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Show THE Glorious Fourth Miiford Will Appropriately Celebrate Nation's Birthday Outline of Interesting Program Milford will have a Fourth of July celebration. It will be a celebration in keeping with Milford's well-known ability to handle such affairs. The Home aud School Organization has been appointed to attend to the various details. The finance com mittee is to be commended for its sensible determination to provide in advance for all expenses so that there will be no deficits ic be met, uo carrying carry-ing of notes or drafts and no unpaid bills. What the committees buy will oe paid for in cash and the committee on finance will not be responsible for anything charged or left unpaid. The necessary tunds for the carrying out of the program have been collected. Tne day's program will open with sunrise guns. At 10 a.m. a parade will form on' the Bouth end of Main Street and proceed up to the High School. Dan Smithson will be the Grand Marshal of the day and will choose nis aides within a few days. The ordei of the parade will be published later. It is hoped and expected that every person owning an auto will tuke pains to decorate it and enter the parade. Prizes of $20 for the first prize and $10 as second prize will be awarded to the owners of the first and second most tastily decorated machines. . Floats will also be elegible to try for these prizes. It is hoped to have, as a feature of the parade, a company oi Boy Scouts in uniform, which company will perform the color drill at the High School grounds, as well as carrying carry-ing out several other maneuvers. Boys are being rapidly enlisted for this feature and preliminary drills are being held. At the High School Auditorium, Aud-itorium, at 11 a. m., a patriotic program pro-gram will be rendered. There will be an oration, also patriotic songs and exercises. Other features of the auditorium program will be announced next week. At l p. m. tnere wilt De sports tor the crowd, held on Main Street. There will be running, jumping etc., and prizes aggregating 25 will be offered. At 3 p. m. there will be a ball game at San Pedro Park. We are unable to announce this week just what club will oppose the home team,, but the management guarantees a snappy game. In the evening at 8:30, there will be a grand ball in the High School gymnasium. This is an outline of the dav's program and residents of Milford Mil-ford and surrounding territory should lay plans to be present and help swel, the spirit of patriotism which, alone, will insure a successful occasion. It is hoped that everybody and the dog will attend. Let's have the biggest, best and bulliest Fourth of July celebration cele-bration Milford ever had. Although it has been one hundred and forty-years since the nation began to walk alone, the spirit of '"76" is just as potent today as it was then; lets get together and emphas;ze that spirit. Watch the columns of the NEWS for any further announcements that may tie made and tell your neighbor about the plans, if he doesn't take the NEWS. Here's for a glorious Fourth. |