Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-07-09
HAD SPLENDID
CELEBRATION
independence Day Enjoyably
Spent in This City
STREETS CROWDED FOR
THE GRAND PARADE
Country People Were Out In Force
and Fair Grounds Thronged for
Picnic and Games

Country People Were Out In Force
and Fair Grounds Thronged for
Picnic and Games
The Fourth of July celebration
of Monday last which WAS PLAN
ned and carried thru under the
auspices of the Rocky Ford Union
Sunday School Picnic association,
WAS success in every particular,
and it was the concensus of opin-
ion of the big gathering that this
method of celebrating Indepen-
dence Day could not be improved
upon, so that this annual event
will in the future be left to the
same capable management.
With break of day the throng
began to assemble and by the
time that the big parade began to
move Main street was a mass of
people and it seemed as tho not
many could be left. But there
were still enough of the younger
generation, when the parade was
strung out, to make line of over
a mile in length, and it was a
most imposing sight to the as
sembled multitude.
The procession WAS led by the
Second Regiment band of Cheraw
and in the line it appeared as tho
every Sunday school in the city
and county was we'll represented.
Also in the line were many old
veterans of the Grand Army of
the Republic, the Woman's Re-
lief Corps and Ladies of G. A. R.,
who are always welcomed and
given honored places in our
patriotic gatherings. Heading
the second division came the
Rocky Ford Kid band and in line
were floats drawn by gaily capar-
isoned horses, beautifully decor
ated autos and bicycles innumer-
able.
Amongst the features that at
tracted special attention were the
floats, etc., depicting the different
epochs in our country. The first
epoch was represented by some
Indians in war paint and feathers,
and the last caricatured a 1915
Model Ford"
Upon arrival at the fair grounds
there came a speedy scattering of
the par ade and soon every shady
place was occupied by family par
ties, classes and schools, who were
actively engaged with the big pic
mic dinner that had been prepared.
After the dinner crowd esti-
mated at nearly 1000 assembled
in the grandstands and listened to
a stirring patriotic address by DIR.
Weaver, followed with appropriate
music by the Cheraw and Kid
bands. Then came ball games
and track events in rapid sue ces-
sion until the crowd had a surfeit
of amusement and scattered up
town, to return again in the even-
ing for a splendid exhibition of
fireworks, which brot to an ap-
propriate close jolly celebration
of the Glorious Fourth unmarried
by any untoward event.
Following are the prize winners
in the parade and track events:
Best decorated class foat-First,
Methodist primary class; second. Mr..
Longs class Methodist Sunday school.
Best decorated auto-First, MISS Cover
second, Mrs. Hahn's class Presbyterian
Sunday school.
Best decorated single rig-Miss Alice
Robb.
Best decorated bicycle -WaldoWilliam-
son.
Best feature of a patriotic nature
Three classes Presbyterian Sunday school
girls.
Best Calithumpian feature-The W. L.
Sharps boys. Methodist Sunday school.
The baseball game in the forenoon be-
tween the Indian boys and the Stars
was won by the latter with score OF