The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-23
Outline of The Scenes That will
Be eatured On July
Fourth
From tuesdays pslIv.

From TUESDAYS DaIIv
1t is the desire of the committee
in charge of the historical Pageant
that all of the families who located
in Mankato in early days furnish rep
resentatives to take part in the
pageant, representing the characters
of their ancestors, men, women, and
children, as they arrived in Mankato.
1T is requested that members of pi-
oneer families report by telephone to
Mrs. A. o. Scott, 1926 Citizens phone,
or sos Northwestern phone. They
are specially asked to look up all ar
ticles of early day wearing apparel
and notify Mrs. Scott or w. H. Pay
what costumes or materials they have
on hand. These representatives are
asked to meet at Sibley park Friday
at seven p. M, or in case of rain in
the Y. M. c. A. A number of peo-
pie have already volunteered, but
many more are necessary.
The meeting at the park last night
was well attended, and great inter-
est in the progress of the work was
shown by every one. More men are
needed to take the part of Indians,
and it is hoped that more will signify
their willingness to do so.
Jackson, Mimi, is preparing to cell
citrate the Fourth, and has raised
more than $1,400, and there are no
saloons in Jackson, such as are said
to contribute so literally. Mankato
ought to raise several times the
amount the finance committee has set
out to raise, considering the fact that
it is a much larger place than Jack
son. moan
The city should be patriotically
decorated on this great day, more so
than ever before, as more patriotism
is in evidence everywhere than at any
time since the Civil war. Flags and
bunting should be in evidence on ev-
cry street, to add to the spirit of the
glorious occasion, and show that
Nankato has the proper patriotic spir-
it. Flags should be ordered early in
order to give the dealer time to get
a sufficient supply.
William Curtis, editor of The St.
, James Plaindealer, has written to the
pageant publicity committee as fol-
lows:
eve have been giving your histori-
cal pageant considerable space and
| publicity and we are personally
speaking to a number who have cars
to get them to go eto Mankato on the
Fourth to see this. If the weather
! is all right you will get a large turn
out from st. James"
Reports from all directions indicate
that Mankato will entertain the big
gest crowd on the Fourth that has
ever assembled here if the roads are
in favorable condition.
Following is a complete outline of
the pageant scenes:
! Scene No. 1 The Coming of lie
Sueur-Opens with a quiet Indian
Village; women at work, children at
play; return of the hunters; rejoic-
ing over the success of the hunt
hunting dance by the boys. Sound of
singing in the distance; lie Sueur and
his eighteen men approach singing
French songs. Conference with the
Indians; finally group departs to seek
the Blue Earth. Stage empted; lone
Indian; closes the scene with a la
ment on the passing of the Red Race.
Scene No. 2-Treaty of Traverse des
from different directions with their
blankets drawn closely about them,
gathering under the trees with ac-
tons indicating cold and wet Appeal
to the Medicine Man to drive away
the rain followed by the TcI''-nder
Bird Dance and the shooting &C the
Thunder Bird; white comm IS oners
approaching from the east d, the
Indians in conference; speec- as back
and forth, finally treaty is signed.
Interlude: The Forest and the
Prairie.-Dance Of about fifty. young
girls representing the Forest and fif-
ty representing the Prairies with
| elves and fairies in the forest and
! flowers and butterflies on the prairie
Civilization entering changes the
nrairies to wheat fields which push
back the forests.
Scene No. 8. Settlement of Manka-
| to-First settlers come; lay out the
town; stream of settlers representing
various personalities in our history
come in; group of early German set
tiers singing German songs; group
! If Welsh settlers who will Sing
praise God From Whom All Bless
ing Flow" and probably some other
! familiar hymn.
Scene No. 4. The Log School House
Most of the settlers will fall back
into the back ground while Miss Marsh
leads her school children across the
stage accompanied by their parents to
The opening of the old log school
house. They will be received by Mr.
Fletcher the original teacher who will
speak to them, the things which he
says to be portrayed in series of
.ableaux, presenting the meaning of
the public school to the community
This will be followed by the Dance
of the Bell which a group of young
ladies will present around the origin
al bell in motion the things for which
the bell calls the community togeth-
er-the wedding; the funeral; wor-
ship and fire.
Scene No. 5. The Boys of '61-
The bugle calls, the bell rings and
the volunteers gather from all direc-
tons; partings from friends; the fall
ing in line and departure for the war:
receiving from the children tesla
ments and the flag. This is followed
Immediately by:
Scene No. 6. The Sioux Outbreak
Refugees begin to pour in to the
Village. tho he11 rings furiOuSIv prea =