Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-07-11
CELEBRATION WAS THOROUGH
LY SUCCESSFUL.
LIST OF PRIZE WINNERS
Not An Accident Marked the Occa-
sion, and the Crowd Was Great
est in the City's History.

The great American eagle, after
four years of close confinement In
training for the Grants Pass celebra-
tion of 1913, was loosed early Fri
day morning, and for two days he
filled the wine-like atmosphere of
Rogue Valley with his reverberating
scream, and the spirit of '76 filled
the land. Every one celebrated, and
the celebration was without untow-
ard feature and without accident.
The big two-days' celebration was
grand success, and aside from cer-
tain shortcomings on the part of the
aviation schedule was carried
through exactly as planned and ad-
Ivertised.
From the first peal of the cannon
announcing approaching sunrise on
the morning of the Fourth to the
dropping of the curtain at midnight
last night, it was a continuous per-
formance, and the thousands of Wis
itors who thronged the city all
seemed to thoroughly enjoy the oc-
casion.
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The street parade contained fea'
lures that made it the peer of any
heretofore held in a valley town, the
floats entered by the fraternal orders
the pageant of nations, business
house floats, and other sections OF
the parade, being remarkably good
while the calathumpians added t
the spirit of the day, and made sport
for the onlookers.
In the pageant of nations, the
Baker automobile, representing j;
an, was awarded first prize, second
place going to Paul Kinney's car witt
its load of loveliness representing
America.
Moose Lodge Wins First.
First place among the fraterna
floats was not an easy matter for the
judges todecide, the Elks, the Moose
the Rebekahs and the Woodmer
each being logical contenders." The
Moose, awarded first, had an auto
decorated with natural flowers in Law
ish profusion, while the local lodge'i
spreading Moose head had place
of honor at the front of the car. The
Elk float was given second prize
This was a massive and beautiful au
tomobile float, decorated in the lodge
colors, and surmounted with six
point elk head.
Other prize winners in the parade
were as follows
Best decorated bicycles Lucille
CARRIER, 1st; Donald Offens, 2nd
Best lady rider on saddle horse
Mrs. Amos Smith.
Best gentleman rider on saddle
horse Fred Armpriest.
Saddle pony and rider, to Veltor
Basler
In the calathumpan parade, tht
prize for the best outfit Of two ol
more was awarded to Aubrey Geth
ing and Milo Child, who represent
ed Zulus. For the best sustained
characters, Rodney Marshall, vii
lard Bartlett and Harry EdgertoI
were winners, while the Chaplin don
key rig was a winner in its class
The prize for the best take-off of ;
local celebrity was awarded to VIM
Lempke, who wore the star Of tn,
chief of police, and preserved tn,
peace and the dignity of the com
munity and his own equilibrium OF
the mule at the same time.
The Rainbow Drill.
The Sc young girls who were t
give the Rainbow Drill were an. at
tractive part of the parade, and i'm
mediately following the parade IN,
drill was given on Sixth street nea
the grand stand in the park Tn,
young ladies had been drilled by Mr.
and Mrs. y. f Townsend and tn
Intricate and beautiful formation
we're presented without a misstep
The program Of the drill consiste,