Show when the fourth was noisiest Nois iest day back from the security of our present fourth of july saneness to the early when it all fourths were insane we h are compelled to admit that clr we vve did py pretty well ln in those lulfs lays days considering the limit M ed weans we had of being insane compared to the advantages we enjoy now in our state ot of scientific sanity states a writer in the kansas city star to a boy ot of the insane fourth era the fourth of july ranked only with with Chilst mas in fiscal importance on christmas te ne knew kneir it was days to the fourth and on the fourth we knew we had bad only days until christmas christmas savings funds had not been indented dented at that time and w would 0 u I 1 d have been of no interest to boys anyhow because boys were on the receiving end at christmas on the night before the fourth the children began show lug strange symptoms aspeel especially b an unnatural willingness it lin gness to go to I 1 bed early that gesture s 0 was decel deceiving ig IN and specious alie i children were not interested in get getting ing their rightful rest before a astren strenuous is day but wore were insuring themselves v 8 against the sad accident of sleeping V past ast three in the mor morning 11 I 1 n g A any ny boy who alto out by throe three ocl dodock ocl in the morning shooting firecrackers under the windows ot of the pastor the school principal and the truancy officer was deemed a sissy and ancl not fit for human companionship the rest of the day the opening ceremony was the only one unanimously attended from that time on too many things were happening to engage ge the entire juvenile attention teli tion at one time there was the sunrise salute of 21 guns engineered by the village bac backsmith kewith who placed one great anvil upon another with giant powder in between touched off from a daring proximity with a red hot iron usually the nether anvil grew very hot before the 21 salutes were fired and tills this was one of the causes of many distressing accidents in the insane era at ten there was the rendition of the chestar star spangled banner led by the band and assisted by the ladles of the G A R whose voices sometimes quite make the high notes and the reading of the declaration la of independence by the mayor hostilities usually were suspended at DOOD coon for the community dinner in the city park where here fried chicken water melon and lemonade frow from a birrel barrel engaged the general attention until satiety was reached the afternoon was a dizzy succession of patriotic and athletic events n herein the popular candidate for congress vied with a greased pole a pie eating contest and it a ball ganie game for popular attention it if the honorable candidate wound up with thirty in big hla audience ami the ball game wound up in a fight with victory tor for the home club the celebration was considered a success the only remaining trial ning item of importance was the stupendous fireworks display staged on a hay bay wagon ot at the north dorth end of 0 slain street art an event which sometimes was waa rallied rained out and sometimes prematurely ignited by overzealous over zealous manipulators resulting lit in bad burns duly chronicled in the vital statistics column of the home paper in the succeeding issue such was the lie fourth iourtc of july celebration lit in hie lie early boos fraught as one inny see with great dangers later by the salie fourth cam lu aih |