Cityof
Ellinwood
BARTON COUNTY
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SUSANK GALATIA
BEAVER
ODIN CLAFLIN
OLMITZ ALBERT HOISINGTON
PAWNEE ROCK
GREAT BEND
ELLINWOOD
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llinwood has two seasonal events each year, and each one is well worth attending. The first Sunday in December, is a German-inspired event called Christkindlmarket, and the third weekend in July is the three-day After Harvest Festival. Every year, the Ellinwood Chamber of Commerce hosts the Ellinwood After Harvest Festival. It draws people from all the surrounding counties. Typically, the three-day weekend starts off with a community pancake feed, then it’s games, competitions, and vendors for all ages at the City Park, Wolf Park, and Wolf Pond. Hamburger feeds, beer gardens, bands, community dances, and a ton of other entertainment ensure there isn’t an idle moment. There’s the Ellinwood Rotary parade, an AHF golf tournament, petting zoo and all weekend long, a carnival set up on the west side of City Park. Held the third weekend of July every year, it’s a celebration not to be missed. The community of Ellinwood knew how to throw a great party years before the After Harvest Festival started.
As a young city, it attracted people from hours away to the Eagles Picnic the first weekend in September. Here, the 1910 account, as reported in the Sept. 6, 1910 edition of the Great Bend Daily Tribune: “The annual picnic is held in the John Wolf grove, west side of town, and there is a big enough place to entertain everyone. A number of concessions of various sorts were scattered through the grounds, there were refreshment stands which did a large business and in addition music by the band and a big ball game with some minor sports furnished amusement for the crowd. It was an absolutely clean picnic and we saw no drinking or evidence of drinking anywhere. It might be well to interpolate at this point that several of the Ellinwood merchants in talking over the old days, when refreshments “made in Germany” were the order of the day at such affairs, said they would rather have things the way they are now, with the lid clamped on tight than to have saloons over which the community had practically no control. Saloons managed properly by the municipality, they did not
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