Fourth of July
Celebration
By J.E.S. Thorpe
The thought has been expressed by a number of people that we
should make the coming Fourth of July an historic one, and in order to obtain
the ideas and suggestions as to how best we can celebrate this eventful Fourth
I hope everyone will give some thought this year towards making it a glorious
one.
I think we can do well by duplicating some of the ideas
carried out last year.
In order to give the men in the works who are engaged in the
operating end of the business an opportunity to enter into at least one part of
the celebration, we will divide the day into three parts—the morning,
afternoon, and evening. In this way our friends in the Carbon Plant and
Potrooms will have an opportunity to participate in at least one portion of the
program.
Fourth of July, 1918, we could not enter into the sports
with the enthusiasm we would like to have had, because our brothers were
engaged in a death struggle in France; but this year that unfortunate phase of
the situation is happily over, and the boys in France will engage in and enjoy
the day as much as we will at home, and we can throw our whole energy into it,
with the gratification that it is a dual celebration of our independence and
that of the rest of the world.
We will form committees to take care of the various parts of
the program, and it will be of considerable aid to these committees if we can
get some suggestions from the people of Badin for a happy day.
I do not intend to outline the program in detail in this
article, as that will be left for the various committees, after the suggestions
have been received, but I do hope that everyone will take part in the
celebration in at least one of the three divisions of the program.
It has been suggested that we invite the people of Albemarle
to participate with us, and I think this is a very happy suggestion.
The general sports, I think, we should hold in the morning;
the baseball game in the afternoon starting about 3:30 or 4 o’clock; and then
the evening celebration after 8 o’clock. This will allow all the men in the
potrooms and carbon plant to join us in the major part of the program.
All wishing to participate in the various sports, will
please see the committees, to be appointed, who will take their entries and
make arrangements after they have outlined their part of the program.
It is hoped that everyone will do what they can to make the
coming Fourth a happy and successful day.
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