The Sauk Centre herald., 1936-08-13
Club Plans
Splendid 2
Day Festival
Elaborate Programs Will
Feature Fall Carnival
And Exposition
MOTOR BOAT RACES
Plan To Hold Meeting Tomor-
row Night To Com
plete Plans

In order to complete arrange
ments for the Fall Carnival and
Harvest Exposition, q meeting
of the Community Club will be
held tomorrow night, Friday.
August 18th. Every business
man I'm the city should be pre-
sent to show his interest I'm
Sank Centre and to help make
this event the success 1t should
be. The officers of the Com
munity Club plan to stage q
worthwhile event, and need
your cooperation There will be
NO solicitation of money to
stage this event. Come and get
the details.
Community Club officers are
making plans for a two-day cele-
bration to be held in September,
possibly Wednesday and Thursday,
the 16th and 17th. An elaborate
program has been planned with
the hope of making this one of the
largest events ever held In the city.
This celebration will be known as
a Fall Carnival and Harvest Eek
position, and will include the reg
ular showing Of farm, garden and
home products which has been a
feature of the Harvest Festival in
past years.
The program has not been COM
pleted, but plans for its arrange
ment include for Wednesday after
noon sports for boys and girls, a
tug-of-war by farmers from the
east VS.. west, doll buggy parade,
entertainment by clowns, music by
the Sauk Centre band, the Little
German band and other features.
On Wednesday night an amateur
hour win be featured, along the
lines Of the popular Major Bowes
hour, for which prizes Of IS, $4, So,
50, and 81 will be offered. Anyone
may enter this event, however.
groups must be limited to four per-
sons. This program will include
singing, speaking, tap dancing, jig
ging, musical numbers, or any 9TH
er kind of entertainment that anna
teurs will have to offer.
At intervals during both days,
commencing at ten o'clock in the
morning, balloons will be released
from buildings on both Main and
Third Streets, to which items OF
merchandise will be attached. Who
ever gets one of these balloons will
be entitled to the article mentioned.
Over $3.50 in merchandise will thus
be tied to these balloons.
The Thursday afternoon pro-
gram will include motor boat rae
es and row boat races at the park.
A circus parade, tug-of-war, farm
ers of the south VS.. north, and 9TH
er events to be planned later. Priz-
es for sports and races will be an
nounced in the near future.
The crowning event will be held
on Thursday evening, when the
Carnival Queen, to be elected by
popularity contest, will be crowned
at the band shell, with appropriate
ceremonies. The ladies who receive
second and third place will be the
attendants. This will be an educa-
tional contest and the winner will
be given a trip to Chicago. The at
tendants will also receive awards.
This will be followed by a decorat-
ed boat parade on Sauk Lake,
which will proceed before colored
lighting effect, and the evening will
be closed with display of fire
works.
President Fred Unger, of the
Community Club, has appointed
committees to care for the various
events and details will be published
in the Herald from time to time.
Those appointed to committees
should be willing to give time to
the successful elimination of this
big program, and all others when
asked should not hesitate to help
the Community Club stage one of
the best and largest events ever
presented in the city.