Idaho County free press., 1923-07-05
TALKS
ON PIONEERS
AND j. s. FLAG
Crowd Enjoys Picnic Dinner
at Noon; Old Timers Asso-
citation Picks Years Officers
Grangeville Wins Baseball
Game from Nezperce; Many
Celebrate at Winchester

Combining the spirit of Pioneer day
and Independence day. impressive
Fourth of July exercises were held in
Grangeville Wednesday. Although no
effort mas made to draw big crowd
to Grangeville, hundreds of people
gathered here to spend the day.
The program. sponsored by the Ida
no County Pioneer association and the
American legion, opened with a band
concert, followed by speaking in the
city auto park, basket dinner at
noon, baseball game in the after
noon, between Grangeville and Nez-
perez. in which Grangeville won, to
3. and election of officers by the pio-
neer association. A dance was held
in Dreamland hall that night.
Program at Auto Park
Program at the auto park was
opened by an invocation by w. N.
Knox, minister. There were songs by
the audience and Hon. A. f. Parker,
president of the pioneer association,
spoke on pioneer life.
r. ID. Leeper, of Lewiston, was the
speaker of the day. He declared it
was particularly fitting that the
Fourth of July celebration and COM
memeration of pioneer life should be
held together, because the pioneers
have made much of the nation. They
were the daring people who braved
the trials and hardships to conquer
the land.
"The pioneers are the foundation
upon which this great nation is built"
said Mr.. Leeper. "Most other folk Of
today compare to them as sandstone
to granite Even as the world is hung
upon great, gaunt ribs of everlastig
granite. so are our institutions built
upon them. Their ideals are ever
lasting. and the house which they have
built shal lnever fall"
Pioneers and the Flag
TIE speaker pointed out that the
pioneers gave us those things fer
which the flag stands sponsor.
"The flag of nation represents the
hopes and achievements, the ideals and
desires, the tolls and troubles, Of it's
people," the speaker declared. at re-
presents the blood of its own sons.
shed on battleficlds. and the tears of
Its women who gave them.
"The armies of the great Pharoahs
Africa beneath the pennons
- thth hHiS hitAdnuti
the world led ON by some
beloved banner; great Caesars Iegions
won for him a world behind the eagles
If mighty Rome. SO in our modern
lay, men have fought and bled and
lied beneath the glorious tri-color of
France, and England's scarlet
,anner has fioated over every sea and
IN a thousand bloody battlefields SO
ioes our flag, the starry banner repre-
'ent America, the coined Iife-b blood of
,ur pioneer ancestors who lived and
worked and suffered TO make it what
{ is. 1t. too, has been borne by low
ng hands through dangers and diff
,ulties. DER many dark field of war
n every cline. that our ideals might
i've: never borne i'm an unworthy
'ause nor by ignobIe hands,"
Pioneers Elect Officers
The pioneer association, in the after
oon, elected officers as follows:
President-M. S. Martin.
Vice President-Henry Meyer.
Secretary--Henry Telcher.
Treasurer-Ars. Bertha Long.
Committee in charge of the celebra-
ion expresses gratitude for the priv
lege of using the tourist park for
he exercises and picnic.
Many Grangeville people went to
Winchester Wednesday for a big cell
bration there. Others went to Rig
ins, Clearwater and Flyblow.