The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-07
CROWDS ENJOY
FUN FURNISHED
BY WO0DMEN
Labor Day Celebration Given by
Local Fraternal Orders Draws
Good Attendance
PARADE is A Big FEATURE
Goddess of Liberty, Uncle Sham, Geo.
Washington and Abe Lincoln
Add Patriotic Zest

Labor Day 1916 will long be re-
membered by local members Of he
Modern Woodmen and Royal Neigh
Dor lodges, as the date, of their first
celebration. Altho planned and man.
aged by members of the two orders,
the celebration was in measure a
community affair and bore the ear
marks of the annual Grape Carnival
with the farm products exhibits miss
ing.
The festivities which We're not ended
until Tuesday night, were well at
tended and the people who gathered
from the country were apparently
well entertained.
A big feature Of the celebration was
the parade at one o'clock Monday and
the patriotic tableau effect of the
speaking program in front of the arch
at Yakima and Third streets. The
parade was headed by Abraham Lin
coin mounted on black charger. Next
came the Goddess of Liberty, Der at
tendants, Uncle Sam and George
Washington. The car in which the
celebrities rode was followed by 81
other automobiles crowded with hap
py and noisy hundreds of school child
rem. The cars were literally decorated
with the Stars and Stripes and the
waving flags carried by the children
heightened the patriotic color Of the
pageant.
The parade ended in front Of the
arch upon which the emblems of the
two fraternal orders and the national
colors were prominently displayed.
The place of honor at the pinnacle Of
the arch was occupied by the Goddess
of Liberty with George Washington
: and Abraham Lincoln seated on either
corner. Uncle Sam was given the
place of honor on the speakers plat
form while the Uniform Rank of the
Pasco X. of p. Lodge and the Ken
newick-Pasco band were deployed
around him as an escort.
C. L. Holcomb, as chairman Of the
day, introduced Mayor L. E. Johnson,
who extended a formal welcome to
the celebrants on behalf of the city.
r. p. Fulkerson, state deputy head
consul of the Modern Woodmen re-
sponded for both orders as Mrs.
Kingsley, who was to have spoken for
the Royal Neighbors, did not arrive
until the next day.
No sooner was the speaking con-
cluded than the merry-go-round and
other attractions of the Wiggley Car
nival company were set going, the
dance on the open air pavilion was
started, the barkcrs in the lodge nov
city booths began to bark and the car
nival features of the celebration were
on. During the afternoon the band
gave frequent concerts and the X. Of
p. Uniform Rank gave pretty ex-
hibition drill on Second street.
The baseball game between the
Prosser and Kennewick teams proved
rather uninteresting until the ninth
inning when the excitement began
and nobody knows even yet exactly
how it finished. Prosser claims
to 5 victory, the score keeper says the
score was 6 to tie and the Kenne-
wick boys claim 9 to 0 victory be-
cause the Prosser team refused to
play off the tie. Anyway, Kennewick
had the game all captured and hog
tied with score of 6 to until the
first Of the ninth inning. In this
frame, Powell, Of Finley who had
pitched an excellent game, began to
weaken and Prosser started in to
clout the ball. The Prosser score
keeper went into the game, left his
book on the bench and at the close Of
the inning dispute arose as to the
size of the score.
Over in town, however, nobody
quarreled: while the light-footed
danced, the fleet-footed WED with each
other for honors in field sports. The
race for boys under Is was won by
Leslie Bass, X. Fligcr, second; girls
over Is, Elsie Hawkins, first, Mary
Peters, second; boys under IL, Dom
aid Stevenson, first, Howard Beste,
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