Pocahontas star herald. (Pocahontas, Randolph County, Ark.) 1907-current, 1908-07-10
BIG CELEBRATION
About 5000 Souls Celebrate
Glorious Fourth in POcahOntaS

wise, of any celebration Pocahon-
tas has ever had; others say it was
Just as good if not quite The big
celebration really commenced In 20
cahontas twenty-four to thirty-slX
hours IN advance of the Glorious
Fourth, the one hundred and thirty
second anniversary of our indepen-
dence.
All modern cOnveniences were on
the ground, electric lights, telephone
apparatus, etc, thus enabling the
people to begin their celebration on
the night of the second. Friday,
the third, was advertised as jeff
DAVIS day, and although bad wealth
er threatened until eight or nine
o'clock in the morning, a tair-slzed
crowd was out to hear him, 1t being
estimated that from 800 TO 500
people were on the ground. The
Senator opened in his usual manner
and with the exception of his ar
raignment of the Arkansas Gazette
and anti-Davis men in general, de-
livered a forceful, logical lndepen-
dence day speech. He declared that
he did not come to open his CAM
paign for reelection as had been
previously announced, that he was
good for four more years, that 1t
would be four years before his en-
emies could get a chance at his
scalp and forty years before they
could get it. This remark created
considerable applause among his
followers. He declared Bryan to be
the greatest living American and
prophesied that he would be nomi-
mated at Denver on the first ballot
and elected president next fall by
great big majority. He refrained
from personalities and closed his ad-
dress by declaring that he would
support Geo. w. Donaghey for
governor with as much pleasure as
he would support Kirby had the lat
ter received the nomination. "For,"
he declared, "when Donaghey re-
ceived the nomination for governor
he ceased to be Geo. w. Donaghey
and became the Democratic nomi-
nee. If we have made mistake
we will correct it in due time. If
we have not, well and good. Don
aghey is the choice of the majority
and the will of the majority is my
will" Senator Davis was on his
way to Denver, and will sit with
the Oklahoma delegation in the
national convention. He told a
Star Herald reporter that if an OPP
portunity presented itself he intend
ed to make speech in the conven-
ton in defense of organized labor.
But talking about the big days,
as the Star Herald predicted last
week, Saturday, the real GLORIOUS
fourth" was the biggest day Poca'
bontas has seen in many a day.
Only a few minutes after snn-up
continuous streams of wagons, horse
men and footmen began pouring in
to town, and by the noon hour a
conservative estimate would place
the number of the crowd at 5000
souls, to say nothing of the train
loads of human flesh being brought
IN from both north and south.
Next came the monkey show, the
balloon ascension and parachute leap
bv Sam Bowmans trained monkey,
derry" This was one Of the best
attractions of the entire occasion,
the monkey making a successful as
cention Of several hundred feet and
descending to the top of tall tree,
without getting scratch. No use
to say that everything advertised
and more too, was there, To amuse,
10 see and to be seen. Sam Bow
man. Joe DeClerk and the Others
are on to their job when it comes to
managing picnic, aud that's enough
said.
L. T. L. PARADES
But this article would be IN
complete if we failed to mention