Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-08

For the first time in many years the
people of Plymouth and Marshall
county had the pleasure of witnessing
and enjoying genuine old time Fourth
of July. a few weeks ago the order
of the knights of the Maccabees of
this city conceived the idea that sue
cessful Fourth of July demonstration
could and ought to be held in Plymouth,
and just how we'll they succeeded can
be fully told today by the thousands
who Joined III the festivities and made
the Fourth of July, 1898 in Plymouth
one that will never be forgotten.
The glorious news which reached our
people early in the day that Admiral
Sampson had forced an entrance to the
harbor of Santiago with one of the
grandest fleets that ever sailed the seas
and gave battle to Admiral Cervera,
the greatest Spaniard living today, and
after four hours of terrific fighting not
a Spanish ship or a Spanish rag was
left to tell the story of the greatest
naval battle recorded in history. Is it
any wonder that the American people
rejoiced and made merry?
Early in the day 1t was evident that
big crowd would be present and when
the dial marked the hour of ten, the
streets were thIonged with people from
all parts of the county. The published
program was fully carried out and
there was not a hitch in the proceedings.
The local lodge of the Maccabees as
sembled IN front of their hall on Michi
gan street, and together with the as
sembled thousands were regaled by
patriotic airs rendered by the MOlter
band and the new city band of Plym-
outh The Knights formed in double
file headed by the band and marched to
South Michigan street where the line of
march was formed for the grand indus
trial parade. The citizens and business
men joined hands with the Knights
and left nothing undone to make the
occasion memorable one.
AS marshal of the day Mr.. AL Moon
proved himself master of the situation
and no time was lost in the formation
of the parade which was led by the
Molter band followed by the members
of the *. o. L. NJ. Next came the
lady members riding In magnificent
float built expressly for the occasion.
The new city band was next in order in
the line of march. The portly form of
chief Fred III. Kuhn loomed up fol-
lowed by the entire fire department of
Plymouth, and as those sturdy men
passed up the street they were given
three times three by the thousands who
filled every available foot of standing
room on the sidewalks and street.
Many of the floats arranged by the
business men of our city were beauties,
which elected much praise. Especially
those of l.. A. Kloepfer, Ball & Cara
bin, Bucks hardware and j. f. Ellis
"Curly Heads" The latter float con-
tained ten little curly haired girls
dressed in white. A very unique and
appropriate ad for his "Curly Head
cigar.
Every business represented in the
parade showed that the builders had
given much time and pains in making
them complete and attractive.
Frank Jacox was there with COM
plete line of groceries as were also
George Vinall, The When and Suits
grocery. Disher's flour was represented
by 500 twenty five pound sacks of flour.
j. &. Kuhn IL Son, the merchant tailors,
exhibited their line of goods very at
tractively. The Novelty factory was
in it to finish, and the display of the
goods manufactured by that firm were
very neatly and tastefully arranged.
Shambaugh, the shoe dealer; Suit 81
Railsbsck, proprietors of the Plymouth
planning mill; Underwood & Walls, the
bicycle dealers; Stansburry e Rhodes,
decorators and paper hangers; Miller,
the dealer in second hand goods; f. III .
Kuhn, and Schultheiss Bros, the meat
market men; Lillybridge, the jeweler
and piano dealer; the Plymouth Steam
Laundry and j. u. Hainiger, the bar
gain man, each had a fine float in the
parade representing their various lines
of business, demonstrating that each
one of them were fully up to the times
in their lines of trade.
In the order named this magnificent
pageant passed up Michigan street to
Jefferson street, thence west to Center
street, south on Center street to La
porte street, east on Laporte street to
Michigan street and there disbanded
One of the most amusing features
was the Spanish artillery, drawn by