The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-11-13
Redwood Falls Has
Real Celebration
PEACE NEWS TURNS REDWOOD
COUNTY SEAT UPSIDE DOWN +
MONDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.
ENTHUSIASM GREAT.
PARADE BIG FEATURE OF AT
TERNOON; BONFIRE WHICH
PROVES WARM PLACE FOR
KAISER IN EVENING.

After the preliminary practice of
last Thursday afternoon Redwood
Falls got out Monday afternoon and
did some real celebrating in honor of
the peace news. Shortly after the
news Of the signing of the peace
tennis reached here Monday morning
telephone wires were busy carrying
the news to all sections Of the cou-l-
ty and by noon good sized crowd
had gathered, the townships in this
vicinity all being we'll represented by
farmers who had dropped everything
in the shape of farm work to come
in and take part in the most joy
Gus occasion the United States has
seen since the days Of Lees uncondi-
tional surrender in 1865.
The parade started at three o'clock
from the armory and considering
that the whole affair was practically
impromptu, was very creditable af-
fair. The line was led by the Scenic
City band which had been consider
ably reinforced by calling on every
one who could produce any noice
whatever on musical instrum
The National Guard were next in line
followed by Uncle Sam and the 9TH
er leading officials of the allied ma
tons and the nations which have
been in sympathy with them. The
Boys Of the G. A. R. and the w. R.
c. were also in line and then follow
ed long line of the women who
have done such a wonderful work
in the various phases of Red Cross
work, the wives, mothers and sisters
of the men in service and a band of
school children. The kaiser, fitting
ly chained and perfectly natural in
his hideousness, was drawn in cart
by men and boys, and the city fire
truck and the famous Liberty Bell
which rang for quite as great a
cause in '18 as in '76 brought up the
rear of the parade.
While it was not a lengthy parade
it made up in enthusiasm and energy
what it lacked in numbers. Interest
ing features of it were the young
mothers with their babes, who re-
presented the several young fathers
in Company L. The children of Cap
tain W. B. Clements, now commanding
Company L. in England preparatory
to going to France, and the small
son and daughter Of Captain T. E.
Finn who is now serving in a base
hospital in France attracted much
attention. Possibly the oldest and
most venerated of all the ladies who
marched was Mrs. M. F. O'Hara, mo-
Their of Private Leo O'Hara who has
been serving in France for the past
deveral months. Practically two
thirds of the people in the parade
had some close relatives in the SER
vice and to see the glowing faces
and the shining eyes was proof enough
of what a relief the days news had
brought to all these hearts after
the many months Of anxiety.
After the city had been pretty
well traversed several times a halt
was called and Mayor w. M. Smith
introduced F. Clague, Judge-elect of
the Ninth Judicial district, who in
a short address expressed the joy
OF the gathering at being called to-
gether upon such joyous occasion
Judge Clague then told the celebrants
that Mayor Smith had authorized him
to tender them the use of the city
for a fitting recognition of the close
of the greatest war the world has
ever known.
However it was in the evening that
Dan Cr1rmins and the other young
sters got in their best time. They
started with rousing bonfire on Mil
Street and when. it got just good and
hot, they put the kaiser right into
the warmest corner of the hottest
part, condemning his body to the