The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-20
"HOBO DAY" IS
CELEBRATED
BIG PLAY DAY OF STATE COL
LEeE STUDENTS OBSERVED
ON FRIDAY
SEVEN HUNDRED STUDENTS N LINE
Hoboes and Squaws March Down Town
and Entertain C~itizens-Cook Din
ners in College Woods at Noon

ana SquaWS last FRIDAY, u IL was n
peaceful invasion and no depredations
of any kind are reported. The &C.
casion for the numerous Does and In
dian maidens was the celebration Of
the annual Hobo Day" by the students
of the State College. This is the best
stunt that the students pull off during
the year, and nothing like it can be
seen at any other institution in the
country. The boys were dressed as
hoboes and the girls as squaws, and
they all looked the part. About seven
hundred students and a few faculty
members participated.
The stunt commenced at eight
o'clock in the morning, when the stu
dents in their costumes gathered on
the college campus. The boys had
neglected to shave for a week and
with their old clothes, tomato cans and
general tough appearance they had the
average weary willie" beaten a mile.
Many Of them were unacceptable to
even their friends, and they were Ger
tainly a tough looking bunch. All OF
the costumes ere good, but some OF
them were better, in fact there were
two or three that would have made a
dog laugh. One of the best was Scott
wilkins, who was disguised as a votes
for women female" and CARROLL Iver-
son, the leader of the gang, would have
been hard to improve on. liver" had
on a pair of homespun trousers that
were worn by his grandfather in the
old country and his tall plug hat was
one worn by his father in the days Of
long ago, and the rest OF the outfit was
Of the same ancient vintage. The
band Of United Doctors" were also
cleverly gotten up.
The costumes of the co-eds, while
not as o~utlandish as those of the boys,
were certainly good. They wore their
hair in braids and instead OF the regu-
lation paint had applied splashes of
red and brown 10 their faces. They
wore every imaginable kind of a
blanket, from Navajo to lace curtains,
and some Of them were SO brilliantly
hued that you could hear them coming
for some distance.
About ten o'clock the whole caval-
cade marched down to the city to meet
the passenger from the west which
was bringing the School Of Mines foot
ball team. The parade, which was
owe four blocks long, was headed by
Geo. Phillips, carrying the hobo flag,
made up Of red bandanas, with a blue
one in the corner, and he was follow
ed by the college band, appropriately
costumed. Next came the hoboes in
single file, with a line on either side
of the street, and following them were
the squaws. A clown band brought up
the ear.
After the arrival Of the train and
the welcoming of the visiting team the
bunch formed in line and marched to
the square in the center of Main street
and executed Indian war dances, snake
dances and other stunts, much to the
delight of the large crowd of citizens
who had gathered.
The next thing on the program was
the foraging by the 'boes for the noon
day meal. They "hit the back doors''
about the city and the housewives
provided them with everything in the
way of "eats" that could be imagined,
and they didn't have to chop wood
either. At noon the whole bunch
gathered in the college forest, where
the Does built the fires, after which
they made the squaws cook the multi.
gan stew" and other dishes dear to the
heart of the hobo.
In the afternoon they attended the
football game and their yells and war.
whoops yer quite a factor in throw.
ing a scare into the visiting team and
bringing home the victory.
The day was a most pleasant one,
not only for the students but for the
t~ownspeople who witnessed their
antics. The stunt was much better in
every way than the OF last year,
the crowd being larger and the COS
tunes better, and those in charge are
deserving Of much credit for the way
In which It was handled.