The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-09-22
FARMINGTON is ELATED
And Has Reason to Be Over the Sue
cess of Its Brilliant, Spectacular
Pageant and Concert

heart only in the glorious harmony of
music and song.
| Music, oh how faint, how sweet,
Language fades before thy spell;
Why does feeling ever speak
| When thou canst breathe her soul so
well?
Friendships balmy words may feign,
Loves are even more false than they.
Oh, It's only music's strain
Can sweetly soothe and not betray.
The Pageant and tonight's Con-
cert are twin sisters, bridesmaids both
to their elder sister, Pennington,
welded this Homecoming week to
Ambitions noblest son. Cities and
towns, like individuals, are measured
by their growth; and real growth,
that which flowers into fruitage, is so
gradual that it is almost impercepti-
Bile. Between the acorn and the oak
intervenes many a day of sunshine
and shadow, many a night of moon
light and storm.
Pennington has had her past, a
past Of lofty ambition, worthy pur-
pose and earnest striving. She did
not spring up over night to become a
deserted village with the sunset of
tomorrow. No, her pioneers laid
broad and deep her foundations, and
today those same foundations, un-
shaken and unmoved, support the ed
ifice of her modern achievements,
though the hands of those that build
ed are withered into dust.
Tonight the past and the future
meet in the embrace of the present.
We look backward, we look forward.
Our veneration for the days that are
gone, our anticipation for the ones
that shall come, are to be voiced this
evening in the sweet discourse of mu-
sic and in the joyous notes of song,
Last night in the Pageant story we
saw this town, cradled in the lap of
a Nature-favored county, rise from
small beginnings to big things. Fair
Pennington, the City of Big Thingsl
Let's strive to make this town big, not
only in physical resources and mater
ial wealth, but big with bigness that
comes from the soul Let's have it
grow with a growth that is sysony-
nous with progress. Let's see it
blossom and unfold with an unfolding
that will reveal in each inhabitant
civic pride, a Christian department.
May Farmington's days partake of the
Pageant and Concert spirit; and may
this Homecoming week bring to each
resident and eXresident the sweet con-
viction that Mid pleasures and pal
aces though we may roam, be it ever
so humble there's no place like your
old home town.
The Concert.
1t is believed that an audience num-
bering more than 1000 people was
never before assembled in st. Fran
co.'s county for the sole purpose of
present on Friday night was easily
that large and some say larger. At
all events, one man who counted the
automobiles parked at the Pageant
grounds-and all of them full of peo-
ple-reports that the number was 112.
The seating capacity of $500 appeared
to be taxed to the limit, and owing to
the clever sound-shell which Mr.. Bar
roll originated for this performance,
all who attended got the full benefit
of the music.
The concert opened with an orches-
ira number by Barroll's Concert Or
chestra, under the direction of Prof.
Porter for the evening This was fol-
lowed by few appropriate remarks
by Father Morgan. Then Miss Bar
bara Caroline Tullock gave a charm
ing violin number, after which Mas
ter Ted Graves gave solo on the tu-
ba (bass horn) accompanied by the
orchestra. Another orchestra num-