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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1910)
1 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN Che Cbemawa Hmercian Published Weehly at the United States Indian Training School. Sitbscription Price, 25 Cents a Year. Clubs of Five or Over 20 Cents. Sntered a the Chemawa. Oregon, Postoffioe as second-class mail matter. PRINTING STAFF Benjamin Wilcox, Henry Darnell, John Service, Robert Service, Oscar Case, Jasper Grant, Reggie Downie, Harry Stone, Patsy Barrett. "LIBERTY BELL." This famous old bell of freedom Liberty Bell, as it has always since been called, was dedicated about 23 years be fore the independence event by Speaker Norris of the Pennsylvania Assemblv. It was originally cast in London in 1751. but on its arrival in Philadelphia a de fect was discovered and it was lecast in that city in August, 1752. The bell was not then found to be satisfactory, and in 1753 it was again recast by Pass & Stow and placed in position. When the bell was finally finished it bore the in scription "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." It is an interesting circum stance that this reference to liberty should have been placed on this bell 23 years prior to the time when it literally fulfilled, the Mosaic proclamation. At the time the sweet toned announcer of freedom was dedicated Speaker Norris gave the central text of the verse in Leviticus (xxxv, 10) from which the in scription on the bell was taken: ''And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and pro claim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto thee." The bell was first used to proclaim the political liberty promised by the Dec laration when it was rung on the day appointed by Congress, July 8, 1776, at which time John Nixon read the docu ment from the balcony of old Independ ence hall in Philadelphia. The bell was taken down in 1777 when the Americans evacuated Philadelphia at the time of the British occupancy and it was removed -to Allentown, Pa. for safe keeping. It was returned to the state house later, but was never restored to its original place in the old teeple. For about 60 years after July 4, 1776, the famous old bell celebrated the anni versaries of the Declaration day and other events by ringing out reminders to the people of Philadelphia, and then it cracked and became forever silent. This occurred on July 6. 1835, when the bell was tolling for John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the supreme court of the United States. Forest Grove, Ore., July 7. A pretty home wedding was solemnized at the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Starrett, here to day, when their daugh ter, Miss Lou C ristina, became the bride of Charles Daniel Wagner, Rev. Hiram Gould officiating. Mrs. Wagner taught school near Forest Grove some years ago, and later taught for several year- in the Govern ment Indian schools in Arizona She was recentlv transferred, to the Indian schools at Miles, Wash., where she was given the position of head teacher. The groom is a gradugte of the Ohio Northern University. He is the Government en gineer in charge of the irrigation svstem on the Piute Indian Reservation in Nev ada After August 1 the newly wedded couple will be at home in Wadsworth Nevada. The honey moon will be 'spent at Seaside, followed by a short visit to San Francisco, enroute to their new homP-