Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
129 MEMBERS ON
ROLL u. SIS. BAND
Boys Have Participated in Programs
on 60 Occasions In Varions Parts
OF County.
HIKES ARE ATTRACTIVE TREATS
Classes Are Held for Drummers. Bug.
Iers, Filters, Guitar and Mando-
lin Students.

The United Sunday School band
was organized under the direction Of
]. H. Hauberg. who has interested
himself in the boys Of the city in the
endeayor to set before them a worthy
example of manhood and to encourage
them in the development Of any tai
ents they may have. Mr.. Haunerg
has each year arranged hikes Of long
and short distances and attendance
upon these is governed by the conduct
of the boys and the attendance upon
rehearsals and certain other stipuia-
tions. AS the hikes are great treats
and take the boys to interesting places,
the effect of the discipline is salutary.
From Jan. /, 1917, to Sept q, 1917.
there have been 65 occasions when
either all, or a part OF the band men,
bership was called into action, Some
of these were rehearsals held al the
Y. NJ. c. A and at Mr. Hauberg's
home. AT these rehearsals E. R Her
locker had charge of the Boys
chorus" of % members; Peter Licata
taught the mandolin and guitar club
of II members; A H. Marselus. an
old soldier of Moline. had the class of
IS advanced drummers. Luther
Knanishu, Ray Rietz and Leslie At
kinson had each class OF eight mem
bers in bugliHg, there being IS bug
lers in the band. The drummers, Of
which there were so, got their practice
under the direction of the advanced
drummers, with Ray Frank as the
head. The fifers were divided into
/ classes of about four members each.
with the following boys as teachers.
/ Francis Baker, Irving Olson, Edward
Mangesdorfer, Enoch Pealstrom, Fri
! dolph Swenson, Oliver Peterson, Rolf
! Peterson. Carl Rydholm and Carl Sod
| ergren. On April IL, 10 of the older
! boys attended the Red Cross First Aid
classe with the intention Of taking the
course. but the class was already filled
and the boys failed 20 get a teacher.
, although they tried hard to get in,
under the official Red Cross doctor.
The following members have given
! stereoptican addresses; Edward Man
/ gelsdorf. Fridolph Swenson, Edwin
Baker. Enoch Pealstrom, Ray Rietz,
Ray Frank, Glen Atkinson, Luther
Knanishu, Edward Koehler and Al
bert Wood.
Drum Corps Had Busy Tear.
Among the occasions where the fife,
drum and bugle corps appeared on
programs were the following: Broad
way Presbyterian teachers meeting,
~" circus at Rock Island, "Y' circus
at Davenport, patriotic parade of Rock
Island high school, patriotic parade Of
! Rock Island, entertainment at Cleland
/ Presbyterian church, and Second
| Congregational church of Moline. Coal
Valley Presbyterian church, two
shows" al Bethany home, the Cap
tain Richmond p Hobson meeting at
Illinois theatre, program at West End
Settlement; played for Rotary club
in Rockford, for St. Paui's Lutheran
, church at Dixon; flag raising at
Port Byron: dedication of new high
school at Port Byron; at Market
Square, Rock Island, for a Red Cross
I speaker; for Luther league meeting
, at Zion and at Grace Lutheran
churches; for the state Christian En-
|, deayor convention at the Augustana
college gymnasium; and at the Watch
Tower, the Attn Of July parades both
in Moline and Rock Island, and the
! banquet given the soldiers at the col
lege gymnasium. On Decoration day
of this year there were l04 band boys
IN the parades, and furnished music
for the G. A. r. services at Hampton
and Coal Valley as well as in Rock Is
8 land. Six members represented the
l band at the Fifth Annual Older Boys
70 conference at Jacksonville
Seventy-four boys took the 260 mile
: big hike to Rockford in June, and 81
Of the AZ wrote essays on the ''BuTsor
= Knitting Co" Eight prizes we're re
ceiyed in this contest. each prize con
sisting Of so cents and a pair of stock
O ings made by the company. The fol
lowing were prize winners of the boy
: aged Is to is years: Irving Olson
: Francis Barker, Ray Frank and RAJ
/ Rietz. The following were winner
= for prizes among boys aged u TO j
+ years: Rolf Peterson, Clyde Norton
n George Gregg and Norman Johnson
4 The band enrolment for 1917 va
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