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Show 1 Columbus Day Observed b KveiToiie ill Town. I ' - I the s( iii;i.s invr nn; nan. i I ! Finn Prat) rams Rendered Twenty-on G.UI3 Fired -Street Music The Firnmens" Drill. 'estelday was Columbus Day. II was a g'-nr-ral holiday in Urig-ham Urig-ham t'ify. The business houses were closed and an occasion ol pleasure, ivjnieing and recreation was the re.mlt. Il espeeially proved a memorable time fur the children of this city. There are between 700 and SOU of them. This large number either took pari, in or were interested spectators at the exercises rendered in all the school houses in the city. The parade of the Second ward schools, led by (lie band, attracted cons it'l era I tie attention. Excellent" programs were rendered in each of the four wards and at the Chapel last evening. . A salute of ,wnty-nne g ins was lired at. noon hy the canon kept i near the Court House. hi the afternoon the brass band did good work on Main street. The drum corps was also out. The drill gi ven in the afternoon hy the fire department attracted a 1 crowd of two or three hundred peo-! peo-! pie. Several houses were mounted in fine shape hy the boys and strong streams of water were sent over buildings and everything, in fact, not excluding a big crowd of men and boys quartered near t he post-ollioe. post-ollioe. The day wound up with a lecture and a dance at the opera house. Yesterday ' was generally observed ob-served as a. holiday throughout our county, as far as we can learn. In , e very district a p p rop r i a te scl i ool j celebrations were held in honor of : Columbus, who discovered America j just 10 years ago yesterday. The old geographies say America ' was discovered October 12, M'.)2, ' but by a change of reckoning from i theold Iloman to the.Iulian mode, it J brings the date nine days later, or i to Get. 2 i st. : |