News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-06-04
Memorial Day.

Opening and continuing to some
extent threatening with rain Satur.
dav was not the ideal day for the an
nual soldiers festival, but the con-
ditions did not detract from the in
terest or the attendance that always
characterizes the day here in Nor
risville.
At one-thirty p. m. the column was
formed on Portland street with the
band in the lead, with Col. G. W.
Doty as drum major, Doty Camp
Sons of Veterans under arms, and in
command of Captain Heman IL.
Thompson, followed, then came a
large representation from Post
James NJ. Warner No. 4, A. A. Niles
Commander, the Relief Corps the
Ladies Aid and citizens. The column
marched to the old cemetery where
the customary exercises were held,
graves decorated and salute fired.
Returning to town hall it was soon
filled and more than filled. All the
platform was very attractive in its
decorations which were very artistic
ally arranged, with mingled colors OF
flags, bunting, evergreen and plants.
On the platform were seated the
speaker, the clergy, officers of the
different organizations, singers and
the band.
With the large audience made as
comfortable as possible the following
interesting progam was taken up
and carried into very successful and
enjoyable execution
Selection, Morrsyile ). T. BANG.
PRAYER. Rev l. P. Booth, D. d.
Duet, Brave Men, Behold Your Fallen Ones. "
The Misses Niles.
Solo, The Gay, Hussar
Mrs Geo. M. Powers.
Reading "The Soldiers Reprieve."
Ia NJ. Niles
Duet. Scatter Flowers over the Gray and
Scatter them over the Blue"
The Misses Irish
Trio. "Our Nation Forever Live"
Miss Phillips and Misses Niles.
Address, R W. Hulburd, Esq, of Hyde Park.
Solo, Memorial Day
Bepediction. Rev. Mr.. Kellogg.
OF these exercises nothing but the
highest words of praise can be said.
The band was in excellent form
and the work of the ladies upon
the program gave every evidence of
talent and careful training, all doing
their work in a finished and artistic
manner, a credit to themselves and
of no little satisfaction to Morris
town people when it is more and
more realized that home talent is
here, and here abundantly.
In introducing the speaker of the
hour Commander Niles claimed q
double pleasure and satisfaction in
the fact that he was to present to the
large audience their speaker as well
as the next Senator from Lamoille,
R. W. Hulburd OF Hyde Park.
Mr.. Hulburd was warmly received
and at once launched himself in his
matchless style as public speaker
into the work of the hour, with every
sentence perfect masterpiece, rheto
RE perfect and delivery so pleasing.
Without a scrap of paper he proceed
ed and gave to that large audience
perfect gem of an grafton, a Memo
rial Day address that must, without
putting any other at disadvantages,
stand well at the head in its scholarly
completeness. Speaking as rapidly
as he did, the attempt to give brief
synopsis can but fail to do him JUS
tic, but some of his thoughts are
partially reflected in the ideas that
Some one has said that a Memo
rial Day address is sort of cross
between funeral and Fourth of
July GRAFTON. This may be or may
not be, but so long as there were men
brave enough to fight and die for
their country's cause they deserve
more than this one funeral in year,
as does also such a country as ours
more than one Fourth of July. We
are apt to forget the cost of our
liberty. This day has personal
and local interest. Morristown is
not ready to forget the brave boys
who went to the front in that hour
of need, and not ready to forget the
mere remnant that gather here
to-day. These veterans remember
those heroic comrades who went |
not to return, and recall those who |
have one by one fallen by the way
side since the war. Two of these, the
personal friends of the speaker, Col
Stafford and Col. Gates, he remem-
bered with thoughts of cherished |
friendship and an enduring regard.
What is true here is true all over the
north and in one common impulse
and honored memory we visit the
graves of those who fought, and had
back of them the calm courage of
legitimate authority.
The man who tightly buttons him
self within his coat and says every
man for himself, has none of these
impulses for fellow man, he loses him
SELF rather than finding his best life
here. To-day we are not called upon
to remember merely dead meaning
less past, but the living, surviving
principles and accomplishments of
those who have wrought their lives
into the history of a great country,
for all this and these still live.
Memorial Day belongs to us all, and