East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-12-11
Local Junket Party Returns After
Most Successful Trip to Big
Idaho Stock Show.
CITY WAS ALL. THEIRS
Nothing Too Good for Citizens from
Roundup City-Delay Caused in
Going Through Engine Trouble
Excursionists Met at Depot by Del
egation and Band.

Pendleton was the big noise" ir
Lewiston yesterday. The twenty.
three members of the local junket
party to the big Idaho livestock show
who arrived back in the city this
morning at o'clock, declare the ex-
cursion the most successful ever un-
dertaken by Pendleton business men
and they are loud in their praises OF
the treatment accorded them by the
Lewistonians and the members of the
Portland special who were also guests
OF honor at the livestock show yes
terday.
THE city was turned over to u.s."
declared President j. F. Robinson of
the Commercial association who, with
X. ]. Murphy and w. J. Clark, or
ganized the party. There was moth
was no good to them. Nowhere have
we ever been treated more hospita-
bly,, the Portland visitors as we'll as
the Lewiston people making us feel
that they were honored to entertain
residents of the Roundup City"
Attached to the Portland special,
the local party arrived at their des-
tination at $50 yesterday morning,
delay having been caused by en-
gine trouble. The excursionists were
met at the depot by a delegation of
prominent citizens headed by band
and formed in line TO parade through
the main streets with the Pendleton
party in the honor position behind
the band.
PendletOn Leads, Portland Follows.
To the Commercial club rooms they
coined by Secretary Wallace r.
Struble. Pendleton's response was
made by President Robinson, while
Secretary c. g. Chapman represented
the Portland visitors In the course
of his talk. the Portland booster
stated that the Porlanders had
awakened in the morning to find the
Pendleton car leading their train, that
they had followed the Pendletonians
in the parade and would probably be
following them the rest of the day.
And follow they did, graciously put
ting Pendleton in the foreground
wherever possible.
Following the reception in the club
rooms, the visitors were put aboard
the train and conducted out to the
fair grounds where they were treated
to the sight of collection OF
thoroughbred stock as fine as ever
they had witnessed. The returned
Pendletonians are enthusiastic in de-
scribing the magnitude and quality OF
the Lewiston stock show, declaring
that it surpassed their fondest eXpec-
tations,
Make Tour I'm Autos.
After feasting their eyes for sew
eral hours on the pure-bred cattle
horses. hogs and sheep, the excur-
sionists were conducted back to the
club rooms and were there placed III
automobiles and taken on a tour OIL
the country contiguous to Lewiston
here again they were given treat
for. though the crop season is past
everywhere they saw evidence OIL ,he
wonderful resources coupled Win
scientific farming which combination
makes for prosperity.
ON their return from the auto
tour. the Pendleton men spent the
time until their departure visiting
with the Lewiston and Portland bus
mess men and they enjoyed them
selves the more because every one
seemed to make special effort to show
attntion to the Let 'er buck crowd
The Portland people view with the
hosts in this particular, fact that
was noticed and appreciated abund-
;antly by the local men, judging from
their remarks made today in speak
ing of the trip.
The courtesies of the Portland eX-
cursionists began early in the morn
dns when Secretary Chapman appear
ed in the Pendleton car shoutihs
Special Edition of the East oreeo.
nian." and handed out to the local
men copies of the fourth edition Oh
The Hourly Bulletin" published py
the Rose city boosters. This Is the
way the Bulletin read: