Rock Island Sesquicentennial , 1930 mois HisrcTOi survey Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2012 witii funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/officialsouvenirOOsesq 977.3393i 0f2 i P?rr|,^,c, E^^Tnr'fHjj J|jpyr¥ O AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA < liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin^ 17S0 igso iciai ^OTULTeniF JProgram issued by the Sesqui'Centennial Committee to Commemorate the Westernmost Campaign of the Revolutionary War Rock Island^ Illinois September 1 4.-2 O^ ipjO -^g fTllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllN 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Who's Who on the Historical and Old Settlers' Programs Mrs. K. T. Anderson, A. M., Rock Island, 111., Director Augustana College. Dr. Gustav A. Andreen, Ph. D., President Augustana College and Theo- logical Seminary. Chairman Local Committee on Historical Society, Rock Island. Dr. Edward Fry Bartholomew, D. D., Ex-President Carthage College, Professor Emeritus, Augustana College, Rock Island. Dr. Irving Cutter, M. D., Dean of Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. Miss Stella M. Drumm, Librarian Missiouri State Historical Society, St. Louis. Rev. Henry C. First, Senior Vice Commander, Dept. of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic, Rock Island. Dr. Claude W. Foss, Prof, of History, Augustana College, Rock Island. John H. Hauberg, LL.D., General Chairman, Rock Island County Sesqui- Centennial Committee, Rock Island; Vice President, State Historical Society. Rudolph A. Jacobson, A.B., Secretary, Rock Island Chamber of Commerce. Rev. Fred S. Nichols, Pastor of Community Church at Table Grove, 111. Miss Georgia L. Osborne, Secretary Illinois State Library and Secretary Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, 111. Dr. Theodore Calvin Pease, Ph. D., Professor of History, University of Illinois; Editor Illinois Historical Publications, Urbana, 111. William N. Phillips, President Rotary Club of Rock Island. Dr. Milo M. Quaife, Secretary-Editor of the Burton Historical Collections ; Editor Mississippi Valley Historical Journal, Detroit. Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, M.D., President Illinois State Historical Society, Chicago. Chester C. Thompson, Mayor of Rock Island. Hon. Samuel R. Van Sant, Ex-Governor of Minnesota. Dr. Louis A. Warren, LL.D., Director Lincoln Historical Research Bureau, Fort Wayne, Ind. Page Two ^j^. /y^. M^ 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 #k ^ -. tAwiflJf.*^j GEORGE WASHINGTON ''We must all hang together or we shall hang separately.'' — Benjamin Franklin. Page Three 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Church Themes for Sunday^ September 14^ 1930 ''The Saddleback Preacher'' Rev. A. J. Hollingsworth, Memorial Christian Church ''Our Heritage" Rev. W. G. Oglevee, South Park Presbyterian Church "The Place of Religion in the History of Our Country" Rev. W. N. Brown, First United Presbyterian Church "Rock Island's Religious Heritage" Rev. Edward Williams, D.D., Broadway Presbyterian Church 'Stopping to See the Burning Bush and Discovering Our Fathers' God' Hon. Justin Washburne, at First M. E. Church Page Four 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Special Meeting of the Illinois State Historical Society Tuesday Morning September 16, 10 A. M. at the Augustana College Gymnasium Call to Order by John H. Hauberg, General Chairman, Sesqui-Cen- tennial Committee. Introduction of Dr. Gustav A. Andreen, President of Augustana Col- lege and Theological Seminary, Chairman Local Committee for Historical Meeting. Dr. Andreen will in turn introduce Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, M.D., Presi- dent Illinois State Historical Society, who will preside over the meeting. Invocation — Dr. Edward Fry Bartholomew, D.D. Address of Welcome — Hon. Chester C. Thompson, Mayor of Rock Island. Music — "Banjo Song" Homer ''Shipmates o'Mine" Sanderson Henry Veld Address — Mrs. K. T. Anderson, A.M., Col. Conrad Weiser, Pioneer, Sol- dier, Diplomat, Magistrate and Provincial Interpreter. Music — "Caro Nome" Rossini ''A Birthday" Huntington Woodman Hazel Jackson Address — ''Lincoln's Early Political Background," by Dr. Louis A. Warren. Adjournment. Page Five 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Historical Program Tuesday Afternoon September 16, 2:30 P. M. at Augustana College Gymnasium Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, Presiding Music — ''Night" Rubinstein "Dawn" Curran Mrs. Kathryn Thul Address — ''Dr. John Gale, Distinguished Army Physician and Surgeon, at Fort Armstrong," by Dr. Irving S. Cutter, M.D. Address — "The British Attack on St. Louis, One Hundred Fifty Years Ago," by Miss Stella M. Drumm. Music — "Caprice Valse" Wieniawski "Melodie" Dawes Address — "A Forgotten Hero of Rock Island, Sergeant John Keating, of the British Army," by Dr. Milo M. Quaife. Adjournment. Page Six 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Illinois State Historical Society in co-operation with the Rock Island Rotary Club Tuesday Evening September 16, 6:30 P. M. at the Banquet, Fort Armstrong Hotel PROGRAM Call to Order, by R. A. Jacobson. Invocation — Rev. Henry C. First. Music — Rock Island High School Concert Band, G. A. Berchekas, Con- ductor. The New Colonial March Hall Dawn, A Revelry Bennett Our Director, March Biglow Indian Lament Dvorak March of Illini Alf ord Tanawanda, Indian Dance Wendland Semper Fidelis, March Sousa Introduction of William N. Phillips. Announcements. Mr. Phillips will introduce Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, Toastmaster. Music — The Voss Vagabonds. Address — 'Illinois in the Revolution," by Dr. Theodore Calvin Pease. Music — The Voss Vagabonds. Adjournment. Page Seven 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Sixty 'fifth Annual Reunion of The Old Settlers Association of Rock Island County Wednesday Mornings September 17 at Black Hawk State Park 10:00 A. M. Registration of Members. Call to Order, by W. H. Ashdown, President. Song, "America,'' Audience. Invocation, Rev. Hugh Robinson, Pastor of Edgington. Reading of Minutes. President's Address, W. H. Ashdown. Memorial Service, Rev. Fred S. Nichols, Table Grove, Illinois. Song, ''Illinois," Audience. Pictures will be taken of pioneer families and their descendants, and old settlers, families and descendants. Basket Dinner at Pavilion. 2:00 P. M. James Jacob Simpson, and his daughter, Mrs. Miller from Port Byron, will play two old-time tunes. (Mr. Simpson's Fiddle Stradivarius is 213 years old this year.) Address, Ex-Governor Sam R. Van Sant, Minneapolis, Minn., ''Our Grati- tude to George Rogers Clark." Old-time tunes, James J. Simpson, assisted by his daughter, Mrs. Miller. Election of Officers. Report of Committees. Remarks and Resolutions. Presentation of Historical Cane to newly elected President. Remarks by newly elected President. The audience will join in singing "Auld Lang Syne." Songs led by Rev. W. G. Oglevee of South Park Presbyterian Church, at the piano. Page Eight 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Dedication of Tablet in Memory of Sauk Chief La Main C as see Wednesday Afternoon September 17, 4.30 P. M. and Constitution Day meeting of Col. John Montgomery Chapter Sons of the American Revolution at Black Hawk State Park At Marker — East of Black Hawk Inn. Four-thirty P. M. Bugle Call, ''Assembly" Boy Scout Presiding William J. Spencer President, Col. John Montgomery Chapter. Invocation Rev. W. G. Oglevee Chaplain, Col. John Montgomery Chapter. Dedication of Marker Col. John Montgomery Chapter To the memory of "La Main Cassee." Address: ''La Main Cassee, A Sauk Chief" John H. Hauberg Recess. Dinner (informal) Six-thirty O'clock Black Hawk Inn. Address: "The Origin and Nature of the Constitution" Dr. C. W. Foss, Ph. G. Benediction Rev. W. G. Oglevee Please