The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-03
OBSERVANCE OF
OUR natal DAY
Celebration Of the Fourth
General on Monday.
QUIET TINE In CLEVELAND

WY tNuo Fuh odH vi FNC"otNS ttiS
Year-Lake champiain's Tercenten
ary Begins Monday, With President
Taft and Other Celebrities in At.
tendance on Tuesday-ceIebration
General in the Northwest.
Throughout the length and breadth
of Uncle Sans possessions, which
means nowadays land on which the
sun never sets, his sons and daugh-
tiers will celebrate Monday the 1880
anniversary of the signing of the Dec
laration of Independence.
On Monday night the man on Mars,
looking down on the broad stretch of
earth and scattered spots over which
the American flag waves, will see re-
peated the annual spectacle of land
In violent pyrotechnic eruption. He
will, however, see nothing of the sort
rising from the site of Cleveland, o..
where the city fathers have decreed
that Cleveland shall add zero this
year to the total of more than 500
dead and many more hundreds wound
ed tLat represents the annual Amer
lean sacrifice to exuberant patriotism.
Fireworks are under the ban in Cleve.
land and in a few other places, but
on the whole the celebration of the
Fourth of July on July 5, the calendar
Fourth coming tomorrow, will differ
very little from that of the past years.
More and more as the years go on
Independence day shares with Me-
mortal day and Labor day, the two
other summer holidays, in the great
outpouring of the American people
for outdoor recreation. They do not
forget their patriotic duties by any
means, but hurry through them in or
der to participate In or view contests
on land and water.
Taft at Lake ChampIain.
The center of the patriotic Fourth
| Of July celebration comes this year at
Lake Champlain, N. Y. beginning
Monday. President Taft, Vice Presi-
dent Sherman and other national
celebrities will take part in the COM
| mcmoration of the Booth discovery of
| the lake and the recalling of the his
toric events that have taken place
along its shores, although the presi
dent will not arrive until Tuesday.
Probably the greatest of the big cit
les celebrations of independence day
will come in Pittsburg, where an old
| fashioned Fourth of July will be
spent in speeches, fireworks, balloon
| ascensions, etc. In Washington Secre-
tary Nagel of the department OF com
merce and labor will be the principal
speaker.
On the day of days for Americans
| the temporarily expatriated Yankees
will meet in many cities and dwell on
their countrys glories. In London,
Paris. Berlin and other places there
| will be banQuets and speeches. A
unique celebration of the day will be
| that at Aarhus, Denmark, where a
| large number of Danish-Americans,
| assembled for visit to the old coun-
try, will extol the land of their adop-
tion In the presence of the crown
| prince and other distinguished Danes.
Many of the Americans soiourning in
England will visit Henley next Mon
day to witness the opening of the
annual regatta.
Northwest Will Celebrate.
| General preparations are being
made by almost all cities, towns and
hamlets throughout the entire North
west for an enthusiastic celebration
of the day. Crookston has secured
Senator s. ID. Works of Mankato to
deliver the patriotic Grafton on Mon
day. Enormous plans for complete
illumination of the city are being car
ried out.
Window. Minn., will celebrate on
Monday, with State Treasurer c. G.
Dinehart to give the address and a
ball game between Jackson and
Springfield. Spooner, Mimi, has
turned her attention to aquatic sports
in Beaudette bay as extra features on
Monday. Redwood Falls, Mimi, will
hear Secretary of State julius
Schmahl
In South Dakota among the usual
municipal celebrations the Lower
Brule Indians will carry on three
day celebration with a gigantic pa
geant of sports and sham battles.
Maiden Rock, Wis, is also preparing
unusual features.
Arrested ror oeIilng -'Near seer"
Nashville, Tenn, July 3.-The first
case for the violation of the statewide
prohibition law here came up before
Judge Hart of the criminal court. He
decided that there was not sufficient
evidence adduced to hold the men ar
rested for selling what is known as
"beerette," or near beer" The pris
oners were released.