Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-03

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oinsy RECONSTRUCTED Fourth OF July As
recitation Baseball games IN the morning,
| athletic events for boys and girls. mara
| thon race interchurch relay, baby parade
and baseball In the afternoon, and vauds'
| VILE, fireworks. prizes end house decorating
In evening.
Oak Lane
Oak Lane-Meiross Association, Oak Lane
Park Improvement Association and South
Oak Lane Association to combine In cels-
bration on estate OF Mrs. Charles Asbury
City Line and Reading Railway. Parade
OF school children in morning. with patriotic
speeches. band concert and games by the
children TO follow. Races on the lake ana
other contests during afternoon. Folk ana
aesthetic dances in the evening by zoo boys
and girls in amphitheatre, decorated with
lanterns and electric lights in evening.
Marches and drills and denomination OF
signaling by Boy Scouts.
Starr Garden Centre
Flag raising, patriotic songs and ball
games at 10 o'clock. Band and scout activi-
ties by Troop No. 95, Boy Scouts, at 1870
p. m. Pie-eatinR contests by boys Of ~
nationalities at p nl., followed by track
and field sports Distribution Of Ice cream
to the children at p. M, with band con.
cert moving pictures, dancing for adults In
evening.
Weccacoe Playground
F1agraising and patriotic songs at $3.50
a. m, followed by straw rides for the chill
dren and ball games and Girl Scout actIv.
tiles. Ple-eatlnE contests and track and
field contests from noon until o'clock, then
ice cream for the children and music, dane
Ing and moving pictures similar pro-
gram Will be carried out at Shot Tower
Playground, I'd and Carpenter streets, AT
Chestnut Street Recreation Pier the Boy
Scouts will also participate in the exer.
cises
Bala and Cynwyd
School children, Boy Scouts, fire companies
and citizens assemble at Bala School at SA5,
and, headed by band march through Bala
and Cynwyd to Cynwyd. Parade to In.
clude costumed children, floats represent.
ing historical events and 10 original States.
Flag-raising with oration by Calvin c. Ait
house at Cynwyd School, Boy Scouts drill.
The order of parade follows:
CHIEF marshal
scouts. Bala, No. 2.
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Lansdowne
Field and track events under auspices of |
Union Athletic Association at Union and
Mckinley avenues. Baseball game between
Union A. A. and Ridley Park. Automobile
parade with Marine Band of Philadelphia.
Concert patriotic address by Joseph A.
o'Brien. track and field events in afternoon,
concert, moving pictures and fireworks in
evening.
Chestnut Hill
The Chestnut Hill Business Mems Asso-
citation Ia preparing for a safe and Sane
celebration of the national holiday on Tues
day. The program will include patriotic
exercises athletic events. games and band
concerts.
There will be a historical pageant on
the ST. Martins Athletic Field.
Fern Rock and Branchtown
A prize OF So has been offered for the
best decorated house in Fern Rock or
Branchtown in connection with the cele-
bration there tomorrow. Prizes will also
be awarded to the most periodically dressed
boy and girl In the parade which will be
held in the afternoon starting at Ogontz
avenue and Limekiln pike and ending at
the Kenilworth Inn Grounds, where George
wentworth Carr will deliver the grafton of
the day.
City Hall Plaza
One of the features of the Fourth of
July celebration tomorrow night will be
motion picture exhibition on the north City
Hall Plaza, under the auspices of the
Bureau Of Commercial Economics. A series
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national parks as the Yellowstone. Yosemite,
Mount Rainier and Grand Canyon. A large
screen will be placed on the side of the
Masonic Temple, upon which the pictures
will be shown.
Members of the N. A. p. A. are arranging
to hold dinner at the Poor Richard Club
1t 6:30 p. on Tuesday. Among those
who are expected TO be present are Clement
Chase. Omaha; L. G.. Niblach, Guthrie,
James Douglass Lee. Columbus.
3, c., and Mulford Tausig. Lancaster.
Old York Road
Patriotism and safe and sane" are to be
he keynote OF the celebrations in JenlEin-
own, Logan, Glenside. North Penn and all
Llong Old York Road. Nearly 10000 visit
'rs are expected at the athletic field, Elkins
Park, where there will be a continuous cele-
'ration from morning till night Mayor I
smith has taken personal interest In the q
demonstration at Glensde, his summer {
lome. I
Charles A. Amber, speaker OF the House Z
4 Representatives at Harrisburg, and e. ]. {
.afterty. president OF the Logan Improve c
nent League, will speak at tho Logan cele-
ration. Under the direction OF the Logan
Permanent Fourth OF July Committee there
gill be a beautiful display of fireworks In
he evening In charge Of experts. During {
he 18 years this committee has been holding !
Is celebration they have not had q single :
ccident.
Fire in Mattress Factory a