The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-21
BELLEv|EW's BUDGET
City of Oaks is Planning for a Big
Fourth of July Celebration

City or OdkS Is RAINING IUr Dig
Fourth of July Celebration j
BelIeview, June~ 21.-Belleview in
tends to bust itself wide open with
patriotism on July 18th, if plans hatch
ed and set on foot by DR.. B. n. Tan
ner materialize in accordance with the
program as laid down at rousing
meeting held at the town hall last
Monday night. DR.. Tanner has been .
worrying over this 4th of July cele-
bration for some time, and it reached
a climax when the above meeting was
held and committees appointed.
The program as outlined consists
Of musical program at the town
ball and a baseball game, with the
Belleview swatters as upholders OF
the honor of Belleview in the great
national game against any and all
corners; a tub race on the lake, sack
races, chase the CREASED pig and
climb the creased pole, and also
swimming race in Lake Lillian, and
it is hoped to secure the services of
come public speaker to tell the peo-
pie the why's and wherefores and the
causes that led up to the great ma
tional day of rejoicing and celebra-
ton. The committees as announced
are as follows: DIR. B. N. Tanner,
chairman and general manager of the
whole thing; Mayor John t. Hames,
president; o. NJ. Gale, secretary; j.
E. Pelot, marshal without power to
arrest); finance committee, DR.. b. N.
Tanner, Mr.. H. A. Kendall, Eleanor
/ A. Tremere; barbecue committee, Jas.
N. Shedd, chef, Joseph L. Whisenant,
chief cook and bottle washer, James
A. Freeman, superintendent of the
roast; committee on sports, Raymond
E. Gale, and the rest of the baseball
rine; committee on music, Mrs. James
Walter Nelson, Mrs. Earle Davenport,
Rev. S. N. Whidden, Prof. S. G..
Thomas; committee on tables and to
make the stranger feel at home in our
midst, Mrs. Oscar M. Gale, Mrs. John
t. Hames, Mrs. Frank Hutson, Mrs.
brighton Tanner, Mrs. Charles Ire
i mere, Mrs. Will Freer, Mrs. Fred
Brown, Mrs. Edwin Spencer Sr., Mrs.
David Stanley, Mrs. w. R. Bryant,
Mrs. Harry Read, Mrs. ]. N. Shedd.
e This combination of committees with
the personnel that it represents will
,e do their best to make all the visitors
:, feel at home To the tired citizens of
Ocala, weary of the roar of city life,
we extend a welcome to come down
) and get breath of country air and
meet some of your country cousins,
and especially do we invite the atten-
ton of the late candidates for politi-
cal honors that received such fatter-
ing maiorities in this precinct te
:, come down and show your apprecia
: ton and to those candidates who die
not receive such fiattering majoritie:
to come down anyway, and we vii
:. extend the glad hand to show tha'
there is no i'll will in the matter. *
T cur sister town of Summerfield ant
all the adjacent country laying roun'
"
i show their appreciation of Belleview'
efforts in the past to make their littl
- public affairs a success. We want tn
people of Oxford to come for 10! thes
~ many years Belleview has been mi
grating to Oxford regularly on tina
=, Saturday in August to which all goo
- Oxford people look forward to. Z
our Gambler friends, who are the sal
:. of the earth and some of the creates
hustlers thereon, we bid you welcom
on the strength of old association
and the many dances and entertain
ments that we have helped you OF
ffi- on in the past. 1t is only nine mile
from Oklawaha to Belleview and tn
good people of that little burg al
great on the move when there is an.
thing good in sight, therefore we e.
pect to see the road kept dusty b.
Oh tween Oklawaha and Belleview 8
the 4th of July. The residents {
Shady know the road and know |
people, therefore it stands to reasc
ade that they will be over in force on Il
alt, above date to join in the corn dance
ind And to any person that wants to m
ked with good bunch on the 4th of Jul
we extend welcome.