Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-07
CELEBRATION
IS A SUCCESS
LARGE CROWD GATHERS in BON.
NERS FERRY TO HONOR THE
NATIONS BIRTHDAY
MANY TAKE PART in SPORTS
Ideal Weather Helps To Make Day
Pleasant One.

Bonners Ferry last Monday to cele-
brate the nations birthday, and very
successful celebration resulted. The
days sports opened at $50 with a
program of sports staged in the street
before the court house and in which a
large number of young folks and a few
older ones were participants, and in
watching which all passed a pleasant
hour or two. A full list of the events
and the winners is given below.
During a recess in the sport events.
a short patriotic address was given
by the Rev. George Fowler. Rev.
Fowler's remarks might be briefly
summed up in the statement that
America had been endowed with
large degree of liberty and that it was
of utmost Importance and duty in
cumbent upon everyone to see that
these liberties are preserved and car
ried throughout all the world. He said
| it was one thing to win liberties. and
an entirely different matter to retain
them In emphasizing one point he
quoted the renowned Roosevelt, who
said that if a nation loses its soul it
Will surely die The speaker appealed
to his hearers to take greater inter-
(
America was the greatest nation in the
world today, with the largest degree
of liberty and urged his hearers to
uphold these liberties and help to
spread them over the world, by right
thinking and high living.
The afternoons sports opened with
the ball game between Standpoint and
Bonners Ferry, more complete mention
of which is made elsewhere Two
eight round boxing bouts had been
scheduled to follow the ball game.
The preliminary-an eight round bout
between Willett and Hogue-ended
suddenly in the first round when Will
EFT broke one of the bones of his right
forearm when he struck Hogue glanc-
ing blow over the head. This prom
ised to be lively bout. Willett was
very aggressive and was landing some
vicious right hang swings when the
accident happened. Referee O'Brien
awarded the bout to Hogue. Before
this bout Campbell of Standpoint was
introduced and challenged the winner. /,
The main event advertised as an
eight round go between Gillard and |
Goldsmith, was a disappointment to
the large crowd gathered to see it, 1t J
was a very poor exhibition of boxing, !
and nothing but criticism has been
heard of it. Neither man would fight
and neither showed any science at the
game Referee O'Brien awarded the
fight to Goldsmith, however, on the |
ground that Goldsmith had lead the
fighting The decision was highly
criticized by a number of the fans,
and resulted in two brief fistic en-
counters following the fight
Ticket sales for this event totaled
about $468. OF this amount 500 was
required to pay state tax and license
$46S0 for federal tax, $1,000 for the
referee and $1,000 for state medical
examination.
Lieut. Sharpnack of Reno. New, was |
here with his aeroplane and gave ex-
hibitions of flying during the day Be |
cause of the inaccessibility of the =
landing field. not many passengers
were taken up
The days program closed with |
beautiful exhibition of fireworks on
the fair grounds.
Walden's Juvenile band played |
throughout the day and gave a musi- |
cal program that helped much to make ,
the dav a success. These young musi- |
clans have made marked improvement !
the past few months, and are an or
ganization of which the town may well /
feel proud.
The sport events and winners fol-
low:
so yard dash. boys under 12-James |
Welch 1st; Emmett Dutton, End.
20 yard dash, girls under 12-Laura |
1ef. al O,,I
Women's 10 yard peanut race, free
for all-Mrs. A. w. Markham, 1st;
Mrs. f. A. Davis, End.
Boys 20 yards and return wheel
barrow race-Jacoby e Twitchell, 1st;
Hubble &Swanson, End.
rs yards fat mans racial Erase,
1st; J. Regan, End.
25 yard dash, girls under Mercy |
Callahan and Jeanette Warrener, tie. |
These two little contestants ran neck |
and neck the entire distance.
rs yard DASH boys under 16-Indian |
boy, 1st; Clem Wallace, End.
20 yard pick-a-back, free for all
Cochran and Kemp. 1st; Jacoby and
Twitchell, 2nd.
20 yard pick-a-back, boys under 12-
Walden and Walden, 1st; Glass and
Myers, IND.
Special races for band boys-First
race-Egan, 1st; Butler, End. Second
race-Perry Welch, 1st; George Myers,
End.
Girls peanut race-Mildred Shiyely, |
LIST; Harriet Grigley, End.
100 yard dash, free for all-Oliver |
Campbell, 1st; A. Kemp, End.
Fat lady's raCe-Mrs. Pielman, 1st; !
Mrs Axel Johnson, End
Women's so yard dash, free for all
Miss Washburn, list; Miss Rolf, 2nd.
Boys sack race-Twitchell 1st; |
Biggar, End.
Boys hand race-Bill Lundeen, 1st; |