send your reservations early. Page Nine 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 United States Marine Band Concert Thursday Afternoon September 18, 2:15 P. M. at the Rock Island High School Stadium The Rock Island High School Band will be directed in two numbers by Capt. Taylor Branson, Director of the U. S. Marine Band, preceding the regular Marine Band Concert, which will be as follows: 1. Overture, "Carneval," Opus 92 Anton Dvorak 2. Morceau Characteristique, 'Tan Americana" Victor Herbert 3. Solo for Cornet, ''Hungarian Melodies" Vincent Bacii Winfred Kemp, Cornet Soloist. 4. Second Polonaise Franz Liszt Intermission. 5. Grand Scenes from "I Pagliacci" Ruggiero Leoncavallo 6. Solo for Xylophone, "Valse Caprice" Joseph Wieniawski 7. Rhapsodic Dance, "Bamboula" Samuel Coleridge Taylor 8. "Reminiscences of Tschaikowsky" Dan Godfrey Page Ten 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 United States Marine Band Concert Thursday Evening September 18, 8:15 P. M. at the Augustana College Gymnasium 1. Escort of the Colors by the American Legion Post No. 200. 2. Star Spangled Banner Bana 3. Introduction of the Band by Col. David M. King. 4. Overture, ''In Bohemia" Henry Hadley 5. Nocturne, ''Dreams of Love" Franz Liszt 6. Solo for Cornet, "Creanonian Polka" Fred Weldon Arthur S. Witcomb, Cornet Soloist. 7. Tone Poem, "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks". . . .Richard Strauss Intermission. 8. Grand Scenes from "Andrea Chenier" Umberto Giordano 9. Solo for Trombone, "Love's Enchantment" Arthur Pryor Robert E. Clark, Trombone Soloist. 10. "Pasquinade" Louis Moreau Gottschalk 11. "Carneval in Paris" Johan Severin Svendsen Page Eleven a 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Pageant The Spirit of Sauk-e-Nuk*' by Gertrude A. Hickman Friday Evening September 19, 8:00 P. M. at the Rock Island High School Stadium PROLOGUE Trumpet Call. Interpretative Dance, 'The Spirit of Sauk-e-nuk." Explanatory Note. — Slowly from the ground the flames begin to rise until they leap into the air in a mad dance. Gradually their life is spent and they return to earth, while from the glowing embers, the ashes rise and whirl about in a fantastic whirlwind. As they settle into oblivion, from their midst rises a beautiful Indian maiden, "The Spirit of Sauk-e-nuk." She speaks. The ashes again take up the dance, and as they settle down to the embers Sauk-e-nuk has dis- appeared. Fanfare of trumpets. Drums. Processional of all characters in the pageant. Page Twelve 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 CAST OF CHARACTERS Spirit of Sauk-e-nuk Mary Elizabeth Soper La Main Cassee, Indian from Sauk-e-nuk Village (Watch Tower) .... A. W. Schafer Silver Cloud La Main Cassee's daughter. ..Mrs. Chanotte Anderson Warren Jean Baptiste, Canadian Indian, in love with Silver Cloud. .Edwin Behrens Captain Charles Gautier, British Army Stanley Nothstein Indian Woman from River la Roche (Rock River Country) Mrs. Harry Behnamann Philippe de Rocheblave, commandant at Fort Gage . . J. Lawrence Magrum Madame de Rocheblave, his wife Doris Larkin Father Pierre Gibault, priest of the parish William Sperry Captain Robert Dixon, British forces Forrest Dizotell Francois Gasquet, sentry on duty Elbert Schmick George Rogers Clark, lieutenant-colonel of the Virginia forces Irving Wright His men : Captains : John Montgomery Jack Rasley Leonard Helm William Kinney Joseph Bowman Roger McRoberts William Harrod Richard Schwenker Privates : Shadrach Bond Edward Carr William Edwards Robert Wynes Daniel Henry William Maucker Monsieur Calve, British Recruiting Officer Harold Grams Monsieur Du Charme, British Recruiting Officer George Starleaf Indian Runner Lyle Hagan Captain Emanuel Hessee, British Army . .Lowell Dunavin Matchekuis, Chippewa Chief Robert Theus Black Hawk, a Saukie lad of thirteen Ben Tallman Indian Spy at Ft. Gage Beryl Oris Villagers, Indians, British Soldiers, etc. .Rock Island High School