Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1859 — CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH. [ARTICLE]

CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH.

The Committee of Arrangements, appointed at the citizens’ meeting, have adopted the following programme for the celebration of the Fourth of July: Grand Marshal, James E. Ballard. Assistant Marshal, Frank. M. Grant. The procession will form on the north side of the Public Square at half past ten o’clock, and march, to the grove north-west of the residence of Ezra Wright, whore a stand will be erected for the occasion, and seats provided for the auditors. The procession will be formed in the following orde”: 1. Military Band. 2. American Flag. 3 Chaplain, Reader and Orator. 4. First Rensselaer Rifle Company. 5. Teachers and Children of the Sabbath Schools. 6. Citizens generally. On arriving at the grove the following will be the exercises of the day: Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Thomas Whallon. Reader of the Declaration oi Independence, Thomas J. Spitler. “Hail Columbia,” by the Military Band. Orator of the Day, William D. Lee. Benediction by the Chaplain. The day will be ushered in by a salute of thirteen gun s at daybreak, by the Artillery Squad under Captain Norman Warner; and the festivities will close in the evening by displays of fireworks. The Committee invite the people of Jasper county, one and all, to join in the celebration of the day.