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Show ITS CKNTKNAUY. The Hundred! Anniversary r St, tlair Count jr. Belleville, 111., April 26. Special.- Tomorrow will be thecenb'iiuial anniversary of the organization of St. Clair county, and arrangements have been perfected for properly celebrating the event next week. Tho boundaries of St. Clair county as then defined by Arthur St. Clair, the governor and coin-niauder-in-ehief of the north west territory terri-tory of the United States, comprised fully two-thirds of what now comprises the'vvhole state of Illinois. Old St. Clair was the first county erected iu the state, and is the ancestor of all the counties south ami east of the Illinois river. Tho people of these counties will participate iu tho centennial celebration. |