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| HOWiTZER FOR ENGLISH PARK.j A six-inch howitzer, with carriage, |: total weight 7,243 pounds, and eight j;* ” ifour-inch cannon balls weighing 11 o j3 pounds were placed in the William H. ' t English Park Sunday. The gun, loaned by the Government for such j i lenaxh of time as it is not needed in ;iI 1the service, was shipped from the!.:ij arsenal at Rock Island, 111., con-;.i 1signed to Thomas S. Austin, Town \ ■ Clerk, at whose instigation Congress-iman James W. Dunbar introduced a t bill which provided for the gift of the ;•1 i'gun to English, as well as guns to;? j.several other Southern Indiana!itowns, in April, 1921. Mo steps were iitaken to secure the gun until the j ne wly organized Chamber of Com- [ imcree in .March nurchascd land forajpark to be named in honor of Wil-»1 iarn H. English, former Congress-1 man of the district, the man in;’ Iwhose honor the town was named,^ member of tHe first House of Representatives. member of the Con-: .stituticnal Convention and author as ! well.!j The howitzer will rest near the ■i statue of Mr. English, which wasi : erected here on the land selected for the park in 1900. It was manufac-tMured in the Bethlehem Steel Worksi%in 1911 and is a model of 1908.It was necessary for the town to j .comply with several regulations ofthe Government before receiving the jgun, one of which was the agreement , to return it should necessity for its ,! use by the Government arise at any]itinie in the future. Another was the I*payment of all transportation chav- !ges by the town which were ;a -1 $7-1.56. The War Department of the allottmcnt stated the gull4could not be fired.rhnmgh the courtesy of \y. E.Rice, of tin* Rice Package Co., who, , togothm* with the men and teams : from the company’s riant, assi it'cd in the unloading of the big gim, the task was most o 17icien11 y ;\c; om-. plihed.
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English Crawford County Democrat
English, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 01, 1922
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