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Show Leamington Vets Stage Successful Rodeo Celebration The Leamington Veterans organization or-ganization held another highly successful "Leamorado" celebra -tionon Sept. 3. Leadingoff for the day was the program held in the chapel which was well attended, drawing many old time residents of the town from distant parts. A beef barbecue at noon was held in the park directly in back of the chapel, where 600 were fed excellent barbeque beef and plenty plen-ty of trimmings. The diners ate in the shade of the trees there and visited until time for the rodeo at the rodeo arena south of the park. Shortly before the rodeo children's sports were held at which prizes were given winners. The rodeo was strictly amateur with the participants coming mainly main-ly from the county, although there were a few from Sanpete county. The junior division led off and the boys did a fine job of riding the calves. The calf roping followed i but few were able to catch their j wily prey. Bareback riding, bull J riding and saddle bronc riding came in order, with some fine ex- hibitions, and some where the an-I an-I imals thought it was arace. i Mrs. Mary Lou Nielson and M. C. Dutson were honored guests of the day, having lived in Leamington Leaming-ton the longest. They were shown special favor in the program and events to follow. A dance in the Leamington Open Air hall concluded the day's events ev-ents and that was also well attended. at-tended. The Vets state that this is the largest crowd they have ever had to one of their celebrations, and patrons were well pleased with the day spent in Leamington. Claire Overson was given a present pre-sent 'from the Veterans, as is customary cus-tomary for those entering the service. ser-vice. Ray Anderson, now of Provo, won the bicycle given away at the rodeo. The City Cafe of Delta cooked the beef, which was raised by Fred Nielson. Ray Howard, of the Lynndyl Lynn-dyl restaurant helped prepare the food for serving. |