The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-05-30
LODGE CARNIVAL !,
MAKES MONEY
! FOR WAR WORK
Modern WOOdmen and Royal
Neighbors Furnish Patriotic
Fun for Large Crowd
NATIONS LEADERS FEATURED
Annual Strawberry Feed is Put on a
War Basis in Very Success
full Manner

The local lodges of Modern Wood.
men of America and the Royal Neigh
bors not only provided amusement fol
hundreds of people at their war carni-
val Tuesday evening, but they turned
in $115.5S to the Red Cross fund ami
converted STATS into thrift stamps.
Altho but little preparation was Civ
en- to working out the details of the
program which grew almost overnight
from the Woodmen's annual strawber-
ry feed to a war carnival. the eve-
ning's festivities were conducted in a
manner that brought deserved COM
mendation to the managers and the
lodges. ~ ~
The parade, with which the carnival
opened, formed at the high school
building and marched to the speaking
stand at the foot of Second Street.
The parade was led by an improvised
Kennewick band, which was followed
by an auto carrying Miss Laura Oh
brich as the Goddess of Liberty, "Pres-
ident Wilson," Commander S. M. Hen
derson, of S. G. Cosgroge Post G. A.
R., and John Smith, OF headquarters
company, 346th field artillery. Then
came on horseback Uncle Sam, George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln, es-
corted by the NJ. W.. A. drill team un-
der arms. In the line were the boy
scouts, the Campfire girls and Busi-
ness club girls, costumed as Red Cross
nurses and numerous streamered and
decorated automobiles.
The speaking program opened with
a short talk by A. R. Gardner, as I'm
Gle Sam, who emphasized the fact that
America today under Woodrow Will
son was fighting for the same things
for which it fought in 1776 under
George Washington, and in 1860 un-
der Abraham Lincoln. M. M. Moul-
ton, as Washington, and Rev Camp
bell w. Bushnell, as Lincoln, called
the peoples attention to the patriotic
endeavors of the great characters
which they represented and called
upon the people today to stand back of
the nation in arms as did the people
of the revolutionary and civil war
times.
Rev. j. d. B. Adams, as Woodrow
Wilson, spoke in the first person and
reminded the audience Of some of the
presidents recent proclamations and
messages to the American people.
DR.. j. w. Summers and VIM. Mas
terson, of Walla Walla, gave stirring
patriotic addresses. Dr.. Summers
especially emphasized the necessity of
making war vigorously, for speeding
up the war work in every possible
manner and of throwing the full
weight Of Americas great power into
the conflict as soon as possible that
there might be peace thru victory.
Mr.. Masterson concluded his address
with & reference to the great patriotic
work the Modern Woodmen order is
doing in protecting the homes and
families of the fighting men,
At the conclusion of the speaking
program Mayor George w. Sherk
turned the keys of the city over to
Joe Martin, who at once read pro-
clamation putting the city under mar
tial law and declaring its citizens cap
tives of war. AS tribute levied upon
the captives they were ordered to
march thru the lane of Mercy and de-
posit their spare change into recep-
tacles held by four Campfire girls
costumed as Red Cross nurses. The
march brought the Red Cross $52.6S.
DR.. M. P. Davidson who had come
down from Hanford to donate his SER
vices as auctioneer was then given the
platform and proceeded to make more
money for the Red Cross. A big Ply
mouth Rock rooster given to the Red
Cross by Mrs. E. C. Morton in the last
weeks war fund drive was sold and
resold for total of $50. Then Mary's
little lamb was sold as a sacrifice in
the cause of humanity. The lamb was
brought to the auction block by its
owner, little Olive Kelso, of the High
lands, and when the bidding ceased,
Mary" still had her little lamb and