Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-12 | Page 8 | Races Feature Camp Program

RACES FEATURE CAMPJWGRAM By AL FIRGl SON Tetrgraia Staff Writer SPANISH FORK. Aug. 12 The annual Black Hawk Indian War encampment passed its fourth day here today with activities for the veterans and other visitors continuing contin-uing undiminished. The first horse races, scheduled during the final three days of ths encampment, were held Thursday afternoon, attracting nearly as many people as on Wednesday, when Governor Henry H. Blood attended the opening of the rodeo. The second day's rodeo program Is scheduled tonight under the recently re-cently installed floodlights. Another feature of tonight's program will be a dance, at which persons over 75 will be guests of honor. That there will be plenty of them was Indicated from a survey of ths register. reg-ister. It showed that of the 144 'persons registered today, 441, or nearly a third, are 79 years old or older. The actual registration does not begin to show the large crowd here, however. Committee members estimated es-timated that Thursday's crowd was almost as great aa the estimated 7000 who doubled the city's population popula-tion on Wednesday. An invitation for the 1S encampment en-campment was extended by City Marshal Braxton Barnett of Pay-son, Pay-son, seconded by John T. Lant, a state officer of the Sons and Daughters Daugh-ters of Pioneers and Indian War Veterans. Moroni is also bidding for the encampment, although no decision will be made by the stats executive committee until February. Featured, other than the racing In the afternoon and rodeo at night, were programs presented by the ,Payson post, in charge of Captain A. Turner; Monroe poet, Captain Lewis W. Jones; Richfield post. Captain L. Hanson, and Nephl post. Captain Albert E. Sells. State officers of the Sons and Daughters ot Pioneers and Indian War Veterans were introduced at the program Wednesday night by Dr. Joseph Hughes, chairman of the encampment program committee, commit-tee, who said the purpose of organising or-ganising in 1922 waa to lift from the shoulders of aging Indian war veterans vet-erans the task of perpetuating the. memory of their own work, which they had carried aince 1868. He then presented J. B. Hughes, state commander; John J. Banks, state adjutant; Alma Fuller, first vice commander; Bent Monson. registrar: reg-istrar: Hyrum Christensen, state organisation, or-ganisation, and Joseph Andereon, chairman of the pioneer division of honor. The encampment extends through Saturday.