The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-06-01

Little Round Top at Gettysburg by the gallant
chamberlain and the modest bravery and long
ana patient suffering of Conner, the present
| COMMANDER OF this department of the Grand
| army, were mentioned as pages of Names
history which will leave their lesson of patriot
Ism ISM and unselfsh devotion to duty to genera
lions yet unborn.
The Grafton closed with an appeal to the sur
| ViVing soldiers of the war to cherish its memo
| res and associations as a sacred legacy be-
9ueathed to them by the brave men who went
iorth to battle with them but returned no more
At Bangor.
|. BANGOR, May 30.-Memorial day was observ-
ed in this city very generally. Early this
morning the comrades of B. II. Beale Post as
sem6led at their headquarters, and accompan-
led by the Bangor Cornet Band, marched to
Brewer, where procession was formed, the
Post being escorted by the Jameson Guards, the
Coourn Cadets, the Bangor Light Artillery, the
Union Hose Company and the Hibernian Mu-
tual Benevolent Society," The procession NOV
ed 10 Mount Hope, where the graves were dec
GRATED with flowers and flags, the roll called,
and an address delivered by Col j. f. God
Hey In the evening appropriate exercises
were holden in Norombega Hall. Major Chas.
W. Stevens of Boston, delivered poem, and
Gen. Cilley an Grafton
Al Gardiner.
~GARDrNER, May 3O.-The day has been very
generally observed. In the forenoon detach-
Sinents OF the G. A. r. decorated the graves at
rittston AT 1.30 p. M, the procession was
formed, consisting of Heath Post, G. A. r. of
oardIner, large detachment from Cutler Post
u. A. II. at Togus, Washington Engine Com
pany OF Gardiner, Tiger and Torrent fire engine
companies of Hallowell and the City Govern
ment with the Hallowell, National Military
Bands. The procession marched to Johnson's
Hall, where the following exercises took place:
Prayer by Rev Mr.. Nutting of Gardiner, music
by quaHette. Grafton by Rev. Geo. w. Bick-
NELL music by the band and quartette, prayer
2 by Rev Mr.. Thomas. The hall was densely
packed, hundreds being unable to get in. The
procession PROCEEDED to the cemetery where
graves were decorated and salutes fired, after
which it returned to the hall, wherela collation.
was served aud the exercises closed.
Mr.. Bicknell. reviewed briefly the causes
which gave us Memorial Day, paying feeling
tribute to the fallen in nations sefvce. He
urged the survivors to remember the cost of our
present peace and prosperity, and to foster
every influence possible to keep community
and government pure: He urged the people to
remember the promises made the soldier, and
not permit the widow and orphan to suffer-
Our fallen soldiers did all in their power to pre-
vent the fall of the nation; we are to do all in
our power to prevent the growth of any antag-
onism which would ever place the nation in
jeopardy. In illustration of the science of
the soldier, he described the famous charge of
the twelfth regiment AT Spottsylvania. He
closed with the hope that Memorial day would
long be observed, believing it would do much to
keepus determined to uphold the right princi-
pie.
In Sk0whegan. sa--r-s
SKowHEaAN May 3O.-Memoral day was
appropriately observed in this town under the
auspices of Chamberlain Post, G. A. r. No. 3.
At two O clock the Post, escorted by Co. c.,
First Regiment Maine Militia, Capt Emery,
and the Skowhegan Band, and followed by a
large line of carriages, repaired to the cemetery
on both sides of the river and laid upon the
graves of twenty-six soldiers wreaths and other
embiems prepared by the patriotic ladies of the
town. THE grave of the soldiers were strewn
with garlands of choice flowers. In the even
ing Coburn Hall was well filed. The members
where the following exercises took place: Salu-
tatory by the band, prayer by Rev. Webster
Woodbury., dirge, reading the names of the
men who went to war from the town and lost
their lives, by Gen. Isaac Dyer, address by Col.
q. A. Smith of the Portland Press, which occu-
pied three-quarters of an hour. ta
Skowhegan did its part for the war, for after
the State began to give credit for quotas it sent
230 men to the war and it is estimated that 100
went before that policy was adopted. OF this
this number IS lost their lives during the war.
The exercises passed off pleasantly and with
more than usual interest
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At KOclxlamd.
RoCKLAND, May 31.-Memorial day was cele-
procession the Rockland Veteran Associa-
ton to the number of fifty; the Hurricane Vet
eran Association, numbering about one hun
dred, with the Vinalhaven band; carriages con-
tanning chorus of young ladies and misses
from the Sunday Schools; members of the city
government; veterans, sc. The graves were
decorated in the usual manner at the Jameson
Point aud Achorn cemeteries, and at the latter
addresses were delivered by Gen. Davis Til
son and Rev. A. FL. Sweetsir. Abouts10O0 PEG
pie were present. An grafton was delivered at
Farwell and Ames Hall in the evening by Rev.
j. o. Knowles to a large audience,