Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-06
HEPPNER'S FOURTH
is A QUIET ONE.
lone and Hardman Each
Have Celebrations.


8 versary of American independence wa
: passed by Heppner's citizens in a yer
quiet manner, as no preparation OF an
kind was made this year to 6ttingl
( celebrate the event in this town.
} Not 80, however, with our sister town
OF Hardman and lone, and each OF thee
places made quite extensive preparation
the former giving up three days, ant
the latter two days to celebrating anC
having good time generally.
1t was not our fortune to be able tc
go up to Hardman for one day was all We
could spare for this purpose and get thie
first class family paper into the hands OIL
its subscribers on time, SO we took in
Ione's program for Tuesday.
Quite a number of the Heppnerites
went down on the train, and through
the kindness of those managing affairs
there, the train was run down in the eve-
ming and brought the crowd home at 12
o'clock.
The lone band boys had taken charge
OF the celebration and had all matters
nicely arranged tor good, old.tashioned
picnic time. There was large attend
ance from the surrounding country, and
so far as we could Judge. all had good
time.
Promptly at ten-thirty in the forenoon
the crowd was assembled at the plat
form in the Stratton grove, and the fol-
lowing program was carried out in
creditable manner, the only feature that
marred its complete success was the
blowing of the wind just at this time,
and this proved dist, essing to some Of
those taking part in the exercises, as
they had to speak against it and 1t was
difficult for them to be heard by a por.
ton of the assembled crowd.
March, American Favorite Band
Drill Nine girls
Vocal solo, Lard of Hope and
Glory Miss Opal Cochran
Reading of the Preamble Mrs. PEN
nington
Chorus, led by band, Star spangled
Banner
'lag Drill Six little girls
Song, Yankee Doodle Neva Miller
and Helen Balsiger
Piano duet Misses Cochran and Wilt
Recitation, The Deathbed of Benedict
Arnold Edna McNabb
long, America and Liberty Male
quartette. Messrs kaufman, Balsiger
Brstow and LundeIl.
The Fourth of July Nellie
Carle '
'horus, led by band. Columbia the Gem [
of the Ocean
ddress ]. w. L. kaufman
horus, led by band, America, Every.
body singing
Iusic, Battle Cry of Freedom Band s
Imm ediately following this program q
nners were spread in the grove, on t
le seats and about the platform and !,
sumptous feed was had by all partak. a
2, and one would Judge from the great
mount and variety of good things to 3
t that was spread out on this occasion a
at the citizens of that portion of the O.
unity are far from being bankrupt at h
g present time so far as something
cd to eat goes. We will refrain be-
use of modesty, from casting any per- "
nal reflections on anyone that took IL
rt in this feature of the program. We g
low that there were those there that Ii
il full justice. !,
Of course the oration of the day, by
of. j. w. L. kaufman, was the lead "
: feature of the morning exercises,
mere comment upon it by this pa if
7 would not suffice to do it justice at CT
. 1t should have been heard to be N
ly appreciated.
N the afternoon there was quite an J"
tended program of sports, beginning
o'clock with ball game, so called,
tween Heppner and lone. At no
le was the Heppnerites in it sufficient
make the game interesting for the
le bsll tossers, and it WAS so absolute. aa
as to take all the heart out =
he Heppner rooters, and there was .
'retty fair bunch on hand to encour- ID
the home team, too. But what's CI
use. Heppner cannot expect to II