Labor Day Celebration Plans Announced

Judge E. K. Cheadle, County Attorney Roy E. Ayers and Thomas Stout, have been invited to deliver the addresses, and this feature will be followed by a program of sports. Most of the events will take place on Fourth avenue, one of the most interesting being a drilling contest, in which a number of noted drillers will participate.

There will be a base ball game, in which Lewistown will play against the best nine that can be found, a purse of $50 to go to the winners. A tug of war between team owners and coal miners promises lots of fun and excitement.

Program of Sports.

Other events are as follows:

Purse of $25.00 to the union with largest membership in parade.

Drilling contest, purse $75.00.

Ball game, Lewistown against field, $50.00.

One-fourth mile race, coal miners against field, first, $10; second, $5.

Old man's race, 50 yards, 50 years and up, first, $5; second, $2.50.

Old ladies' race, 50 yards, 40 years and up, first, $5; second, $2.50.

Young ladies' race, 25 years and under, first, $5; second, $2.50.

Children's race, 12 years and under, first, $1; second, 50c.

Boys' race, 12 to 16 years, with wheelbarrow, blindfolded, first, $5;

Girls' race, 12 to 16 years, first, $3; second, $2.

Little girls' race, 12 years and under, first, $1; second 50c.

Three-legged race, free-for-all, first, $5; second, $3.

Boys egg race, 10 to 13 years, first, $2.50; second, $1.50.

Boys' potato race, 5 to 10 years, first, $1; second, 50 cents.

High jump, any age, first, $5; second, $2.50.

Jump, any age, first, $5; second, $2.50.

Backward jump, first, $5; second, $2.50.

Tug of war, between the Team Owners and coal miners, $15.

A General Holiday.

Labor Day will be observed as a holiday all over the state. Following is Gov. Toole's proclamation:

The first Monday in September, commonly called Labor day, is declared by law to be a legal holiday.

It had its conception in the wise purpose to cultivate that community of interests between employer and employe which is essential to the continued development of our resources and the enlargement of our material prosperity. It ought to be the occasion for glorifying and dignifying honorable labor in all its various forms and frowning down every mean attempt to create or widen a breach between capital and labor.

I recommend that the day be observed in earnest to vindicate the wisdom of its creation and continuation; and to this end that there be a general suspension of business so far as practicable throughout the state, on Monday, September 4.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the state of Montana to be affixed. Done at the city of Helena, the capital, this nineteenth day of August, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

By the Governor: