Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1921-09-22
THREEDAYSOF
JOY FOR ALL;
FINISH PARK
Great Crowds Expected to
Attend Western Drama in
Grangeville During Week
Annual Show Will Start on
Wednesday and Continue
Until Late Friday Night

Untll Late FRIDAY Night
Border Days park, Grangeville g new
municipal playground, is ready for the
opening of the seventh annual Bor-
der Days show next Wednesday. Car
penters and laborers have practically
finished the work AMI the intervening
days will see the park and all its equip
ment and improvement in readiness
for the opening of the three days of
western sport and contests.
The big grandstand is complete to
the last detail, as are also the bleach
ers elong the east and north walls of
the park. The fence around the rcgu-
lation track is ready for the sprints
of the bang-tails and the cow ponies
and the arena is set for the bucking
horses, frisky calves and wild steers.
All corrals, chutes and pens for the
stock are finished and ready for occu-
pancy.
TRYOUTS ON SUNDAY
Approximately sixty head of buck
ing horses have been signed for the
show and these will be here not lat
er than next Sunday when the tryouts
for stock for the bucking contests will
be held Exhibitions of riding of
championship class will be witnessed at
the park Sunday when the tryouts
start and it is expected that a
crowd will be out to watch the fun.
Practically all the buckers come
from various parts of Idaho, Lewis and
Nez Perez counties, so the stock may
be said to be of local origin exclusive
ly. More than twenty head of wild
horses, for the wild horse races alone,
will be brought to the city the latter
part of the week These wild horses
are not used in the bucking contests
Big punches of calves. mules and wild
steers have also been engaged for the
show. All this stock will be in the
corrals and nearby pastures the first
of next week.
The committee actively in charge of
arrangements for the show. consisting
of Hub Wood, Mat Geary and Charles
Campbell, announces that all bucking
horses brought to town will be given
a tryout and if they are found up to
standard, arrangements will be made
to enter them in the events. Tryouts
will be held at the park beginning
Sunday and continuing to the opening
of the show on Wednesday.
The cowboys bucking contest will
be one of the main events of Border
Days. The committee announces
cash prize of 1925 for this one event
alone. At first an entrance fee of
SIS was decided upon, but at meet
ing held later, of the directors, this
entrance fee for the bucking contest
was cancelled, leaving the field free to
the cowboys to contest for the big
cash prize and the Border Days cham
pionship free of all cost Already a
number of entries have been listed for
this event. Day prizes will be given
each afternoon and the grand finals
will be held Friday afternoon, the
last day of the show.
PROGRAM AT PARK
The daily program of western events
at the Border Days park includes calf
riding, potato race, riding steers,
eowgirls bucking contest, trick and
fancy roping, steer roping, cowboys
mule riding contest mule race, wild
horse race, Indian pony race, cow
boys fashion revue, squaw race, cow
boys bulldogging contest, cowpony
race, Border Days horse race, cow
boys relay race and cowboys buck
ing contest. Other events will also be
featured each afternoon.
The big show opens Wednesday with
cowboy parade through the downtown
streets. W. A. Jones, wen knowa
stockman of the Boles country, will be
in charge of this event. Prizes will
be awarded for the best appearing
cowboy and cowgirl. 1t is expected
several hundred riders will appear in
this parade The committee announces
all mounted cowboys and cowgirls will
be admitted free to Border Days park
daily.
The aerial circus, featuring j. Lee
strange in triple parachute drops, is
slated for 1880 a. m. each day. Prior
to this aerial program, and following
the cowboy parade, free acts will be
given on the downtown streets for
the entertainment of the crowds
Gates to Border Days park win swing
open to the crowds at 1;30 Wednesday
Mammoth tents for the livestock
show and the agricultural exhibit will
be pitched at the park and viii be
open TO visitors at all times Enter
tainment features and various conces-
sions will be located in the downtown
district. The Cowboy band will be fea-
tured daily.