Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-03
 NORWICH BULLETIN wiliimantic QGice s1 Church Street Telephone 1Oe2

There viii be many drum corps in town today (Saturday). when the Odell M Chapman Continentals will stage their second annual parade and field day. The parade and field day will be held in the afternoon, closing with a dance in the evening at the town hall. Thirteen or more organizations in this state, Rhode Island and Massachusetts have so far accepted invitations to participate in the parade and the contest The following entries have been received: Windsor Locks Fife, Drum and Bugle; First City Fife Drum and Bugfe corps of Bridge port; Sons of Father Matthews Drum corps, Pawtucket R. l.; PIainviile Fife and Drum corps; Center Flute band of South Manchester; Eagle Drum corps of Moosup Assumption Piccolo band of Chicopee, Mass; Highland Pipe band of Westerly R. l.; F. A. B. Drum corps of Naugatuck; Manchester Kiltie band of South Manchester; Silk City Flute band of South Manchester; Talcottville Fife and Drum corps. The marshal of the parade will be Major James Guilford. The parade will form on Valley street at 215 o'clock, headed west The line of march will be west on Valley street, down Windham to Main, down Main to Union to Jackson to Main street to Recreation park, where the field contests will be held, starting at o'clock. The judges will be Ozra Hanks of Mansfield, Frank Fancher of this city and Harold s. Bald win of Milford. Twenty-one prizes have been offered in the 12 field events and in addition gold and silver medals will be awarded to the best appearing majors, also for baton swinging. The prizes are the most expensive ever offered at any field day event in the city. The cups
 
 dows of Leonard Bros garage on Main street. The field day is sanctioned by the Connecticut Pliers and Drummers' association. The chairman of the field day program is Peter LaChance, and the chairman of the dance committee, Joseph Nolan.
 All the corps from out of town are ex- pected to report at the Valley street armory. headquarters of the general and parade committees by 1 o'clock, to have the parade in motion at 230 promptly 1 The OdeIl M Chapman Continental Drum i corps was organized on July 12, 1921 less than one year ago, and in that short I time has acquired much fame and wor
 several cups in competition. Dhe firs
 field day was staged on Oct. 15, 1921.
 It was declared Friday that contrihu 1 tors must be more generous if the rais | accomplished. Many small contribution! have been received which nearly toucl 1 the S3,000 mark. This means that thos'
 who can afford more must do so if SIP, 1 900 is to be attained. The campaign 1 started off with more or less of a flurr! l with a s1 900 contribution from one in 1 terested citizen and a few donations o 1 S100 and some of $25o which gave tn l workers great confidence, but progres since then has been discouraging. Fred l erick Kaye, the executive manager of tn campaign, declared Friday that he di, not want this lack of spirit to cast an, shadow on the part of the workers an cause any lack of energy on their part
 as he felt confident that in time, whe the real need of help and the cause 0 the need was placed before the people they would respond and there would b no such word as failure. He related hi T experiences in the Hoover and other pa l1 triotic campaigns and said that the re
 suit was always the same-that is sue
 cessful. MT Kaye said: q cannot plac
 too much emphasis on the need of every
 one giving to this cause every dollar tha they possibly can. This is a campaig
 that will make history in the progressiy i life of Wiilimantic. It cannot, it will no 1 must not fail. When I say we are di! !
 buttons, I do not mean that the assoeii
 tion is not grateful to those who hay
 given to the best of their means Man 1 a contribution of a dollar means more , sacrifice to those who gave it tha
 S1e0 or more might means to others mol fortunately situated in worldly goods 2 It is impossible to tell the exact amoul that has been collected thus far as mar ' of the contributions that came in Frida 2 had not been tabulated. There will be 2 meeting of the campaign general con ( mittee Monday night at o'clock in Il
 Chamber of Commerce rooms, when a the reports will be received and plal z for the continuation of the campaign q C cided upon. Supper will be served prev c ous to the meeting.
 c Arrangements are being perfected f : the staging of the sixth annual SWart ' more Chautauqua in this city in Jul C Louis H. Arnold, secretary of the loc c guarantors, who is handling the corr l