The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-05-12
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MEMORIAL DAY.
How the Living Honored the Memory
of the Dead.

Monday morning dawned with a ge-
NAL sunshine and bright clear sky, with
lust breeze enough to prevent the heat
from being oppressive. Early in the
day teams came in from all directions,
bringing people to witness and participate
in the memorial services, among whom
were many ex~-Confederate soldiers. Atthe
appointed hour, = o'clock p. NJ, the pro-
cession was formed at the Court House
square by Chief Marshal Brown and his
assistant marshals, and proceeded up
Liberty street in the following order:
Salem Band, led by Capt. D. I. Grouse,
drawn by six magnificent horses, five
white and one iron gray, brides and
harness gaily festooned with flowers, ex-
Sheriff Fogle holding the ribbons.
Two hundred and fifty ex-Confederate
soldiers marching in column of twos.
Winston Rifles, marching in column
of fours, under command of Capt. Gray.
Winston and Salem Fire Companies,
in full uniform.
Carriage, drawn by four spanking bays,
driven by Bob Macarthur, containing the
Mayors of Winston and Salem, Rev. DR..
Rondthaler and Col. L. L. Polk, the ora
tor of the day.
Carriages, containing ladies and chill
dren, and after these, citizens on foot.
At the corner of 9TH street the pro-
cession turned, moving on to Cherry
street. down that to New Shallow Ford
street il Salem, thence down Main street
around the public square, where a halt
was made in front of the Academy, and
the band struck up Dixie, thence up
Front to Depot street and on to the Win
son Cemetery.
After decorating the graves and tiringa
salute in honor of the dead the procession
reformed in the order of march, moved
on to Main street, and to Browns Opera
House, arriving about half-past 4 o'clock.
The house, which has a seating capacity
of about a thousand, was crowded but
not uncomfortably so, owing to the COM
mendable f~orethought of the marshals,
who provided extra seats and saw that
all that were comfortable. BY the time
the band had finished a beautiful intro
ductOry, every one was seated and the
most perfect order prevailed.
On the stage were seated the Hon. T.
J. Wilson. Mayor of Winston c. H. Fo-
gle, Mayor of Salem; Rev. DIR. Edward
Rondthaler, pastor of the Moravian
church in Salem; Rev. F. H. Johnston,
pastor of the Presbyterian church in
Winston; Hon. C. B. Watson, j. c. Bux-
ton, Chief Marshal Col. T. J. Brown, Capt.
NJ. W. Norfeet, Capt. Taylor, of DAN
bury, and Col. L. L. Polk, the Speaker.
The services were opened by Rev. DR..
Rondthaler in an impressive and eloquent
prayer, in which he paid touching tribute
to the dead for the devotion they had
shown to duty, and thanked God for the
example they had set the living for all
time, in shrinking not from duty even
at the cost of trials, privations, suffering
and death itself, and he thanked God,
too, that these heroic Southerners were
Americans of whom all Americans could
be proud. No more might Americans
shed each others blood, but a united
people move on together, perpetual
peace reigning from Snow Cliff to Gulf,
from Ocean to Ocean, till the Kingdoms
Of the earth are no more.
Hon. C. B. Watson then after a pleas
ant, humorous little talk, in which he
recalled "reminiscences of camp life in the
days that tried mems souls (when the
skillet was a mighty factor) introduced
Col. /. /. Polk, who followed in a brief
address to which the audience listened
with profound attention and seemed to
be pleased. At the conclusion of his adj
dress the band struck up Dixie which
never fails to call for responsive echoes
among the boys who wore, the gray.
The services were closed with benedic-
ton by Rev. DIR. Rondthaler and the
band gave as a farewell piece the Old
North State, and thus ended Memorial
day in Winston and Salem-an occasion
long to be remembered by those who
witnessed or participated in it. The best
OF order prevailed from beginning to
end N no incident nor accident occur
red to mar the harmony, solemnity nor
beauty of the occasion.
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