The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-05-10
MEMORIAL DAY
IN MONTANA
Department Commander Sterling Has

Issued Orders.
Department Commander Frank P.
Sterling, of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Montana, has issued
Memorial day orders, No. 2, instruct
ing the posts throughout the state to
observe the day in a manner betting
the occasion, and outlining the pro-
gramme for the day.
The order is a document of more
than ordinary interest, and will be
read at all the Grand Army posts
throughout the state at their next
meeting.
The order, signed by Department
Commander Sterling, and counter
signed by Assistant Adjutant General
Charles F. Gage, is as follows:
Il. Posts of this department will
assemble at such places and at such
hours on the 30th day of May 1901,
as their respective commanders may
direct, and proceed to cemeteries,
/ there to conduct services in nonor of
our fallen heroes. Invitations to par.
ticipate with us should be extended to
all soldiers, sailors, the Women's Re-
lief corps, the Sons of Veterans, school
children and to citizens generally.
"2. Post commanders are instruct
ed to obey the recommendation of the
commander-in-chief relative to at
tending upon divine service on Sun
day, May 26.
%. AS directed by our command
er-in-chief, Lincoln's Gettysburg ad-
| dress should be reau by all posts as
a part of the exercises of Memorial
day. Copies of this address have been
forwarded to all posts in this depart
ment, and post commanders are direct
ed to see that the instructions of our
commander-in-chief are properly car
ried out.
"A. Post commanders will cause
full reports of Memorial day exercises
to be forwarded to Rev. &. w. Jen-
kins, department chaplain at Marys-
vile, Mont.
49, All flags hoisted on Memorial
day should be placed at half mast.
Comrades: Holding in reverent
memory our comrades dead, we pay on
this anniversary tribute to their
devotion and patriotism. An uncount-
ed host who fell in battle, or died on
weary marches, or in hospitals on
beds Of pain during the mighty strug-
gle of nation for it's life have con-
served the day and made it an occa-
sion of solemn retrospection.
Contemplating their great achieve
ments and all the benignities which
have followed their supreme sacrifices,
1t is also an occasion of sacred reioic-
ing.
1.-TWO mighty hosts, their comrades
and their foes, will on the 3Oth day of
May recall the splendor of their
achievements and give to their valor
the tribute of their admiration with.
out discordance.
by our observance of the occasion
dedicated to our fallen comrades we
ho,e to inspire patriotism and would
not strive to make fountain of mel
ancholy; it is day of admiring influ
ence of great examples, a day for high
and patriotic resolve, that the repub
lie they saved, now entering upon a
wider theater of action with grave,
responsibilities, shall be adequate tc
the task which is thus imposed.
"Strewing flowers upon these he
roes graves and decorating them with
banners, their names will become a
very present and precious impulse
wherefrom will come to the nation
they saved a more absolute devotion
to high ideals.
Nor shall we ne permitted on this
Memorial day to forget those who
surviving the vicissitudes of war
whose forms, broken in battle or benz
by disease, survived to a later day
but have Joined the great army of oul
dead.
Let us beautify their graves will
the flowers Of spring, counting our
selves fortunate that we survive t.
pay in the genial springtime of the
season tribute of admiring gratitude
for the supreme sacrifices thew made
in the springtime of their lives"
W.