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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parade on Main Street. By early forenoon 2,500 people had crowded into town and Doc MacKinnon was standing in a reviewing stand watching 450 of his "babies" march past, with stork-decorated floats, and a band. After that he was presented with a shiny 1946 Ford, and led before a microphone...
...MacKinnon Day was just beginning. The Lutheran Ladies' Aid gave a smörgäsbord. The Monday Study Club gave a reception. School was closed and children gathered at the Village Hall, presented the Doc with a 21-jewel Hamilton watch and sang...
...Doc MacKinnon makes you well...
That night there was a Community Club dinner in the Lutheran Church. Just as it ended Doc got an emergency call; Earl Ames over in Ogema asked him to come right away. Everybody in town went to the town hall for the evening program, anyhow. The school principal made a talk. Mrs. Tyler of Tomasawaka was introduced as the "Songbird of the North" and sang If I Had My Way. The crowd sang too. They were still there at 11 o'clock when Doc got back to report: "The mother nearly died, the baby nearly died, I nearly died...
While everyone applauded, Doc was handed a check for $1,300 drawn on the State Bank of Phillips. Some people thought he looked a little tired when the gathering broke up. But he was up early again, next morning. As usual, he had plenty of calls to make...