Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-05-30

s-ndreds, Who Came Not Only
mt of Curiosity, but Imbued
Vi-h the Spirit of the Occasion.
The Programme Carried Out Sue
ully-A Splendid Grafton by
-7r. Charles T. Caldwell, Of
psrz,rsburg- Celebration of the
Dsv Elsewhere in West Virginia
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.-aeu. w. Va, May 29.-To-day
marks one Of the greatest and most
ssul Of Graftons decorations.
-.. crowd is one Of the largest and
--.. orderly that visited us for a mum
Ter O.. years.
Each train brought its hundreds not
merely scat-seers. or those who would
dune out Of mere curiosity. but those
.s,rc- pay reverence to dead heroes
who v slumbering IN the national
.a-av.
r- bands were present and dis
music from an early hour this
ing Tin late at night. The morn
rr programme as indicated in your
-.rsr this morning was carried out 10
letter and WAS more largely attended
than that Of any former occasion.
The children carrying baskets Of flow
e-s were quite an attraction and were
rrraa5ed along the line of march.
The procession in the afternoon was
formed promptly at l p. m. On arriy-
i-e no the cemetery Rev. A. F. Rich
qts5n offered prayer. Col J. G. Nigh
then introduced the orator of the day,
Hon. c. r. Caldwell. who said in part:
Ws hail and hallow this national
s day. II is the grandest Of all
t. couutry's historic days. II recalls
,as best days Of the republic and na-
araIly and politically blends it with
t time when the nation was recon
sa,ed by the blood and lives of its
heroic sons almost a third of a century
ago.
The speaker referred 10 the heroes
Of Bunker Hill as we'll as those Of Get
tvsar-s and Antietam. He also referr-
ttn-ae strongest terms to the insid-
ions dangers that forever threaten the
republic laying stress on the fact that
ts ersu are within it. They will
no. come ar.l high seas with glittering
cannon pointed from men-Of-war. but
] tva series Of expressions. harmless
when parated, but strong when com
al5i and these enemies were some
O.. the trusts and combines that hover
around the State as well as national
lawmakers. The speaker closed with
ts following peroration:
The dead buried in uniforms Of blue
and uniforms Of gray are at peace. 1t
is a great example TO the living who
a eadily and surely moving on TO
cnaanionship in the cheerless grave
With the comrades who have gone be-
s The monuments erected 10 the
r.r- and memory Of the blue and the
car standing on the same free soil.
ta-sth the same glittering stony SEN
es by night. around which sweep
-.a protecting folds of the same flag,
ul when at eyentide it fall together,
t-v blending emblematical of the re-
stored brotherly love and fraternal
trship which knows no North. no
South. no East. no West, but one COM
mon country: no more division. no
IRE d.scord or dissensions, but from
ocean 10 ocean and from the farthest of
northern lakes to the ever-fowing
- stream. that marks the boundary
r- -.sr far fair South. the voice is heard
a- falling Of many waters:
sail ON. sail on. o Ship of State,
Sa. on o Union. strong and great;
humanity. with an its fears, is hang
irg breathleSs on thy fate.
OBSERVED AT CLARKSBURG.
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tarsshurg. w. Va, May %. Dec
o-.r Day was observed here to-day.
h.s. Of the business houses were deco
~'sI with flags. Custer Post of the
G. A. r. and the Sons of Veterans
rsI the graves Of soldiers at the
. Fellows cemetery and the Jack
-i Dawson graveyards. The oc-
was made interesting by martial
firing salutes and appropriate
E#as
1000 AT MORGANTOWN.
to The Register.
Ao-gautown. w. Va, May % -
thousand people flOcked into
r-ar-own to-day to participate in
memorial exercises. and fully four
rd listened TO the address in the
yard by Hon. B. B. DOvener.
NaItmau +. Wiley and Hon.
SrIrgisS. The town was a per
waving sea of flags and bunting.
VAS The greatest day il ever knew.
was no disorder Blue and gray
.-.--a.nsled.
lelphia May % Memorial
Was tttiugly celebrated here and
.aut the State to-day The day
celebrated IL nearly all Of the
.t the Union on Monday. but the
Pennsylvania provides that
'so, holidays fall on Sunday their