The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1905-07-05
The Fourth Of July
Celebration in Minot
Of march. Billy Bennet's Show band
dressed like farmers did good work.
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of march. Billy Bennet's Show band
dressed like farmers did good work.
4 Carl Ferber the famous peanut man
was right in line with his $3.50 wagon.
The Granville band Of 20 pieces ar
rived on the 1O:45 train and large crowd
from that place celebrated here The
Granville band is all right and elected
a great deal Of favorable comment. The
band was beautifully uniformed.
The address of the day was given by
DR.. Forbes from an elevated platform
on the square of Main and First streets.
It may be good time to remark that
the speaker could hardly be heard on
account of the terrible thunder Of fire
crackers, canes and other Fourth of
July man killers and the authorities
were unable to stop the noise even dur
ing the time of the address. Some
body possessed of a cannon cracker
and no sense, light the cracker under
the platform beneath the speaker. A
large number of special police did the
best-they could to stop the noise, but
they could not do it. The speaker a
a number of times stopped during the
discourse to wait till his voice could be
heard. When the fire crackers were
not going off the loudest, many of the
women present embraced the opportu
nifty to ask about Cousin Jane or Uncle
John from their friends whom they had
not seen perhaps for q week. But with
all of these difficulties, the speaker
address which was much enjoyed by
those who were close enough to catch
the words of the great man. Now while
the Fourth is still fresh in our memo.
ries, let the city council pass an ordi
nance prohibiting the firing of fire
crackers in the city on July 4th.
The speaker does not believe that the,
friendly relation between this country
and Eogland will ever be disturbed
again. This country he say is made up
of the sturdy Scotch. the Germans, the
frugal Scandinavians, and all other
nationahties, all of whom are welcome.
We must allow the Chinese to como
hers and worship God in their own way
SO long as it does not interfere with the
other religions. The speaker empha
sized the fact thata nation to become
great needs room. This country has
the room and the resources. We could
get along all right if a ship did not cross
the ocean for the nexa fifty years
Switzerland Will never be great Re-
public because She has not the room
The only reason Great Brittian is so
great is on accent of her possessions.
Nations grow great as men grow
great, The man who compels the
world to remember him has as rule
had hard time in his youth. The
speaker believes that it is an advantage
to man to be born poor. Lincoln was
a poor boy, he split rails. The only
question that may be asked is:-"Did
he make good rails.
DR.. Forbes states that his sympathy
is with Japan in its struggle with Rus
STA and from the start he predicted that
the little country would win.
He also sympathizes with Norway
with her trouble with Sweden. DR..
Forbes is one of the most able speakers
in our country and it is too bad that
his speech could not have been heard
by every person who was in Minot
Tuesday. 1890. 4
A crowd of 5000 people saw the races
at the track. The pacing race was won
by D. A. Dinnie, LIST, Geo. O'Dell End
and j. A. Erickson, 3rd.
Chester jacobson with Leaf Prince
won the half mile running race, with
Earl jacobson on Baxter's Velva horse
second.
Bob Rowan won the Farmers race,
with A. D. Fish second.
Smith won the first prize for bucking
broasho with VIM. Cooper second. n
Chester jacobson won the ID mile
dash and he also won the mile dash with
Earl jacobson second.
Chester jacobson won the COW boy
race on his sister Lettie's little brown
mare. VIM. Cooper was second with
horse from the stock yards. Chester
entered four races and won all Of them.
A pretty good record. e'@...',zsa.
. III II : SNAP, SHOTS. $500 =, 49,.
There we're good many DRINKS
Officer Kimball counted fifteen old stiffs
lined up down on the fat. They were
not taken to Jail, the Jail is to small be-
sides they were not disturbing anybody,
not even themselves ~ ARss