The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-06-20
JUDGE NORTHUP
Will SPEAK HERE
EVERYTHING IS IN READINESS
Over $1,000 In the Hands of the Com.
mittee-GrOunds Have Been Sc
cured on the Heights.

Everything necessary for first
class Fourth of July celebration is
now in readiness. The committee on
oIatory has been fortunate to secure
the services OF Judge II. Ii. Northup,
OF Portland. The judge is one of the
most eminent jurists in the state and
a public speaker of Z est ability. This
attraction alone will merit your pres.
ence at Hood River Oh the Fourth. IL
Is seldom that city Of our size is
able to secure such excellent talent to
deliver the Fourth of July address.
The comittee having in charge the
arrangements of the grounds report
that their work is going on without a
hitch. They have secured the beauti-
tut grove on the heights Just south of
the city, and they are preparing to
place 1t in the best of condition.
The committee on sports is adding
new attractions to the program daily.
lt Is expected that the program of
sports will far surpass anything ever
offered the Hood River public on an
occasion OF this kind. Come and en-
JOY the Fourth with us irrespective tf
class, color OF creed. 1t will make you
live longer.
Twenty four of the signeIs of the
declaration of independence we're law
yers, fourteen agriculturists, four
physicians, nine merchants, one
manufacturer, one a clergyman, and
thlee had prepared for the calling of
clergymen, but had chosen other vo-
cations. Heaven seems 60 have re-
warded them generally with long lite,
for three lived TO be over ninety, ten
over eighty, eleven over seventy,
fourteen oven sixty, eleven over fifty
and six over forty-four, although
one, Thomas Lynch, jr., was aeident-
ly drowned at sea when only thirty.
thus the average age of the signers
was over siXty-two years.
You can have better time in Hood
River than Uncle Joe Cannon states
he had in the following excerp9:
Back on the banks of the Wabash
when | was boy, the Fourth of July
was celebrated by milking tho COWS,
hoeing corn and wedding the vegeta-
BILE garden. If we we're in luck we
got a chance to steal Oft and 90 fish
ing.
"The Fourth of those old days is
now only memory. | prefer the
Fourth of this modern, wonderful,
plenteous, rich and incentive TWEEN
tieth ceftury, when for few pennies
the modern boy can buy novelties in
fireworks, skillful concoctions of
chemicals and more or less harmless
noise mskers to delight the boyish
heart such as boys on the old pioneer
farms in early Illinois never dreamed
existed outside the 'Arbian Nights
tales. p"
Memorize the following proverbs
and be on hand to see the big parade.
Accidents will happen in the best
regulated fireworks.
A shot in the gun is worth two in
the hand.
A little burning is dangerous
thing.
He who shoots aud runs away may
live to shoot another day.
Never look a gift cannon in the
mouth.
Cannon crackers alter faces.
One good burn deserves another.
Patriotism covers multitude of
sins.
Whatsoever thy hand flndeth to
shoot, shoot with thy might.
It's an ill bomb that blows up no.
body good.
It's wise father who knows his
own child-the day after.
Uneasy lies the head that wears
bandages.
A living boy is better than a dead
patriot.
Never put off till tomorrow what
you can fire tonight.
Celebration is the thief Of time.
Ais not cold that smolder;.
A good aim is rather to be chosen
than great stitches.
Insurance Is the best policy.
A new bomb sweeps clean.
Dead boys tell no tales.