Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-07-11

The Glorious Fourth To 70 into de
tail and give credit where credit was due and
censure where censure was dnc, for the partial
failure TO carry out the program rs advertised
on the 4th, would require much more space
than we have al our command this week. We
had delightful day for tho celebration, aud
between 1000 and 1000 people here to enjoy
u, some of whom went away dissatisfied, ms
they had Just Gauge 10 be, over the failure o'
some parts Of the program. The Committee Of
Arrangements have been uniustly censured ip
some cases. One case to illustrate. little
steamer had been provided to ply between
Perrysburg and Toledo on the 4th some three
weeks In advance, for SIS for the day. A
member OF the committee went dewn on the I'd
TO chart CT II on lis own responsibility. The
price then wanted was $50. The failure Of the
regatta and other arrangements, supposed to
have been fully understood il advance, failed
from similar efforts at extortion. The fire.
works aud other omissions would have been
provided for on that day, had the committee
made the bu siness men aware Of the situation
This Is where tho committee is to be censured.
II was as great n surprise TO our people in town
as II was to those who had come ten or fifteen
miles, when 1t was found that portions OF tue
program could not b. executed.
II the County organization of the old sol
die Us has an existance moretl an in aname, II
was scarcely manifest in the representation on
thi occasion. The light attendance was ac-
counted for, however. bv the pressure of the
harvest upon them. rhc small delegations
| that arrived were welcomed in n neat it'll
| speech by Judge Cook. at the Tuwn Hall, aitel
which they proceeded to hold the annual busi-
ness meeting and the election oi officers, MS
| follows:
| President Frank NJ. Young,
Secrclery ---butber Black,
Treasurer--J. Il. Ilankey,
| Chaplaiu-J. w. Thompson.
| One vice pre- sdeni WAS selected from eac
tow nsLip IN the comfy. and the next annual
meeting Was set Tor Bowling Green GU the
econd Wednesday in August, 1885.
| TIL. drill and firing ol the Fourth Ohio
Battery was excellent accurate aud intensely
exc iting-espeoially the solid shot fred at a
Target TN the big Island. evil deiy any
nine pound gun in the U. s., at an elevation
vi 40 feet above the is land to plant Ave solid
shot within a few feet of the target and rlcoch.
ct thee OF III, m Uver a 40 feet elevation ON tile
| opposite side oi the river a nd land two uf til,
| shot in a small oak tree within IL inches .
c ach other, aud within 20 feet OF picnic
party from Toledo, aad injure no one. Th'
third shut struck about 10 feet nearer the party
a nd was buiied in the ground. This created
a stampede among the pcnicers and Capt
| Hopkins has been severely censured through
communications IN the Toledo papers, but ha.
met them in manly way. 1t was remark
able concident, and NO one was willing II
bel ie,e that tue balls passed over the bank uI
the oppos i,e side, until they went over and in
| vestigated for themselves.
Ther eading of the Declaration of Independ
ence, BY Robert Fenton, the ora,ion by Majo
E. $ Dodd /, and the singing, was excellent
| There W ere many features to praise as we'll a.
| some TO condemn.
| The procession was n failure, and the Toledo
Bee and Post criiicied severely the appearance,
Of Grasser & Brands beer wagon In the process
sion, piled up in heaping measure with empty
beer kegs and driven by John Muraugh. Thel
claimed that he should have been shot out o
the procession with Capt Hopkins nine pound
er. No one was more surprised at this critic
is III than was John Murtaugh himself. ii,
claims that he should receive credit for turning
iuto the procession and give it respectability il
quantity if not in quality. 1t was the onll
vehicle in the procession representing any par
ticular business, which made it all the NOR
conspicuous, and he was patriotic and bat
purchased flags and decorated his team for th
occasion and brought his family up to enjo.
the Fourth in Perrysburg.