The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-31

So wondrous and so fair.

biihS lTOin sunny Kansas
The land of old John Brown,
The sunfiower and the poppy.
Earth's royal sons to crown.
Mississippi-Dolly Singer:
L bring from lands historic.
The sad Sultana knew,
The rarest Southern flowers,
remembering her crew.
Louisiana-Roy Goggin:
1 bring the proud palmetto.
And flowers fair and tall,
To smile with tears of pity
Above the graves of all.
Arkansas-Ben Howard:
/ bring of blossoms many
And strew them once again.
Remembering Red River
And Island Number Ten.
Texas-Lila Cobban:
i bring the water lilly
That broods above the dead
In river bend and bayou,
No Drawer ever led.
Tennessee-Bert Kilrov:
i bring from mountains rocky
A thousand thousand flowers:
The heroes of the Cumberland
Command these gifts of ours.
NtNdud-tNOy smell.
1 bring from sunsets splendid
The jeweled buds of spring:
The martyrs of Port Hudson,
BE these the men we sing.
California-Ethel Brinck:
L bring, with arms full laden
From California's strand
The wreaths for Appomattox
And strew with lavish hand
Oregon-Clayton Zollers:
l bring in all the glory
or Mays bewildering smile,
The flowers for the prisons
OF Libby and Belle Isle.
Montana-Laura McAllister:
l bring the garnered beauty
or many lands to-day,
For fathers and for brothers,
SO early passed away.
North Dakota-George Miles:
L bring the buds unfolding,
The types so early fled,
OF hearts in anguish breaking
Above a sacred dead.
South Dakota-Eva Bowman:
L bring loves odorous offerings
For Grant, the man of peace.
And the hero of his armies:
God give us such increase.
Washington-Fred PETERS:
/ bring my choicest garlands
For mother and for wife.
And our dear Army Nurses
Who faced the cruel strife.
Colorado-Elsie Sagrifth:
l bring from mountains hoary,
From crevices of snow,
The rarest flowers that blossom.
Because we loved them so.
Idaho-Clayborn Brinck:
/ bring from hills and wales
A wreath TO deck the spot
Where sleeps a hero brave
Whose name is not forgot.
Utah-Nellie Woods:
From Utah's quiet valleys
And lovely spots serene
l bring a woven garland
Crowned with living green.
Wyoming-Alfred Murphy:
Our broad and grassy plains
Give flowers rich and rare,
To scatter on the hallowed groun
Ger heroes sleeping there.
following the Memorial of tn
overs" the pupils of Miss Lizzi
ans room at the West Broadwa,
lool, sang an original Decoration
" Song" to the tune of "Marchin,
rough Georgia" The words of tn,
lg are as follows:
ing your choicest flowers, dear.
deck the soldiers grave:
ice them tenderly and neat
memory of the brave
10 fought and fell in battle fierce
cir country's life to save
oilers brave, good and true!
'horus-
me one! Come all! and bring your
choicest flowers:
me one! Come all! this work OF love
is ours;
decorate the soldiers graves.
tn Natures choicest bowers.
diers brave. good and true!
ng your choicest flowers for
: heroes buried here,
Blue and Gray alike they fought,
what their hearts held dear,
keep their memory green to-day,
> distant and the near
diers brave. good and true,
he singing of America" by the
Idren concluded the services at the
letery and the people then returned
the city and the Women's Relief
ps served refreshments to the @.
r at Fidelity hall
he evening exercises were held at
Auditorium, beginning at s O'Clock.
hail was packed. The exercises
ned with the singing of America"
the High school choir. followed by
irching Through Georgia" Hail
lmbia," and Red, White and
e" The High school octet also sang
Ie Blue and the Gray" Superin-
lent +. l.. Kern delivered an ad-
IS on Public Schools and Memo
Day" after which the orator of the
, Colonel T. o'Leary of Anaconda,
introduced. His Grafton had been
prepared and was delivered VITA
ndid effect, the speaker being fire.
ntly interrupted by applause. He
&c as follows:
President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
was a happy thought tht of General
an when, in stead of Decoration
:" being as 1t was then called. he
ed this anniversary Memorial Day "
& as IL is a day devoted especially 20
memory OF the dead. who died that
nation might live. and the dead of
e who cast their lives in the balance
AXE up the purchase price that would
an united republic; the d, grafton OF
graves is one OF the incidents of
memorial and is In itself a beautiful
lie TO the dead; but il is not all that
anniversary bespeaks. II must be
why these decorations. why certain
IS are selected from among the many