Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-04-30
honey COMES IN
| BUNCHfS FOR
|. HORSE SHOW
M
H,srNESs MEN CONTRIBUTE LIB.
rRALLY TO SUPPORT ANNUAL
EXPOSITION.
|nll NEED MORE FUNDS
|ommittee Will Keep Up Good Work
Soliciting-Arrange for Bucdng
Contest.

The committee appointed to solicit
unds from the business men for the
eeond Annual Horse Show and Auc.
on which it to be held in Grangeville
b May 2S, 20 and 30, made the rounds
the business houses Monday and
uesday and collected in the shekels o.
he guarantee thereof in gratifying
mounts.
While the exact amount secured has
ct been given out for publication az
ct. Frank McGrane and s. Az Ander
bn. who headed the committee, report
d that splendid progress was made and
bat everywhere spirit to lend finan
ial aid +" the exposition was met with
throughout the entire business section
the various stores and shops and of
Ices the citizens listened to the com
hittee request and then almost in
|ariably plunked down good sized
hbscription. The committee has not
let completed the circuit of business
ouses but expects to do so the last of
be week.
Farmers Give Aid.
In addition to the funds given by the
BUSINESS interests of the city there is
b be quite sum realized from the
|ifferent horse breeding companies and
associations in the county, the rail.
Dads and other corporations and from
great number of the county's progress
i've farmers and stockraisers, many OF
Fhom have come through with healthy
hdividual donations, not for any parti
$ular event or class or entry, but for
he general expenses of the show. AT
present, while the necessary total to as.
ure good financial foundation for
he exhibition is not assured, the com.
hittee and promoters feel that with
ome tall hustling enough can be
guaranteed to make the show a grand
uccess, particularly if the weather man
magnanimously inclined that week.
Promote Bucking Contests.
Robert Gill, Arthur McSpedden and
lther well known young stockmen from
ne Salmon river and The Point sec
ions were in town Saturday and Sun
lay and held an informal conference
NTH several business men and the base
pail boys with a view of staging q
Pucking contest at the ball park each
lay after the ball game. The Gill
Poys and others on the river say they
pave some real, wild, unmanageable
Pucking horses this year and they are
lnxious to show the horse show patrons
Ehat not all horeflesh is made up into
raft and coach styles.
The committee appointed to look
liter baseball this year, Hub Wood, j
Snyder, Pearl Wright and Dor
Fisher, will confer with the Salmon
lver boys and arrange for the buckine
contests as planned.
Rules For Auction Day.
The committee g rules and regula
lons governing the sale of horses and
nules at the mammoth auction of May
Po We're announced this week, the com
nittee having voted to charge com
nlssion of four per cent for each anima
put up for sale in the sale ring. The
expenses of conducting the auction will
Pc covered by this percentage. !. Z
Euver will probably have charge of tht
eactloneer work, and J. B. Leeper will
lkely be called in to help sell the stock
rom present indications it appears
mat the auction will be on of the prin
ipal features of the entire show, if the
n1terest manifested to date in this
pnase of the exposition may be taker
hs criterion.