Show flAG DAY D Y OBSERVED BY CITY AND STATE I I I Stars and Stripes Unfurled I From Homes and Business Blocks in Salt Lake EXERCISES AT WANDAMERE JUDGE A J WEBER SPEAKS ON BIRTH BIETH OP or THE FLAG Flag day generally wa was observed 0 throughout the olty ally and ami state t yester yesterday y yda day da the Sons Son and Daughter of Vet Veterans V erans crane and the th auxiliary patriotic or organizations closing the day in an ap appropriate a appropriate manner with exercises exe at et Previous to the program p m ma a banquet was waa served to the members of or the G C A R It pools poets po W the ladles circles and corn corps and aDd the Spanish War Vet Veterans et erans crane by the Sons Sone and Daughters of tr Veterans At the exercises Judge A AJ AJ AJ J J Weber delivered the address add of or the evening speaking to the on Tho The Birth of or the Flag The Star Str ar Spangled Banner was waa w rendered by Sirs Mrs Irs Emma Ramsey RamMY Morris Morr and soy sev several oral eral patriotic selections were rendered rende throughout the evening by a lad quartet A violin solo was w rendered by b Miss Ella Bile Pitt accompanied by 1 y Miss Mlee Mi Brewer and Mr Love gave a cornet solo A recitation by 1 y Mi II Hutton of ot Ogdon Ogden completed the pro program program gram From nearly every flagstaff in ID the city Old Glory floated proudly proud I on Oft the breeze and on numerous residences throughout tho the city dt the tile national col cot colors colors ors were displayed dl played In honor of oC the one onehundred 0 onehundred hundred and anniversary of or the adoption of or the first flag June 14 H 1777 Adopted In 1777 1 The limit first flag OtIS wad waS adopted June Jane 14 1777 by a session of ot the continental Congress and was wu of the making of oC Mrs Mr John Ross ROM or Belay ne Ross Roes as sho she Is more familiarly known to every student of ot American history General Washington Robert Morris and Col Colonel Colonel Colonel onel Ross ROM took a rough sketch of the emblem to Mrs Hose Roes who consented to make a flag nag from the design sub submitted submitted It Is i said aid that the star of or the sketch submitted by Washington was wae of or six points but the star used by bT Mrs Rose Roes nOl and which was adopted by Con Congress gross gress was of o live points The flag consisted of or thirteen trl seven red and six white alternating alter from top to bottom while the states were represented represented by b thirteen white star on a blue background generally forming a circle The lag flag when completed was wu im ha immediately mediately adopted by Congress The Th emblem of freedom was WIIL raised ra ed over tho the legislative halls hans Immediately after Its adoption Upon the admon to tho the Union of or Kentucky Kentuck and Vermont tho the stars and stripes were Increased to fifteen ouch each in 1781 1754 n a There were no nomore moro more changes chang in the flag for tor nearly nearl a quarter of ot a century although Louisi Louisiana ana ann and Ohio had both been n admitted to the Union Unon The next change that Is I recorded was W made mado on April 14 H when It was wag ordered that the stripes be reduced to thirteen in honor of or the original states and that the stars staN keep pace with the total number of oC state to be added to the national emblem emblen on OD ODthe the tho Fourth Of ot July JUI following each ad admission admission admission mission Hoisted on AH tU Vessels cl The stars tars and stripes stripe were soon a hoisted on all aU the naval vessel ve of oC the tb United States Captain John JOhR Paul Jones Jonos Is said to have hse been the first fl to carry tho the stars and stripes into a for tur foreign eign port carrying the national color o flors on the battleship Ranger Into a French Frenchport Frenchport port I 1 December 1777 and aDd It was there that it received the first drat salute ever paid pard by b a foreign nation on Feb February February February 14 1778 While bile Flag day is not a legal hall holi day tay the date has come to be generally observed throughout tho country toad and In the tho American legations legation In foreign lands In fact wherever the Ie patriotic spirit of ot the true American is I found Cound the stars stant and anti strIpes stripe the emblem of oC freedom In is unfurled June 14 The day dru was first observed In New N York June 14 H 1394 when the Ute gov pv governor of or that state Issued a p mA mAtlon tion ordering that the tho Slag flag be displayed upon all nIl public buildings in honor konot Of tho the birthday of or the tho first drat flag nac The Th custom has halt grown and today proofs procla proclamations are Issued by nearly till all n the Ih governors of or the states and the th mayors of the towns and cities of or the states state throughout the whole United State |