The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-06-02
Music, Poetry and Oratory
tor Brady's Eloquent Ad-
dress.

LUG PIN, are aS sacred IN one season
As smother, but yet on a certain day,
designated by national AUTHORITY: We
group togsthe:: these memories and
sa'oer ourselves in solemn assembly
about the graves of the heroic dead.
Yesterday, however, was peculiarly
observed as Memorial Day, in con.
tradistincti,n to Decoration Day, the
latter being set apart by the southern
people as their special occasion for
remembering their dead heroes.
And yet the bonds of brotherhood
between the blue and gray have
grown into such beauty and strength
in these later years, that the mem.
cries Of both are blended beneath
the SINE blue sky and under the same
bed of blossoms.
"Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Tn Ter the one the blue,
Under the other the gray"
The day for the local memorial
crl brstion was all that could be de.
sirei, 50 tar as the weather WAS con
cerned.
Tue city was literally decorated
with flags and flowers, both in the
business end residence portions. In
the afternoon the banks, postofice
and court house were closed and bust.
ness in general was suspended, more
or less.
Promptly at two o'clock, the NJ,
K. Il 7. hand assembled at the corner
Of Ohio and Second streets and
marched to the q. A. r. hall on
Firth street. They were followed iu
a few minutes by the Seialis Rifles,
under command of Captain Demuth,
and headed by their military band.
The boys marched with nice pre-.
cision and made
A SNOWY APPEARANCE
| in their fine uniforms aud white sum.
mer helmets.
Dr.. I. T. Bronson was officer of the
day and mounted upon his handsome
black horse, soon had the line under
Roadway. The NJ. K. & 7. band led,
followed by General George
In. Smith Post No. 50,
e. A. R., then the Sedalia Military
Band leading the Rifles, these being
followed by carriages containing
members Of the Women's Rsliel
Corps. a few aged veterans. the orator,
choir and citizens. Behind thess
was large wagon, gay with bunting,
its bed q mass of flowers, from thu
center of which was a tall pyramid
CONSTRUCTED OF white roses. The line
Of march was down Fifth street,
which
| WAS BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED,
to Engineer street, thence north Il
the City Cemetery.
The column. with the exception o.
the Rifles, who returned to town
upon entering the cemetery, marched
to the stand erected in the western
part of the ground.
! The stand had a canvas roof an(
was decorated with flags and bunting
1t WAS occupied by the officers of tn
corps, the Womens' Relief Corps, tn
ch0ir, the orator Of tn
: day and members of tn
press. Grouped immediately aroun'
it were the veterans and reaching ia
out among the monuments and mound
was a great throng of people-meu
women and children-most of whor
, bore
II PUNCHES OF FLOWERS
in their hands. Over all the fair su
. of May sifted down through the gree
!, foliage like q blessed benedictio
, from the blue heavens.
The impressive exercises were opene
by the NJ, K. Il 7 band playing IN
Country, IT'S Of Thee" The choil
: composed of DR.. Bronson. w. l
q Fellows. Mrs. j. B. Wilcox, Mr.
= Bronson, Miss Kennedy, Miss NJ
e Cluney and Miss Laura Shock o
8 ganist, sang "Oh, Starry Flag"
t The Rev. DR.. Black, pastor of Il
e Methodist Episcopal church, odert
), prayer.
RI The choir Gang pathetic song.
e dropping from the Ranks, One |
% One"
! Comrade Cspen read quite clev