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A Great Day

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
June
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Saturday is to be children's day. Major Soule, assisted by the teachers and others, will act as eommander-ÍQ-chef. The hall will be handsomely decorated under the able supervisión of Messrs. Morgan, Eandall and others. Judge Harriman will act as president of the day, and Prof. Ren wiek as musical director. The exercises at the hall will begin at 2 o'clock. Short addresses will be made by President Angelí and Dr. Earp. The city band will furnish the music during the parade, and the Chequamegon orchestra will perform a like service at the hall. All children of the city are expected to join the procession whether they attend school or not. PROGRAM FOB PROCESSION. The court house bell will ring at one o'clock p. m., at whlch time all the children of the different wards should be aasembled at their respective schools. The sixth ward school, with the marshal and City band at the head, will leave thelr grounds at 1:15 p. m., and, passing through the University campus by the diagonal walk to Sheehan's corner, join Uie flret ward school, wnich will form behind them; going north on Statest, they will pass the high school where the procession will be Joined by tue eighth grade pupfls, who will form in the rear of the first ward. Thence the procession will go north to Boweryst, then west to División where it will be joined by the fourth ward, St. Thomas' and flfth ward schools in the order in which they are named. The procession will then move south on Divisiónst to Ann, west on Ann st to Fifth, where the second and third ward schools will form in the rear of the second división, in the order named. From this point on the procession will be complete. The line will now move south on Fifth-st to Huron, then west on Huron to Fourth, north on Fourth to Ann. west on Ann-st to Main, south on Main to Liberty, east on Liberty to División, south on División to Jefferson. east on Jefferson to State, north on State to main entrance to the University Hall. Each ward and school are expected to be prompt in joining the procession, so that there may be no delay. The first ward and eighth grade should time the starting in reference to the sixth ward. The fifth ward. headed by the Huron band. should start at 1:30, go up Broadway and Detroit-sts to División, up División and form behind the St. Thomas school, which should start at 1:45. The second ward should leave their grounds at 1:20, go north to Libertyst, on Liberty to Secondst, north on second to Catharine, here the third ward, which has started at MS, will form behind. The two wards will then move east on Catharine to Fifth, then south on Fifth to Ann where they will join the main procession. The Huron band will have a positlon in the rear of the fourth ward, Kach school will have a banner which will be carried at the head of the school The line of march has been planned with a due consideration to the comfort of the ehildren. Kverything possible will be done to make this day one of the most pleasant of their lives. It is suggested that ekizens, along the route of the procession, decórate their residenees and places of business, and in that way contribute to the pleasures of the day. Those who have teams and vehicles in the city, Saturday afternoon, are respeetfully requested to keep them off the streets, over which the line of march extends, at the time the procession is passing. By Obdeb op Committee.

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Ann Arbor Register