Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-03
PARADE WILL BE A FEATURE
OF THE FESTIVITIES.
Line of March Planned at Meeting
of Executive Committee Last
Night-SpOrtS OdlOre-AddreSSGS
By Mayor MulbGrqer, Mayor
Becker and President Kehr.

! w erCnelfner last evening TO make
further arrangements for the coming
event
1t was the opionion of those in at
tendance that the coming gathering
would far eclipse all previous efforts
and that the affair this year would be
triumphant success and that the
crowd in attendance would outnumber
that of any of the three predecessors.
The matter of the parade was the
prinicaI topic for discussion last eve
ming The reception to the visitors
at the depot will be followed by the
parade and the line of march will be
as follows: From the depot of the
c., NJ and st. Paul road On Fifth
street to Milwaukee street; on Mil
waukee and West Milwaukee streets
to Emmett street; on Emmett street
and thence to West Main street and
On Main streets to Fourth street,
there the parade will disband 1t is
the desire of the members of the com
mittee in charge to make the parade
a great success and the citizens gen
orally are earnestly appealed to dis
| play an interest IN this feature of the
| homecoming day celebration. An
urgent invitation has been extended
to all of the labor organizations of the
city to participate in the same, also
to all of the civic societies. The
members of the Krieger Verein have
kindly consented to turn out in a body
and help to make the parade a success.
The citizens of the city should remem
Der that this will be the first home
coming day in which the local citizens
have been called upon to make the
entire arrangements, therefore, the
people Of Watertown are earnestly
appealed to to try and make the home
coming day of 1906 one that will be
the banner one. The first parade is
to occur in the morning at Z As 0 clock,
when the band will head a procession
to march to the Northwestern depot
to meet the visitors who may arrive
at that time. After the march down
town, the procession will continue it's
march to the c., M. & St. P. depot to
meet the 9 80 train. The excursion
train on the Milwaukee road will ar
rive here at SIT.
Assistant Superintendent Cheney
has informed members of the commit
tee that there would be three extra
coaches at Milwaukee to await the
delegation who will visit WATERFOWL
on that day. The Milwaukee train
will return to the Cream City at mid
night, so that the visitors will have
a good full day of it in Watertown.
At the meeting of the committee last
evening, Mayor Mulberger gave out
an ultimatum to the effect that there
would be no gambling of any kind
allowed on Tivoli island through
out the picnic The executive COM
mittee, of which the mayor is chair
man, has issued the following request
to the business. men and citizens of
Watertown generally:
In compliance with custom of
other years, the business men of Wat
ertown are kindly requested to decor
ate their respective places of business
in honor of the fourth annual home
coming which takes place August 5,
and citizens residing along the line of
march are kindly requested to decorate
their residences in honor Of this
event. The committee on decorations
will see to it that Main and West Main
streets are appropriately decorated.
Respectfully, Executive committee.
Great preparations have been made
for the hours to be spent at TiVoli
island 1t will be a continUa round
OF pleasure from start to finish and
there will be no dull moments for any
of the visitors. The parade in the
afternoon will start about 80 O'Clock
in the afternoon, headed by the band
and followed by Mayor Sherburn
Becker of Milwaukee, accompanied by
Mayor Arthur Mulberger of this city.
A literary feast has been prepared
for the afternoon. The parade to the
island will be followed by an address
of welcome by Mayor Mulberger, to
which response will be made by
Ernst E. Kehr, the president of the
Milwaukee, atertown club of Mil
waukee. The principal address OF the
day will be delivered by Sherburn NJ.
Becker, mayor of Milwaukee, who
will take for the subject of his ad-
dress, "The Young Man in Politics. -
The speeches of the afternoon will be
followed by an excellent program of
sports, which will be under the man
agement of George Nichols, who is
noted for his ability to furnish the
best of entertainment along this line.
Prizes will be offered for all Of the
contests, it having been announced
asst evening that the merchants of
he city had contributed literally
1t is worthy of announcement that
there will be no lack of music through
out the day, as both Thacker's and the
Turner band have been engaged for
the occasion, the first mentioned to
play during the afternoon and even
ing. As a fitting close of the day s