noon
Clearfield had a gala look as soon as the shades at the store windows were drawn in the morning . Touches of purple appeared everywhere . By ten o'clock the downtown streets began to show the incursion of visitors from the neighboring villages and even from the country and the stores reaped a small harvest . At noon Common Street in the vicinity of the field was well lined with sidewalk vendors of peanuts and popcorn , lemonade and soft drinks , while in a vacant lot near-by a hustling gentleman with a blue-black mustache and a yellow corduroy coat had set up a merry-go-round whose strident organ ground out a repertory of four tunes monotonously from forenoon to midnight . Small boys with purple pennants bearing white C 's importuned passers to show their patriotism at the expense of a quarter of a dollar and other small boys flaunted copies of the morning _ Reporter _ . `` Line-up of to-day 's game ! Here you are !