Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
SELECT CAST FOR
PAGEANT TO Be HELD
BY HOME BUREAU
COMMITTEES WHO WILL DESIGN
AND MAKE COSTUMES FOR THE
CHILDREN TAKING PART ARE
CHOSEN BY THE PAGEANT
HEADS.

During the past week Mrs. Harry
Hagie and Miss Zelma Monroe of the
La Sale county Home Bureau have
been meeting with all the units of the
organization assigning parts for the
milk pageant which will be given on
the opening day Of the La Sale
county fair, SO far all the units have
been very enthusiastic in the plans
and have shown their willingness to
cooperate by following out the plans
of all the committees. In each com
munity the director, food clothing
and health chairmen have been asked
to meet with Mrs Hagie and Miss
Monroe, and also someone who could
train the children for their part in the
pageant.
The costumes as planned by Mrs
j. n. Hoag and her committee, Mrs.
Charleo Strout, Miss Viola Pottinger,
Mrs. Charles Robinson, Mrs. Grace p,
Trenary, Miss Margaret Sillers and
Mrs. Thomas Murphy, are being eX.
planned, and the clothing chairmen in
each group will be responsible for see
ing that the costumes are properly
made and the instructions fully cat
ried out.
The clothing chairmen who are re.
spCnsible for the making Of the cos
tunes for their group in this vicinity
are; Mrs, Joseph Moore, Miss Agnes
Baldwin, Mrs, John h. EuStis, Mrs
j. n. HOag, Mrs Clarence Fewell, Mrs
|. n. BdUgham, Mrs. Ida Hoganson,
Mrs. j. w. ODonnell, Mrs p. c. Ohm.
stead, Mrs. J. C. Hall and Miss L9ette
J, Esmond.
The clothing chairmen will choose
their own committee and they will
work together in making the costumes.
While the costumes are being en-
planned and instructions given by Miss
Monroe in these meetings Mrs. Haeie
is training the local teacher for the
drill for their unit of the Home Bu
reau.
The two groups at Allen and Otter
Creek will be trained by Miss Alice
Van Nance, while Mrs. Hagie herself
will train the children from Grand
Rapids Farm Ridge and Brookfield.
Mrs Floyd Harkins will train the chill
dren for Eden and Hope Miss Freda
MathieSen the children from Dayton
and Wallace, Miss Esther Troyer from
Worthwhile and Mission, and the chill
dren in Freedom and Earl townships
will be trained by Miss Dorothy
Stockley.
Both the young people who are re-
sponsibIe for training the children
and the clothing chairmeu for max
ing the costumes have entered into
the game with a great deal of zest
and anticipation.
In each group the general commit
tee is responsible for choosing the
children. The clothing chairman and
the one who trains the children will
be responsible for getting the children
to the fair on children's day. Tuesday.
Sept 49, in plenty of time and see that
their costumes are correctly put or
them.
At those general meetings, too, the
poster committee, with Miss Florence
OFT Of the Grand Rapids unit az chair
man, is requesting each community to
be responsible for making at least
twelve posters to be distributed
throughout their township These
posters will be called in by the first
of September and properly distributed.
Suggestions for the type OF posters
and the material for making them will
be sent out from the central headuuar
terS.