The Redwood gazette., 1936-08-06
Celebration Season
Off to Good Start
.SANBORN, WANDA AND
WABASSO PLANNING
FESTIVALS

gram of big days." festivals and
celebrations of all kinds, was in
augurated at Morgan Monday and
Tuesday and will continue through
a rapid succession of events in the
next few weeks.
Following Morgan on the pro-
gram is Wanda with its tenth an
nual Cracker day coming up Sum
day. Thursday, August 13, is Wa
termelon day at Sanborn while
August ID and Is will find Wabas-
so host at another harvest sfesti-
val.
Feature of Cracker day is the
Wabasso-Lamberton ball game on
which hinges the second half Twin
County league title. Wabasso up
set the Lambs late in June and
if A. F. Hassenstab's team can
turn the trick again it will get to
play the Lambs again for the full
season title.
Airplanes will contribute to the
entertainment while music by two
bands, bowery dance and rides,
shows and concessions also are on
the program. A kittenball tourney
is slated for the evening and horse
shoe pitchers will compete for a
chance to meet other village w
ners in a county contest to be held
later.
Only a year younger is San
born's Watermelon day where a
carload of melons will be served
free at four times during the day.
A parade in the morning and
again in the evening will get both
programs off to good start.
Prizes are offered for the best
floats.
Theodore Christianson, former
governor and congressman will
deliver an address soon after the
noon hour and at 8 p. m. Sanborn
and Lamberton will renew base
ball hostilities. Sanborn has a
July A defeat to pay off.
Other features include free
acts, a program of street sports,
doll buggy parade, airplanes and
concessions of all kinds.
Redwood Falls and Wabasso
are slated to play at the Wabasso
festival, the third time the rivals
have met this season.
Other plans include doll bHg-
gy and bicycle parade, chicken
grabbing contest, a tug-o-war be-
tween two township teams, free
acts and concessions and dance
each evening.
In Renville county, Renville is
winding up a two day celebration
of its fifty-eighth anniversary to-
day. Among the special attract
ions is a car crashing through a
wall at 60 miles per hour, a free
pavement dance, ball game, band
concerts and free acts. All three
candidates for governor and sever
al other speakers were slated to
appear Wednesday or today.
Morgan's celebration reached its
height, at least as far as players
and fans are concerned, when the
frequently trounced Morgan base
ball team won its third game in
three days Tuesday afternoon.
The streak started Sunday when
Morgan won a tight pitching duel
from Leavenworth, closing the
league season. Welnitz's homer in
the sixth was the sole score of the
day. Morton was the victim of the
festival game Monday 6 to 8 and
just to prove the first one was no
accident, Leavenworth went down
to defeat the second day of the
festival II to 8.
Holding the interest of a large
crowd, Martin A. Nelson, Repub-
llcan candidate for governor, dis
cussed the financial affairs of Min
nesota from the platform Tuesday.
He emphasized that it will take So
to pay each 81 of debt being con-
tracted, figuring the interest
charges that will accrue and de-
clared Minnesota's greatest need
is for less extravaganza and great
er efficiency in government. H.
Carl Anderson of Tyler, a candi-
date for congress, also spoke
briefly.