Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-05-15
THE WALHALLA PLANT PARADE
Local Textile Plant Will Observe
Half Holiday In Patriotic Manner,

Next Saturday the local plant Of
the Victor-MOnaghan Cotton Mills
Company will observe the afternoon
by engaging in patriotic exercises,
which Will begin. with a parade and
conclude with exercises at the Victor
Monaghan school house Those In
charge Of the parade and exercises
desire that the whole community
shall participate in the afternoon
program, Joining with the parade as
1t passes through town and going
with the crowd to the village school
house to witness the exercises. One
OF the features Of the parade will be
the carrying of the local plants Ser
vice Flag" which now contains ten
stars, representing ten young men
VINO have gone to serve their coun-
try IN various branches Of military
activities. The parade and exercises
Will be from early in the afternoon
until dusk, the parade beginning
about o'clock and the exercises con-
cludtng at the school house at about
8 o'clock.
The parade will leave the mill viii
lage at s o'clock, reaching Main
street from John street, and will pass
up Main street to College street,
through which the parade will pass
to Faculty Hill, keeping up the march
back to the school house. Follow
ing Is the order Of the parade as
planned and set for Saturday after
noon:
Music (band).
Walhalla Plant Service Flag.
Walhalla V.-M. School.
o"Uncle Sam
The Kaiser.
May Pole Girls.
Mill Boys.
Red Cross.
Housewives.
Baptist Sunday School.
Wesleyan Sunday School.
Gardeners.
Woodmen of the World
Well Designed Floats
will follow the above, these floats to
be illustrative of the various
branches of the textile industry as
carried on at the Victor-Monaghan
plants. Separate floats will represent
the following departments: Card
room, spinning room, weave room,
cloth room, the shop, outside force,
the office, the store, and bringing up
the end Of the parade will be a float
representing the important little
"Thrift Stamps" the Walhalla Plant
Of the Victor-Monaghan Mills giving
no small prominence to the pushing
to the fore the idea of thrift and saw
ing coupled with the patriotic side of
Thrift and War Savings Stamps as an
aid to our government.
At the School House
the following program will be car
ried out:
May Pole Drills.
Garden Drill by boys.
Cantata,. "The Wood Nymphs' Sur
prise"
Refreshments.
Motion Pictures
The motion picture feature will be
at once novel and instructive, having
local color given through the fact
that the reels used are productions
from actual workings in mills and
villages Of various VictOr-Monaghan
plants.
1t Is especially urged that the peo-
pie Of Walhalla attend the exercises
at the school house, and the mill cp-
eratiVes and management extend a
most cordial invitation to all citizens
to join with them on this occasion.
The celebration is In charge of J.
G. Montjoy, Miss Hicks and l.. E.
Beard as executive committee, who
hove the able assistance of Miss
Harmon, Mr.. Holtzclaw, Mrs. l.. B.
Norton, Mrs. J. G. Montjoy, Messrs.
Ida, Knox. Norton, Dickson, Hunt,
Moss, Cudd, Simpson, Smith, Nor
ton, Haynes.
The attendance Of large number
of representatives from the managers
and operatives Of the textile mills at
Seneca and Westminster Is antici-