Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-07-05
THE FOURTH.
Tremendously Celebrated
In Miller.
1000 Visitors Help Make the
Natal Day Most Glorious.

4 Fourth OF July 1883, opened with ex-
traordinary ceremony in Miller. The
booming Of anvils mingled with the mighty
thunder's roar hustled people out at an
early hour. A brief shower moistened
the bright and luxuriant verdure that
clothes our fair prairies and by o'clock
old Sol rode supreme in the heavens
driving the clouds below the horizon and
flooded With his kindly beams the grow
ing crops aud fully 1000 patriotic people
enroute to the grand celebration of our
national holiday at Miller.
Bar stangled spanners floated gaily from
every building in Miller and business
houses were never SO profussly and artist
ically arrayed in national colors At IL
o'clock thousand people were seated in
the grand pavilion on Second street and
on the sixty-tiye foot stage were seated
the big hundred voiced choir, the st
Law renee and Miller bands, speakers and
officers of the day. President Carroll con
graduated the assembly on the recent
rains, grand prospects for crops and then
introduced Rev. W, &. Kephart who
| offered thanks to the Almighty for the
great blessings he had poured out ON the
nation in the past and lmplored his guild
ance and continuance of his blessings in
the future. The choir accompanied by
the bands, sang Star Spangled Banner
The president introduced Rev. Campbell,
| of Rec Heights. who for twenty or thirty
minutes held the undivided attention of
his audience with one of the neatest most
! eloquent and complete Fourth of July
! speeches II has ever been our pleasure to
| listen to. The choir followed with the
good old hymn America" when the pres
| ident introduced the Rev. Bowman, of ST.
Lawrence who also gave his hearers an
| interesting and splendid Grafton. Both
| speakers are gifted with strong voices and
the audieEce experienced no trouble in
hearing every word. The president an
nOunced the afternoon programme and
the exercises closed with THE Battle Cry
Of Freedom" by the choir. The singers
kept in splendid time and backed by the
band, made volume of music such as
was never listened to in Central Dakota.
| AFTER DINNER
| came the exhibition wet test by the Miller
nose team. This was followed by the hub
and hub race by the hose team and the
hook and ladder team, won by the latter.
| Then sports of various kinds took place.
j. W. Coqmllette and c. S. Smith made
! a lie in the 90 foot ladderman's cont st .
! The shooting matches had the following
entrymen L. A. Egbert, j. NJ. Woods,
j. w. Riley, (Wolsey) Joe Burger, Csrtos
| tOrd Lew EnsOr, (St. lawrence and I. f.
| AlbcG. The citizens purse consisted Of
three prizes. There were % rises each.
| Egbort Won first prize, Woods second and
Riley third. The second match. ten rises
each, two purses, Egbert winning first and
| WnnIG EAInnH In tho hnrga / a
Gass, Henry Miller. II. Grabinski and
John DuthIe entered horses. GasS took
first Miller second and Grabinski third
In the pony race J. l.. Lawrence, Mark
Lester, y c. Nelson and Frank Meyers
entered ponies, Two purses, Lester first
anl Meyers second. IN the fast mule race
Outlines took the single purse and in the
slow mule race Mungers took single purse.
All of the above races were interesting and
were witnessed by hundreds of people
The foot races we're also very irtere sting
Grant TAYLOR. of Washington, took ffrs
prizes on the 100 yard and 300 yard races,
+. c. Bloodgood, of Huron. took secC nc
prize on the 100 var and tied with Doug
Miller or the 200 yard race. In the hurd
race Grant Taylor, Of Washington wor
single purse. During the afternoon sew
eral large paper balloons were sent up.
BASE BALL
For the first time in four years the ole
st. Lawrence and Miller players met OF
the diamond. Considerable int, rest cen
tered III the game, because Of the rumO
J that st. Lawrence had secured tint
pitcher, but the impression was erroneous
for the Miller s!uggers paralyzed the gan.
tleman by making ID scores on tho frs
inning, whea he retired to the field
Bunk Seeker did the pitching thereafter
and although he was hit hard at times
was an improvement on Leslie. Mile
won easily by a score of 80 to Is. GooC
plays were frequent on both sides, als'
rank errors. 1t was evident both nine
had good material but each needed practic
badly. The players were