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Show The Document & Home of the Author Banner of the contribute more than ten cents to this maae an important maai- - memorial to tbe author of "The Star H fr MAW ont tnose places la the Spangled Banner," and every person 3.V lZ United States wbere the who thus Invests a dime becomes a Annual raxnrronra nf "Plaf member of tbe Francis Scott Key HERH! hat recently been Day" a observed by appropriate exercises. Tbla new scene Is celebrations f commemorative tbe borne of Francis Scott Key. tbe Banauthor of "Tbe ner." This historic habitation of tbe man who Immortalised the nation's daft Is located In that section of the nation's capital known as "old George town," and the bouse Itself stands almost on the bank of tbe Potomao Star-Spangle- Memorial association. In the meantime, the officers of the Memorial association have on their own responsibility leased tbe Key mansion; have restored it In so far as possible with limited expenditure, and have opened It to the public free of charge. The renovation and restora tion of this mansion was Indeed a herculean task. In the basement an accumulation of dirt and debris more than three feet In depth had to be excavated ere the quaint floor was exposed to old, brick-paveview. The fireplaces In the mansion bad all been bricked up and their reopening was no easy task. As It stands today the Key mansion Is, of course, unfurnished, but the artlstle colonial stairways, the picturesque open fireplaces, massive doorways and d half-doze- 8 hlfi'i Hill n other architectural details are objects of much Interest to tbe numerous sightseers who now visit It It Is tbe Intention that after, the mansion shall have been fully restored it shall be made a memorial museum, in which will be gathered relics of all kinds bearing upon tbe personality and career of Francis Scott Key, in cluding, of course, all bis personal belongings that can be obtained. Assur ances have been received of the dona To Be Made Memorlsl Museum. tion of many such treasures, and it is river, close beside tbe old Chesapeake expected that a Botton family will and Ohio canal that pet project of loan the original banner, Gen. George Washington, which still the Identical battle-scarreflag which floated over Fort Mcllenry at Bait! serves as an artery of commerce. more all through that memorable Indeem it Tbe average reader may congruous to class this century-olrKey mansion as a "new" scene of Flag Day exercises, but such It Is In fact, for until a short time ago this one t was time borne of tbe wholly neglected, not only on Flag Day but at all other times. Indeed, the author of our greatest patriotic aong has been singularly slighted In comparison to the tangible testimonials bestowed upon other American peroes. However, when the president sr.- and other blgh officials of tbe government recently took steps to formally establish and dignify "Tbe Star Span' gled Banner" as our national antbetn for all time a number of prominent men, Including Admiral Dewey and Admiral Schley, took tbe Initiative to provide some fitting permanent memorial to the man to whom tbe whole nation owes a debt of gratitude. The prime movers In this labor of love were unanimous In the opinion that there could be devised no more fitting tribute than the utilization as a memorial museum of the bouse In which Key lived when he wrote "The Banner." Tbe Idea Is Stairway In Key Mansion. tbe same which has been so successfully .carried out In tbe case of Mount ntgbt in 1814 and which inspired the Ban anthem of "The Vernon, the home of George WashingThe of ner." restoration the Key Tenin borne Andrew Jackson's ton; nessee; the Lincoln borne In Illinois, mansion Is In the bands of Mr. etc., and which It Is now proposed Charles H. Weisgerber, who but reshall be followed In the ease of Monti-cell- cently completed a similar labor ot the borne of Thomas Jefferson, love In saving for the city of Philadeland the abiding places of other nation- phia and the nation tbe "flag house" al Idols. Tbe project for the restora- or Betsy Ross home In the Quaker tion and preservation of the Key man- city, where the first