The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-11-06
TO OBSERVE
ARMISTICE
DAY HERE
Community VIII be Asked to
Knock off Business for Half
Day Tuesday.
SPECIAL TRAIN TO PAScO
Committee Plans to Celebrate in Pas
co in Afternoon and in Ken
newick in Evening

newick in Evening
E. M. Sly is Kennewick's star cell
brator. Last year when the fake q,
mistice report came over the wire
Sly mounted a dry goods box on Sc
cond street and announced: ever
going to celebrate tonight" And "
did celebrate, even, tho it was know,
that the report was false. Then o,
Armisice night year ago Sly shool
the whole countryside with explosion
Of dynamite and just kept right o.
exploding while the preacher was try
ing to offer prayer. At Wednesday,
Commercial club luncheon when Mr.
Sly said 3Next Tuesday is Armistice
Day and ] think we should celebrate
everybody chorused, "Sure, let's cele-
brate," and plans for the celebration
were on.
Guy j. Hayden, B. E. Reser and Kit
Clifford were named q committee to
outline plans, and since then things
have been moving fast. While the
time was too short to make any extern
sive plans for celebration, by this
evening details were sufficiently
worked out to assure a fitting observ-
ance of the international holiday. The
first disappointment came when the
committee attempted to engage the
Pasco band and found out that Pasco
was going to celebrate also. The
Kennewick and Pasco high schools
play football in Pasco Tuesday after
noon and the committees effort to
switch the game to Kennewick failed !
also. 1t was then that the committee
got busy to work out plan whereby
the two towns might join forces in cell !
ebrating.
- The program as announced by the
committee tonight is this: A special |
train will be run to Pasco, leaving here
at l:3O p. m. Everybody in Kenne-
wick and the Kennewick countryside
is asked to be aboard equipped with
plenty of colors and noise making col
ors. At the Pasco station a line of
march will be formed to the ball
grounds where there promises to be
some roofing for the home team. The
special will return to Kennewick in
the early evening. The returned sol
diers will be guests of tho community
At a dinner In the basement of the
Congregational church. At 7:30
here is going to be an Illuminated pa
'ade thru the business streets to some
'hosen spot where there will be a huge
'onfre with songs of home and camp
md battlefield, with possibly a short
'atriotic address.
After the bonfire the people will be
rec to attend the Armistice Day ball
which Robert Ely Post of the Ameri-
an Legion is giving in the K. of P.
all. The Legion boys have been pre-
airing for this dance for several weeks
nd it promises to be one of the big
est social affairs ever given in the o
ity. (
The committee urges that every ex- h
ervice man wear his uniform both af- +
ernoon and evening. Every man mlp
inform or wearing the service but v
On will receive passage on the spec r
u train, free admission to the ball
anne and a free supper in the evening. O
An effort will be made to close the b
'wn up tight from noon until eve c,
ing and to induce as many of the r,
'untry people as possible to come in e.
nd enter into the spirit of the cele- S,
ration. AS Armistice Day has been C
reclaimed a holiday the schools had te
lanned to close all day, but Supt. ii
offman may decide to hold school
ntil noon that all of the pupils may
assembled ready to take the special
ain if they desire to do so. If this Of
done the committee plans to ar w
'nge with the bus drivers to make ia
extra trip to take home after the M
'ecial returns those children who go th
Pasco. al