Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1908 — PITTSBURG IS GROWING OLD [ARTICLE]

PITTSBURG IS GROWING OLD

Town Is Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Its Founding—Opening Jamboree. Pittsburg. Sept. 29. —With the firing of salutes, the blowing of thousands of whistles of the mills, factories, railroads and steamboats, and the riding of heralds through the city blowing trumpets, the celebration of Pittsburg’s 150th birth anniversary was begun at 9a. m. The programme for the first day was brief. The Daughters of the American Revolution dedicated a tablet to George Washington at the block house —Fort Duquesue. Addresses were made by Mayor Guthrie and Samuel Harden Church. Mayor Guthrie and the city council tendered a reception to distinguished guests at tha Duqesna gardens.