Evanston Visit Highlights Gray Family Guests
Mr and Mrs Donald Gray hosted Mrs Mary A Murdock visiting from Evanston. The gathering occurred last Sunday with friends and relatives at the riverfront ranch home.
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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1930
Page
4
Mr and Mrs Donald Gray hosted Mrs Mary A Murdock visiting from Evanston. The gathering occurred last Sunday with friends and relatives at the riverfront ranch home.
The Wyoming State Fair hall is fully booked with exhibits from nearly every Wyoming county. Exhibits showcase the state’s resources with a central honey display and a loud speaker music from the grandstands. The fair runs September 9 to 13 with special rail rates to Douglas and ample housing and meals for visitors.
A two mile long parade will narrate Wyoming history from the Louisiana Purchase era to statehood with floats, pantomimes, and figures from Indians to miners. Prominent state residents will participate in a business district to Brandstand review route, organized by an American Legion committee over three months.
Fred Loeckley notes in a Portland Oregon column that in Dawzil natives view lip smacking while eating as good manners. They believe making noise shows enjoyment and sharing of food, contrasting with other countries where it is considered bad form.
The passage notes describe Afton Water as a Burns song alluding to a lying Mary. The fourth verse ends with the line about the birch shade where the poet and Mary sit, while the next verse mentions the cot where Mary resides and her rowing in the waters, linking imagery to the lyric.
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