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Fourth of July Program Taking Shape

Event date: Jun 16, 1876

The committee of the Fourth of July celebration have not yet decided on all the details of their arrangements, but the general programme will be about as follows: 38 guns at sunrise, noon, and sunset; procession of antiques and horribles at 9 o’clock a.m.; at 1 p.m. a procession consisting of a brass band, Free Masons, Odd Fellows, soldiers of 1812, G.A.R., Fuller’s Battery, drum corps, firemen and citizens; dinner at 3 p.m. followed by brief speeches; fire-works in the evening.

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