Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-02
Big PARADE ENDS
NATIONAL BOYS
week OBSERVANCE

"A colorrul parade of $500 boys and
girls Of the Waterville and Fairfield
schools, yesterday afternoon marked
the second and concluding day of the
Observance of National Boys Week
in this city. It was such a parade as
has seldom been witnessed in Water
vile and the throngs of spectators
enjoyed the affair fully as much az
dld the many youthful marchers. The
weather for the parade was ideal the
ram OF the previous day having done
away with the dust and there was
a cool breeze blowing.
The event was under the direction
Of committee of members of the
George N. Bourque Post of the Am
erican Legion made up of HI. C. Mar
den, William Mansfield, Lyle Stanley
and George F. Hendricks and they
and the teachers were largely res
ponstble for the smoothness and pre-
cision with which the parade was
conducted.
| About $50 O'Clock the streets in
the vicinity of Post Office Square,
from which the itinerary Of the par
ade commenced, started to fill with
groups Of students from the various
schools. waiting to take their place
In the line of march. At o'clock
the boys and girls, the majority of
them provided with flags, were form
ed in an orderly line and the head of
the parade started down Main street.
BY the time that the leaders reached
Silver street onto which they turned
the greater part of the marching
body was just getting into action and
the street, as far as the eye could
reach, was occupied by the orderly
file of the boys and girls who will
some day come to direct the destin-
les Of the country.
The colors were carried by color
guard Of Boy Scouts accompanied by
the two Waterville troops and they
led the parade. Following them
| came the band of the senior high
shool leading the students of that in
stitution and its martial music had q
noticeable effect on the military or
der in which the boys and girls
marched. Next in line were the
students of the Junior high school,
then the North Grammar youngsters
followed by those of the Myrtle street
school.
| The students Of Lawrence High
school of Fairfield, led by their band
were the next in order and they were
followed by students of the st. Fran
els and Notre Dame converts and oil
the South Grammar school.
! The parade offered an interesting
study in kids and there were multi
tudinous contrasts in the marching
hoard. Some Of the paraders, those
in the high school contingents. yerg-
ed onto six feet in height while ir
the primary school battalions some
were as short as the stats of the f1as
they carried. Democracy also was
glorified by the parade and the sons
land daughters Of the well to d.
marched happily beside the .Joung-
sters whose fathers don't know
where the next pair Of shoes is com.
ing from.
r. The route Of the parade dowr
Main street to Silver. over Silver t
Spring. up Spring to Elm. over Elm
to Temple and down Temple tt
were divided. half of them going t.
the City Opera House and the othel
half to the Haines Theater where
free motion pictures terminated tn,
celebration for this year.
lmented after the shows were over OF
the orderliness of the children ant
they felt gratifIed that the boys ant
girls had manifested so much en-
ljovment in the performances.
Drew T. Harthorn. the principal o
Coburn Classical Institute. welcom
ed the large audience to the Haine'
land in his short address he urget
1.-THE younger generation to stay II
school as long as 1t is possible TO
them to do so. At the Opera Hous'
the welcoming speech was made b.
Leon o. Tebbetts. former mayor o
the city. He welcomed his audience
lmost heartily to the theater and h
expressed the hope that the bows ant
girls would make the most of thei
opportunities to grow up to be good
useful citizens, as he knew the.
would.
The work OF getting the large aud
fences seated in the theaters wa
well done by Ira Belyea at the Haine
lTheater and by James L. Boyle a
1.-THE Opera House. The chairman o
1.-The committee in charge Of the BOYS
Week was George A. Johnson. TIL
program was under TIE combined
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