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Show LIBERTY BELL PASSES THRU CACHE JUNCTION SUNDAY, JULY 11TH. D. S Spencer Announces Excursion on All Points of Cache Valley. Historic Bell Attracting Nation Wide Attention. Mr. D. S. Spencer, Assistant General Gen-eral Passenger Agent of the Oregon Short Lino Railroad company has advised ad-vised that an excursion w.ll bo run from Preston, Idaho, to Cache Junction, Junc-tion, via tho loop next Sunday July 11, for tho purposo of giving tho people peo-ple of Cacho valloy tho opportunity ot seeing tho old famous Liberty Boll. Tho exact hour whon tho special train will loavo Preston will bo nnnouncod later. The rato will bo one faro for round trip. The special train which brings tho boll will stop on the west sldo of tho depot at Cache Junct'on in order that tho peoplo may form in lino, march around the depot, ascend tho platform, plat-form, and get a most excellent view of tho bell. 'Tho Reception commit-too commit-too ot tho Commercial Club, Shorlff Barker and others whd have charge of tho excursion will bo on hand to form the people In lino so ns to prevent pre-vent any confusion and to rpako it possible for every little tot to seo tho bell. . . 't Tho boll will arrlvo shortly a.ftor 0p.m. and wU stop for fifteen minutes. min-utes. It Is 'oxpocled) that ft largo crowd wilt Uko advantage of tho low rato and th's raro privilege of seeing tho bell. No doubt many 'will go over in automobiles. Surely wheroy-or wheroy-or it is possible no patriotic citizen or school child will miss this opportunity oppor-tunity as the boll may never pass this way again nnd there nro very fow horo who will seo It in Philadelphia.. Every child whlchlias nttendod school knows somo ot tho history of tho boll nnd what It stands for. Tho Llborly Boll was tho first to nnnounco tlio signing ot tho Declaration Declara-tion ot Independence, July 4, 1776. It was rung July 6 in colobratlon ot thq mcasuro, and it Is a curious coincidence coinci-dence that It horo tho words, "Prb-claim "Prb-claim liberty throughout all tho 'arid unto all the inhabitants thereof." (Leviticus (Le-viticus XXV, 10) Tho building In - which Congress sat received tho name of Indopondonco Hall. The building has boon rostored as nearly as possible pos-sible to tho condition In which It was at tho passago of the Declaration The Liberty Bell since cracked, Is kept in tho building. Tho last time the bell was tolled was for tho great American, John Marshall, Chlot Justice of tho United States, and tho last survivor of tho great characters who made tho nation. na-tion. Ho died in Philadelphia, July C, 1835 nnd on July 8, tho very day of tho anniversary of tho proclamat'on of Indopondenco, as tho Liberty Bell tolled solemnly whllo tho funeral cor-tego cor-tego raovod down Chestnut streot on .its way to Virginia, its sides parted, Its oIco became mflto and it ontorod with tho groat cxpoundor of tho constitution con-stitution into sllonce. " |
