THE FIREMEN'S TOURNAMENT
It isn't only Christmas that comes but once a year and when it
comes it brings good cheer; it's any festival that is worth a hill
of beans, High School Commencement, Fourth of July, Sunday-school
excursion, Election' bonfire, Thanksgiving Day (a nice day and one
whereon you can eat roast turkey till you can't choke down another
bite, and pumpkin-pie, and cranberry sauce. Tell you!) - but about
the best in the whole lot, and something the city folks don't have,
is Firemen's Tournament. That comes once a year, generally about
the time for putting up tomatoes.
The first that most of us know about it is when we see the bills
up, telling how much excursion rates will be to our town from
Ostrander and Mt. Victory, and Wapatomica, and New Berlin,
and Foster's, and Caledonia, and Mechanicsburg - all the towns
around on both the railroads. But before that there was the
Citizens' Committee, and then the Executive Committee, and the
Finance Committee, and the Committee on Press and Publicity, and
Printing and Prizes, and Decorations and Badges, and Music, and
Reception to Firemen, and Reception to Guests - as many committees
as there are nails in the fence from your house to mine. And these
committees come around and tell you that we want to show the folks
that we've got public spirit in our town, some spunk, some git-up
to us.
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