Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-07-06
A GRAND
Time in the Old Town
Of Mountain Home.
Gay Decorations, Spleen
did Procession, Able
Patriotic Talks.
Elegant Music, Soul-Stirring
Songs, Athletic Sports,
Racing, etc.
Acker, Reynolds, Swan, Kelsey,
Meyers Efforts Highly
Commended.
President Sinnott's Neat Little
Introductory Speech,
And the Hon. X. |. Perky's
Mastery Grafton.
President Sinnott's Neat Little
Introductory Speech,
And the Hon. X. |. Perky's
Mastery Grafton.

In Mountain Home ana nearly all
our people turned out to participate
in and witness the exercises of the
day, beside goodly number of pa
triotic people from abroad lent their
presence to the glorious occasion.
Promptly at 10 o'clock a. m,
commanded by Grand Marshal II.
Willis and aids, and led by Euterpe
Cornet Band the procession started
from in front of the court house.
First in line came the carriage
containing the president of the day
and orator, followed by the car con-
tanning the Goddess of Liberty
Miss Mel Tate) who beautifully re-
presented the character, and Is
young ladies representing the origi-
nal states.
Next came the Idaho car gaily
decorated as the others, and con-
tanning Miss Minnie Tanner as
Queen-and she looked queenly in
deed--with little girl representing
each county in the State.
This was followed by what was
termed the "16 to 1" float, with Sol
Newcomer in the center surrounded
by Is beautiful young ladies.
Then followed a large number of
Misses on gaily decked bicycles,
which presented very attractive
appearance.
Many business floats were in the
procession, the most conspicuous of
which was that of c.. r. Kelsey &
Co, Roscoe Smith, w. d. Reynolds,
the Heifrich M. Co., Commanded
bya sky-scraping rubber-necker,)
10. Ottenheimer, Spring d Meyer
and August Kunnecke, whose rig,
drawn by diminutive donkey,
created much merriment
Miss Stella Harris, mounted on
small donkey decked over with
bunting. was also an attractive fea-
~ture OF the procession.
But the Callithumpians, or Hot
Time Band, proved to be the merry
makers all along the line of pro-
cession. Their grotesque appear
ance and horrible music was simply
indescribable.
Arriving at the park the process
sion came to halt and was die
banded. The president of the day,
orator, reader, poetess, Goddess and
Queen, the Euterpe Band and few
invited gentlemen soon occupied the
platform.
After prayer by Rev. G. e. Mason.
Hon. A. M. Sinnott. president of the
day, made the following short but
patriotic and eloquent address:
Ladies' and Gentlemen:-Afar off, toward the set
ting sun, from where the rolling waves of the At
antic dash against the rock ribbed shores of the east
coast the broad praries of the Mississippi
valley, and beg ond the crags canyons and passes
the Rocky mountains, the backbone of our continent
s iand-a land whose pine-clad hills, gigantic
structures of nature towering upward to reyel in
halos of golden sheen far beyond the Clouds in
exhaustible storehouses OF precious metals; whose
valleys when brought into cultivation, blossom forth
into gardens of the olive and the whose crysta
streams, clear and sparkling the polished dia
mond meander over auriferons sands and among ar.
gentiferous hills westward in their toward the
Pacifc's golden strand-a land of men strong ano
fearless. and women fair and true.
This land Is Idaho! the Gem of the Mountains, and
also of the the brightest gems set in the diadem
that decks Coumbia's brow and the fortythird star
8 in that bright galaxy. And here in this land o
promise to-day assembled to celebrate th'
natal day of our nation, America, the land of th'
free and the home of the brave.
! The sun that rose on the morning of the 4th o
,, July IN the year 1776, marked before its gowins
down glorious in the history of the world. Oh
that day, assembled in old Independence Hall of Phil
adelphia, We're the immortal ffty-six, who then an.
there behalf of the people whom they represented
, announced that the old thirteen colonies n
longer the footstoo of throne, but country free
S governed BY free people. On that immortal da.
had been added to the nations of the earth
and the anniversary of that glorious day will be eel
ebrated long the spirit of liberty lives. Il
: achieve this boon OF freedom, and to establish til
u right of freedoms emblem, the starry flag, TO hoa
J untrammeled in the breezes Of heaven the blood c
the protomartyrs of American liberty the continental
troops, dyed every battlefield of the American reVo
n luton from the heights of Bunker Hill to the trenehe
r of Yorktown and at last the God of Nations wlllet
it that banner fair should be borne TO victory
and the Declaration of Independence, the new an
of the victorious hosts Of Washington and baptize
~ by the blood of the fallen heroes As todas We loo
Y upon this banner the emblem of our native land,
teaches US the lesson of liberty the red stripes sut
gestiye OF the blood Of martyred heroes who hay
fallen in every since it was first flung 10 Oh
. breeze to sustain it. The white indicative of tn
purity Of purpose and OF the patriotic devotion thu
has impeiled the flower of land, when eale
to lead to follow under its folds to victory
death. The stars in the blue field representing ne
- constellation whose blazing stars shed the light
liberty wherever they shine and to uphold that bal
II and that it may continue to float in the atme
phere as freedoms signal, whenever the clarion not
re Of the bugle and the rolling of the drums call
arms the have rallied around it ready to star
where their fathers stood generation before, to "
n or die.
l. The presidents Introductory n
marks, at their conclusion, receive
! hearty applause, showing conclul
y lively that there was not "misI
= fit" word used, and which shout
:. have caused the ''good-fit slave
" and his rule or ruin masters to han
their rotten heads In shame for the
- futile efforts to render this celebri
= ton failure.
. Rev. G. e. Mason was then il
troduced and read the Declaratic
~ of Independence in a clear, distin
- and able manner.
r At the conclusion Of the discour