Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1921-02-17
ELKS To TAKE
LOCAL BAND To.
Los ANGELES
Cowboy Musicians Will Go to
Big Convention; Under Aus
pices of Lewiston Lodge
Arrangements Completed for
Trip to Meeting in South
ern California Next July

The Grangeville Cowboy band will
play at the Elks national convention
in Los Angeles next July. Arrange
ments have just been completed by
Harold Harris, manager of the band,
for the trip. The band will appear un-
der auspices of Lewiston lodge No.
500, Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks, and will be known dur
ing the trip as the Lewiston Elks'
Cowboy band
Several members of the Cowboy
band are already affiliated with the
Lewiston lodge of Elks and the re-
naming musicians who will make the
trip are soon TO submit applications
for membership, which, with a num-
Der of Lewiston musicians who are
Elks and who will be joined with the
band for this excursion, will insure a
musical organization second to none
on the coast.
Headed by this band a big delega-
ton of Elks win leave Lew
iston about July 8 in a special Pull
man for Portland, where they will
board special Elks, train bound for
Los Angeles. Practically every Elks
lodge in the country, and particularly
those of the larger cities, will be rep
resented at Los Angeles by brass
bands and delegations of members
and it is expected that fully 100
bands will be featured in the line of
march of the various parades to be
held during the convention.
NEGOTIATIONS ARE COMPLETE
Arrangements for taking the Cow
boy band for the Los Angeles trip
have been under way for some time,
the negotiations having been conduct
ed by Capt. John E. Atkins, exalted
rule. of the Lewiston lodge; DR.. j. F..
Atkinson, district deputy, and Harold
Harris, manager of the Cowboy band
The Cowboy band of Grangeville is
perhaps the most widely advertised
and most favorably known musical
organization in the northwest, par
ticularily among the bands from the
smaller towns. The band was organ
lied in 1915 and has been intact ever
since. Though strictly an amateur
organization the band has found time
to fill several out-of-town engage
ments and has played in nearly all
the principal cities of the northwest
Perhaps the longest trip ever taken
by an amateur band from a city the
size of Grangeville was that taken by
the Cowboy band to Thermopolis,
WyO., in 1919 when the cow
boy musicians were the official
band at the stampede in the Wyo-
ming city, which was one of the best
western exhibitions ever staged. The
Cowboy band has also played two en-
gagements of d week each ct the Spo-
kane Interstate fair and Western
Royal Livestock show at Spokane, as
well as at the Northwest Livestock
show in Lewiston. Engagements have
also been played at Moscow and other
cities in the Inland empire. Each
year the band receives many more Of
fers of engagements than the mem
bers can find time to fill.
REAL COWBOY GARB
The cowboy outfits for the trip will
include range garb and trappings from
the Salmon and Snake river sec
tions, in addition to the individual
outfits owned by the members of
the Cowboy band, the whole in
surfing a collection of cowboy chaps,
sombreros, and the like worth thou
sands of dollars and all truly typical
of the range country.
Featured with the Lewiston Elks
Cowboy band are Tex Frizzell and Joe
Roberts, rope spinners and riders, who
have been identified with the Grange
Vile Cowboy band since its organiza-
ton. A specially painted drumhead
for the bass drum of the band bearing
the inscription: Lewiston Elks' Cow
boy Band,D has been ordered for the
Los Angeles trip. The numerals.
500. y will also be prominently dis