Neodesha Register, May 27, 1898:
The Frisco railway employees had an impromptu flag raising yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Sometime since, they procured a pole 84 feet high and sent for a flag. Yesterday the flag arrived. It is, of course, a beautiful piece of bunting. At 4 o’clock 60 of the railroad men gathered and raised the pole. The tackle being tested and found to work smoothly, Miss Miller, H. C. Kapp’s stenographer and the only lady present, was given the privilege of hoisting “Old Glory” to the top of the staff where its beautiful folds flaunted as gaily and proudly in the breeze as if the songs and shouts of the thousands had been heard.
As its folds reached the top and were stretched out in the strong wind, Holland and Washburn led the crowd in three cheers and a tiger for the “Red, White and Blue.” Then someone proposed three cheers for Dewey, and they were given with hearty good will.
This concluded the ceremony except that as the men were dispersed, they often stopped and gazed again and again at the emblem of liberty-such liberty as the world never dreamed about until the flag first appeared in the sky. Each one thought, “That is MY flag. This is my country. I am a free-born citizen of the most liberal government upon which God’s sunshine ever fell. Thank God.”
