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VOLUME XXXIt t r* * lt;bdmbird picnicWELL ATTENDEDGEORGE PEARSON AROUSES 1 wmH PITCH OP ENTHUSIASMWOOD PROMOTION25# TAKE TRIP ON BASSEfpedal Train Bring* Large Delegation From Newport to Attendthe Celebration.(I,«i. w!gl Iti:Hsche sa E: ITIM:wi hearA:arsis Mi Ml ch be neThe annual Humbird picnic yester-lt;|ay drew a large crowd and George Pearson, a sawyer from Bend, Ore., formerly of Kootenai, made them gasp as he put before them his story j of wood promotion, and what it j meant to the workers to have woodClHemore generally used.Picking up a wooden picnic plate he said the plate did not cost more than the paper plate, but if the wood plates were used there would be con- j iiderbly more employment in thelumber industry. . off“It is all very well to take of ofi trade expansion/' he said. **That is pai all good. But we people right in vit oar own home towns should practice Mc «what we preach. We ought to do it4 for our own protection. All of us who . •work in the mills have a life stake f cfsqf/iin the industry. It gives us our em-ployment, and the more wood used, the more employment for us. That' cog Is why I do not like to see wood sub-1 the ititutes in mill' towns. A little (era while ago my own town of Bend put I T in a water pipe system, using iron pri pipe. The system cost us about coi $600,000. Some of the men who thr voted to put in the iron pipe were1 * mill men. They didn't think. After it was all done,* we realized that, as far as pressure and durability went, for our purposes we might as j jje well have used wooden pipe. I poi“The cost would have been only a third of what we did pay for the v present system. Then it was agreed I should go around and see what eomld be done to extend the market ’tor wood.“I don't like to see patent shingles wed. All things being equal, we want wood. One of our Jobs in Bend was to beat a bond issue of $28,000 with which it was proposed to build a steel highway bridge.“Then we turned around and secured a wooden bridge for the locality that cost about $7,000. ThattheIn $4 i 1hisby1Meme:anccoti1VeiL.conICrsancImameant work for our own people. Astime has paused I have been goingfurther and further into this campaign.”On the arrival of the special train from Newport it was switched over , to the Northern Pacific tracks, from ^here the passengers who desired ,.took the trip on the lake. Over 250trailed themselves of this pleasure. The train then took the crowd backto. the Humbird field.Welcomed by Humbird.The picnic lunch was spread in the grove to the north of the park,t. j. Humbird, president of the Humbird Lumber company, welcomed the employees to the picnic and introduced George Pearson, who, hofore going to Bend, Oregon, was a •*wyer at the local mill and has also been candidate for the legislature.Following the speaking there was ? baseball game between the Four U and the All Stars.Among the other sports events were a 25-yard, race for girls up to eight years of age; 25-yard race for up to eight years of age; 40-7*rd dash for girls 8 to 12; 40-yard **ah for boys 8 to 12; young ladies ■naer 17, 50-yard dash; young ladies over 17, 50-yard dash; hoys under 5 0-yard dash; married ladles, 0 yard dash; free for ell, 100 yard men's 50-yard dash; boys' woe raco, boys’ sack race; Ladies’ **‘1 throwing contest; 'boys cracker •ting contest, and hprseshoe pitch-* contest.Beginning at 5 o’clock there was ^Tl?ree dance 4 at the Four L hall . ich lasted as long as they wanted ^ dance, a free lunch was served j^were. •pJle co:mmitteee in charge ofUnder Charles. Lambert, general chairman in charge of all ar-*5“a«»ts, were:Transportation and program—E. Boies.Bports—A. K. Nelson and Zeph***0 y.v ^Baseball—Charles Lambert and *°rman Campbell;Coffee—Tom Brown and Charles^ckstrom.cream—C. Congdon.Grounds—Hogan Anderson. Nor-^alnPbelI, Alex Friedman and HNessma®.Dance---Cbar]es Beckstrom, Tom rown, Carl Bergstrom, C. Congdoh Zeph Lavoy.whiCtioitotenCoctreiforveyarethethepriiATMaiBsuit a dBakaga and be lt;dro pen her leai 1] herelty pari men relij -Sa P 192andand act! othi in rcunfng4oaltheihasthetionTBri*sixcomchUsup;
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Sandpoint Northern Idaho News
Sandpoint, Idaho, US
Tue, Sep 04, 1928
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