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The Month's Rodeo

thoroughly satisfied guests; for the Pendletonians give value received. They have the biggest frontier show of them all. It is a community enterprise. The butcher, the baker, the banker, the lawyer all unite in making it pay, and its tremendous success is easily attributable to community effort. One of these fine days Pendleton will have what it set out to have, a city park fitting the "biggest town of its size in the West."

It's some fun to take care of six times a town's population for half a week!


Rhyme of the Matchless Maid

The Hallowe'en maid ran away from her guests
At midnight and stole to the glass;
She trembled to think that the face of her fate
For life through the mirror might pass . . . . .
More terrified still she returned to the hall—
This Hallowe'en maid had seen no one at all!

Grubbing Her Way to Health

In pursuit of health many a successful farmer is made from the professions. The West is full of successful farmers who have turned from indoor life to the more pleasurable and more healthful outdoor pursuits.

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