Emery County Progress | 1909-06-05 | Page 1 | June 14th Set for Flag Day

JUNE SET m FLAG DAY the flag association re minds the people of the united states of th nn vers iroE th adap ion of the national letters aiom this panoptic pan otic organ zat 0 recall te fact that june 14 will b the 18 nd annever sary of the adoption of the s ars and as the flag of the un ted states and it is expected that a more general observance of the day will follow than in former ears on the lath day of june 1777 con gross enacted thai the flag of the thirteen united states be thirteen stripes alternate rd and white that the union be thirteen stars white 11 a blue field representing a new bonstel at on the gumbei of stars ha ing been m creased by the addiss 01 of new states the poss all ties of the nation s future dev elopement dawned upon our fathers and the original thirteen stripes were unchangeably restored by an act of congress on april 4 1818 when it was enacted that from and after the fourth day of july next tl flag of united states be thirteen horizontal strip s alternate red and white that the union be twenty stars whiteman blue field and that on the admission of a new state into the union one star ba added to the union of the flag and such add tion take effect on the fourth day of july next succeed ng such adm assion S nee 1818 twenty six stars or sov eign states have been added to the union making forty in all