Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-11-04
GOVERNORPRESENTS
THE CORN MEDAL
AWARDED TO v. B. GILMORE BY
PANAMA-PAC|F|C EXPOSITION
APPROPRIATE CELEBRA-
TON Of OCCASION.


At the city hall last night more
than 300 farmers and their wives and
townspeople attended the ceremonies
of presenting to Mr.. W. B. Gilmore
the medal which was recently award
position for the greatest yield Of
corn per acre in the entire State OF
Idaho.
Agreeable to request made by
the exposition officers, Governor
Moses Alexander favored the occa-
sion with his presence and made
the presentation of the medal at the
conclusion of an address in which
he took occasion to pay very high
compliment to the Corn King of
the State and to the productiveness
of Payette Valley soil.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Payette Commercial
Club, while its indispensable auxil-
larry, the Portia Club, served refresh
ments. A very entertaining and ap-
propriate program had been prepar-
ed for the occasion, the personal
presence and cooperation of the
chief executive of the state lending
Rpre than usual interest to the
-skloyment of the evening.
As has heretofore been published,
Mr.. Gilmore was awarded the cham
pionship of Idaho cornraisers by the
Panama-Pacific Exposition and given
the medal offered by the National
Top-notch Contrasting Association,
for yield of 140 bushels of corn to
the acre, which was produced on
land adjoining this city, under ordi-
ly known, but was stated upon the
presentation of the medal, that the
corn on exhibition was that harvest
ed from the crop Of 1911, that the
corn had been in the possession of
the secretary of the National Corn
growers Association and had been
placed upon exhibition at the Pana-
ma-Pacific Exposition in competition
with the exhibits of the greatest
cornraisers of the world, without the
knowledge of Mr.. Gilmore, whose
that had come to him was received
from Governor Alexander, who had
been advised of the fact by the Ex-
position board at San Francisco and
who had been especially requested
to make a public presentation of the
medal to Mr.. Gilmore at some suit
able time and place to be subsequent
ly agreed upon.
A program appropriate to the oc-
casion was carried out at the city
hall, the council chamber, public IL
brary room and official quarters hav-
ing been placed at the service Of
the Commercial and Portia clubs for
the accommodation of the guests OF
the evening.
Captain R. l.. Shaw, president OF
the Commercial Club, presided in
us usual happy and efficient manner.
z !asic was furnished by the Pay
ette Band, which accompanied Cover
nor Alexander from his hotel tol
the city hall, where he was warmly
welcomed by the large audience that
had assembled to honor a fellow
. citizen OF the community and show
their appreciation of the interest be-
ing manifest by the presence OF the
chief executive of the state.
Prof. T. R. Nelson of the Payette
High School favored the occasion
with the presence of the High
School Orchestra and the Girls Glee
Club, whose selections were highly
appreciated. Mr>A. L. Gorham de-
livered an address of welcome In be-
half of the Commercial Club and of
the City of Payette,
Hon. w. A. Coughanour introduc-
ed Governor Alexander and w. B.
Gilmore, the champion cornraiser, in
whose honor the meeting had been
called The Governor, In his address
which followed paid high tribute to
Mre Gilmore and the Payette Valley,
at she conclusion of which he pre-
sented the handsome and highly priz-
ed medal which he had been com.
missioned to place in the hands of
that gentleman The Governors
speech covered broad field
of important points connected with