The Ward County independent., 1922-07-27

carrying Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. johnson
and other old timers followed. The
Woman's Relief Corps was represent
ed with two beautiful floats, one car
rying the remnants of the G. A. r.
and the other depicting child welfare
work. These floats were built with
much work and considerable expense.
Mrs. w. H. Parker, one of Minot's
earliest settlers was seen in the par
ade. The writer notice Judge Muir
ray and j. H. Charlebois, but great
many of the old guard were missing.
The hustling little city Of Glenburn
| did it's full share to make this affair
complete success. Glenburn had
an unusually pretty float in the par
ade, advertising to Minot the Metz
goshe trail. To see the Glenburn
band marching spryly along and play
| ing soul stirring marches, one would
hardly have realized that the day be-
fore that organization played at the
Carnduff fair over in Canada. The
band is a great credit to Glenburn.
Its director is Hugo Toll, for nineteen
years first cornetist with the Chicago
Symphony orchestra. Mr.. Toll grew
weary Of the big cities some years
ago and came to the northwest. He
liked the people and settled down in
Glenburn. That city is fortunate.
If their citizens ever hear of Tolls
leaving, they threaten to put him in
ball and chains. The Glenburn band
is made up Of: Hugo Toll, director,
cornet; Bert Hartman, John Carroll,
Gus Schaffe and Leland Torgerson,
cornets; Hugo Preevy, alto; Joe Mil
|
Hartman, trombones; C. V. Ferguson,
saxaphone; Cecil Gilbertson, clarinet;
, John Hoellinger, baritone saxaphone;
Arch Dayton, tuba; Clarence Rhodes
and Clair Tompkins. drums.
Members of the Minot lodge, B. r..
G. A. formed quite large section Of
the parade. John Strommen, pio-
neer member of the Minot volunteer
fire department drove the old hose
wagon purchased in 1894. The hose
truck purchased by the city in 1918
was tuned up and puffed along the
way. The first hose cart owned by
the city in 1888 was in the process
sion together with the splendid en-
gines purchased in 1921.
Case engines and threshing ma
chimes, Allis Chalmer tractors, Wal
| lis tractors, and various makes of au-
tomobiles formed quite section. The
Kiwanis and Rotary clubs were rep
resented with appropriate floats. The
Methodist church displayed a very
unique float, showing the many activi-
ties of the modern seven-days-a-week
church, distributing thousands of cir
culars inviting folks to come to church.
The Glenburn band played an en-
joyable concert at the Leland hotel
balcony just before the opening Of
the Pageant Friday evening, and at
the opening of the Pageant, the Minot
Community band, under the direction
of DR.. Anderson, played fine con-
| cert.
Just before the opening Of the en-
tertainment,c the Montana cowboys
gave thrilling. exhibition Of riding
their horses up the steepest hills, back
G.. R.. Pavey,> of Ray, one of the
states very best soloists, sang "Out
Where the West Begins, Friday
night. This proved one of the most
| ENJOYABLE features of the entertain
| ment.
The Prophecy of Father Time,
which part was taken by Atty. V. F..
Stenersen. was especially well han
died. Mr.. Stenersen possesses an
unusually strong voice, his enuncia-
tion is clear and as an orator, he has
no peer in our city.
The dancing of the old Virginia
Reel added much to the performance.
The following dancers, clad in cos
tunes of several decades ago danced
to the tune of old fashioned fiddle
music: Messrs. and Mesdames Fay
Perry, w. j. Kielty, J. E. Devereaux,
C. A. Johnson, j. A. Charbonneau,
A. j. frankie, DIR. and Mrs. Hous-
holder, Mrs. J. H. Greenhalgh and C.
B. Mills.
George A. Benson, representing the
Grand Forks Herald, was in the city
and wrote such wonderful descrip-
ton Of the Pageant, that the Inde-
pendent is taking the liberty to print
it in complete form as follows:
''The historical pageant, commemor-
ative of the work of the first settlers
who passed over these trails forty
years ago and tanned the wild prairies
Of the northwest, was repeated to-
night before an audience much larger
than last nights. Before z o'clock
hundreds of visitors from every sec
ton of this beauty corner of. Dakota
trudged up the high hill and into the
bowl which nature had carved upon its