The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-06-23
ATTRACTIONS FOR THE 4TH
Races and Street Contests Will
Commence Early in The
Morning.
Tight Rope Walking, Balloon ASCen.
sion, Ball Game, ETC., in
the Afternoon.

charge the different details that will
be used in making up the programme
for the Fourth of July celebration,
have practically completed all of the
preliminary work, aud at the present
writing very good idea of what the
programme will be, can be given to
the public. Without dwelling on each
item in detail, The GAZETTE is author
lied to state that from the standpoint
of general attractions the Redwood
celebration will be far ahead of any
thing given in Southwestern Mime
sofa on that day.
The usual morning salutes at sun
rise will announce the opening of the
day, and at 9:36 o'clock in the morn
ing there will be general bicycle and
industrial parade. Every person, on
farm or in the city, who owns BIZ
cycle. is invited to take part
in the parade with their BIZ
cycles decorated. There will be rich
prises to the riders having the best de-
corated wheels. With this bicycle pa
rade will occur the industrial parade,
in which every business house of the
city is asked to join, and most of them
have agreed to do so.
At the conclusion of the big parade
the bicycle races and other sports will
commence, and they will continue un-
til IL o'clock. These contests will be
given to the visitors from the farms
and other towns, so far as it will be
possible to fill them, and hence the
young men and women from the coun-
try should be prepared to come and
carry off some prizes during the fore
noon.
From II o'clock noon to l o. N. will
be the dinner hour, and nothing will
occur during that hour, except picnick-
ing, etc. At one o'clock will occur the
wonderful slack wire, trapeze and
tumbling performances by the we'll
known LaMonte brothers. This per-
formance will be free to everybody,
and will occur at the intersection of
Second and Washington streets. The
performance will be something worth
seeing, and worth coming to see, if
there we're no other attractions on the
bill. 1t will be interspersed by songs,
dances, ETC., and will last until 2
o'clock, when the work preliminary to
the balloon ascension by Prof. G. j.
Paul, will commence. The ascension,
like all of the other attractions for
the day up to this time, will be free.
At three o'clock the speaking will
begin at the Falls park, F. L. MCGEE,
the noted colored orator and attorney
of St. Paul, being the principal speaker
He will be followed by ten minutes
speeches by Judge Baldwin, Judge
Bowers, Judge Doliff, Judge Her
riott, and the Hon. Joseph Chadder-
don, the latter of whom has promised
to spread the eagles wings from tip
to tip, measuring II feet II inches.
While this speaking is going on there
will be ball game between the Red
wood Falls team, and probably the
Winthrop club, at the new base ball
park, just east of the Northwestern
depot. There will be an admission fee
charged to see this game, it being a
separate issue from the regular COM
mittee programme. The admission will
be 25 cents, and Is cents for children
Immediately after the ball game, or
commencing at five o'clock, the street
sports will be renewed. Just what
these sports will be is not yet known,
but the committee expects to announce
them by next week.
Commencing at o'clock minstrel
entertainment, under the direction of
W. P. Tenney, and assisted by the
LaMonte brothers, will be given. It
will be a lively amusement for an hour,
after which will commence the dance
at the opera house given by the ball
boys.
The Catholic Order of Forresters,
after the first proposition fell through,
decided to celebrate, and had made
certain arrangements. 1t was the Or
der that secured F. L. McGee as or
stor, and after learning that the
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