The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-07-11

SUCCESS
FlREMEN AND MILITARY PARADE Wit
MESSED BY LARGE CROWD AUTO
MOBILE PARADE AND FIRE WORKS AT
NIGHT ON FOURTH--TANK DOES STUNTS
On SHORT STREET.
The homecoming celebration and
tremen's bazar is a thing OF the
past, but was one Of the most elabo-
rate affairs that was ever held i'm
this city. The town when the cele-
bratiOn was ready to start on Thurs
day evening was completely logged
in dress Of gaiety Of flags and bunt-
ing. Every store and many Of the
residences were handsomely decorat-
ed. 1t would be unfair to single out
any place as having the best decora-
tlons as all were good. On the
streets were pyramids decorated and
streamers with many flags were
suspended across the streets at diff
ferent points throughout the town.
AT the tiremen's building an immense
arch was erected with the word
welcome" painted ON large electric
sign and suspended under it, The
arch at st. Johns church was the
most attractive piece of work in the
town. 1t was erected on two pillars
with various flags and coIors of
electric lights with the words "God
Bless the Boys of Carroll" i'm large
gilt letters running from pillar to
pillar. In the center was suspended
a service flag with black stars donat-
ing the number of men enlisted,
among them was a gold star, one
hero paying the supreme sacrifice.
AT Carroll street Grace Lutheran
church displayed a large and pretty
welcome sign in red, white and blue
with this inscription, Grace Church
! Welcomes All Who Served" while two
gold stars represented those who had
made the supreme sacrifice and two
crosses for the two Red Cross nurses
and blue star and the figures 81
for those who served from that
church.
/ The program was opened Thursday
evening with a parade of fire COM
panies as follows: Westminster Fire
Y Engine, Boy Scout Band, Westminster
Fire Company, Hampstead Band,
fire truck and Hampstead Fire Com
pany, GlyndOn Fire truck and army
trucks with complete machine shop
and parts Army tank, American
built, which was in service i'm France
and has a number of holes in it's
armor plate showing that it was
struck
The big day, Friday, was a sizzler,
the thermometer registered 1O4 in
the shade, when our honored 1915
sons who served on land and sea and
air paraded from Bell Grove Square
through the city to the Fair Ground
hill for the memorial exercises.
There were held exercises dedica-
. tory OF the mile Of memorial oaks
planted along the Baltimore turnpike.
The record of deceased heroes was
read, and on each tree a memorial
plate, bearing soldiers name, was
placed by comrade. State Senator
Wade H. D. Warfield, presided. Rev
Thomas r. McGuigan, rector of St.
Johns Roman Catholic Church, made
the Introductory adress.
Cardinal Gibbons offered the in
vocation. Hon. j. G. Sanders, member
of Congress from Louisiana and for
mer governor of that state, made
the memorial address, Rev. Luther
3. Hafer, pastor of the Lutheran
church, of Taneytown, pronounced
the benediction- The singing of
America" Soldier Sons Of Mary
land" and "The Star-spangled Ban
ner' was led by DIR. Charles G.
Woolsey.
Marshals of the parade were Capt
John r. Weigle, Capt. Thomas Coo
nan and Lieut. Eugene Walsh.
Prominent among the mounted SOL
diers in the parade was Lieut.. Lloyd
Schaeffer, Of this city, who won the
CroiX de Guerre and many other
decorations by his brilliant achieve
ments in the air service in France.
His last battle was with eight Ger
man planes, and in it he brought
two OF them to the ground before
his own machine was wrecked. He
was seriously wounded sustaining
six major wounds, but succeeded in
reaching the ground within the Al
lied lines. In the parade marched
about 200 uniformed soldiers, pre-
ceded BY the Westminster Band and
followed by Washington Camp, No.
2, Patriotic Order Sons Of America.
of Taneytown, with the Taneytown
Band; a delegation from Myers dis
trict, with a truck loaded with uni
formed Red Cross nurses of the dis
trict chapter; the Carroll County
Cornet Band and about 30 decorated
automobiles.
After the memorial exercises the
parade reformed and maj ched to the
Court House Plaza, where the ad-
dress of welcome was delivered BY
the Rev. III. t. Elderdice, president of
the Westminster Theological Semi
nary of the Methodist Protestant
church and father Of Lieut. H. Lati-
mer Elderdice, OF the u. S. Artillery,
recently returned from France, where
he participated i'm the fiercest fighting
i'm the Argonne Forest
The ladies of the Westminster
Chapter of the Red Cross entertained
ali men in uniform with bount1ful
supper at the Armory.
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