The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-07-06

Ut July celebration. Ia j. true to-day H.
the glorious fourth, but yes,er,i.y va the !
the third, the third ha. more in il than the !
fourth any time. We hat made a,rans..
ments ior IN Immense time. N. A. Ham |
~ond wAs To be the grand marshal. lie |
had to get him huge r~a sssh and q ssber. |
The BAzoo corr-spondent had written some
hell dczen orsiions for a. many speaker
and drilled them in the art III sio /
cution aud hne rhetoric until they !
woul d have laid old Demc-,h~nes and !
Cicero in the shade. 1T Clark "a. go !
ing to put o" his white Vest. ru,,is wss
going To have his linen buster washed
Book Brown. Ball Hen-haw, and King FAR
male arrangements to smoke nickel Gig r.
ON the country boys all day, anil Bob Dali
ton wss going to act up the ice v alter ct
the E,ds House. Everything VAS lovely
and the goo-e hung away up yon,ier.
premium WAS offered To
the towns ip that sent IN
the has delegation end one to the most ele-
gsntiy decorated business honse IN town.
The merchants, shOpkeepers and tradesmen
on Pine and Holden streets We'd With each
other in spirit Of commendsble emulA-
ton for the coveted priz.. All Friday si.
iernoon light brigsde" OF lsborers with
wagons and teams we're busy cuiling the
priuevsl forests north Of town and hauling
in great heaps Of young saplings clothed in
all the profnse and verdaui foliage OF mid.
summer. These we're arranged in rows
along both sides Of Holden street from
ksds hotel to Pine street and Moody's store
With the base of each tree 1t the edge Of
the walk and the top towering ak or
eight feet above the awnings. They aP-
peared like thrifty young trees growing
along the siree,s. Beneath the awnings in |
front Of . great many stores fe-soOns of
cedar and asparagus hung in graceful |
folds aud tvined in coils from tree to tree |
All this vas decorated with litAle flags
and ornamented with ferns and hanging
baskets vi sariou. kinds OF flowers and
evergreen. Little binis were suspended
in cages from the green bouxl,s and a. they
-wayrd To and fro. they chirped end
twittered and sung aud seemed to psriaks
Vi the enthusiasm of sll The small boys
were out in full force keeping up u con-
tinuous CHATTER and racket with hrecrackers
no, unlike the rattle Of mu-ketry along u !
sNk I'LL al. II
decorating wAs kept up. The hiiarity Of
the little boys had xbatei but they we're
reinforced by youths Of maturer years
whose pstrio,ism blsx.d out in skyrockets
The streets we're literally thron.e,i
with people among whom we're many ladies
some III whom hsd come ''dovn :own" to
sre the drcora,ions, Others to show how
superbly themselves we're decorated and
the rem ,lnsier perhap. for both purposes
to see and De seen. A long row Of clouds
extending half way up to the z,ni,h stretch
ell along the southern horizon like - range
Of mountains, but they we're sd far dis
tant that only faint rumbiiny
Of thunder could be heard. The FIRE !
crackers we're bsnging, the sky-rockets
we're Kissing and shooting, the boys we're
whoop,ng aud cheering. and every now
and then . little bird, aroused from its
nocturnal revsrie, would carol lay or iwo
an,i then doze ID to sleep again. The hap
py people promenaJei the streets IN large
throngs. while many sst on the balcony
and corridors, or in front Of the hotels and
open stores.
Al the lightning from the clouds danced
and played IN white sheets and winding
crimson chain. and lit up the whole srens,
it appeared like some fairy land.
Along toward u,ilnish, the vivaci,y had
subsidized. the people had gone home,
''wr,ppcd the dIapsry Of their couch
about them aud lain down to pleasant
dreams" to lie. awakened at the early
peep Of dawn BY the booming
cannon, the rolling thunder
and the pattering raio. This wss to have
been the grand day bat the lowering clouds
and the the torrent, of rain { at we're fall
ling so6n convinced the managers that 1t
would have to be put oG.
BY nine O'Clock the next morning
he tire-crscker brigade Was on hsnd again
and resumed their racket, which continued
all day. II is impossible to describe the
disappointment that appeared on the faces
Of those who came from long dis
lance when they learned that the grand !
march had been pos,p med until Monday. |
IL the weather he'd been moe ia
vorable this would not have been
inferior to the celebration had in 1878 |
at which 20 many Sedalia people we're
present.
But even - il vas ne had On immense,
crosd, and they Ill e"j 'yed Themselves and
vent home determined to come back to-
morrow and celebrate the fourth according