Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-06-02
DECORATION DAY.
The Tribute Of Little Falls to the
Heroic Dead The Parade And Ex-
ercises At Cemetery.


ercises At Cemetery.
"By the sweeping Mississippi,
Long our country s pride and boast,
On the rugged Rocky Mountains,
And the wlerd Pacific coast,
In the listless sunny Southland
With it's blossoms and its vines
On the bracing Northern hill tops
And am i'd their murmurng pines,
Over all our happy country
Over all our nation spread
Is q band of noble heroes
Is our army OF the Dead"
Yesterday was a glorious spring
day, fit occasion to deck the graves
OF the heroic dead. Mother Earth,
after the sleep OF winter, revivifed
by the rains and warmth of May
and clad in the verdure of spring,
presented q beautiful appearance.
And in Little Falls very respect
able tribute was paid to the memory
Of the soldiers who sleep here "by the
flow of the inland river whence the
fleets of iron have fed where the
blades Of the grave-grass CULVER"
At 2 O'Clock business was generally
suspended and stores closed. And
at that hour the procession began to
form on First avenue south. 1t con-
sisted Of band composed of men,
bers Of the Harmonic and the indie
pendent bands. the Workman Post,
Sons of Veterans, Mayor and City
Council, and Firemen. The process
sion proceeded through First street
to Broadway and thence to the Cen
trail and Columbia school buildings
where school children Joined it.. The
procession though not large was
quite creditable.
Citizens in carriages followed it,,
though many went out to the GEM
etery independent of the procession,
so that quite a large gathering had as
sembled at the cemetery, as the pro-
cession entered it. Having arrived
there the band and select choir OF a
dozen or fifteen voices rendered
selections appropriate to the occa-
sion. The commander of the Post
read the service of decoration day
and Rev. w. H. Davenport of the
First Baptist church invoked divine
blessing.
F. X. Lafond was marshal of the
day.
The school children decorated the
graves, and Rev. w. H. Davenport
made the address. He spoke of the
dead and the living heroes and re-
lated some stories of the war among
them, the story of little Blossom -
He referred to the magnificent extent
and grandeur of the nation and it's
possibilities.
Those who have attended these
decoration exercises in the past in
Little Falls say that the attendance
was equal to that ON those occasions
1t was about O'Clock when the pro-
cession returned from the cemetery
and disbanded, and another lecOra.
ton day has passed into history.
The June Arena is mammoth mum.
Der. 1t is probably the largest maya
zine ever published as monthly Issue
of the review, containing one hundred
and sixty-four pages, in which one hun.
dred and fourty-four are in the body OF
the magazine, and twenty pages of care.
fully written book reviews by such well
known critics as Rev. W. H. Thomas
D. D., of Chicago Helen Campbell
Hattie C. Flower. IIamlin Garland land
the editor of the Arena. Among the
leading papers in this notable anniver.
sary issue are Insanity and Genius, by
Arthur McQOualy; The Liberal Chur-
ches and Scepticism, by Rev. Marion
D. Shutter D. D.; arsenic versus chol-
era, by R. 8. Leach, M. D. is interest
ing and timely; Women wage earners
in the west, by HELEN Campbell; Does
the Country Demand the free Coinage
of Silver, by A. G. Fish: Save the Am
erican Home..A striking economic paper
by E Dean; Is am, Past and Present,
by Prof. F, W. Sanders, one Of the most
scholarly religious essays oflrecent times
and should be read by all interested in
obtaining correct idea of what Mo-
hammedanism is; Union for practical
Process by the Editor, a strong plea
for the union of progressive and reform
atiye impulses for educational and pra-
ticle work. Mr. Flower also contributes
a striking paper, entitled Partisan FASH
ionable Folly versus American Com
mon Sense, which deals with the Dire IS
reform movements now being SO vigor-
ously pushed by the National Council of
Women of America. This paper is
handsomely illustraned, containing
twelve or Fourteen large photographers
of Boston ladies in the new reformed
costumes. Mrs. Frances F, Russell
Chairman of the Dress Committee of the
National Council. also contributes a
paper on Freedom in Dress. One of the
most striking features of this issue is q
symposium advocasing the charms OF
the Maize as the National flower re
this symposium number of eminent
writer's contribute, and the charms Of
Indian corn are set forth in such way
as to appeal to the reason and senti
ments of all readers. Altogether this
5 is most notable issue of this gleat-pro
gressive review, and no readers OF
magazines should pass it by.
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