Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-12

soref lights were placed. The fireworks
we're dispensed to men, women and
boys with a free hand. Cowbells,
sleighbells and tinhorns added to the
noise. The band and the drum corps
paraded up and down Main street.
Rough riders, rough walkers, high
schools boys, working men and busi-s
ness men either paraded in groups or.
assembled i'll squads and discharged
candles and rockets. For an hour
beautiful spectacle was presented IN
the court house park and along Main
street. Above the glare OF the huge
bonf1res the charges from hundreds of
Roman candles SCARED necessarily y, and
the blare Of horns and the discordant
rattke OF bells drowned. the music of
the bard.
BY s O'clock the crowd began To
dwindle, but by this time the younger
and more enthusiastic commenced to
get eathused. This element, taking the
word OF the mayor that everything
would go, began to organize in, larger;
groups. The spirit Of mischief assumed
the reins and not until midnight did
the merry makers wear themselves
out.
Large delegations were in the city
from adjoining towns. The Iowa Cen
trail. which made special rates for the
occasion, hauled the largest crowds,
the trains from both the north and the
south being crowded. The Story City
branch also brought several hundred.
visitors.
Considering the immense crowds tina t
thronged the streets all evening the ac-
cidents were very few. One small boy
was struck by horseman and
knocked head over heels, turning two
or three somersaults, but was I'M
scattled and ran away without stopping
to BEE what hit him. A young farmer
named Peterson, who took exception to
q colored man who yelled Hurrah for
Jen Davis. and struck the negro,
found the colored mans head 70 be.
harder than he anticipated and as re-
suit broke his arm. Another young man
II whose name could not be learned had al
tin horn with a ragged edge torn from!
his grasp. and as q result sustained a
badly cut hand.
Several fights occurred during the
evening, but none had any very serious
results.
One quite amusing incident was
Z ShVA0h 49, W SI4S' o. W Ivy NAdls-
shal Jones, when tramp a common
every day hobo. who for once got out.
OF the confine Of the levee district.
found the town celebrating and was
riled by some epithete applied to him
by the high school crowd. He went to
the marshal and said he wished he
4 would take him and lock him up. for hi
was sure II he walked up the street
ne would get mixed up and would hand
out q few straight ones that would set
tie few OF those blokes The marshal
refused to crafty the mans desire for
9 free nights lodging and advised him
that Il he wanted to avoid trouble he
had better keep away from the boys.
Z Tor 200 OF them, he thought. would sat
i.4y his longing for q fight.
SOME RoWDYIsM.
Tho thoughtless element seemed to
hold sway. beginning early in the even
Ing and continuing until late at night.
or rather until early Sunday morning
The high school boys, who not only
were celebrating because 1t was an ev-
ening Of cele bration. but because their
foot ball team had won a victory over
the Nevada team. were out In force and
with them went O following that proved
. rabble. Older heads. who should
have leu<,.vn Nat tar q ~ an 80. ~ !, -: