Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-15
MEETING TONIGHT
TO ARRANGE PLANS
FOR PATRIOTIC DAY
HERE MAY 30
PROMISES TO BE THE BIGGEST
SiNCE COMM EMIGRATION OF
LlNCOLN.DoUGLAS DEBATE
PARADE WILL BE FEATURE


Plans for the monsterous Patriotic
Day celebration, here May 30. will be
formulated at meeting OF the com
mttees this evening in the Circuit
Court room Committees from every
! fraternal, labor, church, philanthropic,
schools, parent-tcacherss and church
societies and organizations are ey-
pected to attend the gathering and tell
just what part their organization will
take in the big celebration.
Four Bands Secured.
Four bands have been secured to
/ furnish the music for the vast parade
that will pass in review. carrying flags.
etc. 1t is expected that hundreds OF
autoes will he i'm line and that the
celebration here will be the biggest
since the commemoration of the Lin
con.Dougas debate, in 1893
Every organization in the city viii
be called upon to do their bit which
I will be mostly in seeing that their
members are in the line of march on
May 80.
I Co. G and the hign school military
cadets will be feaured in the military
activity of the parade. while it is ex,
pected that the Red Cross unit at the
high school and the newly organized
Red Cross organization will also be
in line
/ School Children.
1t In estimated that between fifteen
hundred and two thousand school chill
dren from the public and parochial
schools of the city, will be in line, and
in addition to this an invitation has
been extended to the school children
in the rural districts in this vicinity
to join in the line.
viii Garry Flags.
ARRANGEMENTS are now being made
to furnish all of the school children
: with flags,
To Decorate Buildings.
|; Old Glory will breeze forth from
every business building in the loop,
and in addition to this merchants il
the outlying districts WILL decorate
their places.
, Labor organization, this year, are
showing much activity, they have don
ated the services OF band at thei
i own cost The Dayton Farmers I'm
provemcnt association made a similar
donation, and the high school bant
and drum corps have offered thei
services also. 1t was ordered at Thu
last meeting to secure two mor'
i bands.
! Senator McGil.
I Senator McGill has been invited t
address the audience, at the meeting
!. in the high school auditorium. TIL
members of the Trades and Labor as
+. sembly will also have a speaker her
Il on the occasion.
At the gathering tonight the wOr
e accomplished thus far will be repor,
o Cd and committees named to assis
j in the big parade.
r Captain Charles l.. Gapen, will b
the field marshal of the day, and thi
e evening II is expected that he wi
y announce the assistance he has cno
y on to help in in keeping the line Q
march in order
. A report of the amounts donated 10
the celebration will also be receive
4 this evening. II Is expected that u
! plans will be entirely perfected fQ
81, lowing the discussion
W The committees in charge OF tn
2 work, earnestly request that lars
ID number be present
lie The committee has issued the Il
or lowing stirring appeal in which
he calls upon Ottawans to make the ia
st. riotic celebration the greatest ev'
held in the county:
IN Ottawa VS.. La Sale.
II. There has been rivalry always b
et- tween Ottawa and La Sale, som
", times good natured sometimes not
nd amicable. Whenever Ottawa felt u
10 odds were against her some OF o
people refuge In the consolil
~ thought "W ell. they are a lot OF Il
' 49, oigners down there In La Sale i
-, fact that we are all foreigners IN Il
,a, country does not dawn on this ella
m. Of people, Even tho Indians are II
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