Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07
WfISER'S Wild
WEST PROGRAM
GREAT SUCCESS
Carnival and Round UP
Comes to Close With a
Crowd of Six Thousand in
Attendance.
Parade by School Children
Elaborate Affair in Which
Progress of the Country
Is Portrayed = B ct t e r
Babies Contest.

Weiser, Oct. 6.-The greatest crowd
Weiser ever entertained attended the
closing day of the Harvest Carnival
and Round Up here yesterday. IT is
estimated 5000 people witnessed the
Round Up on the last day. The Weiser
Round Up stands out as the best Sc
ries of wild west and buckaroo pro-
grams given in western Idaho in years
No better aggregation of cowboys ana
cowgirls ever staged a Roundup IN
Idaho than were at Weiser TINS "eeh'
Special credit is due the committee
that managed the Roundup mere. rms
committee is composed OF James I'i-
loway, an attorney; Oakley west,
banker, and S. S. Harolson. a neWspa-
perman. The committee kept Things
moving each afternoon of the Round
I'm. There were no delays and no
waits between the events. =
Fred Harding, a Caldwell boy, won
first in the finals in the cowboys buck
ing contest.
Mildred Douglas, the worlds cham
pion cowgirl rider, won FIRST IN the
finals in the cowgirls' contest.
Harley Jones. Weiser boy. won the
$50 saddle made by the Weiser Har-
ness company for being the cowboy
that received the largest number of
votes at the three days Round UP.
cHlLpREN's PARADE GREAT.
The school chiidrens paraue Friday
morning was the greatest parade OF
Its kind ever seen here. 1t was eight
full blocks in length and moved in the
following order.
Chief of Police CHASER mounted on a
fine steed.
The Weiser concert band.
Mann's creek school on pretty float
District No. 81 on pretty float.
Sunnyside children on foot carried
neat frames hung with fruit and flow
ers.
District No. rs in auto carrying veg
etables.
Enterprise district on float Chill
dren dressed as Indians, float repre-
scented Indian camp.
Cove school on pretty float.
Eaton school on float representing
children doing Red Cross work.
Jeffries school, children dressed ir
patriotic colors.
District No. on pretty float
CRYSTAL school on float representing
Red Cross service on battle front.
Hale school, children dressed in pa.
triotic colors.
District No. % on pretty float rep
resenting domestic science work.
Midvale school in three pretty autos
Intermountain institute, the faculty
In autos, the entire student body il
splendid parade formation.
Weiser high school student body or
foot, with some of junior class OF
horse back.
THE GRADE SCHOOLS.
The Weiser grade schools represent
ed various eras in the development
of this section from 1900 to the pres
ent time One class had a banner will
this inscription: "Sagebrush era 1906
1860" The children carried sagebrusl
and old fashioned guns, traps, etc. TIL
! dresses were of that period.
Then this banner: Reclamation
Era" The children carried picks
I axes, sprinklers, etc.
This followed: Early Farming,
with children carrying hoes and bas
kets filled with vegetables.
Then came this banner: "Agricul
ture since Irrigation" Children car
ried alfalfa, grain and corn in sheave'
4 Then came ''Dairying," with tn
s children dressed in white and carryin
I milk stools and milk pals.
Milling came next, each chill
wearing flour sacks and carryin
I flour. sieves, plates, bread.
4 ''Woolen Industry" next, childre
dressed as shepherds and carryin
canes, also sheep in an auto, spinnin
wheel in operation in another aut'
children carrying displays of blanket
and clothing labeled all wool.
The last banner read, Desert no
blooms as a rose" The children o
! foot carried flowers of all kinds.
District As with a float, all the Chi
dren dressed in white, was at the en-
of one of the finest school parades eve
seen in western Idaho.
The judges of the parade were: 1
r. Bush, John A. Lindsay and LanoI
Z Shearer. They awarded the followin
prizes:
City schools-The Third grade VIC
] the first prize, $40. This grade rel
resented "Dairying" in the parade. tt
Fourth grade won second prize, IS.
represented Milling in the parade.
County schools-Enterprise. distri,
IS. won first prize. SO. II had a flo;
representing an Indian camp.