Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-04-14

Nor long ago the Sophomore class in !
New Jersey college concluded to ser.nade
friend in grand style. They hired a brass
band, got up banners and transparencies
and arranged for large procession. Th,
Junior class heard of the preparations, and
said, " The Sophomore boys ars putting OF
TOO many airs" and forthwith proceeded to
organize for a grand parade on the same
occasion. But they did not employ a
brass band. They gathered tin pans, blow
horns, and drums, and each member was
provided with some instrument on which &c
make a noise. The Sophomores of course
were kept in blissful state of Ignorance as
to the Preparations of the Juniors. The
evening for the parade arrived. The Soph-
omores formed under the inspiring strains
of sweet music, and the glare of torches
and fancy lanterns, and under the command
Of msrshals on spirited horses. Ii was a
proud hour for them. At the word of COM
mand they moved off on the line of march.
A short distance from the College a second
procession had been quietly forming in a
street that ran of at right angle from the
one on which the Sophonores formed. 1t
was the procession Of the Juniors. There
they stood, quietly awaiting the approach
of their friends, the gay, airy, festive Soph-
omores. and as the head of the band of the
latter came opposite the head of the Junior
class, the Juniors all began to pound on
their tin pans, blow on their horns, aud
drum, which created snch a noise as caused
the glass in the windows of houses 10 vi
brate, and when the Sophomores had passed
with their dazzling procession, the Juniors
fell in behind with their ludicrous and awk-
wsrdly-marching column, and laundering
din and clatter.
Very much such a scene took place Ia
Mfflintown last Thursday evening. Citizens
of Patterson purchased complete outfit
for fire hook and ladder company. Ii is
credit 10 the men who first moved in the
matter, and a credit TO those who aided in
paving for it, A complete organization for
effected, and it was laudable ambition that
the organization entertained when they pro-
posed TO march through the streets and show
the citizens what their contributions had
been used in purchasing. Last Thursday
evening was decidedOn as the tiEae in which
10 indulge in street parade. The brass
band WIS engaged TO head the procession.
All the arreS gements became known 10 the
boys of MifiiIBtown, and they were like the
Junior boys of the New Jersey college.
They admired the enterprise OF the Patter
son people they admired their apparatus,
but as they were not in for the grand pa
rade they concluded TO have one of their
own on the heels OF the Patterson people.
They went into a coarse of preparation for
parade to follow the g hook ard ladder
boys" They hauled the old MIilintown
engine down into the alley that runs be-
tween Water and Main streets. They got
old carrI &C wheels and coupled them to-
guther, by laying long ladders from axle
tree to axle-tree, and hung lanterns and
buckets around on the ladders, and then
formed in procession in the alley mentioned,
to await the coming of the Patterson people.
A number of them had horns of different
tone. Al was quiet till the Peterson COM
pany came ahead OF the alley, when a shout
greeted them there. The Miftiintown boys
moved in behind the brethren from across
the river. They blew their horns and kept
up clangor that threw perfect tone of
discord into the sweet music of tho band
that headed the SO hook and Ladder" COM
pany. And in that way, with fine mCsic
and horrid din and shout, the streets on both
sides Of the river were pardded. AT GER
tain point IN Paterson a crowd made a rush
at the ilnpromptu hook and ladder appara-
tus OF the Mifiintown people, but squad
from the engine ran back and saved the ap-
paratus from dismemberment. No unplea-
SAINT incidents grew out of the procession
Everybody was profuse in admiration of the
Patterson hook and ladder apparatus.