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D8824-2
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- 1939-09-01 (Creation)
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The Morton Logger Jubilee jug band and friends. Cities all over the state were pulling out all the stops to celebrate Washington's 50 year anniversary of statehood and Morton was no exception. The Morton Loggers' Jubilee, scheduled to open September 2nd and end on Labor Day, however had a decided hillbilly flair. Some 3,000 Southern mountain people, mostly from Kentucky & West Virginia, would dramatize real old style hill life of the upper South. They would be trekking to Morton, leading hound dogs, carrying rifles and wearing coon skin caps. One of the highlights of the celebration would be a public hillbilly wedding, with food, dancin' and gun totin'. Morton, a logging and sawmill town, is on the Tilton River thirty-three miles east of Chehalis in central Lewis County. (T. Times 8/24/1939, pg. 8)
Washington State Golden Jubilee, 1939--Morton; Bands--Morton;