Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-09
HUNDREDS JOIN
IN THE BIG WAR
GARDENS PARADE
Mayor Keister Addresses the
School Children Who Take
Over Many Plots

In 1ulI garQen Work TeBalldt nun
dreds of school children marched
through the principal streets of the
Allison Hill district in a big cos
tuned school garden parade last eve
ming, to boost the school children's
victory gardens this year. Included
in the procession. were representa-
fives from each of the nine Allison
'Hili districts. forming an important
part of the pageant.
Clad in sunbonnets and gingham
aprons. caps and blue overalls. the
youthful tillers of the soil marched
dor one hour through the principal
streets of the Hill section. Starting
lat five o'clock, the marchers were
dismissed at Thirteenth and Derry
streets about six o'clock by Mayor
Daniel L. Keister. Mayor Keister. in
dismissing the procession, made a
few remarks as to the important part
the "war" gardens titled by the chill
dren. had played in meeting the food
situation during the war and urged
them as a quite important victory"
measure.
Returned soldiers. many of them
overseas veterans and some of them
wearing gold wound stripes on the
right sleeves. took an important part
in the procession and some of them
captained the marching units of
children. Military aviators. flying
far over the heads of the marchers
and onlookers. added to the mill
1ary touch of the big procession.
Two Big Tractors
Two farm tractors, each of them
nsed in plowing the ground and get
ting it ready for cultivation by the
children. which had done the work
under the auspices of the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce, were in
teresting exhibits of the procession.
They were driven by Miss Virginia
Watts and Miss Loretta File.
Each of the Allison Hill schools
were represented in the procession
by a delegation of children riding in
automobiles. Children from each of
the schools, riding, were:
Allison-Catherine Kahney, cap
tain; Catherine Meadoth. Thelma
Miller. Mabel Wright, Esther Gill.
Alice Householder. Lucille Appleby;
Pied Piper. Theodore Johnson.
Foose-wilma Roberts. captain:
Anna Holm, Eta Gordon. Susan
Hoyer, Mary Nossel, Mildred Martz;
Jack and the Beanstalk, Ralph
Foothorap; Farmer, Francis Price.
iForney-Esther AumiIleE captain;
Pauline Barracks, Pauline Fishman.
Lucille Parthemore. Lucille Smith.
Lucille Hahn; Guard of Honor, Paul
Warfield
Webster-Mildred Hartman, cap
tain; Catherine Beatty. Muriel
Slough, Ruth Bateman. Elizabeth
Erb. Elizabeth Upp, Ruth Giltner.
NIelrose-Mildred Daniel, captain;
Mildred Motter, Mary Hepler,
Eleanor Wagner, Dorothy Edmond
son and Mildred Yeager.
Lincoln Helen Eyler. captain;
Emma Fritz, Helen Gross; Virginia
Little. Amy Crawford. Leila Bean.
Each school Has Captain
Shimmell- Catherin Pellow, cap
tain; Dorothy shannon. Blanche
Robinson, Emily Lewis, Minnie
Sheets, Blanche Spetz, Thelma Tip
petit, Catherine Hartz.
Vernon - Catherine Bently, cap
tain; Dorothy Shank and Gladys
Heicher.
woodward-Mabel Buds, captain;
pennant bearers, Thomas Jones,
Lawrence Hess. Albert Miller. Geo.
Bennett, Theodore Selig, and Malcolm
Graeff.
Each of the schools We're captained
by outsiders. Some of these We're
returned soldiers and others We're
civilians. The soldier captains were
Sergeant T. L. Wolf, Private r. d.
Lantz, Private Tate, Sergeant Chas.
Snoddy, Russell McSwine, Private W.
A. Shuntz. Private Dan Warner. 9th
ers officiating as captains were Will
liam Tenny, Warren Reed and Dan
iel Page.
Rndish Farmers
Allison Hill children marched as
radish farmers, each one wearing
colors suggestive of that vegetable
Forney girls marched as lettuce"
girls; Lincoln children as "beets"
Melrose pupils as onions" Foose
boys and girls Deans Webster
youths carried huge heads of cab
bage; while Shimmell children wore
costumes suggesting turnips, Vernon
school children carried ear after ear
of yellow corn and Woodward chill
dren wore pumpkin streamers.
"Gardenism, not Bolshevism," were
the striking words borne on the ban
ner of one of the youths, a youth
wearing the Forney school colors.
Several striking representations re-
ceived much commendation from the
crowds VINO thronged the sidewalks.
Theodore Johnson marched as Uncle
SAM" and alph Foothorap, in pony
and cart, was Jack and the Bean
stalk" the stalks growing up the
rear of the cart.
Music for the procession was fur
nished by the Municipal Band which
marched during the entire parade
free of charge. 1t was under the
direction of its leader, Frank Blu
menstein. J. Frederik Virgin, Boy
Scout executive, directed the forma-
tion of the parade.