The Columbus journal., 1892-10-19

Columbus Day.
Those who are unused to preparing
for public occasions have no adequate
| idea of the amount of time, labor and
expense connected with such an exhibit
as will take place Friday in this city.
The committee, in planning, providing
and supervising have been t~ireless in
their endeavors to have everything 60
,. off ~agreeably, and with propriety for the
occasion, the intent being to make 1t q
series of object lessons in the history OF
our country, from the time OF its dis
covery down to the present.
Living pictures can be made enter
tanning and instructive, and the plastic
minds Of children will readily receive
impressions of important events in our
national history that time can scarcely
eface, and through the personations
made on Friday, many a youth may be
inclined to study and to take great de-
! light in knowing the worthy mon and
women who have been the chief of all
the wonderful productions OF the Great
Republic.
aAs a man thinketh SO is he" and this
day. with it's associations and its Incl
dents, its lessons and their ~far-reaching
results, with the strong emphasis of the
flag, that ensign of our liberties which
the soldiers love as "old ~glory"-will
lead the children to think of how much
we W to our good and great from the
thought of Columbus that the earth was
round, to the thought which brightens
and beauties more and more the life of
the modern world, that "All men are
brothers."
This is an eminently practical age,
and Of all the institutions of this free
country there is not n that more fifty
or more fully represents her varied in
terests or p%refigures her future. than
the public free schools administered by
cultured, noble men and women.
Let every pupil take a personal inter-
est in the occasion; take the young
guests of the city to your homes for
dinner; do what you Ear to make the
occasion enjoyable to them, and this
will make it doubly SO to you.
MINOR MENTIONS.
Eight hundred pupils had been prom
ised Monday from the country schools.
Each district is providing itself with
flags.
A member of the committee suggests
that a bright card be provided, or a
page or more in al autograph album be
set aside for a registry of the autographs
of YOU guests on Columbus Day.
Gen. Washington and his official staff
will be there in full uniform.
Ralf-fare on the railroads for every
body outside Of the organized schools.
A special train from Humphrey, and q
special time table on the Genoa-Albion
branch, trains arriving here q little
before II a. m.
Baker Post q. A. r. have issued q
special invitation to other posts of the
county to be present with them.
PROGRAM.
City schools will meet at the park IL
a. M. Reception committee and band
will meet the country schools at the
depot at Ills and escort them to the
park. Carl Kramer, vice president of
the school board, will make the speech
of reception, after which citizens will
take the guests from the country to
dinner.
Promptly at l o'clock, the procession
will form at the park in the following
order:
Columbus Band.
Ferdinand de Soto and his Spanish Explorers.
John Smith and Pocahontas.
Holland Dutch.
Ancestors Of New York's Famous 400.
Pilgrim Fathers.
scandin%syians who first discovered New Jersey.
Genoa Band.
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Scotch.
Republic of Switzerland.
Poles under Kosciusko.
The Irish
BENZ. Franklin with his Loaf of Bread.
George Washington and staff and Gen. Lafayette.
German Students.
The DISCOVERIES of Columbus.
Abraham Lincoln IF frselns the Slaves and the
Humphrey Band.
Platte County schools.
Private Schools.
City Schools.
first Ward.
Second Ward.
Third Ward.
High School.
School Officers.
Upon the arrival of the procession at
the High School grounds they will be
received by King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabelle, and addressed by the queen,
after which the national program will
be carried put as follows:
Reading of presidents proclamation
by L. Gerard.
Raising of the flag.
Salute to the flag.
Song-America.
Prayer by Rev. Cole.
Song-Columbus Day.
Address, by Alfred Elliott, The Meet
ing of the Four Centuries.
The Ode-Maud McCray.
Address by Judge Hensley.
Song,-Star Spangled Banner.
Presentation of flags to county schools
by N. Rothleitner, county superintend-
emit of schools.
In the procession each group will be
entitled to carry the colors of the coun-
try they represent until the period of
the revolution is represented by the ap-
pearance of Washington, after which no
colors or flags will appear in the parade,
except our national flag.
The parade will be formed by Chief
Marshal George A. Scott and his aides,
assisted by the Sons of Veterans, who
will act as guards during the parade.
F. NJ. Cookingham,
The republican nominee for county at
torney, was born in Schoharie county,
N. Y, Aug. %, 1856. His youth vas
passed on the farm. and he obtained his