River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-07-20
St. Croix Valley Page
ant At New Rich
mond July 1927

The Pageant to be staged at New
Richmond Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, July 26th and 9th, depict
ing the history of St. Croix vally will
be most spectacular, picturesque and
also the greatest show having histor-
ical value that has ever been prodrt.-
ed in st. Croix or the surrounding
counties.
It is largely thru courtesy oi +. T..
McDermott, who is business manager
for the Thurston Management, that
st. Croix valley is fortunate enough
to secure the staging and producing
of this gorgeous historical spectacle,
which has never before been produced
in a town of less than 5000 popula-
ton.
The show will take you back some
years to the earliest recorded events
in st. Croix valley history, commence
ing with the staging of the legendary
Indian scenes down thru he CT ming
of the first settlers, pioneers, trap
pers and traders, the oxen and prairie
schooners, the stage coach, the log
ging camp scenes, the erection OF the
first building, the first marriage and
many other incidents relative to the
hardshirs and sacrifices that these
hardy pioneers went thru. The show
will depict these various historical
events and later developments up to
and including the outbreak and vic
torious conclusion Of the world a
The final scene will be the great
war Gene in which Lieut. j.
Hughes will lead some fifty st. Croix
war veterans over the top and on to
victory under a magnificent display
of fireworks and heavy firing. 1t will
take about 400 people from st. Croix
and surrounding counties to produce
this unequalled show. The cast COM
mittee have given their assurance
that no effect will be spared in select
ing the last to the end that the char
a~cterization may be 100 percent. The
cast will be costumed from the ward
robe of historical costumes furnished
by the Thrtrston Management. The
lighting effects used to give the
show its color and beauty are worth
thousands of dollars. The show will
be staged out of doors under the sky
and the stars with a beautiful back
ground of trees and foliage, giving a
touch of the wilderness. For two and
a half hours you will be made to for
get that you are living in the TWEEN
tieth century, so thrilling, tense and
emotional is the staging OF this gl-
santic production. For this short
space of time you will forget your
domestic and business worries, for
get the coal and rail strike, forget
the slump that Babe Ruth is taking
and live and breathe once more in an
atmosphere familiar to your ances-
tors.
Misses Mary Brown and Gertrude
Clark have arrived from Chicago to
take charge Of the dancing.
Bring in Your Historic Relics
The pagent management is desir-
Gus of collecting thruout the country
ell of the relics of historic interest
for display in merchants windows.
All persons having such relics are
asked to notify Mrs. Guy Aubrey,
chairman of the relics committee, or
to deliver the same 70 pageant head-
quarters at the commercial club
rooms, New Richmond. Each relic will
have a card attached bearing the
name Of the relic, it's history and the
name of the owner. The pageant
management will appreciate any in
formation that can be given with re-
spect to the relics and n are re-
quested to call the pageant manage
ment without solicitation. Much care
will be exercised in the handling and
display of these relics and each will
be safely returned to the owner after
the pageant has been produced.