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Show IMt - SCHOOL PUPILS' DEMONSTRATION The parade and flag demonstration of the. school children of the grades and the .high school students and faculties was the first- feature of Wednesday after the morning shower, show-er, a day of patriotic demonstrations in Beaver county.. The parade formed form-ed at the school building and headed by a flag-covered auto in which the latest recruits from Milford Sidney Thayer ' and Gene " Pitchforth held the staff of a beautiful copy of Old Glory. The marchers carried flags and coming down the street the procession pro-cession had the appearance of ; a surging sea of billowy red, white and blue. At. the south end of Main street the parade doubled back and stopped at the Bank corner, where "America" and "The Star-Spangled Banner". were sung. This was a demonstration that the teachers have been urging ever .since the declaration declara-tion of war. ; Sidney Thayer expects to enlist in the coast artillery branch . of the service and Gene Pitchforth expects to join the navy. These" make three Who have gone from the local high sehool, the other being .Nate Smith, who left two weeks ago. |