The farmer and mechanic., 1915-05-25
Plans Complete For Big
Event of Wednesday and
Thursday
SEC, DANIELS TO SPEAK
Governor Craig, Dr., Joyner and
Other Distinguished Citizens
10 Attend; Superintendents
From Twenty Counties WIN
Hold Their Annual Meeting
Following Rally


Wilmington. May Tre,: ti.ns.
which have been in progress for >.v-
erai months. which promises - h..
the biggest educational rally ever held
IN Wilmington. are now about cvn-
plete. In connection with the COM
mencement exercises of tn. city and
county schools Wednesday and ThorS-
DAY or next week an educational rally
or unusual proportions will be cid
The celebration will he marked hy the
presence here Of large pumt.r II
distinguished citizens and educators,
among these being Secretary of the
Navy JoSephuS Daniels. who viii make
the principal address. Governor Locke
craig, Dr. j. y. Joyner. and others as
Well as the county superinl-ndentS
from 20 counties of this section # the
State, who will hold their annual
meeting on the two days following
| the rally. In addition To th"s. men
| toned there will be in attendance
| many teachers and other visitors from
| the surrounding counties.
| The rally has been planned ~ and
viii be carried out under IN. dir.c-
| uOn OF Mr.. j. o Carr. chairman pf
| the County Board of Education. and
| Mr. John J. Blair. superint.nde II
| city schools, and the main object is
| to celebrate the recent completion of
|
equipped school buildings and the
| early beginning of the work on the
| new high school building When the
last named building is complete VIII
mIngtOn will then have six new brick
school buildings which will rlac. her
second to no city ii the country Of
the size in the way OF school facilities.
Wednesday Rally Day Proper.
Wednesday will be rally DAY proper
and it is on this daN that Secretary
Daniels will deliver his address 1t
was at first planned for Secretary
Daniels, who is very popular in vii
mingtOn. to spend TWO days here. hut
he found that official duties IN Wash
ingtOn forbade his remaining away
longer than one day. He Will arrive
, here Wednesday morning at 10
> o clock and leave on the return trip
at GAS p. m, reaching Washington
, the next morning.
The rally day exercises will ht held
on the campus of the high scho"
$ and will begin AT 1890 o'clock s.hoo
children will form in line at the re-
SpectiVe schools and march I. The
, point of exercises. 1t iS estimate thai
: there will be 5000 children in The
parade. The children from the coun-
ty schools, the Cornelius Harnett ant
the Hemenway Will leave from th'
! Hemenway building at 1o:+5 o'clock
q | Those from Isaac Bear Inion, III 4
O | school and William Hooper VIII joir
!, them at Fifth and Market At j
n o'clock. The order Of line II rnarci
q | from Market to the high school vii
6 be as follows: Brass band, HeD1en
= way Cornelius Harnett and count,
g schools Isaac Bear Memorial VII
# liam Hooper. Union and high school
: The arrangement will be ty fours an'
the middle of the street followed a
J., nearly as possible. The teachers vii
= march about 80 feet apart, on the IF
side of the line as il goes south.
Secretary Daniels Ia SIaak.
% The feature of the rally DAY eser
:, | ciseS, as stated. will be the address .
v Secretary Daniels. The graduatn
+ exercises of the high school viii Ia X
% place at the Aca ademy Of Music We'd
- nesday night, when the address Ia tn
;, class will be made and diplomas. Ger
-, tificateS and scholarships VIII y
- awarded The speaker has not yt
been secured. Exercises Will he bel
Wednesday and Thursday at the VaTi
- Gus other schools of The city.