The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
Busy Holiday
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REV. LEE WILL SPEAK
AT ARMORY PROGRAM;
PRO GAME AT NIGHT

Redwood Falls business places,
banks and public library will be
closed Friday for the most elabor-
ate celebration of Armistice day
here in years.
A parade, program at the arm
Dry, afternoon Homecoming foot
ball game between Redwood Falls
High school and Springfield High
school, potluck supper for veter-
ans organizations and auXiliaries
in the evening, night football
game between the Chicago Brown
Bombers and Des Moines Comets
and a high school and alumni
dance in the evening are schedul-
ed to make a full day for city re-
CidentS.
Preparations for the day will
begin Thursday when a Home
> coming pep parade and bonfire
will be staged by high school and
grade students.
The Boys club is in charge of
general arrangements. Working
with c. A. Halvorson, faculty adj
visor, are Wallace Schroeder, club
president, and other officers, Paul
Kohler, Elmer Diekmeier, Ross
LusSenhope and Clarence DiScher.
Between $50 and 40 p. m.
there will be a huge parade led
by the high school band with
floats designed and built by each
home room in the high school and
each Grade from the fifth through
the ninth.
A snake dance will uncoil at
tbs p. m that night, its deStina-
ton a huge bonfire on the school
grounds. A pep band will put
spirit into a pep-fest around the
blaze.
The high school game begins at
2 p. m. Friday on Memorial Field,
Homecoming color being added
by the sale of souvenirs by the
Boys and Girls clubs of the high
school. Girl Scouts will sell ham,
burgers during the contest.
The Scenic City band will add
to enthusiasm at the Brown Bonn
berS-Comets contest at Memorial
Field, taking the field preceding
the p. m. starting gun.
His activities directing the band
will keep S. w. Limburg from as
sembling his orchestra for the
dance in the Lincoln gymnasium
until $50 p. m. But once there
the orchestra will swing until II
o. m. Alumni are invited to join
high school students at the dance
Free dance tickets will be used
by students of the senior high
home room whose float is judged
best in Thursdays parade.
Ben Tom and Helena Caven
are faculty chairmen for the
dance and the committee in
charge includes Howard Hoffman,
Georgine Amberg, Peggy Oster
and Leon Pease. Their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Scotty Oster, Mrs.
Leda Pease, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Hoffman and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Amberg will be chaperones.
Program At ArmOry
The ArmiStice day parade forms
at the schoolhouse at 10 a. m. Fri
day. Colors, Scenic City band,
veterans organizations, veterans
auxiliaries, Girl Scouts, Boy
Scouts and children precede In
order to the armory.
Leon H. Brown will preside al
observances there.
After a musical prelude by
the band and advance of the col
.ors, Rev. Godfrey O'Sullivan Will
give the invocation.
God of Our Fathers" will be
sung by a girls trio including
Phyllis Macs, Bernice Pettis and
Mavis Reynolds accompanied by
Mrs. E. A. johnson and Jean Lau-
terbach will recite I'm Flanders
Fields"
Well qualified to give the ad-
dress of the day, Rev. Edward
Lee of the Methodist church will
discuss the meaning OF the first
Armistice and the twentieth an
niversary of the great peace. He
was a sergeant with the Canadian
Expeditionary Forces and spent
four years overseas.
F. H. Anthony will sing sleep,
Soldier, Boy" with Mrs. An
thony at the piano.
Benediction will be delivered
by Rev. Paul Bard of the Naza-
rene church.
At 6 %. m. veterans, auxlllarles
and their families will gather at a
potluck supper at the American
Legion hall.
WILLIAM KETTLE