The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-07-08

1t has been a number of year
since Union City took the field i
Fourth of July celebrations. Their
was time when one of the larges
crowds ever ceen together in tow
of the physical proportions of thi
municipality, was assembled in Uniol
City on the Fourth of July. 1t wa
an occasion when the celebration o
independence Day was combines
with q reunion of Confederate vet
Grams, together with the spectacula
effects of sham battle. DR.. Turner
the celebrated parade manager, ant
j. H. Mcdowell were the promoter
of the enterprise. The principal bus
mess thorofares of Union City wer,
actually crowded to the extent tina
passage was hardly possible until tn,
parade had dispersed. From tn,
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
to the courthouse it was solid anC
practically compact mass of humani
ty. The crowd was estimated by som,
of the most conservative men a
twenty thousand.
Last Monday another big GROVE
came to Union City. 1t was not by
any means as large as the one jusi
mentioned, but it was much larger
than the most sanguine of our cit.
izens had anti cipated. 1t was an evi.
dence of the fact that Union City
had the power of bringing the people
together as of old.
This leads us to the thought that
tho we have not attracted such i'm
mense crowds of people to visit our
doors for a number of years, the
young people here have entered the
movement on very different scale
and, If not keener enthusiasm, they
have exhibited a finer perception of
the quality and standard of enter
tainment in the development of the
home carnival.
This home carnival is by far the
most interesting and the most sue
cessful of the Fourth of July pro-
grams we ever have had, judging
from the interest manifested by the
visitors this week in Union City.
First and foremost, going back to
the exercises of the day. we had the
opening salute of guns at sunrise and
then squad firing later on in the day.
The Hornbeak Band, fine organiza-
tion of young men in white uniforms,
made it's appearance on the streets
before the parade.
This year the absence of DR.. Tur-
ner, as grand marshal of the day,
was to be regretted on account of his
illness. But the presence of Col.
w. G. Watts, in the uniform of the
Governors staff, was compensation in
large measure. Col. Watts was an
imposing figure, as he rode with his
escort, Marshal Noah, and Officers
Roberts and White. Next in the line
of parade coming down First street
was the float of the Union City Motor
Implement Co., produced under the
direction of Mr.. Grover Schleifer. In
the line were a number of fine floats
in national colors and draperies, as
follows: The Milton Talley Post,
American Legion; the Confederate
soldiers in cars decorated and placed
in line by Cecil Moss, Norman Stone,
J. A. Prieto and Max Harris; the
County Highway Department, with
the tank tractor and heavy road ma
chinery, on which Supervisor j. W.
Buchanan, Judge S. R. Bratton, S. A.
McDade and Commissioners Hugh
Smith were seated; the w. C. T. u.
white ribboners; the First Christian
Church Sunday school; the American
Red Cross; the Lions Club with roar
ing shouts; the Overland Sales Co.,
with fine sedan; the Reynolds Pack
ing Company in two sections; the
Drug Co.; the Dietzel |
Produce Company; the r. H. Rust |
Fordson tractor; the blue car and the
Jimmie Boyd Playhouse calliope;
sabin, the photographer. There were
numbers of private cars also and the
inc proceeded to the monument and
back again.
The band was taken to the park
ind number of gentlemen acting as
/ reception committee appeared on
he platform.