Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-02-26
Appropriate Entertainment Given at
the Lewistown Public School on
Washinston's Birthday.
ADDRESS BY E. X. cHsADLE
A Comprehensive Grafton In Which
the Life and Character Of Wash.
ington Was Set Forth.

Exercises were held at the public
schools Friday afternoon In honor of
George Washington's birthday, the a
niversary of which occurred last Sat
urday. Many visitors were present
at the rendition of the following In.
~teresting program. which was carried
out in a manner that showed that the
pupils were interested. heart and
mind. in the exercises:
Loyalty to Our Flag, school.
Observation-Disclosures and Franklin.
Ervil Norton.
Song-Battle Hymn of the Repub.
lie, Eighth grade.
Song-Welcome Thou Festive Morn,
Fifth grade.
Reading, Miss Main.
Responses, Fourth, Sixth and Sew.
enth grades.
Observation-Disclosures of Washing.
ton. Ernest Richards.
Song-Columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean, Sixth grade.
Song-Hail Columbia, Seventh
grade.
Address, Judge E. X. Cheadle.
Song-Mt. Vernon Bells, school.
Doxology.
The various numbers were render
ed with a precision and attention to
detail which reflects great credit on
the management of the school and
the pupils themselves, who acquitted
themselves in a very praiseworthy
manner. All the exercises showed
that the discipline was excellent and
the hearty manner in which the patri-
otto songs were rendered showed that
the first principles of good citizen.
ship, patriotism, had been well taught
in the institution.
The reading by Miss Main was x
%cellent, while Judge Cheadle, with his
usual eloquence, held the attention of
his audience during a well delivered
address of fifteen minutes on the life
and characteristics of George Wash.
ington.
The Judge made a few preliminary
remarks in which he stated that he
had been requested, by a couple OF
young ladies connected with the
school, to make an address on the oc.
casion of washington's birthday.
The substance of the judges re
marks was as follows:
Il don't know that | can tell you
anything new concerning Washington
as everything that relates to him has
been told many times and it would bt
unreasonable to expect anything new
on the life of a man which has beer
the object of thorough research fol
ever a hundred years by men in a fal
better position to ascertain such
things than myself.
However, what has been said many
times will be of interest because
{ about Washington. and though dur
ing the past hundred years there
have been many changes, there has
I been no change in the great love ant
respect felt by the people of this coun
try for him. There has been no one
public man who gave up so much fol
his country as did George Washing
ten, or who asked SO little in return
for his services.
"He was born in the year 1882 II
g what was then known as the colony o.
Virginia, where he attended schoo
: until he was sixteen years of age
Schooling at that time was who'll,
different from now, but he obtained
all the knowledge he could with wha
education was available, while hi
character was formed and most of hi
: knowledge gained in the world
school.
"His first work was the surveying
o. the wild lands of Virginia. which
OF cupation he followed for thre'
years. until nineteen yesrs of age
o In 1851 other work was found for hin
e to accomplish and he was appointe'
sdjutant general of the virginia.
troops by Governor Glenwiddie. II,
went through many hard campaign
o against the Indians and French
y and accomplished what work he ha'
to do so well that he was appointe'
lieutenant governor of the virginia.
forces.
IL His first striking public servic
~ was the carrying of dispatches be
tween the French and Virginian go,
errors, and the battle won by him a
ri, Great Meadows, which ushered tn
Id French and Indian wars. He after
I'd wards served under General Brat
u dock and was present at the disaI
/. trous defeat Of the M~onongahela ri'
err. and George Washington was tn
only officer engaged in the conflit
who left the field Of battle with cree
il to himself and to his country. II
continued in the army for sever
,or years and was with the expedite
against Fort Duquesne; he was yet
young man. but he had learned by PAL
to experience to act at the right nome
and to do things.
or HE afterwards became a memb'
n of the Virginia legislature. or wifi
was then known as the house OF bu