The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1923-07-11


July in Fallon under the auspices of
the Legion members and the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars proved a sue
cess even to finances, as all bills have
been met and the people at home and
the hundreds of visitors voted it a
prrfect day with something doing
every minute. Fallon put on her
decoration, entertained from early
morning until after the ball was over
and nothing but favorable comment
was made by those who came here
for a real time.
Visitors were noted from all of the
nearby cities including Loveloek, Vir-
ginia City, Carson City, Minden
Reno, Wadsworth, Hazen and Fern
ley, while the Indians as far as Eur
eka came in to see the doings. Love
lock by participating in the baseball,
shooting and boxing furnished the
largest attendance and took home the
bacon when ii came to the glove con-
test. losing the shoot and baseball
to Fallon.
The Parade
With approximately fifty decorat-
ed cars and a number of floats in the
parade it made a very attractive pro-
cession. 1t was led by the band, with
color guards of the American Legion
and Veterans of Foreign Wars fol
lowing. Next in order we're floats or
the Pythian sisters. the Auxiliary and
Maccabees, four decorated cars of the
G. L. Benadum display. a decorated
car of the Legion Auxiliary, the Fal-
Ion fire department regailia, a float
from the Gray, Reid & Company store
carrying equipment for baking
doughnuts-and the doughnuts were
thrown out to the crowd. decor
ated moving machine was followed
by number of decorated cars from
the Fallon Garage, several individual
decorated cars. The /. II. Kent Com
pany's display was the end of the
parade and included a very unique
arrangement of a dairy maid and
young heifer riding a decorated float
which was led by car carrying life
size portraits of dairy cows.
Pythians Take Prize
The Pythian Sisters were awarded
the first prize for the best decorated
float, and the l. II. Kent Company
received honorable mention for it's
industrial display. Judges were Mr.
Hood of Reno. Mr.. Jeffrey of Fernley
and Mr.. Park of Lovelock They
awarded the first prize for decorated
| 20 ha a
prize to c. l.. Benadum for the best
decorated small car. Prizes for the
most attractive costumes went to
Frances Moody and George Reid.
Auto Race
The auto race from Fallon to Ha-
zen and return proved one of the fea-
lures of the day and established u
record that will be hard to equal
The 32 miles was driven in 81 min
utes including the turn-around at
Hazen. The take off was of unusual
interest as the rebuilt Ford driven
by Andy Drumm fairly jumped into
the front and was never headed, in
fact from the point of start to finish
Drumm was well in the lead and
made his entire trip without any
trouble and in record breaking time.
lie won the 800 first prize money
Second money went to an 0ldsmo-
bile driven by Casey Westwood of
Reno and this car was only a minute
behind the Ford when the finish came
and was gaining at the closeup. Third
money went TO the Fallon Motor
Company with stripped Ford driv-
en- by Melvin Thornton, he covering
the distance in 40 minutes flat. His
run was made with one defective
valve. Bop Douglass in his Lincoln
early developed carburator trouble
and was practically out of the race
The other two cars did not return
The Reno driver of a Durant got In
a hurry and headed into telegraph
pole instead of going around a we'll
defined curve in the highway. The
pole was left hanging by the wires
and the Durant was badly crimped,
but the driver suffered only a few
scratches.
Trap Shoot
While the youngsters were holding
events on the Main street the trap
shoot between Lovelock and Fallon
was in progress. Fallon won the
event by a score of Ill and 1T as
against los and 113. The Virginia
City team did not enter the shoot
High gun record went to C. II. Baker
of Lovelock who broke so straight
birds. Tom Sanford was second with
40 birds to his credit
In the early evening Whitefeather
and a lot of Pute warriors gave a
number of dances which was so
crowded that only the inner circle
could enjoy this feature. snake