Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-07-09
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THE FOURTH m ELK P01Nr.
Notwithstanding the Elements, Over 1900
People Present.

AT early sunrise on Friday, the
4th, the cannon doomed forth 10
shots which announced to the citi-
zens of Elk Point and surrounding
country that the 4th of July, 1884,
the 10Sth anniversary of our nation
al independence was at band and
Elk Point was ready to celebrate.
The u came up bright and clear
and everything looked we'll for q
good day, until about7 O'Clock when
clouds began to form in the horizon,
and by 8 o'clock the rain began to
come down in torrents. and at the
same time wagon load after wagon
load of people came pouring into
town from all directions. 1t began
to look pretty dubious about this
time and the proprietors of the lem
onade stands felt pretty sick, but the
rain Stacked up at about ten o'clock,
and an escort went to the depot to
receive the Hon. J. r. Gamble, the
orator of the day, and then Marshal
Bovee formed the procession and
marched to the grounds in the
school house square. President Of
the Day Mayor James NJ. Talcott
presided on the platform with his u.s.
ual dignity and announced the pro-
gramme of exercises in their regular
order. The first was the singing of
a beautiful piece by the choir, when
Rev. and venerable Father NJ.
Miller uttered a fervent and eloquent
prayer. Hon John r. Gamble was
then introduced, and delivered
about 80 minutes address, replete
with good things and appropriate
to the occasion. Mrs E. w. Miller
then read the Declaration of indie
pendence in a most impressive and
manner. The President
then announced the toast. "The
Men of IS which was responded to
by Mrs. d. W. Myers. In this
article we only intended to give a
brief report OF the exercises as they
Lranspired, but We cannot refrain
diverging here and saying that
the response to this toast by Mrs.
was the finest thing we have
heard for many a day, both in style
IF delivery and subject matter, and it
) pleasing for us to say that we have
lady iii our city that can surpass
I'll the gentlemen in it in making
speech. 1t was SO appropriate,
veil timed, and elegantly delivered
it took the entire audience by
surprise. The toast, "The Women
If '16"w then responded to by
Rev. L. Bradford, paster Of the M.
,. church of this city, who did
iplendilly, and his effort was well
eceived. These exercises were in
erspersed with excellent music, al
ernately, by the choir and the Elk
'oint Cornet Band. At n few min
ties after II o'clock the exercises
losed on the stand. and the crowd
dispersed to get dinner, and pre-
Jared to take in the amusements
provided for in the afternoon. At
ne o'clock
THE RAGAMUFFIN BRIGADE
ppeared en- the streets, and created
Goodies of fun for the multitude
hat lined both sides of the streets.
t a was finely gotten up affair and
i'll credit 10 the boys engineering
At2 O'Clock the people began
, gather upon the race track south
t town, to witness the sports there.
he first on the programme was the
GLAss-BALL SHOOTING MATCH.
1t was after two o'clock before the
rowd arrived at the shooting
rounds, within the race track, and
was agreed among the few shoot
Its present to have a team shoot...
Us. Cover,lale and Z. F. Mallahan
ere selected to choose up sides, andD.
5 balls each were agreed upon.'r,
he following is the score: III
MALLAHAN's TEAM. II;
F Mallahan Ol1li1OOOi11111-11
no Steckman 1ll11Ol1O1l1lll-13.v
+ Crum Oll11Ol11l11Oil-l2
Viii Wilson N0l10O111l01l,I ST
1100l1101ll110l-l1
Total So
COyERDALE's TEAM.
os Coverdale 0O1l0l11111O111-11
'heppard 110l00IllOOl1l1-10
ra l. Nichols MlI10l111lOOO1-
J Vasser 011O1OO1OOl1lOl- 81
ack Coyerdale 11111Ql01111111-13
Total 81
THE RACES.
On taking a glance at the grounds
round the race track it was easy to
iscover that if you want to draw n
advertise a horse race.
HALF MILE RUNNING RACE.
The first on the programme was
half mile running race, best 2 in
|, and five horses were entered by
he following gentlemen: Charles
'ollfson, j. WEIGH, Thos. Donly, H..