The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-25
TO CELEBRATE
FOURTH O. JULY
Races, Fireworks, Tent Shows
And Other Lively Events

A Fourth of July celebration without
the usual. accompaniment OF dust, dis
comfort and thirst to mar the pleasure
of the day is promised for those who
come to this city Monday, July 9TH for
celebration of Independence Day. Pub
lie drinking fountains are now being in
stalled in various parts of the city, and
an abundance of benches and chairs will
be placed upon the court house green
for the comfort of the city's guests at
the big festival. A rest room for ladies'
in the Hinton building will be in charge
of a lady who will look after the we'll
being of the feminine visitors, and give
| them any desired information, while sim
liar rest rooms will be conducted at the
| City Drug Store and other readily ac-
cessible business establishments here.
The program now being prepared for
the Fourth is declared by those in charge
| to be the best ever arranged for a SIM
! liar festival in this part of the State.
| 4 fireworks display over Pasquotank ri
yer on the night of the fifth, which will
cost around $3.50, will be perhaps the
finest exhibition of the kind which North
| eastern North Carolina has ever seen.
The parade in the morning will include
a competition between % OF more dec
Grated automobiles for prize of S5e
tawarded Jointly by the Tidewater Auto
4 mobile Association and the Southern Mo
4 torist, and the winning carr,
the emblem of the Association through
out the day.
An old time fun1naking feature o.
| ohrof of
days will be revived in the ragamuffi1
parade. in which prizes amounting t'
$50 will be awarded for the most ridi
culous costumes. Many contestants. ar
expected to take part in this feature o
= the days doings. Morning and after
noon baseball are promised for the de
4 votees. of the great American sport
: while a racing program which will be
i gin at two o'clock in the afternoon offer
t especial attraction in view of the fac
y that an 1S-foot paved brick boulevar
: connecting with the city paved streets q
G the foot of Road street assures read
and comfortable access to the New Fai
Grounds for motorists. No parking fe
will be charged at the grounds, and tn
E racing association gives assurance ths
" the dust nuisance of former years wi
II be entirely done away with.
j. There will be two days of the race
h. On the first day, Monday July 9th, thre
10 horse rates and bicycle race, the latte
X for about $500 worth of prizes, will
70 staged, and on Tuesday two horse race
70 and five mile automobile race, in whiC
X any four-cylinder car may enter. II
~ only entrance condition is that entri'
ID be made by Wednesday, June 80. Me
,r ville's Comedians, clever vaudeville pc
in formers, will be here for the enti
of week of the Fourth, and will stage the
clownish antics in huge $1O,O60 te
theatre. Theg are in no way to
ciassed with the usual street carnival
II which are forbidden to appear here
edict of the local Board of Aldermen
IISS In general, everything practicable W
-, ~ be done to make the stay of Fourth
81 July visitors here this year pleasant a
NC comfortable from every standpoint, a
" especial attention will be shown to t
lady visitors to this city, who have be
Gu the severest suffers during previo
l'e Fourth celebrations here. The -Four
program, which is now practically col
plete; promises something doing all ds
and indications point to the biggest ]
dependence Day festival ever staged
this section.