The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-07-10
JULY FOURTH
AT COLv|LLE
LARGE NUMBERS FROM MANY
LOCALITIES ATTEND THE
CELEBRATION
Parade, Address, Picnic Lunch, Races,
Baseball, Band Concert, Dances
Furnish the Entertainment.

crowds of people began to pour into
Colville to celebrate the nations
birthday. The streets We're lined
with people to watch the parade,
which was the opening feature of the
day. M. A. Daggy was marshal, and
various organizations were represent
ed. After the parade, the crowd ad-
| journed to the city park to listen to
| the address of the day by James E.
| Royce, deputy prosecuting attorney,
of Spokane county.
Mr.. Royce said in part: "The last
war was one of selfdefense. We did
not fight for Belgium. We did not
| fight for France. We fought to pre-
| serve this nation. Now that this
danger is past, it is our duty to fight
| for it's preservation from all dangers
without and within" After quoting
the words of jefferson, that eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty, and
| stating that no price is too great to
pay for liberty, the speaker con-
|
statement of the rules by which We
play the game, and it bears within
| itself the machinery for changing
| these rules. There must be no change
| in the the form of government eX-
| cept by lawful change of its con-
| stitution. We need not be afraid of
it, for we can change it when we
please" Later, in discussion of the
| bill of rights, which he called that
part of the constitution which causes
| the heartbreaks," the speaker said:
"The principles governing the acqui-
sition of property are sane and wise.
Every man has the right to pile up
| decent comforts for himself and his
| family. We need such a system,
| however, that there will be no excess
| profits"
After the picnic luncheon, t
crowd was considerably augmented
by auto loads of people coming in for
| the afternoon and evening MANY
| different localities were represented
during the day, Chewelah, in par
ticular, showing her spirit by an at
| tendance of 800
The afternoon opened with sports
on Main Street. The following races
| took place: 50-yard dashes for boys
| under IL and for boys under 16, 100
| yard dash free for all, so yard dash
| free for all girls, bicycle race for
boys 10 and Is, relay race, Chewe-
lah versus Colville, this being won by
| Flaherty and Bray of Chewelah.
The ball game resulted in victory
| for Chewelah, the score being to |.
| 1t was an enjoyable game to watch,
there being few errors. Colville play
ed a good game, and Chewelah has
an exceptionally fine team this
| season,
Music was furnished throughout
| the day by the Colville band, which
came nobly to the front, bearing the
brunt of the days work in the abb
sence of the Chewelah band which
has recently lost its leader, A. ID.
Plumb and is at present unable to
fill engagements. In the evening the
Colville band gave concert in their
band stand before an appreciative
audience.
The day closed with dances in the
gymnasium and the Odd Fellows hall,
the music at the first being furnish
ed by the Chewelah orchestra and
that of the second by the Colville
orchestra. A happy feature of the
celebration was the absent of acci-
dents.
The committee in charge were
greatly surprised and disappointed at
the non-appearance of the aeroplane
for which they had made arrange
ments. Attorney John Raftis, secre-
tary of the Colville Chamber of Com
merce, wrote a month ago to the
Russell-Symons company of Spokane
asking that they arrange to send
plane to Colville, July 5. The COM
pany replied in writing that they had
four planes and that one should be
in Colville the fifth under the same
conditions as those under which they
sent one here last fall, namely that
passengers would be carried at $l5
per flight. Upon this promise, the
committee advertised About week
ago a letter was received, saying that
the Russell-Symo company had
dissolved partnership, but that either
one of the former partners would
send an aeroplane. 1t would be
necessary however, the letter con-
tinued, for the committee to give a
5000 guarantee, in addition to the
right TO carry passengers, this last