The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-07-18
JOY NIGHT IN ADRIAN.
Band Played, Automobile Acted
Up and Girls Made Two Young
BlOOdS Ashamed
(From Adrian Democracy

(TIOI1l AuI Idll OtiIlOCIdtJ
There was quite a consider
able doing on the downtown
streets Saturday evening.
The Adrian band gave one of
it's justly famous concerts and
the largest Saturday night crowd
that has turned out this sum-
mer was on hand. The town
folk were down town and peo-
| pie from the country came in
| to hear the music and do their
end of the week shopping in the
well-stocked stores where oblig-I
ing merchants and clerks waited
on them with eclat or something
similar. When, as frequently
happened, some visitor discov-
cred in a store a better article
for less money, than he ordered
from Jeers & Sawbuck and paid
the freight on, it was interest
ing to watch him wear an ex-
preston like that Of a man who
bites a nice fat white worm in
two while eating an apple.
Main street was full Of farm
,ers' automobiles. Farmers wives
sat in the cars and farmers
children dropped the contents of
their ice cream cones on the
icushions. Young men strolled
with young ladies and bought
them candy and sundaes and
the sweet young things who did
not have beaux strolled togeth-
er and directed supercilious
chances at the girls who did.
j Main street lights were ablaze
and everybody was all dressed
{ UP. The band was in fine form
and Director Christensen and
his musicians fairly outdid them
jselves in program of well
chosen music. The cornetists
cut musical capers on the high
notes and the clarinets thrilled
like birds in the merry spring
, time. The bass horns oompahed
, and the altoes, tenors and bari
!, tones did their several parts
well. The slide trombones
reached out across Main street
Z and drew back into themselves
, in the come-to-me go fetch it
manner that all slide trombones
have been doing for generations
past. The drummers expended
enough energy pounding the
calf skin Cor whatever it is that
t drum heads are made FROM tc
I have beaten a whole houseful
of rugs.
Everybody enjoyed the mu-
sic. Town tightwads that al
ways refuse to subscribe any.
!. thing toward the support of the
: band edged up and listened
3 alongside their more public spir-
I tied fellow citizens. The work
I of the band was complimentee
on all sides. Visitors from 9th.
er towns autoed in and helped
to swell the crowd. People were
here from as far away as the
hub.
: There was excitement too
: Two young men drove dowr
Main street with a horse an(
buggy. Their horse apparent
ly felt strange among the sew
5 eral hundred automobiles thai
e lined both sides of the stree
! and the band music made i
: nervous. It stood on it's hint
: feet and paved the atmosphere
z and then it started to back. TIL,
: boys cried 'giddap' but theil
!. steed backed the buggy nearly
J, into the bunch Of automobile
e before the boys could control it
s The next thing that happenet
was when a, Ford car got started
t by itself and went rambling
: right along Main street. Tw,
g young ladies were sitting in !;
Ell big touring car and one Of then
e jumped out and caught the For,
r and stopped it's mad career be
: fore it did any damage. Nor
dl Democrat readers will be inter
: |ested in the make of the ca
e than in the identity Of the youn,
: lady or in any other feature o
r the incident.
81 A few minutes later two youni
d fellows got in a fight and on
elwas kicking his opponent III tn
g midriff when the young lad.