Students Riflemen American Legion Drum Corps Ray Wilson President Francis Barker Drill Major Harry Davis Drill Sergeant Page Thirteen 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Dances under the direction of Miss Maureen Bennett: The Flames: Lucia Mae Thompson Phyllis Grant Irene Applequist Dorothy Lindstrom Billie Mae Wolters Margaret Hollingsworth Maxine Hunker Evelyn Montgomery Dorothy Liljeborg Jane Wolters The Ashes: Virginia Hubbart Margaret Bliesner Evelyn Camp Dorothy Manhard Rosemary Gotthardt Carolyn Pierson Katherine McKown Eleanor Bort Helen Hanks Ruth Ann Heisey Dance of Planting: Mary Elizabeth Soper Mardelle Meurling Jennie Shields Millie Morris Elaine Steenburg Mary Wiggins Ruth Taube Aree Costigan Dorothy Battles Bonita Dunlap Solo Dance, Episode IV, Dance of the Indian Brave Miss Bennett Pop Goes the Weasel : Pupils from Lincoln School directed by Miss Rosemary Huntoon and Miss Frances Medill. Indian War Dance and Indian National Dance — Students from Rock Is- land High School under the direction of Harry A. Behnamann and H. L. Best. Orchestra — ^R. I. H. S. students under the direction of Clifford Julstrom. Choruses — R. I. H. S. Glee Clubs under direction of Wm. G. Rozeboom. Rock Island High School Band G. A. Berchekas, director MUSICAL SELECTIONS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Vocal Orchestra Waters of Minnetonka 1. Indian Love Call Indian Dawn 2. Planters' Dance Chant of the Corngrinders 3. Flames and Ashes Dance Pale Moon 4. Pale Moon Indian Love Call 5. Quadrille Sunset Trail Band Carry Me Back to Old Virginny 1. Pop Goes the Weasel Stars of the Summer Night 2. Indian Lament Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 3. Indian War Dances Steal Away 4. Dawn Mary, Don't You Weep 5. March of the Illini Massa Dear 6. New Colonial March Adeste Fidelis 7. Energy Overture Page Fourteen 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 SYNOPSIS Episode I At the Trading Post Prairie du Chien, 1778. La Main Cassee with a group of Sauk and Fox Indians from the Rock River Country have arrived at the log trading post at Prairie du Chien to trade their furs. Captain Charles Gautier of the British Army arrives with recruiting officers and Canadian Indian recruits. His mission is to secure recruits from the Indians along the Mississippi river and push on to St. Louis, where he will be joined by other British forces, and capture the fort at that place, giving the entire Mississippi country to the British. La Main Cassee, who is pro-American in his views, defeats his pur- pose. Jean Baptiste, a British recruit, falls in love with Silver Cloud, La Main Cassee's daughter, who has journeyed to Prairie du Chien with her father. ^ . , ^^ Episode II The Capture of Fort Gage, Kaskaskia, July 4, 1776. Fort Gage at Kaskaskia is held by the British; the commanding offi- cer, Philippe de Rocheblave, a Frenchman, is in charge of a small garrison of British soldiers. The other habitants are French, Creoles, negro slaves and a few Indians. George Rogers Clark, a lieutenant-colonel of the Virginia expedi- tionary forces, with a small company of riflemen takes a backwoods trail from Louisville and arrives at Kaskaskia, where he surprises the habitants and captures the garrison. Through the influence of Father Pierre Gibault, the French inhabitants at Cohokia and Vincennes pledge al- legiance to the American cause. Episode III Springtime in Sauk-e-nuk. April 4, 1779. It is the time of planting and the Indians of the village are making preparations for it. As the young women finish a tribal dance, 'The Dance of Planting,'' Captain Charles Gautier and his British recruits arrive from the north and with gaudy presents attempt to enlist the braves of the Sauk and Fox nations. La Main Cassee again succeeds in defeating his purpose. Half of his men desert and as a runner arrives with news that the Americans have taken Vincennes, Gautier disheartened returns to Canada. „ Page