Fine Parade At Saline

FINE PARADE AT SALINE

Jackson Turned Out in Full Force.

Makes A STRONG BID

To Have The Celebration Held There Next Year.

Saline, Aug. 17.- Special to Daily Argus).- The village is alive today and everybody is celebrating the 10th annual German-American Day. The streets are crowded and jammed with people. It is a grand reunion of the Germans and their descendants. Old friends who have not met in years are meeting and telling of their family welfare. It is an ideal day or a celebration. All dampness is from within. 

The business streets are prettily decorated with green before the stores and streamers are floating on every avenue with the word, that in its language expresses more nearly its heartfelt meaning, "Wilkommen." The real friendliness of the old homlily word, must be felt to be fully understood. That the people of Saline meant it, there cannot be any question, when the visitor mixed in with the great crowd and received the warm hand shake from his old friends.

The town commenced to fill up with people about 10 o'clock when the special excursion train from Jackson via Manchester arrived. The former city was represented by 350 people and the latter with 200. The Jackson societies consisted of Arbeiter Verein No's. 1 and 2, Landwehr, Schiller Lodeg, No. 43, A. O. U. W.. Concordia Gesang Verein, Schwaebeschen Unterstuetzungs Verein and the Jackson Harmome. Among their members were Mayor Martin Loennecker, William Caldwell, city recorder, Fred J. Keebler, city treasurer, Dr. C. R. end, city physician, Ald. Fred G. Alder, of the bloody seventh, James Falikee, police commissioner, Fred Casey, cemetery board, Edward Goecker, Carl Eberle, fire commissioner and and ex-Justice and Attorney Rudolph Worch, the gifted editor of the Jackson Volkeblatt. Among the Manchster people Nathaniel Schmid greeted his many friends. The Ypsilanti Arbeiter were represented both by members and also a band. Their trip to Saline was attended with difficulties as the trolley road stopped four miles out and the busses on hand were not sufficient for the crowd. A number of scattering people from Ann Arbor could be seen but no society was represented in a body. The people that came to the town with teams could not be counted. After there was a general settling down the thirst occasioned by the hot day was quenched most satisfactorily to everyone. Old friendships were renewed and new ones made. It was fully 11:30 o'clock before the procession moved. It started o the square and passed through the principal streets, under the marshalship of Mathias Rentschler aided by Charles Rentschler. It was headed by the Jackson bancd, which was followed by the other societies interspersed with the Ann Arbor Y.M.C.A. Band Ypsilanti Bands. Then came very tastefully gotten up floats. There were D. Nissley. boots and shoes; A M. Humphrey, dry oods; Bixby & Son, flour; York represented by a wagon load of children; Andrew Lindenschmitt, wholesale butcher; a picture of the olden time. In carriages rode John Frank president of the day, Hon. Henry C. Smith and editor Eugene Helber.

More than casual mention should be made of the float representing the olden time. There was a large spinning wheel. A man cutting sour kraut and another packing it into a barrel with his bare feet. An old woman was cooking sour kraut on a stove she occasionally sawing some wood to replenish the stove. The procession as a whole was a great success. 

During the morning the Jackson people assisted by their Manchester friends quietly circulated among the crowd and worked towards the end taht the nest German-American Day should be held in Jackson. They were very reasonable, however in that they smilingly said that if they did not capture it this year, they hoped it would be another year. They promised the people a warm welcome if they came to Jackson.

FREAUFF