12th of July at Orangeville
Newspaper Articles > Orangeville Sun, Orangeville, Ontario, July 17, 1913
The lodges of Melancthon LOL District formed part of the 35 lodges that celebrated the 12th of July at Orangeville. LOL No. 1321, Shelburne, was accompanied by the 36th Regt. Band. The band and lodge headed the procession in the afternoon and the prize for the lodge doing the best marching was awarded to Shelburne. The prize for lodge having the largest number of members in the parade went to Laurel, that lodge having 88 members.
Horning’s Mills took the prize for best regalia and Samuel Brown, of Melancthon, aged 91, for oldest Orangeman. The two objectionable features of the day were the abominable train accommodation provided by the CPR (the few hundred who got on the train at Shelburne found all the seating accommodation already taken) and the heavy rain of the forenoon that produced the rich, juicy, luscious mud that made the marching one long, slippery spasm of blissful (?) sloppiness.
Horning’s Mills took the prize for best regalia and Samuel Brown, of Melancthon, aged 91, for oldest Orangeman. The two objectionable features of the day were the abominable train accommodation provided by the CPR (the few hundred who got on the train at Shelburne found all the seating accommodation already taken) and the heavy rain of the forenoon that produced the rich, juicy, luscious mud that made the marching one long, slippery spasm of blissful (?) sloppiness.