Courier Democrat., 1919-06-12
Soldiers Reunion
Next Wednesday
Full Days Program Will En-
terrain Crowd of Visitors
All Day Long

spared by anyone in connection with
this 4vent to make it worth while
for at least 10, 600 people to attend
and honor the men from the service.
The affair will be handled by the
combined efforts Of three committees
which are as follows:
Local Executive Committee: B.
E. Groom, D. w. Baldwin, A.
Sparllng, W. F. Bonar and John
Mahon. r. T. Burke is the secretary
and Robert Murie Treasurer.
Liberty Loan Committee: Elias
Porter Of Calvin, Louis Schneider Of
Mt. Carmel, Henry Soil of Wang, L.
Lockhart of Iona and John Wild of
Milton.
County Commissioners: r. B.
Laing of Milton, Louis Rose of Lang
don, Neil Nicholson of Calvin, Sam
Iverson of Alsen and Robert Hunter
of Olga.
The Program for the Forenoon.
Assemble at 1870 a. m.
Parade from city to fair grounds.
The parade will include bands from
Milton and Langdon as we'll as band
men from all band organizations of
the county and it is assumed that
the massed band will include about
seventy five players. Steps are also
being taken to secure a number of bag
pipe players.
Infaddition to the soldiers and citi-
zens in the parade there will be floats
representing the Red Cross, Colum-
bia, heavy artillery and tanks etc.
The program at the grand stand
will include an address of welcom e
to the. returned soldiers. S. j. A.
Boyd will deliver this address and
the response will be made by Cor.
Harold Drowley, Of Sarles. This
address will be followed by a patri-
otic address by Attorney Rolla F.
Hunt of Devils Lake. R. B. Laing
chairman of the board Of county
commissioners will preside at this
program.
For dinner hour, local conditions
are such that it is almost impossible
to arrange for a grea public dinner.
All persons coming to the reunion
must bring a big picnic dinner as nc
meas will be served at the grounds
and the hotel facilities in Langdon
are inadequate for such an occasion.
The committees in charge of this re-
union request the Liberty Loan COM
mittee in each precinct in the county
to ascertain the number of soldiers ir
the precinct. extend an invitation
to them to this reunion and see to it
that they are invited, to have dinner
with some family from their pre-
cinct.
The Coffee Brew-Cook William
L. Rourke, who served for a yea,
and half with the 10th Trench
Mortar Battery, will direct the big.
gest coffee brew ever attempted ir
this part of the country. The plans
now made aim to have everything ir
readiness to have great watts of hot
coffee brewel ready to serve al
the conclusion of the program. Each
picnic dinner basket shonld include
cream sugar and pitcher in which
to get the coffee. The coffee will be
free, but don't forget to bring the
pitcher and cream and sugar.
Afternoon Program.
); Organization-At one thirty in the
afternoon the ecldiers will be re-
ouested to assemble at the grand
strand for the purpose of organizing
some form of Veterans Society TO,
Cavalier county.
Sports Program-The program OF
sports for the afternoon will be under
the direction and control of the SOL
diers. A full two and one half hours
program is promised and this will
include flag raisings drills. a regular
Soldiers Field Day including races
of all kinds, boxing bouts, pony
!, races, novelty team races and other
stunts to be presented by the soldies.
The AeropIanes-The big feature
attraction for the day will be thrill
ing presentation of an areial battle
} put on by Bacon and Forseth of Grano
} Forks. who have purchased two army
flying machines and will be here
with both machines to show all o.
the maneuvers of battle in France.
The two machines were shipped from
New York last Tuesday by express
and Mr.. Bacon telephoned that tn