The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-09-07
DEN|SON DAY DO|NGS,
Charter Oak Was Painted Red
Last Friday.
KANGAROO COURT CoNvENEs,
Any Mention of the Ball Game Painfully
inappropriate. Only Occurrence to
Mar the Days Proceedings.

Denison day at the Charter Oak Car
nival was a grand success. At least
that was the opinion expressed by the
boosters of the carnival. We were
met at the train by big brass band.
the keys of the city were turned ever
to us, including the one to the mayors
Office, and when we left town we were
not carried out on rail, but were told
to come again
1t is estimated that there We're from
200 to 300 Denison people present.
Over $50 tickets were sold in the morn
ing. forty more took the afternoon train
and large number drove across the
3reuntry. What threatened to be a
rainy day turned out bright and clear
and was one of those cool days with the
greatest capacity for hilarity and sport.
When the Denison train arrived at
1920 the town was already full of peo-
pie. Denison herself couldn't have
done better Job tear .ng up the streets.
The main street was closed 20 vehicles
and was transformed into regular
pike. Admission to the pike was
nothing but it cost some of the fellows
a pile to get out The pike was lined
with boo rs. refreshlnent stands. and
skin games OF various descriptions.
The shell game or any thing of that
class was not il evidence. Nothing
but the innocent, easy looking games,
which beguile the simple farmer boy
into the notion that it would be great
sport to break raw eggs over the
darkey's head. or that it would be i'm.
possible to toss ball at the board
!, without sending it through the tempt.
N9ngly large triangular hole.
When the Denison crowd arrived,
DR.. Kirby was in the midst of his ad-
dress on the labor question. While
out door speaking is very difficult and
people generally are in no mood &c
listen to an address while carnival
is going on, the speaker had hattering
audience, which gave him close hear
ing The address was an able one, well
delivered and was an impartial portray
al of the inside of both parties in the
great struggle between labor ard
capital
The hotels and res :auran: s.were vel
prepared to feed the crowds and those
who patronized the tables set by the
ladies OF the churches were not disap
pointed
After dinner the real fun began. The
D-nison crowd got together took pos
session of the pike, and marched UP
the street, singing and yelling and
whooping it up for Denison. The
blood curdling yell Of the sta e univer.
\ sity was paraphrased into Denison
Syell and was USED with wonderful eff
fest. They took possession of the b nd
stand and proceeded to good time.
They made the lion roar stepped or
the pussy's tail, and did every otf1e +
conceivable. foolish thing to make
nuise.
wen OF mature years, married men,
who hld fortunately left their wives at
nome. cut such capers as they had
never dreamed of cutting, even in the
widest days of their youth. Every
Denison man who came within sight
was rushed to the .bandsta nd, mounted
upon chair, and made to bow and
wave his hat to the crowd which was
watching the wild hulabaloo. r. d
McMahoo rand other prominent Char
ter Acorns did not escape, and Maur-