The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-03
Memorial Day.
How Sunday was observed by the Cairo
Sir Knights.

D'y az pceCh uIo'e cemetery last sunday.
Cairo Commandery has the honor of having
itself instituted this Memorial Day in the
State Of Illinois, and of having prepared
the ritual observed in the service on this
occasion, which ritual has since been adopt
ed by other Communicates in the State,
for similar occasions.
Cairo Commandery is one of the Oldest in
the State, having been instituted Oct. 25h
1864; aud it has from time to time given
to the Order of the State at large some of
its highest officers. Sir Knight p w. Bar
clay is Past Grand Eminent Commander,
and Sir knight c. w. Dunning is Grand
GeneralissImo. The Commentary is now
differed as follows:
Eminent Commander Sir Knight WIN.
M. Murphy Generalissimc, Sir Knight Juo.
Antrim; Captain General, Sir Knight Geo
E. O'Hara; Treasurer, Sir Knight j. A.
Goldstine; Recorder, Sir Knight A. H..
Irwin; Senior Warden, Sir Knight c. W.
Dlnning; Standard bearer, Sir Knight NJ.
G. Crawford; Sword Bearer, Sir Knight N,
Cantwell; Wsrder, Sir Knight j. w. Nor
ris; Captain of Guard, Sir Knight H. B.
Manwaring.
Last Sunday was the third annual observ-
ance of the Memorial Day. The event ex-
cited general interest in the community for
the knights have long had the reputation
of doing whatever they did with consider
able eclat. The day was a beautiful one
for such an occasion, or for any outdoor
demonstration, testivity or ceremony. The
temperature was mild, sky clear, all nature
serene and lovely IN her full spring cos
tune.
About 2 o'clock p. N. the Commandery
started from the asylum on Commercial
Avenue, clad in their splendid regaia and
headed by the Cairo Cornet Band, for a
special train of engine and two coaches on
the Illinois Central at Sixth Street. There
a number of ladies had already gathered
and were taken in charge by the Sir
Knights. Several huge baskets of floral
ornaments were also taken along, to be
used in the ceremony at the Cemetery Ar
rived at the Cemetery the Knights formed
into line again, and preceded by the band
and followed by the ladies, marched slowly
up the grassy hill, to the solemn air of a
death march impresSively rendered by the
band, Several hundred people had pre-
coded the Knights to the Cemetery, in
buggies from Cairo and from the vicinity
of the Cemetery, and by special train from
Mound City. These filed along either side
of the line of march and attended the SUD-
sequent ceremony with marked attention
On grassy plain on top of the mound,
surrounded by hundreds of beautiful mar
bic memorials that marked the tombs of
loved ones gone before and amid grove
of trees whose eafy branches closed as
bower over their plumed heads, the
Knights formed in martial array under
command of Sir Knight Geo. Z. O'Hara,
G. G., and listened to the Eminent Com
msnder's address, delivered by Sir Knight
c. w. Dunning. An impressive prayer SER
vice was lead by Prelate p. w. Barclay,
and this was followed by the Grafton, de-
livered by Sir Knight Rev. f. P. Daven-
port, and which was beyond question one
Of the finest and most appropriate discourses
ever gwen on such an occasion. The ora
ton concluded, the band struck up a needy
of solemn airs, to the strains of which the
Commandery marched in double file from
one to the other of the several tombs of the
Sir Knights buried there aud revsrentialy
deposited upon each a profusion of the
most beautiful flowers arranged in various
suggestive forms, such as anchors, crosses,
wreaths and pillows. The tombs thus visit
ed were those of L. ]. Jorgenson, Rector
DIlou-Lee, James B. Fulton, G. Nenninger
and Capt. W. L. Hambleton; and the tombs
of Miss Rearden, daughter of Sir Knight
Jas. S. Rearden, and of Miss McEwen,
daughter of Sir Knight John McEwen, were
also decorated by the Knights. THIS cere-
mony concluded, all returned to the train
in the order in which they had come, keep
Ing step to the soul stirring strains OF "The
Sweet Bye-and- Bye and everybody reach
ed home by 5 o'clock, feeling that they had
spent these several hours in manner en-.
tirely appropriate to the day devoted by
Christianity to the worship of the supreme
being.
Headache, toothache, earache, are cured
10y St. Jacobs Oil. 1t conquers pain.
Racked IN body and distressed in mind