People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Honor Memory of Marquette. [ARTICLE]

Honor Memory of Marquette.

St. Ignace, Mich., Aug. B.—Father Marquette’s memory was honored here yesterday by citizens of Michigan !n a celebration in recognition of the mis-sionary-explorer's services to humanity. The town was full of strangers and its buildings were universally decorated. The parade in the afternoon proceeded to the tent on the bluff adjacent to the missionary’s grave. Among the speakers of the day were Guv. Rich, William M. Springer of Illinois, T, A. E. Weadock of Bay City, Don M. Dickinson, and local citizens.