Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-05
MURRAY CELEBRATES,
Arlington Park the Center of Fcstiv-
tiles and Patriotic Program.

The Fourth was celebrated at Muir
| ray Yesterday in the manner character
| istic of the people of that widewake
city They do things just about right
| always down that way, and especially
| is the nations great day an occasion
for the manifestation of true patriot
| ism. Arlington park was the center OF
| the festivities, and 1t was there that
| most Interesting exercises was carried
out, the same being witnessed by most
| of the residents OF Murray and by
many people from surrounding settle
ments. The program was as follows;
Selection, national air. Band
Prayer ......,.... Chaplain U. G. Miller
Selection. national air.. Band
Address of welcome Mayor c. Brown
Selection ............ National Quartet
Grafton. Rev. p. A. Simpkln
Selection Miss Matilda Watts Glee club
Consisting of the school girls)
Selection .........s.. National quartet
Selection national air..,,..,,.,. Band
Baseball. basketball and various oth~
games ana contests followed during the
dav. Taylorsvllle won the basketball
game and Draper scored against Nun
ray on the diamond. The tug of-war
between the American smeter team
and the Bell Telephone men was de-
clared to be a draw.
The Grafton OF Rev. Mr.. SimpkIn was
a mastery effort and elected much APP
plause. A brief synopsis of his adj
dress follows.
1.-THE day OF our national rejoicing
and pride Is here, For all the wide
flung empire OF our loved land. for all
the sons at homo and abroad, this day
is the glorious ono In our calendar,
for II is the day OF liberty
"He Is unworthy breathing space UNI
der the fuliering banners OF our tree
dom whose heart is not stirred TO It's
depths today by the great fact whiah
free people celebrates.
1--WE are here for the one purpose q,
jubllatiug in American freedom, OF 10.
memberlug great achievements, OF re-
joiclng IN the fact OF liberty and en-
phasizlng not only the unmatched
glory Of our nations life, but alike our
own duty TO tho free institutions. and
the splendid national endowments, out
of which has flowed so much OF en-
rlchment FOR each OF our lives
THE courage ana devotion OF the
patriot faith ars, We need 70 remember
forever II we do not II Is not be-
cause they did not write large the
truths they realized. That winnowed
band OF brave souls that dared to
lift itself against klnsly arrogance and
In Iustics, that flung itself against the
strings Of teuder love for the old
mother land. that in poverty endured
more than tongue can tell OF suffer-
ing In tho conflict, that gave Itself 10
tho dreams OF freedom without count
Ing the cost. thnt brought in the mint
age OF the hsnrt the privileges we en-
10Y. wrote lis achievement so large
that the age cannot forget their do
ibg. Forever down the great white
road Of the age as men move on 10
dostmy, IL viii be IN the power OF
thar wrought by the fathers ana hui
man vision ana being are enriched
beyond our telling by those funda-
mental assertions which they made
abiding In the years
1.-THE achievements OF these hun
drcd and thirtY-one years ars the
most wonderful IN human history
Tho new experiment In freedom which
was lnunched IN the Declaration OF
Independence was looked upon with
interest tincturld with fear by many
of it's warmast friends. But II has
been q gToundlsm fear. The sweep of
life has marched almost without
hauling 10 set the fundations wider
than all the drsamings Of the fathers
That which has been realized In our
American life rs so far beyond all the
glowing aspirations OF the men WIN
sacrificed that II might be, that II