Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-12-27

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One evidence of our pride In the American
tradition is the custom of observing In one way
or another the anniversaries of certain events
winch proved to be significant In our national
development. Taking the century. 100 years, as
the unit of time which indicates antiquity and
a corresponding reverence for those things
which must be good because they are old" we
have fallen into the custom OF pausing In the
midst of the busy present and our plans for the
future to bark back to the past and recall Its
events.
We do this not only on the one hundredth
anniversary. which we call the centennial. but
also upon the anniversary of multiples and frac-
lions of that period of time. Thus we frequently
celebrate the twenty-ffth, the nftieth and the
seventy-dfth anniversary of events rather than
wait for the one hundredth anniversary and we
are even more pleased In our feeling Of honoring
antiquity when we can celebrate the sesqui-cen-
fennial Zone hundred fftieth), the bi-centennial
1.-TWO hundredth) or the tri-centennial fthree
hundredth) OF some event In American history.
AS the year 1884 opens. an examination of
American history will show that we WILL have
occasion for a number OF these celebrations II
we choose. The only quad-centennial flour hun
dredth) anniversary Of any importance Is that of
the voyage of jacques Cartier, the Frenchman,
who In 1884 passed Newfoundland and dlscov-
cred the Gulf Of st. Lawrence.
Two events of 1884 afford an opportunity for
tri-centennial celebrations and plans are already
under way for them. From Michigan comes the
word that the Mackinac Island State Park COM
mission Is preparing a tercentenary celebration
on that island next summer of the voyage of q
Frenchman. Jean Nicolet, upon whom the mantle
of Samuel de Champlain, as explorer toward the
west, had fallen. On July 1. 1884, Nicolet, ac-
companied by seven Huron Indians, set out from
Three Rivers on the St Lawrence, assembled the
Ottawa river, went across to Georgian bay, pad
died his canoe along the north shore of Lake
Huron to SauIt Ste Marie. passed through the
Straits OF Msckinac and was the first white man
TO gaze upon Lake Michigan. known then and
for many years afterwards as the Lake Of the
Illinois.
Continuing down the western shore of Lake
Michigan, Nicolet and his companions entered
Green Bay and landed, there to be greeted BY
a party OF Winnebago Indians with whom he
made an agreement that they should take their
furs to the French posts on the st. Lawrence to
trade. He pushed on to visit other tribes, a.
cended the Fox river to the central part of Wis
consin and spent the winter there, returning to
Quebec In 1885 to report to Champlain.
The other tercentenary celebration which is
already under way but which will reach its ell
max during the coming year is that OF the found
ing Of the colony of Maryland from which grew
the state of that name.
In 1882 King Charles | Of England granted to
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, a large tract of
land lying north of the Potomac river and south
of the Plymouth colony's boundaries. Calvert's
motive In seeking this grant was q desire to