The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-07-11

sized nm the crowd and saw how nard
Il would be to make them all hear,
SO he only spoke a few minutes ana
asked if he could not come here some
time and speak in the town hall. he
was impressed with the gathering ana
the parade and the spirit OF tne oc-
The Red Cross ladies served dinner
and SIMMER for the soldier boys which
thew said was a fine treat The base
ment and tables were so prettily dec
nrated in red, white and blue. Inc
following boys were present; wafer
Rohde, who just received his dlscnarge Is
papers from the navy, Clarence Eonae, %
lanes and Tom Hogue, the iatter "a,
home for a few days from Camp Sner-
man man, Earl Brasse, Lloyd Ganyard'
Steve King, Dwight and Perry smith,
Gia;r Cadmium, Will Gall, Merrill Nor
ton SYDNEY Gray, who just came BACK aH
from France the day before on q ~
day furlough; Ed. and Ear Gipps' aps
Verne and Handy Miner, ALVIN 1lpIs' S
Clark Aylard, Urban sherman, ASH
lev Stearns, Ed. and Walter CaWrse,
Inward ny Chapman, Carl Rau, Roy
Retsecover, and Howard Stephenson OIL
e +he Rod Cross. A few other boys from
otbar 9TH nlaces also came in-one a boy
home home on a 30-day furlough, who is
staying at barracks in Akron. ne ~,
returns to France again, put oyoney
Gray has been transferred 10 d h@Vi-
cation field in Illinois.
Tn MI. Moxley's remarks ne sald.
.We claim no land in France. Our
bows so far have come back all rignt,
tho Wilson Stephenson IS sun a.
Havtii: Carl Richie, Earl French,
! Hairy Brant, Will Laukhauf, Walter
and Fred Zoschnick are still across"
Our parade is one long to be re-
membered, for it surpassed our eX-
nectations and was well prepared.
There were eight floats, First was
our band boys, then B. brainard )
oxen hitched to wagon and IN !,
rode Warner Stevens and wife dressed
in the period of George Washington,
and held an easel upon which reposed
Washington's picture. Next was {,
team of horses drawing a decorated
wagon containing our 1861 soldiers,
Harvey Miller, Albert Marshall, Al,
bert Evans and Charles Brandow ano
Lincoln's picture was on the side: Nex1
was a float of the battleship Maine
with McKinley's picture on the SIDE
Z, and in it rode Ed. Srp, Will Steinle
Clyde Tibbitts and Bob Loder from
Strongsville, who were the Spanish
American war veterans. linen came
; a float carrying some OF our boys II
the late war and they were followed
bv the remainder on foot. Then ther'
was Mrs. Charles Leinseder's auto
all decorated up and she carried Re!
| Cross ladies, followed by Mrs. Carol
Damon's auto, decorated and carryin,
more Red Cross ladies and Ernes
Wilkey had his machine 50 cannou
, flaged that it represented a Red Cros
, auto. in which he carried little girl
dressed as nurses and they had
!. patient on a stretcher. Then followe
t the Grange float which was to repre-
e sent the farmer who feeds the !ant
t G. H. Damon, as Uncle Sam; Mr.
e Bell Beutel as Columbia and Grar
e Tillotson and Mrs. e. c. Miner a
e harvesters. A float had Freda Johr
: son as Goddess of Peace blessln
e Uncle Sam who was Dorothy Perkln
a This scene was very pretty. A tio'
a advertising Telling's ice cream an
f coco cola was bower of roses wit
a Marian Perkins and Irene Kellar il
r dulging in each.
d There were also nine young wome
S. mounted on horses, then two por
n carts decorated well. Then came
c. decorated auto and an old milk WACO
ID an auto truck with mule hitch'
ic in the back pushing it and a bugs
n, wheel for a steering wheel. A bal
al buggy was also in the parade, high
D. decorated and clowns and about
S, dozen boys dressed in overalls al