The Somerset reporter., 1900-05-31
SACRED To MEMORY.
Memorial Service in Methodist
Church, Sunday.
Memorial Exercises in COburn Hall and
Decoration of Soldiers Graves,
Wednesday.
MEMORIAL SUNDAY.

Memorial Sunday was observed by
Russell Post, G. A. r. by attending SER
vice at the Methodist Church at o'clock
In the afternoon, accompanied by 25
ladies of Russell Relief Corps and 20
members OF Co. h, National Guards in
uniform. There was about 20 veterans
10 attendance and few sons of veterans.
The altar and pulpit of the audience
room was prettily decorated with flags,
flowers and plants. Music was by a
quartette composed of A. R. Smiley, A.
w. Watson, Mrs. E. c. Dunton and MRS.
D. F. Judkins, with Miss Clara Vosmus,
organist and j. A. Kendall, violiuist.
The sermon was by Rev. f. Il. Adams,
pastor of the NJ. E. Church, and Rev.. H.
F. Huse assisted in the devotional ex.
ercises.
The text was Romans II: 81 beseech
! you therefore brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your bodies
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God. which is your reasonable service"
one, thoroughly patriotic and was listen
ed to with close attention by the veterans
and all others comprising the audience.
On return of the Post to Grand Army
Hall, vote of thanks was rendered Rev.
E. L. Adams for his able discourse, the
Methodist society for the courtesies
shown, those who furnished the very
acceptable music for the occasion and
to Russell Relief Corps and Co. Z for
attending the service with the Post.
MEMORIAL DAY.
| Memorial day was observed In Show
hogan, this year. in accordance with
Grand Army orders published In the RE-
PORTER, last week, with the modifica-
tion that the decoration and exercises
were In both cemeteries in the afternoon
instead of those in the North cemetery
being held in the forenoon, as announced.
Russell Post, No. Sc, G. A. X. had
charge of the exercises, throughout, and
as the afternoon was to be one full of
work, the Post assembled at G. A. r.
hall at o'clock p. N. and with the other
bodies proceeded to Coburn hall with
little ceremony, when the public exer-
cises began at 100 O'Clock, and the fol-
lowing order WAS observed, Dr.. j. N.
Merrill, Post Commander, presiding:
Music by Band.
Reading Orders, .Adjutant H. j. varney
| Daa1
Reading of Roll Of Honor. ...Adiutant Varney
Brief Address of Welcome, Commander
Music, ................. ................ Band
Singing, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .Quartette
Invocation, .................Rev. a. w. Kimball
| Me morial Address, ........G W. Cover, ESQ.
Singing. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. america
| Benediction, ........... ......Rev. E. T. Adams
The quartette that furnished the vocal
music for the occasion was made up of
Mrs. <. c. Dunton, Mrs. d. F. ,Judkns,
A. r. Smiley and A. W. Watson; Miss
Clara Vosmus, accompanist, j. A. Ken,
dali, violinist.
Geo. W. Cover, Esq, the speaker, is
the son of veteran who gave his life
for his country on the field of battle
ChIi1 III wal dbd ObC VI AlS liChb
recollections is that of the body of his
father being brought to his western
home. Rev. H. A. Markley, who made
the brief address at North cemetery, is
also the son of a veteran.
We give brief report of salient
points in the address which occupied
nearly an hour In delivery aud was at
tentively listened to, throughout:
The beautiful custom OF decorating the
graves of veterans, growing out of the
love ot comrade for COM ade as it has, is
not only touching aud fitting rccogu-
ton OF the soldiers sacrifice, but it is
| also an object lesson to the world, that
"Men's deeds live after Them" Inscribed
upon the most sacred OF earthly monu-
ments, the human heart.
| There is something of the soldier in
| the heart of every American boy Bred
| to the ways of peace and taught to be
law-abiding, he has become so impreg.
mated with the spirit of freedom in the
very air he breathes, so melted to the
valorous deeds Of ancestors, that he is
found ready Ia the hour of danger even
| to the sacrifice of his own life. This
makes him at almost moments notice
the acknowledged equal, If not the
superior of any soldier in the world.
Upon occasions like this it is ad-
missible to review a portion of eur
countr. g history, that due honor may
be paid to veterans and to the spirit
which prompted our ancestors to leave
the old world and come to this then
unknown shore and through toll and
struggle, long continued, make the will
derness bloom and yield plenty, fight
against oppression for seven years,
throwing off the tyrants yoke and rails
ing the flag of Freedom over our infant
republic.
The speaker traced the beginning of
slavery and its progress until four mil
lion boDdmen Inhabited the South, re-
called the discussions in Congress and
the prolonged and bitter contest between
slavery and freedom, eliminating in the
civil war.
The people of the South claimed that
the United States was but federation
of sovereign States, while the North
contended that there was but one
sovereignty, one Nation, the grand old
United States of America. The contest
was struggle for the supremacy of the
government. 1t was inevitable.
The speaker graphically recalled the
scenes of the four years war and car
mage, when the soldiers of the govern
ment from the North met the soldiers of
the rebel cOnfederacy of the South, upon
hundreds of battefields, and of the hero