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  Parade to start at 11 a.m. Sharp;      

                 Line of March

    Moving off promptly at 11 a.m.
Wednesday, what is expected to be
one of the largest parades ever staged
in Fayetteville will pass through residence
and business sections of the city.
Fifteen major floats, a band, mounted
police, and a battalion of National
guardsmen are included.
   Headed by a convoy of motor and
mounted police, the parade will move
down College avenue toward the
business section. Immediately following
the police will come Barr's band. The
remainder of the line of march will
feature three divisions, according to
Roy Adams, general chairman--the
military, the historic, and the patriotic.
   Batteries A and E, 206th Arkansas
National Guard, will be formed as a
battalion under Captain Jerome F.
Thompson, in charge of the military
section. There will be a truck convoy
with mounted machine guns.
   Five floats are contained in the patriotic
division, under V. James Ptak, and 10 in
the historic, under George Berson.
In the latter, each float will tell the story of
10 years in the life of the town.
All patriotic organizations are to be present-
ed in the patriotic group.
11:00 a.m.-Centennial Parade
Roy Adams, Gen. Chamn.
Parade will form on Sutton Lafayette
and Maple Streets, east of Washington
as follows:

Military Division-Capt. Jerome Thompson, Sutton St.
Historical Division-Mr. George Berson,
Lafayette Ave.
Patriotic Division-Mr. James Ptak,
Maple St.
         LINE OF MARCH
South on College to Center St.
West on Center to East St.
South on East to Mountain St.
West on Mountain to Block St.
North on Block to Dickson St.
West on Dickson to Arkansas Ave.
North on Arkansas Ave to Maple St.
2:00 p.m.-Band Concert-Barr's Band-City Park
4:00 p.m.-Centennial Pageant,
Trent't Amphitheatre.
8:00 p.m.-Band Concert-Kid Band-
City Park.
9:00 p.m.-Fireworks-City Park.

 

 

July 5, 1928


Five historic site programs are to
feature Thursday Centennial celebration
These will open at 10 a.m. at the
Sawyer school site and close in the afternoon at 4:00 at the Bloody corner. It unfortunately has been necessary to postpone the dedication of the grave of
James Leeper, Revolutionary soldier.
"Every marker erected to commemorate
a historical event , person, or place, is a
Talking Rock-a story writ in stone or metal
for all who take time to read, and an
attractive way of teaching history."

10:00 a.m.- Site of Fayetteville Female
Seminary, Mountain St., by the P.T.A.
Invocation-Rev. N.M. Ragland
Address-Prof. J.C. Massie
Dedication-Mrs. W. F. Dunn
Song-Miss Anna Mae Chandler
Unveiling-Miss Ruth Dowell
Music
11:00 a.m.- The Quesenbury - Hill
Home, Duncan St.
Music
Address-Hon. J. N. Tillman.
Song
2:00 p.m. -The Old Yell Home
South College Ave., by United Spanish
War Veterans
Address-Rev. J. H. Kelly
Albert Pike's "Beuna Vista"-
W. S. Campbell
Music
Unveling-by Mrs. Robert Jackson
3:00 p.m.-Site of Arkansas College,
at First Christian Church
Invocation-Rev. John M. Asbell
Orchestra
Hymn-"How Firm a Foundation."
Origin and History of Arkansas College
-Rev. N. M. Ragland
4:00 p.m.-Battle of Fayetteville
April 18, 1863, at corner of College
Ave. and Dickson St., erected by
Mildred Lee Chapter, U.D.C.
Story of the Flight-Capt. E.B. Harrison
Song-"The Homespun Dress" -
Mrs. C. C. Yarrington
"Old Tige"-Senator R. J. Wilson
Dedication-Mrs. P.M. Heerwagen
Unveiling by Mary Wood and Ann
Lawson.
Song-"Arkansas"-by girls of the
Caroline Dunn Chapter.

  Pageant to Open
             Promptly at 4 p.m.
                      500 to take part


   The pageant will be presented the
City Park amphitheatre by a cast
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at
the City Part amphitheatre by a cast
of 500 under the direction of
Miss Jobelle Holcombe, pageant
master. Presentation is expected to
take about two hours. There will be no
admission. Souvenir programs will be
sold on the grounds.
   Handling of traffic will be done by
members of Batteries A and E,
Arkansas national guard. All towns-
people are asked to park this side of
Lafayette avenue in order that visitors
may be favored.
The pageant program follows:


             The Prelude
Part 1-Dance of Nature
Part 2-Dance of Indians
Part 3-The Spirit of History and Fayett-
ville lead on the Hundred Golden Years
Part 4-The Arrival of Arkansas and
Colmbus.
Episode I-The Early Settlers
Episode II-the County Seal and the
Auction of Lots.
Episode III-The Development of Agri-
culture and Horticulture
Episode IV-Development of Business
Interlude-The Statehood Group
Episode V-Development of Industry
Episode VI-Development of the
Professions
Interlude-Negro Spirituals
Episode VII-Development of Religion
Episode VIII-Development of Educa-
tion
Part 1- Miss Sawyer's Female Semi-
nary
Part 2- Arkansas College
Part 3- Henderson School
Part 4- Fayetteville Public Schools
Part 5- University of Arkansas


                POSTLUDE
The Promise of the Future
National Hymn--America
The story of the pageant appears on
page four.
 

