Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-10-25
BUFFALO BILL COMING.
The 1O1 Ranch With Many Attractions Will
Be Here Saturday, October 2Sh.

The life of the soldier, in cam
and on the field of battle, is, it i
: announced, graphically portraye'
in the new military spectacle
"Preparedness, I" which is offere'
as the big feature of the BuHal'
Bill (Himself)-101 Ranch show
this season The combined show
are scheduled to exhibit in Sails
bury on Saturday, October 2sth
and the event will have stirring
interest for the public not only
because of the realistic military
display, but also because it will
again introduce Col. VIM. F. Cody
| buffalo Billy as the real leader
| of Americas scouts and rough
riders. The mere announcement
that Buffalo Bill, the Border hero
of two generations, is again in
the saddle, will send a ripple of
delight across the continent.
preparedness the new mill
tary spectacle, is not merely a
preachment for adequate prepara-
tion on the part of the people of
9he United States to forestall any
possible aggression on the part of
foreign nations, but it is also an
exhibitions of army life and action
and color such as would scarcely
be possible without the co opera
ton of the U. S. War Depart
ment. That this co operation
has been Forthcoming is evidenc-
ed by the fact that the soldiers
utilized in the display are actual.
ly United States regulars and
have been loaned' 'by the Gov
ernment in order to bring home to
the public the necessity for pro-
viding an army adequate for Its
defence.
The military maneuvers, it is
announced, are presented on
most elaborate and realistic scale.
There are reviews and marches,
in which all the various arms of
the service are represented; there
are cavalry drills and charges;
there is mounted infantry; there
is field artillery in action, and
finally there is battle with In
dians in which, it is declared
there are more thrills to the
minute than ever before crowded
into an exhibition of this kind.
Incidental features of the military
! display are evolutions by Rus
sian Cossacks, Arabs and Japanese
cavalry, illustrating the training
as we'll as the whirl wind riding
of these intrepid military troopers
of the Far East.
A show, headed by Buffalo Bill,
would not be characteristic if it
failed to picture something of the
adventurous life of the ranch and
prairie; and the Buffalo B1l1-101
Rauch shows are said to have
! something especially interesting
along this line to offer. A great
company of cowboys, cowgirls,
old scouts and Indians with the
famous old Chief Flying Hawk,
utilized to visualize the strenuous
life - the frontier. There is the
stage coach hold-up; buffalo
hunt, roundup with long horn
ed cattle; roughriding and bron.
CT o-busting, and other interesting
| offerings, full of the vim and
| ginger and daring of the people
OF the untramelled Borderland.
The two performances to be
given IN this city at 2:15 and S:1s
will be preceded at 1890 in the
norning by a mammoth military
and frontier dav parade in which
all the professional resources O.
the big show will be in line. The
recruiting tent, where enlist
ments are daily received for ser
vice on the Mexican border, viii
be open on the grounds show day
| Reserved seats show day at tn,
Peoples Drug store at the sam,
price as on the grounds.
Dependency.
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