Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-08-01
COOKE PREPARED TO WELCOME
CROWDS AT ANNUAL FISH FRY
Affair Will Honor o. H. P. Shelley in Tribute of Work
In Securing New Highway; Program to Include
Greenough Rodeo, Concerts, Lectures


biggest crowds ever to attend the
event were completed this week
for the annual Fish Fry Day cele-
bration at Cooke City which this
year will be in the form of a two
day fete, August As, ~honoring O.
H. P. Shelley, editor of The News
whose efforts at Washington, D..
c., in securing a federal %appropri-
alton led to the construction of the
Red Lodge-Cooke City Shelley
Skyway highway to Yellowstone
National park.
Cooke City this year has pre-
pared a program which promises
to eclipse any previous one given
In the many years that Fish Fry
Day has been observed annually in
the picturesque mining town
which is today enjoying the first
effects of the greatest boom in it's
history. Dances, a rodeo, a free
barbecue, illustrated lectures,
sport contests, band concerts and
many other features are included
on the program.
Although the program arranged
for Saturday will be more of a
preliminary to the big celebration
on the following day and will de-
pend largely on the crowd arrived
for the first days events, the
Fish Fry Day observance will of
ficially get under way at 8 O'Clock
Saturday night with an illustrated
lecture by l.. M. Prill. Immediate
ly following this, at 8 p. M, a
huge dance will be staged. The
Rhythm Vendors, popular six
piece dance orchestra of Red
Lodge, will furnish the music for
this event.
Program For Shelley
Sundays program will open at
II a. m. with a specially arranged
program in honor of Mr.. Shelley.
Prominent speakers will be on
hand to review the difficulties
which had to be overcome before
the highway leading from Red
Lodge over the scenic Beartooths
to Cooke City and Yellowstone
National park was made possible
and to eulogize the man who
worked diligently by day and by
night, without a thought Of his
own time, effort and money, to-
wards this end.
At noon a beef barbecue will be
held which will take the place of
the customary fish fry. Crowds
of recent years attending the an
nual observance became so great
that the arrangements committee
had found it increasingly difficult
to supply the demand for noun
tain trout. The barbecue this year
will replace it and, as is custom
airy, will be free of charge, a treat
on the towns residents.
Band Concert and Rodeo
Following the barbecue a band
concert will be given by the Bill
lings Municipal band at / p. m.
This is a special feature of this
years program, the band having
an enviable reputation of being
n of the best in the northwest.
About 80 pieces will be brought to
Cooke City for the occasion and
will be accompanied by the organ
ization's director, Dennis O'Brien.
Representations from the Rotary,
Kiwanis and Lions clubs at Bill
lings are planning to be in attend
ance at the celebration.
The band concert will lead up to
one of the most unusual features
of this years celebration when the
TOP of the World" rodeo, featur-
ing members of the riding
Greenough" family and being pre-
scented by Bill Greenough, opens
at 2 p. m. This show is to be of
the exhibition type and heading
the list of performers will be
Turk and Alice Greenough, inter-
nationally famous rodeo stars who
only recently returned from Lon
don, England, where they ap-
peared with the best talent that
the rodeo world has to offer.
Tom Parkins, Heavy Hansen
and other well-known riders will
also appear in the events and
"Pack Saddle" Ben Greenough,
father of the widely-known rodeo
family and famous in his own
right as a Beartooth mountain
guide, will also be on hand to lend
a picturesque western note to the
occasion.
The events will be staged in the
real oldtime western style with
cowboy and cowgirl gambling
against every danger and risk of
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