The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-05
WOODMEN ARE
MAKING HASTE
LOCAL MEMBERS OF ORDER ARE
GETTING THINGS IN READINESS
FOR BIG CONGRATULATIONS
ANDS WILL SEE BIG PARADE.

Inc committee TO secure IuluS u6C-
essary to defray the expenses of the
big Woodmen of the World Convention
which gathers in this city on July 20,
! FL, composed Of Mayer j. Gordon
Jones, c. D. Bercaw, president of the
Cordole Board of Trade, and NJ N.
| Johnston, of Johnston Brothers shoe
store, are busy seeing the business
men of the city, obtaining cash contri-
| buttons to raise the fund to meet the
expenses.
| Letters have been forwarded to the
representatives of the railroads, tele-
graph, express, oil mills, fertilizer
plants, Atlantic Ice e Coal Corpora
ton, and other corporate interests who
have their head offices out of the city,
requesting donations to this fund. AS
the money is obtained it will be depos-
tied in the Cordele National Bank, and
will be paid out on the auditing Of
I each bill, against the association.
Two brass bands have been engag-
ed at considerable expense. Twelve
thousand five hundred wooden plates
in which the barbecue dinner will be
served, have also been brought. The
wood for the barbecue pits has been
purchased and is being placed on the
ground. Two expert 5arbecuers have
been engaged, and will be here to take
charge of the pits on the morning OF
July 10TH Lumber to erect the three
stands where the dinner will be served
is to be purchased, as we'll as bread
the barbecue dinner, which will be
served in military style from the three
stations which will be erected in sep
arate places so as to not concentrate
the crowds all at one place.
Arrangements are being made to
have barrels placed in different places
in the main business section of the
city, to supply ice water to the peo-
pie.
IA ldI So il1oullC VI tlCSOA etNIOAio wa
be used, on the public buildings of
the city. which will be an item of ex-
pense to the management.
The Parade.
Special preparations are being made
to make the parade monster one, and
every interest in the city and county
are urged to arrange al once to be rep
resented in the parade. The farmers
with live stock, farm produce, and any
and all things to demonstrate what
Crisp county, farm produce will be on
hand on the morning of the goth, by
10 o'clock to join the hig parade.
The businesses of the city-banking
mercantile, manufacturing, in fact, ev-
cry business of the city will be asked
to take part in this parade, which will
be witnessed by several thousand visi-
tors.
The parade will not only show the
strength of the Woodmen of the World
as an order, but is to demonstrate that
Cord ole and Crisp county are first in
progress and civic spirit
Mayor Jones states that if the peo-
pie will be liberal and aid the Wood
men with funds to carry through the
entire program, that Cordele will have
the largest crowd of people ever assem-
bled here.
81 urge upon our merchants, bank
ers, hotel, and cafe managers, to deco
rate and make the occasion gay" said
Mayor Jones. Let everybody give a
helping hand and the meeting will
prove a success and. one of the largest
ever in Cordele. The railroads have al
ready given reduced rates, granted
special trains, and the Cordele Camp
w. o. W. is working to meet every
emergency so as to carry through the
entire program. This great gathering
of Woodmen, and their friends, is 60
ing to surprise some Of our people"