French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-10

Some OF the Cages

contents of misery would take too
much space, would put too great 2
burden upon thex overwoched Merg.
One cage. was marked "SomeIGdy's
Darl1ngs," but-p one could imagine
who that somebody cou!I he. They
dlont look to belong to anybody,
much. There was an abundance of
red and yellow paint decora ting the
countennces Of all the candidates.
while some of. them were wearins
their clothes inside out and some of
them weren't wearing many clothes
of any kind Bob McLain of Asheville
was mounted the wrong way on a
jackasS. Mr.. McLain is a stout man,
the day was warm, his seat was un-
comfortble. He was heartily applaud
ed by the big crowd of specttors.
One of the most enjoyable features
of the parade was the exhibition drill
by Oasis patrol. The men wheeled
and turned and performed the most
difficult evolutions imaginable, ana
the applause was most generaUs. They
seemed to move with the regularity OF
clockwork and for half an hour COM
manded the entire. attention of the
thousands lining the sidewalks.
The social function Of the two days
consisted of the opening dance ct the
Carolina, Terrace in honor of Poten-
tate R. J NobIeyS ana the daiice on ii c
lawn at Park Hin in nonor of the visit
ing Shriners. The street dance on
Main street in front of the city hall
on the night of July Fodrt1 wa; 4
most popular feature Of tho Jay, the
music being furnished bv Oasis lem
pie band, which, by the n-Ht, ccntII-
buted very greatly indeed to the
pleasure of the ceremonial
Trip to StOney
On Thursday afternoon about forty
motor cars filled with ladies of the
visiting Snriners went to Stoney
Mountain, where they were the guests
of the Stoney Mountain company.
To many of them it was new exper-
ience and the memories OF what they
saw from that great height Will !org
remain with ther
There was an abundance. of fried
chicken and boiled ham and all other
good things necessary for the thoE-
sands of visitors. All this food was
nrepared in the immense kitchen OF
the Kentucky Home, where they have
a way of frying hundreds of chickens
in one hour and of boiling hams just
right in wholesale quantities. AS IN
dicating the cooperative spirit exist
ing here it may be mentioned that the
Kentucky Home made no charge what
ever for this appreciatiye service.
The weather was magnificent. The
day was warm, but cool mountain
breeze tempered the heat. Looked a;
merely from an advertising point o.
view, the Shriners' convention was
worth many, many thousands OF dol
lars to the city. For everybody had
a good time, and it is taken for grant
ed that everybody left the town with
pleasant memories. When next they
nlan for a vacation the memories o.
the good time had here will Suggest
that they come to Hendersonville.
The Decorations
The street decorations, both day
and night, were fine. There was
liberal display of bunting stretched
across Main street, with here ano
there flags hung out to the breeze.
There were hundreds of additional
street lights, and to these were addeC
shriner emblems, many of them loan
ed by the Shriners of Asheville.
The newspaper publicity received
has been universally commented upon
About thirty Southern newspapers
carried stories about the event. Ihe
Asheville Citizen certainly was most
generous in its handling OF the
stories sent from Hendersonville.
The Absurd Franks
OF course, there is pup >se the