Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-06-14
Every Cascade county soldier or sailor

Every Cascade county soldier or sailor
in the world war is wanted to be present
in Great Falls on July 4. That is the
whole hearted, enthusiastic and urgent
request Of the committee in charge Of
the celebration being planned for the
| Fourth Of July and which is to take the
form of a welcome home to the boys
who have been in the service. The plans
are fast taking their final form and at
the meeting last night, many Of the de-
| tails which will be announced in few
days were agreed upon. But the out
standing feature of the whole program
is to get every one of the boys who
wore the uniform in the world war to
come to Great Falls as the guest of
the committee for that day which it is
purposed to make memorable in the his
| tory OF Cascade county. The program
| is Cascade county one and merely has
| its setting il the city. The boys from
the farms and from the smaller towns
as we'll as the boys whose homes hap
| pen to be III Great Falls are wanted
| among those present that day.
| The committee In charge of the finance
| for the celebration last night reported
that it expected to have fully $4,000
raised by tonight The effort viii be to
| close the finance campaign today and if
I
| ed upon by the committee they may make
their contribution at the Commercial
| National bank any time today.
The committee last night arrived at
! point in its deliberations where it
could make a definite statement about
the fireworks The fireworks will all be
handled from a raft in Gibson lake by
| the fire chief and six of the members
of the fire department and these will be
! the only fireworks permitted within the
city limits that day. There is, therefore.
! no danger to be anticipated from the
/ fireworks. The amount. while not as
/ large as it had originally been hoped
will be sufficient to insure a splendid
attraction and one Of the best ever seen
/ in Montana 1t may be said that as 4
| feature of the fireworks. ". L. kenney.
president of the Great Northern railway
company, has offered to Chairman W.
E. Ward Of the committee on fireworks
! to furnish 1000 fusees, such as are used
! by the railroad company at cost of them
! to the company in wholesale lots and
] this will materially reduce the total ex-
nense of the fireworks display. These
/ fusees viii be gathered along the Great
Northern at various stations from Min
/ neapolis to Spokane SO that there will
be no doubt but what the number will
/ be on hand.
| The decorations committee and the
committee in charge Of the street dane
| ing will work in conjunction and when
the dance committee has fully determined
just what portion of the street it will
utilize for the street dance, the decor
| atoms committee will make that the
center Of the plan for decorating for
the celebration.
/ The barbecue will be conducted in
Earring park and It may be stated now
| The preparation of the meat for bar
becue viii be in charge of ". T: Bertke.
manager Of the Great Falls Gas COM
pany and as Mr.. Bertke has had ex.
perience in such undertakings, those OF
tie boys who get slice of the beef
which Mr.. Bertke barbeenes will be
certain Of getting something that is
| worth eating. There will be some mrge
ovens constructed and the heat will be
The concessions for selling flags. re-
freshments and other picnic privileges