American flag of sion was particularly welcome and op- the present design was manufactured direction of George Washportune because tbe historic house on under the and other famous men. ington of of the the outskirts Washingcity ton had been sadly neglected for many years and was rapidly falling Into decay. It wus found that $15,000 would be required to purchase the Key mansion, and that at. least 13.000 more would be needed to restore It to any- Polks talk about th balsam of the pines. The odor of the honeyaurkle vlnpa. thing approaching the condition In of the modest llttls And the . so poet-patrio- V, rTTi r jbrr Prompt Courteous That Made 1$ Star-Spangl- ed in imiH DfMrwt h Americans Freemen ONQRESS in 1776 had I nut into the bands of I John Adams and I Thomas Jefferson the I I drafting of the Declara- VI Bstsv I tlon of Independence, L. writes Fullerton Waldo In the Phila The delphia Ledger. two collaborators had a clear Idea of the articles of which the Dec laration was to consist, for there had been prolonged discussions In committee, of which careful notes were taken. of The little two men met and conferred together, and Jefferson asked Adams to take the written memoranda to his lodgings and there prepare the draft But Adams, insisted that the laborious honor should fall to his colleague. Tou are a Virginian," said Adams, "and I am a Massachusetts man. You are a southerner and I am from the north; I have been so obnoxious for my early and constant seal In promoting the measure that any draft of mine would undergo a more severe scrutiny and criticism in congress than one of your composition. And finally and that would be reason enough If there were no other I have a great opinion of the elegance of your pen and none at all of my own." Whereupon, bowing deeply and with protestations ot mutual regard, tbe patriots went their several ways, Jefferson with the manuscript under his arm. And in a day or two they met again and "conn'd the paper over." "I was delighted with its high tone," Adams wTote In 1822 to Timothy Pickering. But to the part containing the denunciation of King George he took exception. "I thought the expression too passionate and too much like scolding for so grave and solemn a document" ' Nevertheless, he had no amendment to suggest, and tbe draft fl 1 J ' Hown Telephone Service is what everybody wants. Get it by using "The Phone that talks." 9 Utah Independent Telephone In history alongside of Paul Sheridan s. in deand Philip Revere's fault of missing detail the must provide tbe picture of . a man.' KaUUV Bi'vviv w demon, urging b a like rldin witn .teed onward through the night abounding road a whip and spur, along with Mark miles separating i. the one warm, yellow cabin light from be as of he was 43-- a thinking next What Office Phone No. of the rode onward! Not of the pain countecancer, slowly eating away bis not of V. O. Creef Bid., Spanish Fexk. Vtah nance and sapping bis vitality; the risk he ran. a solitary horseman, mur of being waylaid and robbed or W. E. dered upon the lonely journey. i sleepthe and heeded not the hunger Quarantine and City Physician of tbe lessness; he was thinking only tbe day turn would vote fact that his Offlee vwo doors north of CUy Drugfor Delaware; Delaware, though a Ut store. NttfM eells made from office ile state, might influence PennsylvaInd. Phone nia, and so the vote of the colonies Fork, Utah. Spanish would be unanimous for a declaration that would Immortalize the men who made and signed it and enfranchise the people of the 13 colonies and their descendants. Office st WM Drag Ce. Befl&af Next day, Thursday, July 4, as the Spanish Fork. Utah members were assembling at the state Ind. Phone 53 Bell Phone 11 house door, a rider, booted and spurred ot Commercial Bans west block and covered with tbe dust of night iastdsoee one Company. Sugtr Fbyilelaa and-da- r in their travel, dismounted midst, and when, a little loter, Caesar Rodney rose In his place, still breathing hard, and said, "I vote for Independence," the result was that the vote of Delaware was cast In favor of the Optician declaration. Pennsylvania, by three ot ETI3 TESTED her five delegates