The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-07-05


messed such a parade on her streets
as she did last Friday night; never
- did enthusiasm :: find such
heights in this conservative
.4oity; never did citizens join with
such willingness into the participation
of an event. And for these reasons,
never was there more successful
evening.
Red Cross day had been heralded
for two weeks, not blatantly, but
quietly insistent, until each person
participant and spectator, was flileo
with the purpose of the parade ana
meeting and were anxious to do their
share to make it a day worthy of its
endeavor. The parade formed in the
city park and started at 7:45 o'clock,
with DR.. H. L., Lamb unwinding the
intricacies of monster formation
with such skill that in no instance was
there knot or a pull. First rode the
standard bearers, Messrs. Sprague
and Parker, with their white suits ana
helmets and waving plumes, mounted
on horses worthy Of their Red Cross
knights. The standards of white with
blood-red crosses, pleaded with dumb
eloquence for the dire needs OF the
PARKWAY soldiers. The Sank Centre
band, ringing with martial music,
which sounded far back in the process
sion, marched next. Following them
came the Executive Committee, with
out which there could have been no
parade and mass meeting. Mrs. Fan
ME French Morse, accompanied by
Mrs. Allbee and the speaker, Mr..
Hodgson, Larry Ho', and Hon F. M.
EDDY, drove the beautiful Home
School team, doubly splendid in their
decorations. Then the War Fund COM
mlttee, with their red and white stand
ard, the members of the Palmer Post
wlInour when no parade would be
complete, the Boy Scouts, little Miss
AUDREY DuDeaa on her olrnlnutlve
steed, proud with plumes, Red Cross
Class NUMBER One, all IN WHITE, the
.Hespadia Club, in nurses blue and
white aprons, the honest-to-goouness
ambulance, thanked with it's lmmacu-
late Red Cross orderlies and holding
It's angels OF mercy" Red Cross
Glasses Two and Three in their spot
less uniforms and the Sauk Centre
fire Department. Then followed the
Home School girls, two hundred and
thirty strong, all in Red Cross uni
forms OF wnlte, with caps Of white and
blue, carrying out the unified typltl-
cation OF the American flag anu the
american lied Cross. They were LED
py tour little girls carrying the United
States banner, Their appearance made
oaun Centre more lrouu than ever OF
the institution, which is each day COM
my nearer TO Jne hearts OF the people
Inc Red Cross committees, made up
OF the women VINO are DONG the sew
ing and knitting for the soldiers ano
the Sauk centre physicians and den
lists in decorated cars, concluded the
parade. Girls in costumes, mounted
on horses, splendid in their trappings
rode two ana two between the march,
ing groups. In all it was the most
magnificent and thrilling display
Sauk Centre has ever had the great
good fortune to witness. Applause
was hearty and plentiful all along the
line of march, which was heightened
by two blocks on account OF the size
of the parade. Cars filled with people
from al 1.-The surrounding towns, and
country side thronged the sides OF the
streets. ~
The procession ended at the JUNO,
high school and in short time the
auditorium was filled to the last seat
The meeting was called to order by
Chairman A. M. Wallace and the au-
dience stood while the band played
."The Star Spangled Banner" After
this the Home School sang, "America"
their voices ringing into the immense
room in the mighty chorus, of the
grand old hymn. Mr.. Wallace then
made brief address, expressing the
appreciation of the committee upon
the way in which the city was re-
spending to the meeting, after which
he introduced his friend, Mr., Lawrence
Hodgson, LARRY Ho," in a way in
which only a friend would have dared.
Mr.. Hodgson is a small, dark un-
progressing gentleman man pri-
marily Of, the people and for the peo-
pie. He reached his audience at once
with two words, sincere beyond ques-
ton, "My friends" Mr.. Hodgson in
sisted that he was not an orator, and
would have his hearers believe that
he was no kind Of. man at all. How
ever, no one stopped to consider whc-
Their or not he was an orator, whether
he was sairihiap aE a.hero. They sat
On the edgetnf their seats, for an hour
an q haif, lost in the homely eioquenee
of his appeal breathless with the
burning fierceness Of his words, won
dering at. the rapid succession in
which he could make them laugh, then
swallow an unfamiliar lump in their
throets, make them applaud until