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trie **oo’ was a city.TIip Tlnrquollo !TlouuiueBt.The second annual meeting of the Marquette Monument association will be held at Mackinaw Friday and Saturday of next week. The program© of the meeting will be substantially as follows:Friday the 7th. at 2 p. m., a civic and military procession will form opposite the poatofflce, under the direction of the marshal, and proceed to the grounds, where the following order of exercises will Ik* observed:Address of welcome—By lion. Thos. W. Ferry, president.Invocation—Rev. Dr. Duflield.Heading letters of regret from distinguished invited guests.Address—Ilon. C. 1. Walker, of the Michigan Pioneer S*ciety.Music by the Tenth Regiment band.Address—John Gilmary Shea, LL. D., of the New York Historical Society, on the life,ault;l character of Marquett*.Poem7 “The Christian Missionary;”— Father Cronin, of Buffalo.Singing by the children of the pnblic school.Paper by Hon. J. S. Arnold, President of the Chicago Historical Society,Address of the Missouri Historical Society.Saturday, the 8th.—At 9:30 a. M. all the steam crafts in the vicinity will proceed to Point St Ignace, where lie the remains of Maruuette. and then Father •lacker will deliver an address touching the burial and exhumation of the bones of Marquette.The steamers will return to Mackinac about 2 p. m., when at the grounds of the Mission House, the following order of exercises will be observed:Invocation— Rt. Rev. Dr. Borgess of Detroit.Address—Hon. C. C. Washburn, President of the Wisconsin Historical Society on the pioueer history.Delegates from the the Indiana. Ohio, Kentucky uud other State historical societies will deliver brief addresses.Singing by the children of the public schools.Addresses—Hon. T. W. Ferry and Hon. Carter Harrison.A committee of prominent guests will be appointed to select a 9lto for the monument in the National Park, which site the association will endeavor to secure from Congress, aud prepare for an early placing of the corner-stone.At 7 p. m. the trustees aud officers of the association will meet at the City Hall for the transaction of business.
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The Northern Tribune

Cheboygan, Michigan, US

Sat, Aug 02, 1879

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