Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. XXIX.   No. 50.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1932
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Gibbon Cutting (TeremoitY tomorrow Afternoon
Tomorrow afternoon Sewiekley with
its neighboring boroughs will join in a
celebration of tho opening of the street
improvements including and grouped
around the now Sewickloy Bridge
approach. Wo shall have as guests on
this occasion tho Commissioners of Allegheny County, a representative of tho
Stato government, tho burgesses and
presidents of council of the near-by
boroughs and townships, and tho too
departments of many neighboring communities. ,.
Tho guests will bo focoived at tlio
Sowickley borough building at two
o'clock, and thoro will bo a parado
starting vory soon after that hour, a
scries of short toots on tho firo-sircn
marking its beginning. Hoadcd by tho
Amorican Legion Drum and Bugio
Corps, following tho polico escort, there
will bo an oscort consisting of J-no
Colonial Guard," a company of boys
uniformed in costumes which will bo
nsod also on Monday evening as part
of the George Washington Hallowe'en
pageant; these boys will assemble in
tho grade school playground near
Chestnut Street. The official cars bearing tho guest officials will follow, moving down Chestnut Street to tlio Ohio
Eivor Boulevard. A, H. Diehl is in
chargo of tho parade arrangements.
R, D. Ritchey, chairman of tho council committee, has appointed a reception committee to moot the guests at
tho borough building, consisting of .T.
0. Chaplin, Stanloy Q. Fowler, W. W.
Cunningham, 0. S. Richardson, A. H.
Diehl, D. E. Novin, Frank A. Hegner,
T. B, Sweeney and Mrs. Margaret Morgan,
Tho next division, including trucks
and cars roprcsonting Sowickloy Valley
businoss firms, and privato automobiles,
will form on tho Boulevard (reaching
it by way of Graham Street or Boundary Stroet) heading toward Chestnut,
lining up on the south sido of the.
Boulevard; visiting Are companies will
also form on that part of the Boulevard
on the north side, also heading toward
Chestnut. Both divisions will join tho
parado as it passes .from Chestnut
Street westward on tho now portion
of the Boulevard, past tho speakers'
stand to Walnut Street. Tho parado
will then movo up Walnut Street to
Beaver, to Peebles, to Thorn, to Broad,
and down Broad Stroet to the post
office, whoro the ribbon will be cut and
the parade will enter the now improvement, passing down Broad Street to
the. bridge or to Kramer Place, or diverging down Biver Avenuo, as may bo
most convenient for each division.
Then thero will bo a brief ceremony
on the stand facing the Boulevard,
consisting of a short talk by James C.
Chaplin, president of Sowickley borough
council, who will be introduced by
Frank A. Hegner, president of tho
Board of Trade; Mr. Chaplin will in
turn introduce the county commissioners and othor honor guests. Col.
Charles C. McGovorn, chairman of the
commissioners, will formally turn over
tho improvement to Sowickley, and
Burgess O. S. Bichardson will respond.
That is tho program as planned; it
may bo modified somewhat, according
to circumstaneos. Polico arrangements
havo been made, however, so that all
will bo directed properly. Parking will
bo forbidden on Broad Stroet from
Thorn to Bank, so as not to block tho
parado; parking will be permitted on
Bank Street both oast and west of
Broad Stroet, facing toward Broad,
and at othor convenient points in tho
neighborhood, oxcopt on tho now Boulo-
vard near the speakers' stand.
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