Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — In Gu m. [ARTICLE]

In Gu m.

If it is patriotism you refer to, consider Guam. Particulars of the first celebration of the Fourth of July in that new possession of the United States have just come to hand by the arrival of a vessel. Guns were fired until all the powder on the island except that belonging to the garrison was exhausted. There were four goddesses of liberty and they rode on a bullock cart. It was intended to have only one goddess, but the girls got into a fight over the honor and compromised by putting up the four best fighters. The wrangle kept up when the goddesses took position and posed for admiration. One bit a hole out of the cheek of another. A wheel came off the chariot, skilled oul the goddesses and the light was resume ed. The chariot proceeded empty of it* beauties. All the inhabitants of Guam unite in saying that it was * splendid celebration.