Ws \ISSION DAY
St. Paul's 750 residents, most dressed in old settler’s attire, welcome
some 4,000 guests to a one-day celebration of the town's history,
TER its humble boginnings cast of nearly 40 horses and
in the spring of 1984, Si. people ofall apes.
Pauls Mitton Day is now an At rehearsal Stith maves his peo
stabbed event) wh ple into position with skill sod p
‘ually drews an estimated 1000 per: Bence, At the actual pageant begs,
Ble on the Saturday. preceding im Wagner, lol teacher and fae,
Eiomers Day, The onedly cclebre appears on’ horsebeck Representing
thn’ unusual number of activities the Osage in thir enlyharmony wh
Keeps many Sromunitys 23 the sum moon water and ie, he dis
feents, most of whom me atfied in mounts and, to the best of drums,
Sl setders costumes, busy om daom kneels to Bless the earth. A reader nae
dusk. Lu Reeves, founder and tales events leading up to the signing
{Sairman of the event, choreograprs
‘he ante production
Wien Reeves an her husband Ren
retumed tS Paul i 1982 ater ving
Ie’ Arkansae for several years, Li,
Pecaly
Boys
fee a ly day’ in onder to provi
‘riginal idea was to have something
skin to a cat fair, Area businessman
{hd ifelong resident Lary South sug
gested the ay beled "sion Day
BPiscue on the commumtys Aistery
fe ta honor the extabishment ofthe
iit Osage Mission
disaster with a steady rain forcing cat
fooths indoors ad wrecking pls for
fountyy music snd stset dancing on
Main Stet However, enough ent
finsm had been generated 0 guaran
ee that there ‘ould be another
Missln Day the follwing Yer.
For that second celebration, Sith
verte a pageant which chromic the
Fiston’ the area and the fife of the
Gong? Indins. Presented at sll sab.
sequent Mision Days —
Poliormanee, the pageant Involveof a treaty withthe white man. The
‘aralionocs on to explain how the
Orage, heving noted the benefis
fring feaped By the neightorng Pot
{Snore te fom te tev fe
Imissionaris St Mary's, request the
Fep ofthe "Black. Robes" they
{ale ‘the esute Monsignor Vincent
Hogan. as Father John Schoormaker,
enact artival by wagon of Father
EGhocnenaker and i band of Tout
‘risonanes on Apel 28, 17. ater 8
fren doy joey front Westport
nding, ar area now recognized
fe atest sted portion Sf Kanaat
City, Chie, Tatehie, principal chit
St the Osage Nation, assumes he
ent fhe ening Omg,
Chief We Hair The pageant
fon to depict the estubletnent OF 2
‘anal training schol where young
inion boys were taught agrcule
at other sll to prepare them fra
new way of fe atthe uli bepen
(o aleappear fret the plains
‘The pageant ian annual highlignt
but vihors wl not want to mse Me
Sion Day's other evens. The celeb
tion gets underway in the moming
wrth tn" opening ceremony. and pa
rade. Chie Tale Honored guests
sch Mission Day, was joined lst ye
‘eee of Wil Both were fated
‘Speakers at the opening ceremony ard
de horcback a the Read of tet
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piece ate sd Mn
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‘Numero booth fentring hand
crated andes are housed in the fe
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