Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-06-19
Zip, ling, Boom!
Celebration at ShOshOne
is TO be the Best
on the Market
Committees Hard at Work Getting
Everything in Readiness for
Great Celebration.

Great Celebration.
Here are some of the sport events for
Saturday, July 4, and the prizes offered:
Dash, free-for all, 100 yards, $40 and
s..
Ladies' race, free-for-all. rs yards,
S. and 50.
Boys race, "A and under, IS yards,
50 and 81.
Girls race, u and under, 50 yards,
So and 81.
Sack race, free-for-all, So and 81.
Three-legged race, IS.
Potato race, IS.
-Four horse races are scheduled for
Friday, with following purses: 800,
SIS, $50, and $50.
The details for the races will be pub
hshed next week.
Five races are planned for Saturday,
pnrses as follows: 500, SIS, $50, $50,
and $40
All races to be for five entries, three
to start. The race purses aggregate
$4,000
Liberal prizes are to be offered for a
broncho riding contest, with a S25 purse
to start the game. Further details will
be given next week.
To encourage the preparation of good
foatf for the parade on the Fourth, the
committee has decided to offer the fol
lowing prizes:
$1,000 for best business float.
$500 for second best business float
$500 for most artistically draped car
riage.
$500 for most grotesque character
(pedestrin)
There promises to be considerable
rivalry in the production of the best
and most unique turnouts, and some
representations may be expected.
The race committee has been hard at
work in getting the race course ready
for use. Some of the idle men from
the county jail have been glad to work
in grubbing the sage brush. and the re-
suit of the combined efforts is as fine
track as one would wish to see. The
grounds will be in the best of condition
for some good races.
A broncho busting contest is prom
ised. which will be for liberal prizes,
snough to encourage the best riders in
this section of the country, Those who
have bad horses-real outlaws that they
want to see ridden by experts, are in
vited to bring them in.
At least three teams are expected to
take part in the base ball tournament,
Saturday and Sunday-the 4th and 5th.
These teams are at present expected to
be Rupert, Gooding ard Shoshone, but
there may be some later changes.
Enough money will be put up to insure
the very best matches.
George Schroeder, of Hepburn, has
been requested by the committee in
charge of the Fourth Of July celebrat-
ion, to come up here and give them
some expert advice in the way of pre-
pairing appropriate floats for the parade.
Mr.. Schroeder has had wide experience !
in such work, with the AkSar-Ben /
displays at Omaha, one of most widely |
known Mardi Gras celebrations in the |
North. He is a skilled artist, genius !
in the way of ideas, and given appro-
pirate latitude will make the parade
one of the most gorgeous things of the
kind in the history of the state.
Preparations are going on steadily, !
for the general program for the day. |
The sports are being pretty well appor-
toned. and the full program will be
published soon. Trap shooting for
a small prize will probably be added to
the events already mentioned. There
are good many people who have seen
little or no trap shooting, who would
welcome such chance. Some good
scores are being made, p to "a birds
out of 25. at almost every shoot of the
Shoshone club. There are some crack
shots at Hagerman, also, who can be
counted on to make good records.