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Line of March Moving off promptly at 11 a.m.
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July 5, 1928
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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:
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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. |
FORMAL OPENING (continued from Page 1) 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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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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