Goldsboro will be insured against rain July fourth.
Home Coming day is responsible for this extraordinary protection against the behavior of the elements.
Plans already made call for the expenditure of goodly sums of money to make the Independence Day event about the greatest thing that has ever happened in the great history of Wayne county. It would be all kinds of a calamity for the old J.P. to start to weeping that day.
Thus the insurance. And it is possible for individuals who county so much on the big doings, to get insurance against disappointment by the same rain—that might come.
Speeding Up Preparations
Following the announcement yesterday that former Governor Robert A. Cooper of South Carolina is coming to make the big speech on the big day, the special committee in charge of the home coming celebration met yesterday afternoon and turned its attention to other details, such as mule races, bike races for negroes only, baseball games—serious and burlesque—barbecue and pink lemonade.
Keeping the HOME sentiment in the foreground, the committee decided to have the ball game between two Wayne county teams—Fremont and Mount Olive. The two teams are reported to be qualified to put out a first class exhibition of the National sport.
Then, of course, they will have coming right behind them the equally engaging contest between the Elks of Goldsboro and the Wayne Post, American Legion, team.
The Free For All Race
It was definitely decided yesterday afternoon to have the free for all bicycle race with participation limited exclusively to colored entrants. Like the mule races, and the horse races, which precede the frolicking kind, the bicycle free for all will be run at the Wayne county fair grounds. Advice came to the special committee yesterday that the expert decorator who had been engaged to give the firecracker touch to Goldsboro for the occasion will arrive here on June 25.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, June 15, 1922
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