The Fourth of July will be celebrated in an appropriate manner by the citizens of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] and vicinity. The day will be ushered in by a signal gun at daybreak and the ringing of church bells. At sunrise a Federal Salute of thirteen guns will be fired. Prize games of base ball on the Village Green at 9 o'clock. At 10:30 exercises will take place in front of the Presbyterian Church as follows:
1. Music by the Oneonta Silver cornet Band.
2. Prayer by Rev. D.N. Grummon.
3. Song by the Bainbridge Glee Club.
4. Reading of the Declaration of Independence by Geo. L. Winsor, Esq.
5. Oration by Elliot Danforth, Esq., of Schoharie County.
6. Glee Club.
7. Music by the Silver Cornet Band.
8. Music by the Martial Band.
Dinner will be served at the hotels at 12 o'clock. At 2 P.M. the Anniversary Exercises of Bainbridge Academy will take place in the spacious hall of that institution, consisting of Orations, Essays, Charades, Tableaux, Music, &c. The exercises will be a rare literary treat, free to all.
At 4:30 competing clubs will resume the game of base ball for a prize of $15. Grand display of Fireworks in the evening, at the close of which a torchlight procession will parade, and the streets will be illuminated by a brilliant flame of Greek fire, extending fully a mile in length. The new cannon made at the foundry in this village, by C.B. Maynard, has recently been mounted on a strong carriage, and is in "apple-pie" order for the Fourth. With plenty of ammunition, friend Maynard will wake the echoes of the valley for many miles around--Review. [Chenango Union, June 25, 1874]
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