The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-06
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
The Celebration the Greatest Demonstration Ever Wit.
messed in Logan-ThOusands of People, Unnum.
bered Small Boys, Bands of Music. Fire
Works, Races, Industrial Parade.

setting up sight stakes to see if he
could see "Surveyor" Ephriam and
the "field notes."
The boys who looked to see if
the fire cracker went out, and got
their faces burned and their fin
gers, shot off, will not be SO inquis-
itive the next time.
The biggest fools of the day
were the men who PERSISTED In
driving their horses on Main street
while the street was crowded with
men. women and children, and the
racket of explosions was on every
side. That there was no runaways
and no body run over is a marvel,
and almost miracle.
A rocket stick fell on the roof of
Mr.. John Strentz's residence going
through the slate roof. Mr..
Strentz was at home, fortunately,
and hurrying to the garret found
the stick and tube burning. His
prompt presence If mind saved his
house from burning.
A smart click, not satisfied with
the single barreled cane, loaded
his at both ends. The result was,
his hand was badly mangled. He
will have more sense next time.
not try to be smarter than the av-
erage.
The impression prevails that the
stBuffalo Bill" in the parade was
our Brother Huls of the Hooking
Republican, appearing with his
Rockbridge brownies, with hair
unkempt and uncut as he went in
the peppermint pastures, "a fru-
gal swain, he fed his fathers
flocks." And the captive Indian
was Thaddeus of Warsaw Allen,
his hair entwined with Smith
Chapel snakes who was held for
ransom by the cow boy Bill, until
he agreed to tell another snake
story, bigger than his last. The
man about town, "Ec-" centric and
.tEc-"clesiastic Sands had this fea-
ture Of the exhibition in hand,
and he is entitled to much credit
for the masterly way in which he
managed the Republican and Jour-
nal Gazette exhibit.
When Bro. Mckay, our able and
aggressive cotemperary of the
Journal Gazette, the party organ,
and aggressive agitator for an
early primary, when he saw the
crowds coming in he evidently
thought it was a gathering of the
Anti Grosvenor committees of the
district, or re meeting of the
McConnellsville convention, and
he at once hid in the seclusion of
the post office, and placarded his
door, s'No Admittance, Legal Hol-
iday.'
Reformer White was manifest.
He practiced the modesty Of a
magnate. He appeared, not to ap-
pear. He had the Oyemy instinct
not to disport in uniform nor ride
a white horse, so as to attract at
tention. He wore his old clothes
and had on a forage cap. He was
a man of the people, San Cullotte,
and it took only the eagle eye of
the SENTINEL reporter to- distin-
guish him from the quadrumaneous
mammals in the Congo exhibit.
A very significant feature In the
parade was a wagon filled with fid-
dlers. 1t is supposed by the coun-
try folks that Ed Ricketts, headed
and handeled the ribbons and Har-
ley Whitcraft tailed 1t. Both be-
ing commissioned candidates,
their nomination assured, neces
sarily attracted the alert eye of the
SENTIsEL reporter. The end man,
if it were Tin the subjunctive
mode) Harley, he very properly
represented the ancestors of the
Cougo Republican anthropoids of
Ward, his tail being longer than
his head is big.
The late Elmer O'Petit, who for
years as he says himself "groped
in the dark" walked in the process
sion, under the vigilant eye of Re-
former White, his face yet glowing
with the sheen Of our ancient de-
mocracy, not yet eclipsed nor al
together obscured, Illuminating,
like the descending glory of Luna
leading the consultations, his al
i ways handsome countenance, was
the admired of men and matrons
who watched the procession.
| The SENTINEL is 81. year.