South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-03
WELCOME ARCH
RAISED At ENTRY
To RUM VILLAGE
Plans For Great Municipal
Picnic tuesday Are at
Last Completed.

With the Ringing of the arch OF
welcome across the entrance TO Rum
Village Monday afternoon arrange
ments were CON , eted for the recep-
ton and elterts ~, mont of the huge
crowd which IS expec,sd to gather
there on the Fourth Of .r1ly for the
big municipal iCy ic ana the dedica-
ton of the ne-v C ~ park More
than 90 booths have been erected
for one purpose OF another on the
grounds and gayly decorated as they
will be by the time the crowd arrives
tomorrow morning. they will make
sight the like Of which Rum VII
lage has not offered since the DAYS
when the brightly painted tepees OF
the Indians adorned its hills and
ravines.
Though a number of events have
been planned for the Fourth by
various organizations and will help
10 make the day one of the sanest
Fourths which the city has seen in
many a year. the municipal picnic
will be by all odds the biggest. The
number which will gather at the
park will mount into the thousands.
1t is confidently expected by the eX-
ecutive committee that in the pa
rade alone between 5000 and O,0OO
men. women and children will
march.
Many Events on Program.
Besides the parade the municipal
celebration will feature numerous
other events including the dedica-
ton exercises in the morning. Sc
ries Of athletic events and the big
military spectacle in the afternoon.
For each Of these everything is now
in readiness A long list of prizes
has been announced by the amuse-
ment com mittee for the athletic
events and for the military spec
tacle a 4O-foot stockade has been
erected and all the guns and am
munition are already on the park
grounds.
The prize list includes the follow
ing:
Prize valued at $50 to the public
school having the largest number II
boys and girls in the parade in pro-
portion TO it's enrolment.
Prize valued at $50 TO the paroch-
ial school having most children in
parade in proportion TO its total en-
rollment
Cash prize of $25 10 school hav-
ing most adults on foot in parade.
Cash prize of s25 to best decorated
group-Civic club or Fraternal or
der
Pig valued at $40 to person catch
ing the creased pig.
Cash prize of So to person climb
ing the creased pole.
Cash prize Of So TO person climb
ing the linn Der pole.
For the other feats the following
prizes will be awarded as the amuse-
ment committee decides: Photo
graph II by IA. valued at Sc. do
mated by MangOld: pair Of shoes.
donated by Modern Shoe store; hat.
donated by VanGorder Millinery
store: one pair of ladies' and one
pair of mems tennis shoes. donated
by Klingle and Kuehn; child's dress,
donated by Mrs Fralick: book do
mated by MilIer's Book store. Other
prizes such as boxes OF candy and
badges will be given the winners in
the less important contests.
The parade will doubtless be one
OF the biggest events Of its kind
that has ever taken place in the city.
II will certainly be the most re-
sentative for organizations from ev-
cry district OF the city Will partici-
pate. 1t will begin promptly at $50
O'Clock Nelson L. Jones. who will
act as marshal with Clarence Stoudt.
Crawford Staples and B. F. Yerrick
as aides. announces that IL Will start
$50 if he and his aides are the only
ones 70 march.
The fraternal organizations which
will form the first division OF the pa
rade will gather along Wayne and
Taylor SITS At 9 O'Clock they will
proceed south on Taylor 10 join the
second division, composed Of schools
and Civic clubs. at the corner OF
Sample and Prairie The lineup will
be as follows: Executive committee
band. police. AUten Post and Nor
man Eddy Post, @ A r.. Poinsett
Garrison Army and Navy union.
william Mckinley camp. No
Robert Blum lodge. No. IS and Can
ton. No. 9. South Bend lodge. ]. O.
o. F.; Harmony Camp, No. 1906
and COlfax Camp. No. 1906. Modern
WoOdmen OF America; South Bend
Turn Nereir: South Bend Tent No. ]
X. O. T. NJ. Montauk Tribe. No. 42e
order OF Red Men. band. Linden
Laurel. Lafayette. Perley. MuesseI
Madison C,ncllfIlard Tsircr u. II