The Lamar register., 1921-09-28
ELKS DAY AT EADS
Lamar Moves Over To Our Neighbor-
ing City to Celebrate Last
Thursday.

OH ldst lHuTSuay, oeptetnDeI GS,
two hundred Lamar Elks and an equal
number of other citizens of this vicini-
ty went over to Eads in over one
hundred autos to help in celebrating
Lamar Day at the Eads Fair. 1t prov
ed one of the biggest celebrations of
the year in this section Of the state,
and the prosperous little city of Eads
did itself proud in its manner of
handling the great crowd.
The displays of all kinds gathered
from the Kiowa county farms were of
ed after such fine season as the
farmers of that section have enjoyed.
One of the big events of the day was
the grand free barbecue prepared by
the most celebrated barbecue artist of
the central west, John Blair of Eads.
His work is too well known through
out the valley to need any further de-
scription than just that he superin-
tended the job of roasting Five
beeves. six hogs, and number of head
of sheep were barbecued ard there
were plenty Of fixin's to go with them.
Nearly seven thousand people were
fed during the noon hours.
The program of sports and races
was all that could be asked for and
especially the relay race in which some
of the best strings of cow ponies in
the west were entered. Several of the
riders were knocked off their horses
in the hard fought contest and suf
fered broken bones and other injuries,
but all finished the race which was
close to the last. The Thompson
string won. Several other exciting
races were run and two Of the riders
in these events also suffered injuries.
A special surprise had been prepar-
ed for the Lamar sporting element in
the shape Of the ball game for a purse
Of 500, winner take all. The Lamar
ties were quite cocky on their arrival
and were ready to bet any amount.
but cooled down materially when they
got sight Of George Sherrod. the well
known La Junta slab artist, and other
well known players from up the val
ley. II was some nifty ball game.
but lasted only seven innings owing
to the many events on the program.
Sherrod was at his best and Reynolds
Of Lamar succeeded in getting an
honest to goodness hit and saw second
base for n few minutes. An error en-
abled Allen Skinner to pass n tempor-
ary sojourn on first base, and that
was the extent of the Lamar teams
travel around the bases. They saw
the home plate only when they stood
in the batter's box and II there was
third base on the diamond they failed
to find it. The Eads team made four
full circuits Of the bases and took the
pot with a TO O score.
The two leading street features ar
ranged for by Messrs. Wooden and
Kelsey OF the Elks entertainment com
mittee were the Elks clown band and
the illuminated parade. Matt Ober,
organizer and leader of the band, had
gathered a bunch Of fine artists in
cluding DR.. Grant, the drummer boy
of the Arkansaw, Bill Carr, the midget
cornetist, Charming Pyle, Pug Lee, Al
len Swadley, Lester Wood, and others.
They furnished all the latest popular
and classic selections right from the
almanac. and made good on Leader
Ober's boast that they could play any
selection that any one had ever heard
of. Fred Kelsey's famous illuminated
parade Of year ago was repeated at
Eads with two hundred Elks in line
firing roman candles by the dozenr.
1t made a display such as is only seen
a few times in a town.
After the parade the Elks with n
large bunch Of candidates repaired to
the Eads lodge rooms and the famous
drill team under direction of Chas.
Owen proceeded TO give the class
few new IDEAS in the line of what con-
stitutes an initiation. All the class
were satisfied both with what they
got and what they escaped. The class
was composed of the following:
P. H. Greene, !. w. Downer, Graft
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