Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-07-13

young men were ready to leave "home
and mother" and join the beautiful band
and march to the front. The young la
dies acquitted themselves gracefully, adj
mirably, and are entitled to all praise,
love and honor for their soldierly and la
dy like entertainment.
/ Long may they wave
| Der the land of the free and the home OF the
brave:
The grove exercises were in keeping
with the other exercises of the day and
were of high order The Grafton by
Hon. r. C. Orr detracted nothing from
his well earned reputation as a public
speaker and elected enconiums from all
who had the pleasure of listening to him.
He clothed the thoughts of the true
| patriot in the terse, cultured language
of the scholar, and though laboring I'M
der impaired health, proved himself
possessed of those qualities of speech
which melts the heart and persuades the
intellect.
The address in the German language
by Father Dries was pronounced by
those who understand the language as
eloquent and patriotic, and he was loud
ly applauded by his countrymen. Faith
er Dries is yet young man and though
but year or so in this place is much
esteemed by the church to which he is
attached and the community at large.
would like to notice the perform
ance of the soldier boys in the afternoon
the concert, the pyrotecbnic exhibition,
which was good, and the dance, which
extended into the 1--WE sma' hours" but
| have already written more than | in
tended and more than the boys will like
to ''set.n S.
MT HOPE-FoURTH OF JULY.
The people of our village had for some
DAYS predicted as fellows .If it don't
rain we shall have big crowd at the
4th' Well twas n glorious day and
the crowd immense. The departure
from the little girls dressed in white
as representatives of the state to-
gether with a Goddess of Liberty
together with Mother Columbia,
an Uncle Sam, an a Brs iona
than with SO young ladies and little
girls, with eleven boys to represent the
Territories as a pleasing one, and its
novelty and actual merit made it quite
an accepta BILE exercise. All the divis-
ions of United States beside the territor-
les was represented by young lady or
little girl, even to Yellowstone Nation
al Park and District of Columbia.
Each presented Mother Columbia
with a sample of the main production
of each state, with short presentation
speech; responded to by Mother Column
bia, and the gift carried by the Little
District and placed upon table, begin
ing and ending with social music by the
school choir. The Boscobel Light
Guard Band was in attendance, their
very tasty uniform causing very pleas
ing prominence in the procession and
elsewhere, and the large number of
pieces played as well as fine quality, of
the music rendered, afforded complete
satisfaction to all lovers of soul-stirring
music. Certainly one very essential feat
ure of the days entertainment was sup
piled by this excellent bald The usually
tedious of the reading of 1.-The
Declaration" was made attractive in
this instance by the excellent manner
in which it was read by Mr.. Rae Town
send The Grafton, by Hon. Z. |. Kidd,
fully met the large expectations of the
people. He gave us solid ideas upon
solid subjects, and the close and marked
attention accorded him. throughout the
entire discourse is of itself very conf
plimentary. We trust he will allow us
the manuscript for publication. Dinner
time seemed to be enjoyed by all, quite
a number of social tables were spread;
family dinners served in every direction,
and opportunity of procuring refresh
ments so ample SO that none need go
away hungry. A very fine poem pre-
pared and recited by Mr.. +. j. New
combe of Bloomington on ''the day we
Celebrate" was one of the special fea-
lures of attraction during the afternoon!
another poem rected by II. b Phillips
in response to the toast wisconsin,
Our own state was well received. Our
Martyred Presidents responded to in
short and able speech by Michael
Seaman, followed by very effective
selection of vocal music, by choir of
six persons, the piece based upon Web
ster's Eulogy of Ellsworth. but the
words changed by one of the choir, to
suit the occasion of the lamented Gar
field
Decidedly the best of the off hand re-
marks, was M. ID. Taylor's response to
1.-THE Mechanics of our Land He up
he'd his brethren of the profession with
logic and tact quite commendable.
and allowed us to drop the profound
and take up the mirthful for short
time at least Principally owing to some
long winded speeches on subjects rather
foreign, couple of pieces of music by
the school choir, and several very fine
toasts to which our active and very
worthy POSTMASTER, Mr. Erasmus Cool
ey had secured responses, had to be
omitted, which may have been some
what of disappointment. to some. Still,
with no drunken brawls, no accidents,
| no confusion, the celebration of the day
was decided success, and every body
as far as heard from went home with
the laudable ideas that Mt Hope does
know when the Fourth cf July comes
| around and that it is good place to
| which one may go. RETLAw.
SITTER.
The celebration at Sitter was a de-
| cided success. Never was a larger crowd
seen in so small place before. The
morning freight coming from Lancaster
was crOvdad with ,,oonIa y,;.b .La:..