Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-04
READY FOR DAY
Plans for Annual Industrial Gel.
ebration in Moline Monday
Are Completed.
ALL STORES WILL CLOSE
Workers of Three Cities Free to OBJ
serve Day us They Plcase-l'a-
rade and Speeches in Moline.

The annual celebration of Labor das
will take place Monday, and the trades
unions and industrial employees of the
three cities will unite in one big cels-
bration which will be held in Moline.
1t has been the custom of the union
of the three cities to unite each year
in their celebration of the special day
set aside for the working man, aud
each year the cities have taken their
turn in entertaining the celebrators
Moline mas planned to make the day
a record in Labor day annals, and i
is expected that the industrial parade
will be the largest ever seen in tn
three cities. All the stores in this city
and in the sister cities, with the eX-
ception of the meat markets, will close
for the entire day, and all the
clerks and employees will be allowed
to take whatever part in the celebra-
ton which suits them best. The
butcher shops and meat markets VIII
remain open during the forenoon, but
will be closed during the afternoon.
The Days Program.
The program for the day commences
with the parade in the morning, and
includes speeches in the afternoon anil
a general celebration at night. The
parade will begin promptly at 10
O'Clock in the morning and will start
from the Industrial hall in Moline on
Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street
after forming between Fourteenth
1, I'LL
il will move east to Fifteenth street
and thence south to Sixth avenue.
There it will turn east again and march
to Twentythird street and then coua-
ter march to Seventeenth street. The
column will march north on Seven
teenth street to Fifth avenue and then
back to the starting place. In add
ton TO the various unions which VIII
be represented by delegations u
marchers, the column will contain n
number of fire wagons from all three
of the cities, a squad of police FROM
Moline, and the city officials of that
city as well. Mayor George w. Nc
Caskrin of this city and Mayor George
w. Scott of Davenport will also be in
the parade.
Speeches Mt Prospect Park.
The program OF speeches for the
celebration will be held at Prospect
park, where the afternoon exercises
are scheduled to take place The ad
dress of welcome will be delivered By
Mayor Andrew Olson of Moline and
his talk will be followed by speeches
from the mayors of this city and Dav-
export Mrs May Wood Simons ii
| Chicago will give a lecture on the
Rise of the Working Classes and
her talk will be followed by an orr
ton by William J. Shields of il
maica Plains. who is to be the prin-
| cipal speaker OF the program. His
talk will be on labor questions which
are of particular interest at present.
| Groccrs Postpone Meeting.
| The Retail Grocers' association ri
this city has called off its regular
monthly meeting which would havs
fallen on Monday evening. They viii
hold the meeting on the following
Monday instead.
Monday being a legal holiday, the
postoffice will close at 10 a. m. There
will be one delivery of mail by carrier
throughout the city. leaving the post
Office about 9:15 a. m.