The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-07-19
COMMITTEES APPOINTED FOR
CELEBRATION
There VIII he Firemen's Day, a
Civic and Grange Day and Floral
and Automobile Parades.

Civic and Grange Day and Floral
and Automobile Parades.
The Wayne County Celebration is
the name decided upon by the exc
cutive committee in charge of a three
days carnival which will be held in
Honesdale August 81, 2S and 29.
The occasion promises to be the
largest event of its kind ever to have
been held in dear old Wayne.
Arrangements were made last
Tuesday evening whereby the execu
cutive committee of the Old Home
Week celebration voted to appropri-
ate the balance now in the treasury
to the Wayne County Celebration
committee. 1t is in the neighbor-
hood of S400 and gives a good boost
in starting the project.
One big feature of the celebration
will be Firemen's Day. Wednesday,
August 2S, is the day set apart for
the valiant fire fighters. 1t is ex-
pected that twelve companies will
be in line. The parade will be COM
posed of visiting and local fire COM
panies.
President w. w. Wood appointed
chairmen for committees as follows:
Advertising, H. G. Rowland.
Music, Edward Short
Soliciting, John Erik.
Finance, w. A. Sluman.
Transportation, Daniel Maloney.
Entertainment of Firemen, Z. E.
Williams.
Privileges, y. B. Spencer.
Automobile parade, c. L. Dunning.
Civic and Grange, c. Z. Bates.
The chairmen of the above named
committees were empowered to Sc
lect their own assistants.
The officers in general charge of
the celebration are as follows:
President, w. w. Wood.
Vice-President, S. T. Ham.
Secretary, y. B. Spencer.
Assistant Secretary, F. w. Schuer-
holz.
Treasurer, John Erik.
The events selected for the differ
ent days will be sure to attract the
larger part of Wayne county's popu-
lation to Honesdale upon the dates
mentioned. An effort will be made
to secure reduced rates on both the
Erie and Delaware and Hudson rail
roads, which with the good service
these roads are giving, will have a
tendency to bring record-breaking
crowds into the county seat to wit
ness the grand civic and grange
parade on Tuesday, the 27th, the
firemen's parade the following day
the 2Sth, and the beautiful floral and
automobile parades on Thursday,
the 29th.
The different committees are
working assiduously and all are fill
h.;, ,,oe-
The advertising committees has post
ers hung and all chairmen and as
sstants will endeavor to make thu
affair a success. Live, hustlins
chairmen have been selected and
work counts for anything these mel
will certainly demonstrate to thu
public what can be accomplished
The people of Honesdale and Wayn,
county will be surprised in the re
suits" take it from US"
There will be prizes offered TO
the best and most artistically trim
med automobile and carriages il
line. Awards will also be presentet
to participants in the Civic, Grang
and Floral parades. Nearly 20
owners of automobiles have give
their consent and promised to do a.
in their power to make the parad
the finest in the three-day celebra
ton.
The music and entertainment con
mittees were instructed to secure a
good music as possible for the OF
casion. Undoubtedly some of tn
best bands obtainable will be her
and discourse music for the entel
tainment of the thousands of Wis
tors that will be in Honesdale dul
ing the celebration.
The committees in charge hope
make the celebration the talk {
Wayne and adjoining counties and
printers ink will talk The Citizen il
tends to do its share, rememberin
that "A drop of ink will make
million think" We, as announce
in our last issue, propose to give a
space necessary to present readin
matter of the celebration intelligen
ly before the people of Wayne coul
ty. The event will be a WayI
county affair.
ITO our exchanges: Kindly mai
an extract of the above article ar
give it as much publicity as possibl
You will not only confer favor u
on the committee in charge of Il
celebration, but we consider 1t
fraternal courtesy. Ed.
Mrs. John Gift Dead.