Show aenni AV rr sy t VV J 0 ahi ri lafayet marris obert lord brown I 1 baltimore ciarus H ArC ormi cv ot t ag R 5 aderi AW greela and gen DL X 4 4 Z ia A Z 14 J N 4 ell A X an edcar A poe fir at oil well in LJ PHOTO VALS UN VERS TIC PRESS CA zac alq taylor by ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE beginning of a new year Is a time for looking forward and planning how to make the best use of the 12 months the 52 weeks the days which will be ours during the coming year it Is also a time for looking back ward over the past year and the other years that have gone before to take stock of our accod ments and to benefit by our experience one evidence e of our pride in the american tradition Is the custom of observing in one way or another the anniversaries of certain events which proved to be s in our national development taking the century years as the unit of time which indicates antiquity and a corresponding reverence for those things which must bagood be good because they are old we have bave fallen into the custom of pausing in the midst of the busy present and our plans for the future to hark back to the past and recall its events we do this not only on the one hundredth anniversary which we call the centennial but also upon the anniversary of multiples and frac frae eions of that period of time thus we frequently celebrate the twenty fifth the fiftieth and the evenly seventy fifth anniversary of events rather than wait for the one hundredth anniversary and we are even more pleased in our feeling of honoring antiquity when we can celebrate the cen tennial one hundred fiftieth the bl bi centennial two hundredth or the tri centennial three hundredth of some event in american history As the year 1931 1934 opens an examination of american history will show that we will have occasion for a number of these celebrations if we choose the only quad centennial four hun bull dreith anniversary of any importance Is that of the voyage of jacques cartier the frenchman who in 1534 passed newfoundland and dincov ered the gulf of st lawrence two events of 1034 afford an opportunity for tri centennial celebrations and plans are already under way for them from michigan comes the word that the mackinac Mackl nac island state park corn mission Is preparing a tercentenary celebration on that island next summer of the voyage of a frenchman jean nicolet upon whom the mantle of samuel de champlain as explorer toward the west had fallen on july 1 1634 nicolet ac compan led by seven huron indians set out from three rivers on the st lawrence ascended the ottawa river went across to Geor georgian glan bay pad died his canoe along the north shore of lake huron to sault ste marie passed through the straits of mackinac and was the first white man to gaze upon lake michigan known then and for many years afterwards as the lake of the illinois continuing down the western shore et of lake michigan nicolet and his companions entered green bay and landed there to be greeted by a party of winnebago indians indiana with whom he made an agreement that they should take their furs to the french posts on the st lawrence to trade ile pushed on to visit other tribes as bended the fox rox river to the central part of WIs coasin and spent the winter there returning to quebec in 1635 to report to champlain the other tercentenary celebration which Is already under way but which will reach its ell max during the coming year Is that of the found ing of the colony of maryland from which grew the state of that name in 1032 1632 king kill charles I 1 of england granted to george calvert lord baltimore a large tract of land and lying north of the potomac river and south lof t the plymouth colony a boundaries calvert Ca lverts s motive motive to in seeking this grant was a desire to A open in the new world a refuge for men of his own oin faith the roman catholics who were then suffering persecution in england under the charter granted to calbert he had larger powers than had bad yet been granted to any colony settling in america and thus there was introduced here a new form of government known as the pro prie tary system but cain cibert ert died tiled before the signing of the char ter and his son cecil calvert the second lord baltimore rec receded elied the grant opposition from virginia made it advisable for him to rema n in england to protect his rights so he appointed his brother leonard calvert as lieutenant general of the colony which had been given the name dame of maryland in honor of king charles catholic queen henrietta maria marla on november 22 1633 two ships the ark and the dove left cowes bearing lord baltimore s two brothers leonard and george culvert calvert with very nearly twenty gentlemen of very good fash ion ton most of whom were catholics and about three hundred laboring men well provided in all things the majority of whom were protestants on march 25 1634 the colonists landed on an island at the junction of the potomac river and chesapeake bay to which they gave the name of st clements island where for the first time in history a party of english catholics celebrated miss mliss finding this island too small for the site of a settlement a little later the colonists sailed down the river until they came to the mouth of a stream to which they gave the name river fiver st george ascend ng th s a little way they came to an indian