Name/Title
ProgramEntry/Object ID
1986.16.1aDescription
Invitation and envelope to July 4th (Independence Day) celebration at Cerro Gordo, 1877. Program of events included four different gun salutes, raising of colors, prayer, reading of the Declaration of Independence, music, singing, races, fireworks, ball, supper, and something called the Grand Procession of Chuckwallah-Bazouks.
Executive Committee: W. L. Hunter, John R. Hughes, and J. T. Belshaw.
Committee on Order of Exercises: W. R. Johnson, W. W. English, and S. B. Bowen.
Committee of Invitations: B. Russell, J. L. Porter, and A. C. Harvey.
Committee on Salutes and Fireworks: W. E. Goodrum, F. M. Drake, and F. Samuels.
Committee on Dancing: Jas. R. Moffitt, Robert Young, A. J. Chelius, and W. E. Goodrum.
Grand Marshal was John R. Hughes.
President of the Day was J. L. Porter. [John Livingston Porter]
Reader was B. Russell.
Printed by the Press of Chalfant & Parker.