The Republican journal., 1909-09-30


ever gotten out in Bozeman. 1t repre-
sented woodland scene, with cedar and
other trees, huge toad stools, flowers,
butterflies, huge gilt spider webs at the
sides and back, and four little girl fairies.
The Elk's auto attracted much atten-
ton. An elk's head was arranged in
front of the machine, which was COM
pletely covered with purple and white
chrysanthemums, and little girl sitting
high in front had long ribbons attached
to the elk's antlers, and had every ap-
pearance of driving. ''The Golden Rule
one of the department stores, had very
handsome foat-six huge horns of plenty
filled with grain surrounding a center
piece of sweet peas. One of the shoe
firms had an immense shoe covered with
pink and white peas, with four little
girls riding in it. Another department
store had Japanese float, with jap
anese driver and six japanese girls drink
ing tea.
The County Records" float was very
handsome. An immense book, covered
with white sweet peas, was open to show
'"09'' in pink flowers, while beside it was
a big ink pot with three-foot quill in it.
Father Time" was impersonated per-
fectly by one of the assessors in town, and
his little grandson was the New Year
One store had Dorothy Dainty float, a
boat floating in stream bordered with
cat tails. The boat was made of pink
and white sweet peas, and was occupied
by a lady and two little girls, who wore
Dorothy Dainty" ribbons. The Gala
tin State Bank had Cleopatra's barge,
with a jewel-bedecked Cleopatra and a
colored oarsman with gilt paddle in the
gondola, which was lavishly trimmed
with purple and white sweet peas. Two
auto floats were especially clever-one
represented a IL, 900 ton man-of war, in
the carnival colors, and the other a furni-
ture store building reproduced in bunt-
ing and sweet peas.
Of course these are only few of the
features. The fire department, city
government, |. o. o. F., Ladies Imper-
ial Band, ~ members of the Montana
Horseshoer's Association, which was in
convention here were part of the
parade, and there We're any number of
pony rigs, some donkey turnonts, two
cams drawn by dogs and some by goa is,
while the many young people on decorat-
ed saddle horses included one little five
year-old-lad on a huge black horse eff
fectively trimmed with golden glow.
That afternoon we, with all the rest of
Bozeman and a good part of Gallatin
County, went to the Interstate fair,
held here. The grandstand was packed,
but we9managed to secure seats and saw
some very fine racing. A girls relay
race was an interesting feature to me
and would have been fine if there had
not been an accident There We're two
contestants and they rode around the
mile track three times, changing horses
each time in front of the grandstand. On
the third round one of the girls thought
to gain time by being ready to jump
from her horse and stood in the stirrups,
with the result that she was thrown. She
was not badly hurt and continued the
race, under too great handicap, how
ever, to have it interesting from sport
ing point of view.
The ladies' department had large
and well lighted building and there was
fine display there, including some Of
the handsomest pieces of fancy work l
have ever seen. The poultry EXHIBIT was
fair, and the dairy and culinary building
was well filled with interesting exhibits.
The schools had exhibits that were little
short of marvellous, in my eyes at least.
The work Of the children, from the first
grade through to the High school, includ-
ed drawings, paintings, silhouettes, Or
iginal stencil designs, basket and ham
mock weaving, book making, fooled and
cut leather work, etc, and would have
we'll repaid closer examination than we
were able to give it. The live stock ex-
hibit this year was exceptionally fine, as
several of the most famous herds in the
country, which had captured many blue
ribbons at Seattle, were here on their
way home. Among these herds were
those of the Barclay Farm of Bryn
Mawr, Pa, breeders of Ayrshires; O. "
Battle of Maquoketa, Iowa, breeder of
Polled Angus; Frank j. Clauss of Claire,
Iowa, breeder of Red Polled cattle; ]. G..
Hickcox of Whitefsh Bay, Wis, breeder
of registered Guernseys; Carpenter and
Ross of Mansfield, O., breeder of Short
Horned cattle; John B. Irwin of Mime
apolis, breeder of Holsteins, and many
others.
A large tent filled with Shetland ponies
attracted everyone, little and big; and
there were large and fine exhibits of