Fifteen 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Jean Baptiste tells La Main Cassee of his love for Silver Cloud and expresses a desire to join the Americans. Cassee disbelieves him and sends him away to prove his loyalty. Episode IV On to St. Louis. Sauk-e-nuk (Watch Tower Village) A year later, May 16, 1780. Du Charme and Calve, British recruiting officers, have arrived and attempt to enlist the Sacs and Foxes. La Main Cassee again denounces the British, and at least half of the Indians share his views. Captain Emanuel Hessee of the British army arrives with a number of American, French and Spanish prisoners of war, together with about a thousand whites and Indians whom they have forced into the war. He threatens to destroy the Indians if they refuse to march with them to St. Louis. La Main Cassee advises his followers to go without protest, as they are powerless to resist. He remains in Sauk-e-nuk. Episode V The Burning of Sauk-e-nuk, May, 1780. The only inhabitants left in Sauk-e-nuk are the old men and women, the youths and maidens and the children. They engage in 'The National Dance" until the evening is spent and they return to their lodges. La Main Cassee and Silver Cloud alone remain when an Indian runner, who proves to be Jean Baptiste, arrives exhausted to tell of the American vic- tory at St. Louis, and that the Americans under Col. John Montgomery are coming to burn Sauk-e-nuk and the other Indian villages to the north in retaliation, ignorant of the fact that many of the Indians were forced to march with Hessee, but deserted him at St. Louis. La Main Cassee tells his people to take their belongings and hurry to their canoes on Rock river. Jean Baptiste and Silver Cloud exchange their marriage vows, and in a moment Sauk-e-nuk is in flames. With a last look at his beloved village, now in flames. La Main Cassee goes forth into the night. Page Sixteen 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 PAGEANT COMMITTEE Superintendent J. J. Hagan Chairman Miss Gertrude A. Hickman Author of Pageant Miss Dorothy Peterson Dramatic Director Mr. W. G. Rozeboom Musical Diector STAGE AND SCENERY P. J. Martin, Chairman Leslie Cooper Earl Peoples Robert Baker Irvin Forgy Miss Sara Mae McElhinney, Art Supervisor Members of Rock Island High School Art Classes : Nicholas Gartellos George Welbourne Theodore Gowdy Evelyn Nelson John Hibbert Marie Rexinger Edv^ard Collins Lucia Mae Thompson COSTUMES Miss Dorothy Peterson, Chairman Mrs. F. E. Wood, President P. T. A. Council Members of the P. T. A. Council : Mrs. Mary Noack Mrs. Henry Lambach Mrs. George Scherer Mrs. H. A. Wiedenhoeft Mrs. Earl Miller Mrs. Guy Wilson Mrs. W. N. Haskell ANNOUNCER Floyd Shetter Page Seventeen 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Parade Saturday Morning September 20, 10:30 A. M. HISTORICAL PARADE WILL BE DIVIDED INTO FIVE DIVISIONS. All units participating in Parade will be assigned to their respective divisions by the committee. Hour of Assembly. Units will take positions assigned not later than 10:45 a. m. At ten o'clock the first division will move North on 20th Street. When first division clears 7th Avenue, second division will follow, other divisions will follow as preceding divisions clear. Route of Parade. Parade will move North on 20th Street to 2nd Avenue, thence West on 2nd Avenue to 15th Street, thence South on 15th Street to 3rd Avenue, thence West on 3rd Avenue to 11th Street, counter-marching on 3rd Avenue, the Parade will move East on 3rd Avenue to 19th Street, thence South on 19th Street to 4th Avenue where units will disband. Page Eighteen 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Historical Statement by J. H. Haiiberg WHY WE CELEBRATE THE SESQUI-CENTENNIAL The Rock Island locality was a part of British-America and harbored a united nation of Indians — the Sauk and Fox — who were noted for their fighting qualities. This brought the recruiting agents of His Majesty's service