Fourth of July Picnic in Town Draws Huge Crowd
A warm Fourth of July brought about five hundred residents to the picnic grounds by ten o clock. The program featured Rev. Frank Babcock on a Better Citizenship, hymns, and a busy coffee and sandwich counter run by Shorty Taylor Paul May and Earl Gaines. Sports began at 2 p.m. with winners including Clayton Carey in the boys race, Mary Lackner in girls events, and Joe Riley's cowpuncher team winning the tug of war. contests also included three legged races, potato races, sack races, and a barrel race with multiple winners named.
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Frank Babcock
Shorty Taylor Paul May
Earl Gaines
Messrs Baker, Holland and
Knudson
Clayton Carey
Francis Ryan
Dua Askin
Mary Lackner
Ryan
Hoffman
Maury Lackner
Lillie Peck
Paul Stolt
Joe Riley
Johnson
Shea
Wolfe
Schiegal
Siecle
Matt
Opening of Central Oregon Trunk Railway Lines
The new Oregon trunk railway, linking Fallbridge to Bend via the Deschutes Canyon, opens 33 million acres to settlers and starts passenger and freight service March 1. It crosses the Deschutes and Crooked Rivers, features multiple tunnels, and includes the highest railroad bridge in the United States at Crooked River. The line will cost about $10 million and boosts eastern migration. Local fair events include horse and bucking contests with notable riders and spectators from Marmarth, Beach, Wibaux, Terry and beyond, ending with a lively dance and large turnout.
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Wareh
Oregor
Megon
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Systems
Cascades
Blue Mountains
Columbia River
California Line
Spokane, Portland
Columbiaiver
Metolius
Oregon
Deschutes River
Deschutes Canyon
Fallbridge
Sherar
Madras
Columbia
Hillman
Crooked River
United States
Bend
East
Middle West
the Northern Pacific
Japanese Auction Is Tame by Oriental Quiet
An observer describes a Japanese auction as calm and silent with bidders writing bids on slips and sending them up by a page. There is no spoken drama or crowd reaction, and prices remain private as the auctioneer passes the item to the highest bidder and moves on.
Australia claims tallest tree in world at 480 feet
Baron Mueller measured a giant eucalyptus near Blacks Spur, Miles from Healesville, at 480 feet with an 84 foot girth, beating California’s 340 foot record by 140 feet. The article credits Mueller, a former Victoria government botanist, for the finding.
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AtetraHa
California
Australia
Baron Mueller
Victoria
Blacks’ Spur
Jilles
Heatesville
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Ismay
Custer County
Fron Eforse
Conrad Priess
Frank Shaw
Cliff Wilson
Red Steel
Frank Shaw, Jr
Albert Roberts
Paul Burt
Paul
Roberts
Committee On Sports
Marmarth
Beach, Wibaux
Terry
Westmore
The
J. M. Clark Music House
Miles City, Mont
First National Bank
IS May, Montana
R. L. Anderson
David Bickle
E. J. Armstrong
James Hunter
Wm. Fulton
J. H. Price
W. G. Lang
Journal
C. & J. Michel Brewing Co
la Crosse, Wis
Graffenreid
Ismay, Mon
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