Big turnout at Missouri Bicentennial parade and inaugural ball in Jefferson City

A few thousand people attended Saturday’s Bicentennial events near the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City. Saturday morning’s parade attracted the Budweiser Clydesdales, Marching Mizzou and numerous other entries. The grand marshal was 98-year-old World War II nurse Edith Harrington of northern Missouri’s Macon, who waved to the crowd from a military jeep. Ms. Harrington joined …