village and purchased from them for some axes hatchets and several yards of cloth the site of the first permanent settlement in maryland marland to which was vias given the name of st mary s although march 25 is the important date in maryland history the pr neipel celebration of the maryland tercentenary in 1944 1034 will be held on june 20 since it was on june 20 1632 that lord baltimore v was as granted h a charter by king charles and more favorable weather veather for the cele bration can be expected in june than in march the year 1734 had no outstanding events such as these two in 1034 1634 to pr provide the occasion for bl centennial bicentennial celebrations of an elaborate na ture although the following are noteworthy dates in that year january 20 robert morris philadelphia mer chant banker and financier of the revola tion was born in lancashire england march 19 10 thomas mckean of the first continental congress signer of the dec dee la ration of independence ca cn and president of the eighth continental cong congress ress wis born in ches ter county t november 17 john peter colonial I 1 arinter and ed tor of the new york weekly journal arrested for false scandalous mall clous and seditious libels a against alast the royal gov arnor of new york out of this arrest came the trial and acquittal of which marked an important step in estabi shing the principle of the freedom of the press in america december 17 IN william floyd a signer of the declaration of independence and a member of every continental congress from 1775 to 1782 was born in brook aven N Y events of 1784 which have hilve sesquicentennial centennial significance june 2 legislature of north carolina ceded to the congress of the united states the title which that state possessed to lands west of the alle banies lead ng to the holding of a conven UW alon august 23 at jonesborough Jones borough where the westerners decided to organize a separate gov and a second convention at Jones bor ough december 17 at which a temporary con ution was adopted and the new state of 41 franl lin was launched upon its sternly career september 24 zachary taylor officer in the 1 var I ar of 1812 the black hawk haak war and the seminole war ar the old rough and beady ready of the mexican war and twelfth I 1 resident of the united stites states was born in orange orang ge county vir ginia A commission has been appointed by the present governor of virginia to arrange for a centennial celebration of tl ti Is event in 1934 october 29 robert hoe first of a line of printing press inventors who revolutionized the newspaper business was born at hoes in lei cester shire england december 30 stephen H long american army engineer and explorer discoverer of long longs s peak in colorado was born in Hop hopkinson kinton N H events of 1809 which recall that years ago on january 19 edgar allan poe great american poet and storywriter story writer was born in boston february 12 abraham lincoln was born in kentucky february 15 cyrus mccormick inventor of the reaper was born in walnut grove va september 11 sterling price officer in the mexican war governor of missouri and general in the confederate army was as born in prince edward county virginia december 24 kit carson famous trapper guide and scout was born in madison county kentucky during the coming year will occur the cen tennial of these events march 20 charles W educator prest dent of harvard university and famous for his five foot shelf of books was bom boin in boston march 24 john NA esley ell geologist sol dier explorer of the gran I 3 cana can on director of the united states geological survey founder and first director of the I 1 lureau ure iu of american eth cology was born at mount morris N Y april 26 charles F frowne famous writer U under the nime of artemus ward was as born in waterford maine may 5 A party of emigrants under the lead enship of nathaniel J wyeth left liberty mo for the west liter mier bu it fort hall idaho where the american flag was first flown over that part of the country and established a colony near the present site of portland ore may 20 lafayette the great frenchman who helped establish american independence died in paris during the coming year will occur the seventy fifth anniversary of these events which occurred in 1859 august 26 col E L drake sank the first ell cil well in the united states near titusville Titus ville pa starting this giant industry in this country september 6 iraln irving bacheller famous author was yas born in pierrepont nt N Y in 1884 50 years ago he established one of the first newspaper syndicates in the country october 16 john brown took possession of the arsenal at harper harpers s ferry was later captured tried for treason and executed on decem her ber 2 giving to the embattled anti slavery forces an immortal song browns brown s body lies A moldering in the grave the year 1934 will mark the fiftieth hanniver sary of these events of 1884 june 22 rescue of seven survivors of 25 mem bers hers of the lady franklin bay polar expedition including its commander A W greely now an admiral sergt D L Br brainard alnard now a general the rescue party being led by capt winfield 3 8 schley later famous in the spanish american war november 4 grover cleveland was elected president of the united states the first democratic president in 28 years 0 by western newspaper union AJI L |