Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-08-08
STAGES MOST ROUS|NG
CELEBRATION IN ITS HISTORY
Crowd of 1000 Persons Throng Cookies Main Street to
Attend Old Timers Annual Fish Fry Day
Celebration and Barbecue

bration opened Saturday evening
with an illustrated lecture by L.
M. Prill, who discussed the Lewis
and Clark expedition of 126 years
ago and traced the route of the
party through Montana.
Following this the grand open
ing dance was staged with the hall
being quickly filled by the visitors.
Music was furnished for the affair
by the Rhythm Vendors, the or
chestra receiving much commend
alton from the celebrants.
Sunday mornings program OPP
ened at II a. m. with a special
program in honor of o. H. P.
Shelley and following this the
barbecue was served at noon, with
a long stream of visitors keeping
the attendants busy in serving
sandwiches, bean-hole beans and
coffee. Although two large steers
were used, the supply was oon
exhausted and many had to be
turned away. The steers were
cooked in a specially prepared pit
for Is hours by Cook C. L. Mont
gomery.
Under the leadership of Dennis
O'Brien, the Billings Municipal
band gave a concert on main
street. The band was the first in
history to visit the town and old
timers were particularly pleased
with this feature of the celebra-
ton. Following the concert the
band led the way up the main
street to the rodeo grounds where
exhibition riding was presented by
the famous riding Greenough"
family, and staged under the di-
rection of "Pack Saddle" Ben
Greenough and his son, Bill. AL
though the management of the
show had only six days in which
to prepare and the stock used had
little time to rest after the long
drive over the mountains, the
show was declared a uccess by
the more than 1000 persons in at
tendance.
The show featured Turk Green
ough, American rodeo tophand,
who gave exhibition performances.
Alice Greenough, sister of Turk
and also a star performer in the
worlds outstanding rodeo shows,
failed to keep her scheduled ap-
pearance at the show due to an
unexpected delay at Fort Worth,
Texas, where she had gone to
bring back a trick riding horse.
Bill Greenough is to handle next
years show and is to plan far
ahead in making it n of the
most novel affairs ever staged in
a western arena.
Following the rodeo exhibition,
dancing was enjoyed and at $3.50
in the evening two boxing bouts
were staged under the direction of
T. E. White, field superintendent
of the McLaren interests. The
first bout was between Nick Mic
coils of the school of mines at
Butte and Happy Vollmer of Hell
! ena, while the main event was
staged by Billy Vollmer of Helena
and Lew Katonenen of South Da-
kota. This was pronounced one of
the best affairs staged during the
celebration.
A dance staged after the boxing
bouts climaxed the affair.
The committee which was re-
sponsible for the affair can offer
no excuse because accommodations
were not available for this years
celebration. However, plans are
now being formulated for next
year and everything is to be
staged with more organization. A
permanent organization will be
perfected shortly and the promise
is that every citizen of Cooke City
will again do their part in the
work. Four men are really re-
sponsible for the uccess of this
years celebration, namely Bill
Hoozier, Fred Plat, George Jima-
son and L M. Prill.