present supported CLASSES PROPERLY FITTED Office at Residence Delaware's action, and thus by the ride SPANISH FORK, of Rodney the unanimous vote of the Phone, Ind. 33-colonies (with the solitary and temporary exception of New Tork) was that day secured for tbe Magna Cbarta Miss of our American liberties. Teacher of was In two o'clock "It tbe after noon," Losslng tells us, "when the PIANO, ORGAN AND THEORY OF MUSIC final decision was announced by SecFor particulars apply at the home of retary Thomson. When the secretary MRS. THOMAS CREER sat down a deep silence pervaded that taMjg half-maske- Dr. C. O. SCOTT i.ii 35-2- r. Dr.J.W.Hagan Dr. J. Fred Potter .''3 yfc'l cemt-centennt- Star-Spangl- iiu. lit rut Salt Lake D..A . 0;tu oynugviiie, frOTO, and all points tut and weBt No. 3:fl and Silver City 432For Eureka and Sliver City a B . 7:oj Mammoth 6:15 n Connections made In Ogdea Ualoi depot with all trains on Souther racino ana uregon snort OFFERS CHOICE Line. OF THROUGH TRAINS AST AND DAILT-- THREE DISTINCT ROUTES 1 4 SCENIC Pullman Palace and ordinary 81m log cars to Denver, Omaha, Ku Ultjr, St. Louis and Chicago iritioil change. Free Reclining Chair Cars; Penal ally conducted Excursions; a perfw I Dining car service. For rates, folder, etc.. Inquired G. W. McDONALD, Ticket Ami I T A O. A. P. D., Salt LakC? Saturday of Each Weeku Bntter Paper Day Money Loaned If your n Irrigated rarrns low Interest special options of partial permeats-Ofltoat resldesoe, oae block east of Co-o- p. SPANI9II I"ORK. UTAH. Bunding paper will be ready Saturday at 4 p. m. TelephMM Tt Z PROVO is that date your ATTORN Btt order placed before B. MORGAN, A. LORENZO THOMAS FASHIONABLE What's the matter!) TAILOR ffBBMIIliUUUtJ HUB mMM BIT av 11 ' 1J I J UjrlJEJtlCJaiDl ami r.U4 If One lluck North el Bank, R. M. ciiawrr hum "ft Famous Old Independence of the declaration was put before the committee of Ave Just as Jefferson had prepared The desk upon which the declara4 tion was drafted is In the library of the state department at Washington. Folk talk about th landaraprt of Corot, It was exhibited at Buffalo In the g Michael Angelo, The exposition In 1901. And all the niaaterpleces that are rev The final debate In congress, In the erently shown; But theae do not excite , committee of the whole, upon the Such a rapture of delight In the youthful celebrator as a "saisa" adoptiou of the Declaration of Independence began at nine o'clock on of his own. Monday. July 1. On that day PennsylFolks talk about the mimic ot the band,' vania, seven of whose delegates were The sons of Adollna Pattt and The operatic chorua, or the anthem and present, voted against adoption. The vote of Delaware, having two delethe carol; But theae are not a aweet gates present, was divided. To the urchin In the street McKean of Delaware, Thereupon As a "giant shootln'-cracke- r that's who had voted affirmatively, wrote a In a barrel" frantic letter to the absent n.ii un delegate. Caesar Rodney. Imploring Deaths of Adams and Jefferson. It Is one of the most "dramatic co- him to come and cast his vote. on,i incidences" of our national history thus turn the scale for Delaware, fru it was highly probable that If Dela of the Declarthat the ation of Independence marks the death ware supported the declaration Pnn. sylvanla would follow suit. of both John Adams and James JefferRodney at the time was 80 miles same hour of the son, almost at the away, at Dover, at one or the other of day. his farms, Byfleld and Ponlar Grove. Already 111. on the 30th of June, He suffered tortures from Who Has Charles H. Weisoerber, the cancer. Adams chose for the Fourth of July which, starting on his nose, had spread Charge of the Restoration of the tonut to be given In his name: "IndeHome of the Author of "The all over oae tide of his face, so that pendence forever!" When the morning Banner.1 he bad to wear a green silk shield to of that day came, his wandering mind hide the disfigurement: It was of thia which It was when occupied by the gropingly clutched at the sound of chronic affliction that be died. A cnn. patriot and poet This sum could ringing bi lls and booming cannon In a temporary