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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., June 29, 1944, page 1

GLENWOOD CELEBRATION TO HONOR TUNE WYERS WILL BE HELD SUNDAY
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Fifty Years As Mail Carrier Will Be Celebrated;
Wyers Will Reride First Trip, Following Old Trail;
Dance, Program, Picnic Lunch, Rodeo Planned For Holiday;
Posse To Attend In Number To Meet Honored Guest On Ride
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A dance, pioneer meeting, a picnic and a rodeo will be the main events at the celebration Saturday and Sunday in Glenwood, which is honoring Teunis (Tune) Wyers, who has had the mail contract for Glenwood for fifty years.
Wyers will carry a special mail pouch from White Salmon to Glenwood, just as he did fifty years ago.
Expected to be present are met Mrs. Betsy Leathers and Mrs. E.E. Bartholomew, daughters of the late Mrs. J.O. Shaw, then postmistress of Glenwood when Wyers arrived there in 1894 on his first trip. Mrs. Adeline Hall, who cooked the supper that night, and her daughter, Mrs. Ferd Markgraf, and Mrs. W. F. Jebe, who was working on the construction of the Fourth of July pavilion when Wyers first rode into town, will also be at the affair.
Wyers plans to allows six hours for the trip. He will leave by horseback at six in the morning, and hopes to reach Glenwood by noon. Two changes will be made instead of the usual one. They will be at Gilmer and the Wykre ranch, known as the former H. D. Cole place.

TO FOLLOW TRAIL

Wyers a will try to follow the original trail as much as possible, rather then be much-traveled road of today. His grandchildren, the Kreps boys and girls, will assist with the relay of horses and the direction of their care, as will George Gilmer, at whose ranch he made his first change fifty years ago.

STARTS WITH DANCE

The celebration will start with a dance with cowboy atmosphere Saturday night. The Camas Prairie and vicinity Pioneer Association, with R.R. Wellenbrock as head, will have a program from 11 to 12 during the morning, with a short talk on pioneering, a musical program, and the memorial for those who blazed to the trails.
Picnic lunches will be held at the rodeo grounds, where coffee will be furnished.
Tune Wyers, who expects to reach Glenwood by noon, will be escorted into town by members of the Sheriff's Posse.
The rodeo in the afternoon will include a calf riding, calf roping, steer riding, bronc riding, and the usual rodeo attractions. Strictly amateur talent around the county will be used.
George Klein, who will be unable to announce of the program, as he will be in Toppenish, will furnish a portable address system. R.A. Jackson will serve as announcer.
It was learned Tuesday that Mrs. Hanson, postmistress at White Salmon, has secured special permission from the postal department to make up a special dispatch of mail for Mr. Wyers to carry in the pouch. A grant of dispensation had to be secured for this because there is no regular delivery on Sundays.
The affair is sponsored by the Sheriff's Posse, the Pioneer Association and the Glenwood Rodeo Association.