The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-05
TWO THOUSAND At
HOLIDAY EVENTS
West BrattlebOrO's Celebra-
ton of Fourth Big
Success
PATRIOTIC PARADE
BRILLIANT FEATURE

Thrilling Address-Program of Ath- |
letic Sports, Including Ball Game Won
by Single Men.
Under ideal weather conditions and
with about 1900 persons in attendance, |
West Brattleboro held its second annual
July Fourth celebration yesterday The |
days program began with parade in the |
morning and continued through the day, |
closing with baseball game in the after
noon. West Brattleboro presented a live |
" appearance all day, many automobiles
being parked on the common and the |
streets lined with people Like last year,
the celebration was a decided success and
to the committee who had worked un-
tiringly to bring it about is due the credit.
At 10 o'clock, the parade, which
had formed near the cement bridge,
moved up the street headed by the
marshals, L. f. Clark and John Mckay,
on horseback Uncle Sam, mpersonated
by Allen Wilmington, and Columbia, rep
! resented by Miss Mildred Copeland, fol-
| lowed Next came the color bearer,
George Dugan, wearing the regulation
| Boy Scout suit, carrying a large Amer
lean flag The West Brattleboro drum
corps, assisted by few drummers from
the east village, did good work The
Bingville band, dressed in masquerade,
seated on Warren L. Walkers truck, as
sisted In rendering music, if one was not
| particular about harmony.
The flags of the allies, carried fat by
young women dressed in white, formed a
pretty feature, The French flag was car
ried by Mrs L. A. Knight and Miss Helen
| Feller; Mrs Fred Weatherhead and Miss
Marion Betterley carried the flag of the
British; Italy's flag was borne by Mrs. w
E. Stellman and Miss Regina Mancini;
the flag of Belgium was carried by Miss
Maxine Stellman, Miss Eleanor Taylor and
Mrs. Bessie Lyman; Mrs Mary Romano,
dressed as the Italian queen, with head
arms and carrying a sword, marched at
! the head of these flags
! A large number of school children were
in line, dressed in white with caps Of red,
white and blue, and carried small Amer
lean flags The young women farmers,
from the Se,tt farm, seated on large
llay wagon drawn by four horses, attrae-
tel much attention along the line OF
march Twelve little children bore a
large American flag, carrying it fiat Linn
Thayer and his small Holstein calf
hitched to an express wagon was an in
teresting feature The Hillside Farmers
club, dressed in costumes appropriate for
the hard-working farmer, marched IN line
Icarrying a banner ON which was inscribed
Beat it, Bill"
Gulford showed her neighborliness and
came out with a decorated automobile
with c. F. Miller and party from that
town, dressed in eve old-time costume.
The Nita Anoki Camp Fire girls, Miss
iGladys Stellman guardian, rode in an
automobile beautifully decorated with
hemlock boughs and yellow daisies. The
girls were dressed in their camp fire cos
tunes.
One especially attractive feature was
the Red Cross workers. 45 women,
dressed in white with red capes and Red
Cross head-dress, marching in the form
of a large cross. A number of boys rode
decorated bicycles, wearing caps of red,
white and blue Members of the Twen-
tieth Century club rode in a large ex-
press automobile trimmed with the nation
| al colors, and each carried an American
flag A miniature aeroplane, with little
Perry Wilder as the driver, drawn by
Madeline Wilder, Evelyn Thurber and
! Bernice Martini attracted attention as it
passed in review
The kaiser, suspended by the neck from
/ a small tree near which appeared the sign
] "Over the Top and Give the Kaiser Hell,
received hearty applause. To carry out
) this idea a large EXPRESS wagon with the
i ltree in the center was used, with Ernest
' Plant, Webster and Charles Gay riding
: The Melrose hospital was represented by
e several of the nurses dressed in uniform
: and wounded soldier, properly bandaged
2 receiving care. An inferno was driving
1 the car, which was decorated with Amer
lean flags and large Red Cross flags OF
either side
To remind people that West Brattle
boro did her part in the War Chest,
e float carrying large chest, guarded b,
four little boys dressed as soldiers ans
armed with guns and with little Mario
e RE Woodworth seated in the cente
: carrying a Red Cross flag was seen in tn
e lparade Seated in James LeRay's automo
G bile were four Grand Army veterans il
V uniform They were Mr. LeRay, A. T
t. Hill. Barna Phelps and Barna Pratt
The Home Study club float was an in
A. teresting one and one upon which mucl
f labor had been expended The member
" of this club were to be seen at their work
d some canning, some knitting, ironing
a. sweeping, caring for babies, CARRYING tn
idea Of the club that this work is for tn
Ibetterment of the domestic home TIL