Field Notebook: Maine, New Hampshire 1925
Page 40
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FEBRUARY SHOW rades Council to Operate Night Entertainment During Rodeo. Wolville, the mythical cow camp made famous by Alfred Henry Lewis in his "Wolville Days," the right attraction during the rodeo last year, will again be a feature this year's cowboy festival. The union Central Trades council will have entire charge of the affair and has secured the services of George Prund, originator of last year's successful show, to direct and manage the affair. All of the features of last year's show will be retained, together with hundred and one new attractions and cowboy stunts that will fit in with a typical western cow camp. President Fred Steger of the trades council says that members of the council will operate the entire show and that there will be no high-pressure' concession men and artists allowed on the grounds. "We are going to operate the show from an educational and amusement standpoint. The 1927 edition of 'Wolville' will be held from February 17 to the 22d, and will be better, bigger and grander "every way than last year's famous show," he said. The fourving members of the trades council acting as an executive committee will have entire charge of the project: J. W. Hopkins, chairman; W. C. Milsap, Fred Steger, Harry DeFord, Tom O'Nott and L E. Brewer. In the Legislature PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 15 (P)--the ease with which Mulford Winor of Yuma wields the gavel as resident of the senate, aided and betted by caustic repartee, reminds the old-timers in the press gallery of Speaker Tom Reed in the national house of representatives some 39 years ago. A southern congressman, repetitive rhetoric but short on logic, close to a point of order, charging that he had been accused of being "lobbyist, filibusterer and lawyer," Reed remarked, dryly: "We will nolle the last charge." Major Kelly, state historian; Billy Spear, editor of the Arizona Republican, and Ned Creighton, dean of the active reporters, daily occupy the press galleries of the legislature. Never has a legislature met without the presence of his editorial tribune. Major Kelly insists he comes in only as an onlooker and that he is "through" as chronicler of current events. Mr Spear takes copious notes and appears as intensely interested as his regular reporters. Ned Creighton daily dispenses legislative tidings to the press of the state. Bob Caples, 69-year-old reporter, citizen of the world and, in his own words, a connecting link between the dim past and the present, is daily on the job in the press gallery for a Miami newspaper. Bob shows the activity of a 'cub' reporter and the enthusiasm of youth in his daily ramble for news. Forty-five years ago Bob was editor of a newspaper in Tucson, and he recalls with gusto that only through "eveingtown saloon and gambling house advertisements was the paper able to meet the Saturday payroll. Fred Sutter's sense of humor often is exhibited on the floor of the senate. A senator had arisen several times, and in emphasizing his objections to a bill, had repeated himself so often that he attracted the attention of every one in the chamber--a signal an