The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1915-08-25
ASKS PUBLIC TO
JOIN IN BOOSTING FOR
HISTORICAL PAGEANT
Some Interesting Information Con-
cerning the King and Queen of the
Coming Alfalfa Celebration.

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lie ideas and sentiments on this sub
ject and have decided that the pub
| tic in general and the candidates in
particular are not sufficiently posted
on the Importance of these two con-
tests. If the State Fair was over and
the King and Queen had reigned a
week and all the attentions had been
paid to them, and all the functions
held in their honor had gone into
history, then all the candidates in
both contests and their friends, the
Churchill County Public would ap-
preciate the fact that to be elected
King and Queen of this community
with all that goes, these popular Sc
lections is no every day event. The
King and Queen elected this year
will always look back on the event
as q red letter week in their lives.
They and their friends will refer to
the notable event as the one partieu-
lar thing in the lives of our King and
Queen that sets them aside from the
rest of the public in general.
The writer of THESE lines who has
active charge of this contest, has
run many others throughout the
country and can vonch for the fact
that in many instances the election
of q person as King or Queen of a
community has not only changed and
raised their social and moral stand
ing in a community, but has result
ed in many instances in altering en-
tirely their life plans. Sweet girls
have been brought from obscuritN
their social standing improved and
many times their marriage filed
with happiness has been traced direct
ly to the fact of their having been
the local Queen.
Men who have "hidden their light
under a bushel basket all their
lives have been in joking way
forced into these contests, been
elected, and for the first time in
their lives have been put to the test
'.in the public eve aad have made
good" and have been picked up" by
business men and started on success
full business careers because the con-
test at its height brought out of them
the ideal business traits that they
had possibly bashfully subdued in
the past
The only criticism of the contest
that the committee can make at the
present time is the number of can
didates in both King and Queen con-
tests. The characters and class of
candidates nominated in both con-
tests are of the very highest class,
but there are not enough of them.
We would like everybody that can
decide on good candidate for King
or Queen to nominate them. 1t
takes fifty votes to nominate. If
possible stop in at the Standard Of
flee, the committees headquarters,
to make the nomination or at any
of the following voting places: The
Fallon Eagle Office, Laveaga's Ice
Cream Parlors, both Morris and Lor-
ings Drug Stores, Grob & Binghams,
/. H. Kent & Co, Burtons Grocery,
Peoples Bros, and the Overland ho
tel.
The King
The successful candidate for Al
falfa King will be properly clothed
by the committee in keeping with
the position and the Historical Page
ant. On the morning of September
goth he will be officially waited up
on by a committee headed by Mayor
Berney, who will escort him to the
home of his Queen, where he Will
be officially united" with her in an
interesting ceremony. in an auto
he will then escort his Queen to the
King and Queens float for the
Pageant. At IL a. m. the parade
will start When the parade has
toured the city and is ready to dis
band Governor Boyle and his staff
who will lead the parade will review
it in front of the Alfalfa Palace,
which will be locked up to this time.
The Kings float which will end the
parade will stop n front of Governor
Boyle. Mayor Berney will then es-
cort the King and Queen and Dairy
Maids to the entrance of the Alfalfa
Palace and introduce them in a pub
lie speech to the Governor of the
State at the same time turning over
the keys to the city and the Alfalfa
Palace. and will notify the Governor
that II is the popular will of the
people of Churchill county that
King Alfalfa and his Dairy Queen
rule Churchill county for six days.
The Governor will then so notify
the King turning over the City and
Palace to him. The king will then
inspect the Palace to see as to
whether 1t is properly arranged for
the reception of his Queen. He will
then return for his Queen and es-
cort her to their Alfalfa throne at
the same time asking the Governor
to accompany them. When they ar
rive on the throne the King will
publically ask the Governor what
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