Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-02

Watch Tower at p. IN.
Annual regatta Island City
Boating association at 2 p. m.
Double header Davenport VS..
Rock Island. at 2:15 at Island
City park.
Nefghborhood picnic at TindalPs
grove all day.
Labor celebration at Sherrard.
County Masons' picnic near Port
Byron.
Wheels of commerce will hesitate
the country over Monday when organ
ICED labor will celebrate advance the
workingman has gained through union.
Labor day will be celebrated in
Rock Island by the Tri-City Fedora
ton OF Labor, organized workmen of
Rock Island, Davenport, Moline, East
Moline, Bettendorf and Silvis joining
in to make the event the biggest ever
held in the tri-cities.
Following a parade at 10 o'clock in
the morning there will be a picnic at
Watch Tower park with addresses by
Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner and
Miss Margaret A. Haley OF Chicago in
the afternoon.
The annual regatta Of the Island
City Boating association will be held
will be near the club house at the foot
of Twelfth street
The Three-Eye league season closes
here Labor day afternoon, when a
dGrble-header will be played at Island
City park between Rock Island and
Davenport.
The third annual neighborhood pic
mic at Tindalrs grove, four miles
south of Milan, will be held Labor day
with promise of attracting the biggest
crowd since the picnics have been
held
Sherrard is also planning upon
Labor day celebration. A program of
speeches and races has been arranged
and there will be plenty of music to
entertain the visitors in the Mercer
county town
Masons of Rock Island county will
gather at Woodward's grove near Port
Byron Monday. The event will be the
annual picnic of the Masonic bodies,
and former Judge r. W. Olmsted of
Rock Island will be principal speaker
Parade Big Attraction.
The parade in Rock Island, however,
will be the largest attraction of the
day. The exact number who will par
tlclpate has not been determined as
yet, but it is figured that at least 900
that the figure will greatly exceed
that number. A. W. Johnson will be
marshal of the day
The parade will start from Twen-
tleth street at 10 o'clock. The line of
march will be:
North on Twentieth street, west on
second avenue, south on Fifteenth
street, west on Third avenue to Ninth
street; countermarch east on Third
avenue TO Sixteenth street, south on
Sixteenth to Fourth avenue to Twenty
first street, and disband
The divisions will be as follows:
FIRST DIVISION.
Band
Delegates Tri-City Federation of
Labor
Platoon Of police
City officials, Davenport
City officials, Moline
City officials, Rock sland
Coal miners, Matherville
Coal miners, Coal Valley.
Silvis Federated Trades.
Will meet on Third avenue along
Spencer square and face east J. s
Milton, marshal.
SECOND DIVISION.
Band
Typographical union
Press.
Arsenal leather workers.
Street railway employees
Tri-city switchmen.
Railway switchmen.
Electricians.
Car workers.
Button workers
Culinary alliance
Garment workers, Davenport
Broom workers
Butchers.
VIII meet on Third avenue between
twentieth and Twenty-first streets,
and face west. ]. S. Milton, marshal.
THIRD DIVISION.
Band.
Davenport carpenters.
Moline carpenters.
Rock Island carpenters
Arsenal carpenters and millmen.
Woodworking millmen.
Trt-ctty painters and decorators. !
Br1cklayerS and masons
Hold carriers.
Structural iron workers.
Plumbers and steam filters
Hosting engineers.
Pattern makers.
All building trades OF the trf-citfes
VIII meet on Twentieth street between
Third and Fourth avenues, and face
north w. j. Stoit, marshal