The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-02-22
BAR MEMORIAL.
Mahaska Attorneys Honor Their
Departed Brothers.

Masonic Opera House never con-
tanned larger audience than that
present Sunday night to hear and
take part in the services by the mem
bers of the legal profession of Ma
haska county, in memory of the de-
parted members of the bar who have
lived and worked in Mahaska county
and who have left their impress on
the development of the community.
There were eulogies of part of the
dead, the names of the others being
read, twenty in all.
The Opera House was furnished by
Mr.. E. M. Fritz for the occasion,
who also rendered the services of his
orchestra during the evening and the
Opera House usbers were present to
wait on the crowd A number of the
churches had dismissed their evening
services for the memorial. The house
was crowded to the doors and many
who sought2 admittance were turned
away.
The members of the bar met at the
court house and marched to the
Opera House in body. They were
seated on the stage in company with
a number of ministers and members
of the medical profession of the city.
The program of the evening was as
follows:
Music by Fritz Orchestra.
Invocation by Rev. J. w. Somer-
vile.
America" by Barr Quartette-
Phillips, Davis, Williams and Downs.
w. s. Kenworthy, president of the
Bar Association, presided during the
evening in the capacity of chairman.
In way of introduction he said the
following:
Like leaves on trees the race of man
is found,
Now green in youth, now whitening
on the ground.
Another race the following spring
supplies,
They fall successive and successive
rise.
So generations in their course decay,
So flourish these when those have
passed away"
The Mahaska County Bar Associa-
ton has thought proper to hold this
service, believing that some good may
result therefrom We do not forget
that our departed brothers were part
Of the human race, and Like ourselves,
heirs of it's weaknesses. We come in
no spirit of fulsome eulogy, but pan
oplied with sublime faith that there
is good in man, and having upon our
banner the words of the matchless
Lincoln, with malice toward none
and charity for ALL"
The period of action of larger por-
ton of those we speak of tonight
covers much of the last half of the
10Th century. For fifty years this
Bar has been a potent factor in all
departments of our beloved common
wealth, as we'll as of the nation at
large! These fallen comrades lived
and wrought during century greater
in achievements in the arts and sci
ences than in all the centuries of all
the ages since Creations dawn. Dur
ing that period the human intellect
and conscience seem to have been
touched with an invisible power that
shook the old world from it's dark
ness, into light that is the mystery
of the ages.
Our fallen brothers were factors in
this wonderful passage from darkness
to light, from error to truth. AS we
stand beside their graves tonight may
our hands find new strength and our
hearts fresh courage as we remember
only the good in their lives and the
achievements it was theirs to win.
Geo. @. Morgan. :. John G. Williams
James Rhinehart. 20. G. G. Phillips
J. K. Johnson -. Geo. w. Sewers
M. E. Quits ....... James Carroll
w. II. Sewers. John o. Malcolm
James A. Sewers. Liston McMillen
Battle Hymn. of the Republic, by
Bar Quartette.
Samuel A. Rice .......W. r. Lacey
John R. Needham. Geo. w. Lafferty
w. II. Needham. Irving @. johnson
M. T. Williams. ...... Ben Mccoy
VIM. Loughridge. IL. @. Blanchard
Song, "God Be With You Till We
Meet Again, Bar Quartette.
Benediction, by Rev. r. B. A. Nc
Bride.
The program was somewhat len gthy
on account of the number of eulogies
that were pronounced. The services
were commenced promptly at 1880
O'Clock and continued until after 10,
but we're highly interesting through
out. The audience was quiet and at
tentive, and it was one of the most
representative audiences that has
been in the house for long time.
The other honored dead of the Ma
haska county bar are:
z. @. Fisher Phillip Myers
Elliott w. Rice E. w. Eastman
Frank Rice John McCord
E. D. Mcclellan A. M. Cassiday
j. E. Sewers.