The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-07-09
UNION CITY, TENN, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1915.

probably. Martin hit the pill and
so did Union City, and everybody
played good ball.
The evening entertainment on the
Great White Way attracted the
greatest crowd of the day. There
seems to be very little trouble in
attracting a crowd to the streets of
our city, and especially when special
entertainment is offered. The pa
rade began to move under the direc-
ton of Marshal Keller about
O'Clock.
The band was first, moving down
First street, then the Woodmen in
uniform, the Clark Transfer Com
pany, the Essandee, the Red Cross,
Semones & Johnson Transfer Com
pany, Harrison Auto Company,
Bransford & Andrews, Union City
Coca Cola Company, 1. S. Kirby, V.
E. White, Miss Flanary, all trade
floats, and may very attractive de-
signs.
The decorated automobiles were
very beautiful. The Beck car, a
Paige, was made up with Uncle Sam
and Columbia in costume and pla-
carded in front in Old English, our
peace President, Woodrow Wilson.
The decorations were stars and
stripes and colors red, white and
blue, with a fight of doves in white
on each side of the car. In the car
were Mr.. Pratt Waddell and Miss
Dorothy Beck, Elizabeth Scates as
Liberty and Barnett Gibbs as Uncle
Sam. The car was awarded second
premium for best decorated automo-
biles.
The Wehman car was decorated
with flowers and bunting, flags and
red white and blue, with U. S. A,
in large letters on the sides, and
| five good looking girls, Miss Ruth
Whipple, Miss Rosa Brown, Miss
Stella Monrotus, Miss Dora CALI
colt, Miss Clara Wehman, design
of greenery in front and large red
bell behind. This was the first prize
car and a good one.
The Keller car was decorated with
Col. A. D. Keller, Mrs. Keller, Mr..
and Mrs. Glare Keller, and Miss Ber-
tie Murphy as occupants. The car
was decorated with crysanthemums,
with an eagle in front and the ma
tional colors at the rear The car
won third prize.
In the trade floats honorable men
tion was awarded to the Union City
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. big truck
car, with handsome decorations.
Many others were nicely decorated
and numbers of private cars were
in the procession. 1t was long
one, and as the line moved down the
street crowds surged on either side
to see the display.
On Washington street the fire
works were seen. The crowd filled
the street from the corner of First
street to the courthouse. The dis
play was seen from the roof of the
E. P. Grissom building; and after
some thirty minutes of pyrotechnics
the concert in the park completed
the day.
The day was one of the best ever
spent in Union City, without acci-
dents or mishaps of any kind except
the ducking in the fountain pool in
the park of a young man dressed in
a palm beach suit. This was the
second suit to come to grief, but it
was only an incident and came out
in the wash.
The success of the day depended
largely on "Jimmie-did-it" Boyd,
who was here and there and every
where directing the features of the
occasion. He is a good man and this
place suited him perfectly. T. R.
Clark, the transfer man, is to be
complimented for his kindness to the
band in furnishing conveyance in
the parade free of charge. Mr.. Clark
is always a patriotic and accommo-
dating citizen and he deserves our
thanks.