The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-31
COLONEL OLEARY's SPEECH
Children Representing the States
Render the 81" emoriaI Of Flow
ers"-Song by other Pupils
At the Cemetery.

puDllShed in the Standard, was CARR.
out almost entirely. The parade too
place about IL o'clock in the forenot
and proceeded TO the cemetery whe
beautiful decoration ceremonies we
held and the graves OF federal ar
confederate soldiers alike were strew
with flowers. A monument of eve
greens and flowers was erected arou1
which a hollow square was formed /
the G. A. r. and w. r. c., and the {
r. ritual services held there. 70
owed by the Memorial of Flowers
by IS children. pupils of Mrs. Alice \
Roberts school of South Butte. TIL
children represented the differer
itates and were appropriately attire,
They marched around the square an
'ach one, as he approached the monu
nent dropped a bunch of flowers an
ecited an appropriate verse. TIL
tates were represented by the childre
IS follows:
Maine-E enry Hammon:
/ bring this wreath of roses
For those who sleep alone
On many line of battle
Unnumbered and unknown.
New Hampshire-Ed Martin:
/ bring the victor's laurel
From many a mountain height
Remembering all our heroes
Who persisted in the fight.
Vermont-Pauline Reickle:
i bring the freshest blossoms
In memory of one
Who sailed away at morning
Aud died at setting sun.
Observation-Disclosures Brown:
/ bring the rarest Jewels
That love has brooded DER
Remembering Antietam
And hundred battles more.
Rhode lsland-Pearl Ether:
i bring the sweetest treasures
Both of the shore and sea
For those who fell with Burnside
In hostile Tennessee.
Connecticut-Edit Flint.
/ bring thee fragrant lilies
And through the tears and flames.
MY heart viii still remember
The Army of the James.
New York-John Lucanish:
] bring thee sprays of myrtle
Recalling all the brave
Who, on the Rappahannock
Gave up their lives to save.
Pennsylvania-Stella Butcher:
1 bring the statellest flower
For those who fell at Gettysburg
So many years ago.
New Jersey-Lonnie Woods.
i bring of Mays bright garlands,
And softly lay them down
For those who with Mcclellan
Won glorious renown.
Delaware-Dollie Calderhead.
bring the honeysuckle
Of
without a prayer to speed them.
Without a fond farewell.
Maryland-Louise Bosch.
bring the oleanders
And place them with n tear
Above the shrouded silence
OF many a lonely bier.
NirEina-Nirdie johnson:
l bring the rare magnolias
That line Potomac's shore:
Above a hundred battle fields
They whisper evermore.
West Virginia-Millie Howard.
1 bring of treasures many,
On lonely mountain stored.
Remembering the Kanahrba.
The graves at Carrick's ford.
North Caroiina-Henry WIGHT.
l bring the snowy blossoms
For sunken fleets at ocean
And shadowy hosts on land.
South Carolina-Mary Michaud.
ring a tribute tender
lay above the brave
hose shrouded forms are moulder,nr
many Southern grave.
Georgia-Edwin Irvine:
bring the fadeless ivy,
The starry immortelle.
'or those who stormed Mt. Lookout
Ind at Resaca fell.
Alabama-Harvey Bowman:
bring the flowers golden
rom many a Southern plain.
Tor those no trump shall waken
Intil they rise again.
Florida-Marjle Miller:
bring the splendid beauty
u tropic-tinted bloom,
For those their last sieep taking
Within the tangled gloom.
Ohio-Fern Grabbing:
l bring the Buckeye blossoms
Remembering Sheridan.
And those who fought I'm battles
Along the Rapidan.
1ndiana-Fay Curtis:
i bring for Morton's heroes
The lily and the rose;
Alas, that time shall never
Their resting place disclose.
lllinois-Gertie Clark:
i bring for Abraham Lincoln
And many thousand more.
The tenderest oblatlons
That loyal hearts outpour.
Michigan-Violet Smalley:
bring for Clusters legfons.
Ana al the martial line
The sprays OF stately cedar,
The Victor-cPowning pine.
Wisconsin-Ed. Batten:
bring with heart Of freedom !
The wealth OF wood and plain
To those who bore our standard
And ne'er returned again.
kentucky-Marie Peterson.
bring the sweet blue grasses.
The hare bells nodding low.
And DER the unmarked Ierions
a jeweled mantle throw.
MissOuri-Chester Brown.
bring the stately peony.
a symbol true and grand
)f those who fell with LYON
To save our own dear land
Iowa-ROland Jolly.
bring the prairie blossoms.