Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-07-07
TWAS A nowLINo SUCCESS.
The Fourth Of July ceIebrstion Held Here
Wednesday Was the Biggest Affair Of
the Kind Ever Held In the

Wednesday Was the Biggest Affair oi
the Kind Ever Held In the
Southwest.
The Fourth of July celebration
held at Camp Logan, Baxter Springs,
on Wednesday of this week was the
largest ever held in the Southwest.
II was gotten up by Canaan Lodge,
No. 20. Patriarchs of America, of
this city, whose members worked
hard and increasingly to make it
the grand success it was. Canaan
Lodge deserves great deal of
credit for the able manner in which
e, e .ything was handled.
Early Wednesday morning people
began to come in from the sur
rounding country and when the 5:l4
train arrived from the north the
crowd was considerably increased.
A special arrived from the east at s
o'clock bringing hundreds of peo-
pie and the regular train from the
east at lO:47 brought hundreds more.
The special from the north about
noon was loaded down. At Weir
City ii was found necessary 10 add
two coal cars to the train so big was
the crowd at that place wanting to
come to Baxter. BY 1 o'clock there
were between 5000 and 1000 people |
within the corporate limits of Bax.
ter Springs. Immediately after the
arrival of the special from the north |
the procession was formed on North |
Military street and proceeded to
Camp Logan. 1t was headed by
the Galena Firemen's band, followed
by Galena Lodge, Patriarchs of
America, after which came the Weir
City band, Charity Lodge, Patri-
archs of America of Weir City, Uni.
form Rank Knights of Pythias of
Galena. the Weir City hook and lad
der company, the Supreme officers
of the Patriarchs of America. and
representatives of Columbus, Par.
sons, Girard, Chanute, Galesburg.
Scammon, Coffeyville, Melrose, Mon
tana, Crestline, Usage, Hallowell,
Oswego, Monmouth, lie.
anna, Pittsburg, Labette, Cherokee,
Cherryvale, Independence
and Bartlett lodges.
Upon arriving at the grounds an
was taken for dinner.
after which the program as an
nounced was carried out in the am.
phitheatre.
The Galena Firemen's band dis
coursed some excellent music aud
Miss Bessie Gill recited when the
Bloom" in a pleasing 1
manner.
Mrs. W. A. McElhiney then recited 4,
Independence Bell" and was fol- ,
lowed by Mayor Norton who, in a 1
short, but fitting address, welcomed A,
the Patriarchs of America and their {
friends to the city and bade them A,
make the most of the day.
Col. L. c. Weldy of Galena, Su- {
preme Patriarch, responded in his {
usual pleasant manner aud then &
came music by the Weir City band. A,
DR.. ]. T. finder of Parsons. Su.
preme Medical Director of the Pa \
of America, then addressed
the assemblage on the object and
purpose of the organization and
spoke at some length in favor of the
of women to member
ship in the lodge.
Miss Jessie Edwards then deliv-
cred recitation entitled The
Finer"
w. r. Cowley of Columbus fol-
lowed with a pleasing address in
which he compared the Patriarchs {
Of old with the Patriarchs of the
present time. His talk was well re-
ceived and he was frequently ap-
plauded.
Hon. S. S. Kirkpatrick of Fredonia
was next introduced aud spoke for
some time, his subject being "Our
Mr.. Kirkpatrick is
pleasing speaker and his remarks
were frequently greeted with ap-
plause.
Miss Bertha Gill then favored the q
audience with one of her famous
Next came a drill on the parade
ground by Uniform Rank X. of p.
Of Galena which was an interesting
feature of the days program. The /,
irill master, Supreme Patriarch L.
:. weldy, put the rank through the
regulation evolutions and tactics in
/ way that showed to the enormous
:rowd that not only he, but the rank
g "up to SNUFF when IL comes to a I
irili. Q
Then the Weir City hook and lad L
Ter company made a run on the pa