The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-06-07
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Is Wonderful Success

The weather man surely approves
of Barnes county's annual Play Day,
for Saturday morning dawned bright
and warm and proved to be the best
day this season.
Almost before the sun was up school
children were pouring into the city.
They came by train, autos, buggies
and wagons.
The opening exercises were held in
the Normal school auditorium, where
Miss Amidon led in the flag salute and
the singing of the Star Spangled Ban.
ner.
After the announcements of the pro.
gram for the day were made by Coun.
ty Superintendent Nelson, the young.
er pupils marched to the campus,
where Miss Ruth Cranz, Miss Jessie
Farrup and their assistants organized
the children into groups and taught
them games The older pupils went
to the fair ground bill, where interest
ing agricultural contests took place.
The first was the hay loading contest,
followed by the harnessing and hitch.
ing, the spading, hoeing and raking
contests and the competitive march
ing.
The city park at noon was full OF
merry picnickers. The zoo in the park
proved great attraction for the boys
and girls. The bear cage was sur
rounded most of the day.
The parade formed at 1 o'clock and
by 1:30 was in full swing. The line Of
march and order of societies in the
parade was as follows:
Formed at the city park entrance,
marched east on First street to Fifth
avenue, north on Fifth avenue to the
Richie school building, turned to the
right and marched back on Fifth ave-
nue. to Main street, turned and march
ed east on Main street to Fourth ave-
nue., turned to the right and marched
back on Main street to Fifth avenue,
turned back to the Normal campus.
Chief Swanson, mounted on a fine
charger, headed the procession, fol-
lowed by the entire police department
mounted. Next came on horseback
Adj. T. S. Henry, Lieut.. H. F. Halver.
son and j. w. Nelson, Capt. D. S.
Ritchie and Eugene Mcfarland also
mounted were the pathfinders. The
order of organizations appearing was
as follows:
City Municipal Band
The Dahl Sisters in uniform.
Companies G. and H.
Recruiting Officers, Clara Stenshoel
and Trudie Olsby.
Red Cross Nurses. p b..
Lodges-Firemen, Moose, Masons,
X. P.
Normal School Band.
Normal School Faculty and Stu
dents.
County Department of Education.
Various school of the county.
The county department Of education
represented the complete education Of
the boy and girl-the head, the hand,
the health, the home and the heart.
Appropriate banners and costumes
were worn to show this by County
Supt. Nelson and Deputies o. A..
Barton, Annie G. Baillie and Clara L..
Larson.
TIE schools Of the county turned out
remarkably we'll. Many schools were
awarded the Certificate of Merit for
perfect attendance.
The pupils from District No. were
unique as potato raisers. The delega-
tion was headed by Ralph Stenshoei
as drummer boy and the children drew
cartliad of potatoes. The girls
from District No. 9 were dressed as
Red Cross nurses and the boys as
soldiers, as also were the Pillsbury
delegation. "The Spirit Of 1776," an
exact copy of the famous picture, lead
the Oriska school. The Svea consoli-
dated school made fine appearance
as soldiers of the soil, with their rakes
and hoes. The Fingal school by their
dress and the implements which they
carried showed their interest in gar
dening The Noltimier school girls in
uniform brought forth cheers all along
line Of march. The Lincoln school and
St. Catherine school of Valley City
had fine delegations. The Wimbledon
boys and girls were lead by the little
Lockert boy, in uniform, inspiring
them with his excellent drumming.
The Normal school and practice school
turned out to man and their cooper
alton in helping to make the County
Patriotic School Day the success 1t
was is certainly appreciated by those
who had the day in charge. The hos
pital corps of the practice school was
very we'll carried out. Space forbids
mention of all the excellent ideas
worked out by the various schools.
Much interest was manifested in the
agricultural contests on the fair
ground hill in the morning.
The judges for the the various
events were as follows:
Hay oading-August Anderson,
Svea; T. L. Wetherbee, Urbana !;
Chas. Whitcher, Getchell.
Parade-Gen. A. P. Peake, w. L.
Stockwell, Fargo, County Supt. Raaen,
of Steele county.
Marching-Lieuts. Frame, Halverson
and Oleby. The commands were given
bv Captain D. S. Ritchie.
Harnessing-J. H. Whitcher, Lee
Cowell, Frank Heimes.
Raking, Hoeing and Spading-T. x
Calnan. j. w. Widdifield, W. E. Bush,
P. w. Cockrill.
Teams and hayracks were furnished
by Fred Getchell, H. R. Bruins and
Wylie Nelson. They were all bona