The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-08
MAGNIFICENT FLOATS IN
THURSDAYS PARADE

The floats in the Independence Day
parade were the finest that Fitzgerald
has displayed in many years. Three
prizes were offered as an inducement
by the Chamber of Commerce. The
first prize float was that of the Loyal
Temperance Union. This was huge
truck bearing bevy of little girls,
each representing a prohibition state.
On pedestal in the center stood
Miss Addie Davenport as Victory Mr..
Z. F. Very's beautifully decorated
Ford coupe won second place. 1t
was covered with gold and white
cloth and festooning with a little
Uncle Sam perched on the hood with
IN American flag. The third prize
float was that of the Watt-Holmes
Hardware Co, Liberty Bell float.
Thirteen little girls represented the
thirteen original colonies and suspend
ed in the truck hung Liberty bell,
pealing merrily as it must have done
on the Fourth of July 142 years ago.
Mr.. Pemberton, the decorator, did
much to make the parade the artistic
success it was. Many of the elaborate
ly decorated cars were his handiwork.
The floats were of such number and
all of such quality that a general des-
crlption would not answer. A few of
those who stood out foremost were
the Carnegie Library float, all auto
beautifully decorated in Red, White
and Blue Drapery and festooning with
three American flags on the radia-
tor; L. L. Griner's float CARRYING out
the idea of an American flag, the hood
covered with blue cloth dotted with
white chrysanthemums and the red
and white stripes running back along
the body; the Bradshaw float was
display OF musical goods, giving an
impression of elegance, with an ex-
pensive piano and Victrola mounted
on it; the Davis brothers float was an
exact replica of a torpedo boat de-
stroyer, the gray hounds of the
sea that are making the world I'M
safe for subs correct in every detail
up to the wireless and with a real
Jackie aboard, Milton Hopkins; the
Red Cross car with Mrs. ]. A. Day,
president of the Red Cross chapter,
was rich in its elegant simplicity,
trimmed in white with Red Cross
flag and Red Cross wheels; the Ju-
rnior Ukelefe Club, captained by Miss
Ettle Cleo Brewer, made music that
would move Orpheus to tears from
a gracefully draped and festooned
car; the senior Ukelele Club had no
float but paraded in the cars of Mr..
Montague and Mr. Goldenburg, both
beautifully decorated
The Fitzgerald Broom Co. float was
buried in brooms, the home product
that helps to make Fitzgerald the
cleanest town on earth; the C.Mro-
Cola float was unique for it's dimuni-
tive size, goat furnished the mo-
tive power for tiny delivery wagon
in which little boy was the ignition.
All these floats were very fine but the
three which best carried out the spirit
of the day were the realistic Red
Cross ambulance float, with three
handsome nurses attending wound
ed man, the whole thing as natural as
though it were occurring back of the
lines in France instead of in the
Chero-Cola truck in Fitzgerald-al-
though we had an idea that stretcher
| bearers and not nurses rode in ambu-
lances; the patriotic war kitchen of
the Johnson Hardware Co. with it's
exhibition of Ben Hill county pre-
serving methods was a model indeed;
and the Hampshire Hog float of the
Dixie Stock farm, with three old-time
darkies with fiddle, banjo and guitar
strumming away on the trailer. was
quite sufficient to cap any climax,
Fcontaining as it did several of the
finest prize hogs in the South. The
Parade ended at the Blue and Gray
! Park
A very attractive section of the pa
rade was the bicycle and go-cart di-
vision, under Mrs. ]. T. Pittman's di-
rection. All these miniature floats
were very tastefully and prcttily ar
ranged.