General View of School, Greenwood, Miss.

THE BAND STAND

The City of Greenwood is in absolute need of a bandstand and a place to give open air entertainments during the summer.

We now have the plans for a substantial and artistic stand, which will cost about $400.00 and to be located on the schoolhouse playgrounds, which is city property, with large park room. The stand will be 24 feet in diameter, octagon shape with tower roof, flag pole and bungalow rafter finish, painted white and all screened in. Seats are to be placed on the grounds providing comfort for our home families as well as visitors. A committee was appointed by the Business League over a year ago to look after a proposition of this kind but a suitable location and proper support were lacking and the City did not have, and has not now a surplus of funds, with which to erect the same.

Now in the last week, we have some parties who are taking considerable interest in the matter and it promises to be a success. The White Merchants Association of Greenwood have come forward and say that they will each contribute one half day’s work towards erecting the same. This includes carpenters, bricklayers, painters, etc. Also a number of people have donated lumber and other materials.

It is the intention of the parties pushing the project to have built a handsome and durable bandstand that will be an ornament not only to the school grounds but to the City at large and that will last for a number a years. The Community Y.M.C.A. has also interested themselves to the extent of donating $75.00 to the proposition.

Now it behooves the rest of us to come to the front and put our shoulder to the wheel to make it a success so as to provide a comfortable place for our outdoor entertainment during the summer months, which will not only be a pleasure for the public, but for yourself and family to spend pleasant evenings at the entertainments to be furnished by our Band and other musical organizations from time to time during the summer. THE COMMITTEE.

From the Greenwood Enterprise, May 28, 1915

The Band Stand is Completed

After many days of doubt and despair, a ray of hope dawned and a new agitation resulted in the completion of one of the finest bandstands, if not the finest, in the State of Mississippi. Greenwood’s bandstand cost more than was originally intended to be expended for that structure, but with the exception of a very few, everybody is glad the City, the Y.M.C.A., and the few people that helped materially in the cause went ahead and put up a good one while they were at it, and though the season is nearly over, yet it will be there next summer, and the next and so on. Besides there are numerous other things that the bandstand may be used for being situated on the playground and near the school, football field and diamond.

From the Greenwood Enterprise, September 3, 1915

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