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Show Eloaseveif Rodeo Staved For July 24fSi Weekend Roosevelt's annual Pioneer Days Rodeo will be staged this year at the Roosevelt grounds on Saturday, Satur-day, Juiy 23 and Monday, July 25. The Roosevelt Riding Club is sponsoring the rodeo this year and a one hundred dollar open cutting contest will be featured. The rodeo will also include saddle bronc riding, bulldogging, bareback bare-back riding, calf roping and team roping. It is an open show, and anyone desiring to enter may do so, and should contact one of the members of the club or one of the club's officers. "Doc" Jenkins Jen-kins is president of the riding club, Sylvan Reynolds is vice-president vice-president and Ned Gines is secretary. sec-retary. Wes Dickerson is in charge of a Grand Entry to be staged at the opening of each performance. Anyone desiring to ride in the Grand Entry should contact him. The entry will include both the Rodeo Queen and the UBIC Queen. A contest to choose a Queen for the rodeo will be held at the grounds Monday, at 7:30 p.m. The contest is open to any girl in the Basin, 16 years of age or older. The open cutting contest was made a part of the rodeo by popular pop-ular demand. The Roosevelt Riding Rid-ing Club i.s trying to become associated as-sociated with the National Cutting Horse Association. An entrance fee of ten dollars is required. Two Arabian horses owned by Whit-more Whit-more Brothers of Salt Lake City will be entered in the contest. Entrance fees of ten dollars, will also be required for saddle bronc riding and bareback riding, and the other events require five dollars dol-lars for entrance. Three of the events, saddle bronc riding, bull-dogging bull-dogging and bareback riding have purses of $25 dollars each, and the other two events excluding exclud-ing the cutting contest have jack pot purses. Erv Miles will act as clown for the show. |