The Monroe journal., 1922-11-03
he is BUT ONE OF MANY
ATTRACTIONS OF THE DAY
Judge Lemmond and His Fiddlers Will
Close What Many Believe Will
Be Greatest Celebration
MRS. MARTIN TO PLAY HARP
WITH A THOUSAND STRINGS
Henry Crows Parade Certain to Out.
shine All Previous Attempts; Pag-
cant to Depict History of This
Country From Its Foundation; Air
pplane Flights During the Day

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Parade Of Confederate and World
War veterans, historical pageant
depicting rhe history of America,
speech b. J. ". Bailey, free dinner
for soldiers, spectacular airplane
flight, football game between Monroe
and Kings Mountain high schools and
old-time tiddler's convention in the
evening. briefly stated, is the program
of the Melvin Deese post of the Amer
lean Legion's fourth Armistice Day
program. to be staged here Saturday,
November IL.
The festivities of the occasion start
with the parade, slated to be the best
ever seen in Monroe, and end with
Judge W. q. Lemmond's old time
fiddler's convention. The other events
will be sandy ched between these two
star attractions.
This doesn'I mean, however, that
the attractions are not in the stellar
class. The speech of Mr.. Bailey,
an avowed candidate for the gu
bernatorial nomination two years
hence, promises to attract statewide
attention, and is real head-liner for
any North Carolina celebration.
Order of Parade
Mr.. Henry Crow, chairman of the
parade committee, is getting up a
parade that promises to excel Ring
ling Brothers circus parade in sur
prises and number of attarteions. He
has exerted himself to the utmost in
making this a real feature. Sol
diers of three wars, the Confederate,
Spanish and World War
will occupy places of honor in the
parade, then will follow floats of the
historical pageant, as arranged BY
Mr.. Grow:
Indian float, by Union Drug Com.
pany; canoe, depicting Indian method
of travel, by Lake Tonawanda
Amusement Company; the Mayflower,
BY Porter Myers Lumber Company;
spirit of '76," name of donor to be
supplied later; Washington Crossing
the Delaware, by Belk Bros; the Bat
tie of New Orleans, by Gordon In
surance & Investment Company; float
representing the Indian war period,
in which General Custer was massa..
cred, BY Skies Company; the Civil
War, by Henderson Roller Mills; the
Merrimac, by Henderson Roller Mills
(the Confederate soldiers will march
behind the Merrimac, their famous
war vesseD; Theodore Roosevelt and
his Rough Riders, by Monroe In
surance & Investment Company;
Kaiser Bill in his Glory Back in 1914,
by j. II. Fowler & Company; French,
English and Italian soldiers, by Mon.
roe Chero-Cola plant; Secretary OF
War Baker drawing the first draft
number. by j. +. Milliken and the
Heath Morrow Company; the draft
board examining American boys for
service in France, by r. B. Redwlne
and DR.. S. A. Stevens; canteen work.
ers, by Mrs. A. L. Monroe and the
Monroe Coca Cola Bottling Company;
American transport carrying soldiers
to France, by Monroe Ice & Fuel
Company: Negro stevadors unloading
in France, under direction
of Major w. c. Heath; Forty
Hommes and Cheaux," French
box car, by Federated Shop Craft;
Y. NJ. C. A., by Lee & Lee Company
and NJ SIS Annie Lee and Lura Heath;
Flanders Field by Monroe Hardware
Conn any; Gold Star Mothers, Kai.
ser Bill in November 1919, and Lest
We Forget" by Efird's Department
Store.
Biz Fiddler's Convention
Judge Lemmond's old-time tiddler's
will be the biggest event
of its kind on record. He has al
ready secured the promise of num-
Der of famous fddlers to attend,
among them beng: A. j. Smith Of
Bethune, fiddler; j. c. Mungo Of
Pageland, Carl Meyers Of Wadesboro,
Burt Hunter of Taxahaw, and A. J.
Taylor of jefferson, famous banjo
pickers; ]. V. Vinson of Charlotte, a
great buck dancer and fiddler; Marks
band from Steel Creek; w. j. Cren-
shaw. Van Wyck fiddler; Rudolph
Haywood and his band from Marsh
Vile and H. H. Trull, Unionville
idoler.
Two big attractions will be Mrs.
c. H. Martin Of Polkton and her gold.
en- harp of a thousand strings and
an old-time ba,n dance.