The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-09-07
EAGLES ARE GETTING MUCH PRAISE
FOR THEIR SPLENDID SHOWING
THE WEATHER MAS BEAUTIFUL
Children Had Plenty Of Everything and
All thsSports Were Pulled oH-Autos
Beautifully Decorated.

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Monday and certainly they deserved
the turn in the wheel that brought
sunshine 10 them and the children of
| Crystal Falls for one OF the finest eel
eprations held in the history of the
place.
Early in the morning it looked squal-
ly but by eight o'clock the sun was
shining and there was evidence OF
fine day In sight BY nine o CLOCK fne
weather was assured aud il continued
all day.
The days doings started with the
parade at 9:l5. The line of march in
clnded all OF the principal streets of
the city commenced at the Eagle hall
and ending at the school park.
DR.. c. F. Larson was the marshal of
the day and. leading the parade. were
Lima Schook and Lizzie jackson beau
tifully mounted and with horse equip
page handsomely decorated. Next
came the city band followed by the
Eagles over 100 strong. The Tobin
mine employees, oil wearing miners
hats, followed. There were about 100
Of them and they certainly showed mp
well. Heading the Tobin squad were
Cyril varney and Will Richards rid.
ing two Mexican bnrros.
The decorated automobiles were TO
have joined In the parade at the court
house but through an unfortunate mis-
understanding Mrs Corcoran didn't
know just where 10 join and Mrs.
Webbs car "bucked" 30 that these two
handsomely decorated machines were
not able TO appear. 81
To pass over the suto feature with.
~pnt word about the cars that the two
ladies' worked so hard npon and decor
ated 30 tastily would be sighting one
of the prsttiest features Of the days
doings. Mrs webb's car contained a
background OF pure white with purple
trimmings. Mrs. Webb 10 an ardent
suffrsgette and she arranged her car
with q view to advertising rather than
20 the decorative art. In the car were
MissssMarguerite Webb, Muriel Holmes
and Sadie Fraser and on either side
were inscribed the words. Vote for
as. The taste displayed in the decor
ations was excellert and IL 10 regret
table thst even such worthy motive %
the enfrsnchising Of the fair sex should
have added the advertising feature
which drew attention from the art dis
played ~ advertising when mixed
with art always does.
Mr. Corcoran's car had back
ground OF white also and on the back
ground in symetrical rows we're ar
ranged artificial Chrysanthemums.
The wheels were decorated along the
spokes with cut crepe. Mrs Corcoran
drove her own car and that feature
added 10 the excellence Of the very
Hastily arranged decorations.
DIR. Larson had decorated car also
and was the only one of the three that
got into the parade. His car was dec.
Grated with red white -and-blue bunt-
ing and American flags and on the
front was mounted large American
Eagle with out-stretched wings.
\ The parade arrived at the park about
ten o'clock and Immediately the chill
dren's sports and the giving away OF
candy. peanuts. Ice cream and lemonade
began. Every child In the crowd-and
there were hundreds of them-gOt q
share OF each and many Of the more
alert got several shares. At that. al
had ell they could eat and drink.
Twenty five dollars were thrown
away in the penny scramble and many
a boy and girl whose penny supply II
limited were given an opportunity t'
get a few ,tsnts TO spend.
The races for the children were mn
merous and IL is impossible 20 get Oh,
names Of the winners Of ell races.
1ne ting Of war occurred early la thu
vAfternoon Two teams. one represent
ing the city and another the mines
were on either end of the rope and TN
miners showed their superior strength
hy pulling the town fellows over th'
marx. The names the Of winners ar
~ follows
John Barlow. John Crop, Eo Palm
quist John Beck, Arr Broman Ernes
Walback, I'd Wilgren. Lars karkuch
Ivar Maclss lvar Dinpe, John Euli
man aud And nlAAnnene