to this point early in the Revolutionary War. Our Indians claimed as their own all that stretch of the Mississippi extending from Prairie du Chien to the mouth of the Missouri. This in- cluded the lead mines of the Galena-Dubuque region, which, as we shall see, were of special significance during the war. Trade was carried on at Prairie du Chien, which was a British center of influence and activity, and also at St. Louis, a town under Spanish rule, which was hostile to the British, and at Cahokia, a French village, with an occasional Yankee tradesman, all of whom took the oath of loyalty to the American cause on the arrival of the little army of George Rogers Clark in 1778. Thus we find that the population of the then Rock Island County had natural access to a variety of national influences. It is not strange, therefore, that there was division of sentiment, as the clash of arms began to resound, first between the Colonial Americans and England, then the addition of the French republic against the English, and finally, in 1779, the addition of Spain as a common enemy of the British. The principal chiefs of this locality were said to favor the British, and had early rallied at Montreal with a following from this place. Sauk and Fox Indians were listed among those who marched with Burgoyne in 1777 in his campaign which ended in defeat at Saratoga. To the end of the war our Indians were still found in the British service. There was one outstanding Sauk chief, however, who doubtless had found his friendships among the trading centers to the south, and who soon ''received the belt of the Bostonians." In other words, he attached himself to the American cause. This was La Main Cassee, The Broken Hand. Around this personality there arose contentions which lifted this locality high out of the ordinary humdrum of Revolutionary War events. Page Nineteen 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 La Main Cassee's first recorded thorn in the British flesh was at Prairie du Chien, where he arose in council, as British recruiting was progressing, and '^without reserve" denounced the Briton, and ''kept many from going down." He sent his delegations to the tribes inhabiting the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi River region, and kept things there in more or less of a turmoil. In one of the councils on the Wisconsin river, three of his men broke up the meeting, and caused the British officer to be stripped of his regimentals. Capt. Bowman of the Americans was purchasing horses of the Sauk and Fox soon after the arrival of Clark in the Illinois, while at his village here, in 1779, Cassee personally with- stood a British force of 280 men, and compelled the officer to release 120 of the warriors, and, said the British officer, ''I believe that, had he been strong enough, he would have taken me and delivered me to the Amer- icans." These actions of La Main Cassee's did not go unnoticed by the British and their Indian allies. The Sioux, who were most zealous for the British cause, sought permission, in 1779, to attack the Sauk town at Rock Island, to punish La Main Cassee. Again, in 1780, messengers came from Detroit to inform him that unless he joined the British, "War will be declared upon you by all other (Indian) nations and by the troops of the king." The British authorities sought to compel him to change his ways by threatening to cut off the traders, a threat which called forth only ridicule from this son of the forest. There are items of far greater importance in the cause of the revo- lutionists. One is that of ammunition for the Continental armies. Military supplies had formerly come from England. Now they must be found else- where. We find in a single item, where nine thousand pounds of powder were successfully brought up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, from New Orleans, and delivered at Fort Pitt — now Pittsburgh. This was in 1776-7. British officers in the