I am sure we’re all grateful to my wife, Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn for

leading the singing and to Jacey Squires for his fine stereopticon slides--
and to Ethel Tofflemeier, our fine player—piano… player…piano…
(APPLAUSE) As Mayor of River City, I welcome you River Citizians to
the Fourth of July exercises set up for the indoors here in Madison
Gymnasium account the weather…. Four score… (BOOK FALLS AND
MARCELLUS HELPS HER UP) Four score…. (EWART RISES FROM HIS
SEAT AND HANDS A NOTE TO THE MAYOR) Ahh—the members of the
school board will now present a patriotic tablow. (THE MEMBERS OF
THE SCHOOL BOARD MOTION HIM TO REREAD THE NOTE) Oh—the
members of the school board will not present a patriotic tablow. Some
disagreement about costumes, I suppose. Instead the Wa Tan Ye girls of
the local Wigwam of Heeawatha will present a spectacle my wife…
ahem In Which my wife—Eulalie Mackencknie Shinn will take a leading
part.

Four score and seven—(JACEY SQUIRES RE-ENTERS AND HANDS THE

MAYOR A NOTE) “The Paine’s Fireworks Spectacle, Last Days of Pompy-
eye will take place, providing the rain stops by nine-thirty. It’ll be out to
Madison Picnic Park in the far meadow, “cross the crick from the Pest
House.”