Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . National Guards had gone toLexington, Ky., to the laying of the cornerstoneof the Henry Clay monument, and had takenthe city band with them. The firemen hadgone to a picnic near Franklin. Several ofthe Sunday schools had taken to the Journal lugubriously observed: The Sun-day school children made the only display thatwas made, and even they fell short of their dropped entirely, and the timc-lionored jiaradc,with Uncle Jmnny Blakc as marshal, be-come only a fond memory of the
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . National Guards had gone toLexington, Ky., to the laying of the cornerstoneof the Henry Clay monument, and had takenthe city band with them. The firemen hadgone to a picnic near Franklin. Several ofthe Sunday schools had taken to the Journal lugubriously observed: The Sun-day school children made the only display thatwas made, and even they fell short of their dropped entirely, and the timc-lionored jiaradc,with Uncle Jmnny Blakc as marshal, be-come only a fond memory of the older the Sunday school was organizedin large part to supjjly the deficiency of dayschools, the early settlers were not unmindfulof the latter. In 1821 they got together and])ut up a log school house on the edge of alarge pond that was located at the corner ofKentucky avenue and Washington street, andhere Joseph C. Reed was installed as the firstriacher.° Its construction was voluntary, andthe school was a pay school, for there was nootficial school organization as vet. A descHp-. THB FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE. KENTUCKY A\^. AND ILLINOIS ST.(From a pencil sketch by James B. Dunlap.) usual numbers and spirit. There was nomusic in the city, no firemens parade, no mili-tary displa}, no movement of any kind after anearly hour in the morning. The tlnnidering ofthe cannon, rapidly fired by the Artillery boys,opened the day well, but the promise of a goodtime was illy fulfilled. The remark was uni-versal that so dull a Fourth was never night tliere was some compensation for thesleepiness of the day in a profusion of fire-works and bonfires, but that was all. )8, tlie Fourth came on Sunday, and |)art ofthe communitv celebrated on Saturday. ]iir1 onMondav. Thereafter tlie ancient cnstini was *-l()nni(il. .)iil\ ,r. tion of this school lio\ise is given in tlie notesleft by :Mrs. ^Martin, who, as Miss Betty Smith,(hiughter of George Smith, the pioneer pub-lis
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