Big plans for the ‘final week’ of the South Bend campaign, c. 1913

FINAL WEEK WILL BE GREATEST ONE

BIG PARADES ARE PLANNED FOR CLOSING HOURS.

Male Members of Sunday Schools Will March to Tabernacle on Tuesday Night.

The most significant period, from a religious standpoint, in the history of South Bend will open to-morrow. This period will close next Sunday night with the termination of the great Billy Sunday campaign in South Bend.

The program for the final days of the campaign indicates plainly it is to be the banner week of the campaign.

Important meetings have been planned for all hours of every remaining day, and there will be parades and similar celebrations galore.

Three big parades have already been arranged for. They are the men and boy members of the Sunday schools and the farmers of St. Joseph county, both of which will occur Tuesday night. The other, which may prove the largest parade of the campaign, will be made up of factory men and women. Thousands of the employees of the manufacturing institutions of South Bend and Mishawaka will make up the parade, which will take place Saturday night.

Both parades to-morrow night are expected to attract hundreds of men. It has been estimated that 1,000 men and boys will march as representatives of the Sunday schools of this city and Mishawaka.

Prominent Church men are working hard for a good turnout in the parade and every male member of every church in the Sunday movement will be expected to take an active part in the parade or explain the reason why. The church men and boys will assemble in front of the Y. M. C. A. at 7 o’clock and will march as a single delegation to the tabernacle.

The farmers will meet at the northeast corner of the courthouse yard at 9 o’clock and will march to the tabernacle with members of the Ancient Order of Gleaners at their head.

Every effort is to be made to make the factory parade on Saturday night the biggest event of the campaign. Every manufacturing institution in northern Indiana and southern Michigan will be asked to send delegations to take part in the parade. Albert Leisure, of the Studebaker corporation, was elected chairman and C. F. Rogers, secretary, of arrangements for the event, at a meeting of delegates at the Y. M. C. A. Saturday. These officials of the parade urge that the different institutions send representatives to a general meeting Tuesday night after the sermon, to make final arrangements for the parade.

The South Bend Tribune. Mon, Jun 09, 1913 ·Page 8