The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-04-28
EVENT OF RARE BEAUTY
N DAWSON NEXT FRIDAY
NUMBER OF ATTRACTIVE
FLOATS WILL BE IN PARADE
NEARLY A MILE LONG.
WILL CROWN QUEEN SPRING
narces Athletic Contests and Baby
Chow on the Program. Booths Will
Supply Balloons, Candy and Other
Thines Usual on Such Occasions.

Supplv Balloons, Candy and Other
Things Usual on Such Occasions.
The Nav Day Festival, which is
sponsored by the Parent-Teacher AS
ISOLATION and the American Legion
,txjlary and will be held next Friday
81 Nav LIST. promises to be one OF the
BIGGEST events in the way OF enter
tannent that has occurred in Dawson.
The program will begin at o'clock
Friday afternoon with a great parade
Of gorgeous floats representing CIVIC
a organizations of the county and bust
ness firms of Dawson and other towns;
The festival is being advertised
throughout this section, and a great
n crowd is expected.
Many Floats Assured.
It is now assured that IS floats will
aopear in the parade, which will be
led bv the Dawson Concert band
with the Boy Scouts forming an es-
cort. The civic organizations will be
represented in body. The mammoth
parade will begin and end at the
school campus, forming beautiful
cavalcade nearly mile in length. 1t
will pass through the principal streets
II of the downtown district and make
complete circle of the city. Floats
n Already entered represent the Ameri-
can Legion, the PARENT eacher Asso-
cation, the Legion auxiliary, the Boy
Scouts, the Terrell County Boys Cot
Tan club. the Woman's club, the d.
A. R. and the U. D. c., the Kwanls
u club the Palace theatre, the Ku klux
Kan. Herod, Pleasant Hill and Par
rott It is believed that seven others
will be in the parade. .u
Following the parade, which will be
spectacular, the festival Will Degn'
large circle on the school campus
will form the arena where the pro-
gram. which will consist OF dances
and pageants. will be enacted, and
about the remainder of the spacious
grounds various beautifully decorated
and attractive booths will offer enter
tainment and pleasure to the visitors.
Candy, balloons, whistles, streamers
and everything that goes'with occa-
sons OF this kind will be found al
R the booths.
Will Crown Queen.
The early part of the festivities will
witness the arrival and GROWING
+ 4of Queen Spring. Autumn Will be
portraved by the second grade OF the
e school in suggestive costumes OF
brown and green, and Winter, repre-
sented by the third grade likewise IN IN
appropriate costuming OF white, VIII
be banished by the Queens heralu'
Clayton Owens, who then VIII uStei
in that resplendent lady with hel
maids, who do her homage IN the
form of an appropriate dance, sum- M,
mer played by the sixth grade, VIII
& then appear, and Spring Will De
crowned queen and ascend her throne
ia beautiful structure, accompanied by
her maids. pages and flower girls
Summer will send appropriate gifts as
homage to the Queen, and RAINBOW
portrayed by Miss Evelyn Marlin
will do lovely aesthetic dance. ne
Sunbeams. the seventh grade; the Sun,
bonnet Babies, the first grade, and
the Flowers and Butterflies, the tenth
grade girls, all will give appropriate
dances. The first act will close with
the Mavpole dance by the eleventh
grade girls -
Miss Flora McRee, who was by
popular vote elected Queen OF May
will have as her maids Misses oseph,-
inc Hunt, Virginia Peddy, Beverly
4 Adams. Ann Martin, Ella Frances
Jones, Martha Lamar, Garden Bell
Ella Mae Hollingsworth, Ruby Har-
rlS Sadie Beasley, Martha VIII Ietty
nd Tho will be
Masters Frank .McNulty, Erie locke
lrr and Tom Grimes, jr., and the now W,
er girls will be little Misses KUN
MNonts, Allene Cooke and Lucile
Grimes.
Various Spectacular Dances.
The second act of the program VIII
oPen with a drill by the Boy Scouts,
siter which Uncle Sam, played, by
Minor Lewis, and America, played by
= Lucille Woods, will usher in the differ
tnt Dances The fifth grade will dance
Americas Own" the fourth grade
The Dance OF the Little Wooden
EhoeS' and the ninth grade The Fan
irritation" and Americas Original
lance, in colonial costume. The jap
snese parasol drill by the eigth grade
Nill close this feature of the program,
Nhlch will be followed in quick sue
esSlon by a series of athletic events
ma nc, baby show. The athletic trials
Vii consist of 10O-yard dash for
oys' 60-yard dash for girls, sack
aee Tor boys under 10 years OF age,
u au three-legged race for boys OF
years and over. Prizes will be
".SS i in each contest.
ne baby show will be one of the
o4 interesting events of the day
a-is 1Propriate prize will be given the
a.snest, prettiest, cutest and all 9th
Sa'sTlatiYes possible for a baby.