Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-07-10

have about gotten their float COM
pleted. 1t will depict the latest in
furniture. The manager hasn't heard
yet from Watt Long, Watt McNair
or Hale, but we feel sure these three
Rockingham furniture merchants will
be on the job with good furniture
floats.
Jim Stephenson is laying awake
nights planning for an elegant float
for Stephenson Belk-and we venture
it will be good one, too.
There ought to be hundred bicy-
'cles, nicely decorated, in the parade.
Three dollars is offered for best deco
rated. The bicycle riders will be as
signed a special place in the parade,
and they will ride two abreast.
The Woodmen with 400 members
and Junior Order with 200 will make
a fine showing in the parade. Keep
your eye on these fraternal bodies.
That water fight, watermelon con-
test at o'clock will be worth seeing.
Raiford Terry and Billy Poplin are
veterans at the nozzle; twill take
stout heart to snatch a melon with
these two guys a-watching.
The Red Cross ladies can always
be counted on. They will have not
just one, but two and probably three,
floats. The Home Section float and
the Canteen float. They don't do
things half way, either.
The town will swear in a dozen
extra policemen for the day. The
best of order is to be maintained. De-
tectives will do a little quiet search
that day.
A miserable feeling it is to come to
big gathering and be not able to
get ice water. That will not be the
case here. Every store will have
free ice water, and the Boy Scouts
will serve it free from their tent in
front of the courthouse.
The program begins with big
band concert at $3.50 a. m. The Ice
morlee Band of Monroe is good one,
of 20-odd pieces. The Rockingham
Band is right up to scratch, and de-
livers the goods.
The manager is determined to keep
things moving all day. The program
provides for that, don't you think?
A sign on a business mans door
reads, "Come in without knocking,
and go out the same way" That's
the way we want the folks to feel
next Friday. You are cordially well
come to the city, and we hope the
enjoyment and attractions will be such
that you will leave in a pleasant
frame of mind, determined to come
again when occasion offers.
No cars will be allowed to "park"
on Main street, or from Stephenson
Bek corner to the postoffice. Cars
can traverse these streets, but must
keep moving. This is done in order
to protect the visitors.
The cotton mills around town will
be closed the 18th and 10Th. Every
person from the villages is invited
especially to help welcome the serv-
ice men.
All three of the daily papers are
expected to have special staff CORE
u spondents here the 18th. w. 7. Bost,
. of the Greensboro News, has accept
ed the invitation to be zone of us. i"
Cars can be parked to rear of the
school building. The city will have
an officer detailed for the purpose of
guarding these cars.
The ladies will find rest rooms over
McNair's furniture store, and at the
Presbyterian Sunday school. Ice wa
ter and conveniences. Bring the kid
dies and rest them there.
Aeroplane flight scheduled for 2
o'clock.
The Camp Bragg ball team is a
good one. Old college and ex-league
players. Game begins promptly at
$3.50. Service men admitted free,
Admission of 25c and 35c charged
for others.
I'm! I'm! That barbecue dinner
will be a good one. Barbecued NUT
: ton, pork and beef; Brunswick stew;
lightbread, biscuits and cornbread;
pickles, bevo, coco-cola, pepsi-cola;
block Purity ice cream, cakes and
4 plenty Of watermelon. ,
Three colonies of State regiments
and the Governor of the State. Nc
celebration yet held has had such dis
tinguished company.
The only unwelcome persons not
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