Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — Celebrate Battle of Bunker Hill. [ARTICLE]

Celebrate Battle of Bunker Hill.

Boston, June 19. —Accompanied by the roar of tnuis, the snapping of firecrackers and the ringing of hells, the celebration of the 131st anniversary of the battle of Blinker Hill, always a local holiday, began at midnight. At that hour Mayor John F. Fitzgerald lighted an immense bonfire on the Charlestown play ground. At 7 o'clock city officials nnd invited guests sailed down Boston harbor to meet the king of the carnival and escort him to his landing place at the navy yard. The parade, under the auspices of the Seventeenth of June Carnival association and consisting principally of allegorical floats, followed.