Saturday's Internet Edition, May 17, 2008.
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Proceeds go to the orphanage.
The 127th event will be held Thursday at noon, following a morning program that will feature a speech by Judge Theodore S. Royster Jr. at 11:30.
Tickets to the noon meal are $7. Expect to see plenty of fried chicken and country ham biscuits, tomato sandwiches and fresh melons, homemade pies and cakes.
The event actually starts with a nightly carnival Tuesday-Saturday, with family night on Tuesday. There will be live entertainment each evening under the arbor. All events are at Clement Grove, off North Main Street in Mocksville.
Royster, a native of Lexington, has been a member of the Lexington Memorial Masonic Lodge for 33 years. He is a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Masonic Royal Order of Scotland. He is also a member of the Oasis Shrine.
Corinthian Lodge
Picnic Aug. 4
The Masonic Picnic sponsored by Corinthian Lodge 17 will be Saturday, Aug. 4, formerly known as the Masonic/DEU Picnic.
Worthy Master Bobby Bell is directing this picnic, with Dr. William J. Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP and pastor of Greenleaf Christian Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, as the guest speaker.
Saturday afternoon entertainment will include the Tabernacle United Church of Christ Men’s Choir from Huntsville, New Voices of Faith of Mocksville and Patricia March Peoples of Mocksville.
The program begins at 3:30. Carnival rides open at 5 ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.