Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-15 | Page 14 | German Societies Have Big Day at Lagoon

GERMAN SOCIETIES HAVE BIG DAY AT LAGOON Music and song were the features of the outln? of the Deutsche!- societies at Lagoon Tuesday when more than 2000 people, most of them members of the different dif-ferent German societies of Salt L.al;c City, were in attendance. These Included the United German societies, the l-Iarmonle society, the Sons of Hermann and tho Toadies of Gcrmanla. Members of the Swiss society also took their outing at the same time and aided In swelling the merriment. Four songs were rendered by the I-Iar-inonlc club, two songs by the Swiss club and a number of songs by the Harmonle quartette. Thero were races by the children chil-dren of all ages for both boys and girls; races for the ladles and the men and for the old men; there were also egg races, sack races, three-legged races and wrestling wrest-ling matches. Many of these provoked a great deal of amusement. The greatest great-est exhibitions of all were the pie-eating and the sausage-eating contests, the con. testants having starved themselves for part of the day In order to be assured of a capacity for the event. Enjoyment was the order of tho day and dancing and othr amusements occupied the people until late in the ovenlng. Mrs. Bowman, Mrs. Bador and Mrs. Blank had charge of tho ladles' share of the programme.