The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1901-06-29

Proved to Be the Biggest Thins in the
Towns History.
GRAND. GOOD TIME.
AIIihe Races Pulled OF Without interruption
News Gossip OF the Town.

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the success Of Amasa's big celebration
the event was pulled Oh successfully
from every point OF view. Rain set
In Friday evening and continued
throughout the night but operations
i'm the rain quarter were suspended
long enough 70 allow OF about 100
people taking the train AT CRYSTAL
Falls Had the weather not been So
u ptening, twice thatnumber would
IN been on that train and that
number would have been more than
doubled had IL not been pay day az
tile Falls. But the crowd that came
up was a fair sized one and assisted
materially in filling our streets and
enliyening the contests About nine
o'clock tile procession began 70 form
and upon the arrival 81 the st. Paul
train at g:25 ali were ia readiness To-
march. The procession was lead by
the marshal OF the day, ~ {. Heath
The Boy S" band from Crystal Falls
followed and then came the Crystal
Falls Al. O. II. w The Amasa Mac
cabee lodge followed and then came
the Amasa band followed hy the CALI
thumpians The-Gibson exploration
had all exploring noat that was al
dandy John Lundgrceu was the
chief engineer and arranged for al
Shaft. diamond drill "a blacksmith
shupand other necessary appendices
10 an exploring camp Horder y
Olson bad Il sausage maching tnat was
dandy. also. 4 box Of cats and dogs
was in convenient place and as the|
procession passed along the animals
were fed % tile machine and came
out full blown sausagco Original
Amasa was tie name OF another Heat
designed by the Henloci miners.
Cuas. EXtrum aud Walter Lawrence
- Jim dancy trammers with
" mule and tram car. There were
several other features that We have
forgotten but all the displays were
original and showed much labor ON
the part OF the designers. Tie school
children followed. ail OF them carrying
flags When the procession finished
it's rounds the Judges announced their
decision giving the $50 nag TO the
40. II. W., tile FIRST calithumpian
prize TO the Gibson exploration,
second 10 the Luctgart Sausage
Machine and third TO Original
AmaSa
The procession halted at tbe pay
ilion and after the Judges announced
the prizes. the marshal introduced
the speaker Of the day Chas. IL.
watson Mr.. Watson made brief
but exceedingly fine, address dwelling
upon the development Of Amasa from
the exploring camp of ten years ago
90 the beautiful little village OFT the
present day with well made streets
and wen regulated goyernment In
commenting upon the latter feature
lie mentioned the fact that since he
has been prosecuting attorney there
has not been single ease brought TO
him from the township Of Henatite,
which certainly speaks we'll for the
officials of that township and gives
denial 10 the many cXtrayagant
e Village s.'a' :. :. :. !.
inc aremens race was the next
thing on the program. The Crystal
Fails department was ON hand with q
cart and hose. team having been
sent out Of the Falls early in the
morning with the cart As iron
River and Republic failed to appear,
fire team from Amasa competed and
il was 4 lively team too The make
up of the different teams was rs fol-
lows: Amasa q. Neran, Il. Neran,
Joe Rowe. w. II. lobe, W. J llorder
Iver Olson, Jas. Norwood, W.
Eschner. Geo, Darmh Z. Payicr W
Lawrence. Crystal Falls l. a.
Henry. c. NJ Duscnbery otto Urban,
Lou Terrier, Eli Massie Geo. Noos,
CLYDE Henry Hans Johnson, Oscar
widstrand. Frank Ball and Joe
r~rhouin
The distance was shortened %
feet from the regulation run and Crys-
tai Falls made IL in 30 Is seconds and
Amasa followed and surprised every
body by doing the trick In 81 l-j.
Dinner was the next feature and at
$50 an were upon the streets again
for the sports. The first contest was
the tug OF war between AmaSa and
Crystal Falls and I'm that contest the
north was victorious pulling the Falls
boys out Of their boots.
The foot race went 60 Crystal Falls
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