OFFICIAL PROGRAM OF JUNEAU FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION: (Cont. from Page One .)
The official program of the celebration in Juneau is as follows- American
Region Smoker, with Butler-Culleh fight as the headliner, at A* B* Hall, this
i Tnurscay.) evening£ Friday (toniorrow) at 10:00 r.fu, annual parade, th3 liwe of
march forming ac the Jmiral Dock, proceeding to Front Street, to Seward, -lien . 3
to Third, dov/n 'Third to franklin ana dorm Franklin to the intersection with
Front street uhere it will disband* At 11*00 a*ra. patriotic exercises will he
held in the Palace Theatre*
At 12:30 p.m. the sports section of the program will start at City ark. ^
There are 27 of those events, which will occupy about two hours* At 2’30 i-he Iso
game of baseball will be called- Three teams, the Juneau Fire Department club
and the teams from Douglas and Chilkoot Barracks, will compete* They draw or
p3aoe; the team drawing the bye to play the winner of the 1st game. ^
At 7:30 p.ra. the Juneau Fire department will stage an auto-truck race. m\\»
will start at the Fire Hall and race to the ^ity Dock* Time '/ill be taken from
the Seward Building on Front Street to the Dock*
The celebration will end with the Grand Ball at the A* B. Hall the evening
of the 4th.
John H. Dunn, Clerk of the Federal District Court, is to be the orator ..or
the patriotic exercises to be held in the morning, and L. L* Harding will read
the Declaration of Independence*
Grover C. YiTiim is chairman of the Celbration Committee.
FIRST SERGEANT MARTIN LEAVES FOR STATES:
1st Sgt. Rfibert M# Martin, having been invaluable during the record Mring
of Company F with Rifle and pistol, is leaving tonight on theAlameda for one
month* s furlough in the Spates* Sgt, Martin is making the trip on personal bus
iness•
ARCHIBALD N. MCLEOD, VETERAN, HOLDS UP HIS RIGh T TJ 1>TD: .
Private 1st Class Archibald N, McLeod# printer of the Chilkoot Post, circu
lation and business manager of the aame, property clerk of the E* & R* seraiee,
superintendent of the General Educational schools of the post, etc*, etc*, yes
terday held up his right hand and entered upon his umpty-steenth enlistment. Pvt.
^c^eod became Mr* McLeod on July 2nd, but it was only for a few hours. Re—enlist
ment followed immediately.
With some two thousand odd dollars saved during the last two years of his
service, "Mac” purchased a ticket for fitaxx Alabama and way points, and set out on
the Fornance for Juneau this morning as the first leg of a three month§!> furlough*
He intends to buy a car #len he arrives in the east, and do considerable touring
Incidentally, his sister-in-law has written that she has picked out "just the rig:,
wife for Mac, and despite his half century and more, Mac is proceeding east with
the fire of youth aglow in his eyes. NeverLthe-less, he told his intimate friends
that he intended to look *em over before he signed any life contract to split kiB~
dling and carry up coal- These Scots are pretty canny, and we’ll bet more than
a five—cent cigar the lady that leads Mac to the altar will be a hum—dinger.
Pvt. ^yberg is striving hard to fill the many jobs Mac held down so suc
cessfully.
Staff Sgt. and Mrs. inline entertained ogt. Major and Mrs. Hilaries 0. RBss, and
Sgt. and Mrs. Powell last Sunddy,on the occasion of the Sgt. Major's birthday.
MAKE YOUR DATE NOW FOR THE FIREMAN'S DANCE, HAINES, EVENING OF JULY 5Xillf 1924.