Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-15
NEICHBORHOOD
SING NOVELTY
ATPLAYCROUND
Flag Day Appropriately
Observed by Evening
of Music

AT the community house at the
playground last night Flag Day was
appropriately observed by neigh
borhood Sing" the first occasion of
its kind to be staged since the estab-
llshment of the playground here. j.
Ralston Cargill presided and about
/ 100 persons attended, all of these
participating in the community sing
ing which featured the event. IN
strumental music was furnished by
an orchestra composed of Prof. Dom
aid Drunkenmiller, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
&. Johnson, Rev. Guyton Fisher, Will
Barlow, Egbert Clark, j. w. Mos
teller, Jr., and Carroll Clark. Vo-
calists who participated in the pro-
gram were Miss Melva Clark, Miss
Anna Murray, Miss Emmie Morgan,
Mrs, j. w. Harris, Jr., George o.
Marshall, Gordon Howell, r. P.
| Stackhouse, Jr., and Walter Tiede-
man.
The program began with com
munity singing, led by J. Ralston
/ Cargill, after the orchestra had rem
dered selections, and the entire pro-
gram was interspersed with the com
munity songs, rendered with spirit
and enthusiasm.
Quartets Sing.
/ A Woman's quartet, composed of
Mrs. j. W. Harris, sJr., Mrs. Frank
Anderson, Miss Emmie Morgan and
Miss Anna Murray, was the first
scheduled number. These ladies sang
medley of negro dialet spirituals
that was enjoyed by all, and Miss
Melva Clark then sang beautifully,
If You Would Love Me-" and
You're a Million Miles From No
4 where" her melodious soprano filling
the whole house with the volume of
its tones, and she was roundly en-
corcd by her hearers. A male quar-
| tet, composed of Gordon Howell.
/ George o. Marshall, Walter Tiede-
man and R. P. Stackhouse, Jr., then
sang Soft and Low" and as an en-
core, "Old Black Joe," the latter mel
ody particularly appealing to the as
semblage. The program was ended
with community singing, Loves Old
| Sweet Song" being chosen.
At the community club house on
the playground property tonight
there will be a mass meeting of the
friends Of the playground. The meet
ing will begin promptly at O'Clock
and the finance committee of the
| playground organization will have an
interesting statement to make to
those who are interested in the play
ground and making it permanent here
are urged to be present at this meet
/ ing, and after the business before
the meeting is disposed of an attrac-
| tive program will be rendered.
Parade in Afternoon.
In the afternoon the occasion was
observed by a parade through the
business part of the city, participat-
ed in by soldiers from Souther Field,
Boy Scouts and boys and girls of
the city schools. This column form
ed at o'clock at the Salvation Army
building. Gordon Howell, command
er, and John G. Hoist, adjutant, of
John D. Mathis Post, American Le-
gion, assisted in forming the children
and others in line, and Mrs. Frank
Sheffield and Miss Winans also as
sisted Playground Director Sherman
in the work of starting the parade.
Leading in the line of march,
which extended along Jackson street
from Church to Lamar, east on La
mar to Lee, north on Lee to For
syth, west on Forsyth to Cotton ave-
nue., south on Cotton avenue to La
mar, east on Lamar to Jackson and
south on Jackson to the point of be-
ginning were two squads of regular
soldiers from Souther Field. Follow
ing these, dressed in full uniform
and bearing proudly silken Ameri-
can flag, came the Americus troup
of Boy Scouts, with Scoutmaster
Silas Johnson at their head, and be-
hind these marched eighteen little
boys and girls, each carrying a small
! flag. Assistant Scoutmaster Herbert
Moon was at the Army building when
the parade formed but did not ac-
company his boys in the line of
march. Mrs. Sheffield, Miss Winans
and Mr. Sherman rode in an automo-
bile alongside the marchers.
The most interesting incident of
the march was the singing of ''Amer-
/ ica" in front of the Windsor Hotel,
where the parade halted long enough
to render this patriotic song. AL
joined in the singing and at the con-
clusion of the song the march was
resumed. The dismissal at the Army
building at the conclusion of the pa
rade was without ceremony of any
kind.