Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-28

west. The state of Washington and
the city of Spokane have appropriated
$35, 900 toward this expenditure.
Marching clubs, accompanied by
bnl.ds, from the irrigated and dry
farming districts in Idaho, Oregon,
Montana, Washington, California, Wy
oming, Utah. North and South Dakota.
Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona,
Kansas. Texas, Oklahoma and other
states in the middleWest. east and
ish Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and
Saskatchewan will participate in the
paradcs. 1t is also expected there will
be representatives from Maine. New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, and other
ports of New England.
Historical incidents will be depicted
by representations In costumes of the
period, showing Lewis and Clark and
their faithful followers as they ap-
peared 104 years ago, when they
launched their canoes on the kooskOos-
kee now the Clearwater river, from
their rude camp 20 miles above its
junction with Lewis's river, now called
the Snake, and bartered with the Chop
unnish Indians for dogs. Then will
come the savages in their Warpaint
and naughty mien.
Fur trappers and traders, with their
garments of skins of wild things and
the implements of their occupation,
will have the next place in the pro-
cession, and will be followed in turn
by the early missionaries and Jesuit
priests and the pioneers who made
hni tha rln inc. IN hn lid
fashioned prairie schooners. Next in
line viii be prospectors and miners
with their pack trains and lumbermen
making the initial attack in the virgin
forests.
Another division will show the emf
grafton workers leading the farmers
to the new land of promise, followed
by the orchardists and garden truck
growers, with the civilized Indians on
modern farm machinery and products
of field, forest and mountain in decor
ated vehicles. Then will come the dis
tricts exhibits, showing the products
of the various communities in elabor-
ately decorated wagons, followed by
fiower-covered automobiles and smart
traps.
The feature of the opening of the
congress will be the raising of hun
dreds of flags to the tops of as many
4O-fOot poles in the residential districts
and the unfurling of the flags of the
nations and banners, in the business
sections the morning of August 9, when
massed musicians, headed by the Third
Regiment United States Infantry btnd,
will play patriotic airs. This will be
followed with the rendition of the irri-
cation ode by a large chorus of train
ed singers ard the singing of state
hymns by school children. August Is
has been set aside for the governors
and their staffs, and there will be sew
eral receptions, banquets, excursions
and theater parties during the week.
r. Insinger, chairman of the board
of control. said that every community
in the district will send delegates. He
added:
I'VE have been assured the hearty
cooperation and assistance of the for
estry and reclamation services, as we'll
as the department of agriculture itself,
and with the natural activity of the
people in the Northwest and in other
parts of the country, where irrigation
is profitably and successfully practiced,
we expect to make a congress, which
shall eclipse, anything yet attempted
by the association Ff-. t.t