Show on fourth of july morning the boys of Dougl aaton had a surprise tom marys brother saw it first drat it was a banner abarge a birge white ban nor ner which was was sV swung ung across the main street from tho the post office to the tha principal grocers opposite tom approached pro ached it curiously on it lie he read this legend FOURTH OF 01 JULY SPORTS tills this afternoon between tho the hours of 0 two and five oI lock we th e girls ot of douglaston Dou nou glaston will compete in racing lumping jumping and basketball on an judge rv kv ans meadow admission 23 cents for adults 10 cents for children LEMONADE frer FREB tom stood spellbound a second then ho he turned and ran straight for the house of his chum johnny driscoll lie stopped only a moment and tha that was to gaze over into the eva evans is meadow preparations for thu after boons event were already in progress A group of girls garlo were pacing oft off distances for tho the obstacle race and his cis c IS own slater sister was twining a 9 hurdle red white and blue bauo garlands and the ro going to do it up lancy fancy like girls do groaned toni tom to johnny johnn a tow low moments later in it refer reference grico to tho the paper garlands got get all the crowd said johnny dolefully I 1 sure thing acquiesced toni tom judge evans vans man had it dozen banners to put up and everybody ll see thein thebes There The ies sonly only one thing in our favor ho he declared and that Is the openness open of the meadow anybody can see tho races there without paying ud ad and of course some people will be mean enough to do it so it if they want to make money have a hard time while of course theres a fence around our place not that that will do us its any good it if the folks can find something else to sea see just as lively and that they dont have to pay for if they dont want to the only thing for us to do said johnny firmly to Is to got get all the fellows together |