Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-26
EuHBUREED. BUT BOO
Schools Dismiss In Many Cite
. Meet Visitors.
CENTRAL CTTY OUT IN FoR1
Gather n Public Square, Where
Addresses Are Given.
mARKs OUT WITH THE FLAG
ProfusfOn of National COIors shown
Everywhere the Omaha Men
Put In Their Appearance
I'm state.

COLUMBUS. Neb.. May 2S1-Sspecial Tel
egram.)-Martin Brothers moving picture
show. Fair Brothers famous thirty-piece
band. "Ruf' Harris red torchlight pa
rade. r. w. Harwood's double barrel male
quartet and the Boosters in the private
ranks are rivals heer tonight with a three
ring circus, and up TO a late hour the
Omaha trade excursIonists have all the
best Of IT,
Back on the main line at o'clock and
turning on time, the Boosters took off
their coats and went to work beneath a
sun as hot as May in Nebraska ever
knew.
Like winning ball team the workers
are wet with sweat. brown with sunburn
and somewhat covered with dust. but they
are feeling like making a long successful
slide home. They came into Central City
singing: ..
Rah for Omaha. the gayest town you ever
We are out on this trip just to give a
hearty grip.
All we ask or you is that you pay us a
Here's the text whene'er you order next;
Remember OMAHA.
Central City is said to have six hundred
school children and It took just one thou
sand bells 70 go around.
President G. N. Gray of the Commercial
club and Secretary James Henderson
headed all the other business men oS Cen
tral City in one big reception comfittee
The parade then started. Two blocks Of
school children carrying flags. twenty five
teachers. two blocks of business men, two
blocks OF Boosters and two blocks Of
automobiles.
This line moved to Central City's civic
center OF triangle. where the children
formed a circle around It inside of which
marched the Boosters and their band.
Addresaes 60 CitiEens.
From a platform in the center OF this
triangle several addresses were made, the
Central City people cheering when p. P.
Fodrea and others when they spoke of
the Central City school children.
The Central City club is one OF the
strongest in the state outside OF Omaha
sud gives an snpaaI bspq1et attended by
several -hundred. The members OF the or
ganization presented every omahan with
a souvenir of the city which consisted OF a
fifty-page book Of Views in and around
Central City.
Every one OF gsg school children at
Clarks was out with flag. II the trade
excursionists were a company OF real
TO save their country they could not be
given more patriotic receptions and flags
would noe be more numerous for the SOL
diers Of war than for this small CONNER
cial army
Regardless Of the many trains which the
Union Pacific handles along it's main line
during the evening lines, the boosters
train has run right along from station TO
station, the block signals letting the trains
around each other automatically. Thus the
Los Angeles limited came up one block be-
hind the trade excursion. Letting the ex-
cursion tratn onto another track while
going at regular speed, the Los Angeles
went by like cyclone when the excur-
sion came out onto the main eastboupd
line again, Thus the party is getting re-
markable Illustrations OF modern travel or
the Union Pacific.