PROGRAMME
--FOR--
FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
--AT--
BLAIR, NEBRASKA.
Firing One Hundred Guns at Sunrise.
Reception of Visitors. 8 to 9 o'clock.
Music by Bands.
Forming in Procession for Parade at 9:30, by
Marshall W. T. Plowman, with Assistants as follows:
At High School, on Colfax Street, at intersection of
Walker Avenue, facing East; March East to Seventh
Street, North to Grant, West to Fourth, North to
Front, and West to R.R. Park.
Music by the Blair Cornet Band.
Address of Welcome by Mayor W. D. Haller.
Song--Grand Chorus--Sixty Voices.
Prayer, Rev. G.W. Wainwright, D.D.
Song--Grand Chorus
ORATION--GENERAL C.H. VAN WYCK.
Song--Grand Chorus
Music by the Band.
Basket Dinner to 1:30 p.m.
Calithumpians and Trades Display--Parade under
Command of John Limoge. Followed by Foot
Races, Mule Races, Sack Races, Fat Men's Race--
between Parks on Walker Avenue.
At 4 P.M. the Ladies Grand National March will take
place at R.R. Park, on a large platform, specially
erected for that purpose, on which the Goddess of
Liberty will appear, accompanied by Fifty Young
Ladies in Elegant Costumes, representing all the
States and Territories.
At eight o'clock A Grand Pyrotechnical Pageant will
form at the Court House and March up Walker Avenue
to Washington Street, West to Fifth, South to
Colfax, East to the Four-Story Castle Tower from the
top of which will appear the Fire-Works Display.
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