The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-06-11
KENOSHA TO HAVE
ITS CELEBRATION
American Legion to SpOn-
sor Gigantic July Fourth
In KenOsha.
STARTING PLANS NOW
Name G. E. Bickford to Be
Chairman of General Com
mittee for Fourth.

A Fourth of July celebration whose
magnitude and scope will be in keep
ing with those sponsored here in
other years is being planned for Ke-
nosha next month, and already work
is under way in the appointment of
committees to serve in completing ar
rangements for the day.
The American Legion will take the
lead in sponsoring the celebration
again this year, and it has elected
George E. Bickford, city recreation
director, as general chairman of the
days festivities. Bickford handled
the celebration last year and the sue
cess of the affair and the clock-like
regularity with which it was staged
was the deciding factor jim asking
Bickford to take the reins again this
year.
Preliminary conferences with every
civic and business organization i'm the
city have been held in which Bickford
has placed before them a tentative
sketch of what is being sought for
Kenoshans on July 4. All of these
have expressed willingness to CO.
operate with the American Legion to
the fullest extent Of their ability and
the enthusiasm which has already
been stirred up augurs we'll for the
whole-hearted manner in which the
event is to be staged this year.
All To Take Part.
The Legion celebration will be a
city-wide affair, according to present
plans. The entire community will be
asked to take part. There will be
the usual parade in which every or
ganization in the city will be repre-
sented if possible, and there will fol-
low an afternoon of patriotic enter
tainment and program at Lincoln
park, with a gigantic fireworks dis
play in the evening.
1t is recalled that last year over
10000 persons took part in the after
noon celebration, and in the evening
over 10000 persons gathered about
Lincoln park in every possible space
to watch the $1,000 exhibition of
pyrotechnics also staged by the Amer
lean Legion in cooperation with the
business men and manufacturers of
the city.
Bickford has asked that every civic
and business organization in the city
be represented on committees which
will be asked to shoulder the brunt
of the preparations for the big event.
The success of the work of last years
committees, and the unstinted spirit
in which they gave their time and eff
fort has given the Legion the hope
that these men could be prevailed up
on once more to assist in putting it
over.
Accordingly Bickford has made the
following committee appointments:
Program committee. A. Foster,
Jr., chairman, of the Kiwanis club;
Charles H. Goodman, Rotary; Herbert
Sawyer, Optimist; Arthur B. Ames,
| Optimist; Herbert Swenson, American
Legion; Richard Francis, Downtown
Business Mems associations; William
F. Joerndt, Kenosha Advancement as
ISOLATION; Jay B. Glerum, school
board; Victor Miller, American Bust
ness club.
Finance Committee. w. Holub,
Kiwanis club, chairman; Joseph G..
Rhode, Downtown Business Mems as
ISOLATION; Conrad Shearer, Wisconsin
Manufacturers associations; John
Kitzrow, Optimist; Charles Anderson,
Rotary; Tom A. Sullivan, Kenosha
Retailers association; Horace j. Mel
lum, Manufacturers association;
Joseph Josephson, West Side Pro-
motors association; Anton Mica, Ke-
nosha Advancement association.
Grounds Committee-Floyd A. Carl
SON, American Legion, chairman; Jes-
sci Whyte, Legion; Dan o. Head,
Rotary; Thad Logan, Legion; Fred
Priddis, Department of Public Works;
| Al Lindemann, Kiwanis club.
Publicity Committee-Ralph Kings
ley, chairman; Chester M. Jeff, Opti-
mist club; Lawrence Baldwin, Keno
sha Retailers; L. C. Thompson, West
Side Promoters associations; Irving
Dunlop, American Business club.
The first meeting of the general
committee has been called by George
Bickford for the city council cham
bers at the city hall on Monday after
noon of June s, at 1880 o'clock. The
committees will then be given instruc-
tions and a general idea of the scope
of the celebration.
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