Weekly journal-miner., 1917-07-11

Van Dixon. Tn each car were a mum Der of attractive Prescott girls in white uniforms.
 Following the official cars were others containing tall Elks and short Elks and skinny Elks and fat Elks and several other sorts of Ell,s, whose characteristics escaped the busy scribe Then ar1-ved the com edy It consisted chiefly of pur- pie goat with golden horns. This goat was real. Everybody saw it whether they had been drinking Tan hauser or not It was no figment or Ia disordered brain, unless you can call Robbie Smiths brain disordered. He imagined that goat before he eX- isted, and had him accomplished by means of some Diamond Dye, ono formerly respectable member of the goat family and a can of gold paint.
 Jack Sparkes and Jack Tharpe had this goat in charge, and also anothei goat in human form. The latter was intended for the slaughter, while the purple and four-legged one was merely for show
 Scene at the Grounds
 A lowering cloud had hove in sight when the parade and the crowd dock ed in the pines near the entrance to the fair grounds. Underfoot, the pine needles were not quite dry from the shower of the night before, but the keen, mountain air was good to breathe. and nobody was much a-scared of the cloud. anyhow. Least of all, the Phoenicians, who appear ed on the ground in large numbers. It is not known whether it was the prospect of real food or the coolth that drew them. Anyhow, they were plumb numerous.
 Elk badges were in sight on every hand-that is, on every lapel Back in the trees a short distance was circle of tables, haze of blue smoke and the delectable smell of roast meats. There the crowd flocked, and opened suds until the Boy Scout chapter of the Cooks and Walters union arrived. And now, just a word for the boys. If 1t hadn't been for these boys, Billy Glenn would have had to work That would have been the sight. As 1t was. all Bill had to do was to be in 3.497 places at once and see that everybody got what they wanted when they wanted it. And with l,500 hungry voters hanging over the ropes. there IS a deal to do. A corps of strong arm men hoisted the carne off the fires and hacked it up into farmland hunks Plates Of bread, meat and pickles, cans of cor fee, salt and sugar went flying around and in an astonishingly short time. all those who made the first table. were munching away. There remained fully half as many again, who couldn't get near the feast These folks were fed later by Boy Scouts, who lugged perfectly huge platters of sandwiches around.
 When the feast was done the grounds looked like a section oi Louvain after the Germans had aimed few at the cathedrals. The bare ribs of beef looked like the wreck of the Hesperus or the re- mains of a submarine attack on a fishing vessel. Empty bottles of a suspicious shape, but of present vir- tue in a dry and forbidden cline, were strown everywhere.
 The success of the barbecue was attestcd by Jesse Boyce. who made the remarkable declaration after it was over, that he had had enough to cat.
 Elks Throng Grounds
 Yesterday was Elks' day inside the fair grounds. In honor of the visit ing brethren, the lodge colors were conSpicuously displayed, but never so well as by Lester Ruffner. whose purple and white ribbons conferred no obscurity on his whereabouts.