Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-06-15
[. c. BAND TRIP
is GOING FINE
Making the Names Decorah and Luz
ther College Famous Through
out the Middle West.
LEE ABBEY MAKES
SOME EXCITEMENT
Luther College Ball Team Beats Can
ton, 5. ID. Team by a Score
of Z to 3. Arne SOrlien
Pitched.


The Luther College Concert Band
is enjoying a successful concert tour
through the West. Their first stop
was at Canton, South Dakota, and
we are indebted to Brynjolf j. Hovde,
press representative with the band
for the following particulars of the
first few days of the tour:
Sioux Falls, S. ID.
June 10, 1921
The Luther College Band, which
left Decorah last Monday night is
making the names Decorah and Lu-
ther College famous throughout the
Middle West. This well known or
ganization needs no introduction to
the readers of this paper. The tour
this year is in celebration of the
Goth anniversary of Luther College,
and falls on the fifteenth anniversary
of the first extended tour of the
band in 1906, when it went to the
Pacific Coast for the first time.
Since 1906 the means of travel
have changed considerably. On the
first tour sleepers were chartered
only from Williston, N. ID. to the
coast; today the band has its own
Pullman and baggage coach all the
way. When the troup had to be
transported across country in 1906
| it travelled with horses and buggies,
those semi extinct conveyances; to-
| day it goes in automobiles, and the
/ time Of travel is cut i'm more than
half. In 1906 Prof. Sperati was both
director and manager, a mammoth
task, as Professor Peterson, the pre-
( sent manager, will testify. Today
| the band has not only a business
manager, but graduate nurse, Miss
Theresa E. Aneson. The times
change.
The first stop on this tour was
Canton, s. p. President J. N.
Brown of the Canton Lutheran Nor
NAL School had done everything in
his power to make it a great day.
The only rift in the lutte was the
weather, and he was not responsible
for that. A base ball game had been
arranged between the Canton city
! team and a team selected largely
from the band, except that Arne and
Olvin Sorlien and Carl Anderson
helped them out. The Luther team
won rather easily, 7 to 8, against a
man who was said to be one of the
best pitchers in South Dakota.
An event long to be remembered
from Canton was the pleasant re-
ception arranged for the band party
at the residence of DR.. Eli Lewison
one of Luther's loyal sons, by the
patrons of the concert and the
Country Club.
In Hills, Mimi, the band was
largely under the care Of Mr.. Her,
bert Lokensgaard, we'll remembered
in Decorah from his years at Luther
He graduated in 1915. Here toe
rain interfered with the origina
plans and dampened the spirits Of
the day. In the evening of the same
day a concert was played in Luveme
Mimi, to full and very appreciativC
house. The 9th of June was spent il
Madison, S. d. The afternoon son
cern at Lake Madison was enlivenec
somewhat by Lee Abbey's unexpectet
discharge of the cannon. The bant
uses a small cannon in one of it
numbers, and Lee had loaded it t
keep it in readiness. Suddenly j
began to slide off its stand, and lie
grabbed the lanyard to steady il
but in stead the trigger was pulled
and bang went the cannon, entirel
in the wrong place. 1t was some
what of a surprise. The boys sa
they are going TO cannonize Lee.