chronicle describes him as readily have been raised through a bewildered Inquiry as to their mean"an animated skeleton Indeed, all few subscriptions made by wealthy ing. spirit,, without corporeal Integument" of the The nffiht Jefferson, third, men, but it was felt that since the McKean's messenger Uft Philadelproject was primarily an Incentive to sinking fast, sleepily asked: "Is this phia late In the afternoon of July 1. It patriotism It would be much better the Fourth?" His last words, for f was necessary to get Rodney back to If the purchase price could be raised few hours later when bells and cannon Independence hall by July 4, the day by moans of small subscriptions,' so answered "Yes," he Bad drifted too appointed for taking the vote upon the far of from time the away moorings that the greatest possible number of adoption of the declaration. All night, people could participate. This had and nations to hear although be linall day be rode at top speed; and Rodbeen the plnn followed In that other gered yet a little while longer as if, ney Is supposed to have started on tbe project of this kind the recent restor- even In unconsciousness, he was loth return Journey In the evening of the ation of the Betsy Ross house in Phila- to go until he had celebrated one more second. delphia, the birthplace of the flog. birthday of his country's That ride of Rodney's deserves to Accordingly no person is allowed to wonder-workin- 409For SprinYllle. Ptoto and all points east and weit ri'BLIC. HOTARY o, perfum violet In May; nut theae ara not a Joy To the patriotic boy lika the imell o" smoke, gunpowderou-on Independence Day. tm of No. SAMUEL CORNADY Star-Spangle- d iNFOUKTH Arrival and departure SX1 Agnes Engberg ' irjlJI1 GLORIOUS ..1, from Honrrf. Utah-Idah- Star-Spangle- . Warner Dr. YF4 I-- Sb-- J DENTIST I'iijHi' - Co. JEX-FLORI- IDAHO Spanish Fork. Utah Thousands of acres of led K K.o ..M.lmiut to OU ltlVStlHI -s Irrigation in that fttne pas iv more win m reciajm - ST Frftah Floorers cnnnlU4 fn .11 um-,vn mil - Ions. Funeral designs kept on hand ftnd filled to order. All kinds of - 7":, Ifl vaars. 1DII" an opening lor man oi homes. fha Furniture Renairnrl. Residence two blocks North of Foundry bpanish r oRK. Utah nirt Hall. august assembly. lous citizens had Thousands of anx gathered In th streets. From the hour when con gress convened In the morning the old bellman had been In the steeple He placed a boy at the door below to him notice when the announce give ment should be made. As hour sue ceeded hour, the graybeard shook hit head, and sai.I. 'They will never do lt They will never do It!" Suddenly a loud shout came up from below and there stood the blue-eyeboy, clapping his hands and shouting 'Ring! ring" Grasping the Iron tongue of the old bell, backward and forward he hurled It a hundred times. Its loud voice proclaiming Liberty throughout all the unto all land, the Inhabitants thereof Tbe excited multitude In the treeu responded with loud acclamations and with cannon peals, bonfire and'lllu. mlnatlons the patriots held glorious carnival that night tu the quiet city 0 Hate Too Imvestkiatbd IDAHO? It has been tnathfully termed Spanish Fork Land of ODDortunitu A Land of Homes Co-Operative : :. i ua uregon onor j.ih will be tjleased to sendaescript'"" - ter regarding Idaho's resourcstoD. K.BiirPfy.0 P.A-o'cer. A.U.P. A.. Salt Lake institution,. Dealers d rJ In B. H. BROWN, General Merchandise, Flour, O -- Grain and ProduCO. staaoiactureri of M I'll Q Shoes. ni,t . hlM . fc"f All Tra mat mine ... th if ' - Spanish Fork nk sarettet 'PHONK NO. 12 Boots ad i III Livery Feed Stable Hack Meets Harness, Hill iking th h to Ha 1 4 an the Union and Lioe rtw Flag of the hero, Wt u their Riory who Borne throiiKh their thunder and (lunm. Masoned In son and . Imnlned In W ave o'er us story, all who their fame! lth our banner p bright. Spread Its fnir emblems from mountain " bile throughtoshore,ua eoundlna- sky Loud rltiRs the na- tlnn'a Union and Liberty! One JOHN JOXKS, Supt. oy acting bowels is SPANISH FORK, UTAH 51) El V It as a catharuc M Hi 'o I f08e ai 1 ll v Slr v . 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