this race, the free for all
running.
The committee has not yet
formulated the program for the two
days of festivities in detail; but the
star features of the occasion have
been decided upon. These are
enumerated in the full page ad-
vertisement appearing else where
in this paper. 1t will be moi ed
that the people who are expected
to attend from every contiguous
section to Mountain Home are
given attention, none are over
looked Every class is given a
chance to win purse of some kind,
which aggregate $1,000. Purses are
hung up for the miners, cattle,
horse and sheep men, men, women
and children.
The committee held a meeting
last evening and made several mi
nor changes in the events and purses
included in the dispaly ADVERTISE
ment mentioned above, which was
printed prior to this meeting, and
what precedes this paragraph was
in type also before the committee
met last evening. The most inn
portant change made was in the
prize offered for the bucking con-
test. AS it now stands, it will be
either SIS in cash or a SIS dollar
saddle, made to order and emb1e-
matte of the champion rough rider
of southern Idaho. The other SIS
will be divided between the owners
of the five meanest horses brought
in to be ridden in this event, five
ed that ali entries to horse races
will be free, but 10 per cent of first
and second money will be deducted.
Purses on horse races will be divid-
ed on the ratio of IS to IS, between
first and second
The following foot races, 100
yard dash, were booked for the
Fourth, down town: Fat men, must
weigh in at minimum of 200
pounds, SIS; lean men SIS; boys So
first, So second; champion of FL
more county, free for all, $40; po-
tato, So first, So second; sack, run
ners to bring their own sacks, So and
81; girls, So, 81 and 81, to first,
second and third; thiee-leg race, So
to the winner and So to second.
The following subcommittee
were appointed:
On fire works-R w. Smith, ].
w. Caldwell, w. ]. Turner.
Parade-Henry Ross, H. o. MANI,
o. E. Cannon, w. A. Reynolds, ].
H. Garrett, ]. w. Caldwell, E. c.
Helfrich, F. Pillner, Charles Pascoe,
G. w. Payne, ]. c. Barrett, J. H.
Meserole, F. B. Daniels, ]. M
Cowen, Ben Grier, Prof. l. B.
Warner.
Muisc-R. B. Hilborn, ]. w.
Swidenski, Mrs. S. G. Rhoades,
Mrs. M. E. Longfellow, F. ]. Moore,
Bessie Galloway.
Decoration-L. L. Spring, w. c.
Stimson, r. w. Bruce, Mrs. Kittie
Cowen, Mrs. L. B. Wertz, Fred