Grand Celebration

Will Be Held at Fair Grounds Here Both

Afternoons and Evenings.

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PATRIOTIC

OBSERVANCE AND

PARADE IN MORNING

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Baseball Games,

Horse Races, Calisthenic Exhibitions and Big

Fireworks Displays.

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The committee in charge of arranging the programs for New Ulm’s grand two-day celebration, July 4 and 5, is putting the final touches to the entertainment schedules. By this evening everything will be in readiness for the big event.

Parade and Program.

A grand patriotic parade is planned for tomorrow morning, beginning at 10 o’clock. It will be headed by the 205th Infantry Band, M. N. G., of New Ulm and include various local military and civic organizations, as well as the Turner classes from Minneapolis, St. Paul and New Ulm. Following the parade, a patriotic program will be rendered at German park. Rev. Carl H. Yettru, pastor of the First Congregational church of this city, will deliver an appropriate address, and Carl Thies, also of New Ulm, will read the Declaration of Independence. Musical selections will be given by the 205th Infantry band, the final number being “The Star Spangled Banner.” There will also be a band concert on Minnesota street during the forenoon and until 1:30 p.m., when the big afternoon program starts at the Fair grounds.

Baseball and Horse Races.

Baseball games and horse races have been arranged for both days. Tomorrow afternoon the Wanda nine, leader in the Tri-County league, will meet New Ulm, while Fairfax, top-liner in the Prairie league, is scheduled to play the local team, Sunday afternoon. A $400 purse has been hung up for each game. The horse races will include a 2:20 trot or pace tomorrow afternoon, and a 2:16 trot or pace, Sunday afternoon, each for a purse of $350. Several fast horses have been entered for both speed events.

Calisthenic Exhibitions.

One of the big features of the two-day celebration here will be novel calisthenic exhibitions by Turner classes from Minneapolis, St. Paul and New Ulm, each afternoon and evening. The outstanding numbers of there programs are: Tumbling act by First and Second Boys’ classes, New Ulm Turnverein; mass exercises by all Turner classes from Minneapolis, 8t Paul and New Ulm; dash or apparatus number; volley ball tournament; free exercises, “Humoresque,” by Second Girls’ class, New Ulm Turnverein; “Jolly Coppersmith,” dumbbell drill, by Second Boys’ class, New UIm Turnverein; horse and parallel bar exhibition by Ladies’ class, St. Paul Turnverein; “Silverbell Polka” or couple dance, and fencing drill, by Ladies’ class, Minneapolis Turnverein; “Tyl Tyl and Bluebird,” aesthetic dances, by Second Girls’ class.New Ulm Turnverein; free exercises and dance steps by Ladies’ class, New Ulm Turnverein; wand exercises and dance steps by Actives and Ladies’ classes, St. Paul Turnverein; parallel bar exhibition by the Active classes of Minneapolis, St. Paul and New Ulm; athletic drill by Zoegling class,New Ulm Turnverein; “Liebesfreud,”aesthetic dance, by Ladies’ class, New Ulm Turnverein; bow and arrow drill by Active class, New Ulm Turnverein;”La Zingana,” Chalif dance, by Ladies’ class, St. Paul Turnverein; model drill by Actives class, Minneapolis Turnverein; horizontal bar exhibition by Actives classes, Minneapolis, St. Paul and New Ulm.

Fireworks Each Night.

Two big fireworks displays-one each night-have been provided for the entertainment of those who attend the evening performance at the Fair grounds. The programs consist of the most marvelous set pieces and patriotic symbols obtainable, together with hundreds of brilliantly illuminated shells and thousands of loud reports. These fireworks displays will be of the same high character as those presented during the Brown County fair, but of a nature in keeping with the occasion.

Picnic at Catholic Park.

As previously announced in the Journal, the ladies of St. Anne Court, W. C.O. F., are arranging a grand Fourth of July picnic at Holy Trinity park, tomorrow. The diversions offered include band music, grab bag, refreshments and amusements of various kinds. Dinner and supper will be served at the Holy Trinity Catholic school house.

Fourth of July Dinner.

The ladies of the First Methodist Episcopal church will serve a Fourth of July dinner at the church parlors, tomorrow, beginning at 11 o’clock. In order to accommodate the large crowds that are expected to congregate here, the rest room at the church will be ope n to the public all day.

Brown County Journal,

July 3, 1925

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