The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-07-16
Festival Committees Named;
Celebration to be August Is
Tentative Program Provides
Varied Attractions for
Day of Celebration

Executive committee for the Aug
ust Festival day, to be held in Red
wood Falls, Tuesday, August 1S,
met last Tuesday evening to draw
tentative plans for the affair. The
committee, consisting of w. G. Weld
on, chairman; DIR. c. L. Lynn, DR.. W..
A. Brand, E. H. Bollum and c. A.
Lauterbach selected committees to
act on the various attractions to be
offered here that day. The affair is
being sponsored by the Merchants
association.
According to present plans the
Festival will be replete with excel
lent attractions which will be provid-
ed with no charge. This form of an
attraction was decided upon in pre-
ference to one of the so-called days"
which have been so popular among
surrounding communities in the past
few years.
The program will begin in the
downtown district at 1000 o'clock in
the morning and continue throughout
the evening and will include parades,
water sports, musical attractions and
demonstrations of war methods.
1t is planned to start the festival
with an Industrial parade at 1000
a. m. and follow this with miscel-
laneous program of acrobatics, box
ing, band music and other free at
fractions from II o'clock until noon.
The water sports exhibition will be
one of the chief attractions of the
afternoon program and will feature
swimming contests, diving exhibit
ions speed boat races, surf board rid
ing and life saving demonstrations.
This part of the Festival will be held
at the beach at Lake Redwood.
Following the exhibition at the
lake it is planned to have doll bug
gy parade from 3 until $3.50 after
which there will be comic parade
including a Dutch band and clowns.
A demonstration of trench mortars
and machine guns at the lake is plan
ned for 400 o'clock as well as an
exhibition OF drill by members Of
Company L.
The evening part of the Festival
will be largely musical with con-
certina contest featuring. There Will
also be saxophone and vocal quartets
as well as other forms of entertain
ment.
Committees as selected by the exc
cutive committee Tuesday night are
as follows: Industrial parade-W. E.
Paffrath, chairman; Oscar Rand
gard, C. H. Schultz, and S. B. Duea.
Sports-Dr. w. A. Brand, chair
man; DR.. T. E. Finn, Fred Seifert,
l. M. Stensvad, and j. L.. Brown.
Doll buggy parade-Joe Tyson,
chairman, and Redwood Falls Flower
and Garden club.
Comic parade-Tom Reed, chair
man, V. H. Forster and j. w. Lauter-
bach.
Demonstration of trench mortars,
etc.-E. H. Bollum.
Publicity-Scott Schoen, H. v.
Starr, H. Aune and c. c. Croker.
Committee on finance-W. T. Will
cox, chairman; Charles Wagner, l..
R. Ewart, William Charlton, E. l..
Gallea and Rudy Gluth.
1t is expected the Redwood Falls
American Legion Post will conduct
concessions on the streets that day.
The committee is also attempting to
bring a form of attraction for chill
dren.
The executive committee of the
Festival has called a meeting for
Friday of this week and requests
every committee member to be pre-
sent. The business men of the city
plan to make this affair one of the
most attractive possible and are re-
questing everyone's cooperation.