The Goodland republic., 1906-07-06
IT WAS A GLORIOUS FOURTH
GOODLAND ROBED IN GALA At
TIRE THAT DAY.
CeIebratOrs From Far and Near
FIOcked TO the Big Western
Kansas Town.

Never before in GOOdIand's history
was there such an immense crowd Of
people gathered together on any pre-
YiOus occasion as was in this city
Wednesday, July 4, TO celebrate the
nations Independence day. The day
was ideal for the celebration, the
weather being warm and quiet, the
sky streaked with enough clouds to
keep the people from the suns swelt-
ering heat Under these auspiciOus
conditions, together with the arrange
ments previously made 10y the several
Fourth Of July c0mTaiTtCes in WOr6-
ing through the program Of sports.
such as street .amuSeLlents, baseball.
racing, fireworks AMI many other
minor attractions, the guests Of our
city seemed to feel that with them il
was a glorious day IT has been con
servately estimated that nVe thousand
people were in GOOdlsn1 Wednesday,
and If the disbelieVer could have seen
the vast crowds at the baseball game
at the horse racing, and at other
places OF attracuOn-nOt at any one
Of which were all the ceIebratOrs-he
would have declared that the i've
thousand" was an honest assertion.
Early in the morning, and even the
day before, strings Of teams were seen
on the roads that converge at Good
land when No. 9 reached here at 8
o'clock in the morning, it brought
about $50 Of the good people OF Colby;
many also came from kanOTadO,
Brewster, RuletOn ana Edison, st.
Francis and other places both near
and far GOodlani hing her big ceIe-
EratiOn bills in all Of me surrounding
towns in Kansas and in Colorado, ad-
vertising the big 1oings, and hence it
was that our city was and is more and
more becoming the brightest star il
the galaxy Of the Dig towns Of west
ern Kansas.
There were all sorts Of attractions
that were being patrOniZed early in
the day by the crowd that seemed to
have more E1ORey than II needed,
and when the street amusmentS be-
gan the streets was straighftway full
Of spectators, watching the small boy
in the egg race, sack race, three-leg-
ged race, etc. When these things had
been gone through, the GOOdland
band, which had been discOursing
music all morning, marched to the
court house park, where the Grafton
Of this great day in our national life
was delivered by Rev. H H Ambrose
Of the Christian church The accom-
mOdatiOns were ample and pleasant
at the park, but il was not so well at
tended as had been hoped. The serv-
the ones that wanted to hear.
Next came dinner, and the hotels
and restaurants were in a great rush
careing for the wants of the inner
man. Everyone was provided for and
asg soon as the crowd got enough to
thrOng passed on to take in the fur
ther excitements OF the day. At 1880
o'clock was called the ball game be-
tween Colby and the GOOdland Ath-
letics. The grandstand, the DIeachers,
the lines along the guard wires, were
packed with people, and many sought
room on the grass along the fence Of
the park Not less than 1900 people
saw the game in which Colby went
down to defeat by a One-sided score of
13 to 1 for GOOdland. The Colby men
played good ball by sperts, but errors
cost her dearly. The interest was
kept up until the latter part Of the
game when the sounding of the bell
at the race course began to draw the
crowd away. The GOOdland Athletics
deserve much praise for the way they
do things. The band hit a lively tune
just as the game was to start, and the
team all in tan uniforms quickly
punched themselves together and
sprung forward on the run to their
positions in the field, cheered by the
grandstand as they went The players
always run like boys eager for the
fray, and they played with the same
spirit.
The race track next presented a
crowd that looked like a multitude. 1t
was undoubtedly the largest Of the
day at one place. Two thousand