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The Evansville delegation made the hit of the day. They 

 arrived over 300 strong, v^ith two bands and a squad of boy 

 scouts. A group of pretty girls attired as milk maids and car- 

 rying bright tin pans v^^as a feature of the Albion delegation 



The first section of the through train v^hich arrived at 9 :20 

 a. m. brought President A. H. Smith and officials of the New- 

 York Central Lines; W. Scott Matthews, head of the Illinois 

 Dairy and Food Department, and John B. Nevv^man, Assistant 

 Commissioner. 



B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy division of the United State? 

 Department of Agriculture, was also on this train together with 

 members of the Business Men's Dairy Extension Movement of 

 Illinois, including W. W. Marple, and E. K. Slater, members of 

 the Executive Board of that organization. 



Long before the parade was ready to start thousands of 

 spectators were packed solid from the curbing to tlie store 

 fronts. They cheered the bands and boy scouts and laughed at 

 the mirth-provoking signs carried by the Evansville delegation 

 and the ''cutups" of the "rubes" in the Albion delegation. 



Particular interest, however, was centered in the section de- 

 voted to the pure-bred bulls and cows, chief factors in the dele- 

 gation in whose honor the day had been set apart; and no man, 

 present bore a happier smile than W. Scott Matthews, State 

 Dairy and Food Commissioner, originator of this form of cele- 

 bration to impress communities with the advantages of dairying 

 correctly conducted. 



True to its name it was a real dairy day with milking con- 

 tests, cow- judging contests and speeches by foremost authorities 

 on dairying and agricultural subjects forming a prominent part 

 of the program; and all carried out to the delight of the many 

 thousands of visitors. 



The Parade. 



The parade formed at the depot and marched up to the court 

 square, thence on West Main to Walnut east to Vine and 

 on Vine to the square. 



Sheriff Russell, acting as officer of the day, headed the pa- 



