Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-15
TWO TOWNS WILL
WITNESS PARADE
IN BIG WELCOME
Lykens- -WiconiscoC C celebration
For Soldiers Promises to
Be Successful Event

It's an assured fact that the Ly-
,kens-Wiconisco celebration is going
to be the biggest iiveliest celebra-
tion pulled OF in the State in honor
of the Homecoming soldiers If plans
go through the way an enthusiastic
committee are working on them.
Starting on the 25th of July and
continuing through the Goth and 27th
the big party will include everything
from baseball games to trench raids.
AL OF the soldiers in the two towns
are doing everything in their power
to cooperate with the committees
In an effort to make the affair go
off as smoothly as possible. They
have decided they will parade the
second day of the celebration. which
is Saturday and will not confine their
efforts to one town. but will parade
in both.
In Lykens the committee on deco
lrations is planning to have the town
all dressed up in it's best when the
time comes. Big arches bearing the
names of the divisions to which the
local boys belonged and the battles
in which they fought are to be erect
ed on East and West Main street. In
addition several lodges will put up
arches in memory of members who
have fallen in the war.
On Friday the 25th the morning
will be occupied with the service to
be held in the memory of the over
seas dead. A chaplain of the Sew
enty-ninth, the Rev. Paul d. Whit
Nryfn hn in oh of ha sol
vices. Chaplain Whitman is well
known to many of the local boys and
it was with the greatest enthusiasm
they learned of his participation in
the celebration.
H. e. Burlington, attorney of Ly-
kens, is the dynamo extraordinary
behind the celebration. Each day he
gets out q bulletin which is circulat-
cd about the town and sets forth :he
work which has been done and the
plans for further work, as we'll as
urging everyone to keep UP the old
pep" and drive right along until the
party is over.
Lieutenant Samuel Hoff is chair
man of the military committee and
he also is promising some very
good dope for his end If the program.
The opening day will see the mill
tary in full swing and the afternoon
of that day there will be staged the
big representation of actual war
scenes. 1t is planned to have all the
soldiers assist in the construction Of
actual trenches. barbed wire md en-
tanglements and all other things
which belong to an honest, self-re-
specting front line. And the trenches
are not only to be looked, at but will
be occupied by troops who knew
them when the air was filled with
something heavier than sky rockets
and confetti. The State is giving
every assistance to this committee,
and il is said that their program will
rival any similar attempt for a spec
tacular exhibition.
The acting chairman of the deco
rating committee. Frank Shambaugh,
county superintendent of public
schools, is getting his organization
completed and says he will have
everything in the town looking like
independence itself when the time
arrives. The arches are to lie erect
ed, according to a symmetrical de-
sign. Chairman Shambaugh is get
ting tfs cooperation OF the merch-
ants and lodges of Lykens. If any
thing is forgotten in the final wind
up it would will not be the fault of
the decorating committee.