Fourth in Delmar
DELMAR, July 5. The "Fourth" was celebrated
patriotically in Delmar. The national colors were displayed in all parts of
town and early in the afternoon a parade was formed at the Maryland school
grounds composed of a company of Boy Scouts, the cornet band of Newton Lodge I.
O. O. F. of Salisbury, pupils of public schools, forty-eight little girls in
white and decorated with the colors, representing the forty-eight state of the
Union, floats of the various business houses and decorated automobiles.
After passing through principal streets and viewed by
residents and visitors it ended at the grove between State and Grove streets
where the Declaration of Independence was read by Ralph E. Nichols.
A ball game between Laurel and Delmar was played later resulting
in a score of 10 to 2 in favor of Delmar. In the evening a patriotic address
was delivered by the Hon. Jesse D. Price of Salisbury, Representative in
Congress from the First District of Maryland. The exercises closed with a
display of fireworks. Congratulations are due the New Century Club under whose
auspices the demonstration was given.
Above from The Morning News (Wilmington) 06 Jul 1916
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