El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-03
QUIET fourth
IS PREDICTED

July 4. TIE anniversary Of the dec
laration OF American independence,
will be celebrated on July this year,
as July 4 falls on Sunday. The cele-
bration viii be quiel enough to salts
~ even Great Britain which is said
TO deplore the fuss we used to make
over the result Of the war Of 1875.
Banks viii close on Monday and
most Of the city's business houses.
Public offices will be closed. as will
the chamber Of commerce and the
railroad offices. The consolidated
ticket office will close at noon.
Celebrations will consist mainly in
amusements. Noise viii be al mini
mum. The biggest noise viii be- at
Fort Bliss at noon Monday. when the
SIND artillery's big guns will boom
forth IS salutes. one for each state
in the union Beyond this no con-
certed celebration will be held at the
be allowed to arrange such games and
exercises as their men show a desire
for.
over in Juarez the Mexicans will
show their respect Tor our patriotic
festival by giving amusements for
Americans There VIII ee automobile
races at the racec track and a bull
fight
Auto Club To Have Big Picnic.
The FL Paso Automobile club Will
celebrate with a picnic at the West
Ysleta country club. At 3 o'clock
Monday afternoon club members will
meet at the clubhouse. They will
bring their own lunches. but hot bar
becue and coffee viii be served
There viii be games and dance in
the evening.
camp Of the Salvation army rescue
home. orphans there viii be still more
joyful, for the 80 or more children
are going 20 have all the ice cream
and cake and sandwiches they can
eat and Ensign Ivy Oldenburg, matron
OF the home, said there would be
fireworks an everything The camp
is Is miles down the river and any
the orphans Monday afternoon and
celebrate with them.
Federal Employees To Dance
FL Paso federal employees will give
an Independence Day Ball tonight.
at Liberty hall. The committee on
srran rements is composed of ". J.
Murray. chairman; Henry N. Walker,
E. A. PloWman. George B. Slater,
Florence Brown, Jessie Mariner and
Tessie Doyle. william 7. Griffith Is
chairman Of the reception committee
and the publicity committee is COM
George Schicz and Leslie Taylor.
George B. Slater is chairman Of the
finance committee composed Of F. A.
PIowmau, c. J. Staheli. Lewis Car
nell. Perry P Young and Robert L
Blades. The hats and wraps COM
mittee IS composed OF Clinton Flynn.
chairman. and Joseph H Myers and
C Rittner.
An Informal concert and dance viii
be given Monday night at the Casino
Mexicano, EOS South Oregon street.
The program. followed by the dance.
will be as follows; address, Luis
Monies de Oca: piano solos, MIS-. Car
men Vidal de Garcia: citara, Luis 6.
Fernandez; fox tango, Miss Julia
Schuster and Pedro z. Rubin; Jzrabe
tapatio. Miss Mathilde Fal0mir and
L. Alfonso Celarde.
The city council recently granted
permission 20 several Fl Paso mer-
chants 70 sell fireworks until July O.
R. c. SemDle. acting mayor, has or
dered that all celebrations Of the
fireworks variety be conducted in an
orderly manner. and that the celebra-
tons must not occur within two
blocks Of a hospital. The explosions
OF cannon crackers and other noise
producers must be postponed until
Monday