| Show Th Then t ri Now on F Fourth rth of July NCE of the first Fourth of July can in no noI I way be compared with the Q I present fashion of celebrating celebrating ing the day Fireworks recreation and a day of rest restI 1 for some lome now go to 0 mark I the anniversary of the adoption adoption adoption tion of or the Declaration of ence A casual glance be br c c through the pages of ot history however Is enough to convince anybody that few days have been filled with so many Jy lw t 6 s ae L t a k 1 Nation Secure In the Loyalty of Young America other events of ot world-sweeping world character character character char char- acter and Importance Long before the Declaration was adopted July 4 was a marked day and it has been ever since To pick only a few v of the events that have occurred occurred oc oc- oc on this day John Adams died aged ninety 1820 1826 Thomas Jefferson died aged eighty- eighty three 1820 James Monroe died aged seventy seventy- three 1831 Calvin Coolidge born 1572 Nathaniel Hawthorne born IS ISM 1804 Giuseppe Garibaldi born 1820 1520 t Stephen Foster author of My Iy Old Kentucky Rome Home born 1820 Surrender of Vicksburg 1803 Cornerstone of ot Washington monument monument ment laid 1843 1848 Providence R. R I I. I founded by Roger Williams 1630 Work on Erie canal tanal begun 1817 The first Fourth of July that receives receives re re- historic mention after the adoption adoption adoption of ot Independence tion of the Declaration ence was only two years rears later On that day daJ the Tory John Butler Dutler witha withe with a e p party of loyalists and Indians raided raided raid raid- ed the beautiful Wyoming valley In Pennsylvania while most of the th men were absent on duty with the army The women and child children reo the old persons per per- sons Ions and the sick ones had taken refuge ret In the wooden fort but under promise o of ot protection they surrendered and were butchered |
