The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-10
ARRANGEMENTS
 COMPLETE FOR ARMISTICE DAY Expect Aviators to Perform Stunts Over Heads of Marchers.
BEAUTIFUL FLAG
 FOR HARRIS POST
Medals Presented to Moth, CTS With Ceremony At
 Seaside Park.

A call has been issued for those who will be in the "Picture'' of the 1 "Gold Star Division of the Armis- l tice Day parade tomorrow afternoon, | to appear tonight for 8, full dress re- | hearsal. The costumes will arrive l this afternoon from New York and l the rehearsal is called for 8 o'clock at | the lodge rooms of the Women of the | World War, 1S1 State street, at 8 | o'clock.
 A special messenger went to New i York this morning to get the medals | which will be presented by the city 1 of Bridgeport tomorrow afternoon to | the members of the Gold Star Divis- | lon. Owing to the fact that many i extra medals had to be struck over | the number originally ordered there | was a delay in the delivery but they | will reach Bridgeport this afternoon ! and will be on display in one of the l store windows this evening for a few i hours.
 l Raymond W. Harris Post, No. 145, Veterans of Foreign Wars, rehearsed their part in the parade last night and the color bearers and guards were appointed and drilled by Sergeant
 Major William H. McRedmond. Post Chaplain Rev. c. Clark Kennedy, M. 1 C., who has been decorated by His 1 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
 for extreme gallantry under fire while with the British armies in France, | will be back in Bridgeport tonight and will take part in another rehear- sal so that he might faniliarize him self with the men who will be prin- 1 cipally concerned in the dedication and presentation of the new stand of
 colors to Raymond W. Harris Post, V. F. w
 The co1ors which will be presented by the City of Bridgeport cost in the neighbOrhood of $500 and are the high est standard of the f1agmaker's art. The standards are made of heavy triple silk, hand worked. The United States standard is perhaps the most beautiful flag ever seen in Bridgeport and the Post flag is on Royal blue with the legend, Raymond ". liar , ris Post No. 145 Bridffeport, Conn.
 Mustered in May 18th, 1919. Veterans
 of Foreign Wars ~ of the United 1 States" In the center is the emblem 1 of the order A maltese cross with sunburst at the back and the arms of the United States in the center sur rounded by a ribbon upon which is written, Veterans of Foreign Wars A special stand has been built at 1 Seaside park in the vicinity of the i s ,ldiers' monument where the medals | will be presented and near which the altar of drums will be erected from 1 which Chaplain Kennedy will conduct i the big open air service for the heroic dead of Bridgeport and for the bless 1 ing of the new standards of the Ray 1 mond w. Harris Post.
 l There has been a big rush for 1 the military ball which is being given ! D h, | Casino tomorrow night. Senior Vice Commander William S. Lynne, and Charles H. Rutan, of the ticket com
 mittee report that they cannot hand i the invitations out fast enough and ii i is expected that tomorrow night the l Casino will present an appearance
 seldom seen in any ball room in this i section of the country.
 Word has been received from Nit
 chell Field, Minneola, L. l., to the effect that Bridgeport will be bombed
 with literature from the sky tomorrow
 afternoon A squadron of airplanes
 will do stunts over the pageant as it
 winds it's way from Bulls Head to
 Seaside Park. Nose dives, spirals,
 loop-the-loops, side falls, zooms and many other thrille~s will be indulged 1 in by the daring army aviators who will be accompanies, by Lieutenant
 Al Sperry, of the British Royal Fly ing Corps The latter aviator will | take photographs of the pageant from the sky and these pictures will be printed in the local papers as well as
 New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
 Chicago magazines. There will be a large flock of movie camera men in the city also and the Pathe Weekly, Gaumont Weekly, Universal Weekly and the Hearst News Weekly will
 have the films of the Bridgeport eel ebration on the screens of every city, town and hamlet of the United States and Europe within a week or two. rrAr nr, ARI-yIp IINIyIIX