Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-06-14
INV MANY FARMERS
70 HALT A TRACTOR?
,,,eresting Tug of War to Feature
Athletic Program for Annual
Farmers Picnic at College
June II

How many husky farmers will it
,.ts To exert a pulling power equal
% that of the Cleveland tractor? The
answer to this question will be as
certained at the joint picnic of the
whitman County Farmers Union
and Whitman Pomona Grange, to be
hold at the State College, Pullman,
on Friday, June 81. AS feature of
the athletic program scheduled for
Rogers field on the afternoon of the
day of the picnic, tug of war, with
Cleveland tractor on one end of a
rome and large number of the huski-
oct farmers available on the other,
will be staged. Wild guesses on the
number of farmers it will require to
develop a pulling power equal to the
mower developed by the Cleveland
are rife, and the event is attracting
wide attention and will bring many
farmers to Pullman who otherwise
might not come.
The days program will open with
separate business meetings of the
i two organizations in Wilson Hall at
1000 a. m. At 1890 the mammoth
dinner will be served in Tanglewood
the college picnic grounds, with Miss
Marcella Dodge of the State College
home economics college, in charge.
The farmers wives are being
urged to bring surplus of the good
les that are raised on the farm, in
Guiding chicken, cream, butter, eggs,
radshes, etc, while the town and
faculty women are asked to empha-
size such edibles as salads, cooked
vegetables, sandwiches and other
town dishes.
Immediately following the big din
ner number of after-dinner
speeches will be heard. John Nj.
Klemgard of Evansville will preside
and will enforce the five-minute rule
to the letter, President e. o. Hol-
land of the State College, President
James S. Klemgard of the Whitman
County Pomona Grange, and Master
James Emert of the County Farmers
Union, will speak, together with a
number of others. These five-min-
Ute talks will be followed by a num-
Der OF two-minute talks by honored
guests.
4 The athletic stunts will be staged
Oh Rogers field commencing at 1870
D. m First will come the three
inning baseball game between the
farmers and college professors
Unaer the rules of the game a soft
vail Will be used. The baseball game
Will be followed by the tug-of-war,
Afmers pulling against a Cleveland
"ac'or' A 25-yard dash for married
Suies Is scheduled as we'll as a free
"'ail potato race. Contestants are
''Aeo to bring their own spuds. The
Naletic events will be in charge of
'iO' I. b. Howell Of the college fac
uty
!" $40 p. m. the visitors will be
~@en on an inspection tour of the
urge campus and farm, guided by
WI H. L. Schafer. The tour will
a'luOe the experimental plots, now
ueir best, the college live stock,
'''ulngs' and numerous points of in
terest
S"s from the Pullman Red Cross
m sell Ice cream on the grounds
~ not coffee will be served by the
"es Oh the State College home eco
i0nics course.
Efforts are being made to make
annual picnic the biggest and
h' successful ever held, and all
, 'Isrs and friends interested in ag-
a. lure are invited to attend.
rus IN your shirt sleeves, prepared
Boa ave good time" is the invita-
IA, .A'ehded by E. F. Gaines, mas
,',' u the College Grange. the enter
~aing Organization