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Wednesday, Jan. 31,1973 th* 9mt-o—cut, aypi»tn w*%. B-11It’s 300 years sinceMarquette-Joliet tripOutagamie County Historical Society it joining in the statewide observance of the 300th anniversary of the 1673 canoe trip by Father Jacques Marquette and Louis JolietThey Passed this Way” is the themeof the annual meeting of the Outagamie Society Saturday Feb. 24 at Appleton Elks Chib. The society has met annually on or near Washington's birthday for more than 100 years. Francis Sumnicht, president, proposed the Marquette-Joiiet thene recently when the directors met at the Outagamie Bank to plan the program for the annual meeting.“This historic journey into the Indian lands to the Mississippi River is part of Outagamie County history,” Sumnicht stated, “since the two men traveled up the Fox River from Green Bay, actually walking on what today are Kaukauna, Little Chute and Appleton streets when they had to portage their canoe around the various rapids of the Fox River.”The noon luncheon and afternoon program will be open to the public, the society president said. Sumnicht is in charge of luncheon reservations. Directors assisting him include Cecil Furminger, H. H. Helble, Gerald Van Ostrand. Victor Leppla, Mrs. Robert Beyer, Alyce Selipcea and Lillian Mackesy.Efforts are being made to organize Wisconsin community participation in the tercentennial, according to David Meyer, Prairie du Chien, appointed head of a Father Marquette-Joliet Tercentenary committee recently appointed by Gov. Patrick Lucey. The plan is to include more lasting-activities, such as improving the waterways and river fronts along the explorers’ route.Meyer said schools might also participate by providing academic activities centered on the significance of the expedition which was done at the request of the French government to determine if the Mississippi River ran south to the Gulf of Mexico or west the Pacific Ocean.Marquette and Joliet and five other men set out from St. Ignace. Mich., onMay 17, 1673. They went from Lake Huron through the Straits of Mackinac into Lake Michigan, then entered the Wisconsin River at Green Bay. canoed up the Fox River to present-day Portage and continued down the Wisconsin to its junction with the Mississippi at Prarie du Chien.They proceeded down the Mississippi to the mouth of the St. Francis River in Arkansas. They were reasonably sure by that time that the Mississippi flowed to the gulf, and after learning from Indians there that Spaniards occupiedNorth.Projects planned or proposed by Meyerisconumtteeinclude reenactment of the entire voyage across the state, a musical pageant based on the exploration, historic markers at significant points along the route, and a memorial to Marquette and Joliet at the confluence of the Wisconsin and the Mississippi.Some funds for state projects connected with the tercentenary will be provided from sale of a commemorative medal which was authorized by the committee.Wisconsin is one of eight states which are part of a Mississippi River Tercentennial Committee, which is also planning such things as reenactment of the trip down the Mississippi, localpageants, environmental activities and special publications.the lower river, decided J u!y 17 to returnftftWe’ve Changed OurNAME...Everything Ebe Is The Same”BRANDS You KnowAt Prices LOW!A % yUr H— 1° Shop!CutASPARAGUS16ozconBARTnJr pearsELBOWMACARONI(FROZEN)lt;y^Peas or
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Appleton Post Crescent
Appleton, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jan 31, 1973
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