CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1901-06-06
PATRIOTIC OBSERVANCE
OF nemoriai Day at Canon City,
Military and Civic Societies Par
ticipate-- Rain ana nud Did
Not Keep People Away.

national and state headquarters Me-
mortal Day-Thursday, May 30-was
appropriately observed in Canon City.
Greenwood Post No. 10, G. A. R.,
took the work for the occasion in
hand at an early date, and through
committees had perfected every plan
for big success. Invitation was ex-
tended to all military and civic bodies
to participate, but not all accepted.
The citizens responded generously
with money and flowers and personal
effort, and thus show to the old
veterans that their unselfish devotion
to the Union in its hours of peril had
not been forgotten, and their presence
in this community was considered a
great honor. One patriotic citizen
speaking of the occasion remarked: !:
1T is the right of these veterans to
command, ours to obey The senti-
ment expressed was voiced by many.
Early Thursday morning large
delegation visited the cemetery and
decorated the graves of departed
comrades, the grave of each having
been previously marked with the stars
and stripes. There are now deposited
in Greenwood cemetery the remains
of 70 veterans. The graves OF the
Confederate dead were not forgotten,
each being covered with flowers and
also the stars and stripes.
At nine o'clock the column was
formed on Main street under the eff
cient direction Of Hon. A. II. Davis
as marshal of the day, and F. E.
Thomas and Wesley Gillette as'aides.
The Peabody Military Band, then
Co. F, N. G. c., captain, l. c. Hall;
then Modern Woodmen of America
in uniform, captain, W. ]. Maddox;
also the Woodmen Of the World,
captain, G. NJ. Brewer; Greenwood Post
No 10, with ex-Confederates and Wis
iting comrades. Following were sol
diers and citizens filling large num-
Der of carriages. To the solemn
notes of the funeral dirge the column
slowly marched up Main street to
first, thence direct to the cemetery.
Almost with the instant of beginning
the march the rain began to descend
and in few moments drenching
rain set in. Nothing daunted, these
patriotic citizens continued their es-
cort through rain and mud to the Gem
etery and return.
The services at the mound to the
Unknown Union Dead was opened with
prayer by Rev. II. B. Cook, the ad-
dress by Rev. u. A. White. The
honors were then given to departed
comrades in which the military com
pany Joined. The daughter of G. N
Gillette assisted by comrades then
strewed flowers upon the mound, af.
ter which Bugler Reddick sounded
taps"
The column reformed and marched
to the Confederate monument where
military honors were paid and Rcv.
H. N. Wilson made a short address.
The assemblage disbanded for
few minutes in order to permit friends
to visit and decorate individual graves,
and soon every section of the silent
city of the dead was peopled. Never
before has Greenwood cemetery pre-
sented so attractive an appearance
with scores of "old Glory" floating in
the breeze, while graves were trans
formed into mounds of white and
evergreen.
The return march was through
rain and mud to the opera house
which had been decorated with the
n national colors and profusion Of
flowers. Wet and muddy as were the
people, still they hocked into the
opera house willing to suffer discom-
fort rather than miss hearing the prin-
cipal address of the day.
Exercises were opened by selec-
ton from the band which was re-
ceived with applause. Rev. U. A.