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Tiblow Days Centennial Pagent, 1998

Centennial 1998: The Pagent, a musical
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Philo Clark (?) is very convincing at the town meeting to choose a name for this town: "Bonner", for a New York newspaper editor who had never set foot here, and "Springs" for the many local springs.	Having made his point, Philo sings and dances.

1898 finds Philo going to the Wyandotte County Council for the 9th time to request that Bonner Springs be incorporated as a city. This time, according to the pagent, he comes in disguise and brings a motion to establish the polka as the official county dance, "plus some other things". When the motion passes unanomously, he flings off his disguise and dances, shouting, "You should have checked out the 'some other things'!!!" Bonner is incorporated as a city November 10, 1898.

Some citizens of Bonner, past and present.	Some of the leaders of the centennial celebration: Roger Milller, Charles Thomas, and Clausie Smith.

Grand finale!	The end.
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