 

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           STORY OF THE PAGEANT
            (Continued from page 4)

son and Miss Dora Ford being two of
the best remembered. Since the early
seventies colored teachers have been
employed and the school has become
a part of the public school system of the
state.
   Before the Civil War private schools
had the favor of public opinion, but in 1871,
Fayetteville was made a special school
district. Members of the first board were,
President J. C. Massie father of Prof. Massie
J. E. Benbrook, H. C. Botefuhr, T. D. Boles, D. D. Storkes, and Charles McClung.
Schools were taught in rented buildings
and the old Masonic Hall until 1885
when Washington School was erected.
The development of the Fayetteville
Public Schools is evidenced in an early
record of "no building, three teachers,
and an enrollment of 125" and a present
record of "seven buildings, fifty teachers,
and 2000 students.
   The climax to Fayetteville's education
came in 1872 when the State Legislature
located on McIlroy hill the University
of Arkansas. The County of Washington
 and the City of Fayetteville because of their
 constant interest in educational progress
offered larger bonuses and better  advantages than other sections of the state
and thus was placed in our midst the highest
educational institution.
   Here upon our limited stage we seek to
represent the development of Fayetteville's
strongest social force in the upbuilding
of a state and of a nation at large.

                    FINALE
With such a heritage left to us by those
who have passed before and with such
substantial forces working at present
within our community and among our
people let us here again pledge ourselves
in faith and loyalty to the common weal of  the brilliant future which is promised by the 
rising generation to be educated, equipped and cultivated for the best that is to come
to Arkansas, and thence to America
and to the world.
 
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canteen), Confederate money, and the
pictures of some of the nation's greatest
warriors.
Old clothing in the style of generations
ago, glassed documents and letters,
Indian relics and scores of other curios
are crowded into the next room, where
candle moulds and a set of lamps and
other devices portray the "evolution of
lighting" on the mantle of the old Gray
homestead on Dickson street, which
was erected in 1867. Pots, kettles, fire
tongs, beautiful work in copper, brass
and iron, are on the hearth. A Souix
saddle blanket and an Indian woman's
belt, property of Miss Bell Blanchard,
hangs to one side of early prints of
famous Arkansas Traveler incident.
Godey's lady book, a combination
Emily Post and what not, property of
Miss Sue Walker, gives styles and
customs for the period from 1847-52.
By its side is a 112 year old dictionary
owned by W. S. Campbell.
In the kitchen, milk piggins, butter
molds, sturdy iron, crockery, are shel-
ved across from a collection of beauti-
ful old blue and white dishes, rare glass
and china. Industry crowds in with a
reap hook. There is an old salt gourd
belonging to Mrs. J. H. McIlroy.
In the back room old ladies are
sitting at the loom and spinning wheel.
In the bed room is a great old four-
poster bed with a trundle bed below,
the property of Mrs. W. J. Hamilton.
Her rare coverlets are displayed, and
in this room and the front room are
gathered most of the antique furniture,
the rarest of glass, old candlesticks,
pictures, dagguerrotypes.

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                      NOTICE
   Upholstering and refinishing; all kinds
of furniture repair work; 36 years
experience. Prices reasonable.
All work guaranteed. W. C. Miller,
900 N. College, Phone 92J.
Pearson Grocery.

  Here is the cherry chest of drawers, property of Miss Sue Walker, once owned by a
descendant of the Washington family.
Here, too, is a beautiful old cradle, chairs
nearly a century old, pictures and candelabra.
        The day's program follows:
"America"-Mrs. L. M. Holt, leader
Invocation-The Rev. N.M. Ragland
Address-Pioneer Days-Sen. R. J.
Wilson
Address-When I was a Pioneer-
Col. C. H. Sharmon
Arkansas-Mrs. L. M. Holt, leader
Museum is under auspices Martion
chapter D.A.R., old Episcopal rectory,
corner College and Lafayette avenues.
  Hours-10:00 a.m.--12 m.
             1:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The museum will close for the parade
and pageant.

 

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FRISCO SCHEDULE


Effective Sunday, July 1, 1928
                   South Bound
No. 709 Leaves-------------6:20 a.m.
No. 703 Leaves-------------9:40 p.m.
                   North Bound
No. 704 Leaves-------------7:07 a.m.
No. 710 Leaves-------------8:05 p.m.
     O. & C. C. Branch-Muskogee Sub.
No. 781 Leaves-------------4:30 p.m.
No. 780 Arrives------------12:10 p.m.

 

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     "Waxhaws" is name of the historic
home of Governor Archibald Yell still
standing in all its colonial beauty at
Fayetteville.

 

 

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