The Mankato free press., 1916-07-07
WERE HERE FOR POINTERS.
Party From Excelsior Saw Pageant
and Greatly Pleased.

and Greatly Pleased.
Excelsior, Minnesota, will have a.
historical pageant on the evenings of
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July
81, %, and 20, to be produced on the
commons under the auspices of the
Ladies' club of Lake Minnetonka The
pageant at their town. They expressed
Lake Minnetonka from it's early his
tory by civilized man up to the pres
ent time. A cast of four hundred
people will take part, and there will
be band of live Indians and excel
lent music.
r. H. DeGroodt, Mrs. Robert jamie
son, Mrs. Frank Force, Mrs. Cutler,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn Clark of Ex-
celsior, prominent promoters of the
pageant were in attendance at the
Mankato Historical Pageant yesterday
afternoon to gain ideas for the sue
cessful presentation of the historical
pageant at their town They expressed
themselves as delighted with the
beauties of Sibley park, which was an
ideal place for the staging of page
ant, and were greatly impressed by
the spirited way in which the episodes
were carried through. They stated
that they had gained many valuable
ideas for their work and were pleased
that they had come to Mankato to
attend the pageant.
Editors Were in Attendance.
Among the editors who took seats
for the pageant yesterday were c.. s.
Baker of the Morgan Messenger, and
lady; J. A. Loehl of the st. Peter
Tribune, and party of three; L. B. Der
by of the Fairmont Independent-Zeit-
ung, and party of three; Phil Liesch
of the Liesch Printing company,
Brown County Journal and New Ulm
Volksblatt and party of five; Harold
Burdick of the Vernon Center News,
and family, party of four: E. H. Short
of the Madison Lake Times. and party
of three; w. K Wilcox of the Ely
sian Enterprise, and party of four; H.
c. Hotaling Of the Mapleton Enter
prise and family, party of three; Will
| liam Curtiss of the st. James Plain
dealer and family, party of five; A. r.
Wilder of the Amboy Herald, and
party of three; Joseph l.. Kuechen-
meister of the Minnesota Lake Trib-
une and party of three; ID. M. Morri-
son of the Steel County Citizen, of
Owatonna, and family, party of five.
SOME CELEBRATION THOUGHTS.
Sixteen automobiles passed at Civ
| en- point in sixteen seconds.
There were no automobile acci-
dents.
The largest crowd Mankato ever
saw with less trouble than was ever
experienced.
| Did you think what would have
been the result if the rain had held
off.
] The Free Press man assigned to
take care of the Thoughts" was ex-
oaodingly busy in his search for i'll
/ tcresting features until after dinner
on account of the rain But imme-
] d;ately after dinner things began to
/ happen. The crowd was jolly, did
not seem to want to do things that
J would mar the pleasure of the crowd
and appeared strictly in accord with
the occasion.
/ Owing to the fact that the. crowd
! did not vacate the places selected for
| the people engaged to take. part in
J Tic pageant. the program was de-
layed about forty minutes.
The Norwegians and Swedes cas-
lily captured the crowd. as to "make-
up cld appearance. No artist could
! have done better.
There was no bali game and ST.
Peter went home with the money
they had been collecting all week.
! The grand stand accommodations
were not sufficient. but at ten O'Clock
it appeared that they were over suf-
.ticicnt. And the weather continued
throughout the afternoon as it did
until. ten o'clock, people would have
said that sit is a good thing you did