The Washington herald., 1908-06-28
BIG GDilgS Ol!.
The Glorious Fourth Celebrated in 0uT
Midst With Loud Acclaim Some
Accidents, but No Fatal Fatal
tiles EICTuGiatiR PatiCu-
lars Give Below

Well. the Fourth OF July IS over and
nobody killed. for which let us be de-
votely thankful It was bad enough but
ii might of been worse.
The day wus ushered in by a salute
fired from the public square at a. m
by old Dad Henderson who is a veteren
OF the civil war and also claims 10
have fought IN the Revolutionary War
but nobody believes f. over three weeks
ago Dad cleaned up his old musket pre-
paratory TO firing Off this salute. and
loaded Il with powder and wads. Being
as Dad is old and forgetful a Is conser-
vatively call1llated that he has since then
put into that old musket as many as
four more loads When Dad shot off the
musket at daybreak II woke up every
body in BinEville. and fairly made the
wlnders rattle. Our most respected cit
izens rushed from there homes into the
streets-some with their clothes on and
some nOt-inqUiring what wus the mat
ter. When the gun went of 10 bust and
Dad was kicked half way cross the
square where he wus rescued by tender
hands, carried home and put 20 bed
Some two hours later he come 20 and
desired TO know where he was at II IS
almost miraculous that Dad wasn't killed.
and he says very emfaticaly that the next
time anybody wishes q Fourth Of July
salute shot off on the square I'm Blng-
Vile they can do il thereseIves
At 10 o'clock the Bingville horn band
assembled in the public square and
played several patriotic airs with great
Eclaw Nothing marred the sweet sprains
% musick except when Sid Miller hit
the base drum too hard and bust hole
in IT, The band then formed IN line and
marched 10 the town hall followed by
the entire populashun Of Bingville in
Guiding men. women. children and dogs.
Assembling IN the town hall, Cy Hos
kins called the meeting 70 order and
| intPodUced Jed Peters our intelligent
school teacher as the orator Of the day.
| Jed has been working on his speech
for several weeks pracicing on IL until
he could get il by heart. as you might
/ say. IL was a beautiful speech as far
as II went The opening words was
/ grand, and them present listened with
/ breathless interest. After Jed had spoke
! for a few minutes however he stopt
sudden and began to h-m and haw and
cough and sputter and get red in the
/ face. and perspire ring out his coat
/ tails and search his pockets Finally
/ he announced that his memory had
/ failed him. and that to make matters
worse he had went and left his speech
up stairs. and would somebody for good
, ness sake go and get il for him. Cy
Hoskins he sent little Tommy Barker
on the run for the speech, while the
audience set back and waited for his
return. But Tommy didn't return be-
cause he met some other boys who was
goin in swimmin IN Snake Creek and
he went with EN-.
/ Finally the audience got impatient and
begun TO leave the hall, whereupon Jec
retired from the platform and went home
in DISGUST. Otherwise the occashun was
a grand sUccess.
In the evening a supper was give ir
the basement Of the Bingville church fol
which the insignificant sum of twenty
cents per head was charged. including
beans, brown bread, pies. cakes, &c,
cream, doughnuts and other eatables tC
numerous to mention. Everybody ear
hearty and then dispersed to their vari.
Gus homes conscious of a day well spent
At D. m. there wus some fire works
put off on the public square but they
wasn't much Of q success, being as th'
rockets which wus intended 70 80 up n
the sir skated along the ground an(
scared most OF them present nearly outer
there wits Several fingers wus ais,
burned by prenatured explosion. Thi
closed the days sxcizes which was Yote'