The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-24
Man About Town

Among the delegates to the recent
convention of the National Irrigation
congress at Boise, was n. G. Larimore
the genial Larimore business man, who
is great enthusiast on the subject of
irrigation.
One of the lergest delegations in at
tendance at the convention was the
bunch from Bozeman, Mont, whose
members were very DESTROYS of captur-
ing the next congress of the associa-
ton for their city. and a gallant fight
was made to do SO, despite the fact
that another place was chosen finally.
To aid them in their fight, the Boze-
man delegation brought along large
number of ribbon badges, bearing the
inscription ''Bozeman." Most of the
Montana delegates were willing to help
the Gallatin county men in their eff
forts to land the next congress, and to
show where they stood in the matter
they wore the Bozeman badges on the
lapels of their coats. Among those
who did so was Mr.. Larimore.
Mr.. Larimore happened to be the
first man to enter his hotel with one
of these badges on, and as he stepped
into the lobby, he met a colored porter,
whose face was constructed on the
easy laughing principle. The darby
caught sight of the badge and immedi-
ately burst forth into a loud guffaw.
Yah, ha, ha," he shouted, as he gag
ed at the Bozeman badge. Oats pref
ty good boss. You'se goin' to be shuah
to let de people know dat you'se a
good booze man, even il you is mixed
up with dat watah irrigation business"
Unknown to most OF the residents of
the city, circus performance was
given on the West side last week which
is said to have been most successful
affair. A parade was given and wild
animals, red lemonade and other adj
uJnctS to a regular circus were yerv
much in evidence.
The big tent, in which the regular
performance was held, was made up
of sacks, split and sewed together.
while smaller canvas tent held the
geological collection. The parade was
over a block long and contained
band, numerous gaudy wagons, cages
made from chicken coops, which con-
tanned the animals, and the performs
ers.
In one cage was lion, who was
somewhat puzzled about the whole af-
fair, having been but recently made
over with a pair of shears from a shep-
herd dog. A tiger, which insisted on
sleeping through the parade, had also
formerly been canine, whose natural
ly yellow complexion had been decor
ated with black stripes of paint. AS
it was found impossible to make his
head over to complete the TRANSFORMED
ton, the sign "TIGGER" was nailed to
his cage to prevent any misunderstand-
ing concerning what he was.
A very large cage containing a num-
Der of hens, promoted for the occasion
to birds of paradise. They are exceed
lniy nervous and apparently did not
realize the honor that had been thrust
upon them. Various colored paints, an
Piled more prOfusely than judiciously.
added to the brilliancy of their plum
age.
Spots OF black paint on two yellow
cats produced miniature leopards.
lhelr cage was at first next to the
Dand, but the bass drum SO terrified
them that II was found necessary to
place them at the other end of the nro-
cession.
The lion was found to be not only
ornamental, but very useful, as he
knew number of tricks, and these
were displayed in the performance in
the main tent. Racing, wrestling.
acrobatic feats and other features
were also included in the big show.
While the show was complete
artistic triumph. the management did
not realize an enormous amount of |
profit Admission fees were paid in
almost anything but real money. the
collection in the ticket Office including
candy, buttons, chewing gum, pencils.
a dog-cOllar and numerous other ar
ticles. 1t took almost all of the re-
ceipts to pay of the performers and
meet the expenses connected with the
wild animal exhibition. The proprie-
tors, however. were perfectly content
ed with the glory attained and they let |
1t go at that.