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spent several days getting this wagon in shape, it was also covered with flags and streamers, another farm wagon was used to carry the six or eight piece band John Muller played the bass drum on the turnout and in the evening at the big dance he played the piano, the third wagon was used for prizes, there were about thirty of the boys who rode horse back the horses were decorated with streamers and flags, there was a captain appointed every year, they would leave Dad's place about nine o'clock in the morning, stop at all of the merchants and saloons these boys done business with, and they would get a prize, the captain would shout present and the band would play a tune and then to the next merchant. The. parade would