Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29

enjoyable and profitable celebra-
ton. The Meade business men
are the right kind. They are
conservative-never ready to grab
a visionary idea, but ready and
willing to put their money, time,
and influence back of anything
that looks good or shows prom
Use of benefitting the town or the
county. They are workers, at
tend to their business and are
successful, but they can always
find time to assist any deserving
enterprise.
While we are talking of men,
women and the part each took,
we must pay a tribute to that
most deservedly popular organ
ization-Von Prosky's Band. De-
spite the work and the money
expended the celebration never
would have been the success it
is conceded to have been, without
the band. The first number on
every program was Won Pros
ky's Band. They played on the
streets, in the opera house, at
the trains, and the race track.
They were every where all at
once. The boys never seemed
to tire. From early morning
until the evening entertainment
was over they were right there
to do their part. They received
the praise of everyone. The
speakers praised them; the
strangers spoke in highest terms
of their appearance and ability
and the home people were proud
of the boys, their instructor and
their efforts. The long, dusty
marches from the depot and
through the streets in the pa
rade were all cheerfully made
and the music added to the en-
joyment of every person in at
tendance. Again we want to
say we are proud of our band.
In our own mind we know we
have right to be; others, better
qualified to Judge, have told us
we had every reason to be, and
we. want the mem bers of the or
ganization to know that they are
fully appreciated. If a musical
organization had been hired to
do the work as il was done by
our band, it would have taken
more than half OF the entire
amount spent for the celebration
and some town other than Meade
would have received the boquets
and the prestige.
AT noon on Thursday a big
barbecue dinner was served,
beef, pork, buns, and coffee be-
ing given free to all who came.
The meat was well cooked, the
coffee was good, and as everyone
knows, the buns turned out by
the Meade bakery are excellent,
and the dinner served by willing
hands was very much success.
Saturday morning all the stock
entered for premiums was pa
raded through the streets. and
caused many favorable comments
and com pliments. Owing to the
lateness of the train on which
Geo. w. Nicely arrived, the pa
rade was necessarily divided in
to two sections, the stock maxi
ing the first and the autos with
the speaker and the band, follow
ing upon the arrival of the train.
Each evening at the opera
house a vaudeville performance
was given which drew good
houses and we hear only words
of praise for the entertainment.
The entertainments preceding
the speaking each afternoon in
the opera house were all well at
tended and enjoyable. The diff
ferent numbers we're generously
and encored. They
we're given by the boys and the
girls of Meade and country sur
rounding and showed that talent
and education are not lacking in
our young people.
We felt somewhat disappoint-
ed when two days before the day
set for his address twas learned
that Hon. John S. Dawson could
not be present. Everybody ex-
pected him to make an address
to the Old Settlers--not a politi-
cal speech-what should we do?
We were in a dilemma. There
was but one man obtainable that
could fill the place of Dawson
without notice in time to especi-
ally prepare but would he do it?
Grave doubts possessed us, but
despair gave us courage and we
selected two of our most diplo-
matte citizens and disnatched