Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-07-21
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BIG DAY HERE
Estimated That Webster
City Entertained 10000
People at the Cele-
bratiOn.
ROLLICKING HOLIDAY
Were 826 Soldiers and Sail
Ors Registered by Chamb-
er of Commerce.

Webster City never had more ideal
celebration day than Friday and the
royal welcome given the soldiers and
sailors of tie county was cllaracteris-
tic of the feeling of joy that pcrvad;,s
all Hamilton county that the boys-or
the great majority of then--arc now
back at home. There were S26 soldiers
and sailors registered by the Chamber
of Commerce. The day was joyous,
rollicking holiday from early morning
Friday until early morning Saturday,
every minute of it filled with the var
i0us features arranged for 1t by The
committees in charge. The weather
was perfect and the program carried
out in full just as advertised. The
outstanding events Of the day were the
fine address by Hon. n. Il. Kendall. a
brief address following by Mayor Tom
Fairweather of Des MOines; the air.
plane flights, and the night fireworks
display. There were probably 10000
people here.
An Orderly Day.
From the standpoint of law and or
der the day was quiet one. But ten
arrests were made all day. There
were 80 policemen, five county police
a
day. The city had three secie. service
men from Des Moines, two state
agents, two Fort Dodge men and II
local plain clothes men in addition to
81 special policemen. The arrests
were mostly for petty Offenses. Sever
al were for gambling. but the amounts
involved were small. The most i'm
pOrtant arrests of the day were made
at DR.. N. c. A. Berg's Office, where two
men tried to break and enter-prOb-
ably in search, of cocaine or other
drugs. The doctor happened to be in
at the time and called the police.
Thieves also tried to break into the
Office of DR.. Crumpton but didn't prove
successful. They managed to unlock
two doors, but one door was barred
from the inside and bookcase was
standing in front of the other door.
They succeeded in moving the book
case trife but, in so doing, knocked
the electric fan, which was on top OF
the case, to the floor, which evidently
caused them to make their getaway.
Manly Knutson of Ellsworth and
Mr.. Spencer of Jewell, both of whom
attended the celebration, had their
pockets picked. The pocketbook be-
longing to Mr.. Knutson has been found,
but the contents were missing.
All offenders taken in were before
Justice G. f. Tucker and Municipal
Judge Blake next morning and drew
various fines.
Not an accident of any moment was
reported.
The crowd in the city Friday was
pretty hard to estimate, owing to the
fact that the attractions had been pur-
pOsely scattered. Close observers hold
that it was the largest crowd that has
ever been here This, however, was
not evident to the casual observer,
owing to the fact that, except at the
fireworks in the evening, the crowd
was never in one place.
The Program.
Never in all the history Of Webster
City were so many concessions seen
in Webster City. For the most part
they were refreshment stands and at
fractions of class not at all harm
full. Two 40 camp shows were not
permitted to set up and, despite the
number of concessions, Webster City
kept her word that nothing objection
able would be permitted.
The Webster City, Williams, Jewell
and Ellsworth bands gave concerts all
day. The Jewell boys looked especially
nifty i'm new uniforms, worn Friday
for the first time. The vaudeville pro-
gram was given just as advertised, eX-
cept that the stand to have been in
front of the Channer store was CONSOLE
dated with that in front Of the armoIy
on account of lack of room in the
street. Bands played for all the acts,
which were high class and watched
with close attention by large crowds
Of people.
The balloon ascensions were late, Ow-
ing to inability to get things ready for
them on schedule time. They plea sed
the youngsters immensely.
Many Ride in Plane.
The airplane was one of the big feat
ures of the day. Lieut.. Miller, With
an army plane, began flying early IN
the morning and made around forty
tIigbfS drrinp the day He carried a