Arizona republican., 1914-08-21
FARMERS AND WIVES IN TIME
 IF THEIR LIVES
Crowds from All Over Val ley Blocked to Picnic of M. and M. and Board of Trade Yesterday. The Reason Phoenix Grows

Everybody loves a good time, es- pecially if the good time is had at a picnic, and the big blowout given for the farmers by the board of trade and M & M. yesterday was certainly top liner in the list of this seasons good times. From all over the valley the people who till the soil and make Phoenix possible. flocked to Riverside park. They be- gan to arrive early in the morning and kept coming until after sundown and brought their families with them. If practical demonstration of why Phoenix is the fastest growing and most progressive and up-to-adte city in the southwest was needed the farmers supplied it. It was only necessary to stroll through the great crowd that thronged the park and see the splendid type of citizens that populate the surrounding country; with them no city could help going ahead. The farmer is the bulwark | of the city and the farmers of the Salt River valley are the highest type of men that can be found in any community. No wonder the bus mess mems associations want to get in closer touch with them.
 Beginning shortly before o'clock a program embracing sports of ev- cry description was started and it was still going on long after the ! with foot races and various track events in Shady Lane, the spectator was carried all over the park, to the edge of the pool, into the ball grounds, back to the pool again and finally to the dancing pavilion. where 1 the various types of farmers received merited rewards and afterwards an | old fashioned barn dance was held. 1 Fat ladies and thin men vied with each other in their efforts to gain the crowds approval. and it may be said at once that the men. whether l fat, thin or medium, never had a chance. They won their events, of course, but the crowd took the wom- en to their hearts. Never was there l such race as that for the stout | ladies' It resulted in a dead heat between Mrs. John Price and Mrs. Krethline, and when the judges fi- nally ordered it run over again, the lcroWd was delighted and roared their announcement to the fair contest ants. In grounds shaking finish
 Mrs. John Price ploughed her way home sure winner and Mrs. Kreth- line had to be satisfied with second
 prize.
 So many young ladies entered fol the girls race that it had to be di- ivided into three sections, and Miss Adele Hoyois won the first with Elizabeth Agnar second, while Doro- lthy Weller and Ruby Hammontree won the other two sections. In the
 nail driving contest another bevy o1
 flair carpenteresses appeared and that had to be divided into two sections Such knocking has never been heard loutside of a sewing society. Every body had their hammers out: but labove the din the judges were able
 to pick out Mrs. Staltze and Mrs. W IP. Cooper as first and second in tn, first section and Mrs. Waldeur ant Mrs Price as first and second in tn, second SeCtlOn. 1T tNeFe IS ever tcarpenters' strike in Phoenix thu
 builders had better send for these
 ladies'
 In the potato race Mrs Vera Old
 man won. with Miss Elizabeth Az ner second. There were many othel
 races won by mere men, but the,
 were so completely overshaNowed b,
 the suffragists that they must b. satisfied with the prizes and th'
 comment that they were all wonders In the ball grounds the most inter
 esting events were the horse races There were three and they wer lcorkers. Archibald Rowan on { beautiful pony as fleet as the win'
 rode two races like a veteran jocke.
 and was easily the king of them all
 Harry Zell won the other race; bu
 when he lined up against Rowan
 pony in the final he had to be satis
 Second game R. H. E