Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-11
0regon's Big Day
At Fair Is Coming

Oregon Building, P. P. l. E., Oct.
11.-Oregon State Day at the exposi-
tion has been set for Monday, Octo-
ber 80. This is an exposition ar
rangement and on that day all the
honors that can be heaped upon the
Beaver state by the exposition off
cials will be forthcoming. This
means that the chief dignitaries, as
well as the lesser luminaries, of this
greatest of all fairs will don silk
tiles and other prescribed parapher-
MALTA, gather themselves into auto
mobiles and with Governor Witty
combe in the front car, will follow
the Exposition and Marine bands to
the Oregon building, and there in the
shadow of the modern Parthenon wax
eloquent over the glorious achieve
ments of the state to the northward.
Governor Withycombe, whose bust
ness in life it has been to make two
blades Of grass grow where but one
has grown before, will probably be
asked to plant a tree where none has
grown before, and in the name of the
great state Of Oregon he may receive
a plaque, or, more aristocratically
speaking, commemorative medal" :"
The guns at the big forts will prob
ably boom, the battleship Oregon may
let loose some siX-inch salutes, flags
will fly, Oregon cider will flow and
at no time, before or since, will the
Oregon building be in such gala al
tire. After the prade, which the peo-
pie at the Oregon building and the
Oregon Society of California will en-
deavor to make the largest and most
memorable in exposition history, and
all Grating has been done to the de-
light of the assembled multitudes,
Governor Withycombe and the chos-
en- few will be carried away to the
California building and there wined
and dined until their stomachs as
well as their hearts are filled to over
flowing. In the case of Governor
Withycombe, the wine viii be water,
of course, but San Francisco water
is of such thickness and color that
even the diner nearest him will not
notice the substitution unless it is
announced. After the feast and
laudations of the greatest state in
the Union by the highest officials of
the greatest exposition that ever hap
pened, there will be a reception at
which the people gathered here from
the four corners of the earth may
have opportunity to greet Oregon
through its most distinguished repre-
sentative, the governor, and, incl
dentally, they will get to shake hands
with the president of the exposition
and others next to him in official
rank. When the shadows have fallen
and the exposition buildings and
grounds have taken on the irrides-
cent glow that makes this dream
city, a fairy land, the California
building will be the scene of a grand
ball at which the governor and other
Oregon representatives will be guests
of honor. Gentlemen in full dress
and ladies in undress creations" will
trip the merry ha-ha" and the rev.
elry will continue until exhaustion
and the dawn of another day de-
mands a cessation.
All in all, Oregon Day will be some
large occasion, and during the entire
time Governor Withycombe and his
party are here. there will be things
doing calculated to be of special in
terest to Oregon people. At the Ore
gon building there will be as much
social activity as the governor will
stand for, and in every way possible