West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1899-05-30
How the Day Has Been Oh
served in This City.
SPLENDID ADDRESSES
And an Imposing Parade Char.
acterIzed the Occasion.

The people of this city have been
honoring the soldier dead today in
common with the rest of this
country and its foreign possessions.
The program arranged by Ring
gold Post, No. 6S, G. A. R., did full
justice to the occasion, and was car
ried out in It's entirety very nicely.
The parade was one of unusual
length and of imposing appearance,
and the Post made a happy selec-
tion of speakers to voice the senti-
ments inspired by the day. Taken
all In all the day was perhaps mo1e
fttingly and beautifully observed
than ever before in this city.
Too much cannot be said in
praise of the city band which fur
nished and Is furnishing the music.
Although handicapped in various
ways the boys were fully equal to
the occasion, and discoursed the
latest and most difficult music in a
manner that would have done proud
similar organizations of established
Reputation.
The parade formed shortly after
nine o'clock at the intersection of
Diamond and Brown Betty streets,
and marched to the cemetery in the
following order: City officials, in
carriages, soldiers of the Hispano-
American war, d um corps, Ring
gold Post twenty strong, city band,
E. Wells Hook and Ladder COM
pany, Ancient Order of United
Workmen, Royal Cadets in new
and attractive uniforms, J. 7. Jones
Hose company Citizens Hose com.
pany and large number of school
children.
On the return from the cemetery
the exercises in the city hall were
begun. Col. w. c. Turner, adiu,
tant of Ringgold Post introduced
the features of the program.
After selection of military MT
sic by the band Comrade w. III.
Topp read Lincoln's address at
Gettysburg in pursuance of re-
quest embodied In general order
No. from national headquarters
Grand Army of the Republic. The
address follows:
-Four score and seven years age
our fathers brought forth on this
continent, new nation, conceived
in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war; testing whether
that nation, or any nation SO con.
ceived, and so dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war. We have
come to dedicate portion of that
field, as final resting place for
those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. 1t is alto
gether fitting and proper that we
should do this.
"But, In larger sense, we can
not conservative cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men, liv-
ing and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated 1t, far above our
power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long re-
member what we say here, but
it can never forget what they did
here. 1t is for us the living, rather,
to be dedicated here to the un-
finished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. 1t Is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us-that from
these honored dead we take in
creased devotion-that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain--that this
nation. under God, shall have a
new birth OF freedom-and that
government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not per-
ish from the earth"
F. D. Young, Esq, was the first
speaker, and he delivered fine ad
dress, couched in beautiful Ian.
Iguage and embodying sentiments
which touched the hearts of his