The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1917-11-02
MORE llm 5000 uEeROts GATHER At WEIGH
Parade and Speech Makias--Ce.esd O'TseIe
Gives 500 to Athletic Fund--390 Black Boys
Leave Free State" Of Mcdowell for Camp
Lee---Nesrses Paid All Expenses.

The greatest pssztosic dss.oasrssiou
sssr hs,d In Mcdowell eoonty vss Wit
nsssed ss wsleh. Monday when the
Negroes Of the county turned ous en-
nas To honor and pay tsibuse Of respect
% she $50 nsmbers Of their racs Who
isfs that nighs for Camp Lee 70 train 70
enter the greatest world wsr oo be sids
Of world democrscy and Amssiean honor.
Early in the morning sssgy train com
ins into the county - OF The ''fsse
stass" Al Mcdowell wss crowded 70 essr.
f,owiag xish sable Amssiesns vho ~sss
anxious 70 honor the black boys g shsir
county Who were going ~ do thse eis In
order that the Siam and 6tsipn u11shs
continus 20 Aoss unsullied md ~ tSi-
umpAantfn ths brsses - . tDaeon Of
nbevsy. frssdoo and dsmosrsoy - shs
~osid's seruse;ins asssss.
AS o'oAnck msa accuseonsd - Vts-
ss.sinG great crowds sssimsssd the mum
bsr ot eolorsd people In wsIeh - moro
shsn 5000. many ot whom were women
NE sours house lawn. the ssrses In front
end the childrep's play ground on> sle
oDposies side wss crowded With . dense
mass Of loyal, pesEiode eolored Amsri-
caaa, not boisessous and hilarious, but
calm and subtusd - be6tsed the ssrious
ocpaslon. The mammoth crowd gave
svsFy imprsssioo Of being impressed with
shs fscs that $50 OF their brotbers. cons
md loved onss vsrs about % ofsr them
saavss up in the ''lsss great sscriAcs'' for
3orid dsmocraey. American honor and
he compless frsodom and enfrsnchiss-
msns Of their tn: million brothsrs and
sisssrs. mothers and fsshsrs OF America
endsr the Stars and Strips. II there
wss any doobs - 70 toe loyalty and pa-
k1osism OF the Negroes Of Mcdowell
sounty this crowd. is sppsaranes and
Asportment disspsted the lsss lingering
toubG
Mcdowell counsy beasts (liesrally
bossss) Of the lsreess Negro popuissioo
81 any county In the ssass. In fscs mors
Shan ons-foorsh OF the snsirs Negro pop
ulasion Of the state live In shis county
md like leading the state In many sob
soAntisl thines such - the production Of
cal Mcdowell leads the state In The
nuEbsr OF black zone vho 70 70 join The
cssors ard thers we're no siscksrs among
tAsn. One young colored man rscsived
his o6,cial notification that be vss among
ehoss 70 20 - Z O'Clock Monday. He
~ 20 miles away and there were no
train before night that vouid eps hin 10
WsAch- He would have bssa isss and
ess.sd - . slsckss hot hs vslksd Eve
nilss thsn hirsd sn susoaobiis end ar
rived 10 weich and rpporssd % ne Of.
Acisls thirty ninsss befors The troop
uain left.
Lone PARADE-
As3 o'siock Parade Mspbais J. l..
psrsos. Henry Richards ana Jss. n.
t5ssrrs, oil fornss soidisrs and vsesrsns
- sbe Spanish Amsriess vsr. formed
ohs $50 nsmbsrs Of the Nscousl ARM
issD battalion and led By the Elkhoru
baDd The Iongsss parade ever witnessed
beean- Mors than 5000 men. women
snd children Tell In line behind lie soo.
srrips following the Lssdsrs6 band and
narshsd 20 The Wslch hsspissi and ~
ozynsd BY . different rouss 10 sbs spssk.
~ sand o. The plsy srousd vsrs ifs
eDbssyo soldien vers stationed In doobis
obkumn ard . crmmissee Of twenty col
spsd ladies ioised red. vhis and blos
bDv On the lapel II shs court n eseh %
- boys and gave him . kis q sebscco
PROGRAM.
Az the cops ias'on of the psvsde, Asfy
Arthur @. Fros of wsleb. assser % ersv
ususss. called The greet coDscurss \
aAsnsios In 90 able speech, psid 6ibos
= Sbs boys 10 whose honor ths neednl
90 held lie then ipsrodoced Rev. J
= Prior Who prsyed. s'ssr which III
nasosr of cprvmonies introdosed Hoe
,. y. william. rsyor of Wsleh ~
velss1sl he people 70 Wslsh. susrss
~ W.T. psossessos and eeosswv. ~
Vhy AD9ies 80 N ths vsr snl prsises
- Nepso lcs thsss ioyslsg - peessse
-. GhgfR q A. Dsnia 80 - hsv'
osk0 . bshslf Il - essnsv s0siel
- 0sguo - 90 rrsssus 49, .
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