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Show PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the 1947 Centennial Galena Days Celebration Cele-bration is going to be the biggest and best our town has ever staged, and WHEREAS, an old-time western celebration to be successful, must have plenty of old-time atmosphere, and WHEREAS, the most effective manner of creating old-time atmosphere, in these days of plenty, with every man with four-bits in his pocket and a barber shop on every corner, is to resolutely pass by the barber shop and let the whiskers grow, and WHEREAS, your Galena Days committee deems it i advisable to offer substantial prizes for the most striking strik-ing hirsute adornments worn at the celebration, and urge all who are capable of growing a beard to begin early, THEREFORE, I, Dale Johnston, mayor of the fairest city between Highland Boy and Welby flats, do declare March 15, 1947, the official opening date for the grow-ing grow-ing of Galena Days Beards. |