Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-07-05
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Z - lnrth In Dac n anan County.

The aHpa' anniversary jus, passed was
celebrslet pofe generally In Buchanan
county hnfvcr before. Besides Indepen,
dence, DEDUCTION, Jcsup, Fairbank and
Buffalo Gov each had its celebration Of
more q IL tntercst.
lNDEr.SDExcr.
Tho ceerS,ion At the County Seat va.
of cousetie mos. extensive. At sunrise .
national aae was fred and accompanied
with ,bs iigtg Of the bell. Early in the
day the aeB began to fll with people from
nearly s,-, part Of the county, and BY 10
o'clock ain Street was moving mass Of
humani The crowd throughout the day
was greer than last year. At l03 o'clock,
the prossion was formed at the bell tower
and nod down Main Street, across The
river, o. back to Walnut ST., down which /,
proceed to the grove south of the Bap,is,
Church here well shaded stand had bee n
erectodlhe main features ofshe procession
was tbecort and Fire Co. No. /, which
made aPendd display in every psrticulnr. |
Consid.ng the character OF i.s member,
and scarborough discipline, this company il
probab the very FIRST in Iowa. Al The stand
the sxcses consisted Of music By tho brass
band, ryer BY Rev. N. Briggs, reading |
of Deca'ion by Ii. James Poor, music,
orasiory Hon. s. p. Adams, of Dubuque.
Cantaof The Grea, Rebellion, under direc. |
ton ofrof. Sanford. The Declaration Va
readh clear, Sellintoned voice and with
good ect. The GRAFTON was manly, pat.
riotic d eloquent. The speaker had only
had ~ days for preparation and labored
undsre embarrassment ofa confinement
10 htsAnscr'pt, bu, the GRAFTON gave excsl>
lest ssiAc,ion, even though the inpass.
iosedkct Of Mr.. Adams ofFhand delivery
wss !. The p ople Of Buchanan county ar.
alwadelighied 10 hear from S. P. Adams.
A rsas'on was enthusiastically passed re
qsssg copy OF his oraiion for publication,
co'iment which Mr.. Adams greatly ap.
psecsd. However, it is not customary TO
acceto requests fthis character, e,pecial>
wv the compilation Of such addres. .,
hes much labor and research. Ofthe
rsnd'g Of the patriotic Can,A.a Of the Re
belli We cannot speak in too compliment.
airy ms. The leader. Prof Sanford, and
the gers, individually and collectively did
ihenves great credit The battle passage
whe' cannon, musketry, drums and bugles
ver'roduced, was really startling in its
eds' Mrs. Ra~lcy presided =, the piano
vitteat skill. The production of this
pieoccupying about forty minutes, was .
unhand very charming feature Of the
csletion.
Aree o clock the soldiers held meet.
ing he Court House for the purpose of
oes'ing for soldiers re>union TO be held
isusll. The proceedings of this meeting
an IN elsewhere.
fertilization VI DUN Fuxzies At four
DEL was not ~ remarkable ~ il might
haven.
believe the fire. works in the evening
ga~ry general salts faction. Several Of
pic ~eIe very beautiful and elected great
apise. We heard one wise gentlemen say
thaey ought to have oil been displa yed in
fih minutes. He should have been here
wears ago, when works Of three times ,
tfost were displayed in three minutes.
Nid no, learn that that display gave pc.
or satisfaction. /,
must not omit to mention that the
.p aud Quasqueson martial bands ems
he'd tho day with their fine music. These
both excellent bands.
short time before the Fourth, . new
. band was made up from our Indepen.
'e players, who did very we'll, consider.
r short practice. When the finance com. 1
&c settled with them, they very generous. a
onated ten dollars 70 the general fund up.
earning that the expenses had overrun 0
receipts. Il
he Catholics held very pleasant festival Fl
aic in the grove south of the Cour. House, Il
Their with dance in the evening. Their il
'eciepts were about $50. d
ne Baptist and Episcopal Societies and NJ
food Templars, had rsfreshment tables m
ferent parts Of the city, making very b
able substitutes for beer salcons. In. su
the saloons seem to have received much to
han their usual patronage. Only a few 70
,ns were under the influence Of liquor Iii
e crowd, and those, sad to say, mostly
or young men. Altogether. more or.
or pleasant Fourth has seldom passed
AN the arrangements
ed smoothly, with no confusion and no
ing, and the whole affair may be claim.
gratifying success.
QrAsorrroS.
e celebration at Quasquston passed oif
antly and successfully. Col. N. C. KEN.
IF this city, delivered the ors,ion which
received with great enthusiasm. We
doubtless have an account for our next
from out correspondent, 1t Q.
JEsuP.
re, too, all the arrangements wers we'll
ID ont and the result proved very graft.
to oil present. The oration BY Rev.
Hamilton, is spoken Of in the very -
st terms. We hope to be able to pre-. mi
, full account next week. "s
FAIRBAEKs.
; have no word from the celebration ct 40,
,lace. II;
BUTTALo GaovE. N.
this point free dinner was given and nm
enjoyable time was had. J.H. Hauser an
Of this city, delivered the Grafton. 10
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