west repeatedly complained of the traffic in lead, on the part of the Sauk and Fox of Rock Island, who were trading it down the river, and in 1780 alone, the British ''stopped 50 tons of lead intended for the rebels" at the Sauk and Fox mines. The extent to which the Americans looked to the mines of these Indians for their bullet supplies, is one of the unwritten chapters of the war. There are three instances which call for particular notice, locally. One has been mentioned above — that of La Main Cassee at his village here, virtually breaking up a war party under Capt. Charles Gautier, in 1779, Page Tiventy 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 on his way to attack General Clark. Of much greater import is the charge brought against these Indians, in 1780, where blame for the British defeat at St. Louis and Cahokia is laid at the feet of these Rock Island Indians, and lastly, the event where the principal chiefs of the Sauk and Fox, who have been serving with the British, are punished by the burning of their towns here, by Col. John Montgomery, under orders of George Rogers Clark. It is fitting that Rock Island County should celebrate. Upon the pleasant bluffs and by the shores of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers, lie buried many a daughter and son of the revolution, of dusky complexion, followers of La Main Cassee, and for all we know, it may have been — as charged by the British — their loyalty and labor which kept the Illinois country under the Stars and Stripes. John H. Hauberg. ♦ >» Guarantors Rock Island Transfer & Storage Co. Mosenfelder & Sons A. L. Bruner Leithner & Weishar Mosenfelders, Inc. Channon & Dufva Co. The Electric Construction & Ma- chinery Co. Galbraith Motor Co. Economy Motor Sales Company The Athletic Shop A. H. Bowlby Hotel Fort Armstrong The Rock Island Argus Dimock, Gould & Co. Rock Island Clearing House Asso- ciation H. S. Cable Manufacturers' Trust & Savings Bank Carse & Ohlweiler Co. Voss Brothers Peoples Power Co. Sturdevant Ice Cream Co. Driffill Printing Co. Rock Island Lumber & Mfg. Co. H. H. Cleaveland, Sr. H. H. Cleaveland Agency I. S. White E. B. McKown Rock Island Rubber Co. Rock Island Steam Laundry Charles Esplin, Jr. Mrs. W. H. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hauberg Mr. and Mrs. Victor Stibolt C. J. Shaw Dr. Stuart W. Adler Charles Sharpe B. D. Connelly Horn & Sandberg, Architects Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Davis Mrs. T. B. Davis Cervin & Stuhr, Architects Johnson's Cafeteria Page Tiventy-07ie 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Officers of the Sesqui-Centennial Organization President — John H. Hauberg. Vice President — CoL. David M. King. Secretary — C. L. Chandler. Treasurer — Robert C. Mitchell. Executive Committee — John H. Hauberg, Col. D. M. King, Cyril J. Shaw, James J. Hagan and William F. Hansgen. Organizations Participating : Rock Island City Officials, Hon. Chester C. Thompson. Rock Island Public Schools, James F. Witter, R. C. Mitchell, V. A. Stibolt, John G. Huntoon, A. H. Bowlby. Rock Island County Public Schools, Justin Washburne and Louis D. Hau- berg. Rock Island Parent-Teachers Association, Mrs. F. E. Wood. Rock Island County Farm Bureau, John R. Spencer. Rock Island County Home Bureau, Mrs. Charles Crawford, Mrs. E. H. Lyford. Rock Island County Historical Society, Dr. Gustav A. Andreen. Rock Island County Pioneer and Old Settlers' Society, Wm. H. Ashdown. Fort Armstrong Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Edwin G. Frazer. Rock Island Ministerial Association, Rev. A. J. Hollingsworth, Dr. W. G. Oglevee, D.D., Henry L. Best. Col. John Montgomery Chapter Sons of the American Revolution, William J. Spencer. John Buford Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Rev. Henry C. First. American Legion, Rock Island Post No. 200, Dr. Stuart W. Adler, George R. Baker, F. M. Brown. United States Naval Reserves, 31st Division, Lieut. Karl