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(From Sunday*» Daily Leader.)Two Thousand School ChildrenBearing Their Country’sFlag, In Holiday Dress, March in Kaleidoscopic ProcessionThrough the Crowded Streets to the Perry Street Depot,The Active and Passive Turners Swell the Line of March.Glorious Field Day Sports at theADavenport Fair GroundsBound Out a Day of Festivities Long to be Remembered,of thewholesome at fern u st haveSomething Ictie spirit of the Grecians entered into the sturdy race o£ Germania tv hen the nation took on its disti[active character. Exhibitions of skill, of brawn, endurance, strength and agility have been features of aJJ their national or civic fests since time immemorial. The honest, straightforward and hardy nice have been Identified with feats of daring from the tlays of the earl3' Roman conquests up to the eras of the late strife between the Teuton and the French. To Germany and her children has been bequeathed tin* glorious dower of men s snail in corpore sano,” or a sound mind in a healthy body, which heritage of good health is the envy of the more puny races of the continent, and the more delicate neighbors of the race inTo the German, life ifbecause lie isconsequentthis country-one gmnd sweet song blessed with health andhappiness.It is not hard to determine the rea-for this healthful ness of the race.gvtnnasiom is as necessary an ad-liuci to the school Itt Germany as the itcben is to the house, and no youth ver attained bis majority in that ountry with muscles undeveloped oi ith a physique out of which the best ad not been evolved. To keep up the hyglcal health of its race, and to af-d the necessary exercise for the wing youth the society of Turner? established, old almost as the anion itself, and as sturdy as the race introduction of gymnastics intctie public schools was a movt-mem at took its cue from the Fatherland lid in its adoption the future is as-tired of ciliiPts lithe of limb, devel-jped in muscle, stawarlh. of build and physique and capable of battlini ith the opposing odds of enervatingand insidious disease.i iS-15 the local Turner society was 11 ished, which has continued in ex-nco in an ever flourishing condi-up to the present day. However. i‘ 1*45 before the effective organic was completed, which will Saak* year after next take on the charac-of a jubilee year, on which oeca i a great local fest will be iaaugur I to surpass any celebration In Umory of the city, not even exceptinggreat water carnival or the cea tial event of 157*. Among the pio rs who joined the society in its in :y and who still survive to discus, rarly days of the organization ma}nentioned the following:The Pioneers.Kristian jiueiler. l$4$: Louis Scblc and Charles HSU. 3*5*: Louis Haas 1*52: Charles Na**k«l. 1S5S: At betey. 1*51. August Mueller. Frit: eye sen, Henry llaak and Car Itur ster. 1*5*; Henry Tecbentin. IfSf ra 13 ill. Hero hard Krohn. Julius FIs - and C. Majt VWifr H. £to, IS'W: Christian Tocrriag am z Wendt. 3K2; Theodore Petersen Frilr, Kruse. Fcrd Haah, Hlt;nr. rocder and Fred Schlapkohh 3 II. Auder.«m. Dr. C. Hoerfuer amJ. I^rch. 1SW: Herman Warn ken AT, Hansen. Fritz Wementin ei. CVIJrcrs, Frank Rascber. Jebi richer and It. J- Wilt. 1M: the lab odore Cramer. Feter Gmenau. D nniter. Math Zetipen. 1***: P. Hirmann. Thlt;v. GtaT^hgeler. Aup rnweT. Gustav Haase. F. T rh. Cbas. J. Hagetnana. PImfe. Hy KnnaeSer. F- G. ClauseMa-hlas Fjahm. 1*70. istian Mueller 5s therefore the old-arscT of the local society bavin*
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Davenport Weekly Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Tue, Jun 16, 1896
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