Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-07-03
A GREAT REUNION
Great MuItitudes of People Met
Together in Mineral Point
Last Thursday
INTERESTING FIELD SPORTS
Furnish Amusement to Many.-The
Whole Splendid Program of the
Day Was Well Carried Out

Arrangements for the grand reunion
of soldiers and sailors in connection
with the annual field day celebration in
Mineral Point was not made by halves;
they were made on a large scale; and
they were carried out to the letter.
With fair weather and good roads,
motor cars galore, and everything else
propitious, the result was the greatest
multitude of people ever assembled in
this historic old town.
The streets and fair grounds were
thronged to capacity; AID the crowds
were not disappointed.
The Great Parade
The parade at 1920 a. m. under the
direction of DIR. W. Ct. Hales, as mar
shall, assisted by w. H. Correll and j.
A. Meserole, formed on Fountain street
and thence marched up Commerce street
and High streets to Iowa streets and
turning counter marched to the place Of
beginning in the following order:
Uncle Sam and Miss Columbia.
Mineral Point band.
Float representing Columbus before
Queen Isabella at the Court of Spain.
Indian skid: Indian, riding horse
drawing skid, on which two Redskins
were riding.
Float representing early Virginia his
tory: Capt. John Smith being rescued
by Pocahontas. Boat. tent and Indians
on float.
Spirit of l776: Drummer boys of that
period in appropriate costume.
Colonial soldiers and Colonial ladies
mounted on horses.
Prairie Schooner: "Pike's Peak or
Bust followed by two burrows with
packs, representing pioneer days cross
ing the plains.
Lincoln float showing Lincoln with
the G.. A, r. Veteran and Confederate
soldier Columbia and colored chill
dren, representing abolition of slavery.
Four autos containing Grand Army
veterans
Boy Scouts.
Boys on ponies, dressed as Cow Boys
and Rough Riders.
Spirit of 1918: Uncle Sam; on his
right boy in khaki; on his left sail
or, mounted on horses.
Mounted on horses properly capari
soned, soldiers Of England, France, TIA
ly, Belgium and Scotland.
Red Cross float showing life at the
front; containing stretcher bearers,
wounded soldier, and Red Cross nurses.
Linden band.
Next came soldiers and sailors of the
late war. headed by Old Glory, followed
by the flags Of England, France, Bel
gium and Italy; then the returned SOL
diers and sailors.
Peace float, in white trimmed with
white lilies, showing the word Peace in
letters of gold, Riding in this float
were six small girls dressed in white.
The parade was pronounced by old
residents as the finest of the many sue
cessful efforts of the kind ever witnessed
in Mineral Point. In it, skillful pag
eantry was so we'll mixed with reality
as to produce more striking and fav-
orable impression. It was good.
A Great Ball Game.
The base ball between Hollandale and
Mineral Point was distinctively big
feature of the day. Dodge, a pitcher of
big league calibre, pitching for Hollan
dale and Mobiles pitching for Mineral
Point hooked up in the prettiest pitch
ing duel which was ever staged in Min
eral Point, and probably in the county.
For ten innings these pitchers battled
away with the opposing team without
being scored upon. In the eleventh,
Reuben Fessenden to bat, made clean
double off of Dodge to left field. Cor
gen next up to bat, being another left
handed batter who was put in by man
ager Foster as a pinch hitter and be-
cause it appeared that the left handed
batters were giving Dodge the most
trouble, proved a good move, and hit
fast one through the infeld which
scored Reuben Fessenden from Second.
In the last of the eleventh inning
pinch hitter to bat after double, pro-
duced a hit to right field, scoring run
for Hollandale and tying the score. In
the fourteenth, it seemed Mineral Point
was due for another cun when Mauger,
first up, got to first and was sacrificed
by Foster to second by fast hit TO
short, but by trying to make third on a
throw to first to catch Foster, was him
self thrown out at third by question
able decision. For two more innings
they battled and the contest stopped
only because of request of the asso-
citation to allow the crowd (Which re-
mained almost to person to watch the
long drawn out contest) to witness the