The herald., 1897-06-01

streets in the following order: Grand Mar
shall Milice and staff, Riverside City band,
Company M, N. G. c., 100 school boys uni
formed with national color caps, company
of school girls, bearing fine silk flag won
recently in national song contest; high
school cadets, 100 school girls, uniformed
with red white and blue parasols: high
school girls. in white floats, with white
horses and white equpage; Cantcs River
side. /. O. o. F.: knights of the Maccabees,
the ladies in carriages: G.. A. r., nearly 100
strong; w. r. c., in carriages: ambulance
corps, citizens in carriages.
At Evergreen cemetery, where the G. A.
r. has buryng ground. most impressive
ceremonies were conducted. There Is a
splendid granite monument there, erected
by the w. r. c. to the memory of the
unknown dead soldiers, and near 1t Is a
lofty flag pole. The usual ritualistic work
was gone through with in a splendid man.
ner, and was interspersed with songs by
the school children.
By II o'clock the organizations were in
their places at the Lorng opera house. and
the doors We're opened to the public. which
poured in and filled every seat and every
inch of standing room and hundreds went
away. The exercises were opened by Pres
ident of the Day Grove with a fine five
minute address. Then came the Battle
hymn by the school children. This was
followed by the invocation by DR.. George
H. Deere, which was most impressive and
touching. The president then introduced
Hon. d. E. Meyers of Moreno, who spoke
most effectively along a serious line of
thought. He was followed by the children
with "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground"
Then the orator of the day was introduced,
Rev. e. f. Goff of the First Congregational
church. He delivered an address that was
pronounced by all who heard it the finest
Memorial day address ever heard in River
side. 1t was thoughtful. eloquent, sympa-
thetic, broad. The exercises closed with
the song. my Country by the audience.
Following the exercises at the opera
house the G. A. R. boys enjoyed a camp
fire at the post headquarters. After a
sumptuous repast. speeches were made by
Comrades j. j. Yeakle, ]. o. Cults E. W.
Holmes. c. B. Bishop, Fl. c. Hibbard, D. G.
Mitchell, L. w. Alum, D. E. Meyers. w. B.
Johnson, VIM. Dusenberry, Oscar Pixley,
H. c. Plimpton.
A county organization was formed with
the following officers: President, Col. H. c.
Plimpton of Perris; vice presidents. Hon.
E. w. Holmes of Riverside, P. w. Stock
sledger of San Jacinto; secretary, ]. J.
Yeakle of Riverside; treasurer, DR.. r. D.
Barber of Corona; executive committee,
Plimpton, r. T. Jenkins of Beaumont, H.
I. Gruwell of Elsinore, H. c. Hihbard and
j. j. Yeakle.
The militia shoot today narrowed down
to Riverside and Redlands, San Bernardno
falling to put in an appearance. The
score was as follows:
Riverside team-Capt Eason, "A: Lieut..
Bedwell 43; Corporal Cox 49,; Private
Russell. 80; Private Bloom, 49,; Private
Huddleson, A; Private w. F. Pam, Al:
Private Gage AZ Private Rhodes. 3S; Pri-
vate E. A. Meachain, 43; total Ais.
Redlands team-Capt. Underwood, Al;
Corporal Maier, 40; Corporal Hornby, 43;
Corporal Seward. 81; Corporal Baldridge,
80: Sergeant Lehr, A; Private Lukins, IS;
Private Brown. Al; Private Sheldon, 10;
Private Cook 80; total, 4O2.
The tennis tournament today between
Redlands and Riverside resulted in River
side winning five out of eight sets