The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-07-07
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declaring that Johns wheels were
like the earth, round and solid.
G.. A. Francois & Co.'S sewing machine
display, in charge of F. Blrkenmeyer.
S, O. Mason's insurance rig, advertis-
ing his insurance and loan office.
Miss Mulligan's unique millinery dis,
play, deliberately decorated and
driven by Miss Peterson, en costume.
Reynolds e. Keene, photographers,
were represented with a handsome
banner.
The G.. A. r. drum corps-S. S. Good
rich, fife, H. J. Williams, snare
drum, Ira Everson, bass drum.
S. S. Goodrich, groceries, float dis
playing articles from his stock.
A. H. Moon & Co., Milwaukee harvest
er and Milwaukee mower.
Thompson & Mead, float advertising
Champion binders and mowers and
Weir plows.
Darktown fire brigade, in charge of
Brudder Chuck Everett, and accom-
panied by full "corpse' of gentle
men Of color.
Al tl, groy, ia, pso pie wore called
to order by the president of the day
Judge Baldwin, after which they
bowed their heads while Rev. A. j.
Williams offered an earnest invocation.
A patriotic glee was rendered by a
club Of picked singers, and this was
followed by the reading of that mag
ma charta of our national liberties, the
Declaration of Independence, in a
clear and we'll modulated voice, by
Miss Bissell. Professor Nj. H. Upton
was then introduced. for
THE GRAFTON.
The speaker began by saying that
an element of greatest strength in
nation was to hold in greatful remem
berance her founders and defenders;
and no nation had greater reason for
keeping green the memory of her
fathers and protectors than the
United States; and no people were
more enthusiastic in the discharge of
ther obligations in this respect. He
referei to the motives that led
Columbus to undertake the voyage of
discovery, and mentioned the impress
sion that grew upon the mind of the
great navigator, chat he was destined
to be the medium Of conveying the
gospel to the strangers beyond the
sea-an impression that was
strengthened by the apparent pro-
phetic meaning Of his name. "No
man. continued the speaker, lever
attained to any considerable degree of
success in LIE, who did not feel that
he had mission" He also stated that
no enterprise could be considered
successful that did not result in prac-
teal application to some useful pur-
pose. That while the early voyages
of the Norsemen to America were of
no practical value, the rowing dispo
stion of the Ancient Sea Kings of the
North led them to France and thence
to England-and from this sturdy
stock came the Pilgrims and other
staunch settlers of America.
Columbus was the bravest naviga-
tor who ever lived, and but for an &C
cident of political partisanship would
have given his name to the world he
discovered. The speaker replied to a
possible suggestion that some one else
might have discovered America, by
relating the anocdote of Grants reply
to the fellow who thought any one
else might have captured Lee.
Speaking of the wonderful develop
ment of the country, attention was
called to the fact that the United
States had increased from little more
than $4,000 square miles of territory
to more than $3.50, 900, without having
, waged single aggressive warfare
After speaking of the resources of the
, nation in territory, and it's inexhausti,
BILE stores above and below the sur.
, face, and its vast resources of machin
, cry and men in peace and war, he
! drew comparison between the UniteC
. States and other nations greatly to the
credit of his native country, and in {
: way to stir with pride the heart of ey
= cry American citizen who heard him
He referred to the various countries
from whence 90 the different articles
of export, and then pointed out the
q fact that in our diversity of surface
:. and varied climate all these were pro
d duced within the shadow of the on.
Of nov To
athon, France of her Austeritz ant
: Great Britain of her Waterloo? Thel
e may we we'll be proud of our York
/ town, our New Orleans, our Gettys
q burg, and scores of other battle field
where the American soldier demon
strated his matchless bravery. Ha
Italy her Garibaldi, Germany he
: Frederick the Great, and France hel
Napoleon? America has her Wash
ington-at once patriot, a warrior, /;
statesman, and citizen--''f first in war
: first in peace, and first in the hearts O
u his countrymen," with many other
scarcely less eminent. In comparing
9 the soldiers of America with those o
other nations, after giving them cred
t, it for being superior to all others a
n manifest in two successful wars witt
Great Britain, he said that the Amer
9 lean was taller by more than an inc
a than the English, by three-quarters O
l. an inch than the Scotch, and no othe
nation measures SO much around tn
- girth-not including the Democrat
T. candidate for president. Severa
n threatening perils were mentioned, an
~ the address closed with peroratio
10 on the possibilities and responsibility
. of the country as CONSERVATION of th
~ peace of the nations, and the evange
s. lizer of the world.
y GAMES ON MILL STREET.
IL After the speaking, large numbe
of the people repaired to the corner {
l. Mill and Third streets, where cours
u for the variOus minor races and came