Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-21
MEMORIAL PARK
FUND WILL Be
SOUGHT today
$500 Children Parade in Behalf
of Campaign; Big Sub
scriptions Needed.


Committees representing the
Rotary Club, the Chamber of Com
merce and the Advertising Club to-
day will stage a whirlwind campaign
to raise $4,000 for the Memorial
Park.
The committees will make start
from the office of Chairman J. II.
Means, 116 Pine, at 8 o'clock, and it is
hoped that by night the entire amount
will have been raised.
The fund will be used in making
the purchase and providing for the
initial improvement in the park, 81
acre tract on South Cherry near the
Country club. Subscriptions must
be One-fourth in cash, and the re-
naming three fourths in three pay
ments, due January Is, March Is, and
May Is.
The canvassing is the elimination
Of months of preparatory work on
the park project witch was launched
! by the Rotary Club. Recently the
| Chamber of Commerce and the Adj
vertising club put their shoulders tn
the wheel and the park association,
the organization which will hold the
park in trust for the public was
! formed. Each subscriber to the
initial fund becomes a member of
this association and his name will be
listed and kept on the records as one
of the founders of Pine Bluffs first
amusement park.
The eliminating preparatory
movement in behalf of the project
came Yesterday afternoon when more
than $500 school children paraded
the streets behind a band. carrying
banners and raising bedlam with
horns and whistles. 100000 people
and no place to 60" eve need park"
these were some of the slogans ca--
ried on large streamers.
If any Pine Bluffian doubted the
necessity for a para and saw yester-
days parade of children he has little
doubts now, one of the COMMITTEES
members sair last night. He echoed
| a general statement. The array Of
Pine Bluff youngsters was an impos-
ing one and brought hundreds of
business men and women from their
desks to the sidewalk to witess it.
Following the parade, the children
who had been dismissed for the after
noon, were guests of the Hauber
theatre. Members Of the Ad club
who had personal charge of the par
ade included Roy Kehnell, Jack Bern
hardt, O. c. Hauber. F. C. Barbig.
Fred Vining, Bob Etter, and J. ".
Andrew.
"While no one, no matter
(hat his income is, ia barred from
giving, we can't put the campaign
over without some large subscript-
IONS" Chairman Means declared last
night.
| Committees in Charge.
"Pine Bluffians must realize that
they must come in heavily on this
proposition. It is one that will be
Of great benefit and no one shou!d
shirk the responsibility. Little dona-
tions from the little fellows will help.
However, we must have some big
ones"
Practically all OF the public and
private schools were represented in
the parade with the exception of the
First Ward school. The children Of
the First Ward school were lined up
at the school ready to start but street
cars which were to transport them
to the starting point on West Sixth
failed to arrive. through no fault Of
the committee in charge.
Headquarters of the campaign are
at the office Of j. Harvey Means,
116 Pine street; telephone 906.
| Those looked to for obtaining SUBJ
scriptions from persons in different
occupations are:
Cotton firms-T. j. Collier and DR..
j. I. Norris. Newspapers, painters,
wall paper and paint stores-J.
Frank Franey.
jewelers., queensware and music
stores-D. G. Maxey.
Ice plants and bottling plants-R.
z. Louthan.
Attorneys, county and city Off
cials-H. X. Toney, w. T. Wool
bridge and w. F. Coleman.
Business establishments west Of
Olive street-W. c. McBryde and
Homer Reynolds.
Business establishments east Of
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