The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Registration Day VIII be Officially
Recognized With Parade and
Badges and Band
Music.
DAY OF CONSIDERATION
Parade In Evening VIII be Public
Recognition Of Duty Performed
by the Young Men
Of keokuk.

Of keokuk.
A big demonstration has
Ks been planned for Keokuk
@ Tuesday and Tuesday night,
~ y the day of registration for
selective draft The celebration VIII
not be one of levity. neither will it
contain anything OF the funeral ele-
ment. It will be an expression OF
the public duty imposed on all young
men between the ages of q and 80,
and will be patriotic and entirely In
recognition of the patriotism of these
men.
The demonstration will continue
throughout the day. There will be
music of some sort on the streets
all day. Every house in Keokuk is
asked to show a flag. Main street
will be decorated, and there will be
a big parade at 8 o'clock In the
evening, to show the appreciation OF
the boys who have Registered. 1t Is
planned to have band concerts or
patriotic selections, choruses and
quartettes singing patriotic songs at
intervals during the day.
Committees of women will be at
each polling place, and will pin upon
the arms Of every man who registers,
khaki arm band, as the insignia
that he. has registered. These bands
are to be worn by the men during
the entire day. These and the Of
fics%l cards given by the registrars
will show that the men have Of
ficially discharged their duty.
The demonstration was planned last
night by the local council OF the Ma
tional Security league, which put the
arrangements in the hands of A.
Hollingsworth and E. l.. Williams,
who met this morning and appointed
other committees for the day.
Parade at 8 p. M.
The parade committee consists OF
C. s. Abel and C. E. Powell. The
parade will move at 9 o'clock on the
night OF June 5. the marching order
and line of parade to be announced
later All men who register are re-
quested by the committee to be In
line at their various polling places dt
eight o'clock that night.
All secret organizations and any
Individual firm and any other organ
ization are invited to get into the
parade. The committee requests
that all organizations and firms which
wish places in the parade, call Chair
man Abel Places in the parade will
be assigned in the order in which
the names of the organizations are
turned in.
Automobile owners will be asked
to keep their cars off of Main street
from $3.50 o'clock until the parade
has passed.
Bells, whistles and sirens will be
blown during the parade, and the
committee in charge OF this Is e. l..
Williams for chairman. Mr.. Williams
was named as the committee to see
the pastors Of the churches and ask
for announcements concerning regis.
tration day, tomorrow from their
pulpit.
The committee on bands is compos-
ed Of Ed S. Lotion, j. Albert Ked-
aisch and G. S. Abell The committee
has received word from several mus
ical organizations that they will
gladly tender their services for all
day or part of the day. and hopes
that others will fall in line.
Committees Named.
The other committees appointed
are:
Military and civil organizations:
C. E. Powell.
Womens' committee: Mrs. D. A.
Collier.
Decorations: H. E. Mehler. J. P.
Ingle and ]. w. Winger.
Streets and autos: G. H. Henne
man, chief of police.
Vocal music: Fred H. Overton.
Chorus Of School Children.
It has been suggested that the
school children's chorus, armed with
flags, parade the streets in the aft
ernoon ter school is out. Male
ouartettes may be secured for var
ions corners, and the drum corps
will no doubt be out.
One thousand khaki arm bands
have been cut and are being sewed
this afternoon. AS each man comes
out Of the place Of registration he
will be given an arm hand, which will
be pinned on by members of the
women's committee. These are to be
worn as the badge Of honor.
All musical organizations which
wish to take part in the parade, and
which have not already signified
their intention of SO doing, can get
a place by notifying some member of
the committee. The Community
band is the first to volunteer it's serv-
ices and will be given place OF
honor in the parade.
Decorations on Streets.
The decorating committee met this
afternoon and decided to decorate
Main street from Third to Twelfth
Monday afternoon. The flag decora-
tons along the cross wires will be
used. The committee is asking that
every person see to it that some flag
or display of colors is made in front
of his house or store. A street car
in national colors will carry
the band from the various sections of
+ba city during the day