E. Madden. Descendants of Veterans of Black Hawk War, Wm. J. Spencer. Page Twenty-two 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 Committees. Advertising — C. Ray Wilson, Dr. Clifford Myers, and Harry Davis. Banquet — R. A. Jacobson, William N. Phillips, Frank L. Patterson. Decorations — Ben A. Horn, Joe R. Tuckis, John G. Evans, John Casto, Tully White, James W. Armstrong, J. F. Witter, F. B. White, Lieut. J. W. Slattery and A. B. Carlson. Finance — C. J. Shaw, Wm. F. Hansgen, N. B. Gosline, F. B. White, Charles P. Ainsworth, Jr., L. B. Wilson, Ben H. Potter, George R. Baker, and Ed. A. Applequist. Marine Band and General Publicity — C. L. Chandler. Music — Mel Hodge. Newspaper Publicity — Frank E. Brandt, Morris Colehour, J. W. Moss- man and R. V. Boom. Pageantry — James J. Hagan, Gertrude Hickman, Dorothy Peterson, Wil- liam Rozeboom. Post Cards — Jay Clarkson. Program — John H. Hauberg, J. G. Youngquist and J. J. Hagan. Publications — John W. Potter. Indians — Olof Z. Cervin, William McLean Stewart, A. L. Fleu, Chas. P. Ainsworth, Mrs. J. J. Burgess, Georgia T. First, Mrs. John H. Hau- berg, Mrs. Wm. H. Guthrie, Barbara Ross, Agnes Koerber, Mrs. A. L. Fleu, Lulu Morrison, Mary Scott, Henry T. Horst, George C. Rausch. Motor Corps of the D. A. R. — Mrs. George Sheldon, Mrs. William J. Sweeney, Mrs. Clinton Searle, Miss Dorothy McCabe, Mrs. John Searle, Georgia T. First. PARADE Benj. D. Farrar, Chairman; E. H. Dunavin, Vice Chairman. A. L. Bruner, Retail Merchants. Mrs. Jas. L. McNamara, Parent-Teachers' Ass'n. Jos. P. Kelly, Parochial Schools and Misc. Ass'ns. R. C. Mitchell, Board of Education. Wm. J. Woodin, Fraternal Organizations. Justin Washburn, Rural Schools. Harry Davis, Bands and Drum Corps. E. A. Applequist, Manufacturers. Mel Hodge, Dinner Clubs and Charitable and Character Building Organ- izations. Page Twenty-three 1780 Official Souvenir Program 1930 John R. Spencer, Farm Bureau, Kural Districts. Miss Fern Carl, Home Bureau, Rural Districts. Geo. L. Booth, Patriotic Organizations. MUSEUM Harry H. Cleaveland, Wm. T. Hoyt, Percy Eklund. Sub-Committees for Collection of Museum Relics. Moline — Carlson Bros., Albert Hallquist, Ed. Kittlesen, Clarence Trevor and John Holt. South Moline — Joseph King. East Moline — Dan Dahlen Drug Store, Mrs. Frank T. Shearman, Mrs. Carl Mitchell, Mrs. Roy William, Mrs. J. H. Fowler, Mrs. F. 0. Lovins. Silvis — B. H. Schultejann Drug Store. Carbon Cliff— Claude Miller. Watertown — J. F. Shave, Wm. McNeal. Hampton — Chas. E. Sikes, Morris Heagy, David Cook. Port Byron — Kessen Drug Co., C. R. Lamb, A. H. Wendt, Wm. H. Ash- down, Frank L. Morgan, J. J. Simpson. Cordova — J. W. Sallow, Robert Marshall. Coal Valley— Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Leas, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Spargo, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bailey. Milan — Henry Dibbern, Robert Little, Wm. 0. Neal, Ira Zahn, Paul Matthew. Taylor Ridge — J. C. Baker, Geo. T. Harris, Chas. Crawford. Edgington — Henry Carpenter, W. W. Elliott, J. H. Patterson, Dr. A. H. Mosher Hillsdale — Clyde Fowler, W. W. Cain, Louis Hauberg. Reynolds — J. S. Ellis Hardware Store, W. J. Mclntire, Misses Sherrard. Illinois City— E. E. Brisbim, R. M. Duffield, F. C. Mewes, Chas. Blanchard. The Sesqui-Centennial Museum collection will be found at the Rock Island Public Library, corner 4th Avenue and 19th Street. Open free to the public throughout the Sesqui-Centennial week. Visit the Indian Village at the Milan Bridge, south end of Ninth and Twelfth Streets. Ancient Indian dances, songs, etc., will be given daily. The village is open to visitors all hours of the day, and evenings. Basketry of excellent quality, made by these (Winnebago) Indians, bead work, etc., are on sale. Page Twenty-four UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 977.33930F2 C001 OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAM ISSUED BY THE 12 025390573