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Saturday, May 7, 2022

Labor's Home Coming for Disabled World War Vets, Monday Through Friday, May 7, 1922

Labor Festival Event Gets Underway at Auditorium Monday Night

All is set for the formal opening of the “home coming” celebration Monday night at the city Auditorium.

The week’s events planned and executed by the Charlotte Central Labor Union, will be given for the benefit of the local chapter of the Disabled Veterans of the World War.

Several prominent persons, including Lady Astor; Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor; Tom Watson, United States Senator from Georgia; and Cole L. Blease, ex-Governor; have been invited to speak during the week. Nothing definite has been heard form any of those invited.

Dancing and vaudeville acts, six in number, will provide amusement features each night at the Auditorium. Tal Henry’s orchestra, now furnishing music for the O’Henry Hotel at Greensboro, has been contracted to play every evening.

Many entries have been filed in the fiddlers, banjoists and mandolin players’ contest. Monday night for the fiddlers, Tuesday night for the banjo pickers and Wednesday night for the mandolin players have been tentatively agreed upon by the committee.

An added feature of the home coming is the contest now in progress for the most popular girl and the ugliest man. The winner in the girl contest will be awarded a $200 diamond ring and will be crowned queen of the carnival. The ugly man will be given a jewel case. The presentation will be held Thursday night.

An old-time country store and concessions will be provided in the city building.

From The Charlotte News, May 7, 1922. Coleman L. Blease was governor of South Carolina from 1911 to 1915 and then U.S. Senator from 1925 to 1931.

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