Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-06-29
Patriotic Program, Music,
Reading of the Declara
tion, Sports, Carnival and
Dance Will Fill the Glori-
GUS Fourth to Overfowing.

The Grand and Glorious Fourth
OF July celebration that is planned
for Mountain Home is shaping ur
right The day will open at ten
o'clock with a patriotic program,
music by the band that will be here
for the OCCASION the reading of the
declaration of Independence, more
music, patriotic speech by Edwin
Snow widely known and eloquent
Boise lawyer, a talk on the work of
the Red Cross, and more music.
Then it is time for dinner.
In the afternoon the usual sports
will be put on, the boys will have a
chance to contest in the potato race,
the three legged race, the sack race
and all the other old stand-bys that
have added to the joys of the Fourth
for the past 140 years.
There will be no ball game but the
Superba Amusement Co., with its
carnival attractions will take the
place of that attraction
The Superba Amusement Co fur
nishes the attractions for the carni-
val week and independence Day
celebration. Mountain Home re-
members this company as they gave
us carnival week last fall. Their
press representative tells of many
new attractions, which they will
bring this year Foremost among
these will be Sherman Ganle's
Animal Show There are few carni-
walls which can boast of a show that
was featured at the Pan-Pac. Ex-
position at San Francisco But this
is true of Gaules animal show. He
features as his main attraction
two snakes. One he calls "the
worm. She is only Ia foot
phyton, too small to notice much.
But big Jim the boa-constrictor is
some snake" Twenty-seven feet,
four inches from nose to tail, and
weighs 295 lbs. His feeding time,
which is but once in four months, is
about due and Mr. Gaule hopes to
feed him during his stay in Mountain
Home. This is a wonderful sight and
one that few Americans have ever
witnesses, as Big Jim is the largest
reptile in America.
Then the Pit Show, featuring
Giant Rhesus Ape and baby. The
Spider Girl, Aneta, that strange girl |
and other attractions of various
kinds.
The ever popular COWGIRL Cabaret
is still With them, and still popular
among those who like to trip the
light fantastic
There are places where you can
win kewpie dolls, candy, jewellery
and what not You can throw base
balls at those funny little Arkansas
kids, comical in their calico dresses
and sun bonnets. Or you can knock
the block off "Kaiser Bill"
You can train your shooting eye
at the long range shooting gallery
or you can throw rings at the canes.
And the Ferris wheel and the merry
go-round will be there to please you
So Mountain Home can look for
ward to five days fun and amusement
for young and old.
There will be special pictures at
the Weaver theatre during the after
noon and evening
On the night Of the Fourth of
July, to add to all the other joys that
are promised for the celebration of
that day, Jack Goul Is to be in charge
Of a big dance at the Standard
theatre. The proceeds will go to
the Canteen at Glenns Ferry and the
price will be dollar, for dancers and
so cents for sightseers. Duke Ander-
sons famous Jazz orchestra of five
pieces will furnish the music, and
they have a reputation for pep and .
life that extends all over Southern, :
Idaho 1t promises to be one joyous Z
time for the large crowd that is sure
to be there.
Altogether, even with fireworks
md the usual grand display of glor
ous fireworks in the evening, 1t will
be a perfect day.
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