Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-04
Delaware County

ON sundays the soldiers camping at By
wood have specially fine dress parade,
and there are always ever and ever so
many persons there to watch 1t. You know,
the camp is u very large one for virtually
the whole Third Regiment is out there. II
Is just at that bright, still part of the day
that comes before dusk that the men as
semble In a huge green field for their dress
parades. They all march In, an endless
line of them and form into long. long rows
with four important-looki"g machine-gun
cars at the back. And there is a band. OF
course. which marches all around the field,
playing wonderful martial music. After
the band has finished its march all Is stlil
for a moment, and the- comes the star
Spangled Banner" when all the soldiers
stand Mt arms, and the figures of the OH
GERS salutng on horseback, stand out clear
against the bright sunset sky. 1t mis- one
with awe to see them there, so straight ana
tall. and the many men in the audience. too
standing with barred heads. How splcndidy
the soldiers all march 1t is said that
everybody makes mistakes at times, but
that cannot be true of those boys when
they are marching. for they do it all per
fectly, and we surely ought to be proud OF
them as watch them!
Speaking of the camp at Bywood. Miss
Frances Taylor, of Media, had small
soldicr-danco at her home recently There
were six Of the Third Regiment boys there
and six girls, too, and of course they all
had a wonderfully good time.
Miss Harris, Of West Philadelphia. has
been visiting Mrs. Arthur wiltshire Ill
Media for the last week
Not so ,ong ago some small youngsters
of the nenghborhood had a Red Cross fair at
Mrs. Wiltshires home There were thirteen
| of them-her own three children, Frank,
! Jane and Arthur Wiltshire Dorothy, Anna
and Robert Falkland, Grace and Arthur
| Matthews. Sarah Cunningham. Katherine
| and Mildred Nolan, George Hoyt and Elsie
Wingate. Unfortunately the evening they
| had planned to have their fair turned out
| to be rainy, and SO they had to have 1t IN
| the house instead of out on the lawn, with
| lanterns bobbng about, as they had wanted
| to. But it really was every bit as success
| ful--for how much do you think those small
| children made? Forty-two dol ars And
| weren't they proud to pieces to hand IT all
| over to the Red Cross. And having the
fair was just lots of fun, too; for 1t was
| like really, truly, playing store to stand
| behind a table and sell things to people.
| They sold cake. candy. fancy articles ice
cream cones and fruits and vegetables.
| Wasn't that some variety? And think or
| the children collecting those things all
| themselves The fruits and vegetables
| came from different war gardens. which
| made It all the nicer, as this was a Fed
| Cross affair
OF course the "grown-ups," too, have
| been generous to the Red Cross Mr.. Veg
| Ter. who is the proprietor of the Pastime
| Theatre in Media. has been giving one-half
| of the movie" proceeds from every Wednes.
day evening performance during June, July
| and August
The Rev. f. NJ. Limerick and Mrs. Linn
| erick and their children have returned to
| Il dley Park from Stonehouse n. V
| Mr.. Van Kleeck has also returned home
y with his children. They have been up In
| New York state during the last month.
Mrs z. I. Hall has been down at Haddon
| Hail. Atlantic City, during August, and she
expects to stay there for the month of
| September. also.
| Mr.. Frederick j. Michel spent the week.
| end In Ardon. where he has a cottage. Mr..
| Frederick Michell Jr.. has been out to st.
| Louis for about ten days.
| Mrs. Frederick Schermerhorn and her
| children have been m"toring around for
| two weeks They have been through New
| Hope. the Delaware Water Gap and all
| that beautiful country around there.
Some more motorists are the w. X.
| Mitchells, who with their daughter, Miss
| Florence Mitchell, and Miss Helen Ather-
holt. motored to Ocean City, where they
| will stay till today.
The +. w. Sinclairs and their two daugh-
| ters, Miss Marcia Sinclair and Miss Ruth
Sinclair. returned Monday from Atlantic
| City. They have been down there for
three weeks