Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-03
viInu rAcEN TO BE SPEAKER
At INDEPENDENCE HALL
|c.,sdes, Picnics, Fireworks and
other Special Affairs Are
on Long Program

oInrn AT InUeDcHutu'C AAesh 49,
;s,ocI where nm impressive ceremony
~ been arranged by the committee OF
''H feature will be the reading Of the
n.caration of Independence by a
s,.duate Of Central High School. and
II oath OF allegiance, to be recited
X 1900 recently naturalized citizens.
THE exercises will open Mt 10 80
xclock, The program follows:
Song. "America." by 100 members
y Tho Fortnightly Club. under the di-
seton of Henry Gordon Thunder.
7 Invocation by the Rev. d. /. Sultz-
Music by the Police Band.
Reading of the Declaration Of Inde-
eendence by William Fritz Kennedy.
:. Pledge. Of allegiance to the flag.
Song by the Fortnightly Club and
Sslectlon by the Police Band.
Won Tagen to Mako Address
Address by Councilman Won Tagen.
chairman of Councils committee which
arranged the independence celebration.
Address by Mayor Moore.
Benediction by the Right Rev.
Henry Drumgoole.
The salute to the flag will form an
important part Of number of the
community and neighborhood celebra-
tions, when school children. and In
some instances the entire audience will
join in this feature. The pledge to
be repeated before the flag is:
~ pledge allegiance to my hng and
70 the Republic for which it stands;
one nation indivisable, with liberty and
Justice for ALL"
A program that will open at $3.50
A. NJ. and close with fireworks at
10 80 P. NJ. has been arranged by the
Island Road and Clearview Improve
ment Association, of the Fortieth
Ward School children will hold a
prominent place In this program, which
extends all through the day and is fea-
tured by baseball games in the morn
ing and afternoon, patriotic exercises
at 1:30 o'clock, and twilight ex-
Aibition of sports.
Oak Lanes Celebration
The citizens of Oak Lane have ar.
ranged an elaborate program. A
parade will form at the Oak Lane
library at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Following short march through the
streets there will be q meeting at the
library with speeches, community sing.
ing, refreshments and the distribution
sf gifts to children.
In the afternoon there will be ath.
letic games at Sixty sixth and Lawn
ton avenues and n baseball game Mt
Sixteenth street and Sixty eighth ave-
hue. A band concert and fireworks
will complete the program.
Approximately 2000 children will be
guests Of the South sixtieth Street
Improvement Association ut their
twelfth annual celebration.
There will De parades, sports, re-
ffeshments, band concerts, moving pic
lures and dancing.
The Combined Citizens Committee of
the Thirty-th hird Ward, will hold it's
second annual community picnic Mt
!uniata Park. X and Cayuga streets,
tomorrow. Athletic contests have
Deen arranged for the day for which
many prizes will be awarded.
Children to Take Part
children In patriotic dress will take
part In a parade at l 30 p. NJ, in
Nicetown and will be entertained at n
special matinee as guests of Joseph
Iegler. There will be prizes for floats
N the parade and for the athletic con-
tests that will follow.
A"e ro'terall IarR ASSOCIATION Will
nave its annual demonstration In the
PARK at Eleventh and York streets. a
osoy parade and contest will be part
q the program. There will be seventy
ave prizes awarded to the boys and
girls in the contests and to the win.
hing babies.
!, The Tabor Fourth of July cclcbra-
uon, for residents in the district
bounded by Fifth and Seventh streets
and Somerville and Nedro avenues, will
consist OF parade and civic exercises
N the morning. The exercises will be
neld In the Tabor Reformed Church.
Inc parade will form at Sixth and
Chew streets at o o'clock. Athletic
events and baby parade will be held
u the field at Seventh street and Olney
e'enue In the afternoon. There will
evening.
siegel Expects 10000 Visitors
More than 10000 persons are ex.
pected to attend the Fourth of July
exercises of the Siegel Home Town I'M
ProVement Association, which will he
ned largely at the playground of the
association in Cobbs Creek boulevard,
cetween Washington avenue and Chris
tan street.
AT $50 the members of the associ.
stion, their families and guests, will
meet Nanneman's band at Sixtieth
Nreet and Washington avenue, and
parade to the tlagpole at the foot of
carpenter street, for the flag raising.
en- address will be made by NJ. II.
orTSse,te, president of the association.
Following the flag raising, there will
sports Tor the children, a band con.
ssrt, an automobile parade to Fair.
mount Park and an entertainment for
tVoO children will be given in a large
vent on the playground.
flylng stunts by Jack Redmond, an
Amerlcan ace, will be held late In the
srhoon and then will follow the for
~ai exercises of the day.
n Crowning Of the Fourth of July
Naeen VIII be the principal event of
w celebration to be staged by the
EEoDos EoO Creek Parkway Home Associa-
plaza. '' ofeeA runaway
Inc sherwood section of Cobbs Creek
srk s. mas planned n twelve hour pro-
am which will open with a baseball
aHme at 10 a. NJ, and the dancing in
Nne evening on the Parkway will con-
ha hue mhtil midnight. The events for
oe children will begin at . 80 Il. NJ,
c'saD we followed by the patriotic exer-
0.a0 a 4. NJ, and fireworks at
n,.NNwSnns u%wns in Delaware County also have
row sn extensive programs for tOmor-
Ito wS;"h nre yleing with each other us
The sxa,si snaii nave the largest display.
a. tI''I.ses wtI' at Highland Park this
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