The Monroe journal., 1922-11-14
BY HARRIET S. BEASLEY

By HARRIET S. BEASLEY
Monroe's name was not Monroe
Saturday-it was Mecca, changed for
a brief period that honor might be
done the celebration that is a reaf-
firmation of our faith. Mecca it was
for thousands of people throughout
the county, who gave over their
farms, and whatsoever they were en-
gagged in, locked their doors and
came. 1t was Armist;ce Day.
More than ten thousand people
crowded the streets to witness the
fourth and greatest armistice day
celebration staged by the Melvin
Deese post of the American Legion.
The crowd was q colorful and en-
thusiastic one which jammed every
inch for blocks around the square. II
was a sober, good-natured crowd. too,
with no disturbances happenen.ng to
mar the day, not an automobile ac-
cident of any consequence occurring,
and with a noticeable absence of the
drinking that has characterized some
of the previous celebrations.
Henry Grow, to whose efforts the
parade was largely due. Gillian
Craig, Post Commander S II. Lee,
Hamp Price, Adjutant 0lin McManus
and the other Legion boys in charge
of the celebration, are being shower
ed with praise for the fine occasion.
Sharing honors with them is Mrs.
Gillian Craig, who headed the dinner
committee.
Beginning with the historical pa
geant, on through the speech by j.
w. Bailey, the dinner, the football
game and ending. with Judge w. o.
Lemmond's fiddler's convention. the
day was success and second only to
the visit Of Marshal Foch in local
history.
One Great Occasion
Beginning promptly at IL o'clock,
the parade in the nature of histori-
cal pageant, led BY Chief of Police
J. W. Spoon and Benjamen Gill and
George Griffin, members of the Mel
win Deese post bearing the American
flag and the post solors, and followed
by the officials of the post, Sam Lee,
commander, 0ln McManus, adjutant,
and Horace Williams, finance officer,
moved slowly through the streets, de-
picting scene after scene Of success
sive notable events in the history of
our country. First was the Indian
period of America arranged by the
Union Drug Company and showing a
wigwam and mode of life among the
Indians. Representing these red peo-
pie were Misses Hilda Simpson, Thel-
ma Furr, Lila May Tharp, Eula Mil
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Covington Secrest and Master David
Morgan.
The Indian mode of transportation
came next, gotten up by the Lake
Tonowanda Amusement Company, in
the form of canoe, in which was a
young Indian girl, represented by
Miss jamie May Shannon, being shov-
ed of into a lake of water by anoth-
er Indian, Miss Annie Heath Red
fearn.
TIE third, next in order, depicted
the coming of the Pilgrims by the
Myers Lumber Company
Belk Brothers presented Washing
ton Crossing the Delaware, which
was quite realistic with its ice-pack-
ed boat on which was Washington
ley, John sLee Austin and Coy Har-
gette.
Pretty ID. A. X. Float
One of the prettiest floats was the
d. A. X. scene arranged bv the Hen
derson Roller Mill In this, dressed
as ladies' Of that period and gracious
ly presiding in supposed-to-b be
Hat II
Griffin, T. p. Dillon, and Misses Mary
Blair and Ollie Alexander, the last
representing Priscilla, gracefully
turning an old-fashioned spinning
wheel.
Harry Coble, dressed as Andrew
Jackson sitting on bales of cotton with
his soldiers, Bobby Morrow and Alex
ander Crowell, vividly recalled to the
minds of the spectators the spectac-
uar and heroic figure who made his
tory in his routing of the British at
New Orleans.
Days of '49
The Days of 49 came next with
the Skies Company portraying the
gold rush TO California. This float
was a family in a covered wagon,
with two horses hitched to it and
I driven by Will Funderburk. The wa
/ gon had in it and tied on it all the
miscellaneous possessions of a fami-
/ ly of that time, mostly cooking uten-
sils, and tied to the rear partly lead
By two boys were two cows. Pre-
ceding the wagon was Bob May on
horseback as a scout for the family
composed of Mrs. Frank Rose, Misses
Jane Austin Skies, Betsy Lee Skies,
Ashe Bennett Skies, Frances Green,
and Anna Lawrence Redfern.
| The second float arranged by the
Henderson -.eller Mills went under