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Poe First Oil Well in U.S., 1859 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE beginning of a new year Is a time for looking forward and planning how to make the best use of the 12 months, the 52 weeks, the 365 days which will be ours during the coming year. It is also a time for looking backward over the past year and the other years that have gone before to take stock of our accomplishments and to benefit by our experience. One evidence of our pride In the American tradition is the custom of observing In one way or another the anniversaries of certain events which 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 hark 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 fractions of that period of time. Thus we frequently celebrate the twenty-fifth- , the fiftieth and the anniversary of events rather than and we feeling honoring antiquity when we can celebrate the (one hundred fiftieth), the (two hundredth) or the (three hundredth) of some event in American history. As the year 1934 opens, an examination of American history will show that we will have occasion for a number of these celebrations If we choose. The only (four hundredth) anniversary of any Importance is that of the voyage of Jacques Cartier, the Frenchman, who In 1534 passed Newfoundland and discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Two events of 1634 afford an opportunity for celebrations and plans are already tinder way for them. From Michigan comes the word that the Mackinac Island State Park commission is preparing a tercentenary celebration en that Island next summer of the voyage of a renchman, Jean Nicolet, upon whom the mantle M Samuel de Champlain, as explorer toward the west, had fallen. On July 1, 1634, Nicolet, accompanied by seven Huron Indians, set out from Pree Rivers on the St. Lawrence, ascended the Vwa river, went across to Georgian bay, pad-e- d his canoe along the north shore of Lake uron to Sault Ste. Marie, passed through the waits of Mackinac was the first white man and to seventy-fift- h wait for the one hundredth anniversary are even more of pleased in our sesqui-cen-tenni- for many years afterwards as the Lake of the Illinois. Continuing down the western shore of Lake chigan, Nicolet een Bay and and his companions entered landed, there to be greeted by Party of Winnebago Indians with whom he sde an agreement that they should take their t0 the renctl Psts on the SL Lawrence to tra & pushed on to visit other tribes, tle 'ox r'ver to the central part of WIs-si- n and spent the winter there, returning to uec in 1635 to report to Champlain. other tercentenary celebration which is head, under way but which will, reach Its max the coming year is that of the found-- s of the colony of Maryland from which grew as-co- n ! state of an a f 5e th 6 iot ve that name. King Charles I of England granted to Calvert, Lord Baltimore, a large tract of nor f the Potomac river and south Plimouth colonys boundaries. Calverts fa seeking this grant was a desire to PHQTO FROA "PAGEAMT OF AMERICA1 COURTCSY, YM-- i UNIVERSITY PRESS open in the New world a refuge for men of his own faith, the Roman Catholics, who were then suffering persecution In England. Under the charter granted to Calvert he had larger powers than had yet been granted to any colony settling In America and thus there was introduced here a new form of government, known as the proprietary system. But Calvert died before the signing of the charter and his son, Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, received the grant Opposition from Virginia made it advisable for him to remain In England to protect his rights, so he appointed his brother, Leonard Calvert, as lieutenant-genera- l of the colony which had been given the name of Maryland, in honor of King Charles Catholic queen, Henrietta Maria. On November 22, 1633, two ships, the Ark and the Dove, left Cowes bearing Lord Baltimores two brothers, Leonard and George Calvert, with very nearly twenty gentlemen of very good fashion, most of whom were Catholics, and about three hundred laboring men well provided in all things, the majority of whom were Protestants. On March 25, 1634, the colonists landed on an Island at the junction of the Potomac river and Chesapeake bay to which they gave the name of St. Clements Island, where for the first time in history a party of English Catholics celebrated mass. Finding this island too small for the site of a settlement, a little later the colonists sailed down the river until they came to the mouth of a stream to which they gave the name River St George. Ascending this a little way they came to an Indian village and purchased from them for some axes, hatchets and several yards of cloth the site of the first permanent settlement in Maryland, to which was given the name of St. Marys. Although March 25 Is the Important date in Maryland history, the principal celebration of the Maryland tercentenary in 1934 will be held on June 20, since it was on June 20, 1632, that Lord Baltimore was granted his charter by King Charles and more favorable weather for the celebration can be expected In June than In March. The year 1734 had no outstanding events such as these two in 1634, to provide the occasion celebrations of an elaborate nafor ture although the following are noteworthy dates in that year: January 20 Robert Morris, Philadelphia merchant, banker and Financier of the Revolution was born In Lancashire, England. March 19 Thomas McKean, member of the First Continental congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence and president of the Eighth Continental congress, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania. November 17 John Peter Zenger, Colonial printer and editor of the New York Weekly Journal, arrested for false, scandalous, malicious and seditious libels against the royal governor of New York. Out of this arrest came the trial and acquittal of Zenger which marked an Important step in establishing the principle of the freedom of the press in America. December 17 William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a member of every Continental congress from 1775 to 1782, was born in Brookhaven, N. Y. Events pf 1784 which have significance : June 2 Legislature of North Carolina ceded to the congress of the United States the title which that state possessed to lands west of the Alleghanies, leading to the holding of a convention (August 23) at Jonesborough where the westerners decided to organize a separate government and a second convention at Jonesborough (December 17) at which a temporary constitution was adopted and the new state of ' sesqul-centennl- i Zachary Taylor Franklin was launched upon Its stormy career. September 24 Zachary Taylor, officer in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk war and the Seminole war, the Old Rough and Ready of the Mexican war and twelfth President of the United States, was born in Orange county, Virginia. A commission has been appointed by the present governor of Virginia to arrange for a celebration of this event in sesqui-centenni- 1934. October 29 Robert Hoe, first of a line of printing press Inventors, who revolutionized the newspaper business, was born at Hoes In Leicestershire, England. December 80 Stephen H. Long, American army engineer and explorer, discoverer of Longs peak in Colorado, was born in Hopkinton, N. H. Events of 1809 whicli recall that 125 years on ago January 19 Edgar Allan Poe, great American was born in Boston. poet and February 12 Abraham Lincoln was born In story-write- r, Kentucky. February 15 Cyrus McCormick, Inventor of the reaper, was born in Walnut Grove, Va. September 11 Sterling Price, officer in the Mexican war, governor of Missouri and general in the Confederate army, was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia. December 24 Kit Carson, famous trapper, guide and scout, was born in Madison county, Kentucky. During the coming year will occur the centennial of these events: March 20 Charles W. Elliott, educator, president of Harvard university and famous for his Five-FoShelf of Books, was born in Boston. March 24 John Wesley Powell, geologist, soldier, explorer of the Grand canyon, director of the United States Geological survey, founder and first director of the Bureau of American Eth- Never have trouble on cold mornings starting your motor. Just buy Conoco Bronze Gasoline that gives instant starting and better winter performance . . . For full motor protection fill with Conoco Germ Processed Paraffin Base Motor Oil with "Hidden Quart" Penetration At Red Triangle V Stations WIMOTtNLir ot nology, was born at Mount Morris, N. Y. April 26 Charles F. Browne, famous writer under the name of Artemus Ward, was born In Waterford, Maine. May 5 A party of emigrants under the leadership of Nathaniel J. Wyeth left Liberty, Mo., for the West, later built Fort Hall, Idaho, where the American flag was first flown over that part of the country, and established a colony near the present site of Portland, Ore. May 20 Lafayette, the great Frenchman. .who died helped establish American Independence, in Paris. During the coming year will occur the seventy-fift- h anniversary of these events which occurred in 1859: August 26 Col. E. L. Drake sank the first oil well in the United States near Titusville, Pa., starting this giant Industry in this country. September 6 Irving Bacheller, famous author, was born in Pierrepont, N. Y. In 1884 (50 years ago) he established one of the first newspaper syndicates in the country. October 16 John Brown took possession of the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was later captured, tried for treason and executed on December 2, giving to the embattled forces an immortal song John Browns Body Lies In The Grave. The year 1934 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of these events of 1884: June 22 Rescue of seven survivors of 25 members of the Lady Franklin Bay polar expedition, including its commander, A. W. Greely (now an admiral), SergL D. L. Brainard (now a general) the rescue party being led by Capt. Winfield S. n Schley, later famous in the war. November 4 Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States, the first Democratic President in 28 years. At The Center of Things WHEN things are planned, its understood theyll be at THE NEWHOUSE Almost every important event social or business has for its locale Salt Lakes Finest Hotel. 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