Seventh of April

 The Marietta Intelligencer, April 6, 1848

Exercises appropriate to the Anniversary of the Settlement of Ohio will be held at the Court House on Friday, A.M., the seventh of April, at 10 o'clock. Addresses will be delivered by Caleb Emerson and D. E. Gardner, Esqs., and probably by others.

All the inhabitants of the town and vicinity are invited to attend.

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According to notice in the last Intelligencer there will be an Eulogy on the late Hon. John Quincy Adams, delivered by Rev. Henry Bates at the Methodist Episcopal Church, on Friday 7th April at 3 o'clock P.M.

The public generally are invited to assemble at one o'clock P.M. on the Common in front of the Congregational Church. At 1-1/2 P.M. the procession will form and march under the direction of Chief Marshall Asa B. Waters Esq. and assistants in the following order:

Martial Music

Marietta Guards

Orator

Officiating Clergymen

Clergy of Different Denominations

President and Professors of College

Washington County Officers

Mayor and Council of Marietta

Citizens of Marietta

Brass Band

Mayor and Council of Harmar

Citizens of Harmar

Strangers generally

Committee:

P. Howe

C. R. Rhodes

William S. Ward

S. E. Cross

E. D. Perkins

Davis Green

W. H. Gurley

A. Layman

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By the notices in another column it will be seen that exercises appropriate to the anniversary of the settlement of Ohio will be held at the Court House on the morning of the 7th, and that in the afternoon an Eulogy upon the lamented John Q. Adams will be delivered in the Methodist Church.

These exercises we cannot doubt will be attended by all our citizens and by very many from the neighboring towns.

It has been suggested to us, and we take pleasure in suggesting to others, that our merchants be requested to close their stores during the afternoon. Some of them have intimated a purpose to do so, and we presume that this suggestion may induce all of them to follow the example. Surely no man will hesitate to close his business establishment for three hours and occupy that time in paying respect to the memory of so good and great a